Sentences with phrase «debut fiction film»

Not exact matches

«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

When Wes Anderson's feature debut Bottle Rocket was released just two years after Pulp Fiction, the market had been saturated with cool, quirky, independent crime films, most of them trying to be the next Quentin Tarantino.

Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.

The only commonality found in Sundance buzz issue doc film Blackfish and Gabriela Cowperthwaite «s fiction debut...

With his debut feature, he never misses a beat while infusing the story with quirky insights and pulp - fiction antics that lift this genre film to a new level.

After fellow Koreans Kim Ji - Woon and Park Chan - Wook launched their English language debut films (The Last Stand and Stoker, respectively) the most nuanced of the trio of directorial superstars, Bong Joon - Ho is delivering the largest in scale, the nuclear - winter bound science fiction flick, Snowpiercer.

Mike Cahill's directorial feature - film debut sounds like a science - fiction movie, but it's not.

Del Toro is a firm genre favourite, from his horror debut Cronos (1994), to the superhero film Hellboy (2004), his gothic fairytale Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and the science fiction monster flick Pacific Rim (2013).

All that time hanging out with Nolan has obviously rubbed off: Franklin's directorial debut, The Escape, is a handsomely filmed science - fiction short that wears its influences on its sleeve: it feels like something that Nolan might make over a few days while waiting for Hans Zimmer to finish scoring his latest blockbuster.

That worked to the film's advantage because it ended up making its DVD debut in August 2002 (smack in the middle of Disney's few years of comprehensive DVD editions) as a robust 2 - disc Collector's Edition alongside one for Pulp Fiction.

In 2009, director Duncan Jones gave gaggles of geeks flaming nerdboners with his debut feature «Moon,» a film that dragged science fiction kicking and screaming back into the -LSB-...]

Dark City (New Line): Like «Blade Runner,» this nightmarish bit of science fiction debuted in theaters with a studio - mandated voice - over intended to help viewers make sense of the film.

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.

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.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Kiss Me Deadly, the film that introduced the world to Mickey Spillane's private eye / thug Mike Hammer, also inspired (among other things) the briefcase gag in Pulp Fiction (seriously guys, don't open it), and marked the film debut of erstwhile Nurse Diesel Cloris Leachman.

Disregarding its overly explanatory director's cut, Richard Kelly's debut is less of a straight science - fiction film than a metaphysical meditation on teenage alienation, on that feeling like neither you nor anything you do matters.

Spanish filmmaker Vigalondo has a talent for genre mash - ups, creating fresh takes on familiar science - fiction tropes, and this film (his English language debut) is his smartest, edgiest, and most accomplished to date.

4K Restoration DONNIE DARKO — DIRECTOR»S CUT Sun, April 30 7:45 p.m.; Mon, May 1, 9:20 p.m.; Thurs, May 4, 9:20 p.m. Richard Kelly described his debut feature as «The Catcher in the Rye» told by Philip K. Dick, and the film delivers, combining coming - of - age woes with high - concept science fiction.

All Good Things is Andrew Jarecki's fiction - film debut, but it's not entirely a departure from his 2003 documentary, Capturing the Friedmans, since it's openly, if loosely, based on real - life (mostly disturbed) individuals.

Following her self - funded fiction debut, I Will Follow (2010), her path to success was eased after she became the first African - American woman to win the Best Director Prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film, Middle of Nowhere.

Some Background: Besides being an attorney, which informs this film, her feature directorial debut, Porter has served as an executive producer on both fiction and non-fiction projects, and worked on projects at various TV and cable networks.

I'm most curious about Nate Parker's Nat Turner biopic, The Birth of a Nation; Clea DuVall's The Intervention; documentarian Asif Kapadia's fiction film, Ali & Nino, set in Azerbaijan at the outbreak of World War I; John Carney's Dublin teen musical, Sing Street; Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, a tribute to his uncle, the filmmaker Howard Brookner; Robert Cannan and Ross Adam's The Lovers and the Despot, an investigation of the kidnapping of a South Korean director and his actress ex-wife by movie - mad Kim Jong - il, the crazy but true story that is hilariously retold in David Cronenberg's debut novel, Consumption; and Elite Zexer's Sand Storm, an Israeli - financed film, in Arabic, about two Bedouin women.

Variety announced recently that Philipp Meyer's critically acclaimed fiction debut, American Rust, will be adapted for film by Walter Salles and Jose Rivera.

At no point do they specify anywhere what books are in group a. and what books are in group b. Even if they took an even sample of literary fiction, balancing the male and female authors in both groups, debut versus legacy authors, books adapted to film versus never adapted, etc... They're still looking at two disparate populations of books.