Sentences with phrase «many films in competition»

Another U.S. streaming service, Amazon, also has a film in competition, Todd Haynes» Wonderstruck, but has not been subject to the same opposition as it does screen its films at cinemas as well as online.

Festival director Thierry Fremaux had said he believed Netflix would arrange some kind of cinema release for the two films in competition — The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja — both highly anticipated, with stars that include Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Stiller and Tilda Swinton.

The 5th annual Queens World Film Festival (QWFF) kicks off at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, on Tuesday, March 17, with a special opening night tribute to director Leon Ichaso and a sampling of the many films in competition.

But I notice a trend this year: the films in the Competition are more accessible than previous years.

New for 2011, films in competition were also eligible for Jury Awards for Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Score / Music, Best Screenplay (narratives) and Breakthrough Performance (narratives).

The Sundance Film Festival gets underway in Utah today, with two new Irish films in competition.

Of the other top films in the Competition, two invoked driving as a primary motif: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Grand Jury Prize co-winner Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, an intoxicatingly strange, oblique police procedural in which a caravan of cops spend a very long night winding through the Turkish countryside in search of a dead man's grave; and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, a needle drop deep into the groove of a Walter Hill / William Friedkin / Michael Mann neo-noir, starring a terse Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver.

It's too long and too overwrought in parts, but when you get to the final sequence and realise what he's constructed, it hits you in the gut and the mind in a way that no other film in the competition quite manages.

Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman, the highest profile American film in competition at Cannes, was awarded the grand prize.

Girls of the Sun was easily the worst film in competition at the 2018 Cannes Film Fest, dismissed by all critics.

Three of this year's 21 films in competition were directed by women.

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Netflix has threatened not to bring any titles to the world's largest movie event after festival director Thierry Fremaux said last month that he won't screen any Netflix films in competition.

«I'm a little bit giddy, because this year we have films in competition, we have films in Next and we have films in Premieres,» says Turnure - Salleo.

Beginning next year, the festival will only admit films in competition that have French theatrical releases, which the Netflix films so far do not.

Of the 21 films in Competition at Cannes this year, only three are directed by women.

Amour director and Cannes staple Michael Haneke has a film in competition this year, a drama about the French refugee crisis called Happy End.

The films in competition for Best Picture this year do not seem all that competitive.

Our last film, Spring, went to Toronto, but getting to go back to Tribeca [with this film] and also being the first genre film in competition in a very long time felt great.

The announcement of the films in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival in less than two weeks could change this list dramatically next month.

This aggressive purchasing strategy continued at Cannes in May, with both services again acquiring multiple titles, but the Croisette marked a significant shift for Amazon Studios: it also had five films in competition, including Woody Allen's Cafe Society for the Opening Night Gala and Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon.

One of the strongest and most touching films in the competition is «Quinceanera,» by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer.

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

This year is no different with the aforementioned Allen and Assayas films as well as Sean Penn's The Last Face, which will give us Charlize Theron (and some possibly awkward moments between the two former paramours), no less than four French films in competition and Jeff Nichols» Loving making its debut here at the festival on its way to the Oscars.

Other notable films in competition this year include noirish drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, starring Frances McDormand and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), and Paulo Virzi's comedy - drama The Leisure Seeker, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland.

Zhang Yimou, who hasn't had a film in Competition here since 1995's Shanghai Triad, has brought a shameless melodrama (screening out of Competition) called Coming Home, which has no relation to the 1978 Oscar - winner of the same title.

Additional filmmaking talent attending for films in competition include: for Official Competition: Jerzy Skolimowski, Cary Fukunaga, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Jonás Cuarón, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Lenny Abrahamson, Brie Larson, Terence Davies, László Nemes, Sean Baker; First Feature Competition: Mai Masri, Eva Husson, Magnus von Horn, Trey Edward Shults, Yared Zaleke, Esther May Campbell, Nitzan Gilady, Ariel Kleiman, Eugenio Canevari, Robert Eggers, Piero Messina; Documentary Competition: João Pedro Plácido, Mor Loushy, David Sington, Walter Salles, Tomer Haymenn, Patricio Guzmán, Sarah Turner and Hanna Polak.

Garrel, with only one previous film in Competition, has always had an affinity for the alternative festival that the Fortnight can be at its best, as in this edition.

Another year when the Academy got it unexpectedly right, not just because they awarded a film unafraid to take an unforgiving look at America's brutal past, but because»12 Years a Slave» really was the most worthy film in competition.

There was a handful of very good films in competition this year.

Directors of films in competition for Best U.S. Narrative Feature participate in NVFF's unique Artists - in - Residence Program presented in partnership with the incomparable Meadowood Napa Valley.

Andrea Arnold and Xavier Dolan will both return to Cannes for their second films in competition, American Honey and It's Only the End of the World, respectively.

«I'm glad HBO had a different position than Netflix,» says Bahrani, a pointed reference to the streaming giant's ongoing row with the Cannes organisers after the festival last year decreed that all films in the competition must get a theatrical release in France.

Three other films in competition represented «promotions» for their directors, who had all had their previous outings featured in other sections of the festival, but the results were uneven at best.

President Jane Campion and her jury including Sofia Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Winding Refn and Gael Garcia Bernal picked the prizes from this year's selection of 18 films in competition.

Netflix had two films in Competition last year: Noah Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)» and Bong Joon - ho's «Okja.»

«Sieranevada» is one of a trio of films in competition whose running time veers dangerously close to three hours, and in its own way feels like a riff on a film by a more nuanced British realist.

Kidman dominated the festival with two films in competition (The Beguiled, The Killing of a Sacred Deer — both winners), plus How to Talk to Girls at Parties and the presentation of the television show Top of the Lake: China Girl.

Critics» Week also announced 10 short films in competition, three of them helmed by female directors.

Lambert Wilson hosted Uma Thurman and Quentin Tarantino on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière to award the Palme d'or to the best of the 18 films in Competition.

(There is, incidentally, one «surprise film» film in competition, so the speculation is not yet over.)

Journalists in attendance were quick to point out the admittedly startling absence of any Italian films in competition, even though Marco Bellocchio's «Sweet Dreams» had been tipped for a berth for weeks.

There is, however, for the first time in many years, a German film in competition called Toni Erdmann, written, directed and produced by Maren Ade.

With «Aquarius,» the sole Latin American film in competition, Filho looks to capitalize on the rapturous reviews for his 2012 debut, «Neighboring Sounds.»

Surprisingly, that passion project was not the 40 - year - old's only film in competition at the 1987 Academy Awards.

Un Certain Regard 2018 presented 18 films in competition.

The big winner this year is beloved Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore - eda, whose new film Shoplifters won the Palme out of 21 films in competition.

Eva Husson's Girls in the Sun premiered at Cannes on Saturday, one of only three films in competition directed by a woman.

In one of the most critically praised films in competition, the jury's Grand Prix winner 120 Beats per Minute, an activist is praised at his funeral as having lived «politics in the first person.»

Of any of the films in competition, «Drive» is the most blatantly commercial but if it's truly the «Blue Velvet» meets «Purple Rain «amalgam of influences as Gosling described it, this will get even the staunchest of high brow cineastes talking.

(Here I must correct an earlier post in which I misidentified «The Square» and «120 Beats Per Minute» as the longest films in competition; at 143 minutes, «A Gentle Creature» belongs in their company.)