Sentences with phrase «time at a film festival»

Colossal is a weird film to be sure, but it's also a frequently fascinating one, and those who spend a lot of time at film festivals may be the ones who get the joke best.

Not exact matches

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

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.

There's a certain kind of film I see at many festivals: oblique, short on narrative and incident (or filled with repetitive incident), shot in a style that favors long (distance and time) shots of people doing nothing, or doing mundane things like crossing the street in real time.

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.

2017 NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL: Sean Baker bottles the aura of the underprivileged Florida culture with his raw, and at times harrowing «The Florida Project.»

Glasgow and Edinburgh Film Festivals provide me with the perfect opportunity to do both, sating my popcorn addiction while permitting me to travel the world one film at a time.

You see this all the time with secret screenings at film festivals.

Submit your film and get it shown at the festival that runs for 4 times a year in the heart of downtown Toronto at the Carlton Cinemas.

Glastonbury (15) Running time: 135 min *** Julian Temple's loving documentary may at first appear to be aimed at the sort of music fan who prefers Glasto streamed live to their TV.But this collection of archive and commissioned footage from 36 years of England's greatest music festival is likely to appeal more to diehard fans than non-festival-goers, since it revels in precisely the eccentricities that makes the armchair people dive for cover.Most of this film is a structureless, rambling celebration of Glastonbury's boozy, hedonistic, liberated, political and frequently bonkers character rather than of the actual music: great if you were at the party, presumably less great if you weren't.

«Many audience members made it a point to see the film two or three times, which is a rare occurrence at the festival where attendees try to see as many films as possible over the weekend.»

Lars von Trier) Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Jamie Bell Even aside from the whole persona non grata that resulted after his ill - advised comments while promoting «Melancholia» at the festival two years ago (and there have been some suggestions that Lars von Trier «s work is still welcome at the festival, just not so much the filmmaker himself), it's very unlikely that von Trier's latest will be on the Croisette this year, for the principal reason that it's not ready: the film's producer indicated that the two - part movie just wouldn't be prepared in time to screen for contention.

But there appears to be no rhyme or reason to the way this festival was put together, with many of the best films showing at the most inconvenient times, no clear threadlike connecting the films from different countries or eras and a lot of sub-standard source material for a repertory festival.

First time writer / director Eli Craig's Tucker & Dale Vs Evil is one such example, with the film making an appearance at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and also featuring on the SXSW bill the same year, yet remaining unreleased outside of the festival circuit everywhere except Kazakhstan, Russia, Estonia and Lithuania eighteen months later.

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When speaking about her film adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time last fall at the Vulture festival, director Ava DuVernay told a crowd, «I'm trying to make a Lynn Shelton movie, just on a larger budget.»

White God Director: Kornél Mundruczó Running time: 121 minutes Certificate: R A hit at last year's Cannes film festival, this drama follows a dog who joins a canine revolution against humans after being taken away from his owner.

While at the festival, John presented two films: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968) and PARK ROW (1952) Notes from the...

Unfortunately Bening presiding over the Venice jury not only rules the film out of that festival, but also out of Telluride which takes place at the same time, and the first and more important week of buzz building at TIFF.

Some of the best - received films at earlier festivals will get their North American launches here, including «Life is Beautiful,» Roberto Begnini's Cannes winner about an Italian clown who fights the Nazis with laughter; Rohmer's heartwarming love story «Autumn Tale,» which charmed Telluride audiences; Ken Loach's «My Name Is Joe,» with Cannes best actor winner Peter Mullen as a recovering alcoholic facing tough times; Theo Angelopoulos» «Eternity and a Day,» this year's Cannes winner; «The General» (1999) which won Boorman the best director prize at Cannes, and the Cannes and Telluride favorite «Claire Dolan,» by Lodge Kerrigan, with Emily Watson («Breaking the Waves») as a prostitute who thinks she can detach from her work.

Since it marks Shults» first film and his first time at Cannes, Indiewire asked him to keep a video diary of his experiences at the festival, the first of which can be seen at the top of this page.

Hopefully, one of the films in the festival's back half will be its true salvation (Holy Motors hadn't screened yet at this time two years ago; nor had Only Lovers Left Alive last year), but this one will do for the moment.

Undoubtedly an undersung highlight of the festival this year, and at the very least one has to love a film that can transform a song (a Spanish - language version of «Gloria,» sung by Umberto Tozzi) into a glorious ode so magnificent it's like you're hearing it for the very first time.

Two - time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple made Sundance history last month when her documentary «This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous» became the first YouTube Red original film to premiere as an official selection at the festival.

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.

She made it three times lucky at Sundance, arriving in 2013 with «Fruitvale,» Ryan Coogler «s based - in - fact drama that was one of the buzziest films of the festival in the last few weeks, and that should be talked about for much of the rest of the year.

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

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.

With filming wrapped since last September, there should be more than enough time for the film to find its voice and position itself for a strong premiere at whatever festival it chooses.

It went on to win the audience awards at the Edinburgh, Toronto and Chicago film festivals, and I note on the Internet Movie Database that it is currently voted the 54th best film of all time, and hasn't even opened in America yet.

Go see some films, have a good time, enjoy a genre film festival at its best.

It's the fourth film by the Korean writer and director at the festival in Berlin and his third time competing in the Official Competition.

The film, with a running time of 20 minutes, was shown at film festivals around the world, including the Chicago International Film Festival and the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Fest, but it was never widely released or shown on television.

In fact, the film was so well received that it even won its first time director an award at the festival.

It's simple tale of a man stranded on a deserted island — and the red turtle that destroys his raft every time he tries to leave — has been hailed as a masterpiece at film festivals around the world.

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.

FFF films were selected and presented by an esteemed crew of guest directors, film critics and scholars including: CBC Arts guru George Anthony; Mary Corliss, writer for Film Comment and Time.com and former head of the MOMA's Film Stills Archive; Richard Corliss, Time magazine critic; famed film critic Roger Ebert of Ebert & Roeper at the Movies; Jim Emerson, Editor of RogerEbert.com; veteran programmer for the Dubai & Bangkok film festivals, Hannah Fisher; Ross Johnson, arts writer for the L.A. Times and Esquire magazine; and Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun film critic.

Among the more indie elements at this year's festival are Baumbach and his «The Meyerowitz Stories,» a story of adult siblings starring Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller; Coppola and her «The Beguiled,» based on the same novel as Clint Eastwood's outre 1971 film; and Benny and Josh Safdie and their caper «Good Time.»

Chastain was also part of the jury for the 2017 Cannes Film festival and spoke out at the time regarding the collective impression those films made for their depictions of women.

Although Leung frequently attended international film festivals, this was his first time at the Berlin Film Festival.

Kwedar's script asks important questions, while at the same time delivering a thrilling suspense film that is easily among the best and most effecting work debuting at the 2016 SXSW film festival.

Most of the time, it's highly unusual to hear boos at a film festival — especially at a press screening.

Japanese director Hirokazu Kore - eda won the Palme d'Or at the 71st Cannes Film Festival for his film Shoplifters, marking just the second time this century an Asian film has claimed the festival's top prize after Apichatpong Weerasethakul»...

LMD: I hadn't seen the film for a long time but watching it at the festival, I was surprised at how well the fights held up.

Netflix may not be at Cannes this year to premiere any films, but the streaming giant is wasting no time in making its presence known in the festival's competitive marketplace.

As Franco tells us above, the first time Wiseau saw the film was at the South by Southwest festival and, well, he approved of «99.9 percent» of it.

The film's success at various international film festivals this year generated buzz ahead of its American release, attracting the attention of many Hollywood veterans, including Susan Sarandon and Samuel L. Jackson, who have nothing but praise for the film and spent much time socializing with its stars.

Fresh off of sold - out festival screenings at Tribeca, AFI, the Viennale, and Torino (where it won the Special Jury Prize), GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH was ranked # 3 on the indieWIRE annual critics» poll of best undistributed films and was named «The Best Undistributed Film of 2009» by writers from Film Comment, Variety, Time Out New York, and New York Daily News.

Since our screening of FUDOH: THE NEW GENERATION in 1997, which was the first time Miike's unique vision was shown in North America, no fewer than 29 of his films were showcased at the festival, including such modern classics as AUDITION, ICHI THE KILLER, and VISITOR Q. Miike's work also opened Fantasia three times with YATTERMAN and North American premieres of the Cannes selections FOR LOVE»S SAKE and SHIELD OF STRAW.

Derek Cianfrance is actually a three - time feature director, but his first movie Brother Tied is so unobtainable (it played at festivals in 1998 but hasn't seen the light of day since, the print now collecting dust in Cianfrance's father's basement) that we only have his second and third films, Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines, to judge him by.