However, the biggest winner and my own
top favorite film of the festival was Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a tremendous piece of cinema (read my review) which is one of the best discoveries of this year's fest.
I'm also very happy to see Foxcatcher win, as that was one of
my favorite films of the festival too, and Bennett deserves that one.
This, so far, is
my favorite film of the festival.
To wrap up my coverage of Venice, let's recap
my favorite films of the festival as well as my two of favorite performances.
That really was
my favorite film of the festival (that I saw) and I couldn't be happier for it.
But given that it was one of The A.V. Club's
favorite films of the festival, here's hoping that Ramsay doesn't muck much with her fledgling neo-noir, which plays a bit like watching Taxi Driver through the haze of a really intense fever.
Tully was a last minute, surprise premiere at the Sundance Film Festival - where I saw it and loved it, naming it as one of
my favorite films of the festival.
Easily
my favorite film of the festival and of 2013 so far.
Not only is
this my favorite film of the festival, it's my favorite film so far this year.
This premiered at the Sundance Film Festival under the title Search, and was one of
my favorite films of the festival - I wrote a glowing review of it, which is quoted in this trailer.
Brie Larson, so good in everything to date, gives a star performance here, and supporting turns by John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, and Keith Stanfield help round out my favorite cast in
my favorite film of the festival.
I was lucky enough to see the film at the festival and out of the 40 films that I saw which played there, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women was
my favorite film of the festival.
Out of the total of 40 films that I saw there, Professor Martson and the Wonder Women was
my favorite film of the festival.
Special Jury Prize was awarded to B For Boy director Chika Anadu, who accepted the award with great excitement and a shout - out to winner Marques - Marce, proclaiming to the room that 10,000 KM was
her favorite film of the festival.
Far and away
my favorite film of the festival, the unusual documentary Visages, Villages (Faces, Places) turns on the friendship between the accomplished French street artist JR and legendary Belgian film director Agnès Varda, whose work was central to the development of the French New Wave movement.
It's no secret that Chris Peckover's Safe Neighborhood was one of
my favorite films of the festival.
This was one of
my favorite films of the festival.