Sentences with phrase «film events of the year»

This promises to be one of the Chicago film events of the year.

Don't miss what will be one of the film events of the year.

Our programming team, led by Zoë Elton, has done an incredible job finding the finest films from around the world, helping make MVFF one of California's best - known and most impactful film events of the year, offering a diverse selection of screenings, filmmaker appearances, workshops, panels, and music shows.

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Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

In 2003, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King became the rare popcorn event film to achieve mass appeal, earning $ 377 million in its theatrical run, and also emerge with the year's top Oscar honor.

Unlike other festivals that screen films in the hopes of getting a bigger distribution deal, Ellison's crew plans to use social media and other tech to turn these films into year round events, it says.

After the success of our first two - day conference in 2016, we're excited to be hosting another two - day event this year at the Barbican Centre in central London - an iconic London venue and Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue presenting a diverse range of art, music, theatre, dance, film and creative learning events.

In the event, Queen Christina was among the most successful films of the year (as were at least three others condemned that year by the Legion).

Author Chuck Palahniuk plans to revisit Tyler Durden and the whole gang in an upcoming graphic novel that takes place 10 years after the events of Fight Club, his novel which David Fincher later adapted into the now - classic film.

Each cocktail has been inspired by events from the last 18 years, such as the Oscar haul director Danny Boyle picked up in 2009 for his film Slumdog Millionaire and the death of singer Amy Winehouse in 2011.

Less than twenty years later, the hotel established by Lucien Barrière on the Croisette was at the forefront of the beginnings of a cinematic event that became the most important film festival in the world — the Cannes Film Festival.

ASIMO has attended a huge number of public events over the years, such as making appearances at Disneyland and film premieres.

Players take command of their own ships in the midst of a war set 30 years after the events in the film Star Trek: Nemesis (not the recent Star Trek reboot).

The premiere event is for mature audiences 18 years of age or older, will kick off with a cocktail reception and will be followed with a Q&A session with the film's voice cast and producers.

In their Set Love Free promotion, Cyber-Dating Expert readers will get to attend this event for one of the best sci - fi films of the year.

It's here that the thriller aspect really takes hold, and it's incredible in that you'll notice in the thirty - plus years since the events of ARGO, things still haven't improved between the Middle East and the West, making this a relevant, but also balanced film.

These four Oscar winners make this film one of the big events of the year.

It's been ten years since the events of the first film and humanity is considering replacing Jaeger pilots with more cost - efficient drones.

The film jumps between the terrorist - hostage standoff and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's (Lior Ashkenazi) cabinet deliberations, and nearly every exchange of dialogue sounds like sparring blocks of Wikipedia - like information, with career Israeli politicians summarizing the past few years» worth of events to each other for a presumptively ignorant audience.

The urgency might seem odd for a film about events of almost 50 years ago, but for the parallels with today's tussle over history in all its drafts, first, second and final.

Below, we recap the reactions from critics to the major films screening at this year's Telluride, Venice, and Toronto International Film Festivals, considered the most prestigious events of the season and the locales where many future Oscar nominees first debut.

Poland's candidate for the best foreign film Oscar - it has a real chance of winning on Sunday - deals with real - life events in the city of Lvov, in the last year of the German occupation.

This shouldn't come as too much of a shock to anyone who has been following these films, which are set about 70 years before the events of the Harry Potter books.

12 Years A Slave opens is now playing, I screened it as part of the 51st New York Film Festival, you can read our red carpet coverage from the event with an interview from the film's star Michael Fassbender.

One of the most extraordinary films of the year, this drama cleverly weaves in events from the news headlines to tell a raw, deeply involving story that's unnervingly personal.

Held April 26 - 29 at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre complex, Egyptian Theatre, Cinerama Dome and poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel, the classic movie marathon expanded this year to 120 films and events, «making it our biggest festival yet... creating four days of movie magic along Hollywood Boulevard,» said festival director Genevieve McGillicuddy.

Starring Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode, and written by Wentworth Miller (yes, of «Prison Break» fame), the film is one that is being batted around as a contender for Cannes and is one of the most anticipated films of the year, in any event.

Blade Runner 2049 synopsis: «Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long - buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos.

All the way from China and starring one of the country's most popular stars Matt Damon, The Great Wall is a monster movie set in the Song Dynasty a thousand years ago, events previously filmed in the tv series Dynasty starring John Forsythe and Linda Evans.

Nestled in one of the most beautiful places in the world, filmmakers, actors, and attendees alike are drawn to Mill Valley every year by the easy, low - stress atmosphere, the gorgeous surroundings, the varied special events and, of course, the films.

In 2014, Cinema Eye returned to the Museum of the Moving Image on January 8, following several days of film screenings in Toronto, Los Angeles and New York as well as a number of events that honored the work of that year's nominees.

Pacific Rim Uprising Rated PG - 13 for sequences of sci - fi violence and action, and some language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 46 % In Theaters Years after the events of the first film, John Boyega (Finn from Star Wars) is a promising young Jaeger pilot who has abandoned his military career to explore a life of crime.

The film is an adaptation of J.K. Rowling's book of the same name, which takes place 70 years before the events of Harry Potter.

But curiously, Whannell (who scripted both prior «Insidious» films, as well as the Wan - directed «Saw» and «Dead Silence») sidelines those amiable folks for much of «Chapter 3,» which takes place «a few years» before the events of the earlier films.

The film takes place 10 years after the events of 2012's Prometheus but still before the gut - busting happenings of his 1979 original.

Including all the crucial elements of the novel, with few events excised in the extended running time afforded by splitting the source material into two parts for cinematic consumption, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is the film that the fans have cried out for over the past few years.

Jessica Chastain, who is having an impressive year incidentally (The Tree of Life, The Debt), has a very possessed quality that allows her to remain in the moment but hint at all the years of contentment and trust with her husband that came before the events depicted in the film.

It's the lesson of The Incredibles, one of the bravest, most subversive films the year — and it seems to be the lesson of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events as well until the picture caves in to kid - flick conventions and worse.

After the near miss of the film's opening, in 1943 the 26 - year - old Louis suffers through a more prolonged, relentlessly life - threatening series of unfortunate events.

With the event taking place over the course of two full days, movie fans will be able to immerse themselves and whet their appetites for some of the biggest films due for release over the next year, with a surprise or two in store including specially recorded greetings from some A-list filmmakers and actors.

The annual IDA Documentary Awards celebrates the best nonfiction films, programs and filmmakers of the year at the world's most prestigious event dedicated solely to the documentary genre.

Starring Andy Serkis as Caesar, the film takes ten years after the events of the first film.

What It's About: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long - buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos.

According to a long - standing film - history periodization that — #yesallperiodizations — is contested and contestable, this year marks the centenary of the birth of the «classical Hollywood» style, with a set of agreed - upon conventions including continuity editing, crosscutting between parallel events unfolding at the same time, the use of close - ups to express a character's state of mind, etc..

Inspired by the true - life events confronting Abraham Lincoln and his monumental moral and political challenge to amend the United States Constitution to permanently abolish slavery, and based in part on the book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lincoln is a rich and compelling historical and human drama that has been hailed as one of the best film of the year.

«This new film depicts Lando in his formative years as a scoundrel on the rise in the galaxy's underworld — years before the events involving Han, Leia, and Darth Vader in The Empire Strikes Back and his rise to Rebel hero in Return of the Jedi,» Lucasfilm added in a statement.

Set soon after the events of the original film, «A Bad Moms Christmas» follows the eponymous bad moms as they attempt to work through the most stressful time of the year — aka the holidays.

The highly anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott's 1980s sci - fi classic is directed by Arrival and Sicario filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and takes place 30 years after the events of the first film.

But with its abundance of pre-premiered films and no juried competition, it'll never have the grandeur or ever - so - slightly scuffed glamor of the Venice event, with its beachside location, soaring marble delegate halls and saturated aroma of overpriced espresso — not to mention the artsier exclusivity of its film programming, a once hit - and - miss virtue that scored a bulls - eye with a 2010 lineup that beat last year's Cannes for range, relevance and vitality.

Directed by Arrival and Sicario filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049 takes place 30 years after the events of the first film and stars Ryan Gosling as a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, who unearths a secret that leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, which has Harrison Ford reprising the role.