His feature film debut On the Ice premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and won Best First Feature and the Crystal Bear at the 2011 Berlinale.
Congrats on landing the role of Cyborg for
your feature film debut on the strength of your stage and TV work.
In the midst of all this violence and language is the young Dafne Keen, who makes
her feature film debut on Logan.
Emerging Finnish filmmaker AJ Annila («Sauna») will make his English - language
feature film debut on the project, which Steve Buscemi and Wren Arthur of Olive Productions are executive producing with Tannaz Anisi, whose 13 Films will sell foreign rights at the Cannes Film Market.
Not exact matches
She was the editor
on the director's 1967
feature debut, «Who's That Knocking at My Door,» and has edited all of his
films since «Raging Bull» in 1980.
The TV exposure led to acting roles for Jimmy, as a regular
on Daniel Boone, and in
feature films, including his
debut in the James Bond flick Diamonds are Forever.
This is Anderson's
feature film debut as a director, after work
on television.
He made his
feature -
film debut in Lewis» Cinderfella (1960), after having appeared
on the early television series Life With Elizabeth (1953 - 1955) starring opposite Betty White.
This relationship forms the core of Michael Pearce's clammily compelling
debut feature, which paints a very different picture of Channel Island life to that other
film set
on Guernsey involving books and potato peel pies.
Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status
on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence
on the big screen since 1989, when she made her
feature -
film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in
films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).
The former music video director's first
feature film since 2004's Birth is based
on the satirical
debut novel by Michel Faber, which centers
on an extraterrestrial who comes to Scotland to pick up unsuspecting hitchhikers and bring them to her corporate bosses for use as meat.
The overwhelming English sadness of Ian McEwan's novella
On Chesil Beach has been transferred to the movie screen, adapted by the author and directed with scrupulous sensitivity and care by Dominic Cooke, known for his stage work and making his
feature film debut here.
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.
That's not much of a story to build a
film on, but writer - director Rachel Lang and star Salome Richard manage to craft an intriguing
feature debut filled with keen observations and slices of dark humor.
Her
feature - length
debut, 2013's «It Felt Like Love,» focused
on the bumpy trajectory of an introverted teenage woman exploring her urges with dangerous results; with the markedly similar «Beach Rats,» Hittman brings the same tropes to the plight of a young man in a
film that has the precision of a great short story and the uneasiness of body horror.
Writer - director Damien Power advances from his work
on short
films with his
feature debut, a solidly visceral and harshly unforgiving pic that's lean and taut in its plotting and pacing, even as it shakes up linear chronology initially to tell its tale.
McTiernan went
on to make over 200 television commercials before making his
feature film debut by directing the fantasy horror movie Nomads (1985).
The daughter of actor Martin Sheen and the sister of actors Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen, Renee Estevez has been appearing
on television and in
feature films since her 1985
debut in the television movie Babies Having Babies.
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 tow
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 tow
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.
Although the
film's title and a minimal amount of story come from author Michael Faber's 2000 novel, this is Glazer's most hyperstylized and unnerving
film since Ben Kingsley got
on the wrong side of Ray Winstone and Amanda Redman in the director's utterly self - assured
feature debut, Sexy Beast.
Nocturnal Animals is the new
film by Ford, the fashion designer who made his
feature directing
debut on A Single Man.
From Humpday and Touchy Feely director Lynn Shelton, her first
feature based
on a script she didn't pen (that credit goes to first - time scribe Andrea Seigel), Laggies
debuted at this year's Sundance
film festival to mostly positive reviews.
The
film, in which Emile Hirsch stars alongside Roberts in his directorial
feature debut, opens in cinemas
on September 24th (UK).
After years of writing for television and cutting his directorial teeth
on the 1979 TV movie The Jericho Mile, Michael Mann made his
feature film debut with Thief (1981), a cool, gritty crime movie starring James Caan as the head of a high - end crew of professional safecrackers.
Elsewhere
on the blog I review Black Orpheus (Criterion) and Orlando (Sony), and also released this week is L'enfance Nue (Criterion), the
debut feature from French director Maurice Pialat, and this DVD
debut includes Pialat's first
film, the 1960 short L'amour existe, and the 1968 documentary Autor de L'enfance nue, among its supplements.
While Christopher Nolan has enlisted a number of A-list stars for his upcoming World War II epic Dunkirk, 19 - year - old newcomer Fionn Whitehead (Him) is set to take
on the lead role in his
feature film debut, and Entertainment Weekly has released a new image of his character, the young British soldier Collins; check it out here... -LSB-...]
Ahead of its release next month, Warner Bros. has
debuted a new interactive poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's upcoming
film Inherent Vice, which offers up some information
on the characters
featured in the Thomas Pynchon adaptation... SEE ALSO: First poster and trailer for Inherent Vice Inherent Vice is the seventh
feature from Paul Thomas Anderson -LSB-...]
Ever since Nacho Vigalondo's
debut feature film Time Crimes came out, he's been a director to keep an eye
on.
The
film is the
feature debut of Elizabeth Wood, who evidently based it
on some of her own experiences.
The 11th Cinema Eye Honors Awards Ceremony occured
on January 11 and saw Yance Ford's STRONG ISLAND make history as the first
film to win the awards for Outstanding
Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding
Debut.
The original A Nightmare
on Elm Street also gets a Blu - ray
debut this week,
featuring all the supplements from the earlier DVD «Infinifilm Special Edition» release (two commentary tracks, alternate endings, three documentary featurettes), plus the Blu - ray exclusive interactive «Focus Points» mode, which allows instant access to alternate takes and behind the scenes footage while watching the
film.
One of my favourite
films on the festival circuit last year, from Sundance to Toronto After Dark, was the
debut feature from Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska.
Nominated for Best
Feature, Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing at the 2018 Independent Spirit Wards, Ms. Zhao is following up her highly - lauded 2015
film debut «Songs My Brother Taught Me» with another important story, once again centered
on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation inSouth Dakota.
The 11th Cinema Eye Honors Awards Ceremony occurred
on January 11, 2018 and saw Yance Ford's STRONG ISLAND make history as the first
film to win the awards for Outstanding
Feature, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding
Debut.
Ben Affleck makes his
feature film directing
debut with Gone Baby Gone, based
on a novel by Mystic River author Dennis Lehane that Affleck adapted with co-screenwriter Aaron Stockard.
Zhao follows up
on her
debut film, the critically acclaimed «Songs My Brothers Taught Me» (2015), with this production that
features three members of the Jandreau family playing their fictional selves.
As directed by Steven Bernstein, a veteran director of photography who makes his
feature film debut here, «Decoding Annie Parker» frequently dangles
on the precipice of falling into Lifetime Original Movie territory.
Luke Scott will make his
feature film debut with the sci - fi horror hybrid Morgan, which is putting off some serious Ex Machina vibes (let's all reflect
on how fucking awesome Ex Machina is real quick).
Featuring Howard Shore's hair - raising
debut film score, this deeply personal take
on the trials of parenthood and the trauma of divorce — which Cronenberg described as his version of Kramer vs. Kramer — establishes the mix of body horror and psychological terror that would soon become the director's trademark.
Annabelle: Creation is directed by Swedish horror filmmaker David F. Sandberg, who made his
feature debut with the horror
film Lights Out (based
on his own short) last year.
Polaroid is directed by Norwegian filmmaker Lars Klevberg, making his
feature directorial
debut after a few shorts previously, including the Polaroid short this
film is based
on.
After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot
on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie
films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident
debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.
Annabelle 2 is directed by Swedish horror filmmaker David F. Sandberg, who made his
feature debut with the horror
film Lights Out (based
on his own short) earlier this year.
Of the various
films in the Netflix Original roster to date, Spectral, the
debut feature of director Nic Mathieu, stands out as considerably more expensive - seeming than its relatively modest brethren — although who knows how much Adam Sandler's future excuses to go
on paid vacation will end up costing?
While we didn't see it ourselves, buzz
on the
film was mixed, but there are definitely a lot of people impressed by Ruairi Robinson «s
feature debut.
Between Mimic 3: Sentinel («Mimic: Sentinel»
on its title card and hereafter «Sentinel») and his remarkable
feature debut, the mostly silent NYU student
film Soft for Digging, Petty betrays a genuine gift for cinematic storytelling, stripping down dialogue to a skeletal structure and relying
on the force of his images for the bulk of the exposition.
Both his short and
feature debuts, «La Vie des morts» and «La Sentinelle,» premiered
on the Croisette in the early 1990s, and all of his
films, bar 2004's «Kings and Queen,» have played the fest, with 2008's «A Christmas Tale» being the most recent.
Saban Films has
debuted an official trailer for a powerful indie
film titled The Forgiven,
featuring two riveting performances in a tense thriller based
on real events.
She is currently in post production
on her
feature film debut, Lemon.
The idea for 355 came from Chastain, and she pitched it to him while they worked
on that superhero
film on which Kinberg made his
feature directing
debut.