As always, the FILM COMMENT list of the year's best films is the result of polling over 100 colleagues and consists of two categories: 1) the best films that
received theatrical runs in 2015 and 2) the year's best films that have no announced plans for U.S. theatrical distribution.
European titles include La Grande Bouffe, Marco Ferrerri's most notorious film which unsurprisingly never
received a theatrical run in Ireland in 1973 (given that it's about four friends who gather together one weekend to eat themselves to death), and Catherine Deneuve in Les Desmoiselles de Rochefort, Jacques Demy's exuberant love letter to American musicals.
Not exact matches
The movie feels like it belongs on a stage rather than the screen, and if it ever got a cast like this on Broadway or the West End, it would be a smash, unlike it's small box office draw it
received in it's
theatrical run.
Sources told the outlet that Scott Stuber, Netflix's film division chief, assured Scorsese that the film would
receive on minimum a two - week
theatrical run, which would make it eligible for the Oscars.
For review we
received the widescreen «Unrated Version,» which
runs five minutes longer than the
theatrical cut, though the disc provides no indication of what's been restored to the film.
Unknown actor Ben Whishaw stars as Jean - Baptiste Grenouille in this internationally produced, English language picture (which is
receiving a limited
theatrical run in the U.S. courtesy of DreamWorks).
The movie had a limited
theatrical run and
received mixed reviews at Rottentomatoes.com, garnering a 58 percent fresh rating.
«The Gift» has not
received even the sort of minor awards recognition it deserved this season and any love for Heller and «Diary» proves the love for the Sundance drama is spreading beyond it's limited
theatrical run this past summer.
Nolan was quoted in the project's press release, which he subsequently paraphrased at both the master class and the premiere, as saying that there were «no digital tricks, remastered effects, or revisionist edits» in preparing this edition, which will
receive a limited
theatrical run in select, 70 mm equipped theaters starting later this month.
THE SESSIONS is
receiving a limited US
theatrical run commencing 26th October 2012, with a UK release date yet to be announced.
SIFF 2011 Short Film Jury Awards As a qualifying festival of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, short films that
receive the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative short film and Best Animation short film awards at SIFF may qualify to enter the Short Films category of the Academy Awards ® for the concurrent season without the standard
theatrical run, provided the film otherwise complies with the Academy rules.
Some of the most buzzed and most discussed of the year, for instance, are Strong Island, Icarus, Voyeur and Chasing Coral, which never
received a
theatrical release beyond minimal Oscar - qualifying
runs.
Green Room will likely hit fests such as Sundance and SXSW, before
receiving a spring
theatrical run next year.
Netflix has expressed mild interest in
theatrical releases, with some movies
receiving a limited
theatrical run.