Sentences with phrase «on festival opener»
Today's Edinburgh talk may have centered on festival opener «Away We Go» (more on that to come), but the day's real delight was «Mary and Max» (*** 1/2), an alternately disarming and disconcerting feature debut from claymation maestro Adam Elliot, who won a 2003 Academy Award for his short «Harvey Krumpet,» and carries that film's decidedly -LSB-...]
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Few would have bet that «Inglourious Basterds» would turn into the festival's Oscar MVP (they might have been more inclined to say Jane Campion's «Bright Star,» but that film went on to only earn one nomination), or that festival opener «Up» was a sure thing for a Best Picture nomination.
It remains to be see whether the 2013 opener matches their success, but it's certainly going to be as high profile as the previous films, as organizers have announced, per The Hollywood Reporter, that Baz Luhrmann «s eagerly anticipated adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald «s «The Great Gatsby» will get the festival going on May 15th.
Every film receiving a gala premiere brings the audience to its feet (at least, once the houselights go up and the spotlight shines on the stars sitting in the mezzanine), even so - so films that no one particularly adores such as this year's festival opener, «The Fifth Estate.»
Women - directed films will bookend the festival, with Ana Lily Amirpour's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night serving as this year's opener and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's 20,000 Days on Earth closing it out.