The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Monday added a short film by David Lynch and an episode of his iconic series Twin Peaks at his Franz Kafka retrospective and unveiled the program for his Out of the Past section, presenting classic, cult, rare and “unfairly overlooked” films, screened in original or restored version.
Highlights include restored versions of Wim Wenders’ 1984 neo-Western drama. Paris, Texas And Two English girls‘ François Truffaut’s 1971 period drama about a love triangle.
Wenders’ film is part of a three-film program presented by Alexandre O. Philippe, creator of documentary essays on the history of cinema, offering perspectives on the American cinema landscape. He will also present his 2021 documentary The catch (2021), which explores American mythology through the socio-philosophical dimensions of the American landscape.
The Out of the Past program is also part of the program Let’s get lost, Bruce Weber’s documentary about the final years of jazz legend Chet Baker. Additionally, “this year’s ‘chapter’ of Karlovy Vary’s ongoing series dedicated to the king of American independent cinema, John Cassavetes, will feature his latest feature as writer/director, Love flow (1984), in which he and his lifelong companion and muse Gena Rowlands represent an unusual sibling pair,” organizers said.
KVIFF, whose 58th edition will take place from June 28 to July 6, has also unveiled other titles to complete the program of its Franz Kafka retrospective, which will pay tribute to one of the Czech Republic’s most famous sons at the occasion of the centenary of Kafka’s death.
The retrospective, titled “The Desire to Be an Indian: Kafka and Cinema,” will feature 13 feature films, four medium-length films and five short films. The “surreal short film Grandmotherwhich Lynch made in 1970 with the financial support of the American Film Institute, as well as the third episode of
the third season of the cult series Twin Peakswhich most intensely reflects admiration
from one particular genius to another,” are now part of the program, the organizers announced Monday.
Also among the recently announced films is the directorial debut of British actor Peter Capaldi. Franz Kafka, It’s a Wonderful Life. “This fun and original short film, depicting Kafka struggling with writer’s block, won the Oscar for best live-action short film,” the organizers said.
Check out the full schedule for both KVIFF 2024 sections below.
Out of the past
Two English Girls (dir. François Truffaut)
François Truffaut, My life, a screenplay (dir. David Teboul)
The catch (dir. Alexandre O. Philippe)
Fort Apache (directed by John Ford)
Paris, Texas (dir. Wim Wenders)
Twenty-nine palm trees (dir. Bruno Dumont)
Let’s Get Lost (dir. Bruce Weber)
Love flow (dir. John Cassavetes)
Actress (dir. Theodora Remundová)
Murder the devil (dir. Ester Krumbachova)
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