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Amplify has acquired the U.S. distribution rights for Craig and Nathan Zellner's Sundance standout «Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter,» the company announced on Tuesday, meaning that one of the most unique films of this year's festival will now see theaters.

The Lobster review: One of the funniest, most unique films of the year.

Not exact matches

It's a unique opportunity for Toronto - based Canada Goose, this year's official outerwear sponsor of the festival, to clad typically fashionable film folks in arctic apparel.

Using the unique bond football created for Dads & Daughters, SSE told stories through a series of short films that included professional footballer, Kelly Smith, and a 12 - year - old girl who uses football to manage her Tourettes.

Unique because of its non-profit status, the Los Angeles - based indie distributor has never qualified for our rankings before, since 2015 is the first year in which the Collaborative released at least seven scored films.

While the unique achievement of filming once a week for an entire year may have been overshadowed at Sundance by Richard Linklater's even more ambitious «Boyhood,» «52 Tuesdays» still demonstrates a willingness to experiment that bodes well for future endeavors.

A second and perhaps more significant bonus feature is found inside the side - snapped case (which per the studio is fitted with nice double - sided artwork): an insert with directions and a unique code for accessing the complimentary UltraViolet stream and download of the film, which promises at least two years for you to redeem this.

Many of them that have premiered here over the years I've fallen in love with, but as we get new coming - of - age films every year, the stories have to evolve and stay unique in order to remain fresh.

The premise of Turbo Kid not only sounds unique but much different than most post apocalyptic films that have been coming out over the past years.

Dutch defiler Paul Verhoeven has provided what will prove to be one of the most controversial and provocative films of the year with his dark and deadly comedic rape - revenge thriller ELLE, while Paul Schrader delivers his unique brand of pugilistic raw force with his hyper - violent, crime - at - all - costs thriller DOG EAT DOG.

The Shape of Water is definitely a unique film in the field of Oscars nominees this year.

It is one of the most unique and thought - provoking films you will see all year or of any year recently.

While it's easy to compare this film to 12 Years a Slave, considering the brutally honest representation of slavery in both films, this one is unique in that it's a different story told in a different way by a first - time filmmaker.

The writer - director's unique focus on responsibility — and its limits — led to the creation of the year's most haunting and original film.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson, who helmed two of the most original films of the last five years, has fashioned a nearly flawless hat trick: a unique treatise on love and anguish centered on a truly unlikely star.

A24 has carved out one hell of a corner in the cinematic world, releasing some of the most unique and inventive genre films in recent years.

The final extra is found not on the disc but next to it: it is a single - sided sheet supplying directions and a unique redemption code for the included UltraViolet digital copy of the film, which you are promised just two years to redeem.

What You Need To Know: There were many festival films this year that have impressed, even wowed us, but if there was one single film that boasted the unique attribute of making us long for the moment we'd be able to watch it again, it was the warm, human, funny, uniquely Coens - y «Inside Llewyn Davis» (here's our [A] Cannes review).

On top of all that, this year's TYREL is among his most mature and unique films to date.

According to the Rotten Tomatoes web - site, writers considered top critics «must be published at a print publication in the top 10 % of circulation, employed as a film critic at a national broadcast outlet for no less than five years, or employed as a film critic for an editorial - based website with over 1.5 million monthly unique visitors for a minimum of three years.»

He talks about why the movie took years to make, his decision to only screen on 35 mm, working with John Hawkes, and everything else you need to know about one of the most unique film releases of the year.

The gags in its immediately iconic nude scene, for instance, are built on self - consciousness rather than titillation — which, in around 110 years of comedy on film, makes it more or less unique.

So we don't have a ton to go off of when it comes to Passengers, but what I do know not only piques my interest but gives me reason to believe this could be one of the most unique, interesting, and entertaining films that comes out in 2016 — a year I continue to bemoan as already looking formulaic and franchised to the hilt.

Subverting Toxic Masculinity We don't just want more women making films for their fine - tuned insights into the lives of women — Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women and Anna Rose Holmer's The Fits being perhaps the most obvious examples among this year's releases that I saw — but also for their unique takes on men and masculinity.

This is the 25th year of the SXSW Film Festival, and I took a look at what makes this fest unique from many others, with its longtime emphasis on discovery, female filmmakers, comedy and films that get overlooked elsewhere.

Over the years we've assembled an indispensably talented group of writers and editors from Los Angeles to London, each bringing their own unique perspective on film criticism.

It is a unique film that was planned more than 10 years ago, and which brings together a variety of superheroes from all corners of the Marvel Cinematic Universe into one film.

«The Accountant» is one of the most unique films I've seen this year.

With her 25 years of experience at the San Francisco Film Society, Film Forum, and Film Independent and the Los Angeles Film Festival, Rachel Rosen is in a unique position both as a woman working in the film festival world and as someone who has been in a position to watch the changing landscape for women as festival professionals and as filmmakers.

Whereas most historical films tell the story of how a monarch or leader's life began, and the path that it took up to their death, this film was unique by only covering Victoria's early years.

His startling «We Are Still Here» announced a director who was willing to do things a little differently from the rest of the indie horror scene, and this film really makes his unique voice clear in that it doesn't feel like anything else that came out last year.

Some movies capture imagined lands and dream logic in special and unique ways, and Guy Maddin «s new film The Forbidden Room is the weirdest dream movie of the year.

TIFF boasted a heavy - duty line - up this year, with premieres of all the best cinema has to offer, which makes the film's unique and ambitious premise all the more noticeable.

It's a hyper - specific and unique sort of film that's become Del Toro's calling card over the years.

Simultaneously the funniest film of the year, and the most chilling, this is one of the year's most unique offerings.

The film is a unique display of experimental filmmaking that has spanned over eleven years» work from first time writer - director Bob Persons.

Film Independent is a non-profit arts organization that produces the annual Spirit Awards and the LA Film Festival; the Spirit Awards pulls double duty as the primary fundraiser for the non-profit's year - round programs while also honoring artist - driven films made with «an economy of means» by filmmakers whose work embodies diversity, innovation and a unique perspective.

Morvern Callar was so wonderful and unique and this film's reception has been so enthusiastic that it's skyrocketed almost to the top of my most anticipated films of the year.

One of the most original and charming films of the year, it is an imaginative interpretation of the Snow White fairy tale that combines the visual power of silent cinema with the dramatic force of an orchestral score to create an entirely unique method of storytelling.

It will be one of the most unique and thought - provoking films you will see all year or of any year recently.

Independent filmmaker and underground music aficionado David Markey's films include 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992) and the Los Angeles punk Super 8 cult classics The Slog Movie (1982), Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (1984), and its sequel Lovedolls Superstar (1986), all of which represent a unique record of the punk scene in Southern California throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Touting the unique production angle that had Linklater shooting this film for 11 years, using the same actors, including Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, the trailer is basically a highlight reel of a film that perfectly encapsulates what it's like to grow up, without hitting all the cliche trials and tribulations that we've seen countless times before.

Commitment can take on so many forms, conventional and unconventional alike, and with wonderfully measured performances from Sidse Babett Knudsen and Chiara D'Anna and a beautiful look provided by cinematographer Nic Knowland and production designer Pater Sparrow, The Duke of Burgundy is a truly unique film in a year defined by them.

Like a scripted take on the «7 Up» series, tracking a boy (Ellar Coltrane) from the age of six to eighteen as well as his family and shot at annual intervals, this process let Linklater use the signature low - key, intimate, beautifully observed style he's honed over twenty years, but blown up to a grander scale by virtue of the film's virtually unique conceit.

«Boyhood»: Richard Linklater's masterwork, and a piece of cinema as superb as it is unique, with one boy's step - by - step trek through the years brought to meaningful, beautiful life in a film made up almost entirely of the kinds of real, wrenching and funny scenes other, lesser movies either cut or never include in the first place.

Had the film been more about that aspect of it, and less about the root causes of hatred, perhaps we'd have something truly unique to separate this story from the plethora of World War II tales that have emerged over the years, especially Bridge on the River Kwai, which deals with the same subject in a fictionalized form.

Many of the films of my Top 10 are unique, there's nothing else like them, but this one perhaps is more original than any of the others this year.

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is one of the most unique, intriguing, and thought - provoking films coming out this year, and I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with the film's writer - director, Angela Robinson, who shed a bit of light on her process and her preconceived notions when making the film.

Although similar in many respects to the other submarine movies which have come out in the last 20 years, and in particular Das Boot, U-571 creates a unique feel of its own that makes it a must - see film for submarine movie fans.

Taking cues from both the original comic book series by Brian Lee O'Malley, the upcoming film from Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright, and approximately twenty years of gaming culture, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: the Game is set to rock the digital download space by being both exactly what we expect, and something entirely unique.