Sentences with phrase «career in feature films»

An Australian who emigrated to New Zealand in 1965, Roger Donaldson cut his teeth in documentaries and TV before launching into a career in feature films.

But the fact that Ayoade's directorial debut is so full of life and so true - to - life promises what I hope will be an amazing career in feature films.

Veteran actor Michael Chiklis seemed poised to have a prominent career in feature films after his Emmy - winning FX drama «The Shield» retired in 2008.

Running about 17 minutes, Sherman sits at the piano while boyish Dick Van Dyke and elegant Julie Andrews recall the songs and production moments that boosted their careers in the feature film realm.

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The new film on his life and career is set to hit cinema screens in 2017, featuring appearances from other F1 legends such as Emerson Fittipaldi, Sir Jackie Stewart and Mario Andretti.

Not to mention the imbalance between her career, now basically in the past tense, and his, which skyrocketed with his recent debut feature film, Snow White & the Huntsman, which she is clearly supportive of:

Switching careers, she earned an MA in Broadcasting and has worked as a feature film and television editor.

The Creative Class Anaita Shroff Adajania, Fashion Director and Bollywood Stylist BoF speaks to Anaita Shroff Adajania, the stylist behind the current Vogue India cover featuring Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, about her career trajectory and the inner workings of fashion and film in India.

Knaggs» career reached a peak in the mid -»40s, when he worked in supporting roles in ambitious major studio films such as None but the Lonely Heart (a fascinating but failed attempt at a serious drama by Cary Grant) and unusual independently made features like Douglas Sirk's early Hollywood effort Thieves» Holiday, while also making the rounds of such popular medium - budget Universal Pictures productions as House of Dracula, The Invisible Man's Revenge, and Terror By Night.

Actor, singer, and voice actor Keith David has spent much of his career on the stage, but also frequently works in feature films and on television.

Directed by Tristram Shapeero, making his feature film debut after a lengthy career in television (with credits including Absolutely Fabulous, Peep Show, Community, and Parks and Recreation), A Merry Friggin» Christmas also stars Lauren Graham, Oliver Platt, Tim Heidecker, and Wendi McLendon - Covey.

Though primarily a star of Broadway musicals, Sheryl Lee Ralph actually launched her career in the Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby feature film A Piece of the Action (1977).

Upon his return from military service, Damone resumed his film career, enjoying featured or co-starring roles in major musical productions like Hit the Deck (1955) and the screen adaptation of Kismet (1955).

While it is certainly okay for a bit - player like Kevin Durand (Gabriel) to feature in a film like this, it is somewhat disappointing that Bettany's promising career has taken him to this unfortunate mishmash of ideas and images, even in the «whoa dude, angels killing angels!»

Robin Williams went on to establish an amazing career in both stand - up, comedy and feature films.

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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot is an acting showcase featuring one of the best performances of Joaquin Phoenix «s career and a supporting turn for Jonah Hill that joins his acclaimed performances in films like Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street.

But in the meantime, why not journey to the beginning of Wright's career around 1995 and watch his first feature film, A Fistful of Fingers, which parodies Sergio Leone's A Fisftul of Dollars trilogy, the iconic western series starring Clint Eastwood.

At various points in his fantastically varied and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian film industry, wrote and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing film courses and departments in places such as Canberra and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays and performed poems at Melbourne University and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson, and numerous others), wrote and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual and Queensland Images in Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies and government bodies, contributed film reviews to ABC radio (and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary Film, The Hobart Mercury, and so much more.

So in a way Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke is an anomaly, a director who unapologetically has a definite moral agenda that he's been exploring for over 20 years now, closer to 40 if one considers the TV work he made in the»70s and»80s before embarking on his feature film career in 1989.

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.

A versatile performer whose patrician features and keen intelligence have distinguished him in both leading and supporting roles, Colm Feore spent 13 seasons as a classical actor at the Stratford Festival before embarking on a successful screen career that has encompassed both art films and more populist fare.

The other bonus feature has an interview with star Tommy Cook, who began his career as a child actor and had a long career in TV and film.

This week in home video releases features one of the most talked - about films of last year, a trilogy from one of America's best directors, a documentary about the people who launched the careers of John Belushi and Bill Murray, the sequel to one of the best horror films ever made, and much, much more.

To say that Kenneth Lonergan's latest is the best film of his career may not seem like it means much, given that it's only his third feature in 16 years after You Can Count on Me and the notoriously delayed Margaret.

HollywoodNews.com: The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will honor Oscar ® - nominated actress Gloria Stuart's career in film and celebrate her 100th birthday with a program featuring film clips and an onstage conversation between Stuart and her longtime friend, film historian Leonard Maltin, on Thursday, July 22, at 7:30 p.m., -LSB-...]

The documentary is mainly comprised of interviews, many with the director himself in his apartment, but the highlight for most will be the scene of Tarantino and De Palma talking about the similarities in their careers of having to deal with public attention regarding the violent content in their films (this comes after an extended sequence featuring Tarantino explaining his love for De Palma, which includes a personal scrapbook of printed interviews and a description of the influence that Casualties of War had on certain elements in Reservoir Dogs).

Her career has primarily focused in feature films, although she has done television work, too.

His career took off when he starred in Amenábar's feature film debut, the surprise hit THESIS (1996), followed by OPEN YOUR EYES (1997) where he played alongside Penelope Cruz and received a Goya nomination for his performance.

The film takes place in the near two decades when Bulger was at the peak of his criminal career, and features a stellar all - star cast who fill the roles of the main players that contributed to his brutal reign.

Dane began his film career under the direction of two time Oscar Nominee John Sayles in his latest feature Amigo.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

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.

With their acting careers on permanent hold, Wiseau decides to do the seemingly impossible: write, produce, direct, and star in his own feature - length film.

Only four years after the disastrous 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a film that would have destroyed a lesser director's career), Ridley Scott was back in nautical territory with White Squall, a semi-successful, fact - based survival / courtroom drama that featured a sizable collection of up - and - coming actors, including Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, and Ethan Embry (among others), and a creditable turn by Jeff Bridges as the ill - fated leader of a sailing trip threatened by the «white squall» (a sudden, violent windstorm) of the title.

Extras: Audio commentary by critic and author Jasper Sharp on «Smashing the 0 - Line»; «Tony Rayns on the Crime and Action Movies» in which the critic and historian discusses the background to the films, their place within Suzuki's career and the talent involved with them; trailers; stills gallery; reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys; 60 - page illustrated collector's book featuring new writing by Jasper Sharp.

Elvis Presley was one of Hollywood's top box - office draws, starring in 31 feature films and two theatrically - released concert documentaries over the course of his career.

The IFI celebrates Jim Sheridan's career with Jim Sheridan: In Focus, a season screening his key films and featuring special guest appearances from the director and many of his collaborators including Daniel Day - Lewis, Hugh O'Connor, Brenda Fricker, Peter Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan.

In a relatively short feature film career, beginning with Wolf of Wall Street, Robbie has proven herself remarkably dynamic, despite the danger of being typecast.

Wyatt has directed three feature films in his career, 2008's «The Escapist,» 2011's «Rise of the Planet of the Apes» and «The Gambler,» released last year and starring Mark Wahlberg.

Daniel Stiepleman wrote the script for the film, which tracks Ginsburg's career and achievements, with Diary Of A Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller in talks to call the shots for Focus Features.

I Only Want You to Love Me (1975) could serve as the working title for most of the films in the career of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the prolific German director who made 43 features between 1969 and his death of a drug overdose in 1982.

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 festivaIn 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 festivain 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 festivaIn Fear» has been scaring the living shit out of people in the Midnight strand of the festivain the Midnight strand of the festival.

To mark the film's 35th Anniversary, Ralph Bakshi, now 73 years old and long retired from animated features, talked to Videodrone about Wizards, his career, and what he's been watching from his mountaintop home in New Mexico.

Cimino directed a total of seven feature films in his career but is best known for the 1978 post-Vietnam War drama «The Deer Hunter,» which earned five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken.

What You Need To Know: Swedish - born first - time feature - length filmmaker Fredrik Bond might be an unknown in the film world, but he has accumulated numerous awards throughout the course of his successful career as a commercial director including one at Cannes.

In 2004, NYU film grad Debra Granik spun a student short into a ragged but confident debut feature, «Down to the Bone,» that landed her a Sundance award and kick - started the career of a sensational actress named Vera Farmiga.

He's been in short films, voiced characters in animated movies and video games, and held his own acting alongside some of the best actors in the game, but he's never, ever, in his whole career, played the leading role in a feature - length film.

To mark the film's 35th Anniversary, Ralph Bakshi, now 73 years old and long retired from animated features, talked to Videodrone aboutWizards, his career, and what he's been watching from his mountaintop home in New Mexico.

Cube made his feature film debut in 1991 in Boyz n the Hood, and proceeded to parlay his critically - acclaimed performance into an enviable career.