The first - time
feature director attempts to merge the mundane with the unbelievable in a way that leaves both kind of flat.
EXTRAS: In addition to a new 2K high definition scan that looks great, the Collector's Edition is overflowing with goodies, including three audio
commentaries featuring director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell; producer Debra Hill and production designer Joe Alves; and a new track with actress Adrienne Barbeau and cinematographer Dean Cundey.
But in the capable hands of
debut feature director George Nolfi (screenwriter of The Bourne Ultimatum) who directs with panache, two compelling leads and a strong supporting cast (including The Hurt Locker's Anthony Mackie who impresses as a sympathetic bureau agent) it largely works.
Writer - Director Rebecca Daly, actor Chris O'Dowd, writer and first - time
feature director John Michael McDonagh and actor Emmett J. Scanlan have all nominated for this year's Rising Star Award.
On another track, find a monotonous group commentary
featuring director David Frankel, producer Wendy Finerman, costume designer Patricia Field, screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, editor Mark Livoisi, and DP Florian Ballhaus; the adage too many cooks spoil the broth would seem to apply, as nothing remotely revelatory emerges from their conversation.
The 2017 Directors Guild of America Awards announced their picks for both the best film directors and first - time
feature directors of the year.
The Beguiled
Focus Features Director: Sofia Coppola Written by: Sofia Coppola based on Thomas Cullinan's novel and Albert Maltz and Grimes Grice's screenplay Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning Screened at: Dolby88, NYC, 6/19/17 Opens: June 23, 2017
The former Paris bureau chief of Fairchild Publications and
fashion features director of Harper's Bazaar, Middleton has been researching the Menil family since 2000.
We start with an AUDIO COMMENTARY,
which features director David Frankel, producer Wendy Finerman, costume designer Patricia Field, writer Aline Brosh McKenna, editor Mark Livolsi, and director of photography Florian Ballhaus.
A commentary
track featuring director Chris Angel and actors Novak, Connery, and Louisette Guis (the bimbo best friend sex - kitten) is full of goodwill and mirth.
And then, first - time
feature director Dan Trachtenberg and the screenwriters, apparently realizing that not much has been going on so far, ramp up to a full - bore CG explosion extravaganza finale... Too little.
With a cast mostly made up of rising, but still likely unfamiliar stars, and a first - time
feature director at the helm, the film's been mostly under the radar until it premiered at the BFI London Film Festival today, but though it might appear familiar on the surface, the film proves to be more than worth investigating.
Debuting
feature director Rupert Goold at first seems on a path of intriguing surreality, staging his verbal mano a mano in a spotless jail that feels more like an abstract state of mind.
First time
feature director Robert Eggers makes a bold and ultimately wise decision to remove the central mystery of the abduction right away.
Bryan Buckley is a long - time commercials director but first - time
feature director who works here from a screenplay Rauch wrote with her husband, Winston.
Blu - ray Highlight: Any audio commentary with Martin Scorsese should be considered mandatory listening material, and the one included here
featuring the director with co - writer / frequent collaborator Mardik Martin and actress Amy Robinson is no exception.
But we should buy a lottery ticket, because in the wake of David Mackenzie's tremendous «Starred Up» (review here), a new film from debut
feature director Yann Demange has had its world premiere here at the Berlin Film Festival.
Everyone loves Laura Dern right now, so it will be interesting to see how The Tale, from debut
feature director Jennifer Fox, plays in Park City.
Now that production is underway on the as - yet - untitled Han Solo Star Wars spinoff, Lucasfilm has released the first official cast photo from next year's Anthology movie, which
features directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller alongside Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover and Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca.
With an all - star cast that includes Chris Evans (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Michelle Monaghan (Due Date) and Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation), Playing It Cool is an offbeat romantic comedy from debut
feature director Justin Reardon and is described as Swingers meets 500 Days of Summer.
Actor Annette Bening is the president of this year's main competition jury, which
also features directors Edgar Wright and Michel Franco and actor Rebecca Hall.
Coherence is a new entrant to the genre from first time
feature director James Ward Byrkit, a protege of Gore Verbinski.
A supremely acted and crafted piece of work from debut
feature director Thomas Napper and writer Johnny Harris, who also leads the cast.
This is mostly dance moves gone wrong, there are a few lines messed up, and an odd closing
featuring director Anne Fletcher and some over the top crying by Damaine Radcliff.
DVD Features: The two - disc special edition DVD of «Memoirs of a Geisha» is a grand release that includes eleven production featurettes - including «Geisha Bootcamp,» «The Music of «Memoirs»,» and «The Way of the Sumo» - as well as two audio commentaries
featuring director Rob Marshall and various crew members.
First time
feature director Ben Love pieced together a remarkable and savage thriller made all the more fascinating by the attention given to the psyche of its central players.
The movie is handsomely shot by first - time
feature director Michael Gracey, an Aussie commercial director and visual effects artist.
In a twist that nods in the direction of «Midsummer» (apparently a key influence on the script by David Berenbaum, Irene Mecchi and first - time
feature director Gary Rydstrom), Roland, still bent on winning Marianne's hand and the crown that comes with it, decides to exploit the good - natured Sunny (Elijah Kelley), a diminutive, ebony - skinned elf who has unrequited feelings for Dawn.
He has been the Fashion
Features Director for Harper's Bazaar and the Paris Bureau Chief for Fairchild Publications, overseeing W Magazine and Women's Wear Daily.
D.C. Public Schools» Office of Family and Public Engagement facilitated a second
panel featuring director Josephine Bias Robinson, the DCPS interim chancellor John Davis, and the director of curriculum and instruction.
«We're celebrating 2012 and if the year belonged to anyone it was Stella,» says ELLE fashion
features director Rebecca Lowthorpe.
Bold, beautifully realized coming - of - age tale from first - time
feature director Anna Rose Holmes explores movement, loneliness, and identity
Synopsis: Debut
feature director Zoe Lister - Jones, who also writes and stars in Band Aid, offers an honest, intelligent, and hilarious perspective on modern relationships.
No one in the right mind would call this a good film, or even a decent one, but thankfully,
rookie feature director John Bruno's romp is not a complete waste of celluloid.
To his credit, debuting
feature director Dominic Cooke — a theatre veteran whose marvellous staging of Sondheim's Follies lately can see him through the odd dud project — doesn't sanitise the details of this fateful union.
-- Audio commentary from 2003
featuring director Arthur Hiller, actors Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, and writer Andrew Bergman — New interview with Arkin — In Support of «The In - Laws,» a new interview program featuring actors Ed Begley Jr., Nancy Dussault, James Hong, and David Paymer — Trailer — A booklet featuring an essay on the film
First - time
feature director Thea Sharrock comes from British TV like «Call the Midwife» and «The Hallow Crown.»
, first time
feature director Jeremiah Zagar has created a kaleidoscope of influences ranging from the ethereal wonder of Terrence Malick to the dreams - as - art fantasy of John Cameron Mitchell.
You catch the final act and you forget that first - time
feature director Carl Rinsch has no experience or apparent skill for this material and that his leading man is every bit as much of a stiff as he.
There will be special features added to the Blu - Ray that will include a audio commentary track from the DVD, which will be
feature director Tommy Lee Wallace and actors Dennis Christopher, Tim Reid, John Ritter and Richard Thomas From what we know, more special features to follow are not confirmed.