Sentences with phrase «on arthouse»

Where you've seen him before: Barbieri made a big impression on arthouse audiences as the young aspiring actor Tony, whose close friendship with his new landlord's son Jake is complicated by the conflict between their parents in Ira Sachs» «Little Men,» and will next be seen in the highly anticipated «The Dark Tower.»

We'd also wager that Woody Allen would have a good shot for his rare acting appearance in John Turturro «s «Fading Gigolo «-- whatever his recent controversies, the Academy have no compunction about showing him some love (he was nominated for writing «Blue Jasmine» last year), and he steals scenes a plenty in the movie, which again was a bit of a spring surprise hit on the arthouse scene.

Norwegian helmer Joachim Trier burst on to the scene with his 2006 feature debut Reprise and while he has had a tendency to keep audiences waiting a bit since then - sophomore effort Oslo, August 31st arrived five years later and third effort Louder Than Bombs four years after that - he has firmly established himself as one of the premiere talents on the arthouse circuit.

The addition of the artist formerly known as R - Patz is further proof of the A-lister's determination to keep plying his trade on the arthouse scene, leaving Twilight for dust.

Blunts any edginess with random moments of Brit - com naffness, contrived plotting, underdeveloped supporting characters and an over-reliance on arthouse clichés.

As a regular theatrical feature, the film hardly has a future, even on the arthouse circuit.

Not exact matches

One shareholder asked Iger about his plans for Fox Searchlight, the arthouse film division that on Sunday won the Academy Award for best picture for «The Shape of Water.»

Adopting a straightforward, fly - on - the - wall perspective, Alvarez's film strikes me as the kind of thing that could easily become a breakout arthouse success.

But I believe those same arthouse viewers who liked Robert Altman's California Split will also appreciate this quality character driven road flick for its gentle knowing cautionary take on gamblers and the gambling scene.

It opens its U.S. theatrical run on Oct. 7, and should slightly expand on Maddin's prior niche b.o. in friendly arthouse markets.

Too dumb for the arthouse, but too smart for the mall multiplex, the movie satisfies, paradoxically, precisely because it doesn't deliver on expectations.

A competition lineup strong on European arthouse is leavened by the anticipated presence on the Croisette of teenybop pinups Zac Efron and Robert Pattinson.

Soul Kitchen surprised some of Fatih Akin's arthouse following with its commercial comedy format, wherein a bunch of misfits and marginal types try to foist an haute cuisine restaurant on working - class Hamburg, fight off threats from nasty land developers, and find true love.

Eschewing, for the most part, more rarefied arthouse, though including «one to two films» a year which were «innovative or had new ways of showing things on the screen,» Waintrop, turned Directors» Fortnight into a major attraction at the Cannes Festival.

With the ouster from Focus Features of longtime indie studio chief James Schamus, Hollywood loses yet another arthouse - oriented studio, to be replaced — most likely — by a specialized division that will focus on genre movies more to the liking of Peter Schlessel, who is taking over.

A little like Nicolas Winding Refn's arthouse take on US pulp, it strains for seriousness but isn't really saying much — except that the violence on display is a bad thing and Joe, in damaging others, is also damaging himself.

The videogame community made an important outreach effort to movie nerds on Wednesday night, as representatives from Rockstar Games made the trek into Westchester County, New York, to demo their current release, the open - world Western adventure Red Dead Redemption, for the arthouse crowd.

On the surface, the film is apt to draw some comparisons to RADiUS teen horror film It Follows in regards to its indie hipness factor, enormous critical acclaim (each title has better than a 90 % Rotten Tomato score) and the fact that they're arthouse crossover successes.

Only God Forgives continually sports head - on collisions of arthouse and trash, pitting extended dream sequences against katana - uzi - weilding cops.

Pedro Costa has scuffled around the arthouse circuit since the 80s, but it's the Fontainhas trilogy (Ossos, In Vanda's Room and Colossal Youth) and their subsequent Criterion packaging, that perked up people's ears and opened up most cinephiles» eyes on this Portuguese master's mesmerizing works.

Among arthouse players, Sony Pictures Classics» coming - of - age drama «Diary of a Teenage Girl» earned $ 54,525 on four screens, with a per - screen average of $ 13,631.

«Director Marc Forster — heavily - criticized on Quantum of Solace because people saw him as an arthouse filmmaker trying in vain to make an action movie — continues his arthouse credentials here.»

Shot on a minimal budget (in the six - million dollar range) with a cast of largely non-professional actors (Kenneth Branagh the main exception), the picture is a tremendous hit among the self - congratulatory film festival / arthouse crowd, who, after all, like to feel as though they're applauding the right things.

So when we were thinking about the year's major breakouts in terms of direction, we tried to strike a balance between those who we can see moving on to $ 200m budget spectaculars and those whose next modestly - priced, heartfelt piece of personal expression we can't wait to see — essentially, we've tried to mix in industry breakthroughs with neophyte arthouse filmmakers and even a few better known names who have seen a quantum level leap in terms of their profile in 2014.

Being sued again • IndieWire very thorough wide ranging interview with Vincent Maraval of the French movie production company Wild Bunch and how the arthouse market and Cannes have changed • IndieWire from the sounds of this article on the visual FX work in Infinity War, the Oscar campaign is already in effect!

Radiohead and arthouse filmmakers go together like chocolate and peanut butter — or pretension and art school, depending on how you look at it.

I watched great films and schlock, 1940's melodramas and foreign arthouse classics, all on the same tiny black and white TV, lying on the carpeting in my mother's dining room.

An adaptation of the Nobel Prize - winning author José Saramago's novel «The Double» (and not the thematically similar Dostoyevsky book of the same name which confusingly, features elsewhere on this list) this psychological thriller sounds a little bit more damaged and arthouse than Villeneuve's aforementioned studio film and given uncompromising nature of that picture, we're rather psyched to see how «Enemy» turns out.

Both director and actor were clear on their intentions from the start, and this alignment produced a movie that holds up as one of the best arthouse films of the last 20 years, with a nearly unmatched quiet kind of intensity.

Even then in May, amongst the line - up of melodramas and arthouses from auteurs all around the world, it stood out as an entertaining and commercial thriller, though this is just the first take on live - action from the 39 - year - old South Korean director who packed on his back only several animated movies, most notably The King of Pigs and The Fake.

Founded in 2005, Memento Films International is a select arthouse international sales agent focused on tracking and accompanying high - profile, director - driven independent films.

From arthouse to mega multiplex, there are pictures in the works that we can't wait to feast our eyes on.

But for now, you can watch the first two chapters at an arthouse near you on starting on October 25th.

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The film is playing an even balance of arthouses and multiplexes, with the former scoring particularly well on Friday.

Indeed, Deadline say that the company have promised a Sundance record - breaking $ 25 million in P&A for the film when they release it on at least 2000 screens in the summer, so it's clear this won't be some mere arthouse roll - out.

Top Per - Screen Arthouse Opening BLUE JASMINE $ 102,011 (6 Theaters) Runner Up: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS $ 101,353 (4 Theaters) * Disclaimer both AMERICAN HUSTLE & FROZEN beat these numbers but those were fake - outs clearly on their way to wide mainstream moviehouses, rather than intended as platform specialty films.

When Albert and Hubert have an outing together in lady's clothes and take a stroll on the beach that turns into a tampon commercial, I was pulled between continuing to try to figure this shit out and simply accepting that one day I'll see this programmed into a Midnight Special series, leaden with camp irony, at the local arthouse.

The building housing the arthouse cinema on Manhattan's Lower East Side has been looking for a buyer since 2015.

-- Brooklyn - based arthouse distributors KimStim and Icarus Films have teamed up again to acquire all USA rights to Mouly Surya's Cannes Director's Fortnight feature, «Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts,» which will have its North American premiere at TIFF on September 12.

Giving flesh and blood to the idea that life goes on even when it no longer seems worth living, «Manchester» may be too sprawling a vision for all arthouse tastes, but Lonergan's many champions are scarcely the only viewers who will be stirred by this superbly grounded and acted third effort.»

«The Alamo Drafthouse, along with the network of Arthouse Convergence Theaters and local League of Women Voters chapters, want to invite everyone to revisit and rediscover Idiocracy on the eve of the 2016 presidential election.»

If your cinematic interests include the private lives of royalty, casts stuffed with arthouse - friendly talent, or movies about speech impediments, you'll want to make sure you don't miss «The King's Speech,» director Tom Hooper's take on the struggles of the future King George VI (Colin Firth) to overcome his stutter with the help of a speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush).

That it stuck to its guns as an offbeat arthouse fantasy message film without becoming cartoonishly absurd was the thing I most admired about it even though, at the same time, that was what made it so tiresome and disingenuous and left me feeling this was more about Hollywood's bogus take on reality than an actual depiction of real - life.

The auteur is alive and well, arthouse and blockbusters are plentiful, documentary films are on fire, genre films are stronger than ever, and let's just echo it all once more for posterity: female - led projects are popular, bankable, and breathtaking, as are strong women characters.

Fantasy and reality blur on multiple levels in this uneven arthouse film posing as a documentary.

In limited release, Hamlet 2 grossed $ 819, bringing its haul to $ 4.4 million; Randall Miller's ensemble wine dramedy Bottle Shock took in around $ 579,000, moving its total to $ 3.3 million; Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz's Elegy added $ 482,000 to its five - week total, which now stands at $ 2.4 million; Kingsley's wintry strangers - on - a-train mystery Transsiberian, meanwhile, grossed $ 385,000, and has taken in $ 1.4 million in just under two months; and the solid arthouse hit Brideshead Revisted added $ 186,000 to its cumulative gross of $ 6.2 million.

Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters across the nation, and arriving in increasingly high volumes on streaming platforms like Netflix.

Dead Pigs was shot with a bilingual crew with money from Chinese investors and finished in New York City, with arthouse auteur Jia Zhangke on board as an executive producer.

And during the 12 days on the Croisette, stars will walk the red carpet, auteurs will woo the arthouse crowd and buyers and sellers will use the world's most prestigious film festival to stage a free - for - all film market made up of equal parts status and schlock.