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Ever since Nacho Vigalondo's debut feature film Time Crimes came out, he's been a director to keep an eye on.

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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
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