Sentences with phrase «film festival debut»

A strong film festival debut will be essential here.

After overblown stories of walkouts by critics during its Toronto film festival debut, «Rendition» proves to have enough substance, momentum, and drama to validate its entertainment value as a politically charged thriller.

Release Date: TBD, but it's an Annapurna Pictures film and has been completed, so here's hoping for a fall film festival debut.

Not exact matches

The movie drew raves from critics following its January debut at the Sundance Film Festival, prompting Fox Searchlight to pay a festival - record $ 17.5 million to obtain the worldwide distribution rights to the film.

The movie is touring the country, mostly at Jewish congregations and film festivals, including in Atlanta, where it debuted on opening night.

Written, directed, and produced in Wake County, the documentary, «Certain Proof: A Question of Worth,» debuted in April at Colorado's Vail Film Festival and is slated for screening at four other film festivals.

First thing next month (Friday January 2) will be the primetime debut of a film that has been making the «under the radar» rounds of women and film festivals since May.

In 2011, tech firm Sensum debuted its interactive horror film Unsound at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.

The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

(Note that any Tribeca premieres that have already debuted to the public prior to today — including the film Duck Butter, the Netflix miniseries Bobby Kennedy for President, and the new season of Westworld — are omitted, since they have subsequently been reviewed outside of the festival.)

Below, find out what critics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including films that screened out of competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and International Critics» Week programs.

Below, sample the critical response to over a dozen key films (and a few TV series) which debuted at this year's festival.

Below, our editors have picked out the most notable films debuting at the festival, and sampled the critical consensus for each one.

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.

Also excluded are films that first debuted at other major festivals earlier this year; you can find reviews for those films in our Cannes Recap and our Sundance Recap.

Director, Producer, and Actor Kasi Lemmons had the film world buzzing in 1997 when her feature - length debut «Eve's Bayou» hit art - house screens and racked up film festival awards along the way.

And before Toronto even kicks off, the Venice and Telluride film festivals will take place, debuting films we're sure to hear more about in the coming months.

From Humpday and Touchy Feely director Lynn Shelton, her first feature based on a script she didn't pen (that credit goes to first - time scribe Andrea Seigel), Laggies debuted at this year's Sundance film festival to mostly positive reviews.

That's a pure Sundance - ready inciting incident; no surprise the film debuted at Utah's premiere film festival this past January.

In fact, nearly every Best Picture winner in recent memory made its debut at one of the major fall film festivals.

His narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

Ana Lily Amirpour follows up her alt - cult sensation A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT with her sand - blasted, dystopian love story THE BAD BATCH; Maren Ade delivers what will be the most uncomfortable film of the festival, the desert - dry black comedy TONI ERDMANN; and Julia Ducournau's directorial debut, RAW, takes us on a cannibalistic coming - of - age shock ride that resonates long after its stunning finale.

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.

Guillermo del Toro's fairy tale noir «The Shape of Water» tied with Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut «Lady Bird» for best film of the festival.

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.

Garland's 2015 directing debut, Ex Machina, was a slow - burning hit which found favour with critics and film festival juries.

Freestyle Digital Media has debuted an official trailer for an indie comedy titled Bernard and Huey, from director Dan Mirvish (co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival), which premiered at a few small film festivals last year.

One of my favourite films on the festival circuit last year, from Sundance to Toronto After Dark, was the debut feature from Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska.

Lionsgate has debuted a trailer for The Limehouse Golem, a new gothic horror film that premiered at the Toronto and Sitges Film Festivals last year.

2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael FassbenFILM FESTIVAL: Scottish director John Maclean mimics the heart and charisma of the old western with his feature film debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbenfilm debut «Slow West» starring Kodi Smit - McPhee and Academy Award nominee Michael Fassbender.

The film has won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was also nominated for the festival's Palm d'Or Cannes and now it's making its DVD and Blu - ray debut March 12.

This week Gerwig brought her solo directorial debut Lady Bird to the festival which has had a remarkable number of films by and about about women this year.

The film debuted at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, followed by other festivals including the Hamptons, London, Tallgrass, NewFest and Philadelphia.

NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: After debuting at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, James Gray «s long - awaited follow - up to his indie hit «Two Lovers,» had its showing with press and industry folks at the New York Film Festival today.

I heard a lot of buzz from the festival circuit about how Evan Katz «s debut feature was a top - notch horror film, so imagine my surprise when it turned out to be something entirely different.

The festival closed with a screening of another Sundance debut, «Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot,» Gus Van Sant's new film about cartoonist John Callahan.

We'll be seeing Saoirse again in January when director Josie Rourke's debut film for Working Title, Mary, Queen Of Scots, opens (though it will most likely play the autumn film festivals first).

The film debuted at the fall film festivals and was released in the United States at the tail end of last year.

A new trailer has been released giving audiences a more in - depth look at the story months after it debuted in the film festival circuit.

«You don't need to go ride today...» Sony Classics has debuted the second official trailer for the phenomenal film The Rider, which premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival and played at every other major film festival - Telluride, Toronto, Sundance.

Phang's award ‐ winning debut feature Half - Life premiered in 2008 at the Tokyo International and Sundance film festivals.

Also at the festival are under - the - radar pictures like the Clive Owen / Juliette Binoche film «Words And Pictures,» Andre 3000 - starring Jimi Hendrix biopic «All Is By My Side,» comedy - drama «You Are Here,» the feature debut of «Mad Men» creator Matthew Wiener, Biafra war film «Half Of A Yellow Sun» with Chiwetel Ejiofor, the James Corden - starring «One Chance» (which has the Weinstein Company «s backing, but seems more «Unfinished Song» than «Silver Linings Playbook «-RRB- and, perhaps most importantly, Stephen Frears ««Philomena,» which could see Judi Dench being in contention.

This year's festival features 49 films from 29 countries, including nine feature debuts and 12 women directors.

One of the breakout films from the festival circuit this year was the unexpected narrative debut from Maggie Betts (who received high praise for her documentary feature

Debuting at the Telluride film festival without a distributor in place, this impressively mounted, intellectually corrupt period piece isn't your traditional Western, and clearly fancies itself a revisionist take on so many black - and - white us - vs.

Initially unable to secure complete funding, the project was temporarily shelved, but would thankfully go on to film nearly a year later (meanwhile, screenwriter Eskil Vogt enjoyed his own festival tour with his acclaimed directorial debut, Blind, which premiered at Sundance 2014 and picked up a Screenwriting award).

The 69th Festival de Cannes is less than eight weeks away and word is starting to leak about what films will make their debut at, arguably, the world's most famous film festival.

This year is no different with the aforementioned Allen and Assayas films as well as Sean Penn's The Last Face, which will give us Charlize Theron (and some possibly awkward moments between the two former paramours), no less than four French films in competition and Jeff Nichols» Loving making its debut here at the festival on its way to the Oscars.

A festival trailer has debuted for the film A Quiet Passion, from director Terence Davis (whose other film Sunset Song was just released in theaters this year).

Writer / director Justin Simien's first film «Dear White People» debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, where it received the festival's Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent.