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Acid Westerns are a strange and surreal sub-genre that break the rules of the traditional Western, offering complex characters and narrative experimentation. Films like Lemonade Joe, High Plains Drifter, and Blueberry showcase the trippier side of Acid Westerns, featuring bizarre stories, ghostly protagonists, and drug-induced trips. Directors like Jim Jarmusch, Richard Stanley, and Alejandro Jodorowsky pushed the boundaries of Acid Westerns, creating metaphysical trips, genre mashups, and hallucinatory visions.

While many viewers might think of the Western as a pretty straightforward genre, some of its trippiest outings prove that the opposite is true. The Western has been around for a long time. Back in the early days of film, B-Westerns defined the tropes and traditions that would go on to define the genre before the Golden Age of Westerns saw directors like John Ford distill these conventions into a fine art. After that, the Spaghetti Westerns of the '60s...

Kenji Mizoguchi, Jirí Brdecka tributes planned for 52nd edition.

The 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 - July 8) will present a Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema to British director Ken Loach.

The award will be shared with his long-time screenwriter Paul Laverty. The pair have collaborated on twelve feature films and two shorts, including The Wind That Shakes The Barley and more recently the Palme d’Or and Bafta-winning I, Daniel Blake.

Loach has a long and fruitful relationship with the Karlovy Vary festival. In 1968, his feature debut Poor Cow won a special jury prize and best actress for its star Carol White. A year later, his second film Kes won the festival’s Crystal Globe, and he has been a guest at the festival on numerous occasions since.

Poor Cow

Karlovy Vary will also celebrate the work of composer James Newton Howard, whose credits include Pretty Woman, The Sixth Sense, [link...