Sentences with phrase «best debut feature film»

It not only won the Queer Palm but also the Caméra d'Or, awarded to the best debut feature film across all competition sections.

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As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

The film feels a little less amateur than «Pusher», - a cheap debut feature for some underexperienced Dane trying to make abstract art - and it's that which brings the final product closer to decency, because many of the missteps that ruined «Pusher» feel more considerable in this superior, but still misguided effort, which has a good bit to commend, but even more to complain about as questionable «story «telling notes that ultimately send the final product crashing into mediocrity.

Donat was the recipient of a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the title character, and the film features the debut performance of a young Garson.

The film was one of Brad Pitt's debut features, and luckily for him he turned out to have a pretty good career.

I found this to be a very enjoyable and dreamlike film, and, though it is really good, it seems even more so considering that it was the feature length debut of Sofia Coppola.

Screenwriter James Vanderbilt's feature directorial debut recounts the scandal that led to Dan Rather stepping down from the CBS News desk in 2004, but while Vanderbilt's script has some good ideas in it, the film is ultimately far too hagiographic for its own good, undercutting its thematic impact at nearly every turn.

«Winter's Tale» is the feature film directorial debut of Academy Award - winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, who penned the 2001 Best Picture winner «A Beautiful Mind».

His narrative feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.

Cirkus Columbia The fourth film from Bosnian director Danis Tanović, and his third since his debut feature No Man's Land took home the Cannes Film Festival best screenplay award in 2001 and the best

He is perhaps best known for his feature film debut Intermission (2003).

«I Give it a Year»: «Borat» scribe Dan Mazer makes his feature film directing debut with this romantic comedy about a young couple (Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall) who are doing their best to stay married despite the doubts of their friends and relatives.

Writer / director Michael Pearce's feature film debut is exceedingly well acted by a cast virtually unknown in the U.S., but not in the U.K.

Nominated for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the 2018 Independent Spirit Wards, Ms. Zhao is following up her highly - lauded 2015 film debut «Songs My Brother Taught Me» with another important story, once again centered on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation inSouth Dakota.

Hounds of Love is written and directed by Australian filmmaker Ben Young, making his feature directorial debut after a few short films previously as well as episodes of «Prank Patrol» and «Castaway».

How much better can a debut feature realistically get, and why discredit one of the greatest films ever made about race relations by attributing it to Humpty Dumpty?

«The Forest» is a fairly promising feature debut from director Jason Zada, which isn't the same thing as saying it's a good horror film.

The film's best bet for a nomination is Steven Chbosky for Best Adapted Screenplay — he has the added caveat of having written both book and film — but this is also Chbosky's feature film debest bet for a nomination is Steven Chbosky for Best Adapted Screenplay — he has the added caveat of having written both book and film — but this is also Chbosky's feature film deBest Adapted Screenplay — he has the added caveat of having written both book and film — but this is also Chbosky's feature film debut.

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The eight features in this box set, on four two - sided flipper discs in four thinpak cases, collect many of his best films, two of them making their DVD debut here.

Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»

It makes sense, in a way: they're trying to make the audience as paranoid as the protagonist, but the one thing that «The Conjuring,» the film in which evil doll Annabelle made her feature debut, did so well was balance the light with the dark.

The characters aren't flat, the film isn't dull, it's vibrant and flashy and entertaining and a rather remarkable feature directing debut for Gordon - Levitt, better than I was expecting.

Writer - director Boris Rodriguez's feature - film debut starts out reasonably well, sketching in the principal characters and rural setting with broad but compelling strokes, even doling out some perceptive laughs, before the narrative loses steam when it bogs down in repetition and predictability.

Chow Yun - fat, at this time the biggest star in the colony, hot off the smashing success of A Better Tomorrow, plays the middle brother while pop star Jacky Cheung, himself on the road to a successful film career (he'd win the Supporting Actor Hong Kong Film Award this year for his work in Wong Kar - wai's debut feature As Tears Go By), plays the youngest.

All the same, Adetuyi has a good eye for production design, and for a first feature, High Chicago is mercifully light on the needless experimentation with film stock and fast cutting that mars other debuts.

When you're Rob Marshall and only have two other feature films on your directing resume, it takes some guts to embark on a project like Nine, even if you did manage to win a Best Picture Oscar for your directorial debut Chicago (an award that many film critics strongly disagree with, incidentally).

The filmmaker made his name with music videos, before turning to the feature film world, dropping his sizzling debut «Sexy Beast» in 2000, followed four years later by «Birth,» which, in this writer's opinion, is one of the best films of the 2000s.

Lee's production company, Lee Daniels Entertainment, made its feature film debut in 2001 with Monster's Ball, the dysfunctional family drama for which Halle Berry would earn her historic, Best Actress Oscar.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Key features: Making its Blu - ray debut, the film looks better than in any previous home - video incarnation.

Jeremy Lovering («In Fear») If you went to Sundance looking for the next Christopher Nolan or Rupert Wyatt (who both had films premiere at the festival early in their careers), you'd be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Jeremy Lovering, whose feature film debut «In Fear» has been scaring the living shit out of people in the Midnight strand of the festival.

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And Jordan Vogt - Roberts more than justified all that this year when his debut feature, «Toy's House,» premiered and became one of the best - liked films of the festival.

This was the feature film debut of director Justin Kurzel and he does an astonishingly good job at creating a solemn mood.

When the film opens, best friends Napoleon (Johnny Whitaker, who Disney must have seen as its new child star in 1972) and Samantha (Jodie Foster in her feature film debut) lead simple lives.

James Cameron's romantic epic, at the time the most expensive film ever made and the biggest moneymaker of all time, winner of a record - tying 11 Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director), and the film that made Cameron the self - proclaimed «king of the world,» makes its long - awaited Blu - ray debut in both Standard Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D sets, both of them numbering four discs and both featuring two new, exclusive documentaries.

In the 1960s, his feature film debut, he plays the haunted and pale Boo Radley in To Kill A Mocking Bird; in the 1970s he immortalized his love for the smell of napalm in the morning as a general who like to surf and plays Wagner when going into battle; in the 1980s he plays a quiet, down - on - his - luck country singer who does odd jobs for room and board while trying to put his life back together; and in the 1990s his turn as the bombastic Apostle E.F. might just be the best single performance of that decade.

Not really a good film by any stretch of the imagination, Corvette Summer has an oddly quaint charm at times, and an interesting cast of recognizable supporting characters, including Annie Potts (of TV's «Designing Women» and Ghostbusters), here in her feature film debut.

Highlights include the new Keanu Reeves - fronted film from director Eli Roth, Knock, Knock and the feature directorial debut of new The Crow director Corin Hardy, The Hallow, as well as Spotlight consideration for films that have previously premiered elsewhere like the Andrew Garfield - fronted housing crisis drama 99 Homes and the historical drama» 71, starring Jack O'Connell.

Starring in Eli Craig's feature film debut is Tyler Labine, best known for his work in the TV show «Reaper» and recently appeared in «Rise of the Planet of the Apes» along with «A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.»

Other notable newly featured films include the better - than - you'd - expect noirish Nightmare Alley, a more than adequate adaptation of Virginia Woolf's difficult - to - film novel Mrs. Dalloway, Tommy Lee Jones's strong directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, and the unjustly forgotten William Powell - led mystery The Kennel Murder Case.

Joanna Hogg, the woman who directed Tom Hiddleston in his feature film debut, is helming «The Souvenir: Part One,» which will be executive produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert Pattinson, a recent snub for «Good Time.»

Alex of Venice — A film that I first saw back at last year's Tribeca Film Festival, it marks the directorial debut of actor Chris Messina as well as features one of the best turns to date from actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

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.

Here's our box office report for the weekend of October 28th, 2011 featuring the performances of debut films «Puss In Boots» and «In Time» — as well as updates on the rest of the box office top ten.

The series that brought us Courtney Hoffman's The Good Time Girls (which led to her getting her feature debut over at Amblin) and Gabourey Sidibe's The Story of Four, a fiercely feminine and nuanced look at the effects of racism in America, now brings us a film by Kristen Stewart.

While at the film's press day, filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about how Vacation ended up being their feature directorial debut, why their humor tends to lean more towards the R - rated, why Ed Helms and Christina Applegate were the perfect heads of this Griswold family, getting Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo involved, which cameos they were most impressed with, being of the mind - set that comedy can be short, and why test screenings can be a good gauge for comedy.

Here's our box office report for the weekend of November 11th, 2011 featuring the performances of debut films «Immortals» and «J.Edgar» — as well as updates on the rest of the box office top ten.

The film is the feature debut of director Vaughn Stein, and it stars Margot Robbie, as well as Simon Pegg, Mike Myers, Max Irons, and Dexter Fletcher.