Sentences with phrase «debut feature picked»

Real Life (1979) Long before reality television as we know it was even conceived, Brooks» debut feature picked apart its voyeurism and invasiveness, and the quotation marks that would have to frame TV's notion of «reality.»

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Over in the Netherlands, meanwhile, Marco van Ginkel picked up right where he left off in his second spell with PSV Eindhoven, notching a debut goal in their 2 - 0 win over Excelsior (for whom Danilo Pantic did not feature).

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«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.

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.

Focus World picked up French / Belgian feature Raw out of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it debuted in Critics Week, picking up a Fipresci prize.

Meanwhile, Finley's film debuted at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was subsequently picked up by Focus Features for distribution, so one supposes that there actually are consequences — namely, that the unproven and overprivileged get to keep enjoying unfettered success.

Sleight is a strong feature debut for Dillard with great moments that tend to pick up the more humdrum bulk of the film.

Mike picked SCULPIN IPA from BALLAST POINT to accompany our discussion of Jane Campion's debut feature «Sweetie,» currently streaming on FilmStruck.

You can't turn away wondering what Epps is going to do next from attacking Solomon to lusting after his top cotton picking slave, Patesy (Lupita Nyong» o, who is also generating serious award buzz for thanks to an incredible feature film debut).

It reads like well - worn territory and when a first - time director picks their own life as inspiration for a debut feature, the results can often seem self - indulgent.

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.

Earlier this week I joked that, after Sunday's episode of Mad Men, I wouldn't be surprised if John Slattery (who directed the episode) was picked to make his feature directing debut with Fifty Shades of Grey.

Ilo Ilo is the feature debut of Singaporean director Anthony Chen, which this week sees its release after a lengthy festival tour during which, amongst many other prestigious awards, it picked up the Camera d'Or 2013, the coveted cinematography prize at Cannes.

The sidebar will open with the lone American pick: a special screening of Paul Dano's feature directorial debut, «Wildlife,» which previously debuted at Sundance in January.

Gabe Klinger's debut feature film, Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater — which, in addition to having its world premiere at Venice, was picked up by FilmBuff for a 2014 release — is likely to earn the young...

«We picked theaters where we think there are grassroots audiences inclined toward golf such as in Arizona, Florida, California, etc.» Fittingly, the feature had its U.S. debut at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in January.

The Toronto - based indie distributor has picked up the North American rights to Siobhan Devine's debut feature.

Why: If you think of the writing categories as the ones where Academy voters give consolation prizes to films they like but don't want for Best Picture, then expect to see Jordan Peele on stage early in the evening, picking up the hardware for his feature debut as writer / director.

For his buddy Bennett Miller's feature debut, Philip Seymour Hoffman picked up the mannerisms of Truman Capote, nailed the author's high - pitched affectation, and then kept digging.

Meanwhile, newcomer Jon Watts, whose feature film debut «Cop Car» arrives in theaters August 7, will be filling the director's chair and was hand - picked by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige.

Distributor The Orchard picked up feature comedy Flower by Max Winkler out of last year's Tribeca Film Festival where it debuted.

Although her feature debut All I Want For Christmas in 2002 came and went with little fanfare (I can't find any information about it online), Away From Her, released in 2006, picked up some fantastic reviews.

Readers who couldn't get enough of the historical detail and chilly Nordic landscapes of Kent's debut will want to pick up Wolf Winter, which also pits outsiders against their community and features a mysterious death.

Dietland By Sarai Walker Mariner • $ 14.95 • ISBN 9780544704831 Walker's daring debut novel, an Indie Next pick which came in at # 26 on our Best Books of 2015 ranking, features a 300 - pound heroine who takes a revolutionary approach to beauty and weight loss.

That was followed Wednesday by the debut of Continue, a continuous - bookmarking feature that permits users to pick up reading on one device where they left off on another, and the announcement this morning that Mark Waid's Thrillbent imprint has signed a distribution deal that begins with the digital debut of Insufferable by Waid and Peter Krause.

Film Pick: A Coffee in Berlin In Jan Ole Gerster's feature debut, Niko, a twenty - something law school drop out, wanders around Berlin trying to get a cup of coffee and meets various characters who symbolize Germany's relationship with its past.

His feature directorial debut La Camioneta premiered at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival, and was selected as a New York Times Critic's Pick.

With the update, the OnePlus 5 is picking up features that debuted on the OnePlus 5T, including Parallel Apps and beautify effects for Portrait Mode.