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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.

Peele, known for satirizing America's social landscape as one half of the sketch - comedy duo Key & Peele, makes his directorial debut with the tale of an African American man («Black Mirror»» s Daniel Kaluuya) heading upstate to meet his white girlfriend's parents for the first time.

Horror icon Debbie Rochon makes her directorial debut with this tale of Ginny, a former model cast aside because of her body type.

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Hulu's breakout dystopian drama The Handmaid's Tale followed its winning ways at the 2017 Emmys by once again winning for Best TV Drama, with Elisabeth Moss also being named the best actress in a TV drama for the popular Margaret Atwood adaptation that became the streaming service's first bonafide hit when it debuted over the summer.

With the premiere of her directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness, Natalie Portman tells the story of the State of Israel, which illuminates a topic deeply important to Portman: her Jewish faith.

With the premiere of her directorial debut, A Tale of Love and Darkness, Natalie Portman tells the story of the State of Israel, which illuminates a topic deeply important to...

Science spoke with director Ridley Scott; Andy Weir, whose debut novel provided the tale; and Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science and an adviser on the film, to find out how they made movie magic while staying largely faithful to the science — leaving out a raging dust storm and a few other moments of implausibility.

The highly anticipated debut feature from acclaimed author Charlie McDowell, THE ONE I LOVE is an original tale that continues to showcase McDowell's keen observations of human relationships with a distinct and comedic voice.

Johnny Kevorkian makes a promising debut with The Disappeared, a slow - burning tale of the supernatural that makes effective use of some atmospheric London locations and a well cast Harry Treadaway.

Comedian Demetri Martin makes his feature writing - directing debut with this earnest, comedic tale about dealing with loss.

Ever since he first burst upon the scene in 1988 with his hypnotic debut feature «Tales from the Gimli Hospital,» Guy Maddin has been one of those filmmakers whose new work I most eagerly look forward to seeing.

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.

Following great numbers for Gran Turismo 5 which came in at almost 500K sold, Sony sees those numbers heavily boosted this past week with the debuts of Tales of Graces F on the PS3 and Monster Hunter Portable 3rd on the PSP.

This year's First Exposure program kicked - off on February 24th with an out - of-fest screening of Robert De Niro's directorial debut, A Bronx Tale, followed by a conversation with Mr. De Niro and FTF Director of Programming David Schwartz.

Based on his long - running comic book, which debuted in 2008 before wrapping up at the end of 2013, «Locke & Key» would have combined a classic haunted house tale with complex and rich mythology, and as such managed to attract some heavyweight names: «Star Trek» duo Kurtzman & Orci were writing with «War Of The Worlds» scribe Josh Friedman, Steven Spielberg was producing and «Never Let Me Go» helmer Mark Romanek was brought on to direct the pilot, which reportedly cost as much as $ 10 million.

Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

Mark Helprin celebrated 1983 novel WINTER»S TALE finally makes it to the big - screen with Oscar - winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman's directorial debut.

Richard Ayoade's debut feature SUBMARINE, was a delightful coming of age tale with a dark atmosphere to it.

Guillermo del Toro's fairy tale noir «The Shape of Water» tied with Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age directorial debut «Lady Bird» for best film of the festival.

Following a string of acclaimed short films, commercials and video work, Venezuelan director Carl Zitelmann makes his feature debut with The Lake Vampire - the true life tale of a true life vampire, namely serial killer Zacarias Ortega known for...

In the summer of 1977, Ron Howard made his directorial debut with «Grand Theft Auto,» a merrily destructive low - budget fairy tale that found its way into a lot of newly twinned multiplexes that summer of» 77.

However, his prior filmmaking efforts were male dominated: In 2006, he won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» which stars Brendan Gleeson; for McDonagh's 2008 feature - length debut «In Bruges,» he paired the actor with Colin Farrell in a devious tale about bumbling hitmen.

Both his short and feature debuts, «La Vie des morts» and «La Sentinelle,» premiered on the Croisette in the early 1990s, and all of his films, bar 2004's «Kings and Queen,» have played the fest, with 2008's «A Christmas Tale» being the most recent.

The enchanting fairy tale made its screen debut as a silent movie in 1924, with assorted remakes, sequels, spin - offs and animated versions being released over the ensuing generations.

After directing hit films A Tale of Two Sisters; The Good, The Bad, The Weird; and I Saw the Devil, Korean director Kim Jee - woon makes his American debut with The Last Stand (watch the new trailer here).

Deadpan comedian makes a touching debut as writer - director - actor with tale of grief - stricken artist falling in love

These days, Josef Fares might best be known for his manic, foul - mouthed appearance at the 2017 Game Awards, but before that, he made a stunning game - industry debut with Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons, an ingenious game that communicated the connection between two brothers by forcing a single player to control both at once.

James Whale directed this version of the classic Alexandre Dumas tale with Louis Hayward pulling double duty as the royal twins and Peter Cushing making his screen debut.

Oscar - winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman makes his directorial debut next Valentine's Day with Winter's Tale.

Kim Jee - Woon, meanwhile, is the acclaimed director behind «The Good, the Bad, the Weird,» «A Tale of Two Sisters» and «A Bittersweet Life» who recently made his English - language debut with the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle «The Last Stand.»

Neil Jordan is back in the blood - sucking genre with his latest vampire tale, Byzantium, that is set for its debut on June 28th through IFC Films in limited theaters as well as VOD.

Natalie Portman recently made her directorial feature debut with her adaptation of Amos Oz's A Tale of Love and Darkness, and spoke to Business Insider about how she sees the roles for women in Hollywood changing.

Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»

Amazingly, it is more than ten years since Diablo Cody hit all sorts of headlines making her screen - writing debut with Juno, that still highly regarded, bittersweet tale of unplanned teen pregnancy starring Ellen Page.

It's also the title of co - writer / director team Tom Gould and John Serpe's feature directorial debut, a cutesy classic Hollywood tale adapted for modern times, about small - town dreamers who move to Los Angeles with stars in their eyes.

Additionally, Portman's definitely busy with a number of projects, from her directing debut A Tale of Love and Darkness, to Jackie, and more.

The tale - based on Guy de Maupassant's 1883 debut novel - meshes the cold realities for women back then with strikingly timeless truths.

In conjunction with our latest Adventures in Moviegoing episode, we're presenting two films by director Rebecca Miller, who transitioned from visual art to filmmaking with her 1995 directorial debut, Angela, a haunting tale of a young girl who retreats into her fantasies to cope with her emotionally volatile mother.

An industry veteran with a connection to the source material, Jon Stewart made his directorial debut this year with the tale of a journalist jailed in Iran partly because of an interview he did with The Daily Show.

Jolie makes her stunning directorial and screenwriting debut with this gripping tale of love and survival set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War.

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.

Faces become clouds that become ripples of water that pool back into mutating images, and there's an agility to The Forbidden Room that marks it with a resplendency sometimes lacking in Maddin's work (2011's Keyhole felt very much like an item plucked from the dusty recesses of the director's brain, a realm that's been mined to better effect ever since his 1988 debut Tales from the Gimli Hospital).

So, it's not surprising that an impressive number of powerful women were also honored for their work both on the small screen, with Big Little Lies and The Handmaid's Tale, and on the big screen, with first - time writer - director Greta Gerwig winning Best Motion Picture, Comedy for her directorial debut, Lady Bird, along with leading lady, Saoirse Ronan winning Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

«Son Of Rambow» (2007) Arguably the best film on this section of the list, «Son Of Rambow,» the impossibly charming coming - of - age tale that marked the second film from music video veteran Garth Jennings, who made his debut with studio picture «The Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy,» was the big buy at Sundance 2007, selling to Paramount Vantage for $ 7.5 million.

Following up on his 2011 directorial debut, Another Earth, director Mike Cahill reunites with Brit Marling and William Mapother for another philosophical sci - fi tale that sounds like a counter (or conversation piece) to Ayn Rand's Anthem (at least in preliminary plot synopses).

Set for a March 1, 2013 release, Park Chan - wook's english - language film debut will be hitting theaters at full force with this dark and twisted tale penned by Ted Foulk.

After that, she appeared in both «Tiny Furniture» and «The Myth Of The American Sleepover» in the same year, as well as leading Adam Wingard «s «A Horrible Way To Die,» 2011 saw her return to producing with both Joe Swanberg «s «Silver Bullets» and the Greta Gerwig - written «The Dish & The Spoon,» before making her directorial debut in 2012 with crime tale «Sun Don't Shine,» one of the best - received films at SXSW (and edited by «Ain't Them Bodies Saints» director David Lowery).

The breakdown: Music video director Jasper makes his feature debut as writer - director with this crowd - pleasingly ebullient yet bittersweet tale of a young woman aspiring to be a rapper.

That's the superficial starting point of The Gift, the directorial debut of actor Joel Edgerton, who takes the cuckoo - in - the - nest thriller template — which became ubiquitous in the early»90s with films like Pacific Heights, Unlawful Entry, Single White Female and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — and, by introducing psychological depth and a streak of social conscience, fashions an intriguing morality tale.