Sentences with phrase «while film festivals»

While film festivals can be highly significant, Hickey is eager to stress the importance of long - running series such as «Penny Dreadful» which brought $ 33m to the economy.

While film festivals are a good way to do that, they're no longer the only way.

While film festival favorites like Birdman and Inherent Vice are gathering all the buzz, J.C. Chandor's upcoming crime film A Most Violent Year has been quietly biding its time until a release date was announced.

Not exact matches

Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

Even the iPhone has its own film festival, while YouTube itself just held its own inaugural music awards.

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.

The 24 - year - old star of The Illusionist wore her hair in a refined blond bob while attending a film festival in Italy.

But while I may know precious little about the films at Cannes, I have deduced that the designer shoe picks at the festival are phenomenal, even off the red carpets.

Bresson, along with Ozu and Dreyer, formed a trinity at the heart of Schrader's book Transcendental Style in Film, and the filmmaker has faithfully returned to them again and again, channeling them in most of his directorial efforts, working within the so - called «Tarkovsky Ring» (films made within this ring will find commercial distribution, films like those of Bresson and Roberto Rossellini, while films outside of this ring are destined for museum and festival existences).

Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master might have lost the Golden Lion in Venice (while still winning Best Director and Best Actor (s) awards), but it emerged as the most critically acclaimed film of the fall festival season.

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And while we don't have films this year by festival (and my) favorites Luc and Jean - Pierre Dardenne, we do have Abbas Kiarostami, Michael Haneke, David Cronenberg, Jacques Audiard and Ken Loach.

For those who enjoyed Radnor's first effort, this is leaps and bounds better in writing and direction while still retaining what made his Audience Award Winning film from Sundance 2010 such a beloved festival film.

Seeing it in the middle of film festival while recovering from a flu that knocked me flat for a day cerainly didn't help my comprehension, I confess, but it's also the nature of the beast.

Not long afterward we see Blanc arrive at the Cannes film festival, demanding a suite at the Hotel Carlton (he finally gets moved into the suite of Gerard Depardieu, who's off wine tasting in Bulgaria) and making a crude pass at Charlotte Gainsbourg in her room, then stealing money from her purse while she goes to fetch him some Valium.

Those who caught two of the actor's other films at festivals earlier this year have been touting Unbroken star Jack O'Connell as one of the breakout performers of the year, and while Starred Up already enjoyed a limited release, the...

The 1983 festival ushered in the «New Wave» retrospective of innovative American independent films from 1958 - 1967 while 1984 ushered out the video program.

While word from Venice — where the film closed the festival before heading to TIFF — was good, the question to be answered was whether or not Stillman's style and cinematic persona would stand up in a filmmaking landscape that has changed immensely since «Last Days of Disco.»

Glasgow and Edinburgh Film Festivals provide me with the perfect opportunity to do both, sating my popcorn addiction while permitting me to travel the world one film at a time.

When I see films at festivals, sometimes I have to see them again to refresh my memory or calibrate my opinion, while trying to remain true to first impressions, which are valuable.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

While the film does not suffer from the major framing problems seen on Blackbeard's Ghost, some shots do seem to be poorly - framed, particularly in wide shots when a fourth monkey's face isn't entirely in the frame or the shot of the town festival sign which loses one or two letters on each end.

Sadly, The Humbling (from the novel by Philip Roth, scripted by Buck Henry and directed by Barry Levinson) went to video on demand, while Manglehorn (directed by David Gordon Green) is still trying to drum up attention at lesser film festivals.

While I have never attended the festival as press for anything other than film, I have attended a few interactive panels and comedy events over the past nine years since I started attending the festival.

While at the festival, I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Bryan Woods and Scott Beck, the two incredible screenwriters behind writing this unique and thrilling film.

For while the film lover in me thrilled at this a cross-section of challenging global cinema, much of it already garlanded with festival gold, it was also hard to suppress the mordant gallows mentality of my inner Oscar - watcher.

There is a lot going on in this film and while it might be considered «too out there» for everyone to enjoy, I think this film will hit big with the film festival crowd especially those at SXSW.

«Audience awards help bring film lovers together, while building momentum for the filmmakers in this year's festival.»

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.

The festival tends to look after its own, and while there was some speculation that his new film, which shot at the end of 2011, could be ready for the fall festival circuit last year, Cannes always seemed the better bet for his Bangkok - set, ultraviolent re-team with Ryan Gosling.

Lars von Trier) Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Jamie Bell Even aside from the whole persona non grata that resulted after his ill - advised comments while promoting «Melancholia» at the festival two years ago (and there have been some suggestions that Lars von Trier «s work is still welcome at the festival, just not so much the filmmaker himself), it's very unlikely that von Trier's latest will be on the Croisette this year, for the principal reason that it's not ready: the film's producer indicated that the two - part movie just wouldn't be prepared in time to screen for contention.

«The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Him & Her» Why It Could Be A Contender: One of the most ambitious films of the festival season, and one we've had our eye on for a little while, «The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby» is a two - part, three - hour drama from first - time writer / director Ned Benson.

While Scott Cooper («Crazy Heart «-RRB- doesn't have any previous work with the festival, he's got plenty of acclaim, and the film's been done for a while (there was talk of releasing it late in 2While Scott Cooper («Crazy Heart «-RRB- doesn't have any previous work with the festival, he's got plenty of acclaim, and the film's been done for a while (there was talk of releasing it late in 2while (there was talk of releasing it late in 2012).

And while it's an art that has already yielded our first magnum opus of the year, the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 2014.

While she's listed second on the film's IMDb credits, she's not named in the festival's official program, so it remains to be seen just how substantial her role is.

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.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Penélope Cruz is all smiles as she poses alongside her husband Javier Bardem while attending the photo call for their latest film Everybody Knows held during the 2018 Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on Wednesday (May 9) in Cannes, France.

Three words that are going to be sinking in for a while, while I try to regroup and accept that yes; the glorious, maddening, disorganized, exhilarating, and one - of - a-kind Cannes film festival is over.

While at the festival, John presented two films: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968) and PARK ROW (1952) Notes from the...

With three out of five films screening in Cannes, Nichols can be called a festival regular: Take Shelter won the Critics Week Grand Prize in 2011 while Mud premiered in the Official Competition the following year.

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.

While I was making my short films, we went to this fantastic short film festival in Oberhausen in Germany.

Marion Cotillard is a golden beauty while attending the premiere for her new film From The Land Of The Moon held during the 2016 Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on Sunday (May 15) in Cannes, France.

Now while there are no regrets over Lean on Pete, it doesn't have the pedigree of other films in the festival, and seems like an outside pick from distributor A24.

Vanessa Paradis keeps it bright in a blue dress while attending the photo call for her latest film Knife + Heart (Un Couteau Dans Le Coeur) held during the 2018 Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on Friday (May 18) in Cannes, France.

The Warner Bros. film, which screened as a «work in progress» premiere at the Austin film festival, is more than mere mimicry, although Franco turns in an arguably career - best performance as the mercurial Wiseau while sporting astoundingly convincing prosthetics, stringy black tresses and an uncannily spot - on accent.

While TIFF is known for its prestige and glamour, it's also a really, really big festival (nearly 400 features and shorts are playing this year), and thankfully that means there's room for a lot of fun, insane films.

That's one reason why I was impressed by a film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.