Sentences with phrase «first feature film did»

After years making slick commercials and music videos, Bay's first feature film didn't just bring a new spice to the buddy - cop movie with the teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

Not exact matches

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

The film features interviews, discussions, and clips of dads with their children, doing first aid courses, swimming, baby massage and lots more.

He made his first feature - film appearance in Jean Renoir's Paris Does Strange Things (1958).

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

Unfortunately, they don't return to the form of their first feature (American Splendor 90), instead producing something closer to their last film (The Extra Man 56).

Taking Five This month alone sees two first time feature filmmakers tackle genre films that haven't been done before in Singapore's...

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.

Deadpool is often described as Marvel's first pansexual character, but this aspect of his personality did not feature heavily in last year's hit film, in which Reynolds» title character enjoys a romantic relationship with Morena Baccarin's Vanessa.

His latest feature, «Django Unchained,» marks a few firsts for the director — including the first film not produced by Lawrence Bender (if you don't count «Grindhouse») and the first film not edited by longtime collaborator Sally Menke (who unfortunately passed away in 2010)-- and though it's hard to say how much of an effect that had on the finished product, it's easily one of his weaker movies.

Since «George Washington» (2000) opens with a teenage girl's dreamy, wise - beyond - her - years narration as the camera floats in slow - motion through waving fields of grass and glides along railroad tracks, you probably don't need to be told that first - time feature director David Gordon Green, then just twenty five and fresh out of film school, was a big Terrence Malick fan.

In his first feature film, director Josh Forbes does give the film the appearance of a much higher budget than in actuality.

Not only do the lead characters in the new drama, «As You Are,» strive for continued approval from each other throughout the story, no matter what obstacles they're forced to overcome, but its first - time feature filmmaker, Miles Joris - Peyrafitte, is also seeking acknowledgement in the film community.

Nyong» o (who made her feature film debut with this movie, never mind being a first - time nominee) snagged the Screen Actors Guild prize, but Lawrence did win the Golden Globe and British Academy of Film and Television Arts prize.

If it's true that Atkinson was recently motivated by the stateside failure of this very film to check himself into an Arizona rehab centre for depressed celebrities (and frankly, don't blame audiences — distributor Universal didn't exactly tax themselves advertising Johnny English to domestic moviegoers), I hope his caretakers remind him in haste that none of Monty Python's features grossed an enviable sum abroad, that the James Bond franchise has already satirized itself into the ground (it's no casual point that Johnny English was co-scripted by the same writing team behind The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day), and that his first problem is trying to please a country that opens rehab centres for depressed celebrities.

The traditional royalty slot of the 7 pm premiere on the first Saturday is reserved this time for French director Eva Husson's sophomore feature GIRLS OF THE SUN, while the first English - language competition film doesn't screen until the second half of the festival.

After growing up in the political tumult of France in the sixties and seventies, Assayas followed a path similar to the one traveled by several titans of the French New Wave, first working as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, then moving on to film projects, including collaborations with André Téchiné and his own feature directorial debut, the 1986 Disorder.

Writer / director Lake Bell «s second feature, I Do... Until I Don't is her follow - up to the delightful 2013 film, In a World... While her first film was about the world of voiceover actors and a daughter and her father, her second is about marriage and a documentary filmmaker creating a little chaos.

As it turns out, the Cannes market this week does bring news of Slattery making his first feature film, and it will almost certainly be a much better thing than Fifty Shades.

The sequel featuring the «Merc with the mouth» didn't break the record for best opening for an R - rated movie, which is held by the first Deadpool (2016) at $ 132 million, but it was able to break the Friday record for a film with the R - rating with $ 53.3 million.

Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language, Jean Luc Godard, 2014) Godard's first feature length 3D film broke all the rules about what one should and should not do when shooting in 3D.

In addition to reviewing films and writing interviews and features about the industry, she helps anchor the Star's coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival and Hot Docs International and does First ReelMovies, a weekly webcast review at thestar.com with Star movie critic Peter Howell.

You have to appreciate Aboud's bold attempt of making his first feature film that combines such different genres but it did not work as feature film.

Billed as the first Iranian vampire Western, writer - director Armipour's film certainly borrows heavily from the tropes of that genre, featuring as it does a lone stranger dolling out bloody vigilante justice to those deemed deserving.

First - time feature film director James Bobin does a respectable job keeping all of the mayhem together without losing much in the comic timing, similar in tempo to his own time spent directing «Flight of the Conchords» for HBO.

Without a word spoken, the first two shots in Thief, Michael Mann's groundbreaking 1981 feature debut, announce a simultaneously grim and dreamlike vision that seems, in retrospect, perfectly poised between the great urban crime films of the 1970s and the formal aesthetics of the 1980s — the «style decade» that Mann's subsequent cinema and television work did so much to help shape.

FX has ordered the first season of «What We Do in the Shadows ``, a half - hour comedy series based on the feature film of the same name...

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

The Film Arcade has released the first trailer for Mike Birbiglia's second feature film, titled Don't Think Twice.

Mel Gibson will be starring in his first feature film since 2002's Signs and he's doing so with style.

How is it that a major studio film — one in which marks the first time these legendary characters meet / fight / team - up onscreen in a live - action feature — that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, has been in the planning stages for years, and is the catalyst for their own shared universe of interconnected films doesn't seem to know one thing about its title characters outside of names and costumes?

While you might think that Great Britain's first computer - animated feature film lends itself to some insightful bonus material on how the Brits did things differently (and less expensively), Valiant lays a big egg in the supplements department with just two measly offerings.

This is Gracey's first feature - length film and he does a marvelous job directing this seemingly enormous project.

His first feature film, Les Revenants («They Came Back, 2004), did not have homo intrigue — unlike his second film, Eastern Boys (2013), which revolved around the surprising encounter between a Parisian teacher and a group of young immigrants.

What the Disney shop did with its first animated features has resonated through film history.

In the film, helmed by first - time feature director Luke Scott, Kate Mara (House Of Cards) plays a corporate risk management consultant who's sent to a remote research laboratory in order to investigate a deadly accident and determine what should be done with the experimental artificial being at its center.

The film did not stop there though; Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and it won Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.

«I don't think one can make a Western his first film because they're just far too logistically difficult,» he tells Backstage, but he adds that with his latest feature, he's made his «contribution to that great American cinematic past.»

Horror movie master John Carpenter returns with «The Ward» (Arc Entertainment), his first feature in ten years, and while MSN film critic Glenn Kenny finds the material wanting, he praises Carpenter as «comfortable, confident, ready to do what it is he does.»

The cast also features Uma Thurman, in her first feature role since 2013's Nymphomaniac, though it doesn't look like she's in the film much.

An exciting, first feature film credit as a producer for Maggie Gyllenhaal (creatively she is at an important juncture) this could be the Israeli film remake we didn't know we needed.

The movie marks Jay Duplass» first writing credit on a feature film since 2012's «The Do - Deca Pentathlon,» which he directed with Mark, and Shelton's first writing credit since 2013's «Touchy Feely.»

Whereas Guy Ritchie hosted this feature on the first film, Robert Downey Jr. does the honors here for an in - movie experience titled «Inside the Mind of Sherlock Holmes.»

The film did win the Best First Canadian Feature, so clearly it struck a positive nerve with some.

The commentary featuring writer Megan Holley and producer Glenn Williamson nevertheless does a good job of telling the story of the film's making, mostly from Holley's perspective having a screenplay produced for the first time.

Their film features perhaps the first action scene we've ever seen where we cared more about what was happening in a character's relationship than how many kills he was about to rack up — and then, once it was done, felt simultaneously exhilarated by the visceral power of what was happening immediately, and the emotional stakes of what that set piece took him (and us) away from.

Last but absolutely not least is Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999), her remarkable feature film debut that was one of the best releases of its year and not only does it hold up, but it has been given a top grade reissue by Criterion and Paramount (I'm still celebrating the studio finally working with Criterion on a regular basis) in a Blu - ray edition as strong as when I first saw the film theatrically.

AMC might be doing the next best thing with a 4 - night double - feature marathon of all of the Harry Potter films starting on July 11th with the first two, and ending on July 14th with the two halves of The Deathly Hallows (the latter half starting at 12:01 a.m. on July 15th).

8:00 pm — IFC — Clerks Kevin Smith's first feature, done for cheap, has become a cult classic, and though I think he's done better films since Clerks, it's definitely a worthwhile watch.

He talks about what it was like to direct his first feature film and provides interesting commentary when I asked him how do you avoid not being paralyzed by the process.