Sentences with phrase «french film festival»

I took a deep breath and attended a French film festival with some Newie Twitter friends and saw a movie called Paris Manhattan.

Henry Jaglom directed this ensemble piece, which traces film - industry politics at the prestigious French film festival.

South Korean auteur Lee Chang - dong made a huge splash at the French film festival this week with what critics are hailing as the best film to screen at Cannes.

The French film festival Wednesday announced the jury that will serve under Cate Blanchett.

«Jerry's Flight Over Cannes» (3:00) documents the publicity stunt Seinfeld made at the French film festival last May, with a pulley system, giant bee costume, and some help from Chris Rock.

The french film festival has always had an old, luxurious and glamorous vibe to it.

The beautiful Marion Cottilard oozed elegance in a black and gold dress at the red carpet of a French film festival.

FINALLY: a real - life French actress attending a French film festival.

Not exact matches

But the festival said on Wednesday that no such deal had been reached, and while the two films would be allowed to remain in competition this year, thereafter no film would be accepted that is not guaranteed distribution in French movie theaters.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Cannes cancels anti-Semitic film screening The Cannes film festival screening of «The Anti-Semite,» a film by a French comic with a history of anti-Semitism, was cancelled.

Iron Mike, 41, was in the French seaside resort last week for its annual film festival and the premiere of Tyson, a documentary about his life by writer - director James Toback (Fingers, The Pick - Up Artist).

Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum, the French Embassy in NYC and in film festivals across the world.

The festival programme continues until Sunday 20 November with a number of other film and documentary premieres, including Driving with Selvi, the story of a former child bride, who escapes her violent marriage and becomes South India's first female taxi driver and The Innocents a compelling French drama about a young doctor becoming the sole hope for an isolated convent.

From Sweden comes a film titled Force Majeure, or also known as Turist (in French) at the festival, a dark comedy set in the French Alps following a family on a ski vacation.

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.

The film ignited the French Riviera festival with its true tale of a black police detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan.

The festival will present two classic French films by master director Jean - Pierre Melville, Léon Morin, Priest and The Red Circle, as well as a number of school matinees with Educational Kits organised by the festival in partnership with the Irish Film Institute (IFI), which provide an ideal French cinematic experience to the young audience.

Outrage from exhibitors over the selection of films not set for theatrical release prompted the festival to issue a new directive: all future competition films must also be screened in French cinemas.

Beginning next year, the festival will only admit films in competition that have French theatrical releases, which the Netflix films so far do not.

Guillaume Canet) Cast: Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis, Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts While director Guillaume Canet has never had his films figure into the Cannes lineup, the status of «Blood Ties» as a remake of the French - language «Les liens du sang,» has the benefit of recent festival favorites like Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts in the cast, and perhaps most crucially, a script co-written by James Gray.

The traditional royalty slot of the 7 pm premiere on the first Saturday is reserved this time for French director Eva Husson's sophomore feature GIRLS OF THE SUN, while the first English - language competition film doesn't screen until the second half of the festival.

The French auteur has shown fourteen of his films at the festival and his newest film The New Girlfriend marks his fifth in a row.

The glitzy picture landed the coveted opening - night spot at the French festival, and much of the film's cast — which also includes Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton and Isla Fisher — will be on hand to walk the red carpet outside the famous Palais.

French filmmaker Philippe Garrel's Lover For a Day heads to theaters after playing at the New York and Chicago film festivals this fall, while Cohen Media Group is opening Lebanon's The Insult, which is shortlisted in the foreign language category.

This year is no different with the aforementioned Allen and Assayas films as well as Sean Penn's The Last Face, which will give us Charlize Theron (and some possibly awkward moments between the two former paramours), no less than four French films in competition and Jeff Nichols» Loving making its debut here at the festival on its way to the Oscars.

As its rather more astringent French title, La Loi du marché («The Law of the Market»), suggests, it was Exhibit B in the self - conscious programming of «socially relevant» French films heralded by festival director Thierry Frémaux when he unveiled the lineup in the April press conference.

A black comedy about a man who dreams of being a reality tv contestant, the French / Italian co-production Reality (directed by Matteo Garrone) has attracted rave reviews at a lot of 2012's film festivals, including a Grand Prix win at Cannes, though it's yet to see a wide release in English - speaking territories.

My French Film Festival, now in its sixth year, is a new form of film festival that is accessible to all.

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Cannes has been quite a whirlwind adventure for Pixar this year, as the studio's upcoming film, Pete Docter's Inside Out, enjoyed its world premiere at the annual French festival and saw heaps of praise thrown upon it.

, a small silent black - and - white French film that no one seemed to have heard of, but had been generally well - received at the festival, with its lead actor Jean Dujardin winning the Best Actor Award.

From French silent - film stars to Nazi - hunting rock stars, here's a look at 12 movies most likely to break out from this year's festival.

Already a darling of international film festivals, Wong Kar Wai won the Best Director award in Cannes for «Happy Together,» a French Cesar award for «In the Mood for Love» and a European Film Award for «2046.»

The world's most prestigious film festival, unfolding over a dozen days against the sunbaked splendor of the French Riviera, can sometimes feel (or at least look) like a giant, glamorous,...

But of the French films that did make some sort of transatlantic mark this year (whether through festival hype or theatrical release) you'll see BPM (Beats Per Minute), the horror film Raw, and Agnes Varda's Oscar nominated Faces Places among their nominees...

Chelsea Girls was screened at the 2nd festival «Addiction à l'œuvre», a program that gave me the opportunity to rekindle this mythical film in my mind and also its French «cousin» Out 1.

In addition to screening many of the best documentaries and independent films from across the globe in its state - of - the - art theaters, IFC Center hosts some of New York's most anticipated film festivals, including Rendez - vous with French Cinema and DOC NYC, New York's premiere documentary film festival.

I found out at this year's tremendous COLCOA film festival that French filmmakers can now claim the title of the hottest, most cutting - edge noiristas in the world.

While Netflix likely will have to keep evolving its model to have more of a theatrical presence, it is doing too many risky things on the feature front to be defined derogatorily at this point, especially by a French festival that risks rendering itself arcane by not using its clout to change French chronology rules that keep French - distributed films from SVOD for three years.

Hong's film is set in Cannes, where by chance the paths of two women cross: Manhee (Kim Min - hee), a Korean employee of a film distributor working at the festival, and Claire (Huppert), a visiting French school - teacher who likes to take photographs.

Just because you can't go to the French Riviera doesn't mean you can't enjoy some of the recent highlights of the world's most vaunted film festival

While Netflix publicly ghosted the festival in April after bylaws were changed to require a French theatrical release for all competition films, Ted Sarandos» team couldn't resist buying a bit of prestige.

Although writer - director Patrice Leconte's romantic period drama A Promise played at both the Venice and Toronto film festivals, the French filmmaker's English - language debut has yet to land a U.S. release date (though it will premiere in France this coming April).

The streaming giant removed all of its films from consideration for the festival after Cannes implemented a rule banning films without French theatrical distribution from competing for the Palme d'Or.

These are not exactly obscure works: The Intruder is the latest offering from French director Claire Denis, whose earlier films (including Beau Travail and Friday Night) have been widely seen at film festivals and in art - house theaters.

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But hopefully Coppola's success at Cannes will resonate at the prestigious French festival and provide moment that will take «The Beguiled» through a success film awards season.

Home to some of the best wineries in the world, a renowned film festival and the French Riviera where the rich and famous play, the diverse country is tops on people's lists for vacations to take.

For its tenth season, the Crossing the Line festival, presented by the French Institute Alliance Française, included films, dance, and interdisciplinary pieces performed across such disparate locations as a conference room in the Henry Street Settlement to Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan.

That means Hollywood's elite... and not so elite... have descended on the French Riviera for the most glamorous film festival of the year.