Sentences with phrase «directorial debut this year»

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.

The recent release of Lady Bird makes Greta Gerwig one of several directorial debuts this year to strike a resonant chord with audiences — it's self - assured and absent of clichés, and if you've seen it already, you're probably aware that it's the kind of movie that will make you want to go and call your mom as soon as its done.

Lady Bird: There were some great directorial debuts this year, but Greta Gerwig gets my nod for the year's best first timer.

Not exact matches

«True Romance» was released in 1993, one year after Tarantino's directorial debut, «Reservoir Dogs,» and one year before «Pulp Fiction» would make him the hottest filmmaker in Hollywood.

After sweeping the grand jury and audience awards at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker's directorial debut, in which he plays slave Nat Turner who orchestrates an uprising against slave owners in Virginia, is receiving a lot of award - season heat.

Only five years later, Chris Morris - the controversial comedian behind Brass Eye - is inviting us to laugh at jihad in his directorial debut Four Lions.

Within a year, he made his directorial debut with the made - for - television drama Last Light, in which he also starred as a prison inmate.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

She made her directorial debut with Reaching Normal in 1999 and the following year, wrote and directed a segment of the HBO drama If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000).

Paul Haggis, who spoke with such remarkable confidence through his screenplay for Million Dollar Baby, one of the best films of the past few years, seems to be his own worst enemy in Crash, his directorial debut.

Especially when you factor in that this is Sara Colangelo's feature - length directorial debut, after having made a few shorts over the past few years.

I took three years off from acting to get my own directorial debut off the ground.

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.

Ford made his directorial debut six years ago with A Single Man, a beautiful and often painful film about love and loss, and now he's back with a very different type of movie.

After years of writing for television and cutting his directorial teeth on the 1979 TV movie The Jericho Mile, Michael Mann made his feature film debut with Thief (1981), a cool, gritty crime movie starring James Caan as the head of a high - end crew of professional safecrackers.

If her 2017 IMDb page is any indication, however, she'll soon have to dust off those high heels and ring up Swennen, with five feature films set to debut this year, including a role in Greta Gerwig's highly - anticipated directorial debut, Ladybird.

Self - Medicated (R for sexuality, profanity, and drug abuse) Monty Lapica makes his scriptwriting, directorial and acting debut in this drama about a mother's (Diane Verona) desperate efforts to save her drug - addicted, 17 year - old son whose life has been spiraling out of control since the death of his father.

Each of Green's meticulously crafted pieces draws on his background as a production designer, where he honed his creative eye for 12 years, before making his directorial debut in 2006 with his short film «NASA,» for Audi through BBH.

I can't imagine it not winding up my favorite directorial debut of the year.

[Gary] Shore's directorial debut breaths new life into the genre, taking this story back hundreds of years, delving into the unknown origin story of the innovator himself, Mr. Dracula... The way Vlad craves blood is well - judged, as we see him battle his conscious; a far more intriguing and entertaining battle than those in the war zone, which are unvaried and monotonous.

Blair starred in festival favorites Blue Ruin and Green Room and his directorial debut, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, won top honors at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Gehenna is directed by Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Katagiri, an FX legend working for years at Spectral Motion and Stan Winston Studios, now making his feature directorial debut after a few short films previously.

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.

I'm still disappointed that I missed out on Osgood Perkins» directorial debut February (now retitled The Blackcoat's Daughter) at last year's...

What You Need To Know: Jason Statham fans are spoilt for choice in 2013; the bald British bruiser has three films, starting off with Taylor Hackford «s «Parker» in the near future, with «Hummingbird,» the intriguing directorial debut from «Eastern Promises» writer Steven Knight following on later in the year (we've heard some good buzz, and it apparently stretches The Stath's acting muscles more than most).

NEON made Reinaldo Marcus Green's feature directorial debut Monsters And Men one of the bigger pickups of this year's Sundance Film Festival, where the drama had its world premiere in competition.

The Birth of a Nation is the feature directorial debut of actor Nate Parker, who has been working on this project for the last seven years.

Greta Gerwig's directorial debut in Lady Bird is considered one of the best coming - of - age stories in years.

Abandon, the directorial debut of noted screenwriter Stephen Gaghan, casts Katie Holmes as Katie Burke - a frazzled college student who must deal with the return of a former love (Charlie Hunnam), as well as an alcoholic cop's (Benjamin Bratt) investigation into said boyfriend's disappearance two years earlier.

Huffman will be seen later this year in William H. Macy's directorial debut RUDDERLESS, which had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

The screenwriter of 28 Days Later... (2002) made his directorial debut three years ago with the exceptional Ex Machina (2014).

Four years ago, writer Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a critical smash that surprised with two Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Visual Effects and further surprised by winning the Visual Effects prize.

Yet the first directorial partnership and Sundance debut of former Hollywood executive Ben Cotner and director Ryan White (2013's «Good Ol' Freda») refuses to capitulate its compassionate treatment of all players in the five - year same - sex battle Hollingsworth v. Perry in the interest of greater purpose.

Kaluuya, who is hotly anticipated to be nominated for his first ever Oscar for his performance in Get Out, saw his director Jordan Peele win Best Directorial Debut for the satirical horror, which was also named among NBR's top 10 films of the year.

This week Gerwig brought her solo directorial debut Lady Bird to the festival which has had a remarkable number of films by and about about women this year.

Robert Eggers brought years of experience as a production designer to his directorial debut The Witch, building a 17th - century homestead in the middle of nowhere in order to more fully immerse viewers in the world of the film.

She also has directorial debut, Unicorn Store — starring Samuel L. Jackson, Bradley Whitford, Joan Cusack, Hamish Linklater, and herself — slated for release later this year.

The Arrested Development star makes his feature directorial debut more than 25 years after becoming the youngest DGA member in history.

Deadline reports that The Orchard have landed one of the more «difficult» and most noticeable directorial debuts of 2016 and this year's SXSW Film fest in Kris Avedisian's Donald Cried.

Two years ago, we thought Jonah Hill was going to make his directorial debut with KITCHEN SINK.

One of the many films to premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival was Song One, the directorial debut of Kate Barker - Froyland.

The first of three tremendous directorial debuts on this list, Jennifer Kent «s The Babadook is the best horror film of the year, and a solid emotional drama even beyond it's terrifying nature.

The film marks Robert Stromberg's directorial debut after years of experiences in special effects.

After years working as a stunt man, stunt coordinator, and fight choreographer, David Leitch made his directorial debut with Chad Stahelski in John Wick and has become well known for the amazing stunt choreography and action sequences he brings to his films.

Before making his directorial debut Ex Machina, which was followed by this year's Annihilation, Alex Garland wrote a handful of notable...

The rest of the film, including the titular character, is the invention of Dan Fogelman, who makes his directorial debut here after eight years of writing and contributing to films like Crazy, Stupid, Love., The Guilt Trip, Last Vegas, Cars, and Tangled.

Dan Mazer makes his directorial debut with this romantic comedy about a young couple's first year of marriage.

The film marks the directorial debut of The Descendants co-writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, and centers on a 14 - year - old boy (Liam James) who spends his summer vacation bonding with the manager...

Greta Gerwig proves that you can indeed go home again with her stunning directorial debut «Lady Bird,» a semi-autobiographical story about the Sacramento native's senior year in high school.

Alex Garland's directorial debut doesn't feel at all as though it is set many years into the future.