Sentences with phrase «first opening night film»

I saw the film again last night (I'm guessing it's the first opening night film I've taken in in three years).

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Disney said it was the first time that either an animated feature or a 3D feature had been selected as the opening night film.

This year's First Exposure series features the following filmmakers and films: our Opening Night director Jennie Livingston presenting Paris is Burning, Albert Maysles (Salesman), Julie Taymor (Titus), Michael Moore (Roger & Me), Kelly Reichardt (River of Grass), Cinematographer Frederick Elmes (Eraserhead), James Toback (Fingers), and Peter Bogdanovich (Targets).

To spotlight a few of those 7 percenters, BFF included in its five - day run an all - female From the Director's Chair panel featuring Oscar - nominated director Jennifer Yuh Nelson («Kung Fu Panda»), actor - filmmaker Maggie Kiley («Caught,» «We Own the Night»), documentary director Elisa Paloschi («Driving Selvi»), and Meera Menon, director of the fest's opening film «Equity,» the first female - centered Wall Street story (Anna Gunn stars opposite Alysia Reiner, Sarah Megan Thomas, and James Purefoy.)

From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and old.

«For the first time ever, the film will open on the same night at cinemas across the UK and Ireland,» said distributor Sony Pictures in a press release.

As festival director Janet Pierson introduced the opening night film, Linklater humbly dotted «I've had films here before, but this is the first time I've opened the festival» to a giddy crowd.

Polley was in Chicago with her film as the opening night selection for the first ever Chicago Critics Film Festival, which also played Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden's «Feral» which was nominated for Best Animated Short Film.

Magnolia Pictures opened The First Monday In May in 20 theaters hoping to ride the attention from the film's first - night spot at the Tribeca Film FestFirst Monday In May in 20 theaters hoping to ride the attention from the film's first - night spot at the Tribeca Film Festfirst - night spot at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Thursday afternoon, Austin director Jeff Nichols, whose movie «Loving» opened the Austin Film Festival Thursday night, sat down for a chat with Christopher Boone, who is currently wrapping up work on «Cents,» his first feature film as writer / director.

In fact, Amazon is kicking off the whole show, having already snapped up the rights to opening night film, Woody Allen's Cafe Society, but that's just the first of many Amazon acquisitions to air on the Croisette: Amazon is also behind Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon, Jim Jarmusch's Paterson and Iggy Pop documentary Gim me Danger, plus Park Chan - wook's The Handmaiden.

This date is the first Monday following the film's European Premiere as the Opening Night of the BFI London Film Festival on 7 October 2015.

SIFF held its opening night in Benaroya Hall (for the first time) with a typically SIFF opening night film: The Extra Man, with Paul Dano as twentysomething literature teacher Louis Ives, a shy young man mired in sexual confusion, a fantasy life born of F. Scott Fitzgerald novels and the eccentrics in his Manhattan apartment building, notably his roommate.

This doc first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year as the opening night film.

It's a fascinating story and both thrilling and heartbreaking, so after the first screening, Ethan and I recorded a video blog with our quick thoughts on the opening night film.

And for the first time in long while, opening night featured a superior film by a major auteur.

The topic came up when we asked Bernard how long he and his partner at Sony Picture Classics, Michael Barker, waited after seeing the opening - night film, Whiplash, before bidding on it in what would become the first major sale of the festival.

Sundance experience: «Going there with your first film, and as an opening night film — having people talk about it, having conversations about it on the street — I couldn't think of a more surreal experience.»

Produced and filmed by VernissageTV on the show's opening night, this short film walks you through First, look at the paintings.