I probably missed a few, as I was only able to see about 20
of the films at the festival (which is not a lot, since it is possible to see nearly 40 over the festival's 8 days), but suffice it to say, if you're a canine lover, be wary of all the films listed above.
The French auteur has shown fourteen
of his films at the festival and his newest film The New Girlfriend marks his fifth in a row.
There were hundreds
of films at the festival, thousands of people, approximately 2,000 volunteers, press and industry, and just a plethora of film enthusiasts who come every year to watch and celebrate independent film.
Not exact matches
For years he held private screenings
of the movie (it's also been shown
at a few
film festivals), and there was even a moment when he and Stern thought
of remaking it with Hopper directing once more and a younger actor in the lead.
Something Ventured was screened
at South by Southwest and it is set to appear
at a number
of the country's independent
film festivals this spring and summer, and the producers hope to have it broadcast on TV in 2012.
Keep in mind last year
at Sundance, we produced the
film that won the jury prize [«I Don't Feel
at Home In This World Anymore»], and we acquired «Mudbound» in the biggest acquisition
of the
festival.
The many causes
of the housing crisis in Vancouver and how people are dealing with it are explored in the documentary, Vancouver: No Fixed Address, which had its world premiere
at the Hot Docs
film festival in Toronto.
FILE - In this May 16, 2012 file photo producer Harvey Weinstein arrives for the opening ceremony and screening
of Moonrise Kingdom
at the 65th international
film festival, in Cannes, southern France.
Braid's producers aim to wrap the
film in time to screen it
at next year's South by Southwest
festival in Austin as part
of the process
of getting a distribution deal.
An anti-sexual harassment hotline will be set up for the Cannes
film festival next month after disgraced Hollywood tycoon Harvey Weinstein was accused
of attacking four actresses
at the event.
Although his
film of Hamlet was shown
at the Venice
film festival in 1964 Kozintsev was not there.
Less than twenty years later, the hotel established by Lucien Barrière on the Croisette was
at the forefront
of the beginnings
of a cinematic event that became the most important
film festival in the world — the Cannes
Film Festival.
Written, directed, and produced in Wake County, the documentary, «Certain Proof: A Question
of Worth,» debuted in April
at Colorado's Vail
Film Festival and is slated for screening
at four other
film festivals.
Lunch Line was also recently selected as one
of six
films to participate in the Whole Foods «Do Something Reel» traveling
film festival (the
films will screen together
at independent cinemas in more than 40 cities in Aprl / May).
Their
films have aired nationally and internationally in more than 100 countries, are distributed in the educational market, and have screened
at a variety
of well - known
film venues and
festivals in the US and abroad.
Nominated for awards
at both the Pan African
Film Festival, Bronzelens
Film Festivals, and others, it's no wonder TV One, the network dedicated to delivering real life and entertainment programming from the African American point
of view, has decided to acquire and air this historical
film on Saturday, January 9, 2016.
«We have had
films like Tunde Kelani's Abeni feature
at the
festival as well as Half
of a Yellow Sun, which is a collaboration between Nigeria and the UK, but I think this is an opportunity to do more and to go bigger.
The documentary has already been awarded the US Documentary Special Jury Prize and been chosen to be shown
at a number
of film festivals this summer.
Lagos State Government on Monday said that the State's tourism and entertainment potentials will in the spotlight
at this year's edition
of the City to City Toronto Film
Festival, as eight
films produced in the State would be selected to feature
at the
festival.
The movie has premiered
at a number
of prestigious
film festivals across the world and scheduled to premiere in the United States
of America on October 16 on Netflix and in selected theaters.
Events will include a
film festival of science fiction
films «before and after the discovery
of DNA», in Italy, an overnight camp
at the Science Museum in London for children from all over Europe, science contests in newspapers, and a «scientific ballet» organised by CERN, the centre for particle physics near Geneva.
At the other end of the cup spectrum, Pamela Anderson reportedly quipped last year at an Italian film festival: «My boobs have had the career; I'm just tagging along.&raqu
At the other end
of the cup spectrum, Pamela Anderson reportedly quipped last year
at an Italian film festival: «My boobs have had the career; I'm just tagging along.&raqu
at an Italian
film festival: «My boobs have had the career; I'm just tagging along.»
We're gonna need a minute to process this whole situation... Okay, now we're ready to talk about the purple - and - black - and - teal lace caped gown, which shows a lot
of leg and a even more side cleavage
at the opening ceremony
of the
film festival.
Amazing Looks From Red Carpet Cannes 2017 You'll Never Forget — Its the 70th annual Cannes
Film Festival, but who's wearing what
at the most fabulous
film festival of the year?
The beautiful Marion Cottilard oozed elegance in a black and gold dress
at the red carpet
of a French
film festival.
I travel
at least a few days each month on behalf
of a global press junket,
film festival, special event, or domestic press tour.
You must have seen many celebrities walking the red carpet
at some fashion GALA or
film festival, some
of them stunning always, some
of them, well, often to dress like a joke... If you observe carefully, you'll find that some types
of dress never make mistakes.
Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional
of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the
film at the
festival, we know this is not true).
The
films at this year's
festival offered plenty examples
of legacies lived up to and not — neglected and obsessed over.
And Brazilian director José Padilha should have been just the audacious director to tell the story: recently
at the helm
of the Netflix series Narcos, he made his name with Rio hostage documentary Bus 174 and galvanised the Berlin
film festival with his thunderous 2008 Golden Bear winner, the favela police drama Elite Squad.
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.
His new
film, screening in the Un Certain Regard section
of the
festival, combines his skills
at narrative and documentary filmmaking to create a brutal mockumentary
of loosely connected vignettes about the propaganda - and conflict - riddled Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.
Feeling more spontaneous and improvised than ever, this tale
of chance encounters
at a big
film festival is easy on the eye and strewn with humorous gems, as it wryly reflects on the
festival business and its denizens.
Bresson, along with Ozu and Dreyer, formed a trinity
at the heart
of Schrader's book Transcendental Style in Film, and the filmmaker has faithfully returned to them again and again, channeling them in most
of his directorial efforts, working within the so - called «Tarkovsky Ring» (
films made within this ring will find commercial distribution,
films like those
of Bresson and Roberto Rossellini, while
films outside
of this ring are destined for museum and
festival existences).
The
film screened
at several
festivals, including Sundance, and it earned a fair amount
of critical acclaim.
There's a certain kind
of film I see
at many
festivals: oblique, short on narrative and incident (or filled with repetitive incident), shot in a style that favors long (distance and time) shots
of people doing nothing, or doing mundane things like crossing the street in real time.
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.
Warner Brothers, which is marketing the
film as a conventional thriller, recently overruled the producers» desire to show it in European
festivals so that the studio could open it wide (in many theaters
at once) and cash in as quickly as possible on the name value
of its cast before word -
of - mouth about its depressing subject matter could kill it.
Irons adds the credit
of executive producer and featured actor in TRASHED, a Blenheim Production feature documentary directed by Candida Brady, which received a special screening
at the 2012 Cannes
film festival.
After playing
at a couple
of Canadian
film festivals last fall, Defendor came to just three North American theaters (four in its second week) for fourteen days
of quiet exhibition this past February.
With that in mind, here's a look
at some
of the more noteworthy
films that will be screening
at the
festival next month:
Continuing our coverage
of images from
films that will be featured
at January's Sundance Film
Festival, we bring you images from two
of the higher profile dramas that will be screened in - competition
at the
festival: The Ledge and Like Crazy.
The synopsis
of the
film fits right in line with what the
festival welcomes; a tale
of a mid-thirties woman who is
at rock bottom trying to find herself in life.
I'm very happy I did, as Cheap Thrills turned out to be one
of the best
films at the
festival that delivered on laughs, violence, and possibly some career best performances from all cast members involved.
But the strongest
of the female - led
films I've screened so far
at the
festival is Raw (A --RRB-, Julia Ducournau's beautifully realized, symbolically rich, and disturbingly erotic meditation on primal hungers
of all kinds.
Every year,
at least one movie comes out
of Austin's South by Southwest
film festival on its way to megahit status.
Sobering the proceedings is a look back to last Sundance, where The Big Sick went on to gross nearly $ 40 million last year, and Wind River right behind it
at $ 34 million to be the top - grossing prestige
films of 2017, with both coming out
of this
festival.
Plenty
of actors have more than one
film at Toronto, but this year Denis Villeneuve joins the elite group
of directors to have two
films play the
festival.
As the
festival gets closer, more and more
films are being hinted
at for a premiere in France (though Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's Birdman with Michael Keaton won't be one
of them).
At breakfast this morning, the heads
of two major
film festivals (an American and a European) groused that they couldn't recall a Screen survey with such low marks.