Sentences with phrase «opening night film»

The choice in opening night film was notable because it was only the second film directed by a female director to open the festival.

I saw the film again last night (I'm guessing it's the first opening night film I've taken in in three years).

Shonali Bose's Margarita with a Straw named as opening night film of New York Indian Film Festival (Variety).

They join previously announced films such as Opening Night film Kick - Ass, as well as narrative features Cold Weather and Elektra Luxx, and documentaries Hubble 3D, Lemmy, SATURDAY NIGHT and The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights.

That said, previous opening night films for AFI Fest have proven to be high - profile films that attract big stars but don't end up being Oscar favorites.

As if there wasn't enough blood spilled in Cabin in the Woods (last year's opening night film at SXSW), Evil Dead, which could certainly also have been called Cabin in the Woods and opened at SXSW, understands that it's audience wants to see the exact same thing over and over and gives it to them in buckets.

The question now must be asked was Whiplash the perfect opening night film to celebrate this festivals big 30th Anniversary or was it just another mediocre film like the majority of films that have opened the festival in the past?

Eden was, to my mind, the finest film in the strongest collection of Seattle and Washington - born and - based filmmaking ever screened at SIFF, in a line - up that was framed by opening night film Your Sister's Sister (from hometown hero Lynn Shelton, whose recent work put independent Seattle filmmaking on the map) and closing night film Grassroots, shot in Seattle and based on the book by former Stranger political reporter Phil Campbell.

Following the TIFF tradition of mixed to disappointing opening night films (The Fifth Estate, Looper, From the Sky Down), David Dobkin's The Judge is a mediocre and laughably improbable courtroom drama propped up by an undeserved awards push for a cast acting beneath themselves.

This film is definitely a great way to kick off the 30th Anniversary of this festival and based on what my friend said, this is one of the best opening night films to open Sundance in quite sometime.

Opening night film Gun Hill Road (d. Rashaad Ernesto Green), which was nominated for the grand jury prize at Sundance, was an innovative choice.

Huge world premieres, like this year's opening night film Isle of Dogs?

«Other People» * Opening night film Lowdown: «SNL» writer Chris Kelly's semi-autobiographical dramedy about a gay comedian (Jesse Plemmons) who returns home to take care of his cancer stricken mother (Molly Shannon).

Bill Milner (the sweet, quiet kid from the SIFF 2007 opening night film Son of Rambow) plays Ian's son Baxter, an angry, bullied little kid desperate for paternal attention who absorbs the excess of dad's lifestyle and spirals into insolence and arrogance, a potential tragedy that is dropped without any satisfactory resolution; Whitecross makes Baxter exhibit A in Ian's personal failures, and then fails to give him the same consideration the film offers its fucked - up rock and roll hero.

The Nicole Kidman starring biopic (of sorts) on Grace Kelly has been selected as the big opening night film of the 2014 edition of Festival de Cannes.

Café Society has screened at the 69th Cannes Film Festival — it was the prestigious opening night film.

I'll wrap up this wrap - up by jumping back to the HCAF opening night film, Bodied.

The festival's official opening night film is The Weinstein Company's The Upside, directed by Neil Berger and starring Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman and Kevin Hart.

LFF achieved 180,900 attendances in London with 28,000 people enjoying the Festival through satellite screenings across the UK of Opening Night film Andy Serkis» BREATHE, Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton's BATTLE OF THE SEXES and Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman's LOVING VINCENT.

They picked up Grace, the Cannes opening night film a couple of years ago, and gave it its American premiere, but they have also been supporting women filmmakers and their stories for original movies and other productions, including films directed by Diane Keaton, Agnieszka Holland, Mary Harron, and Angela Bassett.

SXSW 2014 Opening Night film Chef features Jon Favreau as the culinary master striking out on his own, with his circle of offsiders including John Leguizamo, Bobby Carnavale, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr and Sofia Vergara.

Poland's Camerimage festival announces Birdman and The Imitation Game as opening night films (THR).

The Sundance Film Festival is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year and there was a lot riding on whether or not, the festival heads including Mr. Robert Redford himself found the perfect opening night film.

Disney said it was the first time that either an animated feature or a 3D feature had been selected as the opening night film.

Damien Chazelle's follow up to his Oscar - winning breakout «Whiplash» was recently announced as the opening night film of this year's Venice Film Festival that will once again begin at the end of August.

It's a privilege and pleasure to present his latest comic treasure as our opening night film.»

So far Venice has revealed its opening night film, the Jake Gyllenhaal - led survival drama Everest, and an out - of - competition screening for Scott Cooper's Johnny Depp vehicle Black Mass, while Telluride won't announce its lineup until shortly before the annual event launches on 4 September.

as the opening night film, which will take place Thursday, June 13.

The 68th Cannes Film Festival kicked off on the French Riviera this week with acting icon Catherine Deneuve, who stars in the opening night film Standing Tall.

The opening night film was «Never Let Me Go» (meeting a cool response similar to what it received Stateside), but both are enjoying playing a bit of catch - up on this title and that.

Opening night film is a biopic of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and his flight from German - occupied Paris in 1943.

«Every year we compile our dream targets for opening night film; MACHETE KILLS was at the top of that list,» said Fantastic Fest Co-founder & Creative Director Tim League.

Fantastic Fest is excited to announce Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills will have its world premiere on September 19, 2013 as the opening night film for the 2013 festival, which will take place in Austin, Texas at the new Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline location from September 19 - 26, 2013.

Having Gun Hill Road as the opening night film is a choice that should be applauded.

The opening night film of this year's Human Rights Watch Film Festival shows China on a collision course with chaos.

The AFI has announced that Warren Beatty's Rules Don't Apply will be the opening night film on November 10 at AFI Fest.

The opening night film, Asghar Farhadi's «Everybody Knows,» landed with Focus Features the night after it premiered.

Having a film depicting homemade collagen injections and the destructive power of the father for an opening night film was a brave move, one which had everyone talking about it for weeks afterwards, which (coupled with the moving standing ovation at the conclusion of the film) I believe is the sign of a successful opening night film.

Bill Condon's «The Fifth Estate,» starring Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, will be the opening night film of TIFF.

«It Happened in Saint - Tropez,» a comedy directed and co-written by Danièle Thompson, is the opening night film at the City of Lights City of Angels film fest (COL • COA) tonight at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles.

The opening night film is one of the few sessions were we see a «coming together» of all the sub categories to celebrate queer film.

There would have been a good case for making this the opening night film at the Sydney Film Festival.

The Opening Night film set the tone.

After taking a lengthy break to lunch, write, and walk in circles, I headed into one of four simultaneous press screenings of the opening night film, The Judge, a»90s throwback, Grisham-esque weepie that stars Robert Downey Jr. as a hotshot Chicago lawyer who takes it upon himself to defend his semi-estranged dad — a hardass small - town judge played by Robert Duvall — against a murder charge.