As well as the usual excellent crop of top
feature films debuting at the New York Film Festival, there is also an equally impressive presentation of some of the best documentaries being made today.
He made
his feature film debut at age 12 in «Cornbread, Earl and Me» and followed that up a few years later with «Apocalypse Now.»
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.
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.
Audiences saw him co-star in Christine Lahti's
feature film directorial
debut, MY FIRST MISTER, opposite Albert Brooks and Leelee Sobieski, which Paramount Classics premiered
at the Sundance
Film Festival in 2001.
William H. Macy made his
feature directorial
debut with RUDDERLESS, the closing
film at the 2014 Sundance
Film Festival.
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.
Born in India and educated
at Delhi University and Harvard, her
debut feature film, Salaam Bombay!
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.
Screenwriter James Vanderbilt's
feature directorial
debut recounts the scandal that led to Dan Rather stepping down from the CBS News desk in 2004, but while Vanderbilt's script has some good ideas in it, the
film is ultimately far too hagiographic for its own good, undercutting its thematic impact
at nearly every turn.
Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi —
film - à - clef
debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore
feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab
at putting his life back together.
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-...]
Iranian director Ana Lily Amirpour «s
debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone
At Night, is an amalgam of stylistic influences, including — but certainly not limited to — spaghetti westerns,»50s teenage movies, atmospheric horror
films, and»80s Jim Jarmusch.
Director Leigh Janiak
debuted her first
feature, the horror
film Honeymoon, this week
at the Tribeca
Film Fest.
His narrative
feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden
feature debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards
at international
film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First
Feature at the Italian Golden
Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.
After shooting, Lanthimos began preparation to shoot The Favourite but then turned back to The Killing of a Sacred Deer after the filmmaking team watched footage and figured the
feature could be finished in time for a premiere
at Cannes, where the filmmaker's previous
films The Lobster and Dogtooth
debuted.
SY: Another great horror thriller you produced was «Mr. Jones,» which had its world
debut at the 2013 Tribeca
Film Festival and was the
feature film writing and directorial
debut of Karl Mueller.
Gehenna is directed by Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Katagiri, an FX legend working for years
at Spectral Motion and Stan Winston Studios, now making his
feature directorial
debut after a few short
films previously.
After the premiere screening
at Sundance of his wonderful
debut feature «Kings Of Summer,» director Jordan Vogt - Roberts — responsible for the short «Successful Alcoholics» and a veteran of «Funny Or Die Presents...» — told the audience his influences for his first
feature included early Amblin
films like «The Goonies» with «elements of [Terrence] Malick,» and most surprisingly, «Bad Boys II.»
The Chicago Cinema Society in association with Shudder is proud to present the Chicago premiere of Kuso, the
debut feature film from Flying Lotus,
at the historic Davis Theater!
The 2007 TIFF program boasts more than 350
films from 55 countries, including over 70
feature directorial
debuts, with screenings taking place
at historic locations, modest venues, and modern multiplexes across Toronto.
Mudbound (***) Writer / director Dee Rees»
feature film debut Pariah was a depressing but touching look
at black lesbian life.
She made her
feature film debut in director Todd Graff's CAMP, a favorite
at the 2003 Sundance
Film Festival, for which she earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination.
Reed Morano): The ossified, calcified post-apocalyptic sub-genre gets a semi-successful art - indie treatment in I Think We're Alone Now, cinematographer - turned - director Reed Morano's first
feature film since Meadowland
debuted at the Sundance
Film Festival three years ago...
Meanwhile, Finley's
film debuted at the 2017 Sundance
Film Festival and was subsequently picked up by Focus
Features for distribution, so one supposes that there actually are consequences — namely, that the unproven and overprivileged get to keep enjoying unfettered success.
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.
This week's You Have To See... looks
at short -
film wunderkind Nacho Vigalondo's
debut feature film TIMECRIMES, a time - travel focused gem from 2007.
The
film — which had its world premiere
at the Toronto International, receiving critical acclaim — marks the
feature directorial
debut for Michael Pearce and stars Jessie Buckley and Johnny Flynn; watch it here... Moll (Jessie Buckley, TABOO, WAR AND PEACE) is 27 -LSB-...]
A24 has
debuted a second official trailer for the new post-apocalyptic horror thriller
film titled It Comes
at Night, the second
feature film from Trey Edward Shults, the director of last year's Krisha.
EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Quick has been set to adapt Sorta Like A Rock Star, his 2010 young adult novel that is now near a deal to be set up
at Netflix as the
feature film directing
debut for Bryce Dallas Howard.
After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental
films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her
feature - narrative
debut State Like Sleep (which premiered
at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.
At the risk of endorsing national stereotypes, I'll still describe Yann Gonzalez»
feature debut You and the Night as a very French
film.
Her
debut feature film It Felt Like Love premiered
at the Sundance
Film Festival in NEXT and the International
Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger Competition in 2013.
Ford also made history when he won three awards including direction,
debut and nonfiction
feature film at the Cinema Eye Awards.
Steve McQueen) Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Benedict Cumberbatch Having won the Camera d'Or for his
feature debut «Hunger» back in 2008, Steve McQueen opted to go to Venice for his follow - up «Shame,» but all the stars look to be aligning for his third
film, «Twelve Years A Slave,» to end up
at Cannes.
Paddy Considine's
debut feature film Tyrannosaur is making an impression around the world, snapping up awards
at the Sundance
Film Festival for the performances of its stars Olivia Coleman (Peep Show, Beautiful People) and Peter Mullan (My Name is Joe).
Phang's award ‐ winning
debut feature Half - Life premiered in 2008
at the Tokyo International and Sundance
film festivals.
Anchor Bay Films announced today the acquisition of all North American distribution rights to director / writer Richard Bates, Jr.'s
debut feature film, Excision (review), which made its world premiere
at the Sundance
Film Festival last month.
Also
at the festival are under - the - radar pictures like the Clive Owen / Juliette Binoche
film «Words And Pictures,» Andre 3000 - starring Jimi Hendrix biopic «All Is By My Side,» comedy - drama «You Are Here,» the
feature debut of «Mad Men» creator Matthew Wiener, Biafra war
film «Half Of A Yellow Sun» with Chiwetel Ejiofor, the James Corden - starring «One Chance» (which has the Weinstein Company «s backing, but seems more «Unfinished Song» than «Silver Linings Playbook «-RRB- and, perhaps most importantly, Stephen Frears ««Philomena,» which could see Judi Dench being in contention.
I hope it lasts... Focus
Features has
debuted the first official trailer for Thumbsucker director Mike Mills» new
film Beginners, starring Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer, that first premiered
at the Toronto
Film Fest last year.
Television and
film writer Marti Noxon is making her
feature film debut as a writer - director
at Sundance with «To the Bone.»
Chow Yun - fat,
at this time the biggest star in the colony, hot off the smashing success of A Better Tomorrow, plays the middle brother while pop star Jacky Cheung, himself on the road to a successful
film career (he'd win the Supporting Actor Hong Kong
Film Award this year for his work in Wong Kar - wai's
debut feature As Tears Go By), plays the youngest.
Yesterday, Pottermore
debuted a never - before - seen featurette of the new
film, which
features interviews with the cast, the introduction of four new characters, and a behind - the - scenes look
at the American world of wizardry.
His short
film Through an Open Window screened
at the 1992 Sundance
Film Festival, his
debut feature Judy Berlin premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and he is an alumnus of the Feature Film Program's Screenwriters and Director
feature Judy Berlin premiered
at the 1999 Sundance
Film Festival, and he is an alumnus of the
Feature Film Program's Screenwriters and Director
Feature Film Program's Screenwriters and Directors Labs.
I still remember my astonishment, sustained throughout the
film,
at his
feature debut The Element of Crime — this blasted black - and - white world served up in curry - sauce monochrome, with an obviously English detective making his way through an obviously not - English city trying to solve a series of crimes — a climate of crime, really — which as I recall never did reach any identifiable conclusion.
This is the second narrative
feature film by writer / director Derek Cianfrance, who followed his little - known, Sundance - playing 1998
debut Brother Tied (made
at age 23) with a number of shorts and music documentaries.
This is familiar territory for Hittman, who was also
at Sundance four years ago with her
debut feature, but «Beach Rats» is by no means a retread of her earlier
film.
Jeremy Lovering («In Fear») If you went to Sundance looking for the next Christopher Nolan or Rupert Wyatt (who both had
films premiere
at the festival early in their careers), you'd be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Jeremy Lovering, whose
feature film debut «In Fear» has been scaring the living shit out of people in the Midnight strand of the festival.
This was the
feature film debut of director Justin Kurzel and he does an astonishingly good job
at creating a solemn mood.