This trailer has been getting rave
reviews at festivals all year, and is definitely worth your time and attention.
2013 Frances Ha finally opens in theaters after an excruciating wait from its rave
reviews at festivals the fall prior.
Fox Searchlight also premiered a third film to positive
reviews at the festivals, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris» «Battle of the Sexes.»
The seventh film from the beloved Japanese to screen at Cannes, Kore - eda's family drama was picked up by Magnolia Pictures after it premiered to strong
reviews at the festival.
The film earned strong
reviews at the festival, with «The Guardian's» Henry Barnes writing that Slattery's ``... depiction of God's Pocket — a fictional South Philly neighbourhood crawling with drunks, hucksters and vagabonds — near weeps with the blue collar romanticism of David O Russell's The Fighter.
We'll be there to catch a screening and
review this at the festival.
Not exact matches
That diversity is on display in a major way
at the Los Angeles Times» second annual L.A. Food Bowl
festival, which runs for the full month of May and includes hundreds of different meal events from high - profile chefs like Nancy Silverton (Mozza), Curtis Stone (Gwen) and Yoshihiro Narisawa whose eponymous Tokyo restaurant Gold said made him «shudder with pleasure» in his
review this past month.
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Also excluded are films that first debuted
at other major
festivals earlier this year; you can find
reviews for those films in our Cannes Recap and our Sundance Recap.
This leftfield portrait of Jackie Kennedy
at the time of the assassination of her husband, JFK, has been winning rave
reviews at the autumn
festivals.
From Humpday and Touchy Feely director Lynn Shelton, her first feature based on a script she didn't pen (that credit goes to first - time scribe Andrea Seigel), Laggies debuted
at this year's Sundance film
festival to mostly positive
reviews.
Catherine Shoard
reviews Behind the Candelabra by Steven Soderbergh
at the 2013 Cannes film
festival
Kaufman's Anomalisa is an intelligent, stop - motion animated drama co-directed by Duke Johnson, earning rave
reviews from critics after premiering
at festivals.
Another Irish film which made an impact
at Cannes is The Lobster, which garnered rave
reviews following its
festival premiere on Saturday.
Directed by Alfonso Gomez - Rejon from Jesse Andrew's adaptation of his own novel, Me and Earl earned some of the best
reviews at this year's Sundance
festival, where it swept the top awards from the
festival jury (Grand Jury Prize) and
festival attendees (the Audience Award).
We
reviewed some of the most buzzed films
at this year's
festival, including «Dope», «Ruben Guthrie», «Gayby Baby» and «Holding The Man».
Her follow - up film, Eden, won the Audience Award
at SXSW 2012 and was showered with rave
reviews on the
festival circuit and its brief theatrical run.
With no
festival play and a
review embargo until the day before last Wednesday's opening, this managed only $ 1,500,000 in its first five days, a less than impressive showing and far below the initial weeks» results for the final release from the current team
at Focus, «Dallas Buyers Club.»
Cannes: Emerging from the
festival was CBS Films» «Hell or High Water,» starring Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster in a modern heist western set in Texas, which scored the best
reviews of the year and became the top performer
at the indie box office.
It received a surprise premiere
at the Overlook film
festival earlier this month and was greeted with a set of rapturous
reviews which, like its superbly assembled trailers, suggest one of the scariest films of the summer.
I am so happy to hear the film is getting a wide release after playing
at numerous film
festivals and receiving extremely positive
reviews.
And while it's an art that has already yielded our first magnum opus of the year, the 100 Most Anticipated Movies Of 2014, (and we should probably be awarded the rest of January off as a result) there's still a category of film we've left unmined: those movies that we saw and
reviewed in 2013
at festivals or sneak screenings or parts foreign tha t won't be in theaters until 2014.
I write
reviews for FF2 Media and represent the team
at local film
festivals.
This first premiered
at the Berlin Film Festival last year (read our
review) and also played
at the Sydney, Edinburgh and New Zealand Film
Festivals in 2017.
Other films just missing the cut: Oliver really loved «Miss Violence»
at the Venice film
festival and it made his five best films list (
review here).
The Malick feature was met with mixed
reviews upon its
festival run but with Malick's tasteful techniques and Emmanuel Lubezki behind the cinematography, Knight of Cups will
at least be easy on the eyes.
A trickle of
reviews from some
festival playdates last year suggests that Small Town Crime is
at very least agreeable, and may be smarter and more distinctive than that.
The former Oscar - winning actress of «Girl, Interrupted» received the best directorial
reviews of her career yet
at the Telluride and Toronto Film
Festivals.
As you might remember from my
review of seeing Cub
at Fantastic Fest, it was one of the most satisfying film experience I had the whole
festival.
Some of these launched
at prestige fall film
festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad
reviews or audience reaction, or both.
After a year - long tour on the
festival circuit following its premiere
at the 2014 Berlin Film
Festival to rave
reviews, the political thriller» 71, by British director Yann Demange, is finally opening in cinemas.
We're definitely planning on catching this
at the
festival and will have a
review of it from there.
The big story to come out of Toronto for this category was Allison Janney in I, Tonya, which got strong
reviews (for the most part...) when it made its world premiere
at the
festival.
Kill Your Darlings has an had some screenings
at the Sundance, Venice, and Toronto Film
Festivals and received mixed to positive
reviews.
So, while we've still got some Sundance
reviews to come, we thought we'd start our wrap - up coverage of the
festival by picking out a selection artists who got noticed and stood out
at Sundance 2013.
See also the interview conducted by Michele «Izzy» Galgana with the couple after the first screening
at the
festival, in which they talk about «the nature of the creative personality, directing actors, bad
reviews, and sexy ladies.»
Director Richard Kelly's follow - up on the enigmatic cult hit Donnie Darko has run into a critical storm: an unfinished version (according to Kelly) was shown
at the Cannes film
festival where it was boo - ed and got rotten
reviews.
Barry Jenkins delivered a strong second feature with «Moonlight,» which picked up raves
at fall
festivals and gained ground by playing well on the specialty circuit, backed by the best
reviews of the year.
A black comedy about a man who dreams of being a reality tv contestant, the French / Italian co-production Reality (directed by Matteo Garrone) has attracted rave
reviews at a lot of 2012's film
festivals, including a Grand Prix win
at Cannes, though it's yet to see a wide release in English - speaking territories.
Andrew Rossi «s documentary about the New York Times, Page One: Inside the New York Times, premiered
at Sundance this year and has been getting solid
reviews as it moves to other
festivals.
5 - time Oscar nominee Adams received very good
reviews for Arrival
at both the Venice and Telluride film
festivals but some pundits believe the film, and Adams, aren't really «Oscar» players.
The film won its first rave
review when it debuted
at US
festival South By Southwest, in March 2018.
(half way between Rian Johnson's Brick and Veronica Mars) It quickly emerged as one of the underdogs on the schedule to become one of the most buzzed about films
at the
festival (read some of the
review quotes here).
With the
festival now less than a week away, let's take a look
at the highlights, some personal recommendations, and ScreenAnarchy
reviewed gems from
festivals during the year past.
I met with director Jon Kasbe on Saturday, April 21,
at the 2018 Tribeca Film
Festival, to discuss his debut feature documentary When Lambs Become Lions (which I also
reviewed, and which won the
festival's Best Editing in a Documentary Film Jury Award).
It was the last film to screen
at the
festival and played to mixed
reviews.
After winning fangtastic
reviews at America's Sundance and SXSW
festivals, Shadows won a run of global sales, local success and four Moa awards, including Best Self - Funded Feature.
This first premiered
at the Sundance Film Festival (read our
review), and it also played
at the Berlinale, Sydney, and Melbourne Film
Festivals.
Her presence
at film
festivals (such as Sundance, where she is a member of the selection committee), her film
reviews in the Village Voice, Elle, Out, and the Advocate, and her commentaries on the public radio program «The World» have secured her a place as a central figure in the remarkable history of what she deems «cinefeminism.»