Sentences with phrase «directing debut»

He made documentaries before making his feature directing debut with the resistance drama Attention!

Did you feel as if you had a leg up directing your debut feature with so much experience producing?

The feature film directing debut of one of Hollywood's breakout stars of 2012, Joseph Gordon - Levitt, looks set for success after being sold for $ 4m (# 2.52 m) at the Sundance film festival.

Ellen Page to Make Directing Debut with Anna Faris: With quite a few high - profile productions on her resume, Ellen Page has got to know something about directing at this point, right?

Universal officially has Elizabeth Banks directing Pitch Perfect 3, after making her feature directing debut on Pitch Perfect 2, following a supporting role in the original film that she also produced.

Jurassic World's Judy Greer to make directing debut with A Happening Of Monumental Proportions

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Quick has been set to adapt Sorta Like A Rock Star, his 2010 young adult novel that is now near a deal to be set up at Netflix as the feature film directing debut for Bryce Dallas Howard.

Making his feature directing debut in 1997, Vincenzo Natali, working from a screenplay he co-wrote, shadows 7 involuntary inmates of a seemingly inescapable, booby trapped mazelike structure.

Comedian turned serious actor John Krasinski (13 Hours, Away We Go) makes his feature film directing debut on a project that's unbalanced to a spectacular degree.

Soon his whole world turns upside down... Life After Beth is both written & directed by American filmmaker Jeff Baena, making his feature directing debut after co-writing the I Heart Huckabees screenplay in 2004 with David O. Russell.

A child's angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses - shattering feature directing debut from actor Brady Corbet, with a cast led by Robert Pattinson and Bérénice Bejo.

Gerwig is the most notable takeaway from the morning's nominations, nominated for her solo directing debut for a film that passes the Bechdel - Wallace test with ease.

Animation veteran Jennifer Yuh Nelson, who was head of story and special sequence supervisor on the first Panda, makes a successful feature directing debut here, working with established characters and newcomers alike.

In this shamelessly corny directing debut by screenwriter Dan Fogelman («Last Vegas»), Pacino's Danny Collins rethinks his hedonistic lifestyle after his long - suffering manager (Christopher Plummer) presents him with a just - found l971 letter from John Lennon urging young Danny to be true to himself and his music.

Gary Ross (Big, Dave) makes an impressive directing debut with this charming, nicely executed fable, which contrasts values of the 1950s with those of the 1990s.

Based on Mary Mapes» «Truth and Duty: The Press, The President, and the Privilege of Power» (2005), screenwriter James Vanderbilt («White House Down,» «Zodiac») makes an auspicious directing debut with this layered, detailed condemnation of how Internet obsession with minutia / gossip has obliterated the big picture — and responsible reporting can not be rushed.

This is thanks to Aaron Sorkin, whose directing debut Molly's Game is.

Newman recently spoke with FF2's Lesley Coffin about directing her debut feature, an original and inspiring coming - of - age story about a female athlete.

The movie is the live - action directing debut of Jennifer Yuh Nelson, who directed «Kung Fu Panda 2.»

It's a remarkable directing debut for writer Moverman, and it gives the actors the space to do some powerfully introspective work.

«Thunderbolt and Lightfoot» (1974) Michael Cimino's feature directing debut starred Clint Eastwood (who also produced the film and hired Cimino for the gig) as a Korean War vet who took in a young drifter, played by Jeff Bridges.

Making an altogether impressive big - screen directing debut, Jones exudes quiet control over this full - bodied Western, taking pleasure in his measured pacing, mixing somber authority with flashes of surrealist wit and luxuriating in the magnificent, vanishing vistas of his home state.

A little bit of retrospect has made Unkrich's lead directing debut, 2010's Toy Story 3, seem like the pinnacle of Pixar's absurdly long golden age.

A modest but accomplished directing debut for actor and screenwriter Joel Edgerton (who also gives himself a plum role here), «The Gift» is a more psychological, slow - burn genre exercise than the psycho - stalker shocker it's being sold as by DIY horror specialists Blumhouse and Robert Simonds» newly launched STX Entertainment.

Veloz, who co-wrote Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, makes an assured directing debut.

Pearce makes his feature length directing debut with the film, which is based on an original story and screenplay that he wrote.

British actor Fletcher makes a terrific directing debut with this sharply told story of a family struggling to survive in a bleak environment.

Diego Luna, an actor Americans may recognize from Milk and Elysium, makes his English - language directing debut with Cesar Chavez.

He followed with his acclaimed directing debut on «Gone Baby Gone.»

Co-created with «Silicon Valley» executive producer Alec Berg, the dryly comic half - hour series centers on the story of a disenchanted hitman (Hader, who also makes his TV directing debut) who reaches a career crossroads after falling under the spell of a San Fernando Valley acting class (taught by a rumpled and pitch - perfect Henry Winkler).

Wildly upping the scale on his 2005 directing debut Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Black proves a sure hand when it comes to delivering comes to delivering juggernaut action (shades of his 1996 writing gig The Long Kiss Goodnight).

Actress - writer - director Zoe Lister - Jones» feature directing debut earned good reviews when it premiered at Sundance earlier this year.

Thus, it's appropriate that Buscemi's directing debut builds on its film antecedents.

Jude Law gives arguably the worst performance of his career as Wolfe in Genius, the ham - fisted directing debut of noted British theater figure Michael Grandage, bombastically adapted by John Logan («Gladiator») from a biography by A. Scott Berg.

Shot as Corbijn directs his debut feature film — and personal labour of love, the Ian Curtis biopic CONTROL — SHADOW PLAY: THE MAKING OF ANTON CORBIJN features the insights of Bono, Chris Martin, Kurt Cobain and others, who share how the artist captures his shots, illustrating the shifting dynamics of photographers, paparazzi, and celebrity.

It's been seven years since designer Tom Ford made a splash with his award - winning writing - directing debut A Single Man, and it's no surprise that his second film is just as exquisitely beautiful to look at...

Disney's brand typically provides an edge with that group, but it's hard to bet against «Pitch Perfect» after its stunning $ 69 million debut last weekend, which was an eye - popping $ 30 million over projections and gave Elizabeth Banks» the best feature directing debut ever.

6 The Club Pablo Larraín just made his U.S. directing debut with Jackie, a ghostly portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy in the week after the president's assassination, but this 2015 Chilean feature, which premiered in Chicago earlier this year at Gene Siskel Film Center, shows the filmmaker working closer to home both geographically and psychologically.

Clive Barker's feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature — the man's half - brother, who is also the woman's former lover — hiding upstairs.

Next to his recent directing debut, «Locke,» this movie looks flabby.

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Infinitely makes for a fine directing debut for Maya Forbes, a longtime writer of television («The Larry Sanders Show») and unspectacular mainstream films (Monsters vs. Aliens, The Rocker, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days).

Greta Gerwig, in her hugely acclaimed, semi-autobiographical directing debut (a Golden Globe for best director, five Academy Award nominations) opens Lady Bird with a Joan Didion quote: «Anyone who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.»

As You Like It Desdemona Chiang makes her Cal Shakes directing debut with Shakespeare's romantic comedy about the cross-dressing and devilishly clever Rosalind, played by Jessika D. Williams.

On the other hand, Todd McCathy of the Hollywood Reporter wrote: «Crude, repetitive and rigorously single - minded, the popular actor's writing and directing debut lays it all on a bit thick, as the few points the film has to make are underscored time and time again.»

Written and directed by Stacie Passon in an auspicious directing debut effort, and produced by Rose Troche, CONCUSSION is a poignant sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert in a star making breakout turn), a forty something married wealthy, lesbian housewife who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son's baseball — walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else.

A strong performance by Kate Nowlin as a U.S. Marine returning from her latest tour of duty in Afghanistan fuels this study of post-traumatic stress disorder, though the strength of actor Remy Auberjonois» tense and troubling directing debut lies in its rejection of easy diagnoses.