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.
It seems like there are
some good films at the festival this year.
Austin icon Richard Linklater's Before Midnight, which played two days later, would've been a better selection; unfortunately, like several of
the best films at the festival (David Gordon Green's Prince Avalanche, Jeff Nichols's Mud, and Hannah Fidell's A Teacher), it had already premiered at Sundance.
Looking at the rest of the presumed competition field, Son of Sofia and Nobody's Watching were two of
the best films at the festival.
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.
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.
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.
Saw it
at a
film festival, and it wasn't horrible, but Ive seen
better.
The Canadian
film premiered
at Slamdance 2013 and took home the
Best Narrative Feature prize, initiating a successful
festival run...
In fact, nearly every
Best Picture winner in recent memory made its debut
at one of the major fall
film festivals.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
There's always a place for a
good comedy, regardless of if it's
at a
film festival or in cinemas during the end of March.
Several other
films that have been building steam on the
festival circuit will play
at the
festival as
well.
Namely, these
films have been heralded with top prizes
at important
film festivals, giving them a sheen of prestige that even the
best PR campaigns can't buy.
Other polarizing
films included Darling, Bone Tomahawk, Follow and Demon (which won
best horror feature
at the
festival to many people's surprise
It's become something of a
film festival truism that certain movies play
better at high altitudes.
Alongside it's Oscar for
Best Foreign Language
film of 2016, it was also a nominee for the Palme d'Or
at the Cannes
film festival with Farhadi winning
Best Screenplay and Shahab Hosseini winning
Best Actor.
Sure, they play
well at midnight screenings
at film festivals in front of rowdy, half - drunk crowds.
That's the general thrust of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, the sort of
well - acted,
well - written but self - consciously hip seriocomedy that can't help but win prizes
at international
film festivals.
The indie has taken several notable prizes
at domestic
film festivals, including a special jury prize for breakout performance from the Los Angeles
Film Festival for star Auden Thornton, as
well as the narrative feature audience prize from the Austin
Film Festival.
For me, the
best viewing experience for this
film would be
at the end of a day long music
festival, outdoors in a field on a beautiful summers evening just after sunset.
So far, our SXSW preview series has taken a look
at the Headliners, Midnight section, and narrative
films in the Visions program as
well as a tour of the
festival's documentaries.
Bening and eight other international celebrity jurors will hand out the awards
at the
festival, including the Golden Lion for
best film and Silver Lion for
best director and the grand jury prize.
The
film already premiered
at the Göteborg
Film Festival earlier this year, and is playing
at a few other
festivals this summer as
well, including OutFest in July.
«Room» has been chosen by the audience as the
best film at the 2015 Toronto International
Film Festival, winning the
festival's Grolsch People's Choice Award
at a ceremony in Toronto on Sunday.
The
festival tends to look after its own, and while there was some speculation that his new
film, which shot
at the end of 2011, could be ready for the fall
festival circuit last year, Cannes always seemed the
better bet for his Bangkok - set, ultraviolent re-team with Ryan Gosling.
But there appears to be no rhyme or reason to the way this
festival was put together, with many of the
best films showing
at the most inconvenient times, no clear threadlike connecting the
films from different countries or eras and a lot of sub-standard source material for a repertory
festival.
Agnes Varda, director of «Visages Villages (Faces Places),» which many considered the
best film at this year's Cannes
festival, where it played out of competition, received the Silver medallion from Telluride in 1977 (the fourth year of the
Festival).
Hungary has picked harrowing Holocaust drama Son of Saul as its nomination for the 2016
best foreign language
film Oscar, less than three weeks after it won the runner - up Grand Prix prize
at the Cannes
film festival.
Other
films just missing the cut: Oliver really loved «Miss Violence»
at the Venice
film festival and it made his five
best films list (review here).
On the other hand, they said that Torre Nilsson was an artist; all his
films ended up
at the
best film festivals.
TELLURIDE, Colo. — Three of the
best films at this year's Telluride
festival deal with unusual frankness with sex.
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Performing
at prestigious
film festivals and venues around the world, including the Telluride
Film Festival, the Louvre, Lincoln Center, and the National Gallery of Art, Alloy has helped revive some of the great masterpieces as
well as little - known gems of the silent era.
The
films, financed by Roger Corman (who had also produced Hellman's Los Angeles stage production of «Waiting For Godot»), were
well received
at European
film festivals but tossed into legal limbo when its European distributor went bankrupt and ended up being sold directly to American TV.
Think of them as cinemas golden boys, the
best directing duo out there, and indie icons for the break out
films at festivals and how they told stories on a limited canvas.
The second
film I saw
at the
festival and its wondrous cinematography, resonant performances, and an organic direction that plays right into my wheelhouse; Mr. Turner proves that Leigh can tackle the tricky genre of the biopic
better than,
well, anyone I've ever seen.
In stark contrast to Kraume's take on German history was one of the
best films I saw
at the
festival, Robert Schwentke's The Captain.
This
film was screened
at Fantastic Fest 2010 and ended up on my Top 10
best of the
festival list — more #FF2010 coverage here.
Sundance
Film Festival Park City Utah - Day 7 Only
at a
film festival can you have one of your
best experiences watching 12 year - old children, and younger, in prison.
The
film has won several awards from
festivals, including
best actor for Dujardin
at Cannes.
You've seen more nuanced treatises on illegal immigration, but Jonás Cuarón's thriller, which premiered
at Toronto and will serve as the L.A.
film festival's closing - night offering, is a harrowingly visceral experience, centered around a cat - and - mouse game between a
well - matched Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
There was
film noir aplenty
at the TCM
festival as
well as special guests, panels, a poolside screening and parties.
Looks like it's
best to see
at a
film festival.