Ever since Nacho Vigalondo's
debut feature film Time Crimes came out, he's been a director to keep an eye on.
Not exact matches
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.
Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her
feature -
film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in
films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last
Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).
From Humpday and Touchy Feely director Lynn Shelton, her first
feature based on a script she didn't pen (that credit goes to first -
time scribe Andrea Seigel), Laggies
debuted at this year's Sundance
film festival to mostly positive reviews.
After shooting, Lanthimos began preparation to shoot The Favourite but then turned back to The Killing of a Sacred Deer after the filmmaking team watched footage and figured the
feature could be finished in
time for a premiere at Cannes, where the filmmaker's previous
films The Lobster and Dogtooth
debuted.
Director Renen Schorr speaks about how his classic 1986
debut feature film has withstood the test of
time.
This week's You Have To See... looks at short -
film wunderkind Nacho Vigalondo's
debut feature film TIMECRIMES, a
time - travel focused gem from 2007.
Nyong» o (who made her
feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first -
time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of
Film and Television Arts prize.
Yann Demange's
debut feature»71 has shown me exactly how ignorant I've been of recent history, with a
film he himself describes as an excoriation of our propensity, across nations and
time, for sending our young men off to fight «dirty» wars.
Expanded from the 2007 short
film Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse, This Is The End is the
feature film directorial
debut of long -
time writing and producing partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
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.
Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good
films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «
feature - length directorial
debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician
film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody
times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which
featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»
In the
feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing
films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another
film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his
feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular
film franchises of all
time to giant box - office success.
Chow Yun - fat, at this
time the biggest star in the colony, hot off the smashing success of A Better Tomorrow, plays the middle brother while pop star Jacky Cheung, himself on the road to a successful
film career (he'd win the Supporting Actor Hong Kong
Film Award this year for his work in Wong Kar - wai's
debut feature As Tears Go By), plays the youngest.
Now comes A Kind of Murder, from first -
time screenwriter Susan Boyd and veteran television director Andy Goddard (Downton Abbey), whose
debut feature film, Set Fire to the Stars, came out in 2014.
Of the six
features on this set, all but Playtime make their respective American Blu - ray
debuts and two appear on disc for the first
time in the U.S.. From his
debut feature Jour de Fête (1949) to the birth of both M. Hulot and the distinctive Tati directorial approach in his brilliant and loving Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) through the sublime Playtime (1967) to his post-script
feature Parade (1974), this set presents the development of an artist who took comedy seriously and sculpted his
films like works of kinetic art driven by eccentric engines of personality.
Robert Eggers» The Witch is indeed a directorial
debut featuring a cast of little knowns, but isn't in any way, shape, or form a
film that I'm having an easy
time waiting for.
Howard's
feature debut also finds him in front of the camera — the only
time he's made more than an uncredited cameo in any of his
films.
The Cleanse is both written and directed by filmmaker Bobby Miller, making his
feature directorial
debut after a whole bunch of award - winning short
films, including Tub and End
Times.
Jamie Travis has had a good couple of years, with his
feature debut film FOR A GOOD
TIME, CALL... being acquired by Focus straight...
Glenn Caldecott bounced some ideas around with first -
time writer / director Tom Ryan about his
debut feature film, «Trampoline», and the challenges of independence.
James Cameron's romantic epic, at the
time the most expensive
film ever made and the biggest moneymaker of all
time, winner of a record - tying 11 Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director), and the
film that made Cameron the self - proclaimed «king of the world,» makes its long - awaited Blu - ray
debut in both Standard Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D sets, both of them numbering four discs and both
featuring two new, exclusive documentaries.
Director Volker Schlöndorff had already made three
feature films (including his influential 1966
debut, Young Törless) by the
time he tackled this project, casting a twenty - four - year - old Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the role of a booze - soaked, womanizing poet who goes on a scorched - earth bender across the German countryside.
Not really a good
film by any stretch of the imagination, Corvette Summer has an oddly quaint charm at
times, and an interesting cast of recognizable supporting characters, including Annie Potts (of TV's «Designing Women» and Ghostbusters), here in her
feature film debut.
These young adult movies have seen some impressive names step behind the director chair but Maze Runner finds itself as the
feature debut of visual effects artist Wes Ball and there's no doubting the fact that this feels like a first -
time effort of someone who can't bring the energy required to keep a
film's pulse moving.
Super Dark
Times is directed by filmmaker Kevin Phillips, making his
feature directorial
debut after a few short
films.
Joanna Hogg, the woman who directed Tom Hiddleston in his
feature film debut, is helming «The Souvenir: Part One,» which will be executive produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert Pattinson, a recent snub for «Good
Time.»
Since that auspicious
debut, he has continued to collaborate with Anderson on «The Darjeeling Limited» (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola); the short
film «Hotel Chevalier»; his animated
feature, «Fantastic Mr. Fox» (for which he contributed his vocal talents); «Moonrise Kingdom» (part of Anderson's stellar ensemble cast of Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand), which set a new record at the specialty box office over Memorial Day weekend for best limited indie
debut of all
time, and, the Academy Award nominated
film, «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» whose eclectic cast brought back thespians Murray, Norton and Swinton, along with Willem Dafoe, Soirsae Ronin, Ralph Finnes, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody.
Here's our box office report for the weekend of October 28th, 2011
featuring the performances of
debut films «Puss In Boots» and «In
Time» — as well as updates on the rest of the box office top ten.
The series that brought us Courtney Hoffman's The Good
Time Girls (which led to her getting her
feature debut over at Amblin) and Gabourey Sidibe's The Story of Four, a fiercely feminine and nuanced look at the effects of racism in America, now brings us a
film by Kristen Stewart.
The
film will be the
film - maker's
feature - length fully English - language
debut following the German / English John Rabe and 2004's Shadows of
Time, which was in Bengali.
Filmed by Claire Denis» long -
time cinematographer, Agnès Godard, Claudia Sainte - Luce's
debut feature, based loosely on events from her own life, blends a wry and moving naturalism with moments of inspired comedy.
Sharp's
feature debut came last year in Marti Noxon's «To the Bone» for Netflix, although he
filmed this around the same
time.
In addition to that, while there were set photos
featuring Ebony Maw tackling Doctor Strange in an effort to snatch the Eye of Agamotto aka the
Time Stone, Tom Vaughan - Lawlor who plays the character via motion capture has yet to
debut his final look for the
film.
When Augustine Frizzell's buddy - girl comedy Never Goin» Back bows Monday at midnight, it will mark the culmination of a four - year endeavor — an odyssey of sorts mined from Frizzell's own unconventional childhood, and one that required the first -
time feature director to completely scrap her original
film before re-writing, re-casting, and re-shooting her Sundance
debut.
Closing Night It Stains the Sand Red Colin Minahan, USA, 2016, 92m The solo
feature directorial
debut of Colin Minahan, one half of the Vicious Brothers (Grave Encounters, Extraterrestrial), makes his strongest impression yet with this engaging, visually striking
film, set during apocalyptic
times, about a woman, Molly (a fearless Brittany Allen), who finds herself stranded in the desert after her dumbass boyfriend is killed by a zombie.
The
feature debut of writer - director Andrew Renzi, the
film introduces a type of character we don't normally see on
film: one who is both noble and, at
times, as wildly inappropriate as a character in an Adam Sandler movie.
Beyond the Black Rainbow would have to be one of the boldest
debut feature films in quite some
time.
Nordoff and Halll's novel has thus far been
filmed five
times: a silent
film in 1916; as In the Wake of the Bounty (1933), with Errol Flynn making his
feature film debut; the 1935 [M] Clark Gable version, the 1962 Marlon Brando version, and as The Bounty (1984), with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins battling wits.
First
time director Emanuele Della Valle knocks it out - of - the - park in his
feature film debut, Wetlands.
After watching writer / director Tanya Hamilton's Night Catches Us for the second
time, I had to go and double check that it really is her
feature film directing
debut.
Western short
film «The Good
Time Girls» will be her
feature directorial
debut.
His
debut film, Safety Not Guaranteed,
features everything from jeans jackets, Star Wars references and a
time travel plot to rival the seminal series of the period, Back to the Future.
I stay in Afghanistan for
film # 2 of the day, this
time with French journalist Sonia Kronlund making her
feature directorial
debut with Nothingwood, a documentary about the country's infamous
film star Salim Shaheen.
Older bro John Michael McDonagh possesses a similar talent, and an ear for devilish dialogue, and having penned «Ned Kelly,» he made his
feature - length
debut with the cheeky, underrated black comedy «The Guard» (underrated internationally, that is; the
film is the most successful Irish
film of all
time in Ireland).
Nordoff and Halll's novel novel has thus far been
filmed five
times in 1916; as «In the Wake of the Bounty» (1933), with Errol Flynn making his
feature film debut; the 1935 Clark Gable version, the 1962 [M] Marlon Brando version, and as «The Bounty» (1984), with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins battling