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.
If we're lucky it'll land in
the fall film festival circuit much like «Meek's Cutoff» did in 2011.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
With stirring performances by relative veteran Elle Fanning and newcomer Alice Englert, the
film is on the
fall festival circuit in search of U.S. distribution.
Worst - case scenario: You concur with people who saw the
film on the
festival circuit last
fall and complain that it's too eager to play its transgender character for cheap laughs, as if Laverne Cox appearing on the cover of Time had never happened.
Certain
films endure this misfortune, whatever the reasons, and get lost in a sea of hype for the unseen
films that hit the
fall festival circuit.
No word whether or not Cronenberg means the
film won't be released theatrically or hit the
festival circuit until next
fall is unclear, so we'll just have to wait and see.
Earlier this year, it was reported that «The Grandmasters» would not be finished until the end of 2011, but with this first teaser trailer hitting, could Wong Kar - Wai be readying the
film for the
fall festival circuit?
We first wrote about the project way back in 2009, and the finished
film hit the
festival circuit to positive reviews in
fall 2010.
Filming is expected to wrap in Pennsylvania shortly, and we can only surmise that this will be one to keep an eye out for on the
fall festival circuit.
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.