Keener, who has to deal with a sudden loss during
the last section of the film, achieves moments of searing emotion, and in the very last scene, another character figures prominently — a teenage friend of Keener's daughter — and the performance by Mikey Madison is one of the most eloquent in the film.
In many ways,
the last section of the film holds the only moments of real achievement.
Not exact matches
In my rankings
of all the 2013
films I saw
last year, In a World... placed 50th and though a few things I've seen have bumped it down since, it still remains among the top third
of last year's offerings, residing in the «Good, Not Great»
section.
The first
section of the podcast my guest, Gold Rush Gang member Matt Dinn, and I talk about the impact
of this on the current landscape
of the Oscar race, specifically to The Weinstein Company's awards efforts and the surprising news
last week that Ridley Scott would cut Kevin Spacey out
of his Getty kidnapping drama All the Money in the World, replace him with Christopher Plummer (the actor he originally wanted for the role
of Getty) and the race to do this and keep the
film's December 22nd release date.
When the
film moves away from the barracks and back to Bill's family home in its
last — and best —
section, Vanessa Kirby, as Bill's flouncy sister, brings to the proceedings a much - needed jolt
of adrenaline.
The
film was screened in the Cannes Classics
section of the Cannes
Film Festival this past May and premiered in London
last month at the Dogwoof Weekender.
The doc is also fascinating because it shows how these
films often come together in the
last possible second, and that comes up in the post production
section of the documentary.
Award - winning filmmaker Chloe Zhao's second full - length feature
film, The Rider, screened as a part
of the TIFF» Next Wave»
section last week.
Although it occurs in the
last 10 minutes
of the movie, it is still worth watching the rest
of the
film, as well as the factual documentary
section which follows.
The
Film Comment Presents
section, an annual feature at NYFF for the
last five years, will present Sergei Loznitsa's «A Gentle Creature,» a new
film inspired by a Dostoevsky short story, along with a series
of panels and discussions.
«I can do something no one else can...» Blumhouse Tilt has released a brand new, full - length official trailer for an indie
film titled Sleight, which premiered in the ultra-low budget Nexst
section of the Sundance
Film Festival
last year.
The
last third
of the
film takes place «a few years» after this opening
section, per a later intertitle.
This
last is best exemplified by the «Delirium»
section featuring Christian Slater as Joe's beloved dying father and it is remarkably affecting, showing von Trier's astonishing ability to manipulate the tone
of his
films and still remain coherent: here he is completely un-ironic, completely serious, employing no sly wink, only a finely channeled fury at fate, and perhaps God, for the unbelievable injustice and indignity
of death.
A diverse array
of new streaming offerings hit the world's most popular service in the
last few weeks, including a few
films into which we'll go in more detail in the Blu - ray
section below.
For the 2018 edition
of the festival, 37 percent
of the 122 feature
films premiering are directed by women, a slight uptick from
last year when 34 percent
of all
films were helmed by female directors (in years past, the average has hovered around 25 percent), and their contributions were prominent across all
sections, with women debuting
films in not just the competition
sections, but also in the forward - thinking NEXT
section, the wild Midnight category (which played home to the long - gestating anthology «XX,» featuring four shorts directed by women), and even the starry Premieres docket.
The much - commented - on lapse in judgment that relegated Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy to the Frontier
section last year affected its reception, not only because Frontier is a catch - all category for
films that are regarded as too far - out for the majority
of Sundancers, but more concretely, because Frontier
films screen at the festival's lesser venues.
Returning to the more straightforward presentation
of the
last section, «Early Tests» (5:27) presents animation done near the beginning
of the
film's production to establish lighting and the look and movement
of the characters.
The
last section of Wenders»
film was taped over years ago, making it impossible for local residents to see the movie's ending.
In 2012, Cooper and his frequent theater collaborator Gisèle Vienne co-curated a
section of the annual Un Nouveau Festival at the Centre Pompidou in Paris entitled TEENAGE HALLUCINATION, featuring art exhibitions,
films, lectures, live performances, concerts, an installation
of the visual components
of Cooper / Vienne's works to date, and performances
of their theater pieces
Last Spring, a Prequel (2011), Jerk (2008), and Cooper / Cochrane / Houston - Jones» Them.