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Last Year at Karlovy Vary: A Remembrance of Czech Actor and Festival Chief Jiri Bartoska
Former Variety editor Steven Gaydos looks back at the achievements of Jiri Bartoska, president of Karlovy Vary Film Festival, who died on Thursday.
Mel Gibson held an audience of 1400 young Czech film fans entranced with “Apocalypto” and John Boorman brought his 70s macho American culture masterpiece “Deliverance” to an equally astonished crowd who packed that same theater, inside the neo-brutalist concrete edifice of the Hotel Thermal. From Tom Tykwer to Jessica Hausner, Nicolas Winding Refn to Catherine Corsini, Variety’s “Europe Now” section played to packed crowds and connected the publication to exciting emerging talents, all thanks to Jiri’s team and their vision for the future. Imagine Sky Dumont as the elegant Sandor Szavost, champagne flute in hand, wooing Nicole Kidman in “Eyes Wide Shut,” and you get a sense of Bartoska’s personal style and Cary Grantish charm.
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