Sentences with phrase «film festival offering»

Todos Santos Film Festival A film festival offering an impressive collection of films that reflects the excellence of Latino cinema throughout the world featuring local and Mexican filmmakers.

Every Day is an exemplary film festival offering, though not in a good way.

If you look closely at trailers for all the different genres of Hollywood blockbuster movies, television series and even small - scale film festival offers you'll quickly notice a common pattern to each.

Presented at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan on December 9 and 10, these two exciting film festivals offer something for every cat and dog lover through a series of artfully curated films featuring dogs, cats, and the humans who love them.

Not exact matches

The films at this year's festival offered plenty examples of legacies lived up to and not — neglected and obsessed over.

Peter Bradshaw: With new offerings from Audiard, Haneke and Loach, this year's festival will be another feast of quality film - making.

WFFS produces one of Canada's leading film festivals and plays a leadership role in offering professional and project development programs for filmmakers.

Summer Showcase: The Summer Showcase section offers an advanced look at this summerʼs most talked about independent film releases and will include highlights from the festival circuit and premieres.

Running from 14th - 25th November the festival promises some of the finest films France has to offer.

There are no guests on offer today but plenty still to be enjoyed, including two docs by Academy Award nominated filmmakers and a quiet Korean film that has lit up the festival circuit.

However, if this sounds as if the most important film festival in the self - proclaimed cultural capital of the world is basically just a bunch of leftovers, we challenge anyone not to be tempted by the delectable, if familiar, offerings.

MUBI is heading to Cannes once again this year, with the world's biggest film festival taking over the subscription service to offer a collection of Croisette favourites.

The Muestra Internacional de Cine offers the best of the world's cinema and it is considered to be the city's most important film event, aside of the bigger film festivals.

But the best the festival had to offer were three stunning films that, in speaking of the human condition, took full advantage of the dreamlike nature of cinema: Shi (Poetry, Lee Chang - dong), Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul), and Shakespeare's The Tempest, as re-interpreted by Julie Taymor.

Tourists and commuters alike are attracted to the upscale town, which offers access to bike and hiking trails as well as boating, restaurants and shops, and even a film festival.

The 60th BFI London Film Festival has announced its films this morning and they feature some familiar faces of the already announced fall festivals and offer us a glimpse into the studio pushes for the upcoming Oscar season.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Fresh off securing the opening night slots at the Venice and Toronto film festivals with «Everest» and «Demolition,» respectively, Jake Gyllenhaal is about to secure an offer to star in «Stronger,» Lionsgate's drama about Jeff Bauman, who survived the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, an individual familiar with the project has told TheWrap.

As well as gaining access to the very best and brightest of contemporary international cinema, part of the joy of the festival experience is discovering forgotten gems, overlooked offerings, and films that have inexplicably sat on the shelf for much too long.

It's the kind of lesser known film you might find through the film festival circuit (had it's premiere at Sundance Film Festival) that's made up of a different brand of comedy or drama than your used to from a typical blockbuster, strong performances from B or C - list actors, and overall much to offer.

Held in Austin, the film festival is eight days of the best genre filmmaking has to offer.

Robespierre is among the greatest discoveries to emerge from the Sundance indie slate in the past few years and offers continued relevance to the festival, which seems increasingly distanced from its original mandate to support not only independent film but movies that take risks.

You've seen more nuanced treatises on illegal immigration, but Jonás Cuarón's thriller, which premiered at Toronto and will serve as the L.A. film festival's closing - night offering, is a harrowingly visceral experience, centered around a cat - and - mouse game between a well - matched Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

It may be hard to assess the sheer scope of a festival with over 300 features on offer, but TIFF 2012 looks like a particularly exciting year, opening with Rian Johnson's Looper and continuing with new films by Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master), Brian De Palma (Passion), Terrence Malick (To The Wonder), Joss Whedon (Much Ado About Nothing), Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha), David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook), Olivier Assayas (Something In The Air), Sally Potter (Ginger And Rosa), Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers), and many others.

Perhaps the most useful and instructive function of film festivals, especially in light of the «Star Wars» affair, is that they offer an arena where filmmakers are allowed to fail — and, just as importantly, where filmmakers who have failed before are given a second, third or fourth chance.

The brilliantly twisted minds behind Resolution — Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead — are back with their second feature film in Spring, a monster of a love story that tore up the festival circuit last year, making it one of 2015's most anticipated horror offerings.

The same is not entirely true of much hyped awards - bait films, which can afford to take their pick of festival offers in an effort to maximise their campaign for awards.

But the film doesn't seem to have been well - liked at the festival, and while Matteo Garrone's Dogman wasn't exactly a cause célèbre either, its central performance, by Marcello Fonte, offers a palatable showcase for put - upon schmuck earnestness.

London always offers a lot of amazing film events, awards and festivals but one definite highlight of the every season is the Somerset House...

In the first three quarters of 2014 I saw many of the year's best films at UK film festivals, all of which punched well above their weight by offering smart selections and presentations.

And it's no doubt, with just a casual perusal of the film fare planned, including opening night's gala offering of a 50th anniversary screening of In The Heat of the Night in the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX with Sidney Poitier, Lee Grant and director Norman Jewison in attendance — a special festival long showing of original nitrate prints of essential and little known classics — and a screening of one of the greatest comedies of all time — The Jerk — offering Steve Martin and Carl Reiner fans the opportunity to share in the excitement of new phone books arriving.

Expanding on our traditional Dolby screening services for 35 mm soundtracks, we now offer the complete package of equipment and engineering support for digital cinema screenings, including special one - off events, film festivals, marketing screenings, and premieres.

According to Deadline, Allen made a blind offer weeks before the festival and sealed the deal after he and his Entertainment Studios team saw the film in a special screening.

Last year, films as diverse «I Am Not Your Negro,» «Salt and Fire,» and «A Quiet Passion» found a home at the festival, and this year will likely include a slate of picked - up offerings that are as wide - ranging as the festival itself.

Under the jury president, Jane Campion, the best films so far in main competition here have revolved around female characters — complex, imperfect, beautifully drawn these leading roles offer up a counter to the majority of films that get paid attention to here in the US, on the festival and awards circuit leading up to the Oscars.

Film Comment offers an additional poll ranking films currently lacking U.S. distribution, but neither tally takes into account what are often the year's most truly theatrical experiences: festival screenings.

The film eventually received its premiere in the final slot of the final day of the festival, offering an already - knackered press corps the unwelcome prospect of a long, late night of the soul before a snifter of rosé and off to bed.

Director / co-writer Marcin Wrona's final feature (he ended his life at a recent festival where the film was playing) offers a spooky, atmospheric rumination on cultural loss.

John Cooper, director of the festival, said, «These films and voices offer a creative lens to view our complex times.

In his latest film — Nos années folles, premiering at this year's Cannes Film Festival — Téchiné offers a tailor - made role to Pierre Deladonchamps, who played a (perpetually nude) protagonist in Stranger by the Lake, a gay thriller directed by Alain Guiraudie that made an impression on the festival five years back for its many gay sex scenes.

LONDON FILM FESTIVAL: Audiences not braced for what Rick Alverson's Entertainment has to offer will be doomed for an unpleasant and gruelling experience.

The omnibus film If You Were Me (Yim Soon - rye, Jeong Jae - eun, Yeo Kyun - dong, Park Jin - pyo, Park Kwang - su, Park Chan - wook, 2003) contains the most direct criticism of Korean society in this festival's offerings.

The 50th anniversary of Eastern Europe's biggest film festival gathers the elite, stars and offers in competition a satire that sends up neo-Nazi culture in Germany

SXSW kicks off tomorrow and our team has poured over the catalog to pick 26 films out the festival's nearly 150 that are on offer.

The Sundance Institute George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Student Screenings Program offers Utah high school and junior high students the opportunity to participate in one of the world's top film festivals.

A few short takes on SIFF offerings on the debut weekend of the biggest, longest film festival in the United States.

Even more than whatever networking and / or friendly conversations happen between people in party situations, it's the experience of being able to share our thoughts and feelings about a movie right afterward — talk about, work through it, maybe even get into (hopefully) friendly disagreements over it — that, for me, are the most memorable experiences a film festival can offer.

During the past ten years, AWFJ has also hosted screenings of films by and about women, presented and served on panels at film festivals and other events, expanded our membership base to include women film journalists in Canada and the UK, mentored young women film journalists and offered them publishing opportunities, forged alliances with other groups concerned about disparities pertaining to women and film and raised awareness within the industry and in the public arena about the need for change.

Back in 2014, I happened to be looking for a film to check out at Sundance and was offered a ticket to see Obvious Child at the festival.

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: An enjoyable dramedy that also puts forward the rare romantic subplot featuring actors not in their 20's or 30's, The Meddler has something a bit unique to offer the marketplace.