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The first - time feature director attempts to merge the mundane with the unbelievable in a way that leaves both kind of flat.

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Extras: The Blu - ray includes quite a few extra features, including a detailed, if at times kind of lethargic commentary by director Lloyd; three interlocked featurettes detailing the stage genesis of the property, the vocal training of the actors (including a laugh out loud segment showing the largely incompetent Firth attempting «dance moves»), as well as the source ABBA music; another featurette detailing the making of «Lay Your Love on Me,» a duet between Seyfried and Dominic Cooper that becomes a bit of a production number; deleted scenes (including the cut musical number «The Name of the Game») and a music video of «Gim me!

Less Is More, More is Less: In his second feature film, photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn tries his best to match Clooney's hostile stillness with distance of his own, but his attempts at visual nuance inadvertently come off as conspicuous filmmaking choices overly fraught with meaning.

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is perhaps most notable as the debut of Macon Blair as a director, who gained notoriety primarily as an actor featured prominently in the films of Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), to which this film attempts to emulate to some degree.

A cynical New York salesman (Michael Keaton) finds his scornful ways unexpectedly softened upon falling for the fiancée of his new business partner (Brendan Fraser), a Midwest transplant attempting to find his footing in the city, in screenwriter - turned - director Michael Caleo's feature directorial debut.

This is Stuart Baird's first attempt at directing a Star Trek feature, but his career as editor and also as director for decent films like Executive Decision and U.S. Marshals prove he has the talent necessary to bring it all together.

Universal Pictures has released a new image from director Baltasar Kormákur's (2 Guns, Contraband) upcoming film Everest, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin... Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, EVEREST documents the awe - inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by -LSB-...]

An attempt by director Philip Kaufman to fashion a big - screen reboot — entitled «Planet of the Titans» — had just fallen apart in the face of studio disinterest, leading to the development of «Star Trek: Phase 2», a TV series featuring the original cast with the exception of Leonard Nimoy, who didn't want to be typecast as Spock.

Inarrittu's narrative isn't quite as preachy, but either way, it's hard not to criticize the director for attempting to cash in on the award craze of both features, and star Brad Pitt seems to be following suit.

Director Atsuko Hirayanagi introduced a more broadly comic Setsuko in her 2014 short of the same title, and her feature screenplay (written with Boris Frumin) still finds humor in the character's flailing attempts to break free from habitual loneliness and obedience.

Other directors may have attempted to go for sticky emotional scenes, a la Wedding Crashers, to make their point, but Showalter, here in his feature - length directorial debut, has a maturity to suggest he could become a solid comedy director, if he so chooses to take that path in the future.

I learn this is the second feature attempt of music video director Dave Meyers, but thankfully, The Hitcher is not a hack and slash editing job.

As a first attempt by a director with a feature film (according to the IMDb), this thing looks pretty good.

There is also a new feature length commentary with Adrienne Barbeau, who played Maggie, discussing her memories of the film with director of photography Dean Cundey, who credits Carpenter's vision for being so ahead of its time in even attempting to create a (seemingly large) whole different world on the tiny budget of an independent film.

In Greenberg (Focus Features), the writer / director Noah Baumbach attempts the heady, possibly foolish experiment of trying to write a romantic comedy without charm.

2017 GGA NEW DIRECTORS (NARRATIVE FEATURE) COMPETITION Duet, Navid Danesh, Iran (North American Premiere) After a Tehran musician instigates an encounter with his college girlfriend in an attempt to address the poor end their relationship suffered, their lives and the equilibrium of their spouses are thrown into existential crisis.

Director James Schamus approaches the material with a fealty that at least surpasses prior Roth adaptations including 2003's The Human Stain (featuring Anthony Hopkins as the book's white - passing African - American protagonist) as well as earlier, tastefully neutered attempts to reflect the highly sexualized language of Portnoy's Complaint and Goodbye, Columbus.

There's an attempt at closure that leaves both women and the viewer unsatisfied, but Sigismondi, a video director who makes an auspicious feature debut, should be congratulated for refusing a nice neat bow.

Joachim Trier)-- North American Premiere An aging schoolteacher (Gabriel Byrne) grappling with the recent death of his photojournalist wife (Isabelle Huppert) attempts to reconcile with his two very different sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid), in the first English - language feature by acclaimed Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Reprise).

Special features include a feature - length audio - commentary track in which director White details the movie's cold Park City, Utah shoot (which substitutes for summer in Colorado) and his attempts at subtly tweaking genre expectation.

In «The Wedding Plan,» Israeli director Rama Burshtein attempts a more complicated story than she did in her debut feature for general audiences, «Fill the Void.»

Despite his attempt to graft an environmental message onto a traditional musical template, there's little about director Danny Baron's feature debut that feels convincingly organic to either the plotting or the characterizations.

Director / star Stiller attempts to update the classic 1947 film that featured the great Danny Kaye.

Take Stay for instance, the latest from director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) and screenwriter David Benioff (25th Hour), which features busy McGregor and busy Naomi Watts as a couple in love and dealing with her (Watts's Lila) attempted suicide, the ordeal of which McGregor's character (psychiatrist Sam) has somewhat unscrupulously helped her through.

Australian actor turned director Jennifer Kent is the latest to attempt to take horror in a different direction with her feature debut The Babadook, a film that takes supernatural horror and shunts it off into a novel course.

Australian actor turned director Jennifer Kent is the latest to attempt to take horror in a different direction with her feature debut

«The film only stumbles, ironically, in fortifying the very male gaze Hitchcock himself was attempting to deconstruct» — BH, including a feature interview with the film's director

The whole thing looks and feels like an extended episode of some Starz series, and you almost get the sense that first - time feature film director Aleksander Bach is attempting to ape the Resident Evil movies, another franchise with bad writing, silly action and only the most tenuous connection to the video games that inspired it.

Featuring some of the most impactful posters, printed matter, films and art from the Stedelijk's collection, including films by Russian directors like Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, and posters in the new Constructivist visual language, the show highlights how crucial artists were to the communists» attempts to recreate society.