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.
You may think it's a little early to start prepping for
fall film festival season, but New York Film Festival wants to prove you wrong.
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.
While
most fall film festivals have high profile titles that offer attendees a chance to get out ahead of award season flicks, the Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest provides an exciting grab bag of genre movies.
A hit at
big fall film festivals, this story of restless Sacramento teenager Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson's last year of Catholic high school had a rare, 100 percent «fresh» (i.e. positive) rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes this week of its commercial release.
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.»
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.
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.
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.
Release Date: TBD, but the 2013
fall film festival circuit feels like a likely place to find distribution (rumors that Focus Features have acquired it are false).
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.
I'm heading back home to Los Angeles tomorrow, wrapping up my two weeks here at
the fall film festivals.
For those who don't know, most studios use
the fall film festivals as a kind of launching pad for their big awards contenders.
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.»
With Labour Day behind us and winter approaching within weeks, the Toronto International Film Festival seems like the ideal location for
the fall film festival season to launch.
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...
A vital part of
the fall film festival season, TIFF is where many of the year's Oscar contenders kick off their campaigns.
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.
Amazon Studios marketing and distribution boss Bob Berney revealed that Mike Leigh's Peterloo will be making a play at
the fall film festivals with an eye on a November theatrical release.
This is expected to premiere at
the fall film festivals.
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.
Release Date: TBD, but perhaps we'll see it during
the fall film festival circuit.
If we're lucky it'll land in
the fall film festival circuit much like «Meek's Cutoff» did in 2011.
The fall film festivals brought a slew of name contenders, from Guillermo del Toro's WGA - nominated «The Shape of Water» and Martin McDonagh's BAFTA - winner «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» (not eligible for the WGA) to Greta Gerwig's WGA - nominated «Lady Bird.»
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.
We could tell something was wrong when the film, which was once called «Adam Jones,» didn't land at any of
the fall film festivals.
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.
«Carol» hits theaters December 18, but knowing the Weinsteins, you should probably expect it to show up all over
the fall film festival circuit too.
«Detroit» could have used a boost from
the fall film festivals if Annapurna wanted to make this work for the long awards haul.