Sentences with phrase «acclaimed film debut»
Actor Christian Bale made his critically acclaimed film debut in Steven Spielberg's «Empire of the Sun.»
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In 2016, critics cited the Oscars» snub of Netflix's critically acclaimed drama «Beasts of No Nation» as evidence that the industry was «turned off» by Netflix's business model, which debuts films on the streaming service simultaneously with theatrical releases.
The latest example debuts on Saturday, June 11, at 9 pm EST, with the premiere episode of director Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made in America, a five - part, 7.5 hour documentary series produced by ESPN Films, the sports network's production company that is behind the acclaimed series of 30 for 30 sports documentary films.
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.
Ringwald only lasted a season before she was let go, but her television work paved the way for subsequent screen roles.In 1982, Ringwald made an auspicious film debut in Paul Mazursky's acclaimed Tempest, earning a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of John Cassavetes» daughter.
Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.
Her critically acclaimed film, I»LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, opposite Blythe Danner made its world debut at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
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).
In 1932 he won great acclaim for his work in the play The Animal Kingdom, leading to an invitation from Hollywood where he made his film debut in 1932.
As unnerving as the film that follows, the trailer for Sean Durkin's acclaimed debut Martha Marcy May Marlene cultivates an enigmatic air.
Director Steven Soderbergh has averaged a film a year since his acclaimed 1989 debut Sex, Lies & Videotape, an incredible work rate by modern filmmaking standards especially for one who frequently works within the political vagaries fof the studio system.
Berling first earned acclaim in the theatre, where he was a fixture for many years, before making his film debut in 1993's Salt on Our Skin.
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.
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.
Up - and - coming filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his acclaimed debut film Krisha with It Comes At Night, a psychological horror thriller centering on a teenage boy (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) as he faces mounting terrors — both external and internal — in the aftermath of an unnamed apocalypse.
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-...]
Fox Searchlight has debuted a new international trailer for their upcoming The Shape Of Water, the outstanding new film from acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del...
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,
Not to be confused with Samuel L. Jackson's other snake movie, «Black Snake Moan» is the sophomore effort from writer / director Craig Brewer, whose debut film «Hustle & Flow» (another movie about a Southern musician battling his inner demons) earned the director critical acclaim in 2005 as one of the generation's most promising young talents.
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.»
Winning the Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival this year, the film is the highly anticipated English language debut of internationally acclaimed Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos and is set for general release in Ireland on 16th October.
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.
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).
An official UK trailer has debuted for the latest film from acclaimed director Lone Scherfig, of the films The Riot Club, One Day and An Education (one of my favorites).
From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.
As shouted by a flurry of headlines, the wry, humane coming - of - age comedy Lady Bird — the solo directorial debut of actor Greta Gerwig — is no longer merely «well - regarded» or «critically acclaimed»: it is, officially, THE BEST REVIEWED FILM OF ALL TIME.
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.
Geoffrey Roy Rush (born July 6, 1951 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia), a theater actor, received critical acclaim for his film debut as pianist David Helfgott in Shine (1996) by Scott Hicks.
His debut, the Green - produced Shotgun Stories, marked the start of a creative collaboration with actor Michael Shannon, who would go on to star in Nichols» breakthrough film, the acclaimed Take Shelter, and has appeared in all of his films since.
He has supplemented his full slate of contractually obligated Marvel Cinematic Universe appearances with an array of films, including the romantic comedy Before We Go, which marked his directing debut, and Bong Joon Ho's acclaimed Snowpiercer.
A24 Films marks Friday the 13th with the debut of a new poster and website for Robert Eggers» acclaimed period - horror film.
Finally following up his acclaimed 2006 debut Reprise, director Joachim Trier returns with a beautiful and uplifting film about drug addiction, depression and existential angst.
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.
Long known for his acclaimed work as a playwright, McDonagh's twisted yet captivating characters and scenarios have also made for compelling film viewing, starting with his directorial debut «Six Shooter,» which earned an Academy Award in 2006 for Best Live - Action Short Film, and followed by In Bruges (shot by Eigil Bryld) and Seven Psychopaths.
After following up her TV debut with a number of appearances in television commercials and music videos, Penelope went on to star in a handful of critically acclaimed Spanish films that brought home a number of Spanish Oscars and even an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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 wins, in other words, were as predictable as expected considering the acclaim heaped on all three of those films but especially La La, which has been sending critics to the moon since its festival debut.
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.
His directorial debut, the $ 4.5 million horror film, Get Out, was released in 2017 to critical acclaim and box - office success generating over $ 250 million, worldwide.
His debut film «Kicking and Screaming,» about four recent college grads who remain in their college town the following semester, premiered at the 1995 New York Film Festival to critical acclaim.
Since following up his low - budget debut Bottle Rocket (1996) with the acclaimed Rushmore (1998), Wes Anderson has been directing films like clockwork, guiding a new one to theaters every three years.
The debut film of It's the Earth, Not the Moon director Gonçalo Tocha, Balaou, won the Portuguese award in 2007 but never saw cinema release (finally coming out on DVD in 2012); the 2010 winner, Pedro Caldas» acclaimed Guerra Civil, remains lost in distribution limbo due to rights issues.
Noah Baumbach (Mistress in America) and Jake Paltrow's (The Good Night) acclaimed documentary De Palma — which explores the life and work of the legendary filmmaker Brian De Palma — is set for release here in the UK next week, and StudioCanal has debuted a new poster and trailer for the film; check them out -LSB-...]
So among the cheery hype and rousing acclaim welcoming this film's debut, another, slightly coarser sentiment is also present: It's about damn time.
Z Channel debuted in 1974 - long before HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, or any of the many movie channels - with a programming schedule consisting entirely of eclectic, forgotten, and critically acclaimed films (including works by Michael Cimino, Jean - Luc Godard, and various other masters of cinema).
Rian Johnson's follow - up to his acclaimed debut, 2005's Brick, The Brothers Bloom has been jam - packed with a whole host of effective elements - including uniformly strong performances and a vivid visual sensibility - and yet the film remains curiously uninvolving for the majority of its running time.
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, made her feature film directorial debut on the movie.