Sentences with phrase «get at a film festival»

By the same token, I also recall remarking to myself about how quickly the backlash cycle gets at film festivals these days, as evidenced by my enthusiastic reactions to Moonlight and Jackie being met by polar opposite reactions, either online or in person, maybe a day or two after I had seen them.

Not exact matches

Braid's producers aim to wrap the film in time to screen it at next year's South by Southwest festival in Austin as part of the process of getting a distribution deal.

County officials, who already lease one office, got permission from the state to let the film festival use a second office at no additional cost, Fisher said.

Last weekend we had a family get together to see my sister's latest film at a local film festival.

As the festival gets closer, more and more films are being hinted at for a premiere in France (though Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's Birdman with Michael Keaton won't be one of them).

Cannes favorite son Jim Jarmusch was welcomed back with open arms at this year's festival, as the press finally got a glimpse of his latest feature film «Paterson» on Monday.

Got to know Sarah a bit at a film festival we were at.

Show up at a festival to promote your film, pretend to enjoy getting your picture snapped by a #blessed «industry expert,» thus securing their approval, and suddenly you're a «lock.»

Not long afterward we see Blanc arrive at the Cannes film festival, demanding a suite at the Hotel Carlton (he finally gets moved into the suite of Gerard Depardieu, who's off wine tasting in Bulgaria) and making a crude pass at Charlotte Gainsbourg in her room, then stealing money from her purse while she goes to fetch him some Valium.

This three - part drama looking at the childhood, adolescence and adulthood of a gay black man from a tough part of Miami has been getting rave reactions out of the Telluride and Toronto film festivals.

Submit your film and get it shown at the festival that runs for 4 times a year in the heart of downtown Toronto at the Carlton Cinemas.

This originally premiered at multiple film festivals back in 2015, and is just now getting released.

With few exceptions, each of his droll comedies have followed a bumbling male director as he travels to a film festival, gets tanked on soju and belligerently throws himself at a woman.

I am so happy to hear the film is getting a wide release after playing at numerous film festivals and receiving extremely positive reviews.

The more OCD among us here at Playlist Towers find it a source of constant aggravation that release dates vary so much from territory to territory, and festivals often get premieres a full 18 - or - so months before a film gains a proper U.S. release — making a cut - and - dry list of any given year's movies less science than art.

Sadly, getting home from seeing four or five films a day at midnight (and having been out since 10.30 am) and having to write for my own blog — a necessity of the «60 films in 17 days» blogathon challenge I was participating in — took its toll, especially against the backdrop of the flu that I carried all festival.

I heard the film got booed at this year's Cannes festival, but I guess I had to see for myself.

Usually the victory laps that play out on the stage of the Academy Awards are kicked into motion as early as a year prior to the ceremony, when a film, say, premieres at a festival and the media's whipped - up buzz incentivizes a studio to get to work on an awards campaign.

I always get a curious thrill from looking down the list of films selected to compete at the Sundance Film Festival — the 2010 batch of which has just been announced by festival directors John Cooper and Trevor Grath.

On the Allen bits, it looks like Parker got her role after meeting Juliet Taylor, Allen's Casting Director, at a film festival in Krakow.

Allen's last film, «Irrational Man,» got off to a deservedly rocky start at least year's festival and distributor Amazon Studios has not yet announced a U.S. release date.

I've seen three Larson films (1, 2, 3) and two of Wheatley's (1, 2) at previous festivals and can not wait to get my eyeballs on this bloody, funny, and no doubt dazzling action comedy from a filmmaker like no other.

The Gala films tend to be the hardest tickets to get your hands on but are also the most likely to get a cinema release so I advise you look elsewhere for gems at the festival.

«Throughbreds» (whose title was singular when it premiered in Sundance's NEXT section in January 2017) may have been overshadowed by «Get Out» at that film festival, but it's no less elegant or lethal, concentrating its satire not on racial mind games (the way Jordan Peele did, seizing the zeitgeist in the process) but a case of blue - blood breeding gone horribly awry.

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.

Last week I was complaining because there were hardly any releases worth glancing at; this week I opted to put in a second row of highlighted covers because there are a LOT of releases, including a bunch of last year's festival circuit films that I didn't want to get lost in the shuffle.

«How I Live Now» Before every film at TIFF this year, the festival played a trailer in which a bunch of people use the line «We'll get through this!»

Director Richard Kelly's follow - up on the enigmatic cult hit Donnie Darko has run into a critical storm: an unfinished version (according to Kelly) was shown at the Cannes film festival where it was boo - ed and got rotten reviews.

I did find it a bit ironic and coincidental that two people get hit by cars in the film, especially following the tragic events that unfolded at the 2014 SXSW festival where two people died after getting run over.

Unlike many festival experiences I've had in the past, I didn't get to many horror films at this year's TIFF.

It takes some narrative shortcutting to get to the ending, but otherwise Frances Ha is a perfectly scaled pleasure, with the lightness that's particularly welcome at a film festival.

Which basically gives her the excuse to do stuff like sleep in a glass cabinet in a gallery for a week (her one - person piece «The Maybe» at the Serpentine gallery in 1995) and hold a tiny film festival in the Highlands where bringing homemade cakes got you free entry to the films.

This week Trespass» writers are listing their top ten cinema releases (in Australia) of 2011, as well as recognising the film they know they should have seen but didn't (the film that got away), picking out an Australian highlight and selecting their three top non-cinema releases, films they have caught at a film festival or that remain unreleased.

But it was also an unusual kind of Cannes breakout, as following its very enthusiastic reception at the 2014 festival, the film gathered gentle momentum internationally throughout the year, playing the festival circuit and sweeping the boards at Argentina's national film awards, before being shortlisted for the foreign - language Oscar in 2015 and getting a US release in February.

Filmed entirely in the UK, it was nonetheless the closest that Antipodeans at the festival could get to claiming a competition title as one of their own.

This film was actually released back in 2014 in Korea, and played at a few film festivals in 2014 and 2015, but is just now getting released in US theaters four years later.

Starring Michael Keaton as an actor trying to regain his former glory on Broadway when his days playing a famous superhero have long been gone, the film is already getting major buzz thanks to its trailer, and would surely be a hot ticket at whatever festival it makes its way to.

Vertical Entertainment has debuted an official trailer for an animated movie titled Bilal: A New Breed of Hero, which premiered back in 2015 and 2016 at film festivals but is just getting a theatrical release in the US in February of 2018, this year.

They are either hired before a film is seen at all, based on hope and expectations, or they are hired after a movie gets a lot of attention — at a film festival, for example — or is a surprise hit.

The Young Victoria — The only film we saw at the festival to get any kind of real theatrical release, which is unfortunate because while it's a fine film for what it is, obviously I liked a lot of other movies a lot more.

Director Wanuri Kahiu's movie gets strong response at film festival even if it doesn't break much new narrative ground.

SCREENED AT INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON 2018: «Beast» is the sort of movie that figures it can let a serial killer running loose in the community sort of simmer in the background, confident that the psychological drama it's got running up front is more interesting.

Colossal is a weird film to be sure, but it's also a frequently fascinating one, and those who spend a lot of time at film festivals may be the ones who get the joke best.

The film is currently getting about 50 + accolades from international film festivals; which includes the Best Foreign Short & Best Actress at Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards, Best Drama & Best Cinematography at Los Angeles Film Awards, Best Foreign Short Film at Ukrainian International Short Film Festival, Rising Star Awards at Canada International Film Festival, an Official Finalist at London Film Awards, among others.

The movie had its world premiere at the South by Southwest film festival last night, and for all the fans of the book who can't wait to see the movie, we've got something that should hold you over.

Originally released in 2015 internationally, it won numerous awards at various film festivals and is just now getting a U.S. release.

This first premiered at Sundance and has played at numerous festivals all over the world, and is getting quite a bit of acclaim because it's a hell of a film.

I find myself every year in the peculiar position as a film academic spending all my time talking about and screening film, and then struggling to physically get to see stuff that's actually showing at cinemas and festivals.

Instead of hitting festivals and looking to fill out their slates with acquired films, they're getting involved at the script stage.

Pedigree: Von Trier has been terrorizing the festival circuit for years with polarizing films like Breaking The Waves, Dancer In The Dark, and Dogville, and his enfant terrible status was reaffirmed at the infamous press conference for Melancholia, where his remarks on Nazis got him banned from Cannes.