One of the biggest
hits at the festival is the food that hails from local eateries who serve up popular Indian dishes like chicken tikka masala and mango lassi, which is an Indian mango smoothie.
Big Question: Is this prime acquisition fodder or a movie that would have been
a hit at the festival... 10 years ago?
The initial line - up was exciting enough but over the past few days, the festival has added two work in progress screenings of Keanu and Sausage Party which should be fairly big
hits at the festival.
This wonderful but peculiar film was
a hit at festivals, winning awards at both Sundance and Cannes this year.
Not exact matches
s, but the brand is also fine - tuned to the current rosé lifestyle trend, and its image is executed to perfection in the mobile tasting room fashioned from a classic 1969 Airstream Overlander trailer, fully decked to
hit the road and setup
at festivals or other events and
A street
festival with more than a hundred vendors will take place
at 75th Street and 37th Road and there will be performances on two stages, including CeCe Peniston with her
hit «Finally» and other songs from the
Festival Stage.
The actress adds a
hit of color with a bright coral pout
at the Governors Ball music
festival kick off party in N.Y.C.
The singer
hits the red carpet (and the stage)
at the iHeartRadio music
festival in Las Vegas wearing a wild patchwork dress that, when she turns to the side, looks more like a supershort tunic over a leotard.
I love this look for
hitting up a
festival or day
at the museum, even a little brunch with friends.
They'll be jamming
at Governor's Ball (NYC), Bonnaroo (TN), and Summer Camp Music Fest (IL) before hopping on over to
hit up the European
festivals for the remainder of the summer.
The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are
at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a
festival - circuit
hit this year.
«The Spanish Prisoner», non-subtitled and non - «foreign», may well prove to be one of the big
hits of the
festival, and I wouldn't be surprised
at all to see Oscar consideration eventually.
That same evening, Emma Thompson and her co-stars Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Bruhl and his girlfriend Felicitas Rombold
hit the red carpet
at the premiere of their film Alone in Berlin held
at Berlinale Palace after attending their press conference as part of the
festival.
If either of those films are a
hit at Sundance, chances are they'll go on to even bigger things, because over the years the
festival has become a formidable launching pad for actors, directors and their movies.
Helmed by writer / director Jeremy O'Keefe, the movie was a
hit on the
festival circuit — it won Best Narrative Film
at the Brooklyn Film
Festival last summer — and for good reason.
This is from the same filmmaker who made the cult horror
hit The Loved Ones, and the film first premiered
at festivals a few years ago.
There is a lot going on in this film and while it might be considered «too out there» for everyone to enjoy, I think this film will
hit big with the film
festival crowd especially those
at SXSW.
NEW YORK FILM
FESTIVAL: After debuting
at the Cannes Film
Festival earlier this year, James Gray «s long - awaited follow - up to his indie
hit «Two Lovers,» had its showing with press and industry folks
at the New York Film
Festival today.
Directed by Barry Jenkins, Moonlight has proved a breakout critical
hit since its premiere
at the Telluride film
festival in 2016.
Eva Green
hits the red carpet with director Roman Polanski
at the premiere of their film Based on a True Story during the 2017 Cannes Film Festival on Saturday (May 27)
at Palais des
Festivals in Cannes, France.
This first premiered
at the Toronto Film Festival this year, and will likely
hit a few other
festivals.
Here's a fun fact that escaped us in amidst the flurry of fall
festival activity: Guillaume Canet «s sprawling crime story saga «Blood Ties» premiered
at the Cannes Film
Festival running two hours and twenty - four minutes, but by the time it
hit Toronto International Film
Festival, it had been reduced somewhat significantly to two hours and seven minutes.
White God Director: Kornél Mundruczó Running time: 121 minutes Certificate: R A
hit at last year's Cannes film
festival, this drama follows a dog who joins a canine revolution against humans after being taken away from his owner.
The evening before, Penélope and Javier both
hit the blue carpet
at the Opening Gala Dinner for the 2018 Cannes Film Festival
at Palais des
Festivals.
indieWIRE has the full lineup for this year's New York Film
Festival, which runs from 25 September to 11 October, and
at a glance, it looks remarkably like a greatest -
hits lineup from May's Cannes
festival.
For Baumbach, whose last movie «While We're Young» premiered
at a
festival just five months before «Mistress America,» the latest effort suggests he's entering Woody Allen territory — not always
hitting his stride, but usually somewhere in the vicinity of it.
«Let's just let this whole affair be simple...» Sony has released the full official trailer for Alex Ross Perry's Golden Exits, which played
at numerous film
festivals throughout 2017 and is just now
hitting theaters in February of 2018.
The movie's been snapped up by CBS Films, and probably has as good a chance of becoming a crossover
hit as anything that screened
at the
festival this year.
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.
Its October release date is prime position that makes perfect sense for a premiere
at one of the major fall film
festivals, Toronto or Telluride most likely, and it has the potential to be a
hit through many different branches of the Academy.
In fact, if an indie movie does become a breakout
hit at the box office, chances are it most certainly debuted
at Robert Redford's three decade old film
festival.
Yesterday's viewing roster just about had me double - checking whether I was
at the right
festival, as I was treated to a pair of Sundance
hits, in addition to a brand - new Amerindie feature from a Sundance alumnus.
A favorite
at this year's Sundance
festival, The Way, Way Back
hits another familiar theme: the awkward duckling that finds its wings.
Sean Baker supplants the West Hollywood setting of his 2015
festival hit TANGERINE with the cheap motels laying in the shadow of a certain Orlando mouse - themed amusement park, in another free - flowing and sincere look
at those living in the shadows of the cities they call home.
Though it would make for the director's second
festival debut of the year — his «A Most Wanted Man» debuted
at Sundance in January, and is
hitting theaters this month.
After a
festival - circuit tour that included a world premiere
at Sundance and a Best Director prize in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes, Matt Ross» «Captain Fantastic» is set to
hit theaters next month.
Other British films screening
at the
festival include Nicholas Hytner's adaptation of Alan Bennett's
hit play The Lady in the Van, with Maggie Smith reprising her much - lauded performance as eccentric homeless woman who lived in Bennett's drive for 15 years.
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.
It is here,
at the beginning of winter and often under the cover of rain, that the first glimpses of the
hits of the international
festival circuit make their way to our shores, in a line - up peppered with Sundance, Berlin and Cannes titles.
The
festival has proved to be a reliable launching pad for the next blockbuster (Apocalypse Now),
hit filmmaker (Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh), and under - the - radar Oscar darling (it was
at Cannes last year that surprise Best Actor nominee Javier Bardem won his first raves for his performance in Biutiful).
Fox Searchlight and Indian Paintbrush have released the first Me and Earl and the Dying Girl trailer for director Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's (American Horror Story) smash Sundance
hit — it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award
at the
festival in January.
The film premiered
at last year's Venice and Toronto Film
Festivals, and is just
hitting US theaters and VOD this summer, if you're curious to check it out.
Conversely, having been
at Venice and the London Film
Festivals this year, I've also seen a fair amount of films that won't
hit theaters until 2013.
This premiered
at the Venice and Toronto Film
Festivals recently, and will
hit theaters next month for those who still want to see it.
The selection also includes a number of films that premiered
at previous
festivals, including «Loving,» Andrea Arnold «s raucous «American Honey,» Paul Verhoeven «s subversive «Elle,» Park Chan - wook «s kinky «The Handmaiden,» Jim Jarmusch «s quiet «Paterson,» Asghar Farhadi «s dramatic «The Salesman» and Maren Ade's funny and touching «Toni Erdmann,» all of which screened in Cannes, as well as the Sundance
hits «The Birth of a Nation» (from Nate Parker) and «Manchester by the Sea» (Kenneth Lonergan).
Prior to arriving
at this year's
festival, I intuited this was a project that may possibly best be experienced midst non-journalist folks (rather than
at a Press Screening), so prioritized arranging an advanced seat for a public audience viewing of the film
at Park City's Library Theater... during the showing and following Q&A, one could hear a pin
hit the floor as the motionless audience appeared fully intrigued.
The film
hit the
festival circuit right
at the crest of #MeToo movement, an industry - wide reckoning of the systemic abuse and harassment of women
at the hands of Hollywood's most powerful men.
One of the sleeper
hits of the fall -
festival season has been Noah Baumbach's «Frances Ha,» which in a climate of serious award - season dramas has stood out as a lighter but still thoughtful look
at twentysomething life.
For the sake of debate, let's just say the film will be well received — not thinking in terms of whether it's a Sundance
hit — just that it's funny and heartwarming and cozy and the filmgoers and critics who caught it
at the
festival walked away satisfied.