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Eva Longoria will judge the documentary and student short film competitions when the New York film festival, Tribeca, hits the U.K. Abigail Breslin,...

Not exact matches

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After sustaining a near - fatal head trauma when bucked from a bronco in competition, Brady spends the rest of the film physically rehabilitating and mentally preparing himself for the road ahead, and what it might look like to leave the rodeo in his rearview mirror.

These performers keep you mesmerized, making the most of what they're given even when the film sinks into a swamp of whose - dick - is - bigger competitions and sports clichés about product endorsements.

For many this year, Oscar competition has focused on the family films «Hugo» and «War Horse,» which have received so much recognition from the Academy — «Hugo» leads the pack with the most nominations this year (although «The Artist» and «The Descendants» will offer stiff competition when the envelope is opened for Best Picture on Feb. 26).

It's too long and too overwrought in parts, but when you get to the final sequence and realise what he's constructed, it hits you in the gut and the mind in a way that no other film in the competition quite manages.

WHY: China is the second largest film market in the world, so when a homegrown movie like «The Mermaid» bulldozes the Hollywood competition on its way to becoming the country's most successful film of all - time, it's hard not to stand up and take notice.

When the film premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival in March where it took home the Audience Award for Narrative Feature Competition, nobody could have predicted just how timely it would be upon the release in early November.

She also triggers the film's best in - joke, not about the Marvel mythos but about the competition, when Thor comments, «I think it's great there is an elite force of women warriors.

However he does admit that things were at the worst a couple of years ago, when Toronto decided to drop any films from the popular first half of its schedule that had premiered anywhere else — but now, he says, the ban is over and it is more relaxed, and there is now less competition between the three festivals.

Pup Star: World Tour: Family film takes audiences around the world, as the action - packed spin on popular TV singing competitions goes global when «Tiny,» the adorable singing Yorkie pup, packs her bags for far - away places from Africa to India and beyond.

Another year when the Academy got it unexpectedly right, not just because they awarded a film unafraid to take an unforgiving look at America's brutal past, but because»12 Years a Slave» really was the most worthy film in competition.

Cannes has had problems leaning into super-male lineups (even when hugely acclaimed female directors are available) so it's worth noting that three of the first seventeen films announced in competition are from female filmmakers: Lebanon's Nadine Labaki, Italy's Alice Rohrwacher, and France's Eva Husson.

Aliens — It's an odd year indeed when Top Gun isn't even the best action film of the year, but that's the case this year when the competition is perhaps the single greatest action movie of all - time.

And of course, that fall trifecta constitutes a competition unto itself, one that threatened to turn nasty three years ago when Toronto, irked by Telluride's early access to some of the season's most coveted films, sought to impose a penalty of sorts by restricting all Telluride - screened titles from screening the first weekend of TIFF.

This is a confession of faith not as faith is often demanded, but as it's experienced — especially in those nights when the living water gets stiff competition from Scotch and a shot of Pepto - Bismol (Toller's preferred nightcap, which Schrader films in nauseating, mesmerizing closeup).

I hope to see «Radiance» on Sunday, when the festival will reprise all 19 films screening in this year's competition.

With the theatrical release of Doug's 1st Movie in March of 1999, Disney began a new annual tradition of releasing a second - rate animated feature film early in the year, when there is less box office competition.

For the 2018 edition of the festival, 37 percent of the 122 feature films premiering are directed by women, a slight uptick from last year when 34 percent of all films were helmed by female directors (in years past, the average has hovered around 25 percent), and their contributions were prominent across all sections, with women debuting films in not just the competition sections, but also in the forward - thinking NEXT section, the wild Midnight category (which played home to the long - gestating anthology «XX,» featuring four shorts directed by women), and even the starry Premieres docket.

When the film finally did start screening, though, Jennifer Lawrence found some incredibly tough competition for the trophy by way of Chastain's performance.

The narrative almost changed with the very last competition film when Lynne Ramsay rushed to get her final cut onto the Croisette with You Were Never Really Here (3.6) and was close but no cigar for the second highest rated film just squeaking in in front of Zvyagintsev's Loveless (3.5).

What You Need To Know: As Thierry Fremaux acknowledged when announcing this film's out - of - competition slot, the directorial debut of a major star comes with certain expectations and sharpened knives attached, as Ryan Gosling discovered with «Lost River» last year.

Every list of disaster films needs a volcano movie, and when you get right down to it, the competition is really only between this and «Dante's Peak.»

When a biopic on Alfred Hitchcock, as big a legend as there is among directors, failed to reach expected returns a few years ago, it isn't surprising that another warts and all late 60s portrait of the great Jean - Luc Godard (who at 88 will have his latest film premiere in competition at Cannes next month) isn't gaining traction.

There's also no sign of the Sky Store app that you'll find on many other set - top boxes — likely because Apple doesn't want any competition when it comes to buy - to - own digital films and TV shows.