Sentences with phrase «actor made his feature film»

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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.

Since the 2013 film «Drinking Buddies,» Swanberg has been working with Hollywood actors — indeed, with stars — and his new feature, «Digging for Fire,» made on a likely scant budget, has a cast that any director could envy.

Since the 2013 film «Drinking Buddies,» Swanberg has been working with Hollywood actors — indeed, with stars — and his new feature, «Digging for Fire,» made on a likely scant budget, has a cast that any director could envy, including Jake Johnson (who co-wrote the film with Swanberg), Rosemary DeWitt, Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, Orlando Bloom, Mike Birbiglia, Judith Light, Sam Elliott, Jane Adams, Ron Livingston, Melanie Lynskey, and Jenny Slate.

«Alexander» is an excessive, massive film, «spectacular» only in the sense that it features many actors making spectacles of themselves.

Goreshter made her foray into film opposite actor Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Liam Hemsworth in the high stakes thriller feature PARANOIA, directed by Robert Luketic.

Naturally, this film wasn't made by a large studio or featured well - known actors.

And while 12 Years a Slave provides ample meat for its established actors (Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti and Brad Pitt feature memorably), it also helps shape a star in Nyong» o (making her film debut) who is heart - wrenchingly real as the terrorised Patsey.

The One I Love is cleverly written by Justin Lader and directed with budget - minded skill by Charlie McDowell (son of actor Malcolm, and step - son to Ted Danson, who makes a small acting appearance), both of whom are making their feature film debuts.

New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with actors Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Allan Nicholls, and Lily Tomlin; screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury; assistant director Alan Rudolph; and Altman's widow, Kathryn Reed Altman

On another track, actor Topher Grace joins writer - director Paul Weitz for a respectable feature - length commentary in which they mock Grace's Agent Smith - like attire and mutually confess to making the film in partial tribute to their respective fathers.

EXTRAS: The Criterion release features hours of new bonus material, including an audio commentary by writer / director Richard Linklater and various cast and crew, a making - of documentary, a Q&A with Linklater and actors Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane, a video essay by film critic Michael Koresky and much more.

Mudbound, which features both black and white actors, has a 97 % on Rotten Tomatoes, making it already one of the best - reviewed films of the year.

Most of the features that make Lewis» directorial work such a remarkable exception to the dominance of a realist aesthetic in Hollywood filmmaking are brilliantly apparent in The Errand Boy, including the foregrounding of sound manipulation (most blatant in the sequence involving the post-synchronisation of the song «Lover» for a musical film, and in the tape manipulation of Kathleen Freeman's reaction to having been left by her driver in the back seat of a convertible receiving a car wash) and the placement of actors in a shot so as to highlight the presence of the camera (as when Morty, an undirected and oblivious extra in a film - within - the - film cocktail - party scene, keeps looking at the camera from the background of a shot in which other extras, in their roles as party guests, intermittently block him from the camera).

It may come as a surprise that the main four actors portraying the Somali pirates are all making their feature film debut.

It does feature a very impressive cast of actors, who all do very good work in their respective roles, which makes this film feel a few notches above made - for - TV fare.

Red Christmas is both written and directed by Australian actor - filmmaker Craig Anderson, making his feature directorial debut after numerous short films and TV work including «Double the Fist», «Black Comedy», and «How Not to Behave».

I find i learn a lot about making films from the special features, if the director, writer or actor speak about their own experiences.

A vérité style narrative featuring professional and non-professional actors, and produced with a crew made up largely of women, Newman offers a new take on the sports film which wisely avoids sentimentality and melodrama.

Special Features Andrei Tarkovsky's short film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's «The Killers,» made when he was a student in 1956 Interview from 2002 with writer Stuart M. Kaminsky about both films Piece from 2002 in which actor Stacy Keach reads Hemingway's short story «Screen Directors»» Playhouse radio adaptation from 1949 of the 1946 film, starring Burt Lancaster and Shelley Winters Interview from 2002 with actor Clu Gulager Audio excerpt from director Don Siegel's autobiography, «A Siegel Film,» read by actor and director Hampton Fancher Trailers PLUS: Essays by novelist Jonathan Lethem and critic Geoffrey O'Brien

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

In addition, the disc includes 6 deleted scenes, a trailer, a making of featurette, and a wonderful booklet featuring essays by film critic Amy Taubin and LeRoy; a 1991 article by Lance Loud; and reprinted interviews with Van Sant, Phoenix, and actor Keanu Reeves.

Bonus extras include a new interview with actor Sid Haig recorded exclusively for this release; archive interview with producer - director Jack Hill; stills gallery; double - sided fold - out poster; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork; and limited edition booklet containing behind - the - scenes information about the cast and the making of the film.

Terence Davies, an actor turned filmmaker who directed his first short film in 1976, has made a mere six features since 1988, when he released his debut feature Distant Voices, Still Lives.

Veteran actor of stage, film and television William H. Macy makes his feature filmmaking debut on Rudderless,

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

Working with Sundance Institute on casting also provided some insight to what casting for the actual feature will be like, and made it more clear exactly what types of personality traits each actor should have to really make each of the film's characters complete.

Bonus materials on the unrated Blu - ray release include commentary by writer - director Roger Donaldson, actor Sam Neill and actor - writer Ian Mune; The Making of Sleeping Dogs (2004), a 65 - minute retrospective documentary on the film's production featuring interviews with Donaldson, Neill, and Mune; The Making of Sleeping Dogs (1977), a behind - the - scenes featurette; theatrical trailer; and reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork.

During our wide - ranging conversation he talked about making his feature debut (he previously helmed the miniseries Top of the Lake), the challenge of casting a child actor, balancing fact and fiction, how he collaborates with his cinematographer, what he learned from test screenings, filming in India, and more.

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.

The Atlanta - area actor has had one hell of a year, making her feature film debut in Clint Eastwood's «Sully» and then Ang Lee's «Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.»

Extras: New interviews with Coppola, Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson; «Making of The Virgin Suicides,» a 1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola and featuring Sofia Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods, Eugenides, and more; «Lick the Star,» a 1998 short film by Coppola; official music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola; trailer; an essay by novelist Megan Abbott.

Extras: New interview with Mungiu; «The Making of Beyond the Hills,» a documentary from 2013, produced by Mungiu; press conference from the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, featuring Mungiu and actors Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta, and Dana Tapalaga; deleted scenes; trailer; an essay by film scholar Doru Pop.

Extras: New 4K scan from the original film elements; new audio commentary with writer - director Albert Pyun; new «A Ravaged Future — The Making of Cyborg» featuring interviews with Pyun, actors Vincent Klyn, Deborah Richter and Terrie Batson, director of photography Philip Alan Waters and editor Rozanne Zingal; new «Shoestring Fantasy - The Effects of Cyborg» featuring interviews with visual effects supervisor Gene Warren Jr., Go - Motion technician Christopher Warren and rotoscope artist Bret Mixon; extended interviews from Mark Hartley's documentary «Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films» with Pyun and Sheldon Lettich; theatrical trailer; still gallery.

Extras: Audio commentary with film producer and historian Bruce Block; new appreciation of the film and select scene commentary by film historian Philip Kemp; «The Flawed Couple,» a new video essay by filmmaker David Cairns on the collaborations between Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon; «Billy Wilder ABC,» an overview by David Cairns on the life and career of the filmmaker, covering his films, collaborators and more; new interview with actress Hope Holiday; «Inside the Apartment,» a half - hour «making - of» featurette from 2007 including interviews with Shirley MacLaine, executive producer Walter Mirisch, and others; «Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon,» an archive profile of the actor from 2007; original screenplay by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond (BD - ROM content); theatrical trailer; special collector's packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Ignatius Fitzpatrick; collector's 150 - page hardcover book featuring new writing by Neil Sinyard, Kat Ellinger, Travis Crawford and Heather Hyche, generously illustrated with rare stills and behind - the - scenes imagery.

Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb's semi-documentary was given its title because on a certain level, it isn't a film in the way of Panahi's past work — it has no script or actors, it was shot in the Tehran apartment in which he's been serving out his house arrest, and it's centered around his talking through the feature he would have made had he not been banned from filmmaking for 20 years.

- Digital transfer of the director's cut, supervised by director Wes Anderson (with new DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack)- Audio commentary featuring Anderson, cowriter Owen Wilson, and actor Jason Schwartzman - The Making of Rushmore, an exclusive behind - the - scenes documentary by Eric Chase Anderson - «Max Fischer Players Present» theatrical «adaptations» of Armageddon, Out of Sight, and The Truman Show, staged for the 1999 MTV Movie Awards - Episode of The Charlie Rose Show featuring Wes Anderson and actor Bill Murray - Audition footage - Anderson's hand - drawn storyboards, plus a film - to - storyboard comparison - Collectible poster, essay by film critic Dave Kehr

Comics / actors Jordan Peele and Keegan - Michael Key star in the film, which was also written by and directed by «Key & Peele» veterans making the leap into features.

The Criterion debut of the film features a new video interviews with Ballhaus and the original featurette «Outsiders» featuring new interviews with actors Margit Carstensen, Eva Mattes, Katrin Schaake, and Hanna Schygulla, plus a new interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc about director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the film, and the 1992 documentary Role Play: Women on Fassbinder, originally made for German TV and featuring interviews with Carstensen, Schygulla, and actors Irm Hermann and Rosel Zech.

And while I'd much rather have another film featuring Emily Blunt, Brolin and Del Toro are strong enough actors to make for an interesting dynamic.

Don't Think Twice is the latest film written and directed by comedian / actor / filmmaker Mike Birbiglia, who made his feature directing debut with the indie hit Sleepwalk with Me in 2012.

Celebrity movie buffs, including Irish actor Christopher Keegan, who features in the film, made their way to The Savoy Cinema, Dublin for a special screening of Chris Hemsworth's epic turn in In...

It goes without saying that expectations are pretty high for his latest project, but the movie features what is arguably the best cast of awards season, reuniting Russell with many of the actors that made his last two films so successful.

Special Features Conversation between director Robert Altman and actor Tim Robbins from 2004 Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country, a feature - length 1993 documentary on the making of Short Cuts To Write and Keep Kind, a 1992 PBS documentary on the life of author Raymond Carver One - hour 1983 audio interview with Carver, conducted for the American Audio Prose Library Original demo recordings of the film's Doc Pomus Mac Rebennack songs, performed by Rebennack (Dr. John) Deleted scenes A look inside the marketing of Short Cuts PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Wilmington

From his second feature, 2008's Tony Manero, about a Saturday Night Fever - obsessed killer in»70s Chile, up to his forthcoming film, the poetic Neruda (out in the UK in April), Larraín has made character studies that trust audiences to search the sweep of a film for meaning, using the formal potential of cinema to explore what people are like, rather than saddling an actor with revelatory baggage.

Talking with the Vampires (2018) A new documentary about the film made by Ferrara especially for this release, featuring actors Christopher Walken and Lili Taylor, composer Joe Delia, Ken Kelsch, and Ferrara himself

In addition to best film last year, the Spirit Awards and Oscars lined up on best actor (Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea), screenplay (Barry Jenkins took adapted for Moonlight at the Oscars), and feature documentary (O.J. Made in America).

New documentary about the making of the film, featuring actors Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell, and Laura San Giacomo

His first movie to feature known actors, while still following his loosely sketched out but largely improvised approach, the alcohol - centric unrequited love story was certainly his most accomplished effort to date (and made some $ 3 million - plus on VOD last summer; a huge success for the film).

Extras include an illustrated paper foldout on the film including informative text and an essay by novelist Megan Abbott, New interviews with Coppola, DP Ed Lachman, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, author Jeffrey Eugenides, and writer Tavi Gevinson, The Making of «The Virgin Suicides» (1998 documentary directed by Eleanor Coppola) featuring Sofia Coppola; Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola; actors Dunst, Hartnett, Scott Glenn, Kathleen Turner, and James Woods; Eugenides; and more, Lick the Star, a 1998 short film by Coppola, the official (and odd) music video for Air's soundtrack song «Playground Love,» directed and shot by Coppola and her brother Roman Coppola and an Original Theatrical Trailer.

A little over a year ago, we learned that Anderson was making another stop - motion animated movie, that it's about dogs, and that it will follow in the footsteps of his previous film and feature an impressive ensemble of actors.