Opening August 7, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is The Diary of a Teenage Girl, the directorial
debut of actress / writer Marielle Heller (A Walk Amongst The Tombstones).
First is These Vagabond Shoes (7:25, 11:42 with credits), which marks the writing and directorial
debut of actress Scarlett Johansson.
Saoirse Ronan, who last week received an Oscar nomination for best actress for Brooklyn, is set to star in Lady Bird, the writing and directorial
debut of actress Greta Gerwig, reports Deadline.com.
Best known as the screen
debut of actress / singer Pia Zadora.
Two films that played at SIFF open this weekend: Southside with You, a Before Sunrise with actors playing young Barack and Michelle on a first date in Chicago, opens at The Egyptian and The Intervention, the directorial
debut of actress Clea DuVall, opens at Sundance Cinemas.
MarVista Entertainment has debuted an official trailer for an indie comedy titled The Year of Spectacular Men, a feature film that marks the directorial
debut of actress Lea Thompson (yeah, the one from Back to the Future and Howard the Duck).
In this edition, watch the directorial
debut of actress Kristen Stewart with a short film called Come Swim.
«The Intervention» There were many reasons to root for «The Intervention» in advance: it's the directorial
debut of actress Clea DuVall, a stalwart and singular presence on the indie scene for two decades, starring the terminally undervalued Melanie Lynskey, alongside an assortment of current young independent talent in Natasha Lyonne, Alia Shawkat, Cobie Smulders, Jason Ritter and Ben Schwartz.
Momentum Pictures has unveiled the first official trailer for an indie romantic comedy titled Half Magic, the feature directorial
debut of actress Heather Graham, who also stars in the film in the lead role as «Honey».
«Lady Bird» marks the directorial
debut of actress Greta Gerwig.
The follow - up the the 2012 musical comedy, which also stars Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld and Clay Matthews, will mark the feature directorial
debut of actress Elizabeth Banks.
Not exact matches
Miss Universe 2015,
actress, and beauty and fashion influencer Olivia Culpo, will
debut Sunday the one -
of - a-kind Marchesa for Stella Artois gown.
Highlights
of the Washington, DC conference includes the MommyCon
debut of Angel Laketa Moore, decorated
actress and YouTube sensation, who will share stories about her journey as a mother
of three boys, including twins.
LisaRaye McCoy,
actress, makes her directorial
debut with the film «Skinned» which tells the story
of Jolie, a young girl that is so uncomfortable in her own skin and the stigma
of what society places on dark skinned persons that she uses skin lightening creams to alter her complexion.
Using Internet Movie Database on her laptop, she quickly discovered that the
actress was Angela Lansbury (
debuting in 1944's Gaslight), who went on to star in dozens
of movies and the popular Murder, She Wrote TV show
of the 1980s and»90s.
The
actress debuted an inspired piece
of holiday handiwork — The Wreath Witherspoon — on last week's episode
of her show, The Mindy Project, and social media took it from there.
Looking ready for spring in her sheer flower - bedecked Vionnet gown and belt, the
actress celebrates The Tree
of Life after the film's Cannes
debut.
The
actress selects a low - key look, a mostly - black ensemble, except for the touch
of red in her patterned trousers, to celebrate her Broadway
debut in You Can't Take It With You.
The
actress debuted platinum blonde hair, pulled back into a side - parted updo, on the Atlanta set
of her new movie, Passengers.
Rihanna - R&B singer who released her
debut album Music
of the Sun in 2005, then had her big breakthrough with the 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad, which Robyn Rihanna Fenty (/ r i ˈ æ n ə /; February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, songwriter, and
actress.
Kim Joo Hyuk last acting award is for best supporting actor in the movie Confidential director, his co-stars Hyun Bin, Yoo Hae Thirteen years after her
debut as an
actress, Kim Hyun Ju
of Partner and Boys Before Flowers poses nude in the October issue
of Singles to
Soon making her formal television
debut alongside future Oscar winner Hilary Swank in Camp Wilder, the busy young
actress would soon have three substantial film roles — in movies that opened within three months
of one another — at the tender age
of ten.
Yet the
actress's resume demonstrates far greater versatility than this, and it may surprise fans to discover that she claims several decades
of credits in multiple genres.Born on July 3, 1970, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Smith
debuted on the big screen at 11, as a dancer, in mogul Ray Stark's multimillion - dollar production
of Annie (1982).
Her feature
debut in the 2002 drama Joy Rider found the emerging
actress caught in the middle
of a heated love triangle, and after essaying a role in a BBC television drama Bedtime in 2001, Miller crossed the pond to appear on the stateside series Keen Eddie.
American
actress Theresa Harris made her screen
debut as one
of the sullen «camp followers» in Josef von Sternberg's Morocco.
Actress Jeanne Moreau made her directorial
debut with this tale about a gathering
of actresses who, over the course
of an all - night conversation, come to reassess their careers and romantic lives.
Following her indie
debut in Richard Linklater's 1993 Dazed and Confused, Posey went on to star in no less than 15 independent features over the next five years, proving time and again how worthy she was
of her royal title.Born in Baltimore on November 8, 1968, Posey was named after»50s model and sometimes -
actress Suzy Parker.
The hard - working
actress has made a career
of choosing diverse and challenging projects both in film and television, starting with her acting
debut in the movie JOE, which she soon followed with the 1975 cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.
The granddaughter
of actor Melvyn Douglas and
actress - turned - Congresswoman Helen Gahagan, Douglas was born July 25, 1965, in Massachusetts.After her film
debut, the
actress worked for years in relative obscurity, at one point dubbing a chilling scream for The Last Temptation
of Christ.
The extraordinary child
actress Ana Torrent (Cria) made her
debut here at the age
of five.
Though Nashville won just a single Oscar and a single Golden Globe, each for Best Original Song (for «I'm Easy», written and performed by Carradine), it was nominated for five
of the former and eleven
of the latter, which even bestowed two nominations each on Tomlin and Blakley,
actresses making their film
debuts, while classifying the film as a drama (back when true musicals weren't so rare).
The young
actress will also make her Broadway
debut in the revival
of Arthur Miller's classic 1953 drama The Crucible in February 2016.
Leading actors tend not to be in the single digits on the occasion
of their
debut Oscar bids: Keisha Castle - Hughes was 13 when she got a best
actress nod for Whale Rider in 2004, and how many people remember Jackie Cooper, who was indeed nine when he was tapped for a prize for Skippy in 1931?
Actress turned author Celia Imrie on her writing
debut, a comic novel set among English expats in the south
of France
It has a huge female cast
of young
actresses and is a major
debut.
The
actress» feature directorial
debut, «Pitch Perfect 2,» grossed over $ 287 million on a budget
of $ 29 million.
The most cerebral
of actresses even in her comic roles (think Devil Wears Prada), Streep makes her
debut as a knockabout physical comic.
The pair play mother and daughter in Sharp Objects, the much - anticipated HBO adaptation
of Flynn's 2006
debut novel, but the suggestion that they resemble their characters makes the
actresses understandably uneasy.
An astoundingly confident
debut feature from
actress - turned - director Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird chronicles an entire year in the life
of its eponymous teenage protagonist in just ninety minutes, without ever feeling scant or vague.
The
actress»
debut as a writer - director, «In A World...,» was a movie about Hollywood voiceover artists that was both a crackerjack romantic comedy and a subtle critique
of how women are treated in the workplace.
It garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Walter Huston, recreating his earlier stage role, who should have won the Oscar with his sensitive portrayal against winner Paul Muni for The Story
of Louis Pasteur (1936)-RRB-, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting
Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya, reprising her role from the earlier stage production, and in her film
debut), and Best Sound Recording, and won only one Oscar for Best Art Direction - Interior Decoration.
Ingrid Goes West will make you think twice when you next log into post the latest photo
of yourself on whatever social media platform you frequent and thanks to standout performances from its two lead
actresses, Spicer's impressive
debut film overcomes some highly implausible plot developments to become a memorable and in many ways important musing on our growing dependency to be connected to an often fanciful online world.
No, he's not hitting on older
actresses this time, but instead
debuting the look
of his next role, that
of Ig from the big - screen adaptation Joe Hill's supernatural thriller Horns.
The slate includes a number
of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «
Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will
debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.
I have to admit, even though I'm not the biggest fan
of Drew Barrymore as an
actress, I've been really curious about her directorial
debut, Whip It!.
Olivier Assayas latest drama Clouds
of Sils Maria is
debuting in France this week, the story
of an aging
actress (Juliette Binoche), starring in a new production
of a play that made her famous a long time ago.
The 35 - year - old Oscar - winning
actress debuted her baby bump earlier in the night at the premiere
of the film and revealed to the world that she's pregnant with her first child.
Winner
of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (U.S. Dramatic) and
actress / writer / director Lake Bell's
debut feature, In A World is the sassy portrait
of the unsung community
of voiceover artists and voice coaches, living on the fringe
of the «industry», never basked in Oscar glory, but with its own rules, hierarchy and Life Achievement ceremonies.
The wonderful comic
actress Elizabeth Banks makes her directorial
debut with her segment, about a teen girl getting her first period, but it's frenetic and cruel and doesn't suggest much
of a future for this part
of her career.
Oscar - winning
actress Marion Cotillard is set to star in «Gueule d'ange,» a French drama which will mark the feature
debut of Vanessa Filho.