«Momo: The Sam Giancana Story» has
played at film festivals and won two awards — best doc at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival (which runs through Dec. 12) and the jury award for best doc at the Bel Air Film Fest in October.
This played at film festivals all last year and is opening in theaters this June, which is great news because I've been waiting to see this.
Piano is an animated short film that first
played at film festivals throughout 2016 before arriving online recently.
The film already
played at a film festival last year and arrives in theaters this February, for anyone curious about it after checking out the trailer.
Paramount has debuted another official trailer for Alexander Payne's Downsizing, which has been
playing at film festivals over the past few months.
Her two short films, Boneshaker (2013) and Afronauts (2014), both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to
play at film festivals including the Berlinale, Telluride, and SXSW.
Not exact matches
After
playing at a couple of Canadian
film festivals last fall, Defendor came to just three North American theaters (four in its second week) for fourteen days of quiet exhibition this past February.
Other
films that are definitely worth checking out that
played at TIFF (and other
festivals): Adam Wingard's rapturous and playful The Guest, Palm d'Or winner Winter Sleep, latest from master filmmakers Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne Two Days, One Night, 3 and a half hour epic Li» l Quinquin, harrowing street life portrait Heaven Knows What, ambitious and transcending Jauja, and Mike Leigh's exemplary Mr. Turner.
Plenty of actors have more than one
film at Toronto, but this year Denis Villeneuve joins the elite group of directors to have two
films play the
festival.
The suave looking man in the dark shades in the photograph is Marcello Mastroianni from Federico Fellini's
film 8 1/2, which
played at the
festival back in...
The Cleanse previously
played a few
film festivals under the title The Master Cleanse, with mixed results (it currently sits
at 78 % on Rotten Tomatoes).
Below are some of the biggest trends shared between the 70 feature - length
films playing at the
festival this year.
Several other
films that have been building steam on the
festival circuit will
play at the
festival as well.
It's become something of a
film festival truism that certain movies
play better
at high altitudes.
Landon directed two short
films that together have
played at more than 60
festivals around the world.
Sure, they
play well
at midnight screenings
at film festivals in front of rowdy, half - drunk crowds.
I recently attended a press screening of the indie sci - fi
film, Europa Report, which is
playing at the
festival.
I am so happy to hear the
film is getting a wide release after
playing at numerous
film festivals and receiving extremely positive reviews.
Otis
at Monterey, with uncompressed stereo soundtracks Alternate soundtracks for all three
films featuring 5.1 surround mixes by recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in DTS - HD Master Audio Two hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Blues Project, Buffalo Springfield, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, the Steve Miller Blues Band, Moby Grape, Laura Nyro, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who Audio commentaries from 2002 featuring Pennebaker,
festival producer Lou Adler, and music critics Charles Shaar Murray and Peter Guralnick New interviews with Adler and Pennebaker Chiefs (1968), a short
film by Richard Leacock, which
played alongside Monterey Pop in theaters Interviews from 2002 with Adler and Pennebaker and with Phil Walden, Otis Redding's manager 1987 interview with Pete Townshend on Monterey and Jimi Hendrix Audio interviews with
festival producer John Phillips,
festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby Photo - essay by Elaine Mayes
Festival scrapbook Trailers and radio spots PLUS: A book featuring essays by critics Michael Chaiken, Armond White, David Fricke, Barney Hoskyns, and Michael Lydon
Paul Schrader's «First Reformed,» which premiered
at Venice and
played the Telluride and Toronto
film festivals, took home MFF's Fiction Feature prize.
The
film already premiered
at the Göteborg
Film Festival earlier this year, and is
playing at a few other
festivals this summer as well, including OutFest in July.
This drama about a young mother and her 5 - year - old son held prisoner by a sexual predator has been collecting audience prizes
at just about every
film festival it has
played, including the bellwether People's Choice Award
at Toronto.
«You don't need to go ride today...» Sony Classics has debuted the second official trailer for the phenomenal
film The Rider, which premiered
at last year's Cannes
Film Festival and
played at every other major
film festival - Telluride, Toronto, Sundance.
«Sometimes dreams aren't meant to be...» Sony Classics has finally revealed the trailer for the phenomenal
film The Rider, which premiered
at last year's Cannes
Film Festival then
played at every other major
film festival - Telluride, Toronto, even Sundance this January.
Notably, as a competition
film at this year's
festival, «Happy as Lazzaro» would not have been able to
play at Cannes if Netflix had acquired it prior to Cannes.
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).
The
film has
played at several
film festivals.
It seems as if nothing with George Miller's «Mad Max: Fury Road» is as it should be: It's a relentless action movie that
played at one of the world's most prestigious
film festivals.
Indeed, it is still struggling for release in a number of international markets, and
at the date of writing seems destined to
play film festivals in Australia before making its way to DVD.
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.
The second
film I saw
at the
festival and its wondrous cinematography, resonant performances, and an organic direction that
plays right into my wheelhouse; Mr. Turner proves that Leigh can tackle the tricky genre of the biopic better than, well, anyone I've ever seen.
French filmmaker Philippe Garrel's Lover For a Day heads to theaters after
playing at the New York and Chicago
film festivals this fall, while Cohen Media Group is opening Lebanon's The Insult, which is shortlisted in the foreign language category.
For all of its innumerable pleasures, however, The Forbidden Room can feel like too much of a good thing — premiering
at Sundance, Maddin's latest
plays like a robust
film festival unto itself.
Loving is the writer - director's second
film playing at a major
festival in 2016.
This
played at numerous
film festivals and will be released in early 2018, after the Oscar nominations are announced.
It can be a joke, but it
plays into what I was saying before: these filmmakers go to
festivals, and those are the types of
films that are bought and that you see
at the major
festivals.
, which premiered
at the Sundance
Film Festival last year (in 2017) before
playing at a few other
film festivals.
That's one reason why I was impressed by a
film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has
played at various American
festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems
at home and
at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.
«How I Live Now» Before every
film at TIFF this year, the
festival played a trailer in which a bunch of people use the line «We'll get through this!»
I was horrified when a valued colleague and friend
at the Village Voice recently gave her blanket endorsement to Miramax's recutting two pictures that
played at the New York
film festival, Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade and Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon, approving both new versions before she even saw them.
The ever watchable Kathryn Hahn
plays Chris, a director with a
film about to show
at the Venice
film festival, who makes a short trip to Marfa with her husband, Sylvere (Griffin Dunne), an academic whose subject is the Holocaust.
Introducing itself to the world
at the 2015 Sundance
Film Festival and creating substantial buzz in
film festivals the world over before opening in an elite listing of American cinemas in July, Sean Baker's fifth feature
plays out with genuine emotion and manifests as an eye - opening day - in - the - life of two transgender sex workers on the streets of Los Angeles.
«Let's just let this whole affair be simple...» Sony has released the full official trailer for Alex Ross Perry's Golden Exits, which
played at numerous
film festivals throughout 2017 and is just now hitting theaters in February of 2018.
Keira, 29,
plays his fellow code - breaker and one - time fiancee Joan Clarke, and both were on the red carpet before the
film's screening
at Odeon Leicester Square in London, where the
festival kicked off.
2017 marks my seventh year
at SXSW and just like in the past, I wanted to make a list of my most anticipated
films playing or premiering
at this year's
FILM festival.
Born to Be Blue suffers from the fact that Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead is also
playing at the SXSW
film festival.
I would have gone to see this movie
at its premiere, but it conflicts with Baby Driver which is the World Premiere screening of the latest Edgar Wright
film that will only be
playing once
at the
festival.
Premiering tomorrow night
at the Midnight Madness portion of the
film festival is Makinov's Come Out and
Play, a Mexican remake...
These are all
films that either first
played in cinemas in the US in 2015 or that I saw
at film festivals in 2015.
Having already
played at a number of
film festivals (most notably Cannes) and opening in other countries prior to its U.S. release, reactions to the movie have been extremely positive, although it's still hard to tell whether it will appeal to a mainstream audience.