Sentences with phrase «film in competition went»

While these movies were all well - received by the media covering the festival, one major film in competition went home empty - handed — and now, it has topped IndieWire's critics survey of the best films of the festival.

The film is a sweet but slipshod effort that hardly represents the director's strongest work; with several more deserving films in competition going unawarded, its selection feels like a nod to the more mainstream contingent of the competition.

Not exact matches

It'll be with us on 1 June, 2018, a switch from the first film's February arrival, but A) Fox figures the Merc With A Mouth is ready to go up against the crowded summer competition and B) with shooting starting in the coming months, it couldn't conceivably be ready for next Feb..

Nebraska, the new film from Alexander Payne (The Descendants), will be playing in competition, and the first clip has only added to my jealousy of this year's festival - goers.

Two films currently enrolled in Filmmaker360's project development program will go head to head in the U.S. documentary competition.

Our last film, Spring, went to Toronto, but getting to go back to Tribeca [with this film] and also being the first genre film in competition in a very long time felt great.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

The distinction for bringing the highest body count and the most excessive amount of gore to the competition goes to Scottish director Lynne Ramsay for «You Were Never Really Here,» the very final film in the festival competition to be previewed for the press today, after a long ten days of screenings.

One of the key scenes of the film, John Travolta and Uma Thurman winning a dance competition in Jack Rabbit Slim's, has gone down in cinematic history, thanks to superb choreography and a Chuck Berry song that no other director of a 90s movie would go near.

From a business perspective, though, it's understandable that Paramount would want to cast a wider net with Star Trek Beyond, especially since the competition during Summer 2016 is going to be fierce - with films like the Ghostbusters reboot and Bourne 5 playing in theaters near the same time as Beyond (while sci - fi sequel Independence Day: Resurgence will have opened a month earlier).

The film's MacGuffin is a hair cutting competition in the small town and a lot of time goes towards it.

Xavier Dolan's sixth film is his fifth to go to Cannes, and his second in the main competition after last year's daring «Mommy.»

In response, Cannes changed its rules for next year's festival, and will only accept theatrically released films for its Palme d'Or competition going forward.

After having been in competition several times and coming away empty - handed, the German - born, Austrian - based Mr. Haneke finally scored with a film dramatizing strange goings - on in a northern German village just before World War I.

Stylish, quirky but substantive, and with every frame filled with evocative and hilarious detail, the Jury Prize for best film in the official competition of the 2016 Seattle International Film Festival goes to Girl Asleep by Rosemary Myers.

Although Bernard says that he is not particularly swayed by Sundance audience reactions, the Miles Teller drummer drama happened to be a case where his taste aligned with Sundance goers — just this weekend, the film won both the grand jury and audience awards in the U.S. dramatic film competition.