Sentences with phrase «feature debut about»

Metropolitan Writer - director Whit Stillman's charming 1990 feature debut about a chatty group of New York debutantes and their escorts, a group one of the characters dubs the UHBs (the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie), was an unlikely indie hit amid early «90s...

Sheila Roberts: «Filmmaker Stephanie Di Giusto's fascinating feature debut about pioneering Belle Epoque dancer Loie Fuller explores Fuller's creative passion for acting and modern dance, her technological innovation and contributions to modernist performance, and her complex relationship with protégé Isadora Duncan.

Lakeith Stanfield, Armie Hammer, and Tessa Thompson star in Boots Riley's feature debut about an Oakland telemarketer with a talent for sounding white on the phone.

After crafting the 1995 short «Multi-Facial,» Vin upped the ante for this bona - fide feature debut about a drug dealer trying to make good.

Lace Crater Lindsay Burdge and Peter Vack star in Harrison Atkins's feature debut about a woman who sleeps with a ghost and gets a ghostly STD.

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They complained about the clunky, «Reply - to - unlock» time suck so much that Facebook nixed the Snapchat - differentiating feature just two months after the app debuted.

This feature actually debuted in Windows 7, but I've found a lot of people don't know about it or use it (but they should — it's cool!).

This time, Wix.com launched its Super Bowl marketing campaign on Facebook Live, debuting a video featuring action movie stars Jason Statham and Gal Gadot fighting in (and destroying) a restaurant while a distracted chef in the kitchen reads about a new Wix contest offering users a chance to win up to $ 50,000.

The retailer is debuting a two - minute digital video featuring kids talking about how and why they believe in the man in the red suit.

* The UK's biggest selling debut cookery author of all time * (Nielsen) * Featured in the Top 10 Influential British Foodies 2016 * (The Grocer) The food writer everyone is talking about!

Legendary jewelry designer David Yurman is about to debut a collection of pastel - colored rings that each feature a distinct, candy - inspired scent.

Ever since the unveiling of the debut handbag collection of the Olsen twins» The Row line which featured a $ 39,000 crocodile skin backpack and hits Barneys later this month, the word from most fashion publications has been that the backpack will be making a comeback this Fall — but what about the much - hated fanny pack?

«To the Bone» Marti Noxon, a longtime symbol of female empowerment in TV for her work on «Buffy the Vampire Slayer» and «UnREAL,» makes her feature directorial debut with a pitch - black comedy about her own struggle with anorexia.

The film feels a little less amateur than «Pusher», - a cheap debut feature for some underexperienced Dane trying to make abstract art - and it's that which brings the final product closer to decency, because many of the missteps that ruined «Pusher» feel more considerable in this superior, but still misguided effort, which has a good bit to commend, but even more to complain about as questionable «story «telling notes that ultimately send the final product crashing into mediocrity.

After the show ended in 1994, Thompson appeared in the pseudo-documentary about a porn actor / director, Super 8 1/2 (1994), and joined the other Kids for the troupe's feature debut Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996).

Martin Ritt's impressive feature directing debut is a socially conscious drama, about union corruption, interracial integration, and moral integrity, well acted by John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier.

With all of the things that Christmas, Again (written and directed by Charles Poekel in his feature debut) does well (and it does almost everything well), the most striking thing about it is its evocation of an extremely specific mood.

Director Thomas Elliott made his feature debut with this 2001 thriller about a movie star who comes face to face with her haunted past.

With an excellent, career - topping performance by the late Harry Dean Stanton, coupled with a strong supporting ensemble, this quiet, low - key debut feature from actor - director John Carroll Lynch explores the meaning of life and the secrets to help make it fulfilling, both while we're here and as we're about to make our ultimate transition.

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

Comedian Demetri Martin makes his feature writing - directing debut with this earnest, comedic tale about dealing with loss.

Featuring Carlos Gallardo, star of Robert Rodriguez's cult - classic debut El Mariachi, Bravo is a tense action thriller about a musician struggling to stop a criminal rebellion.

Writer / actress Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein 72, Ira & Abby 62) makes her feature directing debut with a romantic comedy about two best friends (played by Westfeldt and Adam Scott) who decide to have a baby together while maintaining a platonic relationship.

Writer / director Richard Ayoade, making his feature debut, nails a salient point about why it's so tough to stay grounded as a teenager: Oliver realizes that most of the «tragedies» of his life won't have meaning by the time he's 38, but that's scant comfort at the moment.

Roberta Hanley made her feature directorial debut with this British drama based on the play by Jeff Noon about a civil war in the near future.

Shot entirely on location in Barrow, Alaska, On The Ice is the engrossing and suspenseful feature film debut by filmmaker Andrew Okpeaha MacLean about two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town.

Colin Hanks makes his feature directing debut with this irresistible documentary about the evolution of the music business.

Artist - turned - director Noaz Deshe's debut feature about Alias (Hamisi Bazili), an adolescent boy struggling to survive in his native Tanzania, is in some ways the definition of challenging cinema.

Novelist - turned - filmmaker Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty, about a young prostitute (Emily Browning) whose clients prefer her to be unconscious, perfectly melds its formal rigor to notions of social and gender - specific enslavement; it's the incredible debut feature of 2011.

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).

Focus Features has debuted a first red - band trailer for Thoroughbreds, a drama - thriller about two privileged girls in Connecticut who take matters into their own hands.

Cast: Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Fraser James, Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo Cleary, For his feature directorial debut, Elba chose an adaptation of the Victor Headley cult novel about a youth who witnesses his idealistic brother's assassination in Jamaica.

The interview reminds us of her upcoming role in Alan Ball's long - delayed, much - discussed feature debut «Towelhead,» of which she has this to say about her character, the mother of a child abuse victim:

It's been eight years since the release of Jenkins's debut feature Medicine For Melancholy, itself a clever work about identity.

Aaron Godfred's feature film debut, Little Blue Pill, is a raunchy indie comedy about a young man who accidentally takes Viagra like pills and experiences all the side - effects that comes

Niamh Creely talks to Gerard Barrett, winner of this year's IFTA Rising Star award, about his debut feature which is set in his home county, Kerry.

Montreal director Paolo Barzman makes his feature directing debut with an elegant, sensitive adaptation of Matt Cohen's novel about Holocaust survivors.

Director Eric Stoltz seems unable to decide if Class Rank, his debut feature, is a down - to - earth comedy about quirky characters, a quirky comedy about down - to - earth characters, or a quirky comedy about quirky characters.

At Sundance, writer - director Robert Eggers won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing Award for his debut feature about a Puritan family in 1630s New England who leave their community to start their own farm on the edge of a forest.

«I Give it a Year»: «Borat» scribe Dan Mazer makes his feature film directing debut with this romantic comedy about a young couple (Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall) who are doing their best to stay married despite the doubts of their friends and relatives.

Gudegast, making his feature directing debut after writing «A Man Apart» and «London Has Fallen,» seems to understand just enough about that element of Mann's film to recreate some of its conflicts — both in terms of crime scenarios and the characters» civilian lives — but lacks the discipline, or maybe skill, to lend them real emotional weight, much less originality.

«I create hybrids, sexual and cinematic» French filmmaker talks to ScreenAnarchy about his daring feature debut Wild Boys

Half Magic, Heather Graham's feature debut as a writer / director, is a witty, agreeably low - key comedy about Finding Yourself that benefits from a keen sense of irony about Tinseltown.

There's a lot to like about Leon Ford's debut feature film as writer and director.

Director Renen Schorr speaks about how his classic 1986 debut feature film has withstood the test of time.

Nearing the end of a grinding publicity tour for his extraordinary debut feature, Fruitvale Station, the then -27-year-old writer - director spoke to me eloquently about the surreal adulation of Sundance success and the strange sensation of rolling into Cannes as Harvey Weinstein's latest boy - genius discovery.

Are you already thinking about your next project even thought your feature debut is just starting its festival cycle?

Akiva Goldsman will make his feature directorial debut with «Man and Wife,» 20th Century Fox's drama about a professional killer who becomes emotionally attached to the family he is supposed to kill.

However, his prior filmmaking efforts were male dominated: In 2006, he won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» which stars Brendan Gleeson; for McDonagh's 2008 feature - length debut «In Bruges,» he paired the actor with Colin Farrell in a devious tale about bumbling hitmen.

The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer» filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris from America» at the festival.