Sentences with phrase «from earlier festivals»

This weekend (April 12 - 14) is the first annual Chicago Critics Film Festival (CCFF), an amazing time for moviegoers to catch screenings of unreleased favorites from earlier festivals Cannes, Sundance, and SXSW.

The new titles paint in an extremely strong edition, with stellar picks from earlier festivals.

Not exact matches

The festival got its name from the earlier residents who wanted to emphasize the rehabilitation of Wicker Park.

De Blasio's vow to keep the deadly predawn festival going was a far cry from the comments he made a day earlier, after two people were killed.

More specifically, maximum drinks per occasion increased 18 percent from the early spring to the campus festival period, decreased 29 percent in the summer, and increased 31 percent on school return.

While initially a picture many hoped would land at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, Park Chan - wook «s eagerly anticipated English language debut «Stoker» has been both heavily under wraps and long awaited, but now we're less than a year away from release and we're rolling the dice on a fall festival appearance.

There is that scene early on in the film when y ’ all get a lot of cash from the festival that Gosling and Refn make for their appearance.

But I've been reading about them for decades, most often (and earliest) from the pen of Roger Ebert, who called Telluride «one of the best experiences a film lover can have,» and dubbed Toronto «the world's top festival for — well, for moviegoers.»

The early - to - mid-year festivals produced an ample batch of keepers, from Richard Linklater's Sundance sensation Before Midnight to Cannes gems like Bastards andInside Llewyn Davis.

One of the most buzzed about films to emerge from Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and was acquired at the festival by A24, has finally landed a release date.

I had a chance to see the film earlier this year and it ended up being one of my favorites from the SXSW film festival.

Early reviews from the Toronto film festival dismissed this movie as a mere attempt to remake yet another Hollywood classic.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

Stone and Gosling had wonderful chemistry in the romantic comedy «Crazy, Stupid, Love,» and early reviews from the festival circuit have been outstanding.

Though its summer release date is pretty ballsy for a movie that would have benefited from an early fall awards push, the studio's confidence in «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» is not only encouraging, but suggests that the rave reviews coming out of Park City wasn't just the usual film festival hyperbole.

Beyond the inside - the - mediasphere headaches of scheduling and other logistics, the transition only served to underscore how the festival continues to be torn between premieres of Hollywood films hitting theaters within weeks, the carefully calibrated launch of award - season hopefuls, the rediscovery of films from earlier in the festival year, and the emergence of new international and independent titles.

Those were relatively early days for the Telluride festival (which began in 1974 and seemed much more remote than it is now) and Gary couldn't find any record of the speech, which I remember Widmark reading from notes he produced from his jacket pocket.

Reporting from the front line of the film industry, the Curzon team boldly go to the film festivals of the world - Berlin, Toronto and, of course, Cannes - returning with tales of cinematic wonder, late nights, early mornings and all the news that is fit to print.

Following on from the unveiling of its Critics week sidebar earlier this week, the Venice Film Festival has revealed the remainder of its lineup for this year's festival, which sees fifty five films in its official selection, with a range of up - and - comers and established heavyweights.

THIS WEEKEND is the first annual Chicago Critics Film Festival, a special opportunity for moviegoers to catch early views at unreleased favorites from festivals like Cannes, Sundance, and SXSW.

Rising from the ashes of Subway Cinema's original Old School Kung Fu Fest screenings of early 2000's, the new incarnation was relaunched in 2013 as a Spring festival at Anthology Film Archives.

After being one of the early acquisitions at the festival, The Spectacular Now (from director James Ponsoldt, whose film Smashed made my favorites at Sundance last year) became one of the most loved film in Park City this year.

This is the first of many press releases from the festival (Which Variety leaked early; unfortunate for them, fortunate for us), and already the festival looks like a doozey.

Berlinale is another prominent film festival taking place early every year, showcasing great films from all over the world.

This description is from the official festival program and provides more details than the earlier synopsis.

Each year the festival provides attendees with an early look at the potential Academy Award ® contenders and the opportunity to discover some of the best films from around the world.

The festival may still be in its early days, but some have already tipped «120 Beats Per Minute» to win a prize from this year's Pedro Almodóvar - headed competition jury.

These are not exactly obscure works: The Intruder is the latest offering from French director Claire Denis, whose earlier films (including Beau Travail and Friday Night) have been widely seen at film festivals and in art - house theaters.

It's also nice to know that the film isn't just a rehashing of Raimi's first movie, but rather a whole new story with new characters in an otherwise familiar setting, and if the early buzz from the film's world premiere at last month's SXSW festival is any indication, Fede Alvarez's remake / reboot / sequel (whatever you want to call it) has everything horror fans could possibly want — namely, the gooey red stuff, and plenty of it.

As day four approaches its close, this reviewer has caught a solid handful of outstanding selections — albeit most of them stopovers from festivals earlier this year — and the time has come to separate the wheat from the poorly - scripted, indifferently - shot, embarrassingly - acted chaff.

Kites may have been brought from China to Japan and other Asian countries, historians say, as part of early religious festivals or ceremonies.

The All - State Festival selects, based on auditions, student musicians from across the state from among those who already made the cut in earlier regional festivals.

In the past 33 years the Gathering of Nations has grown from an early, simple dream to one of the world's most recognized annual festivals.

Learn about AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School at EdFEST 2017, the only citywide DC public school festival, on Saturday, December 9, 2017 from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at the DC Armory (2001 East Capitol Street, SE).

To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the popular video game series, Gran Turismo 6 will feature a festival called «Vision Gran Turismo» (name reused from early GT5 trailer), featuring concept cars designed for the game by top automobile companies.

Although on record since the 16th century, it's believed that Mothering Sunday dates back much earlier, and was probably adapted from a Roman festival of spring celebrating Cybele the «Great Mother» goddess.

A high school music festival goes awry when a young prodigy disappears from a hotel room that was the site of a famous murder / suicide fifteen years earlier.

EARLY IN 1989, I was commissioned to write a catalogue essay on two young German photographers who would show at P.S. 1's Clocktower Gallery as part of «Ruhrworks: The Arts of a German Region,» a New York «festival» of arts from the Ruhr Valley in northern Germany.

Many of the figures show costume designs by artists and designers from the early part of the twentieth century, thereby linking the performing arts of the festival with the collection of the museum.