Sentences with phrase «feature directing debut»

Ben Affleck returns home to Boston for his sophomore directing effort The Town, a new heist flick that returns him to a similarly gritty Beantown milieu as that of his acclaimed feature directing debut, 2007's Gone Baby Gone.

In his feature directing debut, Oscar - winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) gives a sharp visual context to the torrent of words his characters use to express themselves.

Award - winning writer / director John Butler (RTE's award winning sketch show Your Bad Self, debut novel The Tenderloin) makes his feature directing debut with this hilarious and touching comedy about male friendship — developed and co-written with actor / writer Peter McDonald (I Went Down, When Brendan Met Trudy), and produced by Rebecca O'Flanagan and Rob Walpole (The Good Man).

With his feature directing debut The Eyes of My Mother, Nicholas Pence delivers the kind of breathtaking, nerve wracking and thought provoking kind of arthouse horror experience that leaves nothing on the table.

However, Peele's feature directing debut, «Get Out,» also brings him into the rarified class of horror directors who edge their scares with cutting social commentary.

I've just come from a screening of «Tyrannosaur,» Paddy Considine's feature directing debut that made something of a splash at Sundance in January, winning awards for Considine and stars Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan.

Frank Pierson, an Oscar ® - nominated screenwriter (Cat Ballou [1965] and Cool Hand Luke [1967]-RRB- who made his feature directing debut on the film, makes a few changes to Le Carr's story, most notably in the identity of its protagonist, Leiser.

Hellraiser, Clive Barker's feature directing debut, worked not only as a grisly splatterfest, but also as a welcome shift from the rash of teen slasher movies that followed the success of Halloween.

Max Landis, the self - styled brat screenwriter of Chronicle and the underrated American Ultra, makes his feature directing debut with Me Him Her, a movie as scraggly and eager as a teenage cover band fumbling through its first set.

In fact, it's the feature directing debut of Dean Devlin, the longtime creative partner of Roland Emmerich.

Now playing in theaters is Transcendence, the feature directing debut of cinematography Wally Pfister, a sci - fi thriller about artificial intelligence in this modern day and age.

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Miller, who has done strong visual effects work through his VFX house Blur Films, was just set by 20th Century Fox to make his feature directing debut on X-Men Origins: Deadpool, the X-Men spinoff film expected to star Ryan Reynolds.

«Lucky» is the feature directing debut for actor John Carroll Lynch, himself a longtime character actor recognizable from roles in movies such as «Fargo,» «Zodiac» and «Shutter Island.»

It seems the only member of the Lonely Island yet to make a feature directing debut is Andy Samberg.

Now she's making her feature directing debut with the romantic - comedy, coming of age film Carrie Pilby.

Devlin is primarily known for his film and television producing career, which means Geostorm will be his feature directing debut, though he did helm multiple episodes of TNT's Leverage.

Now she's making her feature directing debut with the romantic - comedy, coming of age...

Until that point, Sofia Coppola was best recognized as Mary Corleone in the oft - maligned The Godfather: Part III, but her feature directing debut...

Jay Baruchel, who co-wrote and co-starred in the first film, makes his feature directing debut with Goon: Last of the Enforcers.

10 Cloverfield Lane, formerly known as Valencia, is the feature directing debut of Dan Trachtenberg, who made the Portal: No Escape short previously.

The new film marks Baruchel's feature directing debut, although he's done TV (Trailer Park Boys) and short film (Edgar and Jane) before.

He will next be seen opposite Lady Gaga in Warner Bros.» new remake of «A Star Is Born,» on which he made his feature directing debut.

A child's angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses - shattering feature directing debut from actor Brady Corbet, with a cast led by Robert Pattinson and Bérénice Bejo.

Strikingly mounted, lighted, shot and scored, this tense, decidedly arty film marks a bravura feature directing debut for young American actor Brady Corbet («Melancholia,» «Martha Marcy May Marlene»).

The Diary of a Teenage Girl Translating tricky source material to the screen with flying colors, actress Marielle Heller's feature directing debut, «The Diary of a Teenage Girl,» manages to plunge into the too - precocious sex life of a 15 - year - old girl without turning exploitative or distasteful.

Kubo and the Two Strings is directed by animation producer Travis Knight, who produced ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls for Laika previously, now making his feature directing debut.

Ottman's commentary is also rather educational, relating the lessons he learned on this, his feature directing debut; aspiring auteurs will find much of value here on working under the constraints of a tight budget and an equally limiting genre.

He made documentaries before making his feature directing debut with the resistance drama Attention!

And the sidebar program, Un Certain Regard, opened tonight with Hunger, a provocative feature directing debut by British artist Steve McQueen.

In Ingmar Bergman's feature directing debut, urban beauty - shop proprietress Miss Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen - year - old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised her.

It's a lesson the coming - of - age stories that linger in your memory apply to vivid effect, and «Lady Bird,» Greta Gerwig's solo feature directing debut, is a good coming - of - age story.

I had the opportunity to talk to Alan Ball about Towelhead, his first feature - film script after American Beauty and his feature directing debut, when he presented the film at the Seattle International Film Festival in June, 2008.

Josh Trank will make his feature directing debut from a script by Max Landis.

After all, Saturday Night Live writer Robert Smigel is making his feature directing debut with this movie, so maybe he has something to prove.

Lake Bell makes her feature directing debut with a clever and insightful look at the world of voiceover talent,... read more →

Joseph Gordon - Levitt stars in and makes his feature directing debut in «Don Jon,» a movie about a Don Juan with a porn addiction.

This one is the feature directing debut of «Mad Men's» Roger Sterling, actor John Slattery.

Though the young man has directed a few shorts, his newest starring vehicle Don Jon is also his feature directing debut.

Poirier is set to make his feature directing debut for Paramount with his script, Bong Hits 4 Jesus.

In one of the first major acquisitions on the ground in Cannes, Focus Features has nabbed worldwide rights, excluding France, to Mustang, a drama that will star Matthias Schoenaerts and Jason Mitchell and mark the feature directing debut of French helmer Laure de Clermont - Tonnerre.

In between his five - season run on the decorated sitcom «Taxi» and the movie stardom he enjoyed in the 1980s, Danny DeVito made his feature directing debut on The Ratings Game, a 1984 Showtime television movie.

Treading Water is the feature directing debut of Analeine Cal y Mayor who co-wrote the quirk comedy with writer Javier Gullon.

Fist Fight is the feature directing debut of Richie Keen (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) and features a top - notch comedic cast including Jillian Bell and Tracy Morgan.

Partisan marks the feature directing debut of Ariel Kleiman, who made the short films Young Love and Deeper than Yesterday, and this coming - of - age story looks like a compelling tale.

Alice Lowe (Prevenge) Veteran writer and comedy performer Alice Lowe - you know her from Sightseers - made her feature directing debut with pitch black and blood drenched comedy Prevenge, the tale of an expectant mother driven to murder by her unborn child.

For her feature directing debut, Black Swan actor Natalie Portman has shepherded through a sombrely reverential adaptation of Amos Oz's 2002 memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness, a study of the founding of the state of Israel refracted through Oz's troubled family life.

The production company has hired Steven S. DeKnight to make his feature directing debut after creating the show «Spartacus» and working on other TV shows prior, including recently executive producing and writing for Marvel's «Daredevil» on Netflix.

Directed by David Leitch & Chad Stahelski, two stuntmen who have been working with Keanu since The Matrix making their feature directing debut, the film builds a great world around Wick that he gets to play kill in.

Hatchet and Hatchet II cameraman BJ McDonnell makes his feature directing debut with Hatchet III.

Often described as «the godmother of the French New Wave,» though she is more properly thought of as a member of the Left Bank movement, she made her feature directing debut with «La Pointe Courte» (1955), a portrait of a crumbling marriage set in a Mediterranean fishing village, steeped in documentary and neorealist techniques.