Cannes organizers announced a rule last year that movies could not compete for awards without a French theatrical release, though they could still
screen at the festival.
Her initial directorial video project from 2002, Room Tone,
screened at festivals across the United States.
With that in mind, here's a look at some of the more noteworthy films that will be
screening at the festival next month:
Amid all the controversy surrounding this year's Fantastic Fest, there's one group that should not get lost in the shuffle: The female filmmakers whose works
screened at the festival.
International narrative feature films that have previously
screened at any festival outside of the film's country or countries of origin are not eligible for open submission to the Institute for Festival consideration.
Netflix titles have figured in the speculation about films that could
screen at the festival, although it is not clear which may have been formally submitted.
When
screened at festivals, Tusk was wildly received by critics who gave it a standing ovation and praised Smith for his «return to form».
Eisenberg's «Louder Than Bombs»
screened at the festival last year, and Stewart attended in 2014 for «Clouds of Sils Maria.»
I saw it at a press
screening at the festival — Joanna and I were both completely floored by its unmitigated rancidness — but before it premiered for the public, it was pulled from the TIFF lineup because the director, Matthew Cullen, sued the producers Full Story
Cannes 2018: The first Kenyan film to ever
screen at the festival is perhaps more notable for what it represents than what it is
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women
screens at the festival on 12th and 15th October and is in UK cinemas from 19th November.
The award is open to any film that
screened at the festival, apart from shorts and entries in the TIFF Cinematheque section.
That same year, Andrew Dosunmu «s «Restless City» also
screened at the festival, but it was the feature version of «Pariah» that really made his name.
The movie's been snapped up by CBS Films, and probably has as good a chance of becoming a crossover hit as anything that
screened at the festival this year.
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.»
But now that all the films have been
screened at the festival and the awards have been handed out, we're ready to make a more sober assessment.
Other high - profile titles
screening at the festival, which opens Friday, include «Ginger and Rosa,» filmmaker Sally Potter's coming - of - age drama with Elle Fanning; «Midnight's Children,» director Deepa Mehta's adaptation of the novel by Salman Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay; and «Frances Ha,» a black - and - white look at a young dancer directed by «The Squid...
Among the many films
screening at the festival is a sci - fi documentary called Jodorowsky's Dune, profiling Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's ambitious attempt to adapt Frank Herbert's Dune in the 1970s.
It was the last film to
screen at the festival and played to mixed reviews.
* For the sake of not letting readers feel left out, I opted not to include films that only
screened at festivals this year.
Other British films
screening at the festival include Nicholas Hytner's adaptation of Alan Bennett's hit play The Lady in the Van, with Maggie Smith reprising her much - lauded performance as eccentric homeless woman who lived in Bennett's drive for 15 years.
This cheeky slogan was eagerly adopted by the film festival's organizers as an unofficial motto, derived of course from Lars von Trier's Antichrist, which
screened at the festival in 2009.
Compared to something like A Fantastic Woman, Lelio's intimate, wrenching drama about a trans woman in Chile that is also
screening at this festival, Disobedience is a distant chamber piece, a story about hidden passions without much of its own.
The premiere
screening at the festival sold out in record time, with two additional screenings added to the schedule due to popular demand.
High - profile and anticipated films slated to
screen at the festival this year include romantic sci - fi fable The Shape of Water, mind - bending horror tale mother!
Indeed, in the decades of TIFF, it was not uncommon to see Brian DePalma in the regular public
screenings at the festival taking in a variety of cinematic offerings.
Brooklyn marks the fifth Irish production with support from the Irish Film Board to
screen at the festival over the years.
Amy, the story of the singer before her death from alcohol poisoning in 2011, will be shown for the first time when it is
screened at the festival in the south of France.
Jackman to make final roar as Wolverine in out - of - competition
screening at festival, while sequel T2 Trainspotting to receive international premiere
Our films have premiered or
screened at festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Venice, Los Angeles, Locarno, Toronto, and London; have been named on «best of the year» lists; and won numerous awards including a Film Independent Spirit Award.
While the Sundance Film Festival doesn't begin until January, we're bringing you the first images from films that will be
screened at the festival.
Essential Killing was directed by veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, and also starring Emmanuelle Seigner (The Diving Bell & The Butterfly, La Vie En Rose), and had its world premiere
screening at the festival.
Her short films have
screened at festivals internationally including the New York Film Festival, Aspen Shortsfest and Palm Springs International Shortsfest.
The much - commented - on lapse in judgment that relegated Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy to the Frontier section last year affected its reception, not only because Frontier is a catch - all category for films that are regarded as too far - out for the majority of Sundancers, but more concretely, because Frontier films
screen at the festival's lesser venues.
Telluride Guest Director Joshua Oppenheimer, who selected six classic films to
screen at the festival, also showed up to the symposium to talk about one of his picks, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which he believes possesses «the saddest happy ending of all time.»
Following revisions, it went on to
screen at festivals including Cleveland, Vancouver, Adelaide, and Viennale, and has had special performances at Carnegie Hall, Chicago's Symphony Hall, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Los Angeles» Royce Hall, among others.
Top films will be
screened at the festival.
His most recent film, The Knackerman, will be
screening at festivals throughout 2017.
Since then the film has been
screened at festivals and arts events across America - and there are more screenings to come.
Chosen films will be
screened at this festival, one of the largest and longest - running festivals in the country.
Gary's work has
screened at festivals including Frameline LGBTQ Film Festival, Edinburgh; International Film Festival, New Orleans; Film Festival, Toronto; Inside Out Festival, Gdansk; BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia; Tampere Film Festival, Finland; and Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan.
Danis Goulet is an award - winning filmmaker whose short films have
screened at festivals around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance, Aspen Shortsfest, imagineNATIVE and Berlin International Film Festival.
The short film about Kelley's experience, My Toxic Reality was
screened at the festival.
Not exact matches
For years he held private
screenings of the movie (it's also been shown
at a few film
festivals), and there was even a moment when he and Stern thought of remaking it with Hopper directing once more and a younger actor in the lead.
Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma looks back
at a giant electronic
screen showing real - time sales figures on the «Singles» Day» online shopping
festival.
Something Ventured was
screened at South by Southwest and it is set to appear
at a number of the country's independent film
festivals this spring and summer, and the producers hope to have it broadcast on TV in 2012.
The George Eastman House film and photography museum will
screen the silent film on Oct. 16 in Rochester, NY., following the restoration's world premiere on Oct. 9
at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, an Italian film
festival devoted entirely to silent cinema.
FILE - In this May 16, 2012 file photo producer Harvey Weinstein arrives for the opening ceremony and
screening of Moonrise Kingdom
at the 65th international film
festival, in Cannes, southern France.
Braid's producers aim to wrap the film in time to
screen it
at next year's South by Southwest
festival in Austin as part of the process of getting a distribution deal.
Written, directed, and produced in Wake County, the documentary, «Certain Proof: A Question of Worth,» debuted in April
at Colorado's Vail Film Festival and is slated for
screening at four other film
festivals.