#arthouse-cinema

#arthouse-cinema

His first solo single was a cover of Elmer Bernstein's theme from The Man with the Golden Arm, and his debut solo album, Moss Side Story, was a soundtrack to a nonexistent film noir. He's gone on to compose scores for actual soundtracks, like new documentary SCALA!!!, which is about London's infamous arthouse cinema from the '70s and '80s where Adamson spent a lot of time.

I want to make tiny little movies that then don't seem tiny.

The poster showed the lead actor holding a bottle of beer and smoking a cigarette; unsurprisingly, the board nixed both elements and rejected the compromise of erasing them while leaving smoke still trailing out of the star's mouth. In the end, the buyer was provided with an image of the hero on a motorcycle with his love interest, a misleading visual he declined to convert into a bait-and-switch display standee.

Karel Och, artistic director of Karlovy Vary, stated that this year's selection displays the diversity of contemporary arthouse cinema, featuring filmmakers from various countries.