Sentences with phrase «debut as a director»

This is Anderson's feature film debut as a director, after work on television.

While this isn't his debut as a director, it is probably his most well - known effort behind the camera.

Crowe is effectively restrained in his acting, but in his debut as a director, he overdoes the manipulative music and the pretty images from cinematographer Andrew Lesnie.

More of the same can be said for Crowe's debut as a director with the excellent Say Anything, showing once again he had a knack for taking what would ostensibly be a «just another...» film and taking it to depths no one had bothered exploring before.

In hiss debut as a director, Sheridan tells a story that is compelling and suspenseful as it is brutally intense.

It is filled with life and colorful characters and great lines of dialogue, and De Niro, in his debut as a director, finds the right notes as he moves from laughter to anger to tears.

His debut as a director is «Alex Of Venice `, and he's out promoting it.

, About a Boy) makes his debut as a director, shooting his modest film in 16 days on a shoestring $ 300,000 budget.

Chris Butler is a former storyboard artist on Coraline and Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride, and ParaNorman ushers in his debut as a director and screenwriter.

Rocky made him an instant star, but Stallone continued to work behind the scenes, writing numerous films and directing many of them: he debuted as director with Paradise Alley (1978), directed four out of the six Rocky films, made the Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive (1983), directed 2008's Rambo, and launched a new franchise with 2010's The Expendables.

He began his career in film criticism with a very positive review of Sylvester Stallone's debut as a director, Paradise Alley (1978), which in itself revealed something of Carax's particular vision, a special feeling of urgency he was demanding from cinema and filmmakers — an embryonic version of the «smile of speed».

It appears he saved his best script for his debut as a director.

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.

British filmmaker Simon Aboud makes his full length debut as a director and writer of the indie film Comes a Bright Day.

British filmmaker Simon Aboud makes his full length debut as a director and writer of the indie film...

The curtain - raiser for the 61st London Film Festival was Breathe, not only Andy Serkis's debut as a director, but also a film based on the family experiences of its producer, Jonathan Cavendish.

Writer / director John Michael McDonagh (making his feature debut as director) is brother to Martin McDonagh, who teamed with Gleeson and Colin Farrell on the underrated dark comedy In Bruges, and The Guard definitely looks like it has some of the same genes, maybe with even a touch of a less over-the-top Hot Fuzz in there.

He is going to debut as a director with Breathe on October 12 this year.

Released by The Weinstein Company, the film is due in theaters this year on December 2nd, 2011 and marks seasoned performer Ralph Fiennes» debut as a director.

Following two exemplary collaborations co-writing scripts with Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha reveals Noah Baumbach's luminous lighter touch; Mistress America explores the power of friendship beyond ego with endearment), Gerwig makes her debut as a director, and it's a tremendous work in its restraint and dynamism.

Nolan, who was born in London and holds both British and American citizenship, made his debut as a director 20 years ago, with Following, but his follow - up to that film, 2000's Memento, is what made people sit up and take notice.

-RRB-, Gerwig makes her debut as a director, and it's a tremendous work in its restraint and dynamism.

This is Richard Brooks» film debut as a director.

Debuting as director in Molly's Game, the eminent screenwriter (Moneyball, etc.) uses Oliver Stone - and Martin Scorsese - style visual overload to accompany all the endless proactive talk, talk and more talk.

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She's set to make her debut as a director with the dramedy A Happening Of Monumental Proportions.

The trailer features a new version of «Cups,» the song that made the first movie and star Anna Kendrick famous, as well as several hilarious one - liners from Rebel Wilson, John Michael Higgins, and Elizabeth Banks (who also makes her feature film debut as director).

Bad Words marks Bateman's debut as a director.

Mike White makes an impressive debut as a director, sustaining a deliciously offbeat mood.

Transcendence, Wally Pfister's debut as a director, looks as off - the - wall nuts (in a good way) as something by Christopher Nolan (with whom Pfister worked on such films as Inception and the Dark Knight Trilogy).

This is middlebrow Pacino, heartwarming but not especially emotional, written and directed by Dan Fogelman in his debut as a director — though Fogelman is well known as a screenwriter for such works as «Crazy Stupid Love,» also starring a middle - aged man, but that one trying to recover from his wife's asking for a divorce by picking up girls in bars.

We might not be expected to admire the method of that final, psychological blow, but writer / director Joel Edgerton (his feature debut as a director) certainly wants us to admire the perceived cleverness of the comeuppance.

One can see that it is director Mark A.Z. Dippe's debut as a director.

And here is where his goals descend into simple, bloody revenge — we know this happens, because Big Boss is the final enemy in 1987's Metal Gear, Kojima's debut as director and the beginning of the series.

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«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

As product head, Concur co-founder, president, COO and director Rajeev Singh makes his debut on this list.

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.»

Xavi has been described as the «architect «and the «director of the orchestra», as he has been at the heart of the most successful team in the club's history since making his professional debut aged just 18.

ROME: Roma sports director Monchi called club legend Francesco Totti «a superhero» as the former captain marked the 25th anniversary of his Serie A debut on Wednesday.

Levine made his Met debut in 1971 and became one of the signature artists in the company's 135 - year history, conducting 2,552 performances and ruling over its repertoire, orchestra and singers as music or artistic director from 1976 until he stepped down two years ago due to Parkinson's disease.

Source Code In his 2009 debut feature, Moon, director Duncan Jones established himself as an impresario of mind - blowing science fiction.

The bizarre scenario seems a fitting debut for director Duncan Jones, who might be better known as David Bowie's son.

Raf Simons made already his debut last summer as creative director of Dior with a couture collection.

Dundas will present his debut collection at the house in September, and will be responsible for both women's and men's ready - to - wear, the accessories collections and all of Cavalli's licenses in his new role as creative director.

Dominic Jones made his debut as creative director of jewelry brand Astley Clarke with three different collections.

Marissa Webb's debut collection as Creative Director of BANANA REPUBLIC has hit the racks and let me tell you, it's a breath of fresh air!

Kim Joo Hyuk last acting award is for best supporting actor in the movie Confidential director, his co-stars Hyun Bin, Yoo Hae Thirteen years after her debut as an actress, Kim Hyun Ju of Partner and Boys Before Flowers poses nude in the October issue of Singles to

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.

Dunne debuted as a producer / director in 1955 with the Edwin Booth biopic Prince of Players.