His first feature film script The Unknown Saint, which will be his debut feature, was awarded at the Locarno Film Festival and was selected at La fabrique du cinema du monde at Cannes.
The director rarely disappoints, and his co-screenwriter Mardik Martin comes with a fun fact that should be enough to hold us over until Venice likely offers us a synopsis:
This his first feature film script in over 34 years.
Not exact matches
Last year, a small movie studio even released what it claimed to be the
first scripted feature film ever shot and released entirely on the messaging app.
In April, an upstart movie studio released what it claims to be the
first ever
scripted feature film shot and released entirely on the Snapchat social media app.
In 1972 — before the internet, before the porn explosion — Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the
first scripted pornographic theatrical
feature film,
featuring a story, some jokes, and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace.
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.
As the
first big - budget
feature from director Julius Onah, he acquits himself well, and almost every single problem the
film has comes down to a
script that, by Uziel's own admission, was re-written on - the - fly during production.
In 1978, Douglas Adams penned the
script for British radio an eccentric SF comedy entitled «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy» (or H2G2), and its success led to a run of five best - selling books (the
first appearing in 1979), a BBC television series (1981), a computer game (1998), and now, over a quarter of a century after its
first radio outing, a big - screen
feature film.
For all of his obvious skills and uncommon talent as a visual storyteller, Kosinski's
first two
films were short on character depth and emotional engagement, but whether a function of Kosinski's innate preferences for spectacle over substance or simply
script - related issues, Kosinski's
feature -
film output made him an odd, left - of - field choice to direct a
film about American firefighters and the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013 that resulted in the greatest loss of firefighters since 9 - 11 more than a decade earlier.
The movie is notable for
featuring Stephen King's
first film script.
The
script for the musical drama, whose music and lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim, as he composed the Broadway play, was penned by
first - time
feature film writer, James Lapine.
Spike Jonze's return to the
feature director's chair (and
first time bringing a
script he wrote entirely by himself with him) after a four year break is a thoroughly layered and personal
film that is at times about the awkward nature of new relationships after a break up (and how we cope with that crushing in - between time), and at times about how technology shapes our modern world, and at times about how we demonstrate and understand love and relationships changes with both time and technology.
I had the opportunity to talk to Alan Ball about Towelhead, his
first feature -
film script after American Beauty and his
feature directing debut, when he presented the
film at the Seattle International
Film Festival in June, 2008.
As with Bourne, car chases and hand - to - hand fights are heavily edited, and quite exciting visually, though there is a curious lack of white - knuckle tension that should have resulted from the scenes had the
script by
first - time
feature film scribe David Guggenheim spent more time with the characters to get us to care about their situations before throwing them on the run.
Yes, having watched both
films on the same day, my opinion may be slightly blighted by the original's far superiority, but the
first film features such fine performances from the likes of Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah, and even John C. McGinley from a wonderful
script by Stone and Stanely Weiser, this just didn't compare.
Its other presumed best shot was in the Screenplay category, but the recent dustup over its (absurd) designation as an Adapted Screenplay that was, in fact, adapted from... itself (essentially, the
feature script was written, then Chazelle adapted it into a short to sell the
film, but since the short came out
first, it's considered adapted from the short, even though the short was technically adapted from the unshot
script.
is one of those hired gun Gilliam
films, with a
script by
first time
feature writer Pat Rushin.
This is their
first major exhibition in the States, and will
feature film still sequences, and videos and annotated
scripts.
Funded in part by the Irish
Film Board this is also the
first of Campbell's
films to
feature actors and
scripted scenes and marks the
first time that IMMA and Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish
Film Board have collaborated on a
film work.