Sentences with phrase «debut feature director»

A supremely acted and crafted piece of work from debut feature director Thomas Napper and writer Johnny Harris, who also leads the cast.

But in the capable hands of debut feature director

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.

Romantic comedies, for instance... Debut feature director Rachel Israel's «Keep the Change,» an expansion of a 2013 short, assumes strengths of the romantic comedy genre while avoiding most pitfall clichés of the past two decades of ill - imagined wish - fulfillment sap.

Fun Size, from debut feature director Josh Schwartz, stars Victoria Justice, Jane Levy, Thomas Mann, Johnny Knoxville and Chelsea Handler.

Sundance London: The Intervention review: Debut feature director Clea DuVall throws in a solid effort with this comedy drama, one of the highlights from...

Synopsis: Debut feature director Zoe Lister - Jones, who also writes and stars in Band Aid, offers an honest, intelligent, and hilarious perspective on modern... [MORE]

Synopsis: Debut feature director Zoe Lister - Jones, who also writes and stars in Band Aid, offers an honest, intelligent, and hilarious perspective on modern relationships.

In their debut feature directors Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard fuse drama and documentary, weaving a staged day in Cave's life with never - before - seen verité observation of his creative cycle.

Debuting feature director Rupert Goold at first seems on a path of intriguing surreality, staging his verbal mano a mano in a spotless jail that feels more like an abstract state of mind.

Actor turned debuting feature director Jennifer Kent has the narrative chutzpah to show her entire hand in the pop - up story and then make us squirm as foretold events come true.

Not exact matches

She was the editor on the director's 1967 feature debut, «Who's That Knocking at My Door,» and has edited all of his films since «Raging Bull» in 1980.

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

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.

Writer - director Ned Benson's debut feature explores the dissolution of a marriage from the perspective of Eleanor (Jessica Chastain) and Connor (James McAvoy).

You'd expect no less from director Ryan Coogler, who opens the film in 1992 in Oakland, a few stops down the BART line from the site of the tragic climax of his debut feature, Fruitvale Station.

Carroll Ballard's feature debut is rich in adventure, suspense and mythical elements and marks the prize - winning short - subjects director as a major talent.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven, who makes her feature debut as writer - director after a couple of short films, tells the story exclusively from the girls» point of view — both emotionally, as they have all our sympathy, and physically, as almost nothing happens that one of them could not be seeing.

Music video director Geremy Jasper's debut feature stars Danielle Macdonald as Patricia «Killa P» Dombrowski, a bartender in New Jersey who hopes her rap skills can lead her to fame and fortune.

This accomplished feature debut for director / co-scenarist Cutter Hodierne (expanding his 2012 Sundance grand jury prize - winning short of the same name) follows an oil tanker's hijacking and its aftermath through the primary viewpoint of a young Somali who's reluctantly taken part.

Phyllida Lloyd makes her feature film directorial debut an uneven one; she's a leading British theatre director who is noted for her work in opera and directed the original stage production.

An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, writer / director Michael O'Shea's debut feature The Transfiguration follows troubled teen Milo who hides behind his fascination with vampire lore.

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

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

REVIEW: LANDLINE is the sophomore feature from writer - director Gillian Robespierre, whose debut, THE OBVIOUS CHILD, was one of the buzziest titles in recent Sundance memory.

The feature debut of writer - director Aimee Lagos, the film feels overstuffed and overcooked, as if the filmmaker were trying to get too much out all in one go.

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.

Writer - director Ari Aster's debut feature stars Toni Collett as Annie, an artist, a wife (Gabriel Byrne plays her husband), and a mother to a teenager (Alex Wolff) and his younger sister (Milly Shapiro).

The film reps a new career high for director Dee Rees, whose remarkable 2011 debut feature Pariah is a semi-autobiographical deep dive into a black girl's struggles with coming out.

This accomplished feature debut for director / co-scenarist Cutter Hodierne (expanding his 2012 Sundance grand jury prize - winning short of the same name) follows an oil tanker's hijacking and its aftermath through -LSB-...]

In her debut feature as writer - director, Karen Gillan stars as a woman trying (and failing) to come to grips with the suicide of her friend.

I can't think of a single situation where Kelly Fremon Craig, who makes her feature debut as a writer - director, takes us to a place we haven't often been.

After the show ended in 1994, Thompson appeared in the pseudo-documentary about a porn actor / director, Super 8 1/2 (1994), and joined the other Kids for the troupe's feature debut Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996).

Synopsis: Academy Award - winning director Brad Bird (Ratatouille) makes his live action feature directorial debut with the fourth installment of the massively... [MORE]

Documentary director John Maringouin's debut narrative feature stars David Zellner (the director of Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter) as a Texan hoping to acquire riches in China's booming economy.

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.

Undoubtedly this movie means something to its director and screenwriter - a former dancer making his feature - film debut.

The debut feature from writer - director Nicholas Smith, who surely will go on to more compelling work.

In 1998, she made her feature - film debut in Tango, in which she played an aspiring dancer who becomes entangled in a romance with a film director.

This remarkable film from Australia, the debut feature of writer - director Cate Shortland, moves to the lyrical rhythms and unhurried pace of a 1970s road movie.

Carried over from the TV version was director Sidney Lumet, here making his feature - film debut.

A serving of «True Blood's» Ryan Kwanten in his native accent is the chief selling point of this picturesque, contentedly imitative Australian Western / thriller / Coen - brothers homage, the feature debut of writer - director Patrick Hughes.

Writer - director Ryan Coogler's debut feature Fruitvale Station was a low - budget drama based on the true story of the shooting of a young African - American man at a railway station in Oakland, California, on New Year's Day 2009.

Brazilian director and YouTube star Joe Penna's debut feature stars Mads Mikkelsen as a man stranded in the Arctic.

British TV director Michael Pearce makes a commanding feature debut with this psychological drama - thriller that puts an eerily windswept island location to fine use and features an excellent lead performance from Jessie Buckley, whose open, intelligent face transmits thought and feeling with piercing clarity.

After the whimsy of last week's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the real - life dramas of 2017's Another Mother's Son, the Channel Islands become home to something altogether more eerie in this Jersey - set debut feature from writer - director Michael Pearce.

When it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year, writer - director John Maclean's debut feature won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.

But Goold, a highly regarded British theater director making his debut feature, lacks the panache to realize this twisted relationship onscreen.