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EXCLUSIVE: The Painted Bird director Vaclav Marhoul is set to make his English-language debut on McCarthy, a biopic of notorious former U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. Ironbark scribe Tom O’Connor has scripted the intriguing package, which will take a personal look at the influential former politician who rose to fame…

Czech director Vaclav Marhoul's adaptation of Jerzy Kosinsky's controversial novel The Painted Bird is one of 10 films that was recently shortlisted for the International Feature Oscar. The film took more than a decade to bring to the screen and debuted in competition in Venice where it won the Cinema for UNICEF…

EXCLUSIVE: Czech filmmaker Václav Marhoul has signed with CAA. Marhoul's most recent film, The Painted Bird, premiered in competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival, where it won the Cinema for UNICEF Award and is the Czech Republic’s international film entry at the 2020 Oscars. The Holocaust pic, based on the…

Hard-hitting Venice Film Festival competition movie The Painted Bird has been selected by the Czech Film and Television Academy as the Czech Republic’s international Oscar entry. Described as an "evocation of wild, primitive Eastern Europe at the bloody close of World War II," director-producer Václav Marhoul’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first clip of striking Venice and Toronto premiere The Painted Bird, the black-and-white, 35mm adaptation of the Jerzy Kosinski (Being There) novel of the same name. Vàclav Marhoul's dark drama will play in competition on the Lido and is the first Czech film to do so in more than 25…