Sentences with phrase «auspicious feature»

Goldwyn made an auspicious feature directorial debut with «A Walk on the Moon» starring Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen.

There's an attempt at closure that leaves both women and the viewer unsatisfied, but Sigismondi, a video director who makes an auspicious feature debut, should be congratulated for refusing a nice neat bow.

This auspicious feature debut for Michael Pearce portrays a young woman flirting with danger on the English island of Jersey.

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His first round featured just one upset, so that's an auspicious start to things: North Carolina, Providence, Indiana, Kentucky, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, and Xavier all advanced here, with 14th - seeded Stephen F. Austin University scoring the upset over No. 3 West Virginia.

FIRST TIME FEST also features a retrospective series called First Exposure which showcases the auspicious and ambitious debuts by artists who went on to become major filmmakers.

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

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

Why it could succeed: After his auspicious debut feature Pride & Prejudice, Joe Wright has steadily become one of the industry's most respected film directors.

Since that auspicious debut, he has continued to collaborate with Anderson on «The Darjeeling Limited» (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola); the short film «Hotel Chevalier»; his animated feature, «Fantastic Mr. Fox» (for which he contributed his vocal talents); «Moonrise Kingdom» (part of Anderson's stellar ensemble cast of Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand), which set a new record at the specialty box office over Memorial Day weekend for best limited indie debut of all time, and, the Academy Award nominated film, «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» whose eclectic cast brought back thespians Murray, Norton and Swinton, along with Willem Dafoe, Soirsae Ronin, Ralph Finnes, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody.

A most auspicious directorial debut, featuring — like most of the other films on this list — a gallery of richly achieved performances.

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.

Inspired by figures in traditional Cantonese Opera, the main dining room features abstract displays of dragons, auspicious clouds and raging waves.

This event is free and open to the public, featuring performances by an auspicious slice of the Mexican Summer roster:

Featuring work and installations made from the ordinary and everyday, the smart and auspicious show includes artists and designers like the Campana Brothers, Tara Donovan, Xu Bing, El Anatsui, and Season 2's Do Ho Suh, who contributes a jacket made of military dog tags.