Sentences with phrase «debut directorial effort»

Home Again contains promising elements from a debut directorial effort from Hallie Meyers - Shyer.

The only mention of Leonard Nimoy in the opening credits comes from his debut directorial effort, and every effort had been made in keeping the ultimate fate of Spock under wraps to the movie - going public.

Lady Bird, the debut directorial effort from indie darling Greta Gerwig, is instantly a top - five film of 2017.

An impressive debut directorial effort from Aaron Sorkin that should lead to multiple awards nods this coming season.

Jordan Peele, who has been picking up critics awards right and left in both categories, somehow missed out for his debut directorial effort.

Not exact matches

In 1996, Huston made her directorial debut with Bastard out of Carolina, a praised adaptation of Dorothy Allison's novel of the same name, and followed that up with another behind - the - camera effort, Agnes Browne, in 1999.

The film is the director's first effort since A Single Man, Ford's directorial debut, which led to Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award nominations for Colin Firth, as well as a Golden...

Following his other 2017 effort, the sex comedy bomb of The Layover, William H. Macy is better than Krystal, as proven by his own distinguished acting resume and 2014 directorial debut and festival favorite Rudderless.

Perhaps in an effort to shake his typical «good guy» role, Jason Bateman plays a foul - mouthed asshole in his directorial debut Bad Words.

Self - Medicated (R for sexuality, profanity, and drug abuse) Monty Lapica makes his scriptwriting, directorial and acting debut in this drama about a mother's (Diane Verona) desperate efforts to save her drug - addicted, 17 year - old son whose life has been spiraling out of control since the death of his father.

As far as a directorial debut goes, this is a great effort.

The committed star pulls off the same magic trick to even more impressive effect than usual with Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy's directorial debut after toiling away as a screenwriter on less pedigreed fare like Real Steel and Two for the Money as well as big brother Tony's most recent Bourne franchise effort.

After his directorial debut, Once, we waited far too long for his sophomore effort.

Back in 2007, Ben Affleck made his directorial debut with a phenomenal crime thriller called Gone Baby Gone starring his brother Casey Affleck, now he's back with his sophomore effort, The Town.

As you can guess, the student in question was yours truly, and while it did take some added effort — and, I'd like to think, guilt on Stover's part — to get an A in that class, I didn't have to resort to anything resembling the over-the-top antics presented in hot scribe Kevin Williamson's directorial debut, Teaching Mrs. Tingle.

Anyone who feared that the writer's directorial debut would abandon the cerebral, doughty fare of his previously - penned Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and roughly 15 minutes of 2011's Dredd need not have worried — more than any of Garland's previous efforts, Ex Machina weighs the heavier side of science fiction and what it means to be human.

Ficarra and Requa, who built a strong, foul - mouthed reputation for themselves following the writing of Bad Santa (2003) and their directorial debut and strongest effort to date, I Love You Philip Morris (2009), have lost none of their penchant for authentically inclined adult interactions (despite their cuckoo rom - com fantasy Crazy, Stupid, Love., 2011).

After a great directorial debut with «Gone Baby Gone» in 2007 and a brilliant sophomore effort with «The Town» in 2010, all eyes were on Ben Affleck in his third outing as director.

A24 purchased the film, which stars Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, ahead of the festival, and judging by its first trailer, a conscious effort is being made to position Ari Aster's feature - length directorial debut as less miminalist in the horror department than both The Witch and It Comes at Night.

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.

Landesman, who made his directorial debut on the 2013 JFK picture Parkland, will follow up with this as - of - yet untitled effort.

It's a setting grubbily familiar from the cinematic likes of Mystic River and The Departed, as well as Ben Affleck's own directorial debut Gone Baby Gone; now it plays host to his sophomore effort The Town, a heist drama with a heart.

In Plain Sight: Great Expectations for Fiennes» Sophomore Effort After his brash, testosterone - fueled directorial debut Coriolanus, Ralph...

Also, Alan Rickman's first directorial effort in seventeen years will make its Irish debut at the festival.

Following a debut at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and a forthcoming slot at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival in New York, an international trailer for Paul Haggis» most recent directorial effort Third Person has arrived.

Following her short film's debut «Come Swim» at Cannes last year and then Sundance in January, actress Kristen Stewart is moving up in her directorial efforts with plans for a feature debut which aims to shoot this Summer.

Universal Pictures has debuted the trailer and poster for Angelina Jolie Pitt's latest directorial effort, By the Sea.

Whisper marked the feature directorial debut of Yoshifumi Kondô, an animation director, character designer, and supervising or just plain old animator on previous Ghibli efforts including Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies and Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service.