Sentences with phrase «debut feature»

The French writer / director's debut feature from 1988 is an elegant, perfectly poised character study.

The filmmaker on his singular voice, his approach to making indie pictures, and his stunning debut feature Are We Not Cats.

And his English - language debut features some immense talent.

It's an assured debut feature that doesn't pull any punches; you leave the theater transformed.

The Blu - ray debut features both the American version and the disc debut of the longer Italian cut (with four minutes of additional footage).

It's surprising that it's taken this long for one of the major consoles to finally debut the feature in full.

This new release doesn't offer any new extras, but does include a sharp high - def transfer that shows off the gorgeous cinematography of this strange and memorable debut feature.

«Raw» is an unforgettable debut feature and a real highlight of this year's festival lineup.

The film is a powerful debut feature film from Daggar - Nickson and I'll be sure to keep my eyes out for her next project while also crossing my fingers that Wilde returns to another action - oriented role soon.

When I saw «Lady Bird,» the rich, heartfelt, light - on - its - feet debut feature of writer - solo director Greta Gerwig, a woman in the industry who loves it truly wondered what kind of audience it could draw, this bright, funny, nuanced, personal - if - not - autobiographical 2002 - set movie that, to her eyes, would be anathema to any scale of male audience.

This impressive debut feature by Stacy Title has its wobbly technical moments and one or two underdeveloped narrative strands, but it's brimful of provocative ideas and moral dilemmas as well as being extremely funny.

Der Bunker received a special «Next Wave» commendation for debut feature, with Demon took home the Horror award, The Brand New Testament (another film I missed that was not available to critics after the fact) winning Best Comedy, Man Vs. Snake claiming Best Documentary, and under - the - radar Chilean thriller The Club winning best overall feature.

But we should buy a lottery ticket, because in the wake of David Mackenzie's tremendous «Starred Up» (review here), a new film from debut feature director Yann Demange has had its world premiere here at the Berlin Film Festival.

Actress Clea DuVall's debut feature as writer - director is an ensemble piece that breaks -LSB-...]

Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) review: Eva Husson delivers a well directed, well presented, and sure to be much talked about debut feature.

By far the best is Swoon, an impressive debut feature from the young, independent American film - maker Tom Kalin.

However, Scott Walker's writing and directing debut feature stays on the right side of the story as the film explores both sides captivatingly.

Her award - winning debut feature documentary Memories of a Penitent Heart, about her uncle Miguel's untimely death from AIDS, was called «exceptional» and «profoundly affecting» by The Village Voice.

Rémy Bennett wrote and stars in her directorial debut feature film Buttercup Bill that will be released in the U.S. in 2016.

So it is with A Tribe Called Quest, the subject of debut feature filmmaker Michael Rapaport's bracing documentary — a reminder, part «Behind the Music» and part something better, that even artists professing love and togetherness have a hard time keeping it going.

Martin DiCicco's debut feature documentary follows the day - to - day lives of track workers in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Both films were debut feature outings for their directors and both films nicely mixed genres, bringing indie cred.

Houda Benyamina's Divines, which won the Camera d'Or in Cannes last May, was named Best Debut Feature by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, and won the Supporting Actress prize for Deborah Lukumuena as well as the Best Female Newcomer honor for Oulaya Amamra.

In Between (Bar Bahar)(2016 — Israel) Maysaloun Hamoud's remarkable debut feature follows Laila (Mouna Hawa), Salma (Sana Jammelieh), and Nur (Shaden Kanboura), three strong, independent - minded Palestinian women who share an apartment in the vibrant heart of Tel Aviv.

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For the first 45 minutes, Max Joseph's debut feature plays like a feisty artistic auteurist exploration of the DJ world and lifestyle.

An accomplished debut feature by award winning documentary filmmaker David Grubin in which a young Russian immigrant who happens to be a classically trained violinist preparing for an all - important debut recital at Julliard, struggles to free himself from the expectations of his charming but domineering father, while falling for the lovely club and street performer, played by composer - musician - writer Nellie McKay.

Rungano Nyoni's debut feature premiered at last year's Directors» Fortnight in Cannes, and immediately marked the Lusaka - born, Wales - raised director down as a figure to watch.

The Other Side of Sleep is an acclaimed debut feature by Irish filmmaker Rebecca Daly that features a powerful and compelling performance from Antonia Campbell - Hughes, one of this year's Berlin International Film Festival's Shooting Stars award recipients.

This stunning debut feature explores the nature of the relationship between boys, as both violence and support is encapsulated in quiet storytelling and breathtaking photography.

Jackson has been such a prolific actor and racked up so many memorable roles over the past 20 years that nobody usually mentions his performance as Jimmy, the smalltime hood who exerts a rather negative influence on John C. Reilly, in Anderson's 1996 debut feature Hard Eight.

Lynne Ramsay's debut feature Ratcatcher begins with a dreamy slow - motion shot of a little boy wrapping himself in net curtains.

As well as introducing quad - LED flash in 2016, the 2017 models debuted a feature called Slow Sync: It keeps the shutter open longer to capture more light and reduce the light needed from the flash, which can flash less brightly for less time.

It's unclear at this point if Australian director Jennifer Kent wants to continue making horror films, but judging by her terrifying and moving debut feature, The Babadook, it's obvious that horror needs her.

A low - budget debut feature set in Lancashire in 1974, it stars James Elliot Langridge as a lonely teenage boy who finds meaning and redemption in music.

Dagg followed up his 2015 debut feature River with Sweet Virginia, which premiered at last year's Tribeca Film Festival and was released by IFC.

A powerful debut feature from director Gabriel Ripstein, 600 MILES aptly avoids stereotypes and gimmicks of other south - of - the - border thrillers.

Although the title of William Oldroyd's striking debut feature does not specifically refer to Shakespeare's anti-heroine, but rather to that of the 1865 Russian novella «Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk», the title character here is as reckless, stubborn and violent as in the classic play.

The first Debut Feature Award was presented to Jennifer Venditti for Billy the Kid and the Audience Choice Prize went to Seth Gordon's King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.

Trainwreck is terrific, a powerhouse of a comedy with unexpectedly serious undertones: an altogether extraordinary debut feature for its star and writer, Amy Schumer.

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But director Josh Trank's debut feature doesn't run into any of those problems, and it's exactly because the script and acting are so good that he's able to utilize the low - budget gimmick to his benefit, delivering a fresh take on found - footage and superhero movies in the process.

Darren Aronofsky's preoccupation with paranoid, physically grotesque searches for meaning — a curious mix of deep - think and makeup effects that goes back to his black - and - white debut feature, Pi — grimly paints humanity as a species defined by obsessions, addictions, delusions, and self - destruction, its only prophets...