With apologies to Ernest Hemingway and "A Moveable Feast," you can call this one a Moveable Fest. The Czech That Film Festival, which begins five days of screening in Los Angeles on Friday, is a festival on the go, hitting three cities before stopping in L.A. with another seven on the itinerary afterwards.

From the 1968 Oscar winner “Closely Watched Trains” to last year’s acclaimed Oscar entry “In the Shadow,” and from 1964 Czech musical “The Hop Pickers” to the 2011 rotoscope-animated noir “Alois Nebel,” the festival is taking a cross-section of Czech cinema around the country, with a L.A. stop a collaboration with the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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Baz Luhrmann’s version of “The Great Gatsby” will no doubt raise a few eyebrows with some scenes of such over-the-top extravagance that even its hero, an obsessed social climber desperate to show off his wealth, might think Luhrmann went too far.

But that’s nothing new for the Australian director, who throughout his career has been enamored with excess and thrills and extravagant artifice. So yes, the first party scene in “Gatsby” may cause a few jaws to drop with its 3D bacchanalia of epic proportions, set to a soundtrack that ranges from floor-rumbling organ (think Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor on steroids) to an unholy disco/hip-hop hybrid to a pumped-up take on Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”

But Luhrmann has been responsible for plenty of dropped jaws in the past, so nobody should be too surprised to...

Cannes Film Festival president Gilles Jacob, who has presided over the fest for 36 years, will be leaving his position as president when his term expires in 2015, Cannes told TheWrap on Wednesday.

Jacob revealed his intention to leave the job in an interview with the French newspaper Nice Matin, saying that he promised his wife “several times” that he would retire. His remarks (in French) appeared in a one-paragraph note on the paper’s website on Wednesday.

"Mr. Jacob confirmed he will not be a candidate to renew his position as...

Saturday’s unprecedented three-city meeting of more than 1,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was a first for the Academy – and a virtual love-fest aside from tensions over foreign language nomination process and the larger issue of tranparency.

“I was very excited and moved by the amount of love in the room,” said AMPAS president Hawk Koch told TheWrap on Saturday afternoon, less than an hour after wrapping up the simultaneous meetings in Beverly Hills, New York and Emeryville in the Bay Area.

That love, though, did not extend to the entire program, which included at least one exchange about the Academy’s foreign-language system...