Sentences with phrase «directorial debut screened»

His directorial debut screened in the Un Certain Regarde category of Cannes and, naturally, packed the house as if it was the most

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He joined up again with the director of Amoros Perros for the well - received drama Babel opposite Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.Bernal made his directorial debut with 2007's Deficit, and had a major part in the big screen adaptation of Blindness in 2008.

He made his screen directorial debut in 1994 with a short subject entitled Smoking.

In 2000, he finally earned recognition as a talented young actor, thanks to his role as Laura Linney's wry, observant son in Kenneth Lonergan's much - acclaimed directorial debut You Can Count on Me, causing both critics and audiences to remark that perhaps big screen bankability had not been limited solely to Culkin the Eldest.

The film is the director's first effort since A Single Man, Ford's directorial debut, which led to Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award nominations for Colin Firth, as well as a Golden...

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.

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.

Launching in limited release, Aaron Sorkin «s directorial debut Molly's Game (STXfilms), starring Jessica Chastain, pulled in $ 2.3 million this weekend, while Paul Thomas Anderson and Focus Features» Phantom Thread, starring Daniel Day - Lewis, launched in limited release on four screens, pulling in $ 220,000 this weekend.

This year already, she's been in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, had a cameo in a Muppet movie (now that's what we call screen immortality) and starred in Ryan Gosling's much - reviled directorial debut Lost River, a future cult classic in the making.

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

The 2007 TIFF program boasts more than 350 films from 55 countries, including over 70 feature directorial debuts, with screenings taking place at historic locations, modest venues, and modern multiplexes across Toronto.

Dean Semler, the cinematographer on her 2011 directorial debut, «In the Land of Blood and Honey,» called Jolie «a true screen goddess» as he presented her with the Board of Governors Award.

Joss Whedon — «Serenity» We dithered about putting Whedon on this list, but more about whether he should be here for «The Avengers» or for «Serenity,» because while the latter is definitely his big - screen directorial debut, it is also based on a pre-existing TV show, and was seemingly collectively wished into being purely by «Firefly» fans rankling at the show's early cancellation.

Robert Eggers has narratively conjured a worthy demon with his directorial debut — as evidenced by the shocked outcries during a recent NYC screening.

Action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his much - anticipated return to the big screen in Korean director Kim Jee - woon's hard - hitting US directorial debut, THE LAST STAND.

Though he currently appears on screen in Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, Russell Crowe will soon be going behind the camera for his directorial debut.

Orson Welles made his on - screen and directorial feature debuts in 1941's Citizen Kane.

In his assured and empathetic directorial debut Submarine, Richard Ayoade extends his talents beyond the cult comedy confines of the small screen (including Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Nathan Barley, The Mighty Boosh and The IT Crowd) to dwell upon sources of and threats to contentment, as apparent to a self - aware teenager burdened by the coming - of - age milestones of first love and parental marital disharmony.

The Joy Of Six includes the directorial debut of Romola Garai and the first short from Dan Sully while Matthew Holness brings the pulp fiction of Terry Finch to the big screen.

Josh Trank quickly made a name for himself in 2012 with his big screen directorial debut, Chronicle, and was quickly sought after to allegedly direct a Boba Fett spinoff.

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SCREEN — Emily Mortimer (The Party, Shutter Island) and Grace Van Patten (The Meyerowitz Stories) have finished shooting Good Posture, the directorial debut of UK filmmaker and actress Dolly Wells.

For Gerwig, the prospect of bringing the two together on the big screen in her directorial debut was thrilling.

The brainchild of Bob Rafelson, making his directorial debut; his producing partner and Monkees cocreator Bert Schneider; and Jack Nicholson, a coscreenwriter on the project, Head was the fanciful beginning and ignominious end of the TV - bred supergroup's big - screen career.

And I'd been planning to check out Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, but word from the first screening (which happened while I was writing this) was pretty toxic, so I'll probably see the new André Téchiné film instead.

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.

In fact, those who claim the movie is just a rip - off might be surprised to discover that Leslye Headland's directorial debut (which screened at Sundance this past January) is based on her 2010 off - Broadway play of the same name.

Before that screening, he and I sat down to discuss the film, the preparations for making his directorial debut and, of course, working with Harry Dean Stanton.

In an interview with StudioCanal CEO Danny Perkins, Screen Daily confirms that Elba will take on Victor Headley's novel Yardie for his directorial debut, working from a script by Brock Norman Brock, who co-wrote Nicolas Winding Refn «s Bronson.

For his big screen directorial debut, he chose this script from beginner screenwriter Andrew Dodge.

I was unable to get into a combined public and press screening of Don Jon's Addiction, Joseph Gordon - Levitt's directorial debut, but I'll be able to see it later in the week.

«It was an absolute dream, synergistic moment of casting,» says Allison Williams of being offered, as her first big - screen role, the part of Rose Armitage, the female lead in Jordan Peele «s feature directorial debut Get Out — which allowed her to make fun of and then completely subvert her preexisting screen persona — as we sit down at the offices of The Hollywood Reporter to record an episode of the Awards Chatter» podcast.

Eighth Grade — comedian Bo Burnham's big screen directorial debut — isn't the kind of first film one would expect from him.

Wright made his feature film directorial debut in 2005 with Pride & Prejudice, starring Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Rosamund Pike, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn and with Carey Mulligan, in her first screen appearance.

The sidebar will open with the lone American pick: a special screening of Paul Dano's feature directorial debut, «Wildlife,» which previously debuted at Sundance in January.

While at the film's press day, filmmakers Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley spoke to Collider for this exclusive interview about how Vacation ended up being their feature directorial debut, why their humor tends to lean more towards the R - rated, why Ed Helms and Christina Applegate were the perfect heads of this Griswold family, getting Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo involved, which cameos they were most impressed with, being of the mind - set that comedy can be short, and why test screenings can be a good gauge for comedy.

Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).

In competition: John Curran «s «Tracks» with Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver is somewhat intriguing (check out the first clip here); there's Stephen Frears ««Philomena,» which we hope will be a return to form; all - star JFK drama «Parkland ``; Philip Groning «s «The Police Officer's Wife ``; while inevitably, there's also a James Franco movie, in the shape of Cormac McCarthy adaptation «Child Of God» (Franco's novel «Palo Alto» has also been adapted on screen, marking the directorial debut of 26 - year old Gia Coppola — granddaughter of Francis Ford, niece of Sofia and Roman — and that's in one of the sidebars too).

In addition to his celebrated acting both on stage and on screen, Hoffman made his directorial debut with the feature film Quartet, based on Ronald Harwood's stage play.

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Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

Reese Witherspoon was the queen of the small screen this year with «Big Little Lies,» but her cinematic outing in the directorial debut of Hallie Meyers - Shyer (whose only apparent qualification for the gig was being the offspring of two filmmakers) left her stranded in a cutesy and deadly dull tale of a newly separated mom falling for a brash young would - be director.

In a Q&A following a festival screening of her masterful solo directorial debut Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig quoted Weil, and it's clear from the film that this spirit of faith, love, generosity, and attention animates the whole endeavor.

From the sense of authenticity leaping off the pages of William Nicholson's script (writer of Les Misérables and Gladiator among others) to the irresistible on - screen chemistry between Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy, who successfully capture the essence of this couple's heartbreaking love, there's no doubt Breathe is a wonderful directorial debut from the multi-talented Serkis.

Actress Elizabeth Banks came out to introduce the trailor from her directorial debut PITCH PERFECT 2, that was screened on Monday night.

Among the new offerings this week: A pair of «great teacher» movies on Monday with Blackboard Jungle and To Sir, With Love, the classic and not very often screened Max Ophuls film Lola Montes late Sunday night, and Sarah Polley's highly impressive directorial debut Away from Her on Wednesday.

Now, in his biggest big - screen role to date, the Brit drops his accent once more to front Get Out, the directorial debut of comedian Jordan Peele, and one of the best horror movies of the year.

The Thick of It actor to make big - screen directorial debut with Nasty Women, which stars Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson as con artists

Dan Gilroy's directorial debut has facets in common with Network, The King Of Comedy and One Hour Photo, but manages to be its own horrifying, mesmerising beast, not skimping on the hand - held viscera, but leaving some of its most disturbing moments as quietly alluded to off - screen events.