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Karlovy Vary International Film Festival · 2018

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018

Seven Close Encounters

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6 films · 2 reviews

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All That Jazz

A choreographer tells his sordid life story.

(Country: US; Year: 1979; Director: Bob Fosse; Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur, Bob Fosse; Stars: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, Erzsebet Foldi, Michael Tolan, Max Wright, William LeMassena, Irene Kane, Deborah Geffner, Kathryn Doby, Anthony Holland, Robert Hitt)

Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampire

Review preview for Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampire

Despite its entertainingly unusual premise, Billy The Kid And The Green Baize Vampires doesn't really hang together as a story.

Sarah Artt · 2 out of 5
Cult snooker loopy musical.

(Country: UK; Year: 1987; Director: Alan Clarke; Writer: Trevor Preston; Stars: Phil Daniels, Alun Armstrong, Bruce Payne, Louise Gold, Eve Ferret, Richard Ridings, Don Henderson, GB Zoot Money, Neil McCaul, Johnny Dennis, David Foxxe, Danny Webb, Trevor Laird, Paul Cooke, Ben Cole)

The Deer Hunter

Three steelworkers leave their home town to fight in the Vietnam War, never anticipating the impact it will have on their lives.

(Country: US; Year: 1978; Director: Michael Cimino; Writer: Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn; Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, Meryl Streep)

Lawrence Of Arabia

Review preview for Lawrence Of Arabia

What remains true now, as it was then, is the scale and scope of the thing.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
A biopic of TE Lawrence focused on role in the Arab/Turkish conflict during the First World War.

(Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: David Lean; Writer: Robert Bolt, based on Seven Pillars Of Wisdom by T E Lawrence; Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quale, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit)

Marketa Lazarová

Drama charting the shift from paganism to Christianity through a relationship between a pious virgin and a marauder.

(Country: Czechoslovakia; Year: 1967; Director: Frantisek Vlácil; Writer: Frantisek Pavlícek, Vladislav Vancura, Frantisek Vlácil; Stars: Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna, Jaroslav Moucka, Frantisek Velecký, Karel Vasicek, Ivan Palúch, Martin Mrazek, Václav Sloup, Pavla Polaskova, Alena Pavlíková, Michal Kozuch, Zdenek Lipovcan, Harry Studt, Vlastimil Harapes)

Take Care Of Your Scarf, Tatiana

Two Finns take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, but their road trip is interrupted by two women.

(Country: Finland, Germany; Year: 1994; Director: Aki Kaurismäki; Writer: Sakke Järvenpää, Aki Kaurismäki; Stars: Kati Outinen, Matti Pellonpää, Kirsi Tykkyläinen, Mato Valtonen, Elina Salo, Irma Junnilainen, Veikko Lavi, Pertti Husu, Viktor Vassel, Carl-Erik Calamnius, Atte Blom, Mauri Sumén, Anu Aalto, Matti Ahjoniemi, Riitta Ahjoniemi)