Sentences with phrase «out of the film festivals»

Throughout the year, it's always nice to hear the big highlights out of film festivals.

Not exact matches

I mean, the distributor of this film told me that all of the work we have done — the film festivals, all the press, the public appearances, the theatrical release — it all has one goal, which is to be No. 1 VOD on the first VOD weekend, because there is so much product out there on demand that if you're not in the top five it doesn't matter anymore because people can't get through it all.

I am working on scheduling screenings of Handmade Nation, entering the film into festivals and working out the best options for distribution.

Our YouTube journey has brought us so much joy, and we were beyond thrilled when we found out that one of our films got into a festival.

Hadid stepped out in Cannes on the first day of the film festival in a satin cream - colored crop top, matching miniskirt, a beige button - up duster, and rose gold pumps (shop a similar look here).

Many cities in Canada also host film festivals that you could check out, depending on the time of year: Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec; Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario; Calgary Underground Film Festival in Calgary, Alberta; Ottawa International Animation Festival in Ottawa, Ontario; and Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

After winning the Palme d'Or in 2014 for Winter Sleep, Nuri Bilge Ceylan returned to Cannes with another long, dense, dialogue - heavy film, and it's currently the highest - scoring film to come out of this year's festival.

Below, find out what critics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including films that screened out of competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and International Critics» Week programs.

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.

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.

If you are in the Orange County area (or if it appears at your local festival), In Lieu of Flowers is a sweet film worth checking out.

With the abundance of film festivals, not to mention sites like Vimeo and YouTube, short films are becoming even more popular for young filmmakers who wish to get their movies out there.

If you're not lucky enough to be at South by Southwest film festival this week, then you're missing out on the world premiere of the new Star Wars: The Last Jedi production documentary The Director and the Jedi.

After I saw it at the Toronto film festival last September — where Rudolph and Willis said they were proud of having made it even if nobody saw it — it received nominal runs in New York and Los Angeles, cities where viewers and critics are regarded by distributors as being more demographically significant than those in Chicago, and then early this year it came out on video.

This three - part drama looking at the childhood, adolescence and adulthood of a gay black man from a tough part of Miami has been getting rave reactions out of the Telluride and Toronto film festivals.

Because of the way the plot is structured, a blow - out is unavoidable, and it occurs at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas (weirdly graduated into a film's pivot point), where Jon's eagerness to sell out in front of cute, slack - mouthed publicists and Frank's paralysing awkwardness both lead to disaster.

The 1983 festival ushered in the «New Wave» retrospective of innovative American independent films from 1958 - 1967 while 1984 ushered out the video program.

In the crowded calendar of film festivals Bologna's Cinema Ritrovato stands out for being one of the very few which persistently investigates...

I always go out of my way to talk about the other people I meet at the festival, and not just the films, because they are just as important as the movies.

February and High - Rise proved to be the most polarizing out of all of the films at the festival, with half of the attendees either loving or hating them with no middle ground (I loved February and absolutely loathed High - Rise).

Check out the full list of all of the festival's winners, plus a rundown of where and when you can see each film in the coming months.

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

Even so, the biggest deal to come out of the festival was for an old - fashioned movie - movie, the spy thriller 355 that will star Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz and Lupita Nyong» o. Global Road Entertainment paid US$ 25 million for North American rights to the film.

Only films that are world premieres are eligible for our U.S. Dramatic Competition program, but U.S. narrative feature films that have previously screened at up to two other festivals anywhere in the world are still eligible for our out - of - competition programs.

You probably recognize FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) as the body that hands out its own awards at a wide range of film festivals throughout the year.

A Film with Me in It's bound to find a niche audience thanks to the presence of Dylan Moran (who's sold out the Melbourne International Comedy festival here for the third year in a row), but thankfully is a strong film in its own right.

After a successful and decorated festival run in which it won awards ceremonies Sundance, Venice New York Film Festival and Toronto, In the Soup was acquired by a boutique distribution company that went out of business a week after the film's theatrical release, in effect making it unavailable to the public.

I heard a lot of buzz from the festival circuit about how Evan Katz «s debut feature was a top - notch horror film, so imagine my surprise when it turned out to be something entirely different.

All it takes is a short stroll to the lowest level of the massive Palais des Festivals to check out dozens of stands by various national film institutes, distributors and production companies.

A genre movie from this director will certainly be a sugar - rush beginning to the festival, although perhaps he will turn out to be too subtlea film - maker to handle this sort of material.

Today we close things out ahead of tomorrow's festival kick - off with a few films from the Narrative Competition, Narrative Spotlight, and narrative films in other sections.

If we have one major regret from the festival (other than being shut out of Miguel Gomes «new short film «Redemption,» which we were told is terrific), it's that we feel we initially underrated Xavier Dolan «s «Tom At The Farm.»

When I went to see «Frances Ha» last week I somehow managed to avoid all trailers but had high hopes based on the word of mouth out of the Edinburgh festival and I have two Noah Baumbach films in my top thirty movies of all time.

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: The festival's big «Centerpiece» presentation, The Wackness, came out of Sundance with a lot FESTIVAL: The festival's big «Centerpiece» presentation, The Wackness, came out of Sundance with a lot festival's big «Centerpiece» presentation, The Wackness, came out of Sundance with a lot of buzz.

Agnes Varda, director of «Visages Villages (Faces Places),» which many considered the best film at this year's Cannes festival, where it played out of competition, received the Silver medallion from Telluride in 1977 (the fourth year of the Festival).

Sadly, getting home from seeing four or five films a day at midnight (and having been out since 10.30 am) and having to write for my own blog — a necessity of the «60 films in 17 days» blogathon challenge I was participating in — took its toll, especially against the backdrop of the flu that I carried all festival.

TIFF doesn't go overboard with awards, but because it is a public festival in the middle of a big city, the Audience Award is one of the most important awards they give out because it not only indicates which film is truly spectacular, but it means it also plays very well with general audiences.

Add to this new films, split across the Venice Days, Orrizzonti and Out of Competition sidebars, from an array of interesting names including Chantal Akerman («Almayer's Folly»), Mary Harron («The Moth Diaries»), Al Pacino («Wilde Salome,» the cast of which includes — you'll never guess — Jessica Chastain) and even James Franco (here furthering his friendship with American gay culture with a biopic of 1950s teen idol Sal Mineo) and there should be more than enough to explore even once the festival has blown its pre-Toronto load.

The year before, the festival had only two out of 14 films represented by women filmmakers — only 14.2 percent.

(Though it's important to note that walk - outs at film festivals are very common, as everyone has lots of places to be.)

Think of them as cinemas golden boys, the best directing duo out there, and indie icons for the break out films at festivals and how they told stories on a limited canvas.

Usually the victory laps that play out on the stage of the Academy Awards are kicked into motion as early as a year prior to the ceremony, when a film, say, premieres at a festival and the media's whipped - up buzz incentivizes a studio to get to work on an awards campaign.

It is one of my most anticipated films to come out of the early festival season.

REGARDING CLASSICAL CINEMA By Imogen Sara Smith A writer luxuriates in the exquisite out - of - time existence of classic movie love, after visiting a silent film festival

With three out of five films screening in Cannes, Nichols can be called a festival regular: Take Shelter won the Critics Week Grand Prize in 2011 while Mud premiered in the Official Competition the following year.

Unfortunately Bening presiding over the Venice jury not only rules the film out of that festival, but also out of Telluride which takes place at the same time, and the first and more important week of buzz building at TIFF.

«Throughbreds» (whose title was singular when it premiered in Sundance's NEXT section in January 2017) may have been overshadowed by «Get Out» at that film festival, but it's no less elegant or lethal, concentrating its satire not on racial mind games (the way Jordan Peele did, seizing the zeitgeist in the process) but a case of blue - blood breeding gone horribly awry.

After a slow first few days wheeled out a platter of surprisingly mediocre films given this is the most prestigious film festival on Earth and can cherry - pick from the cream of world cinema, Festival de Cannes clicked into gear.

The pair's upcoming film Our Souls at Night — another Netflix - produced effort — will also receive its world premiere at the festival in an out - of - competition slot.