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Karlovy Vary Festival Honors Film Icons Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche, and Robert Richardson with Crystal Globes
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival’s 60th edition will honor Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche, and Robert Richardson with Crystal Globes for outstanding artistic contributions to world cinema, while Jeffrey Wright will receive the festival’s President’s Award. Hoffman is set for the opening ceremony and Binoche for the closing ceremony, with Richardson also slated to receive a Crystal Globe during the festival. The festival will screen Hoffman's breakthrough The Graduate and Binoche’s works including Certified Copy, Three Colors: Blue, and In-I in Motion. The event will feature additional guests such as Harvey Keitel and Kyra Sedgwick, and will showcase a documentary project titled The White Devil about Richardson. This year’s edition marks the festival’s 60th anniversary and its 80th year overall, with full programming to be announced closer to the opening date.
Key Points
Harvey Keitel will attend a special screening of Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets at the Karlovy Vary festival.
The festival will feature Family Movie, presented by the Bacon–Sedgwick family (Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, and their children Travis and Sosie Bacon), with the film co-directed by Bacon and Sedgwick.
Opening-night will showcase The Match, a documentary about the 1986 Argentina-England World Cup match, while closing-night will feature Noah Segan's The Only Living Pickpocket in New York.
Robert Richardson's documentary portrait, Robert Richardson: The White Devil, will be presented, with Richardson joined by director Jana Hojdová to introduce the film.
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