Sentences with phrase «acclaimed debut feature»

Since his highly acclaimed debut feature, Citizen Ruth (1996), Payne has solidified his standing as one of the most savagely funny and poignantly perceptive chroniclers of contemporary American life working today, taking home Oscars for cowriting the screenplays of both Sideways (2004) and The Descendants (2011).
The Argentine filmmaker discusses his critically acclaimed debut feature, The Human Surge, which follows young people working, exploring, and connecting...
Barber previously worked with Lonergan on his acclaimed debut feature, «You Can Count On Me,» and she has provided music for films such as «Mansfield Park,» «Hysterical Blindness,» «A Price Above Rubies,» and «When Night Is Falling.»

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Unlike the critically acclaimed debut season, which featured Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, the series creator has said that next season will feature four lead characters.
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 highly anticipated debut feature from acclaimed author Charlie McDowell, THE ONE I LOVE is an original tale that continues to showcase McDowell's keen observations of human relationships with a distinct and comedic voice.
Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).
This documentary features Egyptian - American comedian Ahmed Ahmed, in his directorial debut, along with a host of critically acclaimed international stand - up comedians.
Directed by Nash Edgerton, who made his feature length directorial debut with the acclaimed Australian thriller The Square, Gringo also stars Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Yul Vazquez, Thandie Newton, and Sharlto Copley.
So begins a long journey towards the light... The Girl Without Hands is the audacious feature debut from acclaimed short filmmaker Sébastien Laudenbach, whose beautiful and dreamlike take on the Brothers Grimm story has created an adult fairytale destined to become a classic.
Wringing every sweat - bead of tension from its fiercely concentrated narrative, acclaimed TV director Yann Demange's debut feature covers one night in the life (and potential death) of a young British soldier stranded by his unit in a riot - blasted IRA stronghold at the zenith of the Northern Ireland nationalist conflict.
Wringing every sweat - bead of tension from its fiercely concentrated narrative, acclaimed TV director Yann Demange's debut feature covers one night in the -LSB-...]
James L. Brooks came to Broadcast News from a storied career in television and following his acclaimed feature debut, Terms of Endearment (1983).
Well - received by critics and audiences at this year's Sundance Festival, «The Deep End» is the second feature from directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, coming a full eight years after their acclaimed debut «Suture».
It's only Ryan Coogler's third feature — and an ambitious leap from his impressive 2013 debut, Fruitvale Station, and his critically acclaimed Rocky franchise entry, Creed (2015)-- but Black Panther is executed with the confidence of a far more experienced filmmaker.
Following a string of acclaimed short films, commercials and video work, Venezuelan director Carl Zitelmann makes his feature debut with The Lake Vampire - the true life tale of a true life vampire, namely serial killer Zacarias Ortega known for...
Zhao follows up on her debut film, the critically acclaimed «Songs My Brothers Taught Me» (2015), with this production that features three members of the Jandreau family playing their fictional selves.
The film — which had its world premiere at the Toronto International, receiving critical acclaim — marks the feature directorial debut for Michael Pearce and stars Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn; watch it here... Moll (Jessie Buckley, TABOO, WAR AND PEACE) is 27 -LSB-...]
The film's wildly loyal producer Judd Apatow, then known as a showrunner of acclaimed but short - lived TV comedies, would again cast Rudd in his hit feature directing debut,
The big one this weekend is the great Ridley Scott's latest film, The Counselor, featuring acclaimed author Cormac McCarthy's screenwriting debut and a star - studded cast headlined by the always captivating Michael Fassbender.
The British director made his feature debut in 2012 with the critically acclaimed doc The Imposter, about a Spanish man, Frédéric Bourdin, who claimed to be a missing Texas teenager, boldly deceiving the family and authorities.
Martin McDonagh's debut feature In Bruges toured the festival circuit in 2008 to great acclaim, with its blackly comic hitman in hiding premise and pitch perfect cast of Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes making it a certified hit.
Their debut feature has been making the rounds in festivals and on VOD, gathering critical acclaim and a handful of awards along the way.
The highly acclaimed and sparsely seen trilogy of films made by Pedro Costa in the impoverished Fontainhas neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon debuts on DVD in Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films By Pedro Costa (Criterion), a generous box set from Criterion featuring Ossos (1997), In Vanda's Room (2000) and Colossal Youth (2006).
From Academy Award - nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award - winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world - renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger - than - life literary giant Thomas Wolfe.
This week's Nintendo Download includes the following featured content: Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze — Barrel blast into a critically acclaimed Donkey Kong adventure as this beloved franchise makes its Nintendo Switch debut with a (banana) bunch of new features.
Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze — Barrel blast into a critically acclaimed Donkey Kong adventure as this beloved franchise makes its Nintendo Switch debut with a (banana) bunch of new features.
GKIDS has released the first poster and trailer for cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw's My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea which features a voice cast that includes Jason Schwartzman, Lena Dunham, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, and Susan Sarandon; take a look below... From acclaimed cartoonist Dash Shaw (New School) comes an audacious debut that -LSB-...]
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman is the feature debut of highly acclaimed commercials & music video director Fredrik Bond, telling a story of love set mostly in Bucharest, Romania starring Shia LaBeouf as Charlie.
The acclaimed «Beasts» marks the feature debut for both director Benh Zeitlin, who relocated several years ago to Louisiana, and Richardson, who's English.
The second is «Portugal,» an adventurous love story with comic elements, which marks the feature debut of acclaimed actor and stage director Lauri Lagle.
After directing the acclaimed documentaries Deliver Us From Evil and West of Memphis, Amy Berg is set to make her narrative helming debut with Every Secret Thing, a feature adaptation of Laura Lippman's 2004 mystery novel that will star Diane Lane, reports Variety.
Acclaimed TV director Yann Demange delivers a notable debut feature, an exhilarating action movie that has more in common with the work of Walter Hill or John Carpenter than it does with other depictions of The Troubles in recent British cinema.
Eduardo Williams is an Argentine filmmaker whose debut feature, The Human Surge (2016), has received significant critical acclaim on the festival circuit.
Cube made his feature film debut in 1991 in Boyz n the Hood, and proceeded to parlay his critically - acclaimed performance into an enviable career.
The star of Jeune Femme talks to Demetrios Matheou about her breakthrough role in feature debut director Léonor Serraille's acclaimed film.
The acclaimed Catalan filmmaker on the joys of directing child actors, revisiting her past, and her feature debut Summer 1993.
Mr. Wright executive - produced Joe Cornish's feature directorial debut Attack the Block; and Ben Wheatley's acclaimed Sightseers, starring Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, both of whom can be seen in The World's End.
Emmy Award winner Cary Fukunaga made his feature film writing and directing debut with the acclaimed film Sin Nombre for Focus Features, for which he won the directing award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
The acclaimed performer of stage and screen makes his feature film directing debut with «Breathe,» the Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy starrer about husband - wife activist duo Robin and Diana Cavendish.
Late last year, though, the acclaimed writer - director began work on a» 70's - set coming - of - age rock «n» roll story tentatively titled «The Twylight Zones,» his feature directorial debut, which seemingly draws from Chase's own experiences chasing the musical dream in Jersey.
Lady Bird is the feature directorial debut of acclaimed American actress Greta Gerwig, though she also co-directed Nights and Weekends with Joe Swanberg previously.
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, made her feature film directorial debut on the movie.
In following up an acclaimed first series (the British original version of The Office, which featured Gervais as the estimable David Brent), they deliberately set expectations low (Gervais remarked before the first season debuted that it would be referred to as «the disappointing follow - up to The Office»).
But his oeuvre before Funny Games «diatribe against violence as entertainment has so far gone largely un-examined, receiving little (if any) serious critical attention, even though the seeds of his most famous and acclaimed films are clearly present in Haneke's work from his feature debut The Seventh Continent (1989).
Jolie made her feature - length directorial debut with 2011's critically - acclaimed In The Land of Blood and Honey, which she has followed up with Louis Zamperini biopic Unbroken, due out on Christmas Day.
THE GREASY STRANGLER USA — Dir: Jim Hosking The feature debut of absurdist advertising genius / acclaimed short filmmaker Jim Hosking is the grossest father - son comedy you'll ever see and the weirdest serial killer film on the planet, propelled by an in - your - face drive to baffle, nauseate, and antagonize with its bizarre brand of humor.
The son of acclaimed Australian director Ray Lawrence (Lantana, Bliss), GHOSTHUNTER is Ben's debut feature.
On this week's edition of my new Deadline video series Behind the Lens, which features conversations with top directors, I speak with Greta Gerwig, who is making her solo directorial debut with the critically acclaimed Lady Bird.
Writer / director Robert Eggers» debut feature, which premiered to great acclaim at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival — winning the Best Director Prize in the U.S. Narrative Competition — painstakingly recreates a God - fearing New England decades before the 1692 Salem witch trials, in which religious convictions tragically turned to mass hysteria.
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