Sentences with phrase «actors turned directors»

The six episodes in «Madly» were directed by Japan's Sion Sono, Chile's Sebastian Silva, India's Anurag Kashyap, the U.K.'s Natasha Khan and two actors turned directors, Mexico's Gael Garcia Bernal and Australia's Mia Wasikowska.

It's fitting that so many of these actors turned directors tend to focus on character - driven pieces, be they comedy or drama or both.

When it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year, Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River was jeered off the Croisette, subject to the critical schadenfreude that's often reserved for the misadventures of actors turned directors.

It is worth noting that when Lee Frost, Race With the Devil's original director, was fired early in the production he was replaced by Jack Starrett, a former AIP actor turned director who, with little artistic pretence, was able to sustain a successful career in exploitation filmmaking throughout the 1970s.

Actor turned Director Tom McCarthy clearly understands how to work with this large, talented ensemble cast and let his actors do their thing without getting in the way.

When fellow actor turned director Clint Eastwood did his Boston crime picture Mystic River, we had the towering, bellowing Sean Penn keening with wild hair and Tim Robbins doing mumbling, stuttering stuff as a caricature of an emotionally stilted man.

Back in 2011, actor turned director Charles Martin Smith had great success with Dolphin Tale, the true story of a dolphin who lost her tail in a crab pot.

Actor turned director Tate Taylor proves to be even less adept crafting mystery thrillers than he does insincere period melodrama with his third feature, The Girl on the Train, an adaptation of the bestselling pulp novel by Paula Hawkins.

Re-teaming with the familiar faces of former co-stars Colman (Le Donk & Scor - zay - zee), Mullan and Marsan (The Red Riding Trilogy), the actor turned director examines the interaction of two people cast into the roles of villain and victim in their own lives.

While Kress, like many casting directors, has filmmakers she works with regularly, this was her first time paired with actor turned director Scott Cooper, best known for having written and helmed «Crazy Heart,» which won Jeff Bridges an Academy Award.

Actor turned director Joel David Moore's film on the topic of legal human euthanasia isn't the first of 2016 to cover such grounds.

Lucky comes to us from the most recent actor turned director John Carroll Lynch, whose name might not be household, but his face certainly is.

Whereas Zero boasts the buzz - attracting pedigree of Bigelow and Boal, Seal Team Six hails from John Stockwell, an actor turned director whose niche has been water - based films like Blue Crush and Into the Blue.

An extremely strange hybrid of dark comedy / drama, actor turned director John Slattery's (from Mad Men fame) film God's Pocket will likely be forever known only because of it's featuring of one of screen legend Philip Seymour Hoffman's last roles as grubby (when wasn't he grubby?)

Laughton's obsessive specificity supposedly made this great piece of art too much of a spiritual burden for the actor turned director, and he never made another film.

According to The Tracking Board, the actor turned director is the studio's top choice to play the prince transformed into a beast by a beautiful enchantress as punishment for his arrogance.

Apparently, actor turned director Peter Berg suffers from the same issues that George Clooney had when making Confessions of a Dangerous Mind — this is, he felt that he had something to prove.

It is this strong system of beliefs and political awareness that has elevated Tim Robbins from your average actor turned director to the level of first class filmmaker.

The actor turned director's passion project is a psychological stunner that shows the effects the Khmer Rouge's reign left on the people of Cambodia

This isn't a remake of the 2000 Sam Rami / Cate Blanchett film, it's actually an original screenplay by Aussie actor turned director Joel Edgerton (Warrior, The Great Gatsby).

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Australian actor turned director Jennifer Kent is the latest to attempt to take horror in a different direction with her feature debut The Babadook, a film that takes supernatural horror and shunts it off into a novel course.

That she, a 34 - year - old actress turned director from Sacramento, and he, a 38 - year - old bi-racial actor turned director from the Upper West Side, would have been scarce in that age — as they still are today — wasn't lost on the pair.

Australian actor turned director Jennifer Kent is the latest to attempt to take horror in a different direction with her feature debut

This is Your Death is the second film from actor turned director Giancarlo Esposito (Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials).

As an actor turned director, Krasinski's performance is unselfish and he allows his co-stars to take center stage.

Not exact matches

Like the directors that so clearly inspired Affleck (William Friedkin, Sidney Lumet, among others) so often did with true stories turned into captivating entertainment, the actor / director has made such a fine - tuned, well - oiled machine of a film.

Dax Shepard, who serves as co-director, one of the several producers, writer, and star of Hit and Run, appears to be heading in the right direction for actors - turned - directors with his off - kilter debut film.

Of the many actors who've tried their hands as directors this season, Steve Buscemi may turn out to be the most exciting of the crop.

The young actor scored an equally memorable follow - up via a collaboration with director Catherine Hardwicke playing legendary daredevil skateboarder Stacy Peralta in the period drama Lords of Dogtown (2005), and enjoyed small turns in the Pierce Brosnan western Seraphim Falls and the effects - heavy sci - fi action saga Transformers.

It's terrifying all right, but only for what it says about the extents to which a couple of hungry actors and a bullish director will go to turn themselves into overnight celebrities.

Actor - director delves deep into the making of «The Room» and turns in a hilarious, moving ode to art, strange accents and friendship

Loosely inspired by the true story of the heavy metal band Judas Priest, this music industry fable from director Stephen Herek is based on a script by actor - turned - writer / director John Stockwell.

Hoot is flatly directed by talk - show - host - turned - sitcom - director Wil Shriner, but the young actors are spirited and appealing, and the movie's low - key anti-establishment posture is vastly preferable to the knee - jerk fulminations of a Michael Moore.

As ever, the director has a real gift at working with actors; Richard Pryor's dramatic chops surprised viewers of Schrader's «Blue Collar» back in 1978, and Cedric the Entertainer's solid turn here should do likewise.

A similar fate occurred with Kinsey, in which the actor convincingly played the curious, bisexual assistant - and occasional lover - of the sex researcher.Though ignored by the Oscars, Sarsgaard found his profile rising with powerful casting directors, and in turn, the public.

Hammer landed two of his first major roles at polar opposite ends of the dramatic spectrum: one playing the young Christian evangelical minister Billy Graham in actor - turned - director Robby Benson's chronicle of Graham's early life, Billy: The Early Years (2008), and another playing the son of Satan on the small screen fantasy adventure series Reaper.

His father is actor / director (As The World Turns, current) Dan Hamilton.

All the actors know how to turn on the charm and director Johnnie To hits the laugh buttons, but the main aim seems to be playing on women's fantasies about three very hot guys who are dying to drop everything and fall in love.

Occasionally wandering to the other side of the cameras, Vint has functioned as writer, producer and director, often under the auspices of another «good ole boy» actor - turned - producer, Max Baer.

But then over the course of the past decade or so, working with directors like Olivier Assayas, Hou Hsiao - hsien, Abbas Kiarostami, and David Cronenberg, she has turned into one of the best actors working today.

The Garden State actor - turned - director stepped behind the camera for the upcoming remake of the 1979 crime comedy, and he is still in awe at landing three «legends» to star as retirees who scheme to rob a bank.

Going in Style is directed by actor - turned - filmmaker Zach Braff, director of the films Garden State and Wish I Was Here previously.

Actor - turned - director Mawenn Le Besco's Polisse, a microcosmic look at an elite Child Protection Unit, delves into cultural taboos while operating as a first - rate cop - ensemble drama.

Real Name: Emilio Estevez Image: 80s film star turned up - and - coming director Birth Date: May 12, 1962 Best Known For: Being part of the Brat Pack Early Life: Born in New York, Emilio is the eldest son of actor and activist Martin Sheen.

Actor - turned - director Clint Eastwood is back with his newest film since Gran Torino last year titled Invictus starring Morgan Freeman as former South African President Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as rugby player Francois Pienaar.

The director: Maïwenn (France) The talent: Actress - turned - writer - director Maïwenn Le Besco (who prefers going by her first name, and whom US viewers might remember as the blue - tentacled soprano from «The Fifth Element») takes the lead role herself, starring opposite French rapper - turned - actor Joeystarr.

The festival also will showcase a number of movies from prominent actors - turned - directors, organizers announced Tuesday.

Also, this is Grandage's first feature film; he was previously a theater actor turned theater director and has won several distinguished awards, including the Laurence Olivier theater award for Best Director for «Caligula» director and has won several distinguished awards, including the Laurence Olivier theater award for Best Director for «Caligula» Director for «Caligula» in 2004.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Brian Helgeland Actors: Harrison Ford, Jon Bernthal, Chadwick Boseman Plot: The story behind Jackie Robinson's historical turn at breaking the color barrier in baseball, with guidance from Brooklyn Dodger's executive director RickyDirector: Brian Helgeland Actors: Harrison Ford, Jon Bernthal, Chadwick Boseman Plot: The story behind Jackie Robinson's historical turn at breaking the color barrier in baseball, with guidance from Brooklyn Dodger's executive director Rickydirector Ricky Branch.