Sentences with phrase «main competition film»

On Sunday they replayed all of the main competition films for standard badge - holders so I managed to cram in another 5 of the «big» films.

If you just focused on the main competition films at Cannes, you'd see plenty of great movies, but you'd miss out on the many smaller treasures on offer in sidebar slates like Directors» Fortnight and Critics» Week.

Not exact matches

Searchlight's main competition has been Focus Features, the prestige film division of Universal, which this year racked up an impressive 14 nominations for «Phantom Thread» and «Darkest Hour.»

As always, some of the strongest films in Cannes could be found outside the main competition, and a few of them duly won prizes from their respective juries.

His main competition comes from SAG winner Denzel Washington, who directs himself in the film version of August Wilson's Tony - winning play «Fences,» as a Pittsburgh ex-baseball slugger turned garbage man who is angry at the world.

The two main - competition films from Netflix, Bong Joon Ho's «Okja» and Noah Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories,» also went unrewarded amidst controversy over the streaming service's presence at the festival.

Of the French films in competition, the best was unfairly squeezed out of the main competition slate and ended up in Directors» Fortnight.

After her third appearance in the Un Certain Regarde, Amour Fou really showcases Hausner's talent and is one of those films which felt misplaced in its sidebar, fitting in main competition.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

There followed a host of quality films, though our favourite two choices both played outside of the main competition, meaning there was no chance of snaffling the Palme d'Or for them.

«Cold War» Pawel Pawlikowski (Main Competition) Pawlikowski's last film, «Ida,» won the foreign - language Oscar, and stills from this film have the same gorgeous black - and - white look and disconcerting, nearly square aspect ratio.

In all there are 21 films in the main competition all vying for the coveted Palme d'Or.

The film played in the Un Certain Regard section (but should have been in the main competition) and is eligible for the festival's Camera d'Or prize (for best first film) and the Queer Palm (for films by or about LGBTQ stories), the only film playing with that distinction.

Based on an illustrated young - adult novel by Brian Selznick, the film premiered in May in the main competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, where it received mixed but generally positive reviews.

The jury, of course, is too busy watching the 17 films in the main competition to follow some of the other sections such as «New Directors,» a complete retrospective of that whimsical purveyor of modern fairy tales, Jacques Demy, and «The American Way of Death,» a vast program of 40 crime movies from 1990 to 2011.

Under the jury president, Jane Campion, the best films so far in main competition here have revolved around female characters — complex, imperfect, beautifully drawn these leading roles offer up a counter to the majority of films that get paid attention to here in the US, on the festival and awards circuit leading up to the Oscars.

The film was previously announced as part of the main competition at the upcoming Venice International Film Festival.

Based on the life of dramatist Heinrich von Kleist, that ended in a double suicide with his lover, the film shot back in February of last year, so no doubt it's ready and Hausner is must be hoping to return with it to Cannes for the fourth time — though this may represent her best chance yet to crack into the main competition line - up.

As usual, many of the predicted auteur films which didn't make Fremaux's final cut for the main competition or Un Certain Regard could be fair game to turn up here, although many a notable name has been known to hold off for a higher berth premiere out of Venice.

Still, what The Avengers: Age of Ultron offers is a charming look at the main team as they work together and compete against one another (a competition amongst them to lift Thor's hammer offers a few chuckles during the film's more dialogue - driven moments.

But given that it won the Special Jury Prize, and that most onlookers called it a better film than many in Competition, expect the Russian helmer to be back in the main lineup this time around.

Cannes has announced that one of the main films playing at the 68th Festival de Cannes this May will be George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road - playing out of competition of course.

One of three female directors (versus 17 men) in the main competition, Andrea Arnold makes grimy, tough movies; her first film set in the United States deals with a runaway teenage girl and features Shia LaBeouf.

Xavier Dolan's sixth film is his fifth to go to Cannes, and his second in the main competition after last year's daring «Mommy.»

Directed by Ben and Josh Safdie, the film was a highlight of the festival, with our own A.A. Dowd declaring Pattinson's performance as a twitchy bank robber attempting to engineer his brother's release from police custody the most deserving for the Main Competition's best actor prize.

In 1993 Leigh entered the main competition for the first time and walked away with the Best Director, helping David Thewlis earn Best Actor for the same film, the irreproachable Naked.

It premiered in main competition at Berlinale 2017, where it won the Silver Bear for best screenplay and the Teddy Award for best film with LGBT subject matter.

Babai, a debut film written and directed by Visar Morina has had an immense success, having its international premier in Karlovy Vary the film won best directing in main competition in Karlovy Vary.

Meanwhile, Terence Stamp, who is starring in Steven Soderbergh's The Limey, has criticised the festival for not including the film in the main competition.

Speaking on the process of movie selection and shortlisting, Emirati writer and filmmaker Manal Bin Amro, said: «The main challenge was the large number of entries received from many countries and filmmakers, and also the multitude of excellent films in terms of production, content and cinematic creativity, which created a deep discussion to sincerely try to come up with unbiased and fair results based on a comprehensive cinematic vision that takes into consideration the general approach and categories of the competition.»