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It won major Australian literary prizes including the 1996 National Fiction Award and was described by the Times Literary Supplement as «one of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing.»

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Fonte left West Ham for China for this very reason, but conceding a penalty in an 8 - 0 defeat was not an auspicious debut.

Performing with her new band, Jones burst upon the pop music scene with her auspicious debut album, Come Away With Me, released by Blue Note Records in 2002.

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.

An auspicious directorial debut by DreamWorkers Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, working with a nicely barbed script from a team headed by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Shrek is a happy display of whizzy advances in computer animation (developed at PDI / DreamWorks) that allow faces and bodies to move and light to play on textures realistically.

Asian actress Lisa Lu made an auspicious American film debut as Mme Sue - Mei Hung in the 1960 war drama The Mountain Road.

The film, which was inspired by Denis» own experiences in Africa and those of working amongst the stark Southwest landscapes of Paris, Texas, proved to be a very auspicious debut, screening at Cannes that year and earning both a Golden Palm nomination and a César nomination for Best New Director.Denis followed her debut the next year with Man No Run, a documentary about Les Têtes Brulées («the Flaming Heads»), a Cameroon band on their first French tour.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Bill Chambers Punch - Drunk Love makes a rather auspicious Blu - ray debut as part of the Criterion Collection in a 2.39:1, 1080p transfer supervised by writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson.

In an auspicious directing debut, Edgerton provides more than just sound narrative structure and an atmosphere in which his co-stars have clearly flourished — nevermind the fact that he shot his own role two weeks into production and in the span of a single weeIn an auspicious directing debut, Edgerton provides more than just sound narrative structure and an atmosphere in which his co-stars have clearly flourished — nevermind the fact that he shot his own role two weeks into production and in the span of a single weein which his co-stars have clearly flourished — nevermind the fact that he shot his own role two weeks into production and in the span of a single weein the span of a single week.

There can surely be no greater test of an actor's ability than to carry a whole film almost single - handedly, and in Duncan Jones» auspicious debut feature

That makes it difficult to talk about in any significant detail — it'd be a shame if many of those ways are even hinted at, for fear of giving the entire game away — but it will suffice to say that the actor Joel Edgerton, here making his directorial debut with his own screenplay, has made an auspicious, enjoyable debut with this late summer surprise.

Written and directed by Stacie Passon in an auspicious directing debut effort, and produced by Rose Troche, CONCUSSION is a poignant sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert in a star making breakout turn), a forty something married wealthy, lesbian housewife who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son's baseball — walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else.

Horror author Barker made an auspicious debut as a director with this bloody shocker about a violent con artist who cheats death in gruesome fashion.

by Angelo Muredda Say this much for Alex Garland: there's an early stretch in Ex Machina, his auspicious directorial debut, where one wonders if one is seeing something relatively new.

Garden State, an auspicious writing and directing debut from Braff (of TV's charming Scrubs), is about Largeman's return to his New Jersey hometown, and like Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, it's more about mood and moments than telling a single story (and like that film, it's about an actor feeling numb to the «real» world).

This is all to say that it comes as something of a surprise to come back to the Coens» auspicious debut, Blood Simple, over a quarter - century after it was released and a solid decade since I last saw it, and find that it remains the one true oddity in the Coen canon that I had faintly remembered it as.

Taylor - Joy and Cooke are both marvelous in entirely different registers, and Finley distinguishes his auspicious debut with craftsmanship as razor - sharp as the dialogue.

The film features an original soundtrack by The Roots, and marks a most auspicious debut by Ms. Hamilton who deftly spins a palpably - authentic tale in impressive fashion.

LONDON — Short of a chance to back the car over Robert McCrum just outside the Hospital Club in Covent Garden, it's hard to think of a more auspicious debut for Authoright's new London Author Fair.

A couple of auspicious debuts are included in our latest rights update, as well as historical fiction, a children's entry, serial work and noir.

As in the best collections, the stories enhance each other, forging connections between recurrent characters and building a world where real locations like Islamabad and Lahore blend with imagined households... Themes of struggle and progress may be familiar, but Mueenuddin's rich stories make them fresh and powerful, marking a debut as auspicious as any so far this year.

In an auspicious debut, Johns sold three paintings (two targets and a numeral), to Alfred Barr, founding director of MoMA.

Sixteen Americans, which handed the then - unknown Stella the most auspicious debut of postwar American art, arrived as Abstract Expressionism was at its last gasp and upstarts like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were already sticking forks in it.

Rashid Johnson took the title of his auspicious New York solo debut from a 1964 book of poems by LeRoi Jones, now Amiri Baraka, that he produced during a transitional phase in his career, between his associations with the Beat movement and black nationalism.

Less auspicious is the debut of News, at least in its iPhone implementation.