Those who caught two of the actor's other
films at festivals earlier this year have been touting Unbroken star Jack O'Connell as one of the breakout performers of the year, and while Starred Up already enjoyed a limited release, the...
Not exact matches
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.
The
film, which won the Golden Lion
at the Venice
festival earlier this year, is the second feature by cinematographer - turned - director Warwick Thornton.
After I saw it
at the Toronto
film festival last September — where Rudolph and Willis said they were proud of having made it even if nobody saw it — it received nominal runs in New York and Los Angeles, cities where viewers and critics are regarded by distributors as being more demographically significant than those in Chicago, and then
early this year it came out on video.
My favorite
film of the year (so far) is still Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name, which I saw
at both the Sundance and Berlin
Film Festivals earlier in the year.
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.
It received a surprise premiere
at the Overlook
film festival earlier this month and was greeted with a set of rapturous reviews which, like its superbly assembled trailers, suggest one of the scariest
films of the summer.
The
film is just beginning its run
at film festivals and is attempting to build
early buzz with this teaser.
The
film already premiered
at the Göteborg
Film Festival
earlier this year, and is playing
at a few other
festivals this summer as well, including OutFest in July.
Usually the victory laps that play out on the stage of the Academy Awards are kicked into motion as
early as a year prior to the ceremony, when a
film, say, premieres
at a
festival and the media's whipped - up buzz incentivizes a studio to get to work on an awards campaign.
One of the most buzzed about
films to emerge from Sundance Film
Festival earlier this year, and was acquired
at the
festival by A24, has finally landed a release date.
Titled «Krisha,» the
film won the Grand Jury Prize
earlier this year
at the South by Southwest
festival in Austin, Texas.
Some of the best - received
films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize
at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.
This played
at numerous
film festivals and will be released in
early 2018, after the Oscar nominations are announced.
The
film was directed by Bart Layton (The Imposter) and premiered
earlier this year
at the Sundance and SXSW
film festivals.
Jeremy Lovering («In Fear») If you went to Sundance looking for the next Christopher Nolan or Rupert Wyatt (who both had
films premiere
at the
festival early in their careers), you'd be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Jeremy Lovering, whose feature
film debut «In Fear» has been scaring the living shit out of people in the Midnight strand of the
festival.
Not counting
festival premieres
at venues such as the Sundance
Film Festival, the last
film to be nominated for Best Picture with a release date in March or
earlier was 2000's Erin Brockovich.
This premiered
at the Sundance
Film Festival earlier this year, and the
film won the top Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic competition during the
festival.
After being one of the
early acquisitions
at the
festival, The Spectacular Now (from director James Ponsoldt, whose
film Smashed made my favorites
at Sundance last year) became one of the most loved
film in Park City this year.
Earlier this year his
film, Birth of a Nation, made impact
at Sundance
Film Festival 2016, sending shockwaves throughout the world with his riveting performance leading to many accolades
at the
film festival.
The
film made its world premiere
earlier this year
at Cannes to critical acclaim, and was awarded the
festival's highest honour, the Palme d'Or.
Each year the
festival provides attendees with an
early look
at the potential Academy Award ® contenders and the opportunity to discover some of the best
films from around the world.
Early today, Pedro Almodóvar and his Cannes jury announced the winners
at the
film festival's annual awards ceremony, but since it wouldn't be the Cannes awards without some surprises, they threw in a couple of bonus awards just for fun.
Kristen Stewart has two
films at the
festival: Olivier Assayas» Personal Shopper, which turned heads
at Cannes
earlier this summer, and Kelly Reinhardt's Certain Women.
Thomas McCarthy (Win Win, The Station Agent) will premiere his newest
film The Cobbler
at the
festival, while
early festival favorites Lynn Shelton «s (Humpday, Your Sister's Sister) Laggies and Olivier Assayas «(Summer Hours, Carlos) Clouds of Sils Maria will play as well.
He attended the premiere of the
film at the SXSW
festival earlier in the month.
One of the higher - profile premieres of the
festival, it's mostly under wraps still
at this point, but we have our fingers crossed that it'll meld the acerbic and sharp humor of Baumbach's
earlier films, with the loose and warm energy of «Frances Ha,» but however it turns out, a new Baumbach picture is generally good news.
These are not exactly obscure works: The Intruder is the latest offering from French director Claire Denis, whose
earlier films (including Beau Travail and Friday Night) have been widely seen
at film festivals and in art - house theaters.
It's also nice to know that the
film isn't just a rehashing of Raimi's first movie, but rather a whole new story with new characters in an otherwise familiar setting, and if the
early buzz from the
film's world premiere
at last month's SXSW
festival is any indication, Fede Alvarez's remake / reboot / sequel (whatever you want to call it) has everything horror fans could possibly want — namely, the gooey red stuff, and plenty of it.
Saw Room as a main feature
at a
film festival after seeing Spotlight a couple of nights
earlier.
The
film is a work in process but the
festival provided a chance for an
early look
at its premiere.
The
film is still shooting, so we're looking
at a fall
festival bow
at the
earliest but we won't be surprised if we don't see any sign of the picture until next year.
The
film, which was written by and stars esteemed actor David Dastmalchian (Prisoners, The Dark Knight), had its world premiere
at the South by Southwest
Film Festival earlier this year before continuing its international
festival tour throughout the remainder of 2014.
The
film received an overwhelmingly positive reception when it premiered
at Sundance
earlier this year and was quickly picked up by Amazon Studios, making it one of the biggest sales
at the
film festival.
Within this narrative, it shows
early films by the likes of the Lumière brothers not to
film buffs
at festivals or as stills in history books but to a young audience (this is a
film for kids) on commercial screens.
The artists»
early videos made the rounds
at indie
film festivals before finding a home in the art world in 2006, when the New York dealer Elizabeth Dee gave them their first solo show.