One of his most accomplished
early directorial efforts is SO LONG AT THE FAIR (1950) starring a very young Jean Simmons and Dirk Bogarde.
Not exact matches
Speaking with Craig Gillespie
earlier today after viewing some footage from his latest
directorial effort Fright Night 3D, the Lars and...
Blonde was Leitch's first solo
directorial effort after Stahelski had his own success with John Wick Chapter Two
earlier this year.
We learned
earlier this year that the Sunshine and 28 Days Later scribe was tackling an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's brilliantly terrifying enviro - horror novel Annihilation for his second
directorial effort, with Natalie Portman starring to boot.
Kenneth Branagh's last
directorial effort JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT got a luke - warm reception
earlier on this year so he's possibly hoping for greater things...
Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his
directorial debut (technically a sophomore
effort as his original debut was canned in the
early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.
Inevitably, there's no denying a comparison of technique with Altman and Mike Leigh (Canijo spent two years developing the characters with the actors via a series of workshops as Leigh does), but the film stands quite firmly as an often uncomfortable, unpleasant, and always fascinating family saga that would, in a fair world, finally open up the English speaking market to Canijo's previous
directorial efforts, which date back to the
early 80s.