Not exact matches
Ondi Timoner, the director
of the documentaries, We Live in Public 69 and Cool It 61 will make her feature
narrative debut with the latter
film.
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.
«Jeff Unay's impressive and beautiful
debut unfolds like a
narrative film in which the story
of Joe Carman and his journey is portrayed with empathy and universal accessibility,» Arianna Bocco, EVP
of acquisitions and productions at IFC Films / Sundance Selects, said in a statement.
The 2017 lineup, which kicks off with Sorkin's directorial
debut Molly's Game, will screen a total
of 131
films, including 33
narrative films, 16 documentary
films and 82 shorts, most
of which are already beginning to build momentum for award season.
Coming
of her
debut film Somersault, Shortland's keen artistic eye makes Lore resonate despite its familiar
narrative: a young woman facing brutal survival, while all the while trying to triumph and rise above her familial political ties.
One
of the breakout
films from the festival circuit this year was the unexpected
narrative debut from Maggie Betts (who received high praise for her documentary feature
This is the second
narrative feature
film by writer / director Derek Cianfrance, who followed his little - known, Sundance - playing 1998
debut Brother Tied (made at age 23) with a number
of shorts and music documentaries.
In addition to his directorial
debut, Cheshire has written two
narrative screenplays and recently taught a course on the history
of film at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The most recent addition to his series is Chilean director Marcela Said's 2013
narrative feature
debut, The Summer
of Flying Fish, which he first discovered while serving on a jury at a
film festival.
The Russos, aided by a script from Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (the writes
of both previous Captain America
films), have the unenviable task
of corralling a mammoth cast (that recap paragraph didn't even have room to mention Paul Bettany's Vision, Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye, Paul Rudd's Ant - Man or the
debuting Tom Holland, bringing Spider - Man into the main Marvel Cinematic Universe) and steering them through a twisty
narrative chock full
of multiple belligerents coming from all angles.
The
narrative thinness exacerbates the emptiness
of the
film's stylish flourishes, turning this
debut into another «style over substance» cliche.
For his
narrative feature
film debut, Oranges and Sunshine, director Jim Loach chose to tackle a sprawling tale
of warped governmental policy, spanning three decades and involving the forced deportation
of British kids to Australia.
It's Diane Lane road tripping through France on the way to Paris, guided by the script and direction
of Eleanor Coppola, in her
narrative film debut (at age 80!).
British
film director Steve McQueen's 2008
debut film, Hunger, is notable for many reasons: It is a great
film, a great
debut film, uses an innovative
narrative structure, uses interesting cinematography in concert with its soundtrack, makes the best use
of ambient sound to have the best non-musical soundtrack I've heard in a long time (if not ever), is the work
of a black artist that is not obsessed with black only topics, and shows a maturity and grace that goes beyond even the first
films of directors like David Gordon Green, in George Washington, and Terrence Malick, in Badlands.
The event kicked off last night with the world premiere
of The Five - Year Engagement and now we've got 11 days
of films ahead
of us, one
of which is the World
Narrative Competition entry First Winter, and Shockya.com is lucky enough to exclusively host First Winter's poster
debut!
by Walter Chaw Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered is the most startling
debut since Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, with which it has a few things in common: both are constructed with a wilful disdain towards
narrative; both are aimed at the outer limits
of shocking imagery; both display an open hostility for the cultural status quo; and both joke on their audience's entrenched preconceptions
of film form.
Park Chan - wook's The Handmaiden (South Korea), his first
film since his superb but unheralded American
debut Stoker, returns to the intense imagery, twisting
narratives, perverse subcultures, and elevated emotions
of his Sympathy trilogy with a story
of con artists in 1930s Korea.