Sentences with phrase «days at a film festival»

Spend a few days at a film festival and the movies start talking to each other.

Not exact matches

The festival, which spans several days, will include a film festival, Icelandic - themed menus across the city, and a concert at The Middle East on Saturday night.

I travel at least a few days each month on behalf of a global press junket, film festival, special event, or domestic press tour.

A winner at festivals including Sundance, it's known for being filmed one day a week for 52 weeks and marries a documentary style with drama and a truly pervy thriller element that is intriguing if not always interesting.

After playing at a couple of Canadian film festivals last fall, Defendor came to just three North American theaters (four in its second week) for fourteen days of quiet exhibition this past February.

Other films that are definitely worth checking out that played at TIFF (and other festivals): Adam Wingard's rapturous and playful The Guest, Palm d'Or winner Winter Sleep, latest from master filmmakers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne Two Days, One Night, 3 and a half hour epic Li» l Quinquin, harrowing street life portrait Heaven Knows What, ambitious and transcending Jauja, and Mike Leigh's exemplary Mr. Turner.

Held April 26 - 29 at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre complex, Egyptian Theatre, Cinerama Dome and poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel, the classic movie marathon expanded this year to 120 films and events, «making it our biggest festival yet... creating four days of movie magic along Hollywood Boulevard,» said festival director Genevieve McGillicuddy.

I probably missed a few, as I was only able to see about 20 of the films at the festival (which is not a lot, since it is possible to see nearly 40 over the festival's 8 days), but suffice it to say, if you're a canine lover, be wary of all the films listed above.

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.

This year, I spent six days watching various films at the festival.

Woody Allen) Cast: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Louis C.K. Over the years, eleven of Woody Allen «s films have shown at Cannes (five opening the festival, including most recently «Midnight In Paris «-RRB-, with some of his biggest latter - day successes unspooling.

Sadly, getting home from seeing four or five films a day at midnight (and having been out since 10.30 am) and having to write for my own blog — a necessity of the «60 films in 17 days» blogathon challenge I was participating in — took its toll, especially against the backdrop of the flu that I carried all festival.

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Following the Michael Peña Q&A, we'll segue into a film that first earned buzz at last year's Toronto International Film Festival (if you're keeping track, that's a day of films that premiered at SXSW, Sundance, Berlin, and TIFF — capturing the spirit of CCFF in the way it's designed to bring the international film festival experience to Chicago).

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.

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.

Berlin International Film Festival - Day 4 2/10 / 2008 Oddly, one of the biggest buzz films of the festival and its biggest seller so far at the European Film Market is not even screening here.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

Now, a press release tells us that the Sundance Institute will continue its progressive ways by taking a break from the chilly Utah weather and heading to the West Coast this summer, hosting a 4 - day film festival right here in Los Angeles at the Sundance Sunset Cinema in West Hollywood.

Introducing itself to the world at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and creating substantial buzz in film festivals the world over before opening in an elite listing of American cinemas in July, Sean Baker's fifth feature plays out with genuine emotion and manifests as an eye - opening day - in - the - life of two transgender sex workers on the streets of Los Angeles.

Labor Day received good word from critics at the Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals, so here's hoping that the film lives up to the expectations.

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

From the day a film premieres at a festival to the night of the Academy Awards, it endures a large sieve of male critiques.

The film will screen at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Thursday, Nov. 6 to kick off the eight - day festival in Hollywood.

Today was a day for films about people stirring things up in their families and communities, and about British films stirring things up here at the festival.

At the festival's announcement press conference, artistic director Thierry Frémaux hinted that another work from a woman could be added to the lineup in the coming days (the festival will likely announce at least a few more selections; at the very least, Cannes has yet to reveal its closing night filmAt the festival's announcement press conference, artistic director Thierry Frémaux hinted that another work from a woman could be added to the lineup in the coming days (the festival will likely announce at least a few more selections; at the very least, Cannes has yet to reveal its closing night filmat least a few more selections; at the very least, Cannes has yet to reveal its closing night filmat the very least, Cannes has yet to reveal its closing night film).

And we spent five days that we were going to see films at the festival writing this movie, and we wrote the first draft of «Lemon» there.

Matt's first two days at the Alamo Drafthouse's annual film festival included absurdity of all kinds, the latest movie from Guillermo Del Toro, and more.

Starring Michael Keaton as an actor trying to regain his former glory on Broadway when his days playing a famous superhero have long been gone, the film is already getting major buzz thanks to its trailer, and would surely be a hot ticket at whatever festival it makes its way to.

Bookending its 5 - day festivities are opening - night film Billy Bishop Goes to War, FeFF Honorary Director Barbara Willis - Sweete's crack at John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson's slice of Canadiana, and festival closer Union Square, a Mira Sorvino starrer from former Sundance Grand Jury prize - winner Nancy Savoca.

In the last two days the Thomas McCarthy drama Spotlight has popped up as an entry at both Venice and Toronto's film festivals and it's not hard to see why.

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,...

By the same token, I also recall remarking to myself about how quickly the backlash cycle gets at film festivals these days, as evidenced by my enthusiastic reactions to Moonlight and Jackie being met by polar opposite reactions, either online or in person, maybe a day or two after I had seen them.

From the day a film premieres at a festival to the night of the Academy Awards, it endures a large sieve of male critiques, starting with film associations and working its way through box office turnout and award show campaigns.

The 8 - day festival takes place at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar and sees over 100 feature films screened for attendees.

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.

Continuing our coverage of films that will be featured at the Sundance film festival in January, today we bring you two films that will premiere in the out - of - competition category at the prestigious festival: The Devil's Double and Life in a Day.

Derek Cianfrance is actually a three - time feature director, but his first movie Brother Tied is so unobtainable (it played at festivals in 1998 but hasn't seen the light of day since, the print now collecting dust in Cianfrance's father's basement) that we only have his second and third films, Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines, to judge him by.

There's been more of my film - festival coverage at Hammer to Nail over the past 7 days!

-- Every day, you have the opportunity to write a critique about a film from the festival program or short reviews of an event at the Berlinale Talents programme, and will discuss and review it with your fellow participants and film critics.

The rest of the day was taken up with films that had already played at other film festivals and arrived at Fantastic Fest with major buzz.

My third day at the Cannes Film Festival brought both my favorite and least favorite films of the festival so far.

In the past, I have seen as many as 34 films at a single festival and I am looking to break that record in the next 10 days.

In Cannes, all of the major US and European trades publish daily news magazines, and some create their own juries tracking favourites for the completion as the festival rolls on at the rate of two competition films a day.

Women - directed films will bookend the festival, with Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night serving as this year's opener and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's 20,000 Days on Earth closing it out.

For the first time, a special program of short films from the United Kingdom is part of the annual 10 - day festival headquartered at Enzian Theater in Maitland.

The majority of the following excitements in the cinema have been at official international film festivals, sometimes in the many national film events showing in commercial cinemas or occasionally a regular day to day release at more neighbourhood venues.

There were a lot of great films that just missed the cut (sorry, Happy Death Day, Mayhem & Gerald's Game), or that I still need to see (I see you there in my queue It Comes At Night and Thelma) or have only played the festival circuit and therefore don't qualify (I have nothing but love for you The Endless).

The talk of the Cannes Film Festival, where it received as rapturous a critical response as any film is likely to get (no less than Amy Taubin said it was one of her ten favorite films of all - time on Film Comment's festival podcast), Toni Erdmann is finally making its run through the fall festival circuit, and here in Vancouver it capped my first day at the festival.

During and after her teaching career, she occasional reconnected with her acting days, receiving a «Golden Boot» award for her Western movie work, being interviewed in the documentaries The Republic Pictures Story and Cliffhangers, and appearing at the 1994 Knoxville Western film festival.