When she decided to build the resort that opened in 2013, Johnson took the advice of her friend Robert Redford to hold
a fall film festival to promote her resort.
Notoriously secretive and the only major film festival that unveils its line - up the day before it starts — a bold move and seemingly risky for those making the trip all the way to Colorado — for 41 years the tastemaking festival has proven itself to have terrific programming and a boast a few «premiere - y» coups within
the fall film festival circuit too.
After a strong debut on
the fall film festival circuit and a 97 % fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film arrives in cinemas as conversations around sexual harassment and assault are hitting a national high, with allegations in every sector, including restaurant owners, high - profile journalists, fashion photographers and Hollywood giants like Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey.
Release Date: TBD, but it's an Annapurna Pictures film and has been completed, so here's hoping for
a fall film festival debut.
If we're lucky it'll land in
the fall film festival circuit much like «Meek's Cutoff» did in 2011.
With
the fall film festival line - ups now pretty much all revealed, it seems we may have to wait until 2013 to see the sophomore directorial effort of Roman Coppola.
Well,
the fall film festival season is starting to really take shape and if you were wondering what's up with the line - up of the 59th BFI London Film Festival, wonder no longer.
Put this one high up on your 2015 most anticipated list and hope it's ready by Cannes or the next
fall film festival season.
Fall film festival reviews for Tom Hooper's transgender true story were so - so, with critics damning it with faint praise, calling it «well - meaning» and «tasteful.»
Luckily, September also marks the arrival of
fall film festival circuit, which provides viewers the opportunity to view an abundance of movies from across the world and thus celebrates the diversity of cinema.
The studio is now the undisputed winner of
the fall film festival season, thanks to Guillermo del Toro's «The Shape of Water» and Martin McDonagh's «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.»
For those who don't know, most studios use
the fall film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big awards contenders.
In fact, nearly every Best Picture winner in recent memory made its debut at one of the major
fall film festivals.
The film debuted at
the fall film festivals and was released in the United States at the tail end of last year.
The film did the rounds at
the fall film festivals around the...
Some of these launched at prestige
fall film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad reviews or audience reaction, or both.
In the last couple of weeks the major
fall film festivals have unveiled aggressively competitive line - ups, and the amount of potential awards product landing at Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York is, as usual, vast.
Its October release date is prime position that makes perfect sense for a premiere at one of the major
fall film festivals, Toronto or Telluride most likely, and it has the potential to be a hit through many different branches of the Academy.
For his part, Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino («Call Me By Your Name») wanted more time to complete his English - language»70s Berlin resetting of Dario Argento's stylized creepy horror thriller «Suspiria,» starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, and Chloe Grace Moretz, which is heading for
fall film festivals.
Making the rounds of some important
fall film festivals and then beginning its qualifying run in limited release four days before Christmas, Not Fade Away arrived with the unmistakable implication of awards prospects.
This is expected to premiere at
the fall film festivals.
Not exact matches
After being showcased in big
film festivals like Sundance, Imperial Dreams very quickly
fell off the radar after it wasn't picked up by a distributor.
L.A. - based Roadside once again saw half of its
films (including Chilean drama Gloria and
festival hit Dear White People) earn positive reviews, but its Metascore average (and box office grosses)
fell a bit compared to 2013.
Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master might have lost the Golden Lion in Venice (while still winning Best Director and Best Actor (s) awards), but it emerged as the most critically acclaimed
film of the
fall festival season.
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.
The
film won't be launched until a
fall festival, right into awards season later this year.
In a prolific filmmaking burst, the Argentinean - Chilean director Sebastián Lelio («Gloria») will bring two
films to TIFF, both in a feminist vein: the lesbian romance «Disobedience» (a
fall festival debut), and the trans drama «A Fantastic Woman,» which premiered in Berlin.
The studio turned heads when it picked up the actor's directorial debut for a record - breaking $ 18.5 million deal, but their clear - cut plan to turn «The Birth of a Nation» into their next Oscar powerhouse was derailed after Parker's college rape allegations and subsequent trial resurfaced just ahead of the
film's
fall festival launch.
But the
festival focuses on lesser - known
films that have
fallen into obscurity but still pack a punch.
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.
Some wag commented on Twitter during the
festival that when a
film is described as «soporific,» it means that the critic
fell asleep during the screening, but here, we'd mean the word as a compliment; Tsai conjures up a surreal tone closest to the moments after waking where you try and work out if your dreams were real or not, and it's a feeling that lingers long after the credits roll.
The 60th BFI London Film Festival has announced its
films this morning and they feature some familiar faces of the already announced
fall festivals and offer us a glimpse into the studio pushes for the upcoming Oscar season.
When speaking about her
film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time last
fall at the Vulture
festival, director Ava DuVernay told a crowd, «I'm trying to make a Lynn Shelton movie, just on a larger budget.»
According to the
festival, «Cafe Society» centers on Eisenberg as a young man «who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the
film industry,
falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.»
The Square, Call Me By Your Name, The Florida Project, Mudbound and A Fantastic Woman are just some of the early announced
films hitting the Mill Valley Film Festival The Venice and Telluride Film
Festivals are just kicking off but the Mill Valley Film Festival, now in its 40th season, is set to show off some of the
fall and...
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.
It bypassed the
fall festivals on its way to an April release but somewhat unexpectedly popped up in the Spotlight section of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, a section of the event that's devoted to
films that played elsewhere and also included TIFF hits «The Death of Stalin,» «Beast,» «Sweet Country,» and others this year.
And he'll almost certainly be back on the
festival circuit this
fall with the American remake of his 2013
film Gloria, with Julianne Moore in the lead.
After appearances at the Toronto, Chicago, Austin (and likely more)
film festivals this
fall Youth will be released by Fox Searchlight on December 5th.
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The movies currently debuting at
film festivals and gearing up for the
fall awards season were largely
filmed either before or during the 2016 election — but that doesn't mean they can't reflect modern politics.
Though its summer release date is pretty ballsy for a movie that would have benefited from an early
fall awards push, the studio's confidence in «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» is not only encouraging, but suggests that the rave reviews coming out of Park City wasn't just the usual
film festival hyperbole.
GC: It started when the editors of Film Comment asked me to go see the first
festival of post-revolutionary Iranian
films at the Lincoln Center in the
fall of 1992.
The jury at this year's Cannes
film festival fell over themselves to award top honours to Nuri Bilge Ceylan's rumbling 196 - minute Chekhovian drama («I could happily have stayed there for another couple of hours,» insisted judge Jane Campion).
Movie fans trekking to Telluride, Colo., for the resort town's annual
film festival this weekend are set to see some of the
fall's most anticipated performances, including Bill Murray as FDR in «Hyde Park on Hudson,» Michael Shannon as family man and freelance assassin in «The Iceman,» and Ben Affleck as a CIA agent in «Argo.»
As some of the other responders have noted, the
fall movies have not «petered out» for most of us, since we don't attend the major
film festivals.
Friday night was the first of Fantastic Fest's famed secret screenings, which
fall into two categories: Marquee studio genre
films, and under - the - radar
festival titles.
The release date
falls in the thick of awards season and suggests the studio is most likely going to premiere the
film at one of the major
fall festivals.
The Gist: Oppenheimer, who was nominated for an Oscar earlier this year for «The Act of Killing,» has been working on a follow - up to the
film for some time, and it has been rumored to be heading for the
fall festival circuit.
Far From The Madding Crowd Who Made It: Thomas Vinterberg Who's In It: Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge, Matthias Schoenarts, Juno Temp Where It Might Premiere: Fox Searchlight has delayed the release of the
film until next May, though rumor has it that the
film will make a
fall festival debut anyway.