Sentences with phrase «excellent feature film debut»
MUSTANG A more socially significant Virgin Suicides, and excellent feature film debut from Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven.
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Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.
James Schamus» excellent Indignation, which is a film everyone must see, and now, Ewan McGregor's feature debut, American Pastoral.
Honorable Mentions: As usual, some good films have to fall just outside the top 10 list including: Tommy Lee Jones «feature - length directorial debut, «The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada ``; Christopher Nolan «s excellent, in - between - Batman - movies cum rival magician film, «The Prestige,» starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; Guillermo del Toro «s fantastical fairy tale, «Pan's Labyrinth ``; Sofia Coppola «s anachronistic teen alienation set in the 16th century, «Marie Antoinette ``; Martin Campbell «s superb rebooting of the Bond franchise with «Casino Royale ``; Martin Scorsese «s «Infernal Affairs» remake «The Departed» (which has been on TV so many bloody times, its power has worn off); Oliver Assayas ««Clean» which featured a Cannes - winning performance by Maggie Cheung as a struggling addict; and Park Chan - Wook «s final installment of his vengeance trilogy, the beautifully haunting, «Lady Vengeance.»
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.
As well as the usual excellent crop of top feature films debuting at the New York Film Festival, there is also an equally impressive presentation of some of the best documentaries being made today.
The cast are uniformly excellent and it is a credit to feature film debut directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris that they have taken such a diverse ensemble of actors and seamlessly blended their acting styles together.
The French heist film The Crew, André Øvredal's The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Paul Verhoeven's French debut Elle, and Paul Schaefer's dark and outrageously fun Dog Eat Dog featuring Nicolas Cage and a turnt up Willem Dafoe all made for excellent screenings.