Sentences with phrase «ago at a film festival»
Saw this film a few months ago at a film festival and was taken away by how wonderful it is.
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(Writer - director Abel Gance was honored at the Telluride film festival a few years ago for this film.
This is from the same filmmaker who made the cult horror hit The Loved Ones, and the film first premiered at festivals a few years ago.
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.
However he does admit that things were at the worst a couple of years ago, when Toronto decided to drop any films from the popular first half of its schedule that had premiered anywhere else — but now, he says, the ban is over and it is more relaxed, and there is now less competition between the three festivals.
«We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film, «Strictly Ballroom,» was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael.»
Hopefully, one of the films in the festival's back half will be its true salvation (Holy Motors hadn't screened yet at this time two years ago; nor had Only Lovers Left Alive last year), but this one will do for the moment.
Baltasar Kormakur found acclaim at film festivals with 101 Reykjavik, but this was 15 years ago.
This is as true for this year's LA LA LAND and MOONLIGHT — two films that were not on the Oscar radar before their world premieres at the Venice and Telluride film festivals just a few months ago — as it has been for so many other lauded films of the last six years.
Last night, at the Closing Night screening of Alex of Venice at the Castro Theatre, Cowan addressed the crowd from the same podium he did when festival began two weeks ago, thanking Programming Director Rachel Rosen and her team for putting together a fantastic lineup of films, thanking the festival staff and volunteers for their hard work, and thanking the audience for partaking in the festivities.
Arguably one of the most anticipated events of this year's NYFF wasn't a premiere at all but rather a film that had its world premiere at the festival a decade ago, Wes Anderson «s «The Royal Tenenbaums.»
The Palme d'Or went to Michelangelo Antonioni's brilliant Blowup at the end of the festival (a film we tried to interest y» all in a few years ago to crickets.
One year ago at the Sundance film festival, Zach Braff's indie dramedy Wish I Was Here debuted, accompanied by a fair amount of pre-screening hubbub.
World Premiere Notable: Campos» first film since the bidding received «Simon Killer» debuted at the festival four years ago.