Sentences with phrase «first feature film so»

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So first thing first, I filmed a video opening the box, and featuring what comes in the kit along with swatches of all 20 eye shadows, now bare with me since swatches are definitely not my strength and you'll see why!

I envisioned This Land Is Mine as the last scene of my potential - possible - maybe - feature film, Seder - Masochism, but it's the first (and so far only Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती, Sarasvatī) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom, and learning worshipped throughout Nepal

After his latest feature WINTER SLEEP (2014) won Palme d'Or this year, there is no better timing to assess Nuri Bilge Ceylan's previous works, personally I was daunted by my first experience with his film, THREE MONKEYS (2008, 6/10), so until now I dare to stride a second step, here comes

Bearing the burden of being the first film about AIDS, Longtime Companion (which premiered at Sundance Fest) had the task of placing the crisis on the national agenda, which meant a gentler, kinder tone; even so, it's a touching, nicely acted feature

There's a scene in Bryan Bertino's film «The Strangers» that handily encapsulates the film's nervy brand of terror, one so good and simple that it served as the film's poster image when the 2008 feature first hit theaters: it's Liv Tyler, standing alone in her kitchen, looking out into what seems to be — what should be — an empty house.

As someone currently pursuing a master's in film producing, I'm immensely impressed by film school students who go on to make their first features a reality, and so is the case with Andy Viner and his movie, «Dick Night.»

So, in honor of the 30th anniversary of their second feature film, Raising Arizona, we thought the time was right to take a close look at their first effort in the dark comedy genre, an area of film that would undoubtedly become their hallmark.

Blood sickening and terse, with a story as old as time but told so elegantly and with so much fear, the Coen brothers shock and awe with their first feature film.

Edgar Rice Burroughs» ape man, Tarzan, has been featured in some 200 films since Elmo Lincoln first donned the loincloth in 1918, so any filmmaker would be crazy to think that he or she could come up with anything new.

We've been reviewing movies and DVDs since we first launched Bullz-Eye.com so we have a huge archive of film reviews along with other features and a web guide.

The first fifteen minutes or so are the worst of the film, featuring some annoying setup contrivances and lame humour.

The Croods is the first film of 2013 (so far) and should be on the short list for Best Animated feature in the next Oscar race.

The Last Airbender is hopelessly overambitious, attempting to squeeze in all the major events from the 20 or so half hour - long episodes that make up the first season of the show into a 99 minute long feature film.

Denis's films are often beautiful, but I guess I was surprised both because it's her first narrative feature shot digitally and because the content of the film is so ugly.

The sensation of being caught in an endless loop is reinforced by the main musical theme, by Kitano regular Joe Hisaishi, a piece of treacle featuring piano and orchestra that's repeated so many times it drills its way into your skull, like one of the elevator - music themes of a comedy by Jacques Tati (or, perhaps closer to the mark, Ryuichi Sakamoto's main theme for Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which featured Kitano's first film performance).

Ana Lily Amirpour's first feature is also the first Iranian vampire film, so extra points there.

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.

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

For the feature's first forty - five minutes or so, the new film plays out like an introduction to a new cinematic series rather than a third chapter in one.

There are so many fantastic but seemingly simple decisions made by the director that it becomes hard to believe that this is Legrand's first feature film.

(Wong originally planned to make it a two - part film, but the first feature fared so badly he was never able to find backing for the second; Tony Rayns has fancifully theorized that Ashes of Time employs elements of this lost project.)

«On Chesil Beach» is his first feature film, and yet it's hard to imagine such a seasoned director being so intimidated by the new medium that he would turn in a film that's accidentally devoid of intention, purpose, meaning or inflection.

Accordingly, his first three films feature twentysomethings marooned in their post-college years, realizing that converting their youthful potential into an actual career, a family life, or a long - term relationship may not be so easy after all.

New director Victoria Negri writes and stars in her first feature - length film Gold Star, which captures the raw emotion and scathing honesty of the not - so - pretty hidden sides of ourselves.

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

But while Venice last year featured Netflix's Beasts of No Nation and Berlin 2015 embraced Amazon's Chi - Raq, by Spike Lee, this is the first time VOD services have been so prominent at Cannes — as much a sign of Cannes» acceptance of online streaming as it is testament to Amazon's choice of films to acquire.

A winner at Sundance, taking home cinematography and directing awards, Cary Fukunaga's first full length feature film has certainly seen it's share of attention so far and with the names of Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna to help it along, it's likely to do well with some audiences.

There's an improvement to the variety of the cars and tracks featured here, and Turn 10 has even included a re-creation of some of the most iconic vehicles from «The Fast & The Furious» franchise as DLC, including the Mitsubishi Eclipse from the first film and the Nissan Skyline from the second (SO.

Steve Martin's first starring role in a feature film proves to be a winner, with a fresh, wholly unique approach that shows dumb comedies, when done well, aren't so dumb after all.

The final skirmish is not on a scale anywhere near as huge as the first film's climax, while the images of Roland Emmerich - scale city destruction are so brief there's hardly a frame of it in the film not featured in the trailer.

Derek Cianfrance is actually a three - time feature director, but his first movie Brother Tied is so unobtainable (it played at festivals in 1998 but hasn't seen the light of day since, the print now collecting dust in Cianfrance's father's basement) that we only have his second and third films, Blue Valentine and The Place Beyond the Pines, to judge him by.

Veteran television director Barnaby Southcombe takes his turn on his first feature film with mixed results, mostly due to his own problematic screenplay more so than anything he does from the director's chair.

So along comes Hall Pass, the first Farrelly brothers feature film in four years.

That Larry the Cable Guy has nearly acquired name - above - the - title privileges for Cars 2, leapfrogging past even the first film's Owen Wilson in star billing, should tell you all you need to know about Pixar's crass and uncharacteristically threadbare cash - grab, spun not so much from the thread of 2006's Cars as from that feature's spawn of short films, each of which stars Larry the Cable Guy's stupid, bucktoothed tow truck.

In fact, coupled with Marion Cotillard's performance as Mal (I've never seen this woman so terrifying), this would have to be the first Nolan - directed film in years that's featured some strong female characters.

The rest of the series doesn't hold quite the same nostalgia for me (although Halloween II comes close, due to it so often being screened back - to - back with the first movie in the weeks leading up to Halloween), but luckily every single one of the films — minus the anomaly of the third installment — feature Michael Myers, for my money the greatest of all slasher - movie killers.

While the first entry featured heavily stylized violence and over-the-top action scenes, the premise is that every person in the film is rooted in the so - called real world, where they have everyday problems and ability to get hurt.

This is the first time for an animator of the studio to be directing a feature film, so I felt the pressure.

While not nearly so carefully - constructed as the first film, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams made me feel taken care of in the cosily nostalgic way of Saturday afternoon creature - features on local television, where you could count on seeing an old Godzilla or a classic Harryhausen.

I am so proud we are the first Polish animation feature film to be nominated for an Oscar.

The drawback is that - like so many Marvel origin films - the features of the heroes's powers are offered in careful (read: budgeted) measure, as if box office returns are required first, before more elaborate sequences will be paid for in sequels.

One reason the film works so well is that first - time feature director Kevin Asch manages to capture the look and feel of a traditional Hassidic household and community, as well as the exotic night world of drugs, booze, and women that Sam comes to know — and like.

Our latest episode of The First Word podcast, featuring special guest film writer Tomris Laffly, is a discussion about everything dogs - dogs in movies, why dogs are the best, and so much more.

Nintendo has had very little hands over the production of its feature films up to this point, and this is so - far their first major attempt at being involved in filmmaking.

This features a lot of animated content, including the entirety of the incredibly cheesy (but - oh - so - fun) Saturday morning cartoon show from 1995, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (in my opinion, featuring some of the best fight scenes choreographed for any film, live - action or animated), Street Fighter IV: The Ties That Bind, and the Super Street Fighter IV Original Video Animation, aka the «Juri anime,» which is being released in English for the first time ever.