21:10 -
The first sections of film have just been shown.
The first section of the film, in which Charley's life seems to be on an upswing, is filled with quiet moments of idyllic and even romantic seclusion — Charley working with the horses, cleaning up after them, taking scenic road trips with Del, watching the horses race, taking in the starry sky while lying the bed of Del's pickup truck.
It's a distinct change of pace after
the first section of the film, which is, I think, why I didn't like it as much the first time I saw it, but in fact this part of the story is well done and quite compelling.
The first section of the film establishes the relationships between Dinesen, the Spanish lieutenant Pittaluga, Inga, and Inga's Spanish soldier - lover Corto.
Many nudge - nudge hints are dropped in
the first section of the film, so when the film goes back to fill in the sordid details, it feels schematic and exasperating.
The first section of the film sees the formation of a shambolic artistic collective, consisting of Paul and Stan (Hugo Conzelmann) as Paradise Garage - influenced DJ duo Cheers, their cartoonist friend Cyril (Roman Kolinka, looking like a young Alain Delon), Cyril's girlfriend Anaïs (Zita Hanrot), and later, music journo - slash - club night organiser Arnaud (Vincent Macaigne).
The montage that makes up
the first section of the film feels awkward also (and is in fact similar to The New World — it feels as if it had been cut down).
The first section of the film is an expositional wonder, as not only are the main characters (including Secretary of State William Seward (David Strathairn), Republican poobah Preston Blair (Hal Holbrook), radical abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) and various members of the White House - hold, among others) introduced and motivated, but the political issues involved are explained with a detail, clarity and respect for the audience's intelligence that's extremely rare in a Hollywood film.
Not exact matches
That's a pretty good description
of the
first third
of «Deathly Hallows: Part 2,» and it may be no coincidence that it's the
film's strongest
section.
Most
of the
film's best moments come in this middle
section, as we watch the couple deal with the strain and anxiety
of deciding whose needs should be put
first, and for how long.
The
film also meanders aimlessly for large
sections of the
film, particularly for the
first hour.
The Camera d'Or, which is given to the best
first film from any
section of the festival, went to Leonor Serrail's «Jeune Femme,» which screened in the Un Certain Regard
section.
The
first section of the podcast my guest, Gold Rush Gang member Matt Dinn, and I talk about the impact
of this on the current landscape
of the Oscar race, specifically to The Weinstein Company's awards efforts and the surprising news last week that Ridley Scott would cut Kevin Spacey out
of his Getty kidnapping drama All the Money in the World, replace him with Christopher Plummer (the actor he originally wanted for the role
of Getty) and the race to do this and keep the
film's December 22nd release date.
«I am a Flatbush girl»,
first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere
of It Felt Like Love in the Next
section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the
film draws from her experience
of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood
of New York City's most populous borough,
of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear
of melting like the asphalt under your feet.
While the
first two chapters
of section one dealt with the field
of Japanese cinema as one composed around actual
films, the other two chapters in this
section suggest that the field is one that analyses discourses around cinema culture at large.
Populated by an eager groom (Alexander Skarsgård), eccentric parents (Charlotte Rampling and John Hurt) and arrogant brother - in - law (Kiefer Sutherland) in the
first half, before making room for an intimate examination
of the family dynamic in the second
section, the cleverly compelling
film captures attention from the operatic opening to the moving conclusion.
Other titles in this
section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate
first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense
of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere
of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration
of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere
of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives
of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay
film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove
of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives
of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere
of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story
of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE
OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY
OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystica
OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale
of love, loss, memory and the mystica
of love, loss, memory and the mystical.
The only indications
of war that we get in the
film are the occasional sirens and overhead planes, and if memory serves these are heard mainly in the
first section, set in 1951.
The third part is little more than a fight against creatures that are a bigger threat to both sides than each other, but the momentum
of the
first two
sections carries the
film through its relatively anticlimactic final act.
The
film begins sombre enough, yet finds amusement after the
first section, which is carried through the rest
of the duration.
It's such a wonderful score, and it's so good to be able to hear all
of it for the
first time away from the
film - but on the other hand, the original album was exceptionally well - sequenced, balancing the action / adventure and romantic
sections beautifully with each other.
(2) Two prizes were awarded,
first to an animation
film from Belgium, Oh Willy... by Emma De Swaef and Marc Roels and to a short live action
film showcased in the Young Americans
section, Roger Hayn's Introducing Bobby, the portrait
of a bed - ridden ex-con.
A
film designed to be the fiery response to critics
of his combative style is his most pandering (in the
first section Solondz uses a red square to obscure a violent (but consensual) sex act, a flaccid pre-emptive strike against the MPAA) and, in the end, his most fearful and apologetic.
His
first feature
film, An Oversimplification
of Her Beauty, premiered in the New Frontier
section of the 2012 Sundance
Film Festival.
The comments
section will be lit up with the inevitable questions about how I feel about the
first «Blade Runner» so let's kick it off with saying, I am not a fan
of the original
film by Ridley Scott.
He's twice competed for the Palme d'Or and his
first entry, 2009's «I Killed My Mother,» pulled in a series
of awards and nods independent from its SCAD win, which goes to the best
film in the Directors» Fortnight
section.
Saldana spends the
film's
first section huffing over Spock's coldness, but once that conflict is resolved with a few lines, her screen presence consists
of holding her hand to her mouth in shock.
In addition to these 11
first features in competition, the New Directors
section of SFIFF57 includes 14 out -
of - competition
films, which will be announced at the Festival's press conference Tuesday, April 1.
This is the
first time that Zombie has debuted a
film at the world renowned Sundance
Film Festival, where the Midnight
section is notorious for being a «special showcase
of the most challenging but rewarding
film experiences from around the world brought to you at the most arduous hour.»
Fresnadillo is yet another director to watch (this is his second feature
film), and he manages thrills out
of the weaker
sections 28 Weeks Later, which should be a completely unnecessary sequel as a whole in the
first place.
The Forum Expanded
section will be host to a double bill from experimental
film great Ken Jacobs, with a new
film Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies, a 15 - minute vision
of «Cyclopean 3D», screening alongside Orchard Street (1955) which will be presented for the
first time in its originally planned half - hour cut.
The parallel Un Certain Regard
section also opened, and the Kenyan
film «Rafiki» from director Wanuri Kahiu was one
of the
first films screened.
Muslims were a success story this year, including Mahershala Ali, beginning
of section, who was the
first Muslim to win an acting award and Asghar Farhadi who won Best Foreign Language
film.
We also reject the notion in the beginning
section of the
film, because the screenplay by director Nuri Bilge Ceylan and his wife Ebru Ceylan spends the entirety
of the
first act on a conflict that Aydin appears to do everything in his power to avoid.
CBGB is titled after the Bowery -
section, East Village Manhattan nightclub established by Hilly Kristal (played in the
film by Alan Rickman, The Butler) in 1973, mostly known for being one
of the
first places to break in many American punk rock and new wave acts.
On the
first weekend, there's «An Afternoon with Molly Shannon» and the World Premiere
of her new
film Miles, and Viggo Mortensen will receive the Outstanding Achievement in Acting Award on Saturday, June 11 with a screening
of Captain Fantastic, the spotlight
section of a retrospective that includes revivals
of Eastern Promises, A Walk on the Moon, and a midnight screening
of Lord
of the Rings: Return
of the King.
The motion picture based on the
first book is opening on Valentines Day and this is leading bookstores to capitalize on the
film by once again devoting a large
section of real estate to promote the book.
«The document states that: «Any person who intends to distribute any
film, game, or certain publication in the Republic
of South Africa shall
first comply with
section 18 (1)
of the [1996 Films and Publications] Act by applying, in the prescribed manner, for registration as
film or game and publications distributor.»»
The
first section of the exhibition displays photographs, paintings and
films in which the stolen or missing object becomes the scene or evidence
of a crime.
Her
first short
film «What do I Know», premiered in Corto Cortissimo
section of (64th) Venice International
Film Festival and circulated over 40
film festivals winning Best Short
Film awards at (5th) Zagreb
Film Festival and (15th) Adana
Film Festival.
The Woolworths Choir
of 1979 (2012) is a
film installation which comprises three distinct
sections; the
first examines the choral architecture
of churches; the second concentrates on coordinated dance routines performed by pop groups and backing singers; and the third focuses on archive footage from a fire at the Woolworths department store in Manchester in 1979.
Cairo - based Maxa Zoller curates the
Film section, which includes Takashi Murakami's
first feature
film Jellyfish Eyes and the European premier
of Lisa Immordino Vreeland's Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict.