Sentences with phrase «debut feature river»

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He made his feature film debut in 1988 as River Phoenix's little brother in A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.

Ben Affleck makes his feature film directing debut with Gone Baby Gone, based on a novel by Mystic River author Dennis Lehane that Affleck adapted with co-screenwriter Aaron Stockard.

«River of Grass» / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Kelly Reichardt)-- River of Grass, Kelly Reichardt's debut feature, chronicles the misadventures of disaffected housewife Cozy and her lover, the aimless layabout Lee.

Ryan Gosling's directorial debut will make its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival shortly, but today the first Lost River clip has landed online to give the rest of us an idea of what to expect from the ambitious feature.

It's difficult to discuss «Lost River,» the feature debut as writer and director from actor Ryan Gosling, without referencing the film's first appearance nearly a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival.

Also cast in a frozen wasteland, hyphenate Courtney Hunt's feature debut Frozen River aspires to the same eloquence in forging a conversation between the interior and exterior worlds, drawing a quick sketch of poverty and solipsism that evolves into a giant campfire hug of teaching the world to sing or some such facile bullshit.

Granik, who made her debut in 2004 with the addiction saga Down to the Bone (the titles of her first two features give the amusing impression that she has taken the term «body of work» very literally), skillfully sustains the atmosphere, climaxing with a viscerally eerie light - of - the - moon boat scene that more resembles the work of the French festival - circuit lightning rod Philippe Grandrieux than a thuddingly well - intentioned American life - on - the - margins narrative like Frozen River.

Having broken into show biz with TV's Seven Brides for Seven Brothers that ran during the 1982 - 83 season, River Phoenix would follow up with his feature - film debut as a somewhat bookworm - ish kid in Explorers (1985).

The Weinstein Company has unveiled an official trailer for the indie thriller Wind River, the feature directorial debut of screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (of Sicario and Hell or High Water previously).

Understanding is an elastic word, meaning knowledge but implying sympathy, and the friction between these two things is what powers Beautiful Boy, an assured debut feature by writer - director Shawn Ku that, unfortunately, closed Thursday at River East 21.

A ruminative study in character and environment, writer - director Jared Moshé's debut feature, Dead Man's Burden, feels closer in spirit to Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff than Quentin Tarantino's flashy, namedropping spaghetti - western pastiche Django Unchained, even when Moshé goes out of his way to frame a doorway shot in overt homage to The Searchers, or include a rendition of John Ford's favorite hymn, «Shall We Gather at the River?»

Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness screened as a Special Screening during the Cannes Film Festival, giving her the opportunity to promote this first film at the festival outside the competition unlike her actor - turned - director fellow Ryan Gosling, whose debut feature Lost River screened in last year's Un Certain Regard and received mixed and harsh reviews...

Yan is an up - and - coming filmmaker whose feature directorial debut «Dead Pigs» — about «A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly - modernizing Shanghai» — earned strong reviews and won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting at Sundance.

Matthew Barney (featured on the cover of a limited edition Juxtapoz in 2008) recently debuted his first major solo exhibition, River of Fundament, in Los Angeles at the Muse

Some of his mixed - media art projects include Three's Company The Drama, an update to the sitcom using video and art that premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival; Unfinished, a collaboration with director Van Sant on two movies centered on River Phoenix that were presented at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills; and Collage, a show he directed featuring live dance, theater, music and poetry that debuted at Stella Adler studios in New York.