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Here, he talks about making his North American film debut as Bruce Lee in Birth of the Dragon, a biopic about the legendary martial arts icon.

The Enemy Below (Kino Classics, Blu - ray), a World War II submarine drama based on the novel of the same name by Commander D. A. Rayner, stars Robert Mitchum as Captain Murrell, the newly - appointed commander of an American Destroyer in the South Atlantic, and German star Curd Jürgens making his American film debut as Commander Von Stolberg, a German submarine commander whose mission is imperiled when the American warship gives chase.

British director John Schlesinger made immediate impact with his American film debut.

If you missed Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to the big screen, you're not alone; lots of folks missed Kim Jee - woon's American film debut with The Last Stand.

Caspar Phillipson, a Danish actor making his American film debut, plays JFK (who does resemble the president), but is given very few lines.

Director Babak Najafi makes his American film debut and he does a great job with his team to create some jaw dropping action scenes.

Asian actress Lisa Lu made an auspicious American film debut as Mme Sue - Mei Hung in the 1960 war drama The Mountain Road.

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«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

International film and television star Van Vicker makes his American debut in LisaRaye McCoy's «Skinned.»

Ted is a 2012 American buddy comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane in his feature film directorial debut.

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Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent films, makes a striking directorial feature - film debut with «Trees Lounge,» in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.

With this honor to his name, Biggs segued into film a short time later, debuting in the 1997 Camp Stories.In 1999, the unequivocal hit that was American Pie came along, and Biggs, portraying Jim, one of the more perpetually humiliated members of a group of four friends trying to lose their virginity by high - school graduation, made an undeniably distinct impression on critics and audiences alike.

Noted French director Jean Renoir made his American debut with this 1941 film.

Despite compromises imposed upon German director Wim Wenders (in his American debut), it's still worth seeing this stylish film due to Forrest's performance in the lead.

Largely filmed on - location at Montacute House in Somerset, England, The Hound of the Baskervilles made its American TV bow over the Odyssey cable network on October 21, 2000, and seven days later debuted in Canada courtesy of CTV.

«It's nice to be here, with two films people find beautiful or brutal or interesting,» Mikkelsen said at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, where «A Royal Affair» and «The Hunt» made their North American debuts.

As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known trans person, Focus Features — the company distributing the film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).

Shane Meadows» previous film «Once Upon a Time in the Midlands» (2002) was, as its title would suggest, an attempt to transplant the American western onto English soil — but the hybrid which emerged was a disappointing romantic comedy that almost ruined the director's reputation (carefully built upon the improvised do - it - yourself naturalism of his 1997 debut «Twenty Four Seven» and his 1999 follow - up «A Room for Romeo Brass»).

Thanks to the vagaries of film distribution and the increasing difficulties of small films and foreign language productions to get theatrical releases, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama, which won the Best Director award at Cannes 2008, this one - week Seattle engagement at the Varsity Theatre is the film's American theatrical debut.

James Schamus» excellent Indignation, which is a film everyone must see, and now, Ewan McGregor's feature debut, American Pastoral.

Steve Carrell is a sweet, shy middle - aged geek and the last American virgin in The 40 - Year - Old Virgin (2005), the feature debut of director Judd Apatow (who wrote the film with Carrell), an oddly sweet mix of romantic comedy and adolescent shenanigans, albeit with a slightly older cast.

Beatty made his film debut in 1961's Splendor in the Grass and went on to produce and star in Arthur Penn's New American Cinema landmark Bonnie and Clyde.

Jean Renoir's «Swamp Water» (Twilight Time), his first American films, makes its home video debut direct to Blu - ray.

MTV has debuted another new trailer for Red Tails, the George Lucas - produced WWII film about the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African - American pilots to fly in a combat squad.

The best film at this year's Cannes Film Festival, and this film critic's top film of 2017 will likely have its North American debut at the majestic Sundance Film Fest.

Anchor Bay Films announced today the acquisition of all North American distribution rights to director / writer Richard Bates, Jr.'s debut feature film,...

After directing hit films A Tale of Two Sisters; The Good, The Bad, The Weird; and I Saw the Devil, Korean director Kim Jee - woon makes his American debut with The Last Stand (watch the new trailer here).

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Filming right now is American Ultra starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart while his directorial debut Me Him Her is awaiting distribution.

Hailed as «electrifying» by the Los Angeles Times and dubbed a «fire breathing debut» by IndieWire, the film was executive produced by Killer Films, purchased out of Sundance by Netflix, and enjoyed a theatrical release in select American cities through distributor FilmRise.

Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town is both written and directed by American filmmaker Christian Papierniak, making his feature directorial debut after a few short films previously.

Anchor Bay Films announced today the acquisition of all North American distribution rights to director / writer Richard Bates, Jr.'s debut feature film, Excision (review), which made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last month.

«Loving» (Jeff Nichols) Nichols» second film this year after «Midnight Special» debuted at Cannes and is skipping Telluride for a North American premiere at TIFF.

This extraordinary film marks the feature directorial debut of 28 - year old American actor Brady Corbet (Funny Games, Melancholia, Simon Killer).

Szifron is an Argentine film and television director and screenwriter who was set to make his American debut with the big budget Six Billion Dollar Man starring Mark Wahlberg.

This film makes its home video debut direct to Blu - ray, making it a rare American classic available solely on Blu - ray in this country.

Dillinger (Arrow, Blu - ray + DVD), the 1973 gangster film and directorial debut of John Milius, plays on that image of the gentleman gangster who courted the public and the press while he robbed banks across the American Midwest.

What makes this disc essential is its very special supplements: the American home video debut of Peckinpah's 1966 made - for - television drama Noon Wine, an intimate 52 - minute production shot on a combination of film and videotape and broadcast on TV once.

Aardvark is directed by American actor - filmmaker Brian Shoaf, making his feature directorial debut with this film after a few shorts previously.

In her feature film debut, «American Idol» sensation Jordin Sparks stars as Sparkle, a young woman whose big dreams seem almost impossible.

The Strange Ones is co-directed by American filmmakers Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein, both making their feature debut after a number of short films previously.

Sundance will debut the latest film from all - American filmmaker Todd Solondz, who hasn't had a new film from 2011's «Dark Horse.»

While the headline of my review for David Lowery's feature debut was «Ain't Them Bodies Saints Sure Is Pretty, But It Ain't Quite Divine» I do think it's a film that folks really need to get out and see as I'd rather have more American indies like this than The Spectacular Now or Kings Of Summer.

Yesterday, Pottermore debuted a never - before - seen featurette of the new film, which features interviews with the cast, the introduction of four new characters, and a behind - the - scenes look at the American world of wizardry.

The Killer Elite (Twilight Time, Blu - ray) is included not for the film itself — one of Peckinpah's impassioned expressions of loyalty, betrayal, professionalism, and violence as a way of life hung on a weak scrip — but for its very special supplements: the American home video debut of Peckinpah's 1966 made - for - television drama Noon Wine, an intimate 52 - minute production shot on a combination of film and videotape and broadcast on TV once.

Of the six features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray debuts and two appear on disc for the first time in the U.S.. From his debut feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personality.

Diane Venora and Gregory Hines make their respective feature film debuts as fellow investigators and Edward James Olmos is memorable as an American Indian activist who guides Finney through the lore of his people.

His multi-country cast ranges from Irishman Colin Farrell, Brits Rachel Weisz, Ben Whishaw, and Olivia Coleman, Frenchwoman Lea Seydoux, American John C. Reilly, and Greek Angeliki Papoulia, who described the film as «funny, violent and sweet» at last year's Cannes, where «The Lobster» debuted to positive notices and won the Jury Prize.

The Essential Jacques Demy (Criterion, Blu - Ray + DVD Dual - Format set) offers the definitive American disc releases of six of the defining films of Jacques Demy, the Nouvelle Vague «s sadder - but - wiser romantic, from his 1961 debut Lola to his 1982 Une Chambre en Ville, which makes its American home video debut here.