Sentences with phrase «assured debut feature»
Understanding is an elastic word, meaning knowledge but implying sympathy, and the friction between these two things is what powers Beautiful Boy, an assured debut feature by writer - director Shawn Ku that, unfortunately, closed Thursday at River East 21.
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It's an assured debut feature that doesn't pull any punches; you leave the theater transformed.
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A perceptive, unsettling psychodrama marking the assured feature writing and directing debut of shorts filmmaker Kyle Henry.
Jérôme Reybaud's assured feature debut is «an erotic road movie like no other» (Film Society of Lincoln Center) and an «ode to cruising writ large» (Slant).
This shimmery, darkly comic adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides» novel marks the assured, often inspired feature film debut of writer - director Sofia Coppola.
Although the film's title and a minimal amount of story come from author Michael Faber's 2000 novel, this is Glazer's most hyperstylized and unnerving film since Ben Kingsley got on the wrong side of Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman in the director's utterly self - assured feature debut, Sexy Beast.
Blood Simple (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD), the assured 1984 debut feature from Joel and Ethan Coen, essentially created the neo-noir aesthetic of the late eighties.
«Half Nelson» Thoughtfully shot and carefully observed, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's undeniably assured character study of an improbable teacher - student friendship in urban, inner - city Brooklyn is a rare work of restraint and a remarkable debut feature film.
The film may suffer from a case of over-marketing, But if expectations can be left at the door, it remains a confident, assured feature debut from Trachtenberg (the opening credit sequence is especially impressive), and a taut, engaging thriller.
A sensitive portrait of a hesitant woman attempting to rediscover her lust for life makes for an assured feature debut from Marcelo Martinessi.
Director Tim Miller (who makes a remarkably assured feature debut) and the writing team of Rhett Reese and Paul Warnick find everything amusing, no matter how nasty.
McCarthy, heretofore a Broadway actor who has also been a series regular on Boston Public and appeared on Ally McBeal, The Practice, and Law & Order: SVU, makes a surprisingly assured debut as a first - time feature director - writer.
It is cause for celebration when not just any film but a spectacularly assured feature debut such as this one from director Dan Trachtenberg works like gangbusters on nearly every cinematic level.
Debut films are rarely as sophisticated, assured and meditative as the first feature from video artist Kogonada.
«Novitiate» marks the ambitious, assured feature filmmaking debut of Margaret Betts, who takes on a topic that may sound dull — nuns in flux during the ideological shift of the Catholic Church's Vatican II — and makes it quietly riveting.
Tom Ford's 2009 feature A Single Man was a remarkably self - assured film debut, earning star Colin Firth an Oscar nomination, and a healthy level of buzz for whatever Ford made next.
Survival of the fittest is the prevailing theme of Animal Kingdom, the assured feature debut of Australian writer - director David Michôd.
Director Anders Walter won an Oscar in 2014 for his live - action short, «Helium,» and his feature debut «Giants» is assured, compelling filmmaking, with a complex performance by Madison Wolfe in the leading role as the killer of said giants.
A self - assured and masterfully shot feature - length debut, the film...
This is an assured directorial debut; a polished product that is fitting of a genre director with numerous features under his belt.
Incredibly assured for a feature debut, this is frightening and prescient.
You don't really need to tell this to Guillermo del Toro, as this is a well he's be drinking from since the early»90s and his assured, grotesque debut feature, Cronos.