Sentences with phrase «debut film from»

A visceral tale of grief is presented in «For Those in Peril», the debut film from writer / director, Paul Wright, which composites seafaring folklore against the raw emotions of losing a loved one.

The debut film from Jennifer Kent, it succeeds in cinematic terror from its atmosphere, scares, and subtext.

Catch a young Tom Hiddleston in Joanna Hogg's debut film from 2007, which sees a forty - something woman on a Tuscan break fall in with a group of partying teens.

OUTLAWS AND ANGELS is the debut film from writer / director JT Mollner and stars Chad Michael Murray, Luke Wilson, Teri Polo, Francesca -LSB-...]

Winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix, Son of Saul is a debut film from Hungarian director László Nemes.

This is a highly polished debut film from Kelly Fremon Craig that marks her down as a talent to keep a very close eye on.

The story deals with the co-dependence between friends and how that disintegrates with the tensions of class and lineage — note how this topic seems fairly similar to another debut film from a famous television impresario who revealed himself to be completely tone deaf to cinematic storytelling.

The debut film from make - up and special effects man, Geoff Redknap who here is aiming for both a grounded tale of a man struggling in a small town, as well as a gory, inside out spectacle (a la Cronenberg's Brundlefly).

Strong Island, the debut film from Yance Ford, mines his intense personal history of growing up on Long Island in the»80s, with a focus...

The debut film from Sean Durkin, a newcomer and the recent winner of the special jury prize for directing at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, has been trickling out in theaters across the country.

And when you add to THAT the fact that this is a debut film from a female director about a female protagonist?

This trend would explain why UK's Channel 4 is currently working on a TV series based on Monsters, the wildly entertaining debut film from Gareth Edwards, starring then - unknown leading man Scoot McNairy.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Year: 1998 Director: Guy Ritchie The debut film from Guy Ritchie, this super stylistic take on the gangster formula pays homage to the work of Quentin Tarantino.

Not exact matches

The movie drew raves from critics following its January debut at the Sundance Film Festival, prompting Fox Searchlight to pay a festival - record $ 17.5 million to obtain the worldwide distribution rights to the film.

Moosehead Lager has become a favorite of the Warren Miller Film Crew and athletes, so the audience can expect a cameo appearance from the iconic green bottle in film and at stops on WME's National Film Tour, set to debut in October of 2016.

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

You'd expect no less from director Ryan Coogler, who opens the film in 1992 in Oakland, a few stops down the BART line from the site of the tragic climax of his debut feature, Fruitvale Station.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven, who makes her feature debut as writer - director after a couple of short films, tells the story exclusively from the girls» point of view — both emotionally, as they have all our sympathy, and physically, as almost nothing happens that one of them could not be seeing.

The lead actors are both marvellous... Yet the film's most impressive performance might come from director Dominic Cooke, who has delivered an assured, wistful debut.

Working in relative anonymity through the»70s and early»80s, appearing in films ranging from Serpico (1973) to Slapshot (1977) to Blade Runner (1982), Walsh landed his meatiest and most memorable role in Joel and Ethan Coen's remarkable debut, Blood Simple (1984).

From his debut film Exit Smiling (1926) to his final appearance in The Story of Mankind (1957), Pangborn was relegated to almost nothing but comedy roles.

They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering from director Robert Harmon, whose debut film «The Hitcher» set a high bar for screen terror in the 1980s.

This remarkable film from Australia, the debut feature of writer - director Cate Shortland, moves to the lyrical rhythms and unhurried pace of a 1970s road movie.

Carried over from the TV version was director Sidney Lumet, here making his feature - film debut.

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

Key players, aside from Baye, are veteran director Xavier Beauvois and, in her screen debut, a riveting actress named Iris Bry who was planning on a career in library science until a chance meeting with the film's casting director changed everything.

The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

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).

Noxon, a TV veteran making her directorial debut here, had suffered from an eating disorder herself, as did the film's star, Lily Collins.

This film from stuntman turned director David Leitch (who debuted behind the camera with «John Wick») starts with a literal bang, with our mysteriously depressed hero immolating himself atop a deathbed of explosive fuel canisters, then works its way backwards to detail the trauma that made him sad enough to kill himself.

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.

Expect a Cannes debut for the latest film (formerly titled The Nightingale) from the director of Two Lovers.

In 1932 he won great acclaim for his work in the play The Animal Kingdom, leading to an invitation from Hollywood where he made his film debut in 1932.

Making his shift from stage theater and TV to film, debuting director Rupert Goold, who wrote the screenplay with David Kajganich, makes it clear that he trusts the facts and implications of the story he's telling.

Writer - director Damien Power advances from his work on short films with his feature debut, a solidly visceral and harshly unforgiving pic that's lean and taut in its plotting and pacing, even as it shakes up linear chronology initially to tell its tale.

Below, we recap the reactions from critics to the major films screening at this year's Telluride, Venice, and Toronto International Film Festivals, considered the most prestigious events of the season and the locales where many future Oscar nominees first debut.

Sarah Polley's recently released Take this Waltz 68 wasn't as beloved as her debut film, Away from Her 88, but her latest (and first documentary) earned very good reviews at screenings in Venice and Toronto.

In this feature debut from Zambian - born film - maker Rungano Nyoni, ancient superstitions and crass commercialism go into partnership to grotesque effect.

Although the film's title and a minimal amount of story come from author Michael Faber's 2000 novel, this is Glazer's most hyperstylized and unnerving film since Ben Kingsley got on the wrong side of Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman in the director's utterly self - assured feature debut, Sexy Beast.

Boosted by this week's multiple nominations from the SAG Awards and the Golden Globes and by buzz that has been consistently building since its debut, the film opens to favorable reviews, its Oscar prospects seemingly legitimate.

There are good supporting performances from Mandela's staff, to name a few: chief of staff Brenda (Adjoa Andoh, making her Hollywood debut)-- she is the closest individual to Mandela throughout the film; and security guards Jason (Tony Kgoroge) and Etienne (Julian Lewis Jones), who have different opinions on how the president should be addressed and guarded.

Antiviral is a high - concept sci - fi film debut from Brandon Cronenberg, son of legendary director David Cronenberg.

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.

Somewhere between his debut feature Badlands and this year's Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick peeled conventional narrative from his films; his work became unashamedly naked.

Screenwriter James Vanderbilt's feature directorial debut recounts the scandal that led to Dan Rather stepping down from the CBS News desk in 2004, but while Vanderbilt's script has some good ideas in it, the film is ultimately far too hagiographic for its own good, undercutting its thematic impact at nearly every turn.

Ford's moving debut A Single Man received similar criticisms from its few detractors, so it sounds like we should expect a similar response to his latest film, although it looks and sounds like a completely different movie.

It is the feature film debut from Australian stuntman and actor Nash Edgerton.

Taron Egerton, who made his feature film starring debut in Kingsman: The Secret Service, portrays Eddie the Eagle, and Hugh Jackman plays a ski jumping expert from Lake Placid who helps Eddie train for the Calgary Olympics.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

For his next movie, he'll reunite with one of his stars from his debut film, Chris Hemsworth, who will star alongside Jeff Bridges in the 20th Century Fox project.