The Visegrad Animation Forum (May 3rd – 5th, 2016), held in cooperation with the International Festival of Animated Films Anifilm, issues a call for submissions to the 2016 edition. The VAF competition is open for animated projects in development. This is now the fourth consecutive year that projects compete in two categories: Short Films and TV Series (+ TV Specials). The part of the event is an intensive ...

BOOK REVIEW: American History through Hollywood Film. From the Revolution to the 1960s (Melvyn Stokes, Bloomsbury, 2013) – MILAN HAIN – translated by Daniela Vymětalová Česká verze textu je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the text is available here Melvyn Stokes tends to be identified mostly with publications focusing on the issue of film reception. Along with Richard Maltby, he edited five books w ...

BOOK REVIEW: Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (ed.: Robert Miklitsch, University of Illinois Press, 2014) – JANA BÉBAROVÁ (translated by Daniela Vymětalová) – Českojazyčná verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here If we were to seek a film phenomenon that doesn’t cease to be popular both with viewers and film researchers, we would undoubtedly find film noir. Whilst th ...

INTERVIEW with the television writer Robin Veith – VERONIKA ZÝKOVÁ – Mad Men (2007–2015), winning five Emmy Awards and four Golden Globes, is one of the most successful TV shows. Because the second half of Mad Men’s final season premieres these days (from April 5, 2015), we believe it is an appropriate time to finally publish an interview with Robin Veith, who spent three years with Mad Men. Robin was not o ...

INTERVIEW with Kaveh Daneshmand, artistic director of Iranian Film Festival - JANA BÉBAROVÁ -  Czech-language version of the interview can be found here. / Česká verze rozhovoru je k dispozici zde. Just one month after winding up the 4th Iranian Film Festival in Prague, you and the Prague Film School succeeded in arranging a number of open-to-public workshops with the acclaimed actress Leila Hatami. How did ...

REPORT: Il Cinema Ritrovato 2014 – MILAN HAIN – Translated by Daniela Vymětalová Česká verze textu je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the text is available here The annual film celebration in Italian Bologna started three days earlier this year. The XXVIII edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival was preceded by a conference that celebrated the centenary of the birth of Chaplin’s Little Tramp. T ...

INTERVIEW with astronomer and science popularizer Pamela Gay – KLÁRA FEIKUSOVÁ – Českojazyčná verze rozhovoru je dostupná zde. / Czech-language version of the interview is available here. Pamela Gay arrived into the Olomouc as a guest of film festival AFO. She is successful scientist in her field of study and she has been simultaneously intensively propagating science using new media. Klára Feikusová was ch ...

FOCUS – OLDŘICH DANĚK: The End of Agent W4C (directed by Václav Vorlíček, 1967) – VASSILIS ECONOMOU – There is no doubt that the 60s was the golden age of Czechoslovakia’s cinema and this is mainly due to the Czechoslovak New Wave. Parallel to the rise of this highly artistic wave there was another FAMU originated wave that gained the attention not only locally but on international level too. The comedies a ...

BOOK REVIEW - Dennis Hopper: Interviews (Nick Dawson, 2012) – JANA BÉBAROVÁ (translated by Kristina Landry; edited by Nikol Šustrová) – Českojazyčná verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here There are few figures in the film industry who had had a toilsome life, yet managed to repeatedly "raise back from the dead" and reset their careers like Dennis Hopper (1936 ...

BOOK REVIEW - Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised And Updated (Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz, 2013) - JANA BÉBAROVÁ – TRANSLATED BY ELIŠKA ŽIDOVÁ - Edited by Benjamin Schlegel Českojazyčná verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here Clint Eastwood has been a public figure for over fifty years and has managed to transform himself from a B-movie actor at Universa ...