Chasing pellets: Meet the Pac-Man world champions | Add to My AOL, MyYahoo, Google, Bloglines Add to: My AOL, MyYahoo, Google, Bloglines Checking in on the Karlovy Vary International Film Fest Posted Jul 6th 2007 7:03PM by Kim Voynar One of these days, maybe we'll send someone (preferably someone who likes international travel and long plane flights a lot more than I do) to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czechslovokia. Mark Rabinowitz has been covering the fest for indieWIRE, and has a nice ittle write-up about managing to score entry into the hottest nightspot in town, Becher's Bar, a small, exclusive hangout usually limited only to those who write for Variety or are otherwise connected. Rabinowitz managed to get himself escorted to the hot spot by a VIP, and got to experience the vibe of being one of the cool kids first-hand.
Over at Green Cine Daily, David D'Arcy has sent in three excellent dispatches from the fest. In the first, D'Arcy writes about Renee Zellweger having to present an award to Czech animator Bretislav Pojar in jeans and a black shirt, after the white ballgown she was supposed to wear got "lost" in transit. D'Arcy notes that Zellweger did manage to pronounce Pojar's name correctly, and ponders whether the animator even knows the starlet and her own body or work.
In his second dispatch a few days later, D'Arcy opines that the likely winner of the fest will be a film called , a "thriller about genetic codes and DNA determinism by the Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur." If the film does as well as D'Arcy thinks it will, hopefully I'll get a chance to catch it at a fest down the road. Other films getting buzz at the fest include by Jean Becker (which D'Arcy found banal) and , helmed by Fernan Ozpetek (".
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