Information programs (2009)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR ZANUSSI'S AND KIESLOWSKI'S CONGENIAL CINEMATOGRAPHER
Sławomir Idziak. One of the world's best cinematographers. Remember Juliette Binoche's face in Three colours: Blue? Or the suggestive takes of the other Kieslowski hits, The Double Life of Véronique and A Short film About Killing? Or Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down? Or Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix? He was the man behind the camera.
This year Hungary's CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival honours Mr. Sławomir Idziak with the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award for "his contribution to world cinema and especially for instilling, through his visual composition, the essence of the Central European way of life and for his artistic achievements in films that are among the finest of the European cinema as a congenial collaborator with directors like Krzysztof Zanussi and Krzysztof Kieslowski".
The Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 will be given to Mr. Idziak on Friday, 11 September, 5.30 PM during the opening ceremony of CineFest in Miskolc, House of Arts.
Sławomir Idziak will conduct an open workshop titled FILM LANDSCAPE - THE NECESSITY OF THINKING FORWARD on Saturday, 12 September 11 AM in House of Arts, Béke - Funzine terem.
KEVIN MACDONALD VISITS CINEFEST
Academy Award winner director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland), who is currently preparing his new movie in Hungary, will visit CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival in September 13. He will attend a workshop dedicated to the memory of his grandfather, Emeric Pressburger.
Pressburger, born in Miskolc in 1902, moved to Britain in the 1930s, and his collaboration with director Michael Powell resulted in such movies like 49th Parallel and The Red Shoes. Macdonald will visit Pressburger's place of birth and at CineFest he will talk with The Guardian's film critic Ronald Bergan about the Hungarian roots of Pressburger's art.
A BRITSH GENTLEMAN FROM MISKOLC
A WORKSHOP ABOUT THE OSCAR WINNER SCREENWRITER, EMERIC PRESSBURGER
Sunday, September 13, 11 AM - 4.30 PM
House of Arts, Uránia - Port.hu terem
Chairman: György Báron
Organizer: Péter Muszatics
11 AM: Ferenc Takács: A BRITISH GENTLEMAN FROM MISKOLC
11.30 AM: Ronald Bergan: THE EUROPEAN TOUCH: HOW PRESSBURGER EUROPEANIZED POWELL
Lunch break
1.30 PM: Roundtable discussion with film experts. Zoltán Fecsó talks with film historians: György Báron, Ronald Bergan and Ferenc Takács
Coffee break
3 PM: Ronald Bergan talks with Kevin Macdonald
3.45 PM: Kevin Macdonald: THE MAKING OF AN ENGLISHMAN. Documentary about the life and times of Emeric Pressburger (UK, 1995, 50 min, in Hungarian)
The program is subject to change.
RARE PÉTER BACSÓ FILMS AT CINEFEST
Eminent Hungarian director-screwriter Péter Bacsó died at the age of 81 in March 2009. CineFest Miskolc honours the master of the Hungarian cinema with four lesser known films from the seventies. Bacsó's big hits, as The Witness or Oh, Bloody Life! are available on DVD stores in Hungary and abroad but these four works from him will be special treats:
Summer on the Hill (Nyár a hegyen) September 11, Friday, 3 PM
Get Off my beard (Ereszd el a szakállamat) September 11, Friday, 9.30 PM
Present Time (Jelenidő) September 15, Tuesday, 11 PM
The Last Chance (Harmadik nekifutás) September18, Friday, 11 PM
With English subtitles. The screenings are free!
