Sentences with phrase «first film at the festival»

Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness screened as a Special Screening during the Cannes Film Festival, giving her the opportunity to promote this first film at the festival outside the competition unlike her actor - turned - director fellow Ryan Gosling, whose debut feature Lost River screened in last year's Un Certain Regard and received mixed and harsh reviews...

Not exact matches

Below, we recap the reactions from critics to the major films screening at this year's Telluride, Venice, and Toronto International Film Festivals, considered the most prestigious events of the season and the locales where many future Oscar nominees first debut.

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.

From Humpday and Touchy Feely director Lynn Shelton, her first feature based on a script she didn't pen (that credit goes to first - time scribe Andrea Seigel), Laggies debuted at this year's Sundance film festival to mostly positive reviews.

His narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

He comments: «It was probably my favorite film at this year's festival and the first film I gave an A + to all year... what makes it so great is the way Russell creates an honest reality around those cliches with characters you can connect with and feel close to.»

EDA Awards presented at Festivals are often a film's first award, and boosts industry and public awareness of the winner, often leading to sales, other festival appearances and funding for the filmmaker's future projects.

When I see films at festivals, sometimes I have to see them again to refresh my memory or calibrate my opinion, while trying to remain true to first impressions, which are valuable.

Glastonbury (15) Running time: 135 min *** Julian Temple's loving documentary may at first appear to be aimed at the sort of music fan who prefers Glasto streamed live to their TV.But this collection of archive and commissioned footage from 36 years of England's greatest music festival is likely to appeal more to diehard fans than non-festival-goers, since it revels in precisely the eccentricities that makes the armchair people dive for cover.Most of this film is a structureless, rambling celebration of Glastonbury's boozy, hedonistic, liberated, political and frequently bonkers character rather than of the actual music: great if you were at the party, presumably less great if you weren't.

This is from the same filmmaker who made the cult horror hit The Loved Ones, and the film first premiered at festivals a few years ago.

Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» which premiered at Venice and played the Telluride and Toronto film festivals, took home MFF's Fiction Feature prize.

And while it's an art that has already yielded our first magnum opus of the year, the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and reviewed in 2013 at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 2014.

She came of age in New York indie film, interning first at Killer Films with Christine Vachon, and going on to screen her work at festivals such as New Directors / New Films MoMA / Lincoln Center.

First time writer / director Eli Craig's Tucker & Dale Vs Evil is one such example, with the film making an appearance at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and also featuring on the SXSW bill the same year, yet remaining unreleased outside of the festival circuit everywhere except Kazakhstan, Russia, Estonia and Lithuania eighteen months later.

Following the Michael Peña Q&A, we'll segue into a film that first earned buzz at last year's Toronto International Film Festival (if you're keeping track, that's a day of films that premiered at SXSW, Sundance, Berlin, and TIFF — capturing the spirit of CCFF in the way it's designed to bring the international film festival experience to Chicago).

«The Handmaiden (Agassi)» (Park Chan - wook) Chan - Wool's first feature film since the polarizing «Stoker» was a crowd favorite at Cannes and has been crisscrossing the world from festival to festival since.

Cannes 2018: The first Kenyan film to ever screen at the festival is perhaps more notable for what it represents than what it is

After winning several awards at festivals, Butler teamed up with Francis Ford Coppola to shoot his first narrative film, The Rain People.

Unfortunately Bening presiding over the Venice jury not only rules the film out of that festival, but also out of Telluride which takes place at the same time, and the first and more important week of buzz building at TIFF.

As I fly to Canada to meet Sarah Polley, I think about the glimpses of her in Stories We Tell — her first full - length documentary feature, which bowled over critics at Sundance and the Venice film festival and has won Canada's Film of the Year award.

However he does admit that things were at the worst a couple of years ago, when Toronto decided to drop any films from the popular first half of its schedule that had premiered anywhere else — but now, he says, the ban is over and it is more relaxed, and there is now less competition between the three festivals.

Since it marks Shults» first film and his first time at Cannes, Indiewire asked him to keep a video diary of his experiences at the festival, the first of which can be seen at the top of this page.

Writer / director Justin Simien's first film «Dear White People» debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014, where it received the festival's Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent.

«We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film, «Strictly Ballroom,» was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael.»

Before the movie began, Film Society of Lincoln Center program director Richard Peña took the stage to introduce Spielberg and noted that the director showed his first film at the less prominent New Directors / New Films festival.

GC: It started when the editors of Film Comment asked me to go see the first festival of post-revolutionary Iranian films at the Lincoln Center in the fall of 1992.

Letts and Friedkin first collaborated on a screen adaptation of Bug that won the FIPRESCI Award at the 2006 Cannes film festival and was praised for its claustrophobic staging and hallucinatory mise - en - scene.

Undoubtedly an undersung highlight of the festival this year, and at the very least one has to love a film that can transform a song (a Spanish - language version of «Gloria,» sung by Umberto Tozzi) into a glorious ode so magnificent it's like you're hearing it for the very first time.

The lesson I've learned covering film festivals is that sometimes the best films aren't always the one you loved at first sight, sometimes they're the ones that you remember.

The second of the «Carte Blanche» double bills began with The Last 15, Antonio Campos» sophomore short film which followed in the footsteps of Buy It Now (winner of Cinefondation «s First Prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival) and competed for the festival's 2007's Palme d'Or.

Two - time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple made Sundance history last month when her documentary «This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous» became the first YouTube Red original film to premiere as an official selection at the festival.

This film first premiered at the Tribeca and Philadelphia Film Festivals last year.

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.

[more] It's been widely reported that the three - hour lesbian romance Blue is the Warmest Color is the first «queer» film to ever win the top award at the Cannes film festival (though one could make a case for Farewell My Concubine back in 1993).

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

This film first premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, and will likely show up at other film festivals but nothing is schedule yet.

The Toronto International Film Festival announced this morning the first forty or so films set to have their world premieres or special screenings at this year's festival.

The film won its first rave review when it debuted at US festival South By Southwest, in March 2018.

These are all films that either first played in cinemas in the US in 2015 or that I saw at film festivals in 2015.

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First Sony pulled the film from the festival, now actor Christopher Plummer is stepping in to replace Spacey, as the production scrambles at considerable expense, and inconvenience to co-stars Michelle Williams and Mark Wahlberg, to reshoot Spacey's scenes in the hopes that the film can still make its release date.

In fact, the film was so well received that it even won its first time director an award at the festival.

In what is in all likelihood a Sundance first, two films about the same subject matter played at the festival — both examining what led Chubbuck to kill herself for the world to see.

Piano is an animated short film that first played at film festivals throughout 2016 before arriving online recently.

Of the films we have already seen, Chadwick Boseman buffed his stardom in the lead role in Marvel blockbuster «Black Panther,» while Joaquin Phoenix took home Best Actor at Cannes as a brutal killer trying to save a young girl from the sex trade in «You Were Never Really Here,» and Ethan Hawke earned raves as a melancholy priest out of the fall festivals for Paul Schrader's recently released «First Reformed.»

And we spent five days that we were going to see films at the festival writing this movie, and we wrote the first draft of «Lemon» there.

Matt's first two days at the Alamo Drafthouse's annual film festival included absurdity of all kinds, the latest movie from Guillermo Del Toro, and more.

True Detective's Cary Fukunaga directs British star in the first competition film to screen at this year's Venice film festival — and the first awards contender from Netflix's new cinema division

Prof. Mackey took it to Monterrey (Mexico); it was my first film to be shown at festivals.

This first premiered at the Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival in Switzerland, and has played at a few other film festivals this year including at the Sitges Film Festival and FilmQuest Festival.