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«Lamb,» director Yared Zeleke's debut feature film about a young boy named Ephraïm, who must live with faraway family...

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The film feels a little less amateur than «Pusher», - a cheap debut feature for some underexperienced Dane trying to make abstract art - and it's that which brings the final product closer to decency, because many of the missteps that ruined «Pusher» feel more considerable in this superior, but still misguided effort, which has a good bit to commend, but even more to complain about as questionable «story «telling notes that ultimately send the final product crashing into mediocrity.

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

Shot entirely on location in Barrow, Alaska, On The Ice is the engrossing and suspenseful feature film debut by filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean about two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town.

As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known trans person, Focus Features — the company distributing the film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).

Aaron Godfred's feature film debut, Little Blue Pill, is a raunchy indie comedy about a young man who accidentally takes Viagra like pills and experiences all the side - effects that comes

«I Give it a Year»: «Borat» scribe Dan Mazer makes his feature film directing debut with this romantic comedy about a young couple (Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall) who are doing their best to stay married despite the doubts of their friends and relatives.

Gudegast, making his feature directing debut after writing «A Man Apart» and «London Has Fallen,» seems to understand just enough about that element of Mann's film to recreate some of its conflicts — both in terms of crime scenarios and the characters» civilian lives — but lacks the discipline, or maybe skill, to lend them real emotional weight, much less originality.

There's a lot to like about Leon Ford's debut feature film as writer and director.

Director Renen Schorr speaks about how his classic 1986 debut feature film has withstood the test of time.

However, his prior filmmaking efforts were male dominated: In 2006, he won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» which stars Brendan Gleeson; for McDonagh's 2008 feature - length debut «In Bruges,» he paired the actor with Colin Farrell in a devious tale about bumbling hitmen.

I heard a lot of buzz from the festival circuit about how Evan Katz «s debut feature was a top - notch horror film, so imagine my surprise when it turned out to be something entirely different.

How much better can a debut feature realistically get, and why discredit one of the greatest films ever made about race relations by attributing it to Humpty Dumpty?

Mysterious, smart, and full of surprises, Ex Machina is about as awesome a feature debut a director could have, and we had the privilege of speaking with Mr. Garland in a roundtable interview during his visit to San Francisco to promote the film.

The first clear action taken in Haim Tabakman's quietly striking debut feature, Eyes Wide Open, is about as on - the - nose as this small film gets.

Sony Pictures Animation's new film «The Star», about the Birth of Christ from the POV of the animals, is Reckart's feature - film directorial debut.

I was originally going to make a point about how surprising it is that nary a trace of Colin Trevorrow's style can be found here, but then I had to remind myself this project is the antithesis of his 2012 feature film debut.

Almost as extraordinary as Justin Kurzel's feature film debut, Snowtown, about the 1999 «Bodies in Barrels» murders, is the often - baulking reception with which it is met.

During our wide - ranging conversation he talked about making his feature debut (he previously helmed the miniseries Top of the Lake), the challenge of casting a child actor, balancing fact and fiction, how he collaborates with his cinematographer, what he learned from test screenings, filming in India, and more.

Counting her 1999 debut Ratcatcher in 1999, Lynne Ramsay has only directed three feature films, including Movern Callar and We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Martin McDonagh (pictured above), the award winning Irish playwright behind The Pillowman and the Oscar winning shot film Six Shooter, made his feature film debut in 2008 with In Bruges, an extraordinarily black dramedy about two hit - men (played by Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, the latter of whom picked up a Golden Globe for his efforts) on vacation in the medieval Belgian town of Bruges.

Many of the rules that Jamie Kennedy jokes about in «Scream» came to being here — both Annie (Nancy Loomis, oxford and undies) and Lynda (P.J. Soles, «totally» topless, also in «Carrie») are sexually active and ultimately die, and Lynda's boyfriend Bob may be the first on record to say «I'll be right back» and not make it back — but there are also some classic hair raising quick - take shots of Michael Meyers across a street, in the backyard, and especially the one of him rising in the background after Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis, in her feature film debut) thinks she's killed him once and for all.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

The Criterion debut of the film features a new video interviews with Ballhaus and the original featurette «Outsiders» featuring new interviews with actors Margit Carstensen, Eva Mattes, Katrin Schaake, and Hanna Schygulla, plus a new interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc about director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the film, and the 1992 documentary Role Play: Women on Fassbinder, originally made for German TV and featuring interviews with Carstensen, Schygulla, and actors Irm Hermann and Rosel Zech.

Over the course of a couple of phone chats — one interrupted by a dead cell phone battery — one can hear the earnest joy in her voice, usually followed by that laughter, when talking about her journey from M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, her feature film debut, to the massive success of Jurassic World despite her character's penchant for running in heels from dinosaurs and, most recently, her 2017 Screen Actors Guild Award - nominated performance in an episode of Netflix's Black Mirror.

Two years ago, in the same venue, a young unknown filmmaker was about to emerge on to the Irish film scene with his debut feature, Pilgrim Hill.

The film has a significant arthouse flair, but what is striking about Dolan's feature debut is the way it tackles the fear and self - loathing surrounding coming out.

From Academy Award - nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award - winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world - renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger - than - life literary giant Thomas Wolfe.

Glenn Caldecott bounced some ideas around with first - time writer / director Tom Ryan about his debut feature film, «Trampoline», and the challenges of independence.

In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Coen brothers» debut, Blood Simple, I'm re-watching their 16 feature films and attempting to jot down observations about one per day, in order of their release.

Just this evening at the San Diego Comic - Con I caught up with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (review) helmer Troy Nixey, who made his feature - length directing debut with the film, a remake of the 1973 made - for - TV movie of the same name about a family that discovers murderous tiny creatures living in the basement of their new home.

Michael Pearce's debut feature is a love story trapped within a horror film; a dark fairytale about an emotionally isolated woman who comes under the spotlight of an island community when she falls in love with a man who is suspected of a series of brutal murders.

Lovesick also marks the feature film debut for its writer Dean Young, though he has honed his skill over 25 years in television comedy, where he has written and produced the likes of «Mad About You», «King of the Hill», and «Community.»

The star of Jeune Femme talks to Demetrios Matheou about her breakthrough role in feature debut director Léonor Serraille's acclaimed film.

Yance Ford's debut feature is a deeply moving, complex film about a family murder, memory, injustice and the institutional racism that continues to pervade America's legal, social and economic systems.

Beatrice Ní Bhroin talks to Jonás Cuarón about his unusual debut feature Año Uña, a full - length film constructed entirely out of stills.

In an exclusive interview, the multi-talented RZA talked about the genesis of the project, what appealed to him about his character, how he prepared for the role, his collaboration with Delamarre on his feature directorial debut, working with Belle and the late Walker and what they brought to the film, his bold line of dialogue, what he learned about himself while making the movie, how Walker inspired him, his role in the upcoming martial arts sequel «The Protector 2» with Tony Jaa directed by Prachya Pinkaew, and his new Fox Network TV series, «Gang Related,» that premieres May 22nd.

While at the film's press day, filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about how Vacation ended up being their feature directorial debut, why their humor tends to lean more towards the R - rated, why Ed Helms and Christina Applegate were the perfect heads of this Griswold family, getting Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo involved, which cameos they were most impressed with, being of the mind - set that comedy can be short, and why test screenings can be a good gauge for comedy.

Before Wes Craven hit box - office oil with A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, he ruffled censors» feathers with his deeply upsetting 1972 feature debut, a exploitation film about an abducted and slain teenage girl — and the demolished parents who exact revenge on the criminals who unwittingly crash for the night in their home.

The acclaimed performer of stage and screen makes his feature film directing debut with «Breathe,» the Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy starrer about husband - wife activist duo Robin and Diana Cavendish.

Katz: Willard was George's friend and after the debacle of THX 1138 (Lucas» poorly received feature film debut), he wanted Willard to write about cruising for American Graffiti, and I sort of came with the package.

Almost as extraordinary as Justin Kurzel's feature film debut, Snowtown, about the 1999 «Bodies in Barrels» murders, is the often - baulking...

As alumni of my school, the pair came to give a talk when I was about 14, and Cornish struck me as the more thoughtful, ambitious one even then, but nothing prepared me for his feature film debut.

Amanda Spencer caught up with director Rebecca Daly before her debut feature screened at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2011 to chat about the film.

I had the opportunity to talk to Alan Ball about Towelhead, his first feature - film script after American Beauty and his feature directing debut, when he presented the film at the Seattle International Film Festival in June, 2008.

Zhao's feature about a badly - injured cowboy, played by real - life cowboy Brady Jandreau, was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards, and has played dozens of film festivals since its Cannes debut.

«At its core the Sundance film festival is about discovery,» we explained in our statement, «In their feature film debut these filmmakers dare to expose a story that powerful forces would rather keep hidden.»

But if there is one thing certain about McDonagh's sophomore feature film, it's that it's bigger in every sense than his debut.

James Franco's «The Disaster Artist,» his feature film about Tommy Wiseau «s legendary «The Room,» starring Francos James and Dave, Seth Rogen and Josh Hutcherson will debut at South by Southwest Film.

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.