Sentences with phrase «feature film director on»

The filmmaker admitted that making the transition from being a reporter to a first - time feature film director on the anticipated thriller was both exciting and terrifying.

Not exact matches

StarTalk airs on Monday nights at 11 p.m. ET, and features the scientist interviewing cultural and political figures like George Takei of the original «Star Trek» series, film director Christopher Nolan and former President Jimmy Carter.

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 Washington Post and the New York Times ran long, fawning, feature stories on the film, its director, stars, and author.

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, tells the true story of a former Nestlé salesman who took on the company with the help of IBFAN when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning Director Danis Tanovic is based on the true story of a former Nestlé Medical Delegate in Pakistan who exposed company marketing practices with the help of IBFAN.

First, they can show feature films in the proportions that their directors intended; on 4:3 screens, either some of the side of the picture must cropped out, or it appears in a letterbox, with black bands above and below.

«It's not a political film that will beat you over the head with moral lessons,» insists writer and director Neill Blomkamp, who grew up in South Africa and created the thought - provoking 2005 short Alive in Joburg, on which the feature film is based.

Writer and director John C. Walsh based Pipe Dream in part on his own experiences as he was making his first feature film, Ed's Next Move.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

The film has two directors, Chris Miller and Raman Hui, neither of whom has ever made a feature film, though both have extensive experience working on the visual side of animation.

This is Anderson's feature film debut as a director, after work on television.

On the feature film side, Jackson starred opposite Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, and Catherine Zeta Jones in LAY THE FAVORITE for director Stephen Frears and, in INESCAPABLE opposite Marisa Tomei.

If you like commentaries, director Guillermo del Toro provides detailed insight into the film that is still entertaining to listen to, and the rest of bonus features go into even more detail on how the film was put together.

Indie veteran director Matthew Porterfield writes about how on his fourth feature «Sollers Point» he made a better film by remaining open.

Sandbox was nominated for a Juno Award, East Coast Music Awards, and a Casby Award.Smith has mixed sound for such films as The Weight of Water and Serendipity.He had been a long - time friend of Trailer Park Boys director Mike Clattenburg, and met Robb Wells (Ricky), and John Paul Tremblay (Julian) while sound mixing on the original TPB feature.

The first film from Jonze since 2009's Where the Wild Things Are is also the first of the director's four features that he has written on his own.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

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 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.

Since the 2013 film «Drinking Buddies,» Swanberg has been working with Hollywood actors — indeed, with stars — and his new feature, «Digging for Fire,» made on a likely scant budget, has a cast that any director could envy.

Since the 2013 film «Drinking Buddies,» Swanberg has been working with Hollywood actors — indeed, with stars — and his new feature, «Digging for Fire,» made on a likely scant budget, has a cast that any director could envy, including Jake Johnson (who co-wrote the film with Swanberg), Rosemary DeWitt, Brie Larson, Anna Kendrick, Orlando Bloom, Mike Birbiglia, Judith Light, Sam Elliott, Jane Adams, Ron Livingston, Melanie Lynskey, and Jenny Slate.

The real value of the documentary from Douglas McGrath lies in charting Nichols» creative trajectory from the staging and improvisation lessons learned with comedy partner Elaine May, through collaborations with playwright Neil Simon on «Barefoot in the Park» and «The Odd Couple,» and the director's first two feature films, both legendary — «Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?»

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.

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.

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.

Swanberg has 17 feature film credits as a director on his IMDb page, and he hasn't even been directing for a decade.

Here's a scan from the recent Empire Magazine Australia featuring a story on Robert Pattinson and the upcoming film «Water for Elephants» by director Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, Constantine) starring Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1, Bel Ami) and Reese Witherspoon (This Means War, Pharm Girl).

She comes to Shelter as VP of National Film & Television Publicity from senior director of publicity and awards at Focus Features where she worked on such films as Loving, Nocturnal Animals, Kubo and the Two Strings, The Beguiled, Victoria & Abdul, Darkest Hour and Phantom Thread.

The perfect holiday gift for romantic comedy fans of all ages, Home Again on Blu - rayTM, DVD and Digital features a bonus commentary with the director and the producer of the film, taking viewers even deeper into the heartfelt story.

Between his narrative and documentary features, director Kevin Macdonald is well on his way to banging out six films in the span of three years, and we now have our first look at the Last King of Scotland helmer's 2014...

When film director Wong Kar - Wai, who has been hired as the artistic director of the exhibit, points out that placing a gallery focused on the Mao era in a room featuring statues of the Buddha would be offensive, Bolton argues that the publicity from such controversy might be worth it.

Like their previous film Lenny Cooke, sibling directors Benny and Joshua Safdie focus on a true story in Heaven Knows What, only this time they shoot it as a feature narrative instead of a documentary.

New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with actors Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Michael Murphy, Allan Nicholls, and Lily Tomlin; screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury; assistant director Alan Rudolph; and Altman's widow, Kathryn Reed Altman

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.

They feature a director's commentary on the finished film and deleted scenes, and an extended documentary.

Comignsoon.net got their hands on this super low - res photo featuring Jaimie Alexander as Sif in the upcoming film «Thor» by director Kenneth Branagh (Frankenstein) and starring Natalie Portman (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), Anthony Hopkins (The Wolfman), Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek), Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers, Iron Man 2) and Kat Dennings.

In addition, casting directors are looking for children and men and women with dwarfism to work on the upcoming feature film.

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

Big on special effects, though small on bonus features, the disc offers you a behind the scenes look at the creation of the film's «incredible action sequences and spectacular stunts,» plus an audio commentary by Director Michael Bay.

As the first big - budget feature from director Julius Onah, he acquits himself well, and almost every single problem the film has comes down to a script that, by Uziel's own admission, was re-written on - the - fly during production.

The director discusses his latest film, Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino, his work on commercials influencing his feature films, themes that recur through his work, and the difference between his indie films and those with bigger budgets.

On another track, actor Topher Grace joins writer - director Paul Weitz for a respectable feature - length commentary in which they mock Grace's Agent Smith - like attire and mutually confess to making the film in partial tribute to their respective fathers.

Not only has the director garnered an impeccable roster of talent for his first feature film — Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit - McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn, but has taken on the genre of the mighty American Western with astonishing effect.

The Australian writer and director on the allure of the Sydney stage, directing his first feature film and why it toughens him up to live in Iceland

Oscar ® - nominated director and producer Ridley Scott (Prometheus, Blade Runner) and Scott Free London are partnering with Orchard Media and Focus Features International on a slate of six genre low - budget feature films over a period of three years.

Hitting different themes while being simultaneously moving and creepy, it features Kevin Spacey at the top of his game and was a breakthrough film for director Sam Mendes, who went on to direct the two most recent Bond films, «Skyfall» and «Spectre.»

Ever since Nacho Vigalondo's debut feature film Time Crimes came out, he's been a director to keep an eye on.

David Lynch's 1984 feature film starring Kyle MacLachlan is an infamous blip on the prestigious director's career, and a highly ambitious adaptation by avant - garde director Alejandro Jodorowsky only spawned a fascinating documentary about how it failed.