Sentences with phrase «debut feature by»

Doc Fortnight opens on February 16 with the international premiere of Gillian Wearing «s Self Made (2010, Great Britain), the debut feature by the Turner Prize — winning artist.

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.

Coincidentally, earlier in the week I watched Stony Island, the debut feature by Andrew Davis, the director who would go on to launch the career of Steven Seagal (whose latest garbage movie I reviewed this week), on which Shults» aunt and star, Krisha Fairchild, is credited as a production assistant.

by Bill Chambers Featuring more close - ups of needles piercing flesh than a booster - shot training video, Antiviral, the debut feature by Cronenberg offspring Brandon, takes place in a world evolutions ahead of TMZ, where fans pay to have themselves infected with viruses extracted from their celebrity crushes.

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.

Movie review of «Krisha»: The debut feature by Trey Edward Shults introduces him as a promising if extreme director of behavior and observation, resulting in a film as artificial as it is interesting.

The debut feature by Seattle - based writer / director duo Zeek Earl and Chris Caldwell is a lean, suspenseful and absorbing indie film that feels fresh even as it explores ostensibly familiar territory.

The debut feature by the great Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan's Childhood is a poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy's war - ravaged youth.

«The Witch» may sound like a generic horror flick that's opening too late or too early for Halloween, but this phenomenal debut feature by Robert Eggers has a singular style and tone, and its horror flows from the deepest wellsprings of human nature.

I Am Not A Witch (Rungano Nyoni, 2017) I Am Not A Witch is the debut feature by Zambian born Rungano Nyoni.

This debut feature by Sara Colangelo is supported by lead actors Boyd Holbrook and Sundance London alumni Jacob Lofland (Mud) and explores the intricacies of small - town social order.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

The debut feature by husband - and - wife team Erdstein and Foulcher — who met while students at Melbourne's esteemed Victorian College of the Arts — wrote the screenplay together, with Erdstein taking on directorial duties while Foulcher played not one but both of the starring roles.

All of that didn't leave much time left over, but I did get to see one other film, a debut feature by directors Alex and Benjamin Brewer called The Trust, starring Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood as crooked Las Vegas cops who try to pull off a daring heist.

9 The Red Turtle A rebuke to the glibness of most children's entertainment, this enthralling debut feature by longtime Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit transpires without a word of dialogue, its human characters dwarfed by a majestic natural environment.

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.

This superb debut feature by Korean - American director So Yong Kim seems to be constructed entirely of the ineffable and intangible, those fleeting moments that most movies treat as throwaways.

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That's in addition to a 500,000 - square - foot warehouse that opened in the fall in Louisville, Ky.; the launch of a mobile site; and the simultaneous debut of the biennial Super Nasty print magazine and the brand's first in - house collection, Weird Science, featuring color palettes inspired by computer cables and prints based on data - corruption visuals.

By pitching its revamped enterprise chat service, Facebook joins the list of companies like Google, Cisco, Microsoft, and others that have recently debuted similar chatting features in light of the popularity of the startup Slack.

This rotisserie - style chicken sandwich, which debuts on March 1, is the first item sold by Subway to feature meat raised without antibiotics.

Bridgeview, Illinois and Toyota Park will host the 3 - day debut of the Chicago Open Air music festival, which will feature performances by more than 60 rock music artists, an outdoor Gourmet Man Food and craft beer village and other entertainment from July 15 through July 17, 2016.

«Pivot Point,» a foodservice concept designed by Christensen Consultants of San Jose, CA, has been chosen as the feature for the HX360 ° Innovation Zone Food & Beverage area, and will debut in a 900 - square - foot working model at HX: The Hotel Experience, November 12 - 13, 2017 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City.

Our first SportStars Now debuted Jan. 10 and featured a cover story by Ike Dodson on the current strength of girls wrestling in Northern California.

By age 15 he was a regular feature within the Under - 19 side, and made his first - team debut as a 16 year - old, going on to score five league goals in his debut season.

By the time he was 17, the young midfielder had become a regular with Atleti's B team, playing in the third tier of Spanish football, and a debut with the senior side came in March 2012, featuring in the last six minutes of a Europa League win over Beşiktaş.

Ted is a 2012 American buddy comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane in his feature film directorial debut.

I spent a lifetime lookin» for you / Single bars and good time lovers were never true / Playing a fools game Lookin» for a Love is a song written by J. W. Alexander and Zelda Samuels and was the debut hit of the family group The Valentinos, which featured Bobby Womack.

The Big Bang Theory; Genre: Sitcom: Created by: Chuck Lorre Bill Prady: Directed by: James Burrows (pilot) Mark Cendrowski: Starring The Big Bang Theory is a CBS sitcom, created by Chuck Lorre, which made its debut in 2007, featuring four genius - level friends (with careers ranging from...

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.

A young woman with anorexia checks into a group home overseen by a rather unconventional medical professional in To the Bone, the feature debut from screenwriter and small - screen writer - producer Marti Noxon (Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce, UnReal).

It wasn't long after her 1998 graduation that the aspiring actress made her feature debut in the 2000 drama Our Song, with nominations for the film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival serving to increase her exposure among cinephiles, even if the film did go largely unseen by the masses.

«White Shadow,» the first feature from Berlin - based Israeli filmmaker Noaz Deshe, which plays Sundance this weekend having already picked up the Best Debut award in Venice, mired us deep in this quandary, being a story, bruisingly told, set in the horrifying world of «albino hunting» in Tanzania, where local superstitions have led to a lucrative trade in albino body parts believed by witch doctors to have mystical properties.

After Holocaust dramas such as formally - inventive Son of Saul by Laszlo Nemes or Martti Helde's poetically arresting depiction of Soviet terror in his debut feature In the Crosswind, Šulík chose the way of two oldtimers on a road trip, a basic set up that could have gone awry in a plethora of possibilities.

The material was suggested to Kelly by executive producer Gus Van Sant, and is Kelly's debut feature (which is being released after his second feature, King Cobra).

Unleashing a literal boulder on the tired swank of the British crime subgenre, Jonathan Glazer builds his debut feature not on flashy con jobs marked by the coolness with which they're executed, but the anxiety with which these jobs and the people associated with them bear down and haunt weak and insecure ex-criminals.

Obviously influenced by his dad David's early work but also showing a strong personal style, Brandon Cronenberg's feature debut is a body - horror satire with a point - a needle point.

As directed by Rupert Goold — a British theater veteran making his feature debut — it's deliberately paced, with much more talk than action, which seems appropriate for the material but might frustrate fans of its stars.

Heavily hyped and featuring a new little boy character to appeal to the young fry as well as an appearance by wrestling star The Rock as the Scorpion King, The Mummy Returns made a record - setting debut in early May 2001.

This moody screen adaptation of the Oprah - endorsed eponymous bestseller by Andre Dubus III's isn't a slam - dunk success, but it has plenty of sleeper potential and is a feather in the cap of director Perelman, a Russian émigré who debuts here as a feature filmmaker after a career in commercials.

The son of an immigrant couple barely scraping by in Los Angeles» Koreatown struggles — ever so subtly — with his cultural and sexual identity in Spa Night, rookie writer - director Andrew Ahn's gossamer debut feature.

This modest indie with major ambitions is directed by veteran cinematographer Steven Bernstein, making a solid feature debut.

She worked for a time as a designer and model before making her screen debut in 1931 in a comedy by Marc Allegret, who made his own debut as a feature filmmaker that same year.

Under the Shadow, a Farsi - language debut feature written and directed by Babak Anvari, creates a world where reality itself is suspect.

Adapted for screen by Ian McEwan from his 2007 novella, this debut feature from four - time Olivier Award - winning theatre director Dominic Cooke is, at its heart, a deceptively simple tale.

Martin Ritt's impressive feature directing debut is a socially conscious drama, about union corruption, interracial integration, and moral integrity, well acted by John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier.

This debut feature «succeeds thanks to a credibly bifurcated performance by star Ansel Elgort,» according to John DeFore of THR.

With all of the things that Christmas, Again (written and directed by Charles Poekel in his feature debut) does well (and it does almost everything well), the most striking thing about it is its evocation of an extremely specific mood.

With an excellent, career - topping performance by the late Harry Dean Stanton, coupled with a strong supporting ensemble, this quiet, low - key debut feature from actor - director John Carroll Lynch explores the meaning of life and the secrets to help make it fulfilling, both while we're here and as we're about to make our ultimate transition.

The former music video director's first feature film since 2004's Birth is based on the satirical debut novel by Michel Faber, which centers on an extraterrestrial who comes to Scotland to pick up unsuspecting hitchhikers and bring them to her corporate bosses for use as meat.

The overwhelming English sadness of Ian McEwan's novella On Chesil Beach has been transferred to the movie screen, adapted by the author and directed with scrupulous sensitivity and care by Dominic Cooke, known for his stage work and making his feature film debut here.