Sentences with phrase «critics at the festival»

It was a sentiment echoed by many critics at the festival who fell for director Boots Riley's strange vision.

Not exact matches

It's been 45 years since «The Last Movie» had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the festival's Critics Prize.

The movie drew raves from critics following its January debut at the Sundance Film Festival, prompting Fox Searchlight to pay a festival - record $ 17.5 million to obtain the worldwide distribution rights to the film.

Just as certain names and events clashes — making observers and critics alike wonder which of the two would outwit the other in terms of brand positioning and market influence, many are those who are asking if the first ever International Ghana Kenkey Festival will overtake the already established and firmly grounded annual Chale Wote festival held at James Town.

While NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was at a Texas music festival peddling his national agenda, Cuomo was quick to jump in on some Big Apple issues that critics say the mayor has sorely neglected — agreeing to meet with public - housing tenants over their heat, mold and lead - paint woes.

Something in the Air (also known as After May) won an award for its screenplay at the Venice festival, where critics liked the film, though perhaps not as much as Carlos.

Below, we recap the reactions from critics to the major films screening at this year's Telluride, Venice, and Toronto International Film Festivals, considered the most prestigious events of the season and the locales where many future Oscar nominees first debut.

Kaufman's Anomalisa is an intelligent, stop - motion animated drama co-directed by Duke Johnson, earning rave reviews from critics after premiering at festivals.

Additional documentaries singled out by critics received significantly less notice at the festival, but may resurface later on.

After I saw it at the Toronto film festival last September — where Rudolph and Willis said they were proud of having made it even if nobody saw it — it received nominal runs in New York and Los Angeles, cities where viewers and critics are regarded by distributors as being more demographically significant than those in Chicago, and then early this year it came out on video.

Premiering at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Dee Rees» Mudbound was met with a rapturous response from critics and the public alike, acquired by Netflix in one of the biggest deals of the festival.

It was a night of surprises at the 68th Cannes film festival, with many critics» favourites thwarted and the jury — who are only allowed to award one prize per film — exhibiting eclectic taste and a pronounced accent on the celebration of French acting talent.

You probably recognize FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) as the body that hands out its own awards at a wide range of film festivals throughout the year.

The Critics» Prize, voted on by journalists at the festival and given independently of the jury, went to the Sundance winner «American Splendor,» inspired by the autobiographical comic books of the redoubtable Cleveland file clerk Harvey Pekar.

Despite all the pushing and shoving one has to endure (or apply) en route to press screenings here at Cannes — as well as the hierarchical system of badges I lamented in last year's post — a critic's life at the festival is a relatively sheltered one.

Sundance 2017 IndieWire Critics Poll: Carlos Aguilar MovieMaker Magazine / One Week Only / Filmmaker Magazine / Remezcla FULL RESULTS: Sundance 2017 IndieWire Critics Poll - The examination of complex masculinity in several films at this year's festival was fascinating trend: «Call Me Your Name,» «God's Own Country,» «Beach Rats,» «Burning Sands.»

Matt writes: The twentieth anniversary of Ebertfest, the film festival co-founded by Pulitzer Prize - winning critic Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz Ebert at the University of Illinois, College of Media, is slated to run from Wednesday, April 18th, through Sunday, April 22nd, next year.

It wasn't a weak year so much as it was an Oscar race being decided by people seeing movies at festivals without the very necessary component of critics.

Otis at Monterey, with uncompressed stereo soundtracks Alternate soundtracks for all three films featuring 5.1 surround mixes by recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in DTS - HD Master Audio Two hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Blues Project, Buffalo Springfield, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, the Steve Miller Blues Band, Moby Grape, Laura Nyro, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who Audio commentaries from 2002 featuring Pennebaker, festival producer Lou Adler, and music critics Charles Shaar Murray and Peter Guralnick New interviews with Adler and Pennebaker Chiefs (1968), a short film by Richard Leacock, which played alongside Monterey Pop in theaters Interviews from 2002 with Adler and Pennebaker and with Phil Walden, Otis Redding's manager 1987 interview with Pete Townshend on Monterey and Jimi Hendrix Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby Photo - essay by Elaine Mayes Festival scrapbook Trailers and radio spots PLUS: A book featuring essays by critics Michael Chaiken, Armond White, David Fricke, Barney Hoskyns, and Michael Lydon

While it's entirely possible that «Demon» will appeal more to U.S. audiences after its June 24 release than it did to critics who saw the film at Cannes, at the festival, Refn said his intention was to make a «primal» movie that featured heightened reality in a way that could provoke drastically different reactions from viewers.

(More than a couple of my fellow critics have reported Mike Leigh sightings; only at the festival of festivals, perhaps, might the director of Life Is Sweet have to stave off autograph requests.)

When screened at festivals, Tusk was wildly received by critics who gave it a standing ovation and praised Smith for his «return to form».

This is a quick chat (shot quick and gritty and a tad noisy) that I had last month at the Chicago film festival with film critic Lisa Nesselson.

As I fly to Canada to meet Sarah Polley, I think about the glimpses of her in Stories We Tell — her first full - length documentary feature, which bowled over critics at Sundance and the Venice film festival and has won Canada's Film of the Year award.

The 19th annual installment of Ebertfest, the film festival co-founded by Pulitzer Prize - winning critic Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz Ebert at the University of Illinois College of Media, is slated to run from Wednesday, April 19th, through Sunday, April 23rd, next year.

Labor Day received good word from critics at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals, so here's hoping that the film lives up to the expectations.

Film critics can also become embroiled in ugly spats at the festival.

Supposedly it got a huge round of boos at the festival, but let's think back about 35 years ago and can we guess which movie got booed, which is now praised by critics?

PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey Nowell - Smith, Antonioni's statements about the film after its 1960 Cannes Film Festival premiere, and an open letter distributed at the festival

Netflix had a big presence at the festival this year, which made some critics wonder why they are standing in line for a movie they can just watch online a few weeks later.

THIS WEEKEND is the first annual Chicago Critics Film Festival, a special opportunity for moviegoers to catch early views at unreleased favorites from festivals like Cannes, Sundance, and SXSW.

So many critics hated, hated, hated Brief Interviews with Hideous Men at Sundance and other festivals that I kind of wanted to root for it, to say, well, even if it was a mixed bag, at least Krasinski was adapting the work of one of our great modern literary giants.

«A Quiet Place» had an unofficial premiere at SXSW festival this weekend where 18 critics were able to review the film, leaving it with an amazing 100 % Fresh Tomatometer score ahead of its UK release on May 4.

The 18th annual installment of Ebertfest, the film festival co-founded by Pulitzer Prize - winning critic Roger Ebert and his wife Chaz Ebert at the University of Illinois College of Media, is slated to run from Wednesday, April 13th, through Sunday, April 17th, next year.

It played well at festivals, critics love it, it has a very talented cast, it mixes humor with human emotion, and the co-directors and co-writers won an Oscar (with Alexander Payne) for writing the script to The Descendants.

FFF films were selected and presented by an esteemed crew of guest directors, film critics and scholars including: CBC Arts guru George Anthony; Mary Corliss, writer for Film Comment and Time.com and former head of the MOMA's Film Stills Archive; Richard Corliss, Time magazine critic; famed film critic Roger Ebert of Ebert & Roeper at the Movies; Jim Emerson, Editor of RogerEbert.com; veteran programmer for the Dubai & Bangkok film festivals, Hannah Fisher; Ross Johnson, arts writer for the L.A. Times and Esquire magazine; and Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun film critic.

Phantom Thread managed to sneak up on us, in a way, arriving just in time for the end of awards season in 2017 without any sort of festival appearance, simply screening to critics and guilds prior to a qualifying run in New York and LA at the end of the year.

The film won the inaugural Critics» Award from The Age newspaper for Best Australian Feature Film at the festival.

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, Inc. (AWFJ), a not - for - profit corporation, is an association of professional female movie critics, reporters and feature writers working in print, broadcast and online media, dedicated to supporting work by and about women — both in front of and behind the cameras — through intra-group promotional activities, outreach programs and by presenting annual EDA Awards in recognition of outstanding accomplishments (the best and worst) by and about women in the movies, and EDA Awards at selected film festivals throughout the year.

The doc just premiered at the Toronto and New York Film Festivals, receiving rave reviews from critics the world over.

A psychological drama that registered with audiences and critics alike because of its heartfelt painful story, as this indie flick did itself proud in the award department in the Australian version of the Oscars (won 13 awards, including best film, director, actor and actress) and was viewed in competition at Cannes and at a number of other film festivals throughout the world including the prestigious Edinburgh Festival.

For the sake of debate, let's just say the film will be well received — not thinking in terms of whether it's a Sundance hit — just that it's funny and heartwarming and cozy and the filmgoers and critics who caught it at the festival walked away satisfied.

Fresh off of sold - out festival screenings at Tribeca, AFI, the Viennale, and Torino (where it won the Special Jury Prize), GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH was ranked # 3 on the indieWIRE annual critics» poll of best undistributed films and was named «The Best Undistributed Film of 2009» by writers from Film Comment, Variety, Time Out New York, and New York Daily News.

Two examples of festival success won't determine all that much in the scheme of things, but it does show that audiences and critics appreciate and applaud female narrative filmmakers, or at least when they follow a certain formula.

Hollywood heart - throb Ryan Gosling burned up the screen at the Cannes film festival with his directorial debut yesterday, but critics» reaction was a damp squib.

Even though almost none of the critics who saw Lion at this year's festivals thought it was more than just OK, the movie is almost universally expected to earn a Best Picture nomination.

It took the protests at the May 1968 festival and the demands of festival critics like Jean - Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and François Truffaut to not only close down the festival that year but create a parallel section of films — the directors» fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) where the reputation for auteur film was established.

The 20 - year - old — who recently won the Brits Critics Choice Award — will be taking to the stage at the annual festival on Friday 13 July.

-- Every day, you have the opportunity to write a critique about a film from the festival program or short reviews of an event at the Berlinale Talents programme, and will discuss and review it with your fellow participants and film critics.

When it debuted at various festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival, «Skeleton» received mostly positive reviews, with Variety critic Geoff Berkshire writing that «the biggest surprise for audiences expecting plenty of laughs will be just how effectively both thesps handle the weightier dramatic material in the screenplay... «The Skeleton Twins» captures the way siblings develop their own unique comedic shorthands in a way few films ever have.»