Sentences with phrase «films playing in competition»

Despite the lowest number of films playing in Competition since 1990 (18 total), there is still a lot to get excited for with new films from David Cronenberg, Xavier Dolan, Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Michel Hazanavicius, Mike Leigh, a directorial debut for Ryan Golsing, and more.

Okja, one of the two Netflix films playing in competition (to great controversy), featured characters twisting language and capitalizing on linguistic differences for their own ends.

Not exact matches

French fashion darling Clemence Poesy, who plays Fleur Delacour in the films, is the only fellow Harry Potter star who gave Watson some red carpet competition in a ruffled Nina Ricci chiffon dress and platform wedges by the same designer.

They then look at the news that the Cannes Film Festival has banned Netflix films from playing in competition.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

On one side of the coin, collaborations with indie filmmakers and esteemed auteurs like Bong Joon - ho, whose new film Okja plays in competition in this year's Cannes Film Festival, ensure that more and more diverse creative voices are being heard.

His main competition comes from SAG winner Denzel Washington, who directs himself in the film version of August Wilson's Tony - winning play «Fences,» as a Pittsburgh ex-baseball slugger turned garbage man who is angry at the world.

But we are all about cinema and we wish to have films that play in competition get released in theaters.

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.

The nationwide search is on for actors to play the leading roles in the new sci - fi Steven Spielberg film about video games and competition.

Agnes Varda, director of «Visages Villages (Faces Places),» which many considered the best film at this year's Cannes festival, where it played out of competition, received the Silver medallion from Telluride in 1977 (the fourth year of the Festival).

The new trailer for Paul Verhoeven's next film Elle has just landed online, just hours after it was announced to play in - competition at this...

Upstart distributor Neon has acquired North American rights to Beach Rats, writer - director Eliza Hittman film that played in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.

The 2013 Sundance Film Festival recently announced a couple batches of films that will screen at the Fest in January, and today we've got some first images and synopses for a few films that will be playing in competition as...

Medienboard chief Kirsten Niehuus gathered together friends and partners to celebrate the films it has backed recently, including Cannes festival films like Kornel Mundruczo's competition entry «Jupiter's Moon,» and Valeska Grisebach's «Western,» which plays in Un Certain Regard.

Genre played a welcome role in the Competition, represented by a black - and - white neonoir (F.J. Ossang's 9 Fingers, winner of the Best Director prize), an allegorical werewolf film from Brazil (Good Manners, from the team of Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, winner of a Special Jury Prize), and a comic reimagining of a popular gothic parable (Serge Bozon's Madame Hyde, which won the Best Actress award for its star, Isabelle Huppert).

The film played in the Un Certain Regard section (but should have been in the main competition) and is eligible for the festival's Camera d'Or prize (for best first film) and the Queer Palm (for films by or about LGBTQ stories), the only film playing with that distinction.

The films playing in - competition at this year's Sundance Film Festival have been announced.

The film, which is playing in the U.S. Documentary Competition section at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival premiered on Friday, January 21st.

The film, which is playing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition premiered this past Friday.

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).

(His new film, «The Wild Pear Tree,» plays in competition at Cannes 2018.)

Out of the competition, the international highlights were El Clan (The Clan, Pablo Trapero), an effective if derivative Argentinian political drama / gangster film heavily influenced by Scorsese's Goodfellas; L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve), a fine if rather low - key drama helped enormously by Isabelle Huppert's lead performance; and, best of all, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, a truly disturbing mixture of fiction and documentary concerning the attempt to make a movie about the tragic suicide of Florida journalist Christine Chubbuck, who shot herself on live television back in 1974.

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Beneath the credits for I, Tonya, a grainy video of Tonya plays, nailing the difficult triple axel move at the 1991 U.S. Figure Skating Championship (making her the first American woman to do so in a competition), which the film dramatizes about 40 minutes into its run time.

That was the most surprising and talked about film of the fest but it hasn't really stood the test of even a few months out, not like some of the other movies that played in competition.

Desplechin, who served on the Cannes competition jury last year, is now officially back in the official selection with «Ismael's Ghosts,» even though the film, like most Cannes opening - night films, is playing out of competition.

For the 2018 edition of the festival, 37 percent of the 122 feature films premiering are directed by women, a slight uptick from last year when 34 percent of all films were helmed by female directors (in years past, the average has hovered around 25 percent), and their contributions were prominent across all sections, with women debuting films in not just the competition sections, but also in the forward - thinking NEXT section, the wild Midnight category (which played home to the long - gestating anthology «XX,» featuring four shorts directed by women), and even the starry Premieres docket.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is a new film from writer / director Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, The Squid and the Whale, Frances Ha) that just debuted at the Cannes Film Festival as one of two titles playing in competition coming from Netflix.

This marks Atom Egoyan's sixth film to play in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

The final film to play in competition was director Lynne Ramsey's «You Were Never Really Here» starring Joaquin Phoenix.

The witty, heavily - stylized film was an international hit, and led to follow - up «The City Of Lost Children,» a bigger - budget steampunk fable that played in competition at Cannes in 1995.

«Burning Sands» is one of 16 narrative feature films that has been chosen to play during the festival's Dramatic Competition, which offers audiences a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film.

Distributor Strand is releasing his follow - up, Staying Vertical, which screened in competition at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where the company first saw the film, and later played the New York Film Festival.

The film will play in an out of competition slot on opening night on May 11.

Both of his previous films — the critically acclaimed crime drama Drive (2011) and the quite polarizing revenge thriller Only God Forgives (2013)-- played in the official competition and Winding...

Audiences coming to Alain Guiraudie's Cannes Competition entry Rester Vertical after his break out hit Stranger By the Lake (which played in the Un Certain Regard sidebar in 2013 and won best film of the section) are likely to be puzzled, perplexed and possibly peeved; long time supporters will likely...

Egyptian - born NYU graduate Abu Bakr Shawky's Yomeddine (or Judgment Day), the first debut feature to play in competition at the Cannes Film Festival since Son of Saul in 2015, is a different kind of exploitation film than László Nemes's Oscar winner.