Sentences with phrase «good film festival»

On the other hand, they said that Torre Nilsson was an artist; all his films ended up at the best film festivals.

Don't let these suggestions deter you from checking out the tons of other great stuff at L.A.'s biggest and best film festival, though.

It's one of the world's biggest a best film festivals, where many films are bought and sold.

Not exact matches

After Arin Crumley failed to find a distributor for his 2005 movie Four Eyed Monsters despite good reception at film festivals, he used his website to generate a national following.

While film festivals are a good way to do that, they're no longer the only way.

Tigers was nominated for the best film in the San Sebastian film festival 2014.

I am working on scheduling screenings of Handmade Nation, entering the film into festivals and working out the best options for distribution.

Complete with nearly 100 film screenings, filmmaker Q&A sessions, parties and events, the festival will showcase the best in current American and International cinema.

Their films have aired nationally and internationally in more than 100 countries, are distributed in the educational market, and have screened at a variety of well - known film venues and festivals in the US and abroad.

«We have had films like Tunde Kelani's Abeni feature at the festival as well as Half of a Yellow Sun, which is a collaboration between Nigeria and the UK, but I think this is an opportunity to do more and to go bigger.

This year's rally will feature former New York state Assemblyman Michael Benjamin and Cage Fury Fighting Championships President Rob Haydak, as well as an MMA documentary film festival that evening in conjunction with Madison Square Garden which will be free to attend.

There are also meetings and film festivals where science producers gather, such as the World Congress of Science Producers, the Wildscreen Festival in the U.K., and the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, all of which are good places to go to learn about filmmaking and to meet people.

AAAS / Science is a sponsor of the festival and presents The Science / AAAS Scientist Award to the film that best depicts a scientist in an accurate and original way.

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You must have seen many celebrities walking the red carpet at some fashion GALA or film festival, some of them stunning always, some of them, well, often to dress like a joke... If you observe carefully, you'll find that some types of dress never make mistakes.

Putting my education to use, I went to work for a company called Bellcore, which pays well enough for me to keep up the mortgage, maintain a home theater, finance film festival trips, and buy the 25 - 30 gallons of gasoline I need each week to attend screenings.

We'll see how those scores hold up as the year progresses and the films are reviewed elsewhere, but, for now, it's better than the 2017 festival, when only three films scored that highly.

Saw it at a film festival, and it wasn't horrible, but Ive seen better.

No surprise, perhaps, as Denis's film is the sort of thing usually discussed as a «minor,» the appellation usually applied to movies about love and intimacy, topics of almost universal relevance, as opposed to «major» works that indulge in the overblown oversimplification of barely understood historical periods, interminable «sculpting with time,» or the espousal of revolutionary creeds to well - heeled film festival audiences who know in their secret hearts that they will never in their lives participate in a violent uprising of any kind.

Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master might have lost the Golden Lion in Venice (while still winning Best Director and Best Actor (s) awards), but it emerged as the most critically acclaimed film of the fall festival season.

Trumpeting the film as «quite obviously the best film currently touring the festival circuit» is Slant.

If you do enough festivals you see a bunch of these films, and you even come to appreciate them for what they are; when they're well - made there's a hypnotic rhythm to the editing (especially the ambient background noise that almost always dominates the soundtrack), but they're never great films.

The Canadian film premiered at Slamdance 2013 and took home the Best Narrative Feature prize, initiating a successful festival run...

What are the best films of the festival?

Below is my list of the 10 films that I would deem as «must - see» this year as well as a few others recommendations that I will try to catch as well during the festival.

I'm very happy I did, as Cheap Thrills turned out to be one of the best films at the festival that delivered on laughs, violence, and possibly some career best performances from all cast members involved.

This film is definitely a great way to kick off the 30th Anniversary of this festival and based on what my friend said, this is one of the best opening night films to open Sundance in quite sometime.

Best Picture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did nBest Picture: Three of the past five years have seen the festival's Grand Jury Prize for best U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did nbest U.S. dramatic film get a nomination for best picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did nbest picture («Precious» in 2009, «Winter's Bone» in 2010, and «Beasts» in 2012 — «Like Crazy» and last year's «Fruitvale Station» did not).

Few would have bet that «Inglourious Basterds» would turn into the festival's Oscar MVP (they might have been more inclined to say Jane Campion's «Bright Star,» but that film went on to only earn one nomination), or that festival opener «Up» was a sure thing for a Best Picture nomination.

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The Opening Ceremony, wanting to celebrate the festival's 50th anniversary in style, had some great lighting effects, a wonderful MC, a haunting projection on the façade of the theatre (which was transmitted via video into the auditorium), but also a cheesy 3D presentation, and a film — Soul Kitchen by Fatih Akin — that is simply a feel - good comedy with little going for it artistically.

In fact, nearly every Best Picture winner in recent memory made its debut at one of the major fall film festivals.

Miranda July's «Me and You and Everyone We Know» remains, for me, the best film of the festival.

But to really appreciate the festival, as well as the films being produced by Israel currently, one has to have some knowledge of Israeli film history.

As always, complementing the festival's Official Selection is the Cannes Classics sidebar, the annual showcase of new restorations of older films, as well as a handful of cinema - focused documentaries.

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.

There are so many superlatives you could heap on this exceptional film, and certainly its brilliance has been rightfully recognised by international festivals (including Sydney Film Festival) as well as glitzy film awards.

For those who enjoyed Radnor's first effort, this is leaps and bounds better in writing and direction while still retaining what made his Audience Award Winning film from Sundance 2010 such a beloved festival film.

I don't think film festival mega-stars like Lars von Trier or Abbas Kiarostami or Wong Kar - Wai are nearly well - known or influential enough to have this kind of impact, on movie fans in general or on other filmmakers.

I always see some of the best films each year at film festivals, but there's always hidden gems and discoveries to be found outside of fests.

2015 marks the 15th anniversary of «Canada's coolest film festival» and «Whistler's Best Arts & Cultural Event.»

It was a warm, positively feel - good reception for a film whose entry into the festival had been anything but smooth.

For 2016, the festival nominated six films for the EDA Award for Best Female - Directed Narrative Feature.

Full of humor and humanity, «Nobody Walks» is an emotionally complex, acutely observed and sensual film and in this writer's opinion, one of the best at the festival.

I see all the commercial releases, and almost all of the imports, and at the Cannes, New York, and Chicago film festivals, I see a good cross section of the smaller films, domestic and foreign, that are worthy of festivals but not commercial enough for wider release.

The film, as well as Adams, received praise from critics throughout its festival run, also earning two Golden Globe and nine BAFTA Award nominations, among other accolades.

«The Palme d'Or win opened up a lot of doors with the press, festivals and exhibitors, so there was great anticipation for the film in advance of its North American bows at Toronto and the New York film festivals and has given the film some great momentum in the awards race as well,» said Cowal.

Earlier in the weekend a Sundance programmer introduced a film in the festival's Next section by saying, «It is the best section of the festival where we show the coolest movies.»

While word from Venice — where the film closed the festival before heading to TIFF — was good, the question to be answered was whether or not Stillman's style and cinematic persona would stand up in a filmmaking landscape that has changed immensely since «Last Days of Disco.»

For the second consecutive year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is partnering with DOXA Documentary Film Festival to present EDA Awards for best female - directed films at the 16th annual festival, to be held from May 4 to 14, in Vancouver, BC.