Sentences with phrase «major films debut»

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Find out what critics are saying about all of the major films (and TV shows) debuting at this year's Tribeca Film Festival.

Below, we recap the reactions from critics to the major films screening at this year's Telluride, Venice, and Toronto International Film Festivals, considered the most prestigious events of the season and the locales where many future Oscar nominees first debut.

Saucer - eyed actress Illeana Douglas has been regularly appearing in major films since 1987, when she debuted in the Shelley Long comedy Hello Again.

Also excluded are films that first debuted at other major festivals earlier this year; you can find reviews for those films in our Cannes Recap and our Sundance Recap.

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

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

«Intermission» (2003) The debut feature of theater director John Crowley (whose «Brooklyn» should be a major player in the awards season later this year), «Intermission» is exactly the sort of film that should sink a neophyte: a sprawling ensemble piece mired in an unshakeable (and to some audiences, incomprehensible) Dublin argot.

The existence of God becomes a major concern for the film's protagonist, 10 - year - old Catholic school student Joshua Beal (newcomer Joseph Cross, in a promising debut) after his beloved grandfather (Robert Loggia) dies of bone marrow cancer.

«You don't need to go ride today...» Sony Classics has debuted the second official trailer for the phenomenal film The Rider, which premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival and played at every other major film festival - Telluride, Toronto, Sundance.

Also an open question is how much Oscar voters will reward these films with nominations, an implicit goal for nearly every major Toronto debut.

Whenever a trailer for a major movie debuts, there's inevitably dozens of posts on film news and reviews sites about the trailer, what it's about, who's behind it, and so on.

«Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» (Nov. 18): Many major studios have been trying to replace the «Harry Potter» franchise, but the lucky folks at Warner Bros. simply went back to their source: J.K. Rowling, making her screenwriting debut with a film about a Hogwarts textbook.

Production took place at the very beginning of the year with major thumbs up support from Tribeca Film Festival where the film (not yet finished) landed the IWC Filmmaker Award and this past summer, Deb Shoval «s feature debut was submitted to Champs - Elyse ́es Film Festival's US in Progress.

It also represents a major leap for comedian, actor and storyteller Mike Birbiglia, who made his debut film Sleepwalk With Me, just a few years ago.

This was the feature film debut for: Ralph Waite (4 years later he became the beloved paternal figure of TV's «The Waltons»); Joe Don Baker (Buford Pusser from Walking Tall); James Gammon (later the crusty manager in Major League); and Anthony Zerbe, another iconic character actor of the 70's and 80's.

«From her debut in «The Doom Generation'through films like «Jawbreaker,» «Scream» and «Planet Terror,» Rose McGowan has been a major indie film icon that epitomizes the phrase «stubbornly independent,»» Tallgrass Program Director Nick Pope said in a statement.

James Franco might not be the first person to debut a film he'd directed at each of the three major European festivals in the same year (Ulrich Seidl recently managed the feat with his «Paradise «trilogy, albeit not in the same calendar year).

Last night, the Gotham Awards show, essentially the first major film awards of the season, decided to show some love for Jordan Peele's directorial debut.

Major entertainment events are often seen as the go - to place for studios to debut TV spots for films that are still several months out from seeing release.

Editor's note: Filmmaker Ramin Bahrani has been a major presence in American independent film since his 2005 debut, «Man Push Cart.»

What You Need To Know: As Thierry Fremaux acknowledged when announcing this film's out - of - competition slot, the directorial debut of a major star comes with certain expectations and sharpened knives attached, as Ryan Gosling discovered with «Lost River» last year.

It's true that Being John Malkovich may have announced the arrival of two major film talents with Jonze and Kaufman, but Adaptation leaves that debut in the dust and reaches for true greatness.

Two films make major moves into the top five: Molly's Game, up from # 13 and Stronger, up from a # 18 debut last month.

She sold Sabaa Tahir's upcoming first novel, An Ember in the Ashes, to Razorbill in a major deal (Paramount already has acquired the film rights in a separate seven - figure pact) and also represents the anticipated debuts from M.A. Larson, Lucy Sykes, Chrysler Szarlan and J.A. White.

HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: With an author tour, a major promotional campaign, and a film adaptation already in the works, publishers are banking on Niven's YA debut to be a hit.

The service to debut later this year will include «blockbuster movies, classic films and original TV shows from major studios» for viewing on tablets, televisions or smartphones.

If Disney Interactive doesn't drop this game as a download around the film's debut, they will have missed a major tie - in opportunity.

The exhibition debuts a major new film, A Game of Chess, alongside related drawings, sculptures, and dioramas.

In May 2017, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) will debut the first major exhibition to examine the visual legacy that formed «The Western» through fine art, film and popular culture.

Joe Sola (b. 1966), whose video works and performances have been presented at major museums internationally, debuts A short film about looking (2010) alongside the earlier work St. Henry Composition (2001).

Even before it debuted in theaters, major buzz surrounded British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen's film.

Perry has spent the last few months in L.A., where she's been working intensely making silkscreen works printed on mirrors, a new film piece, sculptures, and smaller video vignettes for her major solo show and U.S. debut at Steve Turner.