Not exact matches
As he and collaborator Lynn Novick prepare to
debut their new 10 - part documentary
film series The Vietnam War on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide, we spoke with the tireless documentarian about leadership, productivity, managing gigantic
projects and how to achieve immortality through storytelling.
A-Lister, made with BACARDÍ Gran Reserva Maestro de Ron, a super-premium mixing rum, is a nod to the guys» next big Hollywood
project in the form of Vinnie's directorial
debut and is best enjoyed alongside your own entourage before you catch the
film in theaters this summer.
Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature
debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in
projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family
film Holes.
The hard - working actress has made a career of choosing diverse and challenging
projects both in
film and television, starting with her acting
debut in the movie JOE, which she soon followed with the 1975 cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.
For his next movie, he'll reunite with one of his stars from his
debut film, Chris Hemsworth, who will star alongside Jeff Bridges in the 20th Century Fox
project.
Adding excitement to the
project beyond all the thinkpieces the media can run about what this means for diversity in cinema is the fact that Black Panther is written and directed by Ryan Coogler, a young filmmaker who followed his acclaimed
debut Fruitvale Station with a successful studio
film in the endearing Creed.
Son of a Gun comes from writer and director Julius Avery, who makes his feature
debut with this
project following a decade of short
films.
Thief marks the feature
film debuts of Prosky, Jim Belushi, Dennis Farina, and William Petersen, most of whom Mann would again work with on other
projects.
I was originally going to make a point about how surprising it is that nary a trace of Colin Trevorrow's style can be found here, but then I had to remind myself this
project is the antithesis of his 2012 feature
film debut.
Trier's latest, Louder Than Bombs, is an international coproduction and his English language
debut, a
project announcing its leads Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg and Gabriel Byrne back in 2013 when
filming was supposed to take place in New York that fall.
Initially unable to secure complete funding, the
project was temporarily shelved, but would thankfully go on to
film nearly a year later (meanwhile, screenwriter Eskil Vogt enjoyed his own festival tour with his acclaimed directorial
debut, Blind, which premiered at Sundance 2014 and picked up a Screenwriting award).
Andrew Stanton, a writer on Pixar's first five hit
films, the director of the biggest of those hits (Finding Nemo) and a Burroughs fan from childhood, successfully pitched the
project at Disney, which would become his live - action directing
debut.
Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis» participation in the
project that would become Nacho Vigalondo's Toronto»16
debut Colossal changed the
film's trajectory.
Comedian turned serious actor John Krasinski (13 Hours, Away We Go) makes his feature
film directing
debut on a
project that's unbalanced to a spectacular degree.
After growing up in the political tumult of France in the sixties and seventies, Assayas followed a path similar to the one traveled by several titans of the French New Wave, first working as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, then moving on to
film projects, including collaborations with André Téchiné and his own feature directorial
debut, the 1986 Disorder.
Sean Baker is the top
debut this month for The Florida
Project, landing at # 8 — just as his
film did in Best Picture.
The
film is going into production «soon,» according to Alfredson — meaning that this comes ahead of the
project previously announced as the Swedish filmmaker's English - language
debut, a re-adaptation of John Le Carre's British espionage saga «Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.»
When you're Rob Marshall and only have two other feature
films on your directing resume, it takes some guts to embark on a
project like Nine, even if you did manage to win a Best Picture Oscar for your directorial
debut Chicago (an award that many
film critics strongly disagree with, incidentally).
The stars of the highly anticipated new
film will talk about the
project and
debut exclusive content.
While we're no closer to finding out what Christopher Nolan «s next directorial
project will be, a
film is gearing up that is something very near; the directorial
debut of Nolan's regular DoP Wally Pfister, an original sci - fi
project called «Transcendence,» which has already attracted some serious A-list talent in the shape of Johnny Depp, who's going to be playing the
film's lead.
Director Volker Schlöndorff had already made three feature
films (including his influential 1966
debut, Young Törless) by the time he tackled this
project, casting a twenty - four - year - old Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the role of a booze - soaked, womanizing poet who goes on a scorched - earth bender across the German countryside.
After spending a decade acting in
film and TV
projects, writer / director Scott Cooper made his feature
film debut in 2009 with Crazy Heart.
Mike White hasn't directed a
film since making his
debut with Year Of The Dog, though he's been busy with TV
projects, including a TV spin - off from School Of Rock.
We reported last year that Jonathan Levine was going to follow up his
debut film, The Wackness, with The Sitter, but it would appear Levine has dropped out of the
project to make the dramedy I'm With Cancer, staring Seth Rogen and James McAvoy.
Other top nominees include the coming - of - age
film «Call Me By Your Name,» Greta Gerwig's directorial
debut «Lady Bird» and Sean Baker's childhood odyssey «The Florida
Project,» with three each.
In an exclusive interview, the multi-talented RZA talked about the genesis of the
project, what appealed to him about his character, how he prepared for the role, his collaboration with Delamarre on his feature directorial
debut, working with Belle and the late Walker and what they brought to the
film, his bold line of dialogue, what he learned about himself while making the movie, how Walker inspired him, his role in the upcoming martial arts sequel «The Protector 2» with Tony Jaa directed by Prachya Pinkaew, and his new Fox Network TV series, «Gang Related,» that premieres May 22nd.
As the title card for Unforgettable was
projected onto the screen at the beginning of our preview of this new psychological drama from
debut director Denise Di Nova, I could only imagine the thoughts of irony going through my fellow critics» heads as the
film played out before us.
Release Date: Since her excellent 2010
debut I Will Follow, DuVernay has become an impressive force to be reckoned with, challenging herself across a dizzying number of
projects and platforms (including the short
film The Door, which went to Venice 2013, television
projects such as a compelling portrait of Venus Williams with Venus Vs. for ESPN's «Nine for IX» series, and «Scandal,» plus she unveiled a surprise documentary
project this year with The 13th, an excellent portrait of the troubling history of racial injustice within the criminal justice system — and also the first documentary to open the New York
Film Festival).
The roll - out was especially unexpected given that the
film company is at the height of promoting their upcoming
project, Thor: Ragnarok which will
debut in just a little bit over two weeks.
Fresh from making his
film debut in the wild party found - footage
Project X, Jonathan Daniel Brown then took the lead in another hedonistic tale, but one based on a cautionary true story.
Emerging Finnish filmmaker AJ Annila («Sauna») will make his English - language feature
film debut on the
project, which Steve Buscemi and Wren Arthur of Olive Productions are executive producing with Tannaz Anisi, whose 13 Films will sell foreign rights at the Cannes
Film Market.
What You Need To Know: The directorial
debut of Akiva Goldsman, the screenwriter / producer behind not - so - good
films like «Batman & Robin,» «The Da Vinci Code» and «I Am Legend,» normally you might see a Goldsman
project on our least anticipated list.
The story of a little six year old girl who lives at a run - down motel with her on - the - brink mother in the shadow of Disney World in Orlando, Florida, The Florida
Project features one of the most incredible child performances I've ever seen from Brooklynn Prince, as well as a fantastic
debut role from non-actress Bria Vinaite as the mother / daughter pair that form the
film's heart.
But those in the know have been keeping tabs on Nichols since his breakout sophomore effort, the provocative apocalypse tale Take Shelter, and over these three
films (also including his
debut, Shotgun Stories, and the moderately successful and excellent Mud), he has established himself as a strong Southern voice on the independent scene, the sort of director who makes you sit up and take notice whenever he announces a new
project.
Renn helped Vera to produce her directorial
debut, Higher Ground, and they have plans of another
film project in the future.
Sean Baker's latest
film, «The Florida
Project,» won critics over when it
debuted at the Cannes
Film Festival earlier this year.
What's surprising is when that passion
project is as terrifying, unsettling, and deeply sorrowful as Hereditary, a haunted - house
film that
debuted at the Sundance
Film Festival.
Will they veer toward a smaller
film like The Florida
Project, a prestige
film like Darkest Hour, or a striking, searing, hilarious
debut film like Get Out?
After making his
debut with the indie
film Lars and the Real Girl, episodic television work ensued, followed by a contretemps over the studio comedy Mr. Woodcock, starring Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon and Billy Bob Thornton that saw him removed from the
project.
Think Jessica Chastain's glorious ascent in 2011, when she went from little - known Juilliard grad to Oscar nominee after a slew of simultaneously released
films, or Nicole Kidman, who had not one, but four
projects debut at the Cannes Film Festival — right after the celebrated release of her HBO miniseries Big Little Lies.
Beckwith originally intended the
project for the stage, then reconceived it as her
film directing
debut, earning recognition from the Nicholl Fellowship, the Black List and the Sundance Labs along the way.
The
film looks to be in the same mould as last years
PROJECT X, with THE HANGOVER creators, Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, making their joint directing
debuts.
The Weinstein Company picked up the
project for U.S. Distribution and
debuted a new version of the
film subtitled Them with a release date of September 26th this year.
Known for his acting chops in Art School Confidential, The Social Network and more recently, a stint on «The Handmaid's Tale,» Max Minghella got into the vocation of filmmaking with Teen Spirit — a feature
film debut he also wrote and which becomes one of several 2018
projects for American independent swiss army knife actress Elle Fanning.
Criterion
debuts the
film on DVD and Blu - ray in an amazing presentation; the Blu - ray is rich and bold and flawless, like a
film print fresh from the lab
projected directly onto the screen.
Canadian helmer Panos Cosmatos found a lot of fanfare stateside for his
debut film in 2010's Beyond the Black Rainbow, so naturally the XYZ Films and Spectre Vision folks saw a bankable filmmaker might be trending for whatever he conjured up for his sophomore
project.
Filmed in eighteen days with a modest $ 1 million budget, most of those who do catch the dreamy David Strathairn - starring drama are impressed, least of all because it is the
debut feature
film project of writer and director Aaron Wiederspahn, who crafted the strange, but beautiful tale from a recurring dream of his own.»
Meanwhile, the actor is boarding two very different
projects that begin
filming this year: 1) Dark Knight Rises cinematographer Wally Pfister's directorial
debut on the sci - fi flick Transcendence and 2) the Whitey Bulger biopic Black Mass, with Depp playing «the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston.»
list for March as the most anticipated docu feature) and Jim Cummings «Thunder Road (which was our highest ranked male filmmaker with a
film project debut on our most anticipated American indies for 2018) were handed the Grand Jury prizes in their respective Comp sections.
We
project films while we write and record, and this
film played a lot during the making of our
debut album.