The program has championed the unique visions of a next generation of
feature filmmakers from around the world, and has become an international model for supporting artists.
Not exact matches
According to Deadline,
filmmaker Jared Hess (the director of comedies including Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre) will direct NickToons, an adventure comedy
featuring characters
from «90s and early 2000s Nick shows including Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats, The Angry Beavers, Ren & Stimpy, Aaahh!
From the
filmmakers & founders of Food Matters, James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch bring you Baby Matters - an extended interview series
featuring their personal experience with the birth of their son Hugo.
Indianapolis About Blog Spiritual Media Blog
features interviews, reviews and articles
from the top authors and
filmmakers in the personal development and spiritual growth field.
«White Shadow,» the first
feature from Berlin - based Israeli
filmmaker Noaz Deshe, which plays Sundance this weekend having already picked up the Best Debut award in Venice, mired us deep in this quandary, being a story, bruisingly told, set in the horrifying world of «albino hunting» in Tanzania, where local superstitions have led to a lucrative trade in albino body parts believed by witch doctors to have mystical properties.
Beauty and the Dogs is a sterling achievement
from filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania that
features an important, uncompromising vision of a real patriarchal and legally corrupt society.
Synopsis: Irish
filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice refuses to let a diagnosis of Motor Neuron Disease stop him
from directing a
feature film using only his eyes to... [MORE]
In the gallery above, we've identified 30
filmmakers from the past four decades who have directed at least five
features but have managed to receive positive reviews for just a single one of their films.
This is the costliest, most logistically complex
feature of the
filmmaker's career, and it appears that the effort to wrangle so many beasts,
from elephants to movie stars and money men, along with the headaches that come with sweeping period films, got the better of him.
One
features testimonials
from latter - day
filmmakers and others examine the accuracy of the film's prophecies.
So begins a long journey towards the light... The Girl Without Hands is the audacious
feature debut
from acclaimed short
filmmaker Sébastien Laudenbach, whose beautiful and dreamlike take on the Brothers Grimm story has created an adult fairytale destined to become a classic.
Ever since he first burst upon the scene in 1988 with his hypnotic debut
feature «Tales
from the Gimli Hospital,» Guy Maddin has been one of those
filmmakers whose new work I most eagerly look forward to seeing.
The fiction
feature debut
from award - winning documentary
filmmaker Andrew Jarecki is as schizoid in many respects as its main character.
An upgrade also makes a dramatic difference with «Night Tide,» a slow - moving, richly atmospheric supernatural tale
from 1961, closer in spirit to M. R. James than EC Comics, that was the first
feature - length narrative directed by the avant - garde
filmmaker Curtis Harrington.
The DVD also
features an interview with
filmmaker Eskil Vogt
from the 2014 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Cianfrance, both in his films and in person, proudly wears his influences on his sleeves, but The Light Between Oceans still
features staples we're now coming to expect
from the
filmmaker behind Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines.
Stanley Kubrick's first
feature 1953's «Fear And Desire» was far
from the
filmmakers» favorite work: when the Film Forum screened it in 1994, Kubrick put out a statement calling it «a bumbling amateur film exercise.»
A Picture of You is a sharp, mischievous family drama
from filmmaker J.P. Chan, who wrote, directed, and produced his genre-less
feature debut, which opens on June 20th at AMC
To spotlight a few of those 7 percenters, BFF included in its five - day run an all - female
From the Director's Chair panel
featuring Oscar - nominated director Jennifer Yuh Nelson («Kung Fu Panda»), actor -
filmmaker Maggie Kiley («Caught,» «We Own the Night»), documentary director Elisa Paloschi («Driving Selvi»), and Meera Menon, director of the fest's opening film «Equity,» the first female - centered Wall Street story (Anna Gunn stars opposite Alysia Reiner, Sarah Megan Thomas, and James Purefoy.)
In The Stolen Man (El hombre robado), Argentine
filmmaker Matías Piñeiro's 2007 debut
feature, a young woman navigates her way through two different schemes: the stealing and subsequent selling of artifacts
from the museum she works at and a series of encounters with friends and lovers that she aims to manipulate towards an ambiguous endgame.
«Fantastic fun for the entire family» — Joel Amos, Moviefanatic.com
From Sony Pictures Animation and Director Genndy Tartakovsky
Featuring the Voices of Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg and Selena Gomez HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA On Blu - ray 3D ™ Combo Pack, Blu - ray ™ Combo Pack & DVD all with UltraViolet ™ January 29th Special
Features Include All - New Featurettes, «Goodnight Mr. Foot» Mini-Movie by Genndy Tartakovsky, An Exclusive Game, and
Filmmaker Commentary
With Shirkers, Sandi Tan (also a first - time
filmmaker) revisits the long - lost footage
from her unfinished narrative
feature shot in Tan's native Singapore in 1992, also called Shirkers, and in the process reckons with both why the film was never finished and how several relationships were forever changed in its wake.
Filmmaker Karyn Kusama has at last fulfilled the promise she showed in her knockout
feature debut, «Girlfight,» a pugilistic coming - of - age drama
from 2000 that also launched the career of its scrappy star, Michelle Rodriguez.
Special
Features High - definition digital transfer
from the 2004 Film Foundation restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Archival introduction to the film by director Jean Renoir «Around the River,» a 60 - minute 2008 documentary by Arnaud Mandagaran about the making of the film Interview with
filmmaker Martin Scorsese
from 2004 Audio interview with producer Ken McEldowney
from 2000 «Jean Renoir: A Passage Through India,» a new video essay by film writer Paul Ryan Trailer Plus: An essay by film scholar Ian Christie and original production notes by Renoir
Not a problem in of itself (and, in fact, many
filmmakers would do well to follow his lead, as few commentaries hold any kind of interest aside
from the stray tidbit now and again), when the commentary track is enabled through remote or Special
Features menu, as the film plays on into un-commented scenes the regular soundtrack doesn't return.
The third
feature from filmmaker Laura Colella, Breakfast With Curtis, steps into the lives of the bohemian residents of the brightly - colored, three - story home she lives in in real life — called «The Purple Citadel»,
Sony Pictures Classics has revealed a trailer for the lovely indie film Puzzle,
from producer +
filmmaker Marc Turtletaub, his second
feature film that he's directed.
Coming
from a
filmmaker whose last
feature seemed the epitome of a calling card, it's also proof that going small can be a big move forward.
In a banner day for the festival,
featuring premieres of new work
from several well known international
filmmakers, the best film I saw was one that premiered elsewhere, Cannes in» 07.
«Revenge» is the film we need right now,
from a
filmmaker we need right now: French writer / director Coralie Fargeat, who makes her stunning
feature debut with a rape - revenge fantasy that's as brutal as it is thrilling.
Dogman is the latest
feature from acclaimed Italian
filmmaker Matteo Garrone (of Gomorrah, Tale of Tales) and it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
TIFF will also
feature a number of documentaries created by some high - profile
filmmakers, including Jonathan Demme, Werner Herzog, Jia Zhang - ke, Julian Schnabel, Scott Hicks, and even one
from film critic Todd McCarthy.
The
filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in The Theory of Everything; Diego Luna, who was
featured in 2008's Oscar - winning Milk and 2013's Elysium; Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Bloodline and co-starring in the upcoming Mississippi Grind; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip Man and Blade II; Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the award - winning Let the Bullets Fly and Devils on the Doorstep; Forest Whitaker, recently
featured in the critically - acclaimed Lee Daniels» The Butler and winner of an Academy Award for his leading role in 2006's The Last King of Scotland; Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The Hunt and was the memorable villain
from 2006's Casino Royale; Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance - capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon - to - be-released Con Man series and Trumbo, which releases this November; and Riz Ahmed, who was recently
featured in Nightcrawler and starred in the BAFTA - winning film Four Lions.
One of the biggest discoveries and best films of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival is a Belgian dramatic
feature titled Girl,
from first - time
filmmaker Lukas Dhont.
Supplemental bonus
features include an interfaith roundtable discussion, as well as a scrollable text statement
from the
filmmakers.
Also
featuring Amy Brenneman as Nancy's analyst, Downloading Nancy was the first English - language
feature from Swedish
filmmaker Johan Renck.
Filmmaker Samantha Fuller pays tribute to her late father, American film and literary icon Sam Fuller, with this film
featuring excerpts
from his memoirs read by fans, friends, and followers.
A screenwriter and
filmmaker, Joe won a small degree of national attention when his first cinematic offering, a spoof of The Wizard of Oz and The Blair Witch Project entitled The Wicked Witch Project, was
featured on television and in newspapers
from coast to coast.
It's only Ryan Coogler's third
feature — and an ambitious leap
from his impressive 2013 debut, Fruitvale Station, and his critically acclaimed Rocky franchise entry, Creed (2015)-- but Black Panther is executed with the confidence of a far more experienced
filmmaker.
«That's Not Me»
from filmmakers Alice Foucher and Gregory Erdstein is the best movie
featuring identical twins played by the same actor since Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze's «Adaptation.»
After an opening credit sequence
featuring a pumpkin being carved — an act the
filmmakers seemed to think we would find scary — and after a few minutes of clips
from «Halloween 4,» we are brought to the present day: Halloween Eve 1989.
But the director is first - time
feature filmmaker Dean Parisot, and while he does create a bleak, claustrophobic atmosphere, he hasn't managed to get the best performances
from his actors.
Their discussion is sometimes shown in different parts of the screen, but the
feature also incorporates artwork, photos, clips
from other Disney films, and archival
filmmaker video and audio (
from the likes of Ward Kimball, Joe Grant, and Woolie Reitherman) to complement the present - day (well, 2009ish) reflections.
A
feature - length commentary
from Petty is conversational and informative, particularly of the lengths to which the young
filmmaker needed to kowtow to the whims of his producers.
The slate includes a number of familiar names, most notably «Simon Killer»
filmmaker Antonio Campos, who will return to the festival with «Christine» (a narrative
feature about TV reporter Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself live on - air in 1974; interestingly enough, the Sundance slate also includes a Chubbuck - centric documentary, «Kate Plays Christine,» a new
feature from director Robert Greene that looks to blend fact and fiction in ways similar to his previous documentary, «Actress») and «This is Martin Bonner» director Chad Hartigan, who will debut his «Morris
from America» at the festival.
The result is a
feature from a master
filmmaker who feels like he threw in the towel a bit, as Sully only feels like half of a film, if that.
Midnighters is directed by up - and - coming
filmmaker Julius Ramsay, a veteran
from the TV world making his
feature directorial debut after work on «The Walking Dead» and as an editor for «Battlestar Galactica» and «Flashforward».
The Qumra event will take place in Doha, Qatar
from 6 to 11 March (15) and
feature the work of 31 budding
filmmakers, who will get the opportunity to develop their craft in creative workshops and discussions with the Qumra Masters.
Most exciting, however, is a new Special Event that will
feature a screening of Sundance mainstay Richard Linklater's «Dazed and Confused,» kitted out with live commentary
from both the
filmmaker and his friend Jason Reitman.
Now Rosefeldt is releasing his project as a single 90 - minute
feature, described on his website as «a series of striking monologues -LSB-...] created by editing and reassembling a collage of artists» manifestos,
from declarations penned by the Futurists, Dadaists and Situationists, to the musings of individual artists, architects, dancers and
filmmakers such as Sol LeWitt, Yvonne Rainer and Jim Jarmusch.»