Sentences with phrase «recent years the festival»

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In a recent interview with rock magazine Alternative Press, he said that he had been an atheist for several years but that the band had continued to play at Christian festivals.

Many prominent festivals such as New Wine, Keswick and Spring Harvest have traditionally looked very «white» in terms of attendance, although moves have been made in recent years to consciously include more diversity among speakers and musicians on their platforms.

The whole process got its start during recent town supervisor Jeff Moran's first term, when he was asked by officials of the French prefecture to visit their community because it perceived a spiritual tie to Woodstock... and it was the host of a large festival (which this year hosted former Woodstock resident Bob Dylan as a headliner for an audience of 300,000 or so Europeans).

LITTLE ITALY — Supporters of the annual San Gennaro festival who have been fighting a recent recommendation to cut short the 85 - year - old event may have just gained a political ally.

Of course, in the recent years, one of the things that stand out the most amongst festival - goers is none other than... hair!

From year - round taprooms like Garage Project and the Tuatara Temple of Taste, to craft bars like Rogue & Vagabond or LBQ, to festivals like Beervana, craft beer's popularity has rocketed here in recent years — and that means one delicious date!

Ahead of the controversies that erupted during the recent awards season, the festival had already placed itself at the forefront of Hollywood's continuing conversation about diversity and representation in front of and behind the camera and this year looks to continue advancing the issue.

By our count, there are 17 films showing here that have already had a recent screening at Toronto, although admittedly it is more difficult to find a film made in the last year that is not showing at the prevalent Canadian festival.

In recent years, the Telluride, Venice, and New York festivals had poached some big titles from Toronto, and TIFF is now making an effort to reward films that hold their premieres for the trip north.

«I am truly pleased that we are able to honor their most recent work at this year's festival.»

The Panorama section, on the other hand, clusters more recent titles making the rounds on the festival circuit, usually plucked from the A-listers such as Venice, Berlin or Cannes, in this year's case films such as Quand on a 17 ans (Being 17, André Téchiné), 24 Wochen (24 Weeks, Anne Zohra Berrached), Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson), La mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV, Alberto Serra), Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn), Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu), or the black horse of this year's Cannes competition, Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade).

Both Stewart and Eisenberg have good recent form at the festival, having appeared In Competition in On the Road in 2012 and Louder than Bombs last year respectively.

Frantic horse - trading in recent years has seen scuffles over one title after another, with films often premiering within 24 hours of each other in different events and — most seriously of all — both festivals being scooped by the boutique Telluride event that screened films that had been booked as world premieres.

Especially if you consider its recent near - eclipse by the Toronto film festival, the near - simultaneous North American event that has in recent years become a powerhouse of international dealmaking and a magnet for world - premiere film launches.

Renowned in recent years as a key launchpad for heavyweight Oscar contenders, the 74th Venice film festival has unveiled a lineup heavy on potential award - season frontrunners, as films start to jockey for position in earnest.

Broken, which had its Irish premiere on the first night of the recent JDIFF festival, set a very high standard for the excellent run of films shown this year.

Once upon a time, this section functioned as the festival's farm program, with filmmakers starting out there and then «graduating» to the Competition; in recent years, it's become more of a free - floating catch - all, showcasing ornery works by major directors (Claire Denis, Hong Sang - soo) alongside the up - and - comers.

The problem with the film is that it's by some distance the critical consensus favorite at this festival, which in recent years has proven to be a liability on awards night.

Both «Three Billboards» and «The Shape of Water» were in - house productions for Searchlight, which has in recent years put more focus into growing its own movies rather than acquiring them at festivals.

Once seen as a waning force in the film industry calendar, the world's oldest film festival has regained its status as a kingmaker for award - season hopefuls, with a record of launching films that have gone on to enjoy success at the Academy Awards, including two recent best picture winners in Spotlight and Birdman, and the film that took home the highest number of Oscars this year, La La Land.

Over the past week, Hammer to Nail has published two more articles of mine: another review from the recent AFI DOCS festival, of STEP; and a review of Criterion's new Blu - ray release of 45 Years.

Next Fest comes on the heels of Sundance's recent announcement that it will expand its operations to Hong Kong, where it plans to screen eight films from this year's Park City festival over two weeks in September.

Of the documentaries (in recent years, Searching for Sugar Man and Twenty Feet From Stardom began their journeys at the festival before going on to Oscar glory), the frontrunner out of the new batch is Weiner, winner of the US documentary grand jury prize, which tracks Anthony Weiner's disastrous mayoral bid in 2014, followed closely by Life, Animated, an incredibly moving film that explores how films helped an autistic person communicate with the outside world.

In recent years, the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award go to the breakout hit of the festival.

Mathieu Amalric, Jodie Foster, James Franco and Guillaume Canet are among the actors - turned - directors who've had films featured at the festival in recent years, and it could be that their ranks are joined this time around by Ryan Gosling — the star, who featured at the festival in «Drive» and «Only God Forgives,» has stepped behind the camera for odd fable «How To Catch A Monster,» and it could well be a dark horse to feature somewhere in the lineup.

In the last few years, it's been worth keeping an eye (or an ear, rather) on the Sundance buzz, as the festival has birthed a number of future critical hits, and even awards - season success stories: recent Best Picture nominees «Little Miss Sunshine,» «Precious,» «An Education» and now «The Kids Are All Right» and «Winter's Bone» all premiered there, as did «Frozen River,» «Blue Valentine» and a plethora of Oscar - nominated documentaries.

Distaff representation in Cannes is always a point of contention, reliably churning up debate over the festival's mandate to lead the way for broader representation, but also to reflect the industry's makeup (not unlike the diversity woes that have engulfed the Academy Awards in recent years).

Along with all that's new and recent, this year's festival acknowledges the golden anniversary of its parent organization, the American Film Institute, established by Lyndon Johnson's administration to preserve the nation's movie legacy and educate new generations of filmmakers.

Director Karyn Kusama returns this year with The Invitation, which impressed the hell out of me when it debuted in the Midnight program at the recent SXSW film festival.

Aaron Poole, who in recent years has taken the independent film industry by storm with fierce character portrayals in such festival...

Most recent anthology films have typically played primarily to film festival audiences so perhaps keep an eye out for «The Turning» to surface sometime during the fall next year.

A recent article in The Guardian by We Need to Talk about Kevin author, Lionel Shriver (who I was lucky enough to meet at a literary festival a few years ago) rightly said: «If all modern literature comes to toe the same goody - goody line, fiction is bound to grow timid, homogeneous, and dreary.»

Someone has sent hundreds of threatening letters to convention sites, bookstores, the media and Sophia University (the alma mater of Kuroko's Basketball creator Tadatoshi Fujimaki), over the past year, and the most recent batch of letters said that «X-Day will be on the final day of the [Sophia University] school festival.»

In recognition of the repeated pleas by more than 80 Chinese animal protection groups in recent years, urging foreign groups to resist conducting large - scale purchasing of dogs during the festival days, which risks re-igniting the trade.

In recent years, there's also Cruïlla, a multi-genre music festival and the quirky Vida Festival in Villanova.

The following was translated by Persona Central... - Etrian Odyssey series discussion with director Shigeo Komori - celebrating the 10th anniversary of the series this year - Komori feels that each of his titles are culminations of the experience and knowledge he has gained up to that point - in August 4, 2016 issue of Weekly Famitsu magazine (the same date as the Japanese release date of Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth), he stated that he had not yet decided what would lie in the future for the series - after seeing fan opinions, Komori realized that there are certain aspects of the series where he had been too obsessed with coming up with something new every time - 10th anniversary of the series brings about the recent launch of Etrian Mystery Dugneon 2, as well as the release of various merchandise - alongside that, Komori sees more and more opinions from series fans on social media - On currently developing a new Etrian Odyssey game: «In order to meet the expectations of these fans, I would like to deliver a «festival» - like game that can be said to be another culmination [of the series].

In the wake of the recent announcement that the beloved neighborhood - wide festival, Bushwick Open Studios will be held in October instead of the usual June this year, at least the date of one iconic Bushwick event remains unchanged

Shrigley follows in the footsteps of Anish Kapoor, Brian Eno and Laurie Anderson, all of whom have brought a distinct personal flavour to the annual festival in recent years.

In recent years, his works have been shown at international festivals and museums including Tate Modern, the Venice Biennale, Palais de Tokyo, Transmediale, EMPAC, YCAM and Sonar.

Brian Griffin has been early on recognized as one of the most eminent British photographers of the seventies and eighties and as part of the «British Photographers of the Thatcher Years» with Martin Parr, Paul Graham, Graham Smith, Jo Spence and Victor Burgin, with whom he has exhibited in many iconic exhibitions: Young British Photographers at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1975 that toured in Europe and the United States; Portraits of Our Time at the Photographer's Gallery in London in 1978; Three Perspectives on Photography: Recent British Photography, Hayward Gallery, 1979, among Martin Parr, Graham Smith, Jo Spence, Victor Burgin; Ten Contemporary British Photographers at the MIT in 1982; British Contemporary Photography Coming of Age at the Houston Fotofest, the Texan photo festival in 1986.

It's called Arthur's Cave and was the winning entry in a recent Wales's Year of Legends festival, which invited designers to come up with proposals for mini-hostels to be built in Wales.