Sentences with phrase «films in competition»

There was a handful of very good films in competition this year.

Directors of films in competition for Best U.S. Narrative Feature participate in NVFF's unique Artists - in - Residence Program presented in partnership with the incomparable Meadowood Napa Valley.

Much like a few of the other films in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Youth is relatively light on plot and focuses more on conversations between characters, uprooted emotions and recounted memories than a concrete narrative.

The 2017 festival, which begins next week, has Netflix films in its competition for the first time, a decision that angered the French movie theatre sector as the company said the films will only be streamed to subscribers and not shown in cinemas.

Coppola will have her first film in competition at Cannes in over a decade; her «Marie Antoinette» divided audiences all the way back in 2006.

Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, the highest profile American film in competition at Cannes, was awarded the grand prize.

After 12 days of glorious cinema in the South of France (read all of our coverage right here), and 21 films in competition as...

Of the French films in competition, the best was unfairly squeezed out of the main competition slate and ended up in Directors» Fortnight.

Critics» Week also announced 10 short films in competition, three of them helmed by female directors.

Journalists in attendance were quick to point out the admittedly startling absence of any Italian films in competition, even though Marco Bellocchio's «Sweet Dreams» had been tipped for a berth for weeks.

A win for «Shoplifters» also partially acknowledged the unusual strength of the Asian - directed films in competition, which included «Ash Is Purest White,» a gripping gangster melodrama from China's Jia Zhangke, and «Asako I & II,» an emotionally astute romantic triangle from the Japanese newcomer Ryûsuke Hamaguchi.

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.

It's another strong lineup at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival (May 13 - 24 2015), with filmmakers including Paolo Sorrentino, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant and Jacques Audiard all presenting new films in the competition for the Palme d'Or.

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.

Sundance has grown from the small American independent film festival it was 30 years ago, and now has about a dozen sections with some presenting films in competition, and other sections presenting films out of competition.

The 5th annual Queens World Film Festival (QWFF) kicks off at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, on Tuesday, March 17, with a special opening night tribute to director Leon Ichaso and a sampling of the many films in competition.

The Sundance Film Festival gets underway in Utah today, with two new Irish films in competition.

At this year's festival, Haynes is one of two American filmmakers among the illustrious films in competition for the Palme d'Or.

Alternatively, the prize could go to A Gentle Creature, the most bold and brutal film in competition; a jagged, roiling prison town nightmare.

It's too long and too overwrought in parts, but when you get to the final sequence and realise what he's constructed, it hits you in the gut and the mind in a way that no other film in the competition quite manages.

Girls of the Sun was easily the worst film in competition at the 2018 Cannes Film Fest, dismissed by all critics.

Beginning next year, the festival will only admit films in competition that have French theatrical releases, which the Netflix films so far do not.

One of the strongest and most touching films in the competition is «Quinceanera,» by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer.

Other notable films in competition this year include noirish drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), and Paulo Virzi's comedy - drama The Leisure Seeker, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland.

Garrel, with only one previous film in Competition, has always had an affinity for the alternative festival that the Fortnight can be at its best, as in this edition.

Another year when the Academy got it unexpectedly right, not just because they awarded a film unafraid to take an unforgiving look at America's brutal past, but because»12 Years a Slave» really was the most worthy film in competition.

Andrea Arnold and Xavier Dolan will both return to Cannes for their second films in competition, American Honey and It's Only the End of the World, respectively.

Directors of the Narrative and Documentary films in competition participated in NVFF's unique Artists - in - Residence Program where they received a six - night stay at the luxury resort Meadowood Napa Valley.

Two - time Palme d'Or winners Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne will premiere La Fille Inconnue, their seventh film in competition.

Three other films in competition represented «promotions» for their directors, who had all had their previous outings featured in other sections of the festival, but the results were uneven at best.

Netflix had two films in Competition last year: Noah Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)» and Bong Joon - ho's «Okja.»

There is, however, for the first time in many years, a German film in competition called Toni Erdmann, written, directed and produced by Maren Ade.

In one of the most critically praised films in competition, the jury's Grand Prix winner 120 Beats per Minute, an activist is praised at his funeral as having lived «politics in the first person.»

Cannes» sole major studio film in competition, Alexander Payne's «Nebraska,» made off with some lukewarm reviews, The Guardian giving it four out of five stars, but IndieWire grading it a B - and calling it «affably unexceptional.»

But A Fantastic Woman was the most accomplished mainstream film in competition at this year's Berlinale, and as Marina, transgender performer Daniela Vega gave one of the most fascinating performances to be seen here, shifting moods — and almost shifting the lines of her face — from shot to shot with mercurial fluidity.

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.

In addition to 34 narrative and documentary feature - length films in competition, and eight shorts programs, the festival will feature panel discussions and workshops including «The Finest Hours» author Casey Sherman (and my former WBZ - TV colleague) who'll tell you how he got from «From Page to Screen» and turned his book into a major studio film shot in Massachusetts.

We will cover all 16 films in the Competition program, and end this preview with one of the most exciting, Paul Dano's directorial debut.

It was disheartening — no, it was completely fucked - up — that the festival competition jury awarded no prize to Toni Erdmann, which was by far the most popular film in the competition and which did the near - impossible by uniting entertainment - oriented and art - oriented viewers.

The Debussy Theatre presents the feature films in Competition at 8:30, the Selection for Un Certain Regard, Short Films in Competition and the Masterclasses.

Toward the beginning of the festival, Almodóvar and Smith had a polite but sharp exchange over the presence of two Netflix films in competition, which has spurred much debate over what it means for the future of the festival and film distribution.

With «Aquarius,» the sole Latin American film in competition, Filho looks to capitalize on the rapturous reviews for his 2012 debut, «Neighboring Sounds.»

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.