Sentences with phrase «by debuting director»

I have viewed the trailer for the film «Book Club» for a couple of months and anticipated viewing it, despite feeling pretty sure that the story would be entirely too predictable by debuting director Bill Holderman and his co-writer Erin Simms.

Snappily directed by debuting director Kay Cannon (a screenwriter on the Pitch Perfect trilogy and, more substantially, TV's 30 Rock), Blockers brews a bubbling panic among the parents, invading where they shouldn't and brandi

The following films will land debut directors: Angry Birds — The animated feature based on the hit Rovio app will be helmed by debut directors Fergal Reilly (Hotel Transylvania) and Clay Kaytis (Wreck - It Ralph); Sony will distribute starting July 1,...

A powerful and essential story beautifully told by debut director James Kent, Testament of Youth is old - fashioned but proper film - making with a huge truth at its core.

Two British films by debut directors are the sensations of the Cannes film festival.

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Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

The latest example debuts on Saturday, June 11, at 9 pm EST, with the premiere episode of director Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made in America, a five - part, 7.5 hour documentary series produced by ESPN Films, the sports network's production company that is behind the acclaimed series of 30 for 30 sports documentary films.

The new look for Shaka Tea — created by McLean Design — will debut at the Natural Products Expo West show, said Hughes, who recently appointed Tony Giannini as director of national sales as the brand gears up to announce «national distribution plans, launching in Q2 with one of the top distributors across the continental US.»

It's a perfect fit for a collection debut by Dior's first ever female creative director, Maria Grazia Chiuri, who wanted to convey the message that there is not only one kind of woman.

Rihanna later became the athletic brand's creative director and developed her own line of athleisure with the Puma by Rihanna collection, which debuted in 2016.

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

Actress Clea DuVall's debut as a writer - director is crisp and clean - looking, but even the basic set - up seems absurd: A gathering is called by the clueless and obnoxious Annie (Melanie Lynskey) to her family's preciously gorgeous Savannah country estate in order to stage a «marriage intervention» for her unhappy older sister Ruby (Cobie Smulders) and her emotionally distant husband Peter (Vincent Piazza) in order to convince them to divorce.

Kari was named by Hollywood Reporter as one of its «Ten Directors to Watch» for her debut as writer - director of Liberty Stands Still.

Director Denis Villeneuve's (Incendies) English - language debut is a vigilante drama from a Blacklisted script by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband).

Angelina Jolie's debut as writer and director tells the story of two lovers, a Serbian played Goran Kostic and a Bosnian played by Zana Marjanovic, and how the Bosnian War impacts their relationship.

Thus begins a darkly comic homicidal trail, dropped like lethal bread crumbs, by writer - director Peter Berg in this audacious, sure - handed motion picture debut.

This moody screen adaptation of the Oprah - endorsed eponymous bestseller by Andre Dubus III's isn't a slam - dunk success, but it has plenty of sleeper potential and is a feather in the cap of director Perelman, a Russian émigré who debuts here as a feature filmmaker after a career in commercials.

The son of an immigrant couple barely scraping by in Los Angeles» Koreatown struggles — ever so subtly — with his cultural and sexual identity in Spa Night, rookie writer - director Andrew Ahn's gossamer debut feature.

Adapted for screen by Ian McEwan from his 2007 novella, this debut feature from four - time Olivier Award - winning theatre director Dominic Cooke is, at its heart, a deceptively simple tale.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

This superb debut feature by Korean - American director So Yong Kim seems to be constructed entirely of the ineffable and intangible, those fleeting moments that most movies treat as throwaways.

With an excellent, career - topping performance by the late Harry Dean Stanton, coupled with a strong supporting ensemble, this quiet, low - key debut feature from actor - director John Carroll Lynch explores the meaning of life and the secrets to help make it fulfilling, both while we're here and as we're about to make our ultimate transition.

The former music video director's first feature film since 2004's Birth is based on the satirical debut novel by Michel Faber, which centers on an extraterrestrial who comes to Scotland to pick up unsuspecting hitchhikers and bring them to her corporate bosses for use as meat.

Immaculately composed yet skittish, edgy and surprising, this impressive debut by writer - director Michael Pearce emanates a chill that will have you hugging your sides.

A strong debut from director Michael Pearce, with a gripping performance by newcomer Jessie Buckley.

Writer / director Richard Ayoade, making his feature debut, nails a salient point about why it's so tough to stay grounded as a teenager: Oliver realizes that most of the «tragedies» of his life won't have meaning by the time he's 38, but that's scant comfort at the moment.

Wringing every sweat - bead of tension from its fiercely concentrated narrative, acclaimed TV director Yann Demange's debut feature covers one night in the life (and potential death) of a young British soldier stranded by his unit in a riot - blasted IRA stronghold at the zenith of the Northern Ireland nationalist conflict.

The fight scenes are staged cleanly enough by Newt Arnold, a veteran assistant director (to Sam Peckinpah, among others) making his debut at the helm.

Debut director Yanne Demange does a remarkable job of ramping up the tension in the early scenes as his camera jostles with protestors summonsed by their wives and mothers» ritual banging of dustbin lids on the pavements.

But writer - director Anna Rose Holmer's debut feature carves out its own unique place in this specialised sub-genre of oestrogen - soaked uncanny dramas, for a start by unfolding without fanfare in an entirely African American milieu.

There was no way to tell from the debut of Coppola, then 24, a low - budget horror flick produced by Roger Corman, that in a decade he would become the most influential director.

«Great Italian Director's Collection» (Lorber Films) features Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature «Story of a Love Affair» (1950), the anthology film «Boccaccio» 70» (1962) with contributions by Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittoria De Sica and Mario Monicelli, and Monicelli's «Casanova» 70» (1966).

The Blu - ray debut features all the supplements of that release: three commentary tracks (one by director Terry Gilliam, one by stars Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, and one by producer Laila Nabulsi and author Hunter S. Thompson), deleted scenes with commentary by Gilliam, the 1978 BBC «Omnibus» documentary «Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood» (with Hunter S. Thompson and artist Ralph Steadman), the ten - minute featurette «Hunter Goes to Hollywood,» an audio documentary on the controversy over the screenplay credit, a survey of the marketing campaign, selections from the correspondence between Johnny Depp and Hunter S. Thompson (read on camera by Depp), an excerpt from the 1996 audio CD «Fear and Loathing» starring Maury Chaykin, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, and Glenne Headly, background notes on Oscar Zeta Acosta (the real life activist and attorney who inspired the character of Dr. Gonzo), and galleries of storyboards, stills, and Ralph Steadman art.

Best British Debut By A Writer, Director Or Producer Colin Carberry, Glenn Patterson — «Good Vibrations» Kieran Evans — «Kelly & Victor» — WINNER Scott Graham — «Shell» Kelly Marcel — «Saving Mr. Banks» Paul Wright, Polly Stokes — «For Those In Peril»

During a whirlwind appearance at the Toronto Film Festival, cut short by her duties on the set of the English - language debut of Oldboy director Park Chan - wook, Wasikowska talked to The A.V. Club about her penchant for outsiders, the link between acting and dance, and the harsh beauty of Portland, Oregon.

Last year brought us a trove of high - profile American indie directors: Whit Stillman, Todd Solondz, Ira Sachs and Kenneth Lonergan, the latter who debuted his Manchester by the Sea (which topped our list of the best movies of 2016).

The director: Markus Schleinzer (Austria) The talent: An actor and accomplished casting director — whose credits in the latter field include several films by his compatriots Michael Haneke and Jessica Hausner — 39 year - old Schleinzer has cast his debut feature as writer - director with several actors he previously tapped for other directors» films.

This year's First Exposure program kicked - off on February 24th with an out - of-fest screening of Robert De Niro's directorial debut, A Bronx Tale, followed by a conversation with Mr. De Niro and FTF Director of Programming David Schwartz.

Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

Empire Magazine debuted several images from the upcoming film «Thor» by director Kenneth Branagh (Frankenstein) and...

A few weeks back we brought you a first look image of Brian Cox as Winston Churchill in director Jonathan Teplitzky's upcoming biopic of the legendary British Prime Minister, and now Salon Pictures has debuted another still from Churchill to mark the end of principal photography, which sees Cox joined by Ella Purnell and Miranda -LSB-...]

Baskin We're all super psyched for this feature film debut by Turkish supernatural cop shooter from director Can Evrenol.

Universal Pictures has given us another peek at director Baltasar Kormákur's disaster - thriller Everest ahead of its release this Friday by debuting three new featurettes, which we have for you below... SEE ALSO: Watch the latest trailer for Everest Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, Everest -LSB-...]

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.

While Montiel is perhaps best known or revered for his 2006 debut, the director continues to allow his subjects to be overwhelmed by awkward visual artifice, elements which play like remnants of what inspired his interest in the first place but should have been excised.

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The film is shot primarily by camera operator Lukasz Zal, making his feature debut; he took over shortly into the shooting from the director's usual DP Ryszard Lenczewski, who stepped out partly because of illness.

In The Wall, director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow) has teamed up with debut screenwriter Dwain Worrell to create a 90 - minute thriller about snipers divided by the eponymous rickety structure, which is part of a bombed building in the Iraqi desert in 2007.

Writer - director Quentin Tarantino's screenplay has been adapted into a comic book by Vertigo, and will debut December 19.