Sentences with phrase «best opening night films»

This film is definitely a great way to kick off the 30th Anniversary of this festival and based on what my friend said, this is one of the best opening night films to open Sundance in quite sometime.

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Curiously, bar the middling Opening Night Eurasiapudding, A Prayer for Rain (Ravi Kumar), none of the disaster films from this section that I caught were terribly well attended.

From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and old.

«The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro's striking, sensual fantasy film, won the Producers Guild of America's top honor Saturday night at the PGA Awards, cementing its place as one of the front - runners of this year's wide - open Oscar best picture race.

The 3 - D film may have its faults, but I couldn't have asked for a better opening - night guest, a man who has made films all over the world and remains as passionate as ever about his work at the age of 71.

Opening Mother's Day weekend, Moms» Night Out struggled to find an audience in a little over 1,000 theaters and never really expanded any further than that, en route to a lackluster $ 10.4 million domestic gross, which probably doesn't bode well for the film's international prospects.

Whiplash was the opening night film, and the future Best Picture nominee dominated the conversation until Richard Linklater dropped a Boyhood - sized bomb on Park City, UT, a few days later.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Polley was in Chicago with her film as the opening night selection for the first ever Chicago Critics Film Festival, which also played Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden's «Feral» which was nominated for Best Animated Short Film.

The red carpet was rolled out in a corridor near the hotel's auditorium for a lengthy procession of luminaries from the region — filmmakers and actors whose films were to unspool at MEIFF, many unknown to me; festival jurors, many who were known to me, and so on — as well as... Demi Moore, Freida Pinto and Hilary Swank, amongst others shipped in to gratuitously increase the wattage of Opening Night.

Parents at the multiplex who are looking for a movie the whole family will like probably can't do better than The Good Dinosaur — especially given the other films opening on Thanksgiving weekend (The Danish Girl; Creed; Janis: Little Girl Blue; Victor Frankenstein) and those already playing in theaters (The Hunger Games, The Night Before, Love the Coopers, Goosebumps).

The feature, by Alison Chernick, was the opening night film at the Hamptons International Film Festival and won «best of the fest» at the Palm Springs International Film Festival earlier this year.

This is selected as the opening night film of Sundance, which honestly is a bit of a concern, but I still have a good feeling this will be something quite unique if not very memorable.

They join previously announced films such as Opening Night film Kick - Ass, as well as narrative features Cold Weather and Elektra Luxx, and documentaries Hubble 3D, Lemmy, SATURDAY NIGHT and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern LiNight film Kick - Ass, as well as narrative features Cold Weather and Elektra Luxx, and documentaries Hubble 3D, Lemmy, SATURDAY NIGHT and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern LiNIGHT and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights.

Opening the night was the (perhaps misleadingly titled) Outstanding British Film category which eschewed recognition of daring and original films such as Berberian Sound Studio and Sightseers in favour of Anna Karenina and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, along with this year's winner - the 23rd entry in the Bond franchise - Skyfall.

This week's big horror film Don't Breathe opened last night in theaters, but did it have a good turnout?

Produced by Chicagoan Tom Rosenberg (Academy Award winner, «Million Dollar Baby») and directed by Chicagoan Fisher Stevens (Academy Award winner, «The Cove»), the film features an all - star cast including Academy Award winners Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin as well as Emmy and Golden Globe - winner Julianna Margulies, all of whom will be in Chicago to celebrate opening night.

The opening shot of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's Hangover riff Best Night Ever, of a gyrating black man's ass, instantly sets the film's prevailing tone of degradation.

Opening Night Screening of «Stories We Tell» — I can't officially tell you how incredibly good this documentary is, so I will just say that it is true this film may or may not be an excellent way to kick off this festival.

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