Sentences with phrase «feature film debut with»

In 1998, writer / director Peter Mullan made his feature film debut with the blackly humorous, Scottish family drama «Orphans».

After winning awards for her short films, she made her feature film debut with Ratcatcher (1999), which established her position at the head of British art cinema.

Peele is looking to flex his genre muscles by writing and directing his feature film debut with the theatrical horror machine known as Blumhouse Productions.

Director Benni Diez makes his feature film debut with the practical effects - driven creature feature Stung, a gooey thriller packed with laughs and mayhem.

Studio Ponoc — that team of enthusiastic Studio Ghibli alum — have now made their feature film debut with Mary and the Witch's Flower directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and adapted from Mary Stewart's 1971 book, The Little Broomstick.

McG's stock has gone done since his promising feature film debut with Charlie's Angels in 2000.

Finally, writer - director Kate Barker - Froyland will make her feature film debut with «Song One,» also showing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance and starring Anne Hathaway as another young woman with some growing up to do.

After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, he made his feature film debut with Yellow Earth (84).

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

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).

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.

Writer - director Sian Heder makes her feature film debut with «Tallulah,» a touching and emotionally wrenching Netflix original starring Ellen Page, Allison Janney, and Tammy Blanchard.

Famke made her feature film debut with Jeff Goldblum in Fathers & Sons (1992).

Director Jeremiah Zagar and his co-writer Daniel Kitrosser make their feature film debuts with We the Animals after cutting their teeth on serious shorts and documentaries.

Not exact matches

The movement is brought to life through «The Experiment,» a film debuting today, featuring van Buuren and under the direction of Philip Andelman — who has worked with Beyoncé, Rihanna, Jay - Z, John Mayer and Lenny Kravitz.

Not to mention the imbalance between her career, now basically in the past tense, and his, which skyrocketed with his recent debut feature film, Snow White & the Huntsman, which she is clearly supportive of:

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

It wasn't long after her 1998 graduation that the aspiring actress made her feature debut in the 2000 drama Our Song, with nominations for the film at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Sundance Film Festival serving to increase her exposure among cinephiles, even if the film did go largely unseen by the masses.

Rees, whose one and only feature film until now was her 2011 debut, «Pariah,» has said she set out to make an «old - fashioned» movie, and she's done that, allowing her story to unspool at a refreshingly deliberate pace and her characters to find their own footing within the story and with one another.

Skinny, bug - eyed Steve Buscemi, the twitchy actor du jour of American independent films, makes a striking directorial feature - film debut with «Trees Lounge,» in which he also stars as a twitchy, hyperkinetic loser.

When Wes Anderson's feature debut Bottle Rocket was released just two years after Pulp Fiction, the market had been saturated with cool, quirky, independent crime films, most of them trying to be the next Quentin Tarantino.

«Seeking a Friend for the End of the World's screenwriter, Lorene Scafaria, who also made her feature film directorial debut with the romantic dramedy, perfectly captured the essence of people needing to find comfort in each other during dire circumstances with Dodge and Penny.

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.

He made his feature film debut in 1992 with the film Juice and followed it up co-starring with Janet Jackson in Poetic Justice in 1993.

The film reps a new career high for director Dee Rees, whose remarkable 2011 debut feature Pariah is a semi-autobiographical deep dive into a black girl's struggles with coming out.

In 1998, she made her feature - film debut in Tango, in which she played an aspiring dancer who becomes entangled in a romance with a film director.

It's been almost three years since Garland's incredibly smart and impressive debut feature, and he's back with an arguably even smarter and more ambitious film — Annihilation.

William H. Macy made his feature directorial debut with RUDDERLESS, the closing film at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.

His feature film debut was in Michael Bortman's CROOKED HEARTS, which he followed up with THE MIGHTY DUCKS trilogy, DIGGER, and ANDRE THE SEAL.

Start with this film, of course, and her feature debut Songs My Brothers Taught Me.

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.

Daniel Sanchez Arevalo makes an impressive feature debut with this thoughtful, mordantly funny, deeply human film.

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.

Directed by Tristram Shapeero, making his feature film debut after a lengthy career in television (with credits including Absolutely Fabulous, Peep Show, Community, and Parks and Recreation), A Merry Friggin» Christmas also stars Lauren Graham, Oliver Platt, Tim Heidecker, and Wendi McLendon - Covey.

Ondi Timoner, the director of the documentaries, We Live in Public 69 and Cool It 61 will make her feature narrative debut with the latter film.

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.

ROB REINER»S debut as a feature film director with the mock «rockumentary» This Is Spinal Tap was as invigorating as his second film, The Sure Thing, is depressing: not since Michael Cimino followed The Deer Hunter with Heaven's Gate has there been such a dramatic comedown.

«Great Italian Director's Collection» (Lorber Films) features Michelangelo Antonioni's debut feature «Story of a Love Affair» (1950), the anthology film «Boccaccio» 70» (1962) with contributions by Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittoria De Sica and Mario Monicelli, and Monicelli's «Casanova» 70» (1966).

Making his feature debut in 2000 with «Sexy Beast,» Glazer hasn't made a film in some nine years, since the 2004 Nicole Kidman - starring «Birth.»

The One I Love is cleverly written by Justin Lader and directed with budget - minded skill by Charlie McDowell (son of actor Malcolm, and step - son to Ted Danson, who makes a small acting appearance), both of whom are making their feature film debuts.

The film marks the feature debut for writer - director Coralie Fargeat and stars Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchede; take a look below... Jen (Matilda Lutz) arrives at a remote desert villa with her millionaire -LSB-...]

The director: Markus Schleinzer (Austria) The talent: An actor and accomplished casting director — whose credits in the latter field include several films by his compatriots Michael Haneke and Jessica Hausner — 39 year - old Schleinzer has cast his debut feature as writer - director with several actors he previously tapped for other directors» films.

If her 2017 IMDb page is any indication, however, she'll soon have to dust off those high heels and ring up Swennen, with five feature films set to debut this year, including a role in Greta Gerwig's highly - anticipated directorial debut, Ladybird.

Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

Theo Taplitz, in a remarkably mature, nuanced feature film debut, plays Jake, an introverted thirteen - year - old with dreams of being an artist who moves with this family from Manhattan to Brooklyn when his father inherits an apartment and a storefront there.

Mounting their directorial debut feature films were, from the Northwest Territories, Kirsten Carthew (PROTOTYPE), Manitoba - based Rebecca Gibson (JANE GARBAGE), from Ontario, Renuka Jeyapalan (SEX WITH A PERFECT STRANGER), and Simone Stock (DARK HORSE), BC - based Kate Kroll, (ONE.LAST.STOP), Reem Morsi (LIPS), and Loretta Todd (MONKEY BEACH), and PEI - based, Jenna MacMillan WHO is developing a new web series, (GRAN BANDIT).

His even more complicated relationship with Patsey (Lupita Nyong» o proving herself to be the film's scene stealer in her feature film debut), the «Queen of his field» demonstrates how McQueen doesn't leave a single character one - dimensional, and their respective demons and qualities are equally fascinating.

Dean Devlin (writer / producer, «Independence Day») makes his feature film directorial debut with suspense thriller «Geostorm,» starring Gerard Butler («Olympus Has Fallen,» «300»), Jim Sturgess («Cloud Atlas»), Abbie Cornish («Limitless»), Alexandra Maria Lara («Rush»), Daniel Wu («The Man with the Iron Fists,» «Warcraft: The Beginning»), with Oscar nominees Ed Harris («The Hours,» «Apollo 13») and Andy Garcia («The Godfather: Part III»).

While «Parks and Recreation» scribe Katie Dippold, who made her feature film directorial writing debut with «The Heat,» deserves credit for creating two fearless and liberating female lead protagonists, there are several stereotypes the movie regularly used to elicit laughs.