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First - time director Emanuele Della Valle uses this as a backdrop for his crime - drama film debut, Wetlands.

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In 2016, critics cited the Oscars» snub of Netflix's critically acclaimed drama «Beasts of No Nation» as evidence that the industry was «turned off» by Netflix's business model, which debuts films on the streaming service simultaneously with theatrical releases.

She made her film debut in 2004 in the sports drama Friday Night Lights, starring Billy Bob Thornton.

Farrell appeared in the BBC drama Ballykissangel in 1998, made his film debut in the Tim Roth

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It wasn't long after her 1998 graduation that the aspiring actress made her feature debut in the 2000 drama Our Song, with nominations for the film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival serving to increase her exposure among cinephiles, even if the film did go largely unseen by the masses.

It's a very moving indie drama that, as the directorial debut of screenwriter Oren Moverman, could be the start of a very great career for him as something other than a writer.You should definitely give this film a watch.

That same year, she made her credited screen debut starring opposite Sammy Davis Jr. in the drama A Man Called Adam (her first uncredited film role was in 1959's Odds Against Tomorrow).

Anderson made her film debut in 1992 with the low - budget drama The Turning.

The actor made his film debut in the Mary Steenburgen drama One Magic Christmas in 1985 and went on to do supporting work in a variety of films that included Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone (1987), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), and She's Having a Baby (1988).

She landed her film debut in the thriller The Thirteenth Floor at the age of 20 and soon was offered a role on the WB family drama Safe Harbor.

She made her feature film debut in 1986 as a drug addict in Neil Jordan's crime drama Mona Lisa.

After making her film debut in That Night (1992), Heigl balanced movie work with high school, playing a small role in Steven Soderbergh's Depression - era drama King of the Hill (1993), starring as Gérard Depardieu's difficult daughter in My Father the Hero (1994), and Steven Seagal's niece in the action sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995).

Asian actress Lisa Lu made an auspicious American film debut as Mme Sue - Mei Hung in the 1960 war drama The Mountain Road.

Quinn made his film debut with a small supporting role in the circus drama The Flying Fontaines (1959).

Though Nashville won just a single Oscar and a single Golden Globe, each for Best Original Song (for «I'm Easy», written and performed by Carradine), it was nominated for five of the former and eleven of the latter, which even bestowed two nominations each on Tomlin and Blakley, actresses making their film debuts, while classifying the film as a drama (back when true musicals weren't so rare).

As for The Danish Girl, his timely period drama about the first known trans person, Focus Features — the company distributing the film — has by all accounts made the surprising decision to debut the film in Venice (it's listed as making a North American premiere in Toronto).

Known for hard - hitting screenplays for Submarino and The Hunt which he co-wrote with director Thomas Vinterberg, and for the popular Danish TV drama Borgen, Tobias Lindholm's solo directorial debut is perhaps as remarkable in the script department as his previous work, but the film itself — like the ship it depicts — sometimes goes adrift.

EXCLUSIVE: Eye in the Sky — the drama about drone strikes — is so timely that distributor Bleecker Street is using President Barack Obama's speech about the new technology as the voice - over for the film's TV spot, which is debuting tonight during the Republican debate (watch it above).

Thanks to the vagaries of film distribution and the increasing difficulties of small films and foreign language productions to get theatrical releases, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama, which won the Best Director award at Cannes 2008, this one - week Seattle engagement at the Varsity Theatre is the film's American theatrical debut.

In a prolific filmmaking burst, the Argentinean - Chilean director Sebastián Lelio («Gloria») will bring two films to TIFF, both in a feminist vein: the lesbian romance «Disobedience» (a fall festival debut), and the trans drama «A Fantastic Woman,» which premiered in Berlin.

While it possesses all the hallmarks that made Shelton's debut film, Humpday, so entertaining (an interesting, imaginative plot, a stellar cast, hints of poignant drama), Touchy Feely never quite makes the plight of its characters truly engaging.

For Greta Gerwig, this directorial debut is a personal emotional landscape committed to film, a self - penned comedy - drama...

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

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 director of The Duchess talks to Jason Solomons about Keira Knightley, period dramas and his debut film Bullet Boy

And since independent film is where social progress typically finds its earliest, least compromised expression, we're now seeing more richly observant films like «Return,» a sensitively rendered drama that marks a promising debut for writer - director Liza Johnson, in rewarding collaboration with underrated actress Linda Cardellini.

SY: Speaking of Andrea, he made his feature film writing and directorial debuts on the drama.

Also at the festival are under - the - radar pictures like the Clive Owen / Juliette Binoche film «Words And Pictures,» Andre 3000 - starring Jimi Hendrix biopic «All Is By My Side,» comedy - drama «You Are Here,» the feature debut of «Mad Men» creator Matthew Wiener, Biafra war film «Half Of A Yellow Sun» with Chiwetel Ejiofor, the James Corden - starring «One Chance» (which has the Weinstein Company «s backing, but seems more «Unfinished Song» than «Silver Linings Playbook «-RRB- and, perhaps most importantly, Stephen Frears ««Philomena,» which could see Judi Dench being in contention.

What makes this disc essential is its very special supplements: the American home video debut of Peckinpah's 1966 made - for - television drama Noon Wine, an intimate 52 - minute production shot on a combination of film and videotape and broadcast on TV once.

The Duellists is a 1977 historical drama film and the directorial debut of Ridley Scott.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

The five films in this eccentric collection are the hipster youth generation satire Getting Straight with Elliot Gould; the Jeff Goldblum psychics - on - the - run comedy Vibes (notable as the feature debut of Cindi «She - Bop» Lauper); Stephen Frears» first film Gumshoe with Albert Finney; and the first - ever home video releases of Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five and Carol Reed's 1959 spy satire Our Man in Havana.

You wouldn't think that it'd be very hard for someone like David Chase — who helped reinvent the TV drama with «The Sopranos» — to get his feature film debut off the ground, but then again, «Not Fade Away» feels so hastily thrown together that it's not surprising it took five years to do so.

Discounting 2004's Red Dust, a little - seen Hilary Swank apartheid drama, The Damned United (2008) was Hooper's film debut proper — a movie that, at the time, seemed mostly a vehicle for Michael Sheen (giving us his best Brian Clough) and for screenwriter Morgan.

The Killer Elite (Twilight Time, Blu - ray) is included not for the film itself — one of Peckinpah's impassioned expressions of loyalty, betrayal, professionalism, and violence as a way of life hung on a weak scrip — but for its very special supplements: the American home video debut of Peckinpah's 1966 made - for - television drama Noon Wine, an intimate 52 - minute production shot on a combination of film and videotape and broadcast on TV once.

From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.

Lee's production company, Lee Daniels Entertainment, made its feature film debut in 2001 with Monster's Ball, the dysfunctional family drama for which Halle Berry would earn her historic, Best Actress Oscar.

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.

Maika Monroe and Jeremy Allen White have been set to star in Shotgun, a romantic drama / offbeat comedy indie film that was written and will be directed by Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency co-star Hannah Marks and Joey Power in their feature directorial debuts.

«Disobedience» is the English - language debut for Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, who in March received the Academy Award for best foreign film for his transgender drama «A Fantastic Woman.»

British stage director Rupert Goold makes his film debut with this unusual drama, a mood piece he also wrote with David Kajganich from Michael Finkel's tell - all book.

From Academy Award - nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award - winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world - renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger - than - life literary giant Thomas Wolfe.

The cast did not transition to English language cinema much, although ter Steege, making her debut here, did appear in the international 1990s dramas Immortal Beloved and Paradise Road and was cast in the Stanley Kubrick Holocaust film that was abandoned after Spielberg's Schindler's List materialized.

Although it debuted in limited release over a month ago, it continues to be released in more and more, and playing to sold - out crowds — and with the film's success, Monroe is finding more and more opportunities in Hollywood, including the upcoming sci - fi action film The Fifth Wave (alongside Chloe Grace Moretz), and the coming - of age - drama The Tribes of Palos Verdes, about a surfer... the perfect fit for the former athlete.

Among the highlights include the world premiere of Chris Evans» directorial debut «Before We Go» (formerly «1:30 Train»), dueling Anna Kendrick films in dark drama «Cake» and musical adaptation «The Last Five Years,» ensemble comedy «This is Where I Leave You» starring Corey Stoll, Adam Driver and more, Jason Reitman's «Men, Women and Children» with Ansel Elgort, Kaitin Dever and others, and «99 Homes,» Ramin Bahrani's financial world set drama which also serves as the first film outside of «The Amazing Spider - Man» franchise for Andrew Garfield since «The Social Network.»

Highlights include the new Keanu Reeves - fronted film from director Eli Roth, Knock, Knock and the feature directorial debut of new The Crow director Corin Hardy, The Hallow, as well as Spotlight consideration for films that have previously premiered elsewhere like the Andrew Garfield - fronted housing crisis drama 99 Homes and the historical drama» 71, starring Jack O'Connell.

Another subtle, shrewd, and deceivingly simple domestic drama from Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31st), Louder Than Bombs also marks the Norwegian film director's English - language debut.

He made his feature film acting debut in 2017 with the war drama film The Man with the Iron Heart.

He proceeds from the socially conscious exposé of his debut film, Fruitvale Station (unhelpfully exploited by the media in support of the Black Lives Matter campaign), to focus substantively on personal drama and individual psychology.