Sentences with phrase «even at a film festival»

Boots Riley made a movie that's guaranteed to keep you awake even at a film festival.

Not exact matches

For years he held private screenings of the movie (it's also been shown at a few film festivals), and there was even a moment when he and Stern thought of remaking it with Hopper directing once more and a younger actor in the lead.

We're gonna need a minute to process this whole situation... Okay, now we're ready to talk about the purple - and - black - and - teal lace caped gown, which shows a lot of leg and a even more side cleavage at the opening ceremony of the film festival.

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.

Russian actresses, singers, and dancers managed to impress the audience at concerts and even international film festivals with exquisite designer clothes.

Though stricken with terminal bone cancer, Farnsworth continued to make public appearances — at film festivals, award ceremonies, and even the National Cowboy Symposium — until the debilitating disease caused him to take his own life at his New Mexico home in October 2000.

Even with 200 plus films showing at this year's festival, there sadly weren't many films that stood out this year, at least in my opinion.

That same evening, Emma Thompson and her co-stars Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Bruhl and his girlfriend Felicitas Rombold hit the red carpet at the premiere of their film Alone in Berlin held at Berlinale Palace after attending their press conference as part of the festival.

If either of those films are a hit at Sundance, chances are they'll go on to even bigger things, because over the years the festival has become a formidable launching pad for actors, directors and their movies.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile GerimAt the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerimat loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

After I saw it at the Toronto film festival last September — where Rudolph and Willis said they were proud of having made it even if nobody saw it — it received nominal runs in New York and Los Angeles, cities where viewers and critics are regarded by distributors as being more demographically significant than those in Chicago, and then early this year it came out on video.

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.

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.

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.

«Sometimes dreams aren't meant to be...» Sony Classics has finally revealed the trailer for the phenomenal film The Rider, which premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival then played at every other major film festival - Telluride, Toronto, even Sundance this January.

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.

I was horrified when a valued colleague and friend at the Village Voice recently gave her blanket endorsement to Miramax's recutting two pictures that played at the New York film festival, Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade and Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon, approving both new versions before she even saw them.

Midnight horror comedies always my go to films at film festivals because while I do enjoy a good horror film, I love the genre of Horror / Comedy even more.

The Moore Egyptian Theatre performed heroically and made their Third Seattle International Film Festival the biggest yet; that it wasn't the best says as much about the enervation of the international film scene as it does about the festival programming, but even at that, the Moore served up more of the year's most satisfying and / or provocative films than anyone else.

While that latter film was already considered a dead - cert for awards - season glory, even before it premiered at the festival, this year's event boasts no such obvious frontrunner.

It went on to win the audience awards at the Edinburgh, Toronto and Chicago film festivals, and I note on the Internet Movie Database that it is currently voted the 54th best film of all time, and hasn't even opened in America yet.

The latter has reportedly struggled to finance his latest film, even attempting to auction off the Palme d'Or he won at the 2013 Cannes film festival for his previous film Blue Is the Warmest Colour.

Indeed, judging from the waves of walk - outs at the Berlinale press screening, this is the film that finally breaks even hardcore festival journos who make it a rule to never walk out of ANYTHING.

In fact, the film was so well received that it even won its first time director an award at the festival.

The film has done particularly well within the horror community — having even won the Jury Award at the Nevermore festival recently — but it would be disingenuous to actually call it horror.

Now, while I did see several great films, I also saw several films that I spent a hours afterwards wondering «how the hell was that film even picked to play at festival?»

Every film receiving a gala premiere brings the audience to its feet (at least, once the houselights go up and the spotlight shines on the stars sitting in the mezzanine), even so - so films that no one particularly adores such as this year's festival opener, «The Fifth Estate.»

Alex's Top 5 Favorite Films: # 5: I Am Not a Hipster - Even though this was the second film I saw at the festival, it stuck with me all the way through 22 more films, remaining one of my top favorites.

With a head - bopping soundtrack and an inspiring underdog narrative, Mister and Pete is a film that succeeds at practically every turn, even if it isn't the most original movie at this year's festival.

Director Wanuri Kahiu's movie gets strong response at film festival even if it doesn't break much new narrative ground.

For past festivals Shteyrenberg has even shown he has a knack for pushing this writer to see the right movies to introduce at the festival, Ida was one («Ida» comes to South Florida in 35 mm; My review appears in «Reverse Shot»), and then there was the Israeli film Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem shows how to make a powerful, resonant drama using one setting — a film review).

Taking audience questions about American Violet at the Telluride film festival, she alleged that even after district attorney John Paschall settled out of court with her and the other plaintiffs in an ACLU suit, he enforced an informal employment blacklist against her in her hometown of Hearne, Texas.

Even being this close to the end we actually have some great new additions to the cast, I was particularly thrilled to see Peter Mullen as Ministry baddie Yaxley, I've been a fan of his from seeing films at film festival (True North, Boy A, Red Riding Trilogy), he does a fantastic job here falling seamlessly into the world and has an impressinve, memoble presense amongst other characters weve known for years.

SIFF Cinema at Seattle Center, Pacific Place, the Paramount, and even Pacific Science Center IMAX also will host festival films.

I had an amazing time at the festival and saw quite a few films, but I did realize that Whiplash, even though my very first film, was still one of the best of the fest by the end.

Del Toro's upcoming film, which he directed and co-wrote with Vanessa Taylor (Divergent, Game of Thrones), has been building buzz over the last few months with screenings at various film festivals - and even won Best Picture at Venice Film Festival - ahead of its official rollout next month.

Sunshine State (John Sayles, 2002): While most theatrical re-releases, or festival screenings, tend to flaunt a new presentation, or even a rarely seen print of the film, this screening at the Rendezvous Film Festival in Amelia Island, Florida, where Sunshine State was predominantly filmed, was from a DVD off a digital projector in a black box theatre, hosted by John Sayles and producer Maggie Renzi.

At certain turns, you wonder if this would even make the cut to be shown in a local film festival based on the production and acting levels of Gina Carano.

The problem is that so many of the docs that play Park City are by largely unknown filmmakers, making them even more of a crap shoot than anything else you could take a chance on at a film festival.

If you look closely at trailers for all the different genres of Hollywood blockbuster movies, television series and even small - scale film festival offers you'll quickly notice a common pattern to each.

The film takes place at a middle school during the evening of the culture festival on a small and isolated island.

Sharifzadeh's short animated film, Even Gray Feels Blue, has been featured in festivals around the world, and was awarded Best Experimental Film at the 2012 Williamsburg International Film Festival, Best Animated Film at the 2012 Crown Heights Film Festival, and Best Video Art Production at the Alwan Center for the Arts in New York.

Negin's short animated film, Even Gray Feels Blue, has been featured in festivals around the world, and was awarded Best Experimental Film at the 2012 Williamsburg International Film Festival, Best Animated Film at the 2012 Crown Heights Film Festival and Best Video Art Production at the Alwan Center for the Arts in New York.