Sentences with phrase «best films at the festival»

I'm very happy I did, as Cheap Thrills turned out to be one of the best films at the festival that delivered on laughs, violence, and possibly some career best performances from all cast members involved.

It seems like there are some good films at the festival this year.

Austin icon Richard Linklater's Before Midnight, which played two days later, would've been a better selection; unfortunately, like several of the best films at the festival (David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche, Jeff Nichols's Mud, and Hannah Fidell's A Teacher), it had already premiered at Sundance.

Looking at the rest of the presumed competition field, Son of Sofia and Nobody's Watching were two of the best films at the festival.

Not exact matches

After Arin Crumley failed to find a distributor for his 2005 movie Four Eyed Monsters despite good reception at film festivals, he used his website to generate a national following.

Their films have aired nationally and internationally in more than 100 countries, are distributed in the educational market, and have screened at a variety of well - known film venues and festivals in the US and abroad.

«We have had films like Tunde Kelani's Abeni feature at the festival as well as Half of a Yellow Sun, which is a collaboration between Nigeria and the UK, but I think this is an opportunity to do more and to go bigger.

You must have seen many celebrities walking the red carpet at some fashion GALA or film festival, some of them stunning always, some of them, well, often to dress like a joke... If you observe carefully, you'll find that some types of dress never make mistakes.

Saw it at a film festival, and it wasn't horrible, but Ive seen better.

The Canadian film premiered at Slamdance 2013 and took home the Best Narrative Feature prize, initiating a successful festival run...

In fact, nearly every Best Picture winner in recent memory made its debut at one of the major fall film festivals.

His narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

I always see some of the best films each year at film festivals, but there's always hidden gems and discoveries to be found outside of fests.

Full of humor and humanity, «Nobody Walks» is an emotionally complex, acutely observed and sensual film and in this writer's opinion, one of the best at the festival.

I see all the commercial releases, and almost all of the imports, and at the Cannes, New York, and Chicago film festivals, I see a good cross section of the smaller films, domestic and foreign, that are worthy of festivals but not commercial enough for wider release.

«The Palme d'Or win opened up a lot of doors with the press, festivals and exhibitors, so there was great anticipation for the film in advance of its North American bows at Toronto and the New York film festivals and has given the film some great momentum in the awards race as well,» said Cowal.

For the second consecutive year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is partnering with DOXA Documentary Film Festival to present EDA Awards for best female - directed films at the 16th annual festival, to be held from May 4 to 14, in Vancouver, BC.

There's always a place for a good comedy, regardless of if it's at a film festival or in cinemas during the end of March.

Several other films that have been building steam on the festival circuit will play at the festival as well.

Namely, these films have been heralded with top prizes at important film festivals, giving them a sheen of prestige that even the best PR campaigns can't buy.

Other polarizing films included Darling, Bone Tomahawk, Follow and Demon (which won best horror feature at the festival to many people's surprise

It's become something of a film festival truism that certain movies play better at high altitudes.

Alongside it's Oscar for Best Foreign Language film of 2016, it was also a nominee for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival with Farhadi winning Best Screenplay and Shahab Hosseini winning Best Actor.

Sure, they play well at midnight screenings at film festivals in front of rowdy, half - drunk crowds.

That's the general thrust of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, the sort of well - acted, well - written but self - consciously hip seriocomedy that can't help but win prizes at international film festivals.

The indie has taken several notable prizes at domestic film festivals, including a special jury prize for breakout performance from the Los Angeles Film Festival for star Auden Thornton, as well as the narrative feature audience prize from the Austin Film Festival.

For me, the best viewing experience for this film would be at the end of a day long music festival, outdoors in a field on a beautiful summers evening just after sunset.

So far, our SXSW preview series has taken a look at the Headliners, Midnight section, and narrative films in the Visions program as well as a tour of the festival's documentaries.

Bening and eight other international celebrity jurors will hand out the awards at the festival, including the Golden Lion for best film and Silver Lion for best director and the grand jury prize.

The film already premiered at the Göteborg Film Festival earlier this year, and is playing at a few other festivals this summer as well, including OutFest in July.

«Room» has been chosen by the audience as the best film at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, winning the festival's Grolsch People's Choice Award at a ceremony in Toronto on Sunday.

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.

But there appears to be no rhyme or reason to the way this festival was put together, with many of the best films showing at the most inconvenient times, no clear threadlike connecting the films from different countries or eras and a lot of sub-standard source material for a repertory festival.

Agnes Varda, director of «Visages Villages (Faces Places),» which many considered the best film at this year's Cannes festival, where it played out of competition, received the Silver medallion from Telluride in 1977 (the fourth year of the Festival).

Hungary has picked harrowing Holocaust drama Son of Saul as its nomination for the 2016 best foreign language film Oscar, less than three weeks after it won the runner - up Grand Prix prize at the Cannes film festival.

Other films just missing the cut: Oliver really loved «Miss Violence» at the Venice film festival and it made his five best films list (review here).

On the other hand, they said that Torre Nilsson was an artist; all his films ended up at the best film festivals.

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Three of the best films at this year's Telluride festival deal with unusual frankness with sex.

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Performing at prestigious film festivals and venues around the world, including the Telluride Film Festival, the Louvre, Lincoln Center, and the National Gallery of Art, Alloy has helped revive some of the great masterpieces as well as little - known gems of the silent era.

The films, financed by Roger Corman (who had also produced Hellman's Los Angeles stage production of «Waiting For Godot»), were well received at European film festivals but tossed into legal limbo when its European distributor went bankrupt and ended up being sold directly to American TV.

Think of them as cinemas golden boys, the best directing duo out there, and indie icons for the break out films at festivals and how they told stories on a limited canvas.

The second film I saw at the festival and its wondrous cinematography, resonant performances, and an organic direction that plays right into my wheelhouse; Mr. Turner proves that Leigh can tackle the tricky genre of the biopic better than, well, anyone I've ever seen.

In stark contrast to Kraume's take on German history was one of the best films I saw at the festival, Robert Schwentke's The Captain.

This film was screened at Fantastic Fest 2010 and ended up on my Top 10 best of the festival list — more #FF2010 coverage here.

Sundance Film Festival Park City Utah - Day 7 Only at a film festival can you have one of your best experiences watching 12 year - old children, and younger, in prison.

The film has won several awards from festivals, including best actor for Dujardin at Cannes.

You've seen more nuanced treatises on illegal immigration, but Jonás Cuarón's thriller, which premiered at Toronto and will serve as the L.A. film festival's closing - night offering, is a harrowingly visceral experience, centered around a cat - and - mouse game between a well - matched Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

There was film noir aplenty at the TCM festival as well as special guests, panels, a poolside screening and parties.

Looks like it's best to see at a film festival.