Sentences with phrase «first directorial effort in»

Also, Alan Rickman's first directorial effort in seventeen years will make its Irish debut at the festival.

Suitably, The Rum Diary, an adaptation of Thompson's book of the same name, is Bruce Robinson's first directorial effort in 19 years (he also does the screenplay).

BE: This is your first directorial effort in eight years, and most Pixar movies, by my estimate, take anywhere from three to five years to put together.

First, he's Dominic in Francis Coppola's first directorial effort in ten years, «Youth Without Youth,» set for a limited December 2007 release (presumably to qualify for the Oscars).

Don't worry, we won't be making any such weighty theological pronouncements — though these terms have all been bandied about in the run - up to Gibson's first directorial effort in the 10 years since «Apocalypto.»

In interviews, particularly the oft - quoted one conducted with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in The New Yorker, Beatty has made all too clear his ambitions for this, his first directorial effort in seventeen years (since Reds in 1981).

Not exact matches

Angelina Jolie's fourth directorial effort, First They Killed My Father, has the unique distinction of being Cambodia's entry into the Academy's Foreign Language Film competition this year, giving Jolie — who holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Cambodia — an unusual position in this year's race.

THE PLEDGE Sean Penn's third directorial effort is, like his first two, about parental anxiety, but the film is really a study in violence, and it preys on our cinematic conditioning: The very thing we dread becomes the very thing we anticipate — another way of saying «look forward to.»

The studio (Paramount) wanted some major changes to be done in what was his first directorial effort, trying to curb some of the nastiness that Helgeland had given to his main character.

The story of a young sailor whose anger is relieved through counseling is occasionally affecting, but in his first directorial effort, Washington steers clear of hard edges.

The story of a young sailor whose anger is relieved through counseling is warm and occasionally affecting, but in his first directorial effort, Washington steers clear of the hard edges the film needs.

«Jabberwocky» (1977), also an outrageous comedy set in medieval times, was Gilliam's first solo directorial effort, officially his first post-Python film (although it was produced by Python Films and stars Python's Michael Palin).

You wouldn't necessarily expect this to be true, but looking at (for example) his first three feature directorial efforts, which were in many ways dominated by two writers.

Shot for $ 1.5 million over 30 days, Laughlin's film, while heavy on extended takes and a few awkward edits, overall looks very nice, and Elite's transfer marks the first time the film's been available with its original, evocative Technicolor - styled cinematography by Louis Horvath (who also photographed «Chandler,» and Laughlin's other directorial efforts); and in its original aspect ratio, which, in previous full screen versions, chopped Condon's second appearance as a «dead kid».

When: November 13th Why: Angelina Jolie's latest directorial effort pairs the actress with husband Brad Pitt for the first time since they appeared together in 2005's «Mr. and Mrs. Smith.»

The movie is the first - time directorial effort by veteran cinematographer Wally Pfister, who shows a knack for portraying technology (This material could have been exponentially more ridiculous, save for Pfister's relatively minimalist take on the locales) and implementing it in terms of visual effects.

JJ Abrams, director of the first two Star Trek films, left the series in order to focus his directorial efforts on the seventh Star Wars film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The film marks Mitchell's first feature directorial effort since «Rabbit Hole» in 2010.

Transcendence marks the first directorial effort from producer Christopher Nolan's favorite cinematographer Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises), and if it proves anything, it's that a man with an eye for how to shoot a scene doesn't always equate to excellence in how to set up a story, or to get quality performances from his actors.

That's as great a testament as any to what John Krasinski accomplishes in his third directorial effort (his first time working in horror).

It was written and co-produced by Beatty and is his first directorial effort since his Oscar - nominated Bulworth in 1998.

A24 purchased the film, which stars Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, and Gabriel Byrne, ahead of the festival, and judging by its first trailer, a conscious effort is being made to position Ari Aster's feature - length directorial debut as less miminalist in the horror department than both The Witch and It Comes at Night.

10:00 pm — TCM — Cabin in the Sky One of the more watchable / interesting films of the black - cast - centric films that Hollywood did in the 1940s, probably because it's also Vincente Minnelli's first directorial effort, a musical fantasy about the battle over a man's soul.

Jolie's latest directorial effort, First They Killed My Father, is nominated in the film not in the English language category.

Although the film lacks an engaging narrative or structure and has none of the stunningly composed long takes and bravura performances found in 0.5 mm, Han Han's trademark scepticism and wry reserve still shine through in his first directorial effort.

We also review the next directorial effort from Angelina Jolie in FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER.

In 1980 Sayles» first directorial effort «Return of the Secaucus 7» earned the Best Screenplay award from the Los Angeles Film Critics, as well as an Oscar nomination for original screenplay.

Alan Rickman's second directorial effort — the first was The Winter Guest back in 1997 — is set in and around the uncompleted Palace of Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV.

BD got on the phone with Landis recently to discuss the film, which marks his first feature directorial effort (at least in the narrative realm) since the 1998 crime comedy Susan's Plan.