Sentences with phrase «first film directed»

(CAA also put together the deal for the first film directed by Gagosian artist David Salle, Search and Destroy, starring Griffin Dunne, Christopher Walken, and the ubiquitous Dennis Hopper, which opens this month.)

12 Years a Slave became the first film directed and produced by a black filmmaker — Steve McQueen, and also the first to be written by an African - American — John Ridley, to win the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of the Year.

He's just asking whether the Academy might take notice of the first film directed by a woman, starring a woman, to crack a $ 100 million opening weekend — and beyond those milestones, it's a film that turned out so beautifully.

It's the first film directed by Dominic Cooke.

This hotly - anticipated suspense drama made history at its World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 as it was the first film directed by an Irish woman to be selected for inclusion in the Festival.

Heaven Can Wait marked the first film directed by Warren Beatty, working closely with comedian co-star Buck Henry in order to keep the timing and momentum just right.

But notably, «Daughters of Dust» would be the first film directed by an African American woman to gain theatrical distribution.

The first film directed by the co-scripters of the sleeper megahit «The Hangover,» Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, «21 and Over» is hitting a theater near you March 1st after a somewhat delayed release.

Dongen isn't too far off in the name «Cloverfield» which was originally just one of many codenames the first film directed by Matt Reeves was titled.

The Watermelon Woman — the first film directed by an African - American lesbian — is among the titles screening at Liverpool Small Cinema.

The first film directed by screenwriter Alex Garland (28 Days Later, Never Let Me Go, Dredd), Ex Machina is not nearly as profound as it seems to think it is, but is still (mostly) very watchable and filled with enough strange and unexpected twists to keep the viewer guessing to the end.

The first film directed by Douglas Trumbull (Brainstorm), the special effects maestro that created memorable visions in such movies as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner, features quite a bit of interesting effects of its own, perhaps a bit dated by today's standards (the spaceships look like obvious miniatures) but given the limited budget and schedule Trumbull had to work with, still impressive.

This is the first film directed by Jerusha Hess, who co-wrote «Napoleon Dynamite» and «Nacho Libre» with her husband Jared Hess.

Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 film, and was the first film directed by the iconic Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained).

Unlike many of my film critic brethren, I thoroughly enjoyed the first film directed by Louis Leterrier.

Not exact matches

In fact, the events of the film completely ignore everything from «The Lost World,» and «Jurassic Park III,» and act as a direct sequel to the first movie.

The first superhero film to star a woman since 2005's «Elektra,» will also be the first directed by a woman.

I spent the first 13 years of my professional life doing what was more akin to art than to business: commissioning, writing, directing, producing radio, television, films, and music.

Johnson left the film in part due to James and even admitted that if she could do it all again, she'd never direct the movie in the first place.

Musk and Riley were together for a year after they remarried, but they have lived apart the past five months while Riley wrote and directed her first feature film, «Scottish Mussel,» in the United Kingdom.

In fact, Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins was the first woman to direct a superhero movie and the film ended up as the highest - grossing movie ever helmed by a woman (along with being last year's third - highest grossing film domestically).

Two movies I've seen lately that were unexpectedly great: WARHORSE (I usually can't stand Spielberg — but this is a eloquent anti-war film directed against probably the most senselessly and hugely murderous war ever — World War I. It's an anti-imperial and almost a pro-Porcher movie, until you realize that the first misuse of the heroic horse was making him plow.)

The first of three annual film installments of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1,500 - page epic The Lord of the Rings, directed by New Zealander Peter Jackson, has many fine qualifies.

Chris founded and directed the Westport Youth Film Festival, the first international film festival for high school student filmmakers.

The movie is the first female superhero film since 2005's box office dud «Elektra,» and the first to be directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins.

First came party election broadcasts (PEBs) by radio, then 20 - minute polemics by TV, followed by blockbuster - style short films produced and directed by some of the Hollywood greats in the 1980s through to today.

The researchers first direct the wavefront to be measured onto a gold film sensor.

STOP THE BURNING is the first film that was entirely produced, written and directed by AD Partners.

This quote is the first The trailer was released this week for the upcoming war film «American Sniper,» directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Bradley Cooper, hitting

Having already directed the first two (and superior) X-Men films, Singer shows a level of comfort with both the material and the cast, and he contributes at least one brilliant comic set piece in which new mutant Quicksilver (Evan Peters) lays waste to a kitchen full of security guards in languorous, Matrix - style bullet time (it looks gorgeous and has the slapstick choreography of a Three Stooges routine).

This comparison becomes all the more inevitable by the involvement of Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Potter films (Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets) before transitioning into a production role on Prisoner of Azkaban.

In a nutshell, I think those two opinions neatly sum up the dichotomy that surrounds the first two Batman films directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton.

As directed by Robert Zemeckis from a script he co-wrote with Christopher Browne, the film limps through its first two acts, putting in time until the big moment.

Filmed on location in Italy and Spain and shot in brilliant Todd - AO and Color and directed by the great British director Carol Reed, Charlton Heston and Rex Harrison (in their first and only film together) give two of the screen's best performances.

Walter Hill, who also directed the first film, surely recognizes the hollowness of what he's doing here.

Robert Zemeckis has been spending time in the motion capture lab the last few years directing The Polar Express 61, Beowulf 59, and A Christmas Carol 55, but he's returning to live - action film directing for the first time since 2000's Cast Away 73 with Flight.

The film's historical merits are greater than its artistic ones: It's Paramount first sound film, directed by Dorothy Arzner (the only women to have a sustained directing career at the time), and the star is «It» Girl, Clara Bow.

Being the first feature film that Steven S. DeKnight has directed (having only worked on television beforehand), I went in with a little apprehension, to begin with, but his work on television or smaller films may suit him better.

Directed by Bryan Singer who is famous for directing the first two X-Men films directs this chilling and thrilling tale.

Meanwhile, Gilliam directed his first film, Jabberwocky, starring Michael Palin.

He graduated to feature - film directing at the Columbia Pictures «B» unit, then turned out several low - budget thrillers at Monogram; he also helmed Marilyn Monroe's first starring picture, 1949's Ladies of the Chorus.

An impressive achievement considering it was Lumet's first film, extremely well - written and superbly directed, with many elegant shots, fluid camera movements and a gripping plot that takes place entirely inside a room and is sustained only by a tense, smart dialogue.

Singer's first directing gig since Valkyrie in 2008 is a 3D, CGI - heavy take on the classic fairy tales «Jack and the Beanstalk» and «Jack the Giant Killer,» the latter giving the film its original title.

Jonathan Levine (The Night Before) directs Goldie Hawn (in her first film role in 15 years) and Amy Schumer as mother and daughter in this R - rated comedic adventure that finds the pair kidnapped on their South American vacation.

Full Metal Jacket, produced, directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, is not an easy film to watch, but from the first frame to the last, it is a riveting one.

First fictional film about the 3/11 tsunami that devastated the Northeast coast of Japan, directed by the L'enfant terrible of Japanese Cinema - Sion Sono.

I like what he's done with his first two films he directed End of Watch and Fury.

Clint Eastwood is not the first person we might think of to direct a film of leisurely pace, concerned with ghosts and a transvestite... Then there's Kevin Spacey, who grows before our eyes.

For his first film since directing the final three Hunger Games instalments, Lawrence has once again recruited Jennifer Lawrence (no relation) to play a young woman forced into a life of violence by society.

Clooney proves again that he knows how to direct intelligent films that rely on a great dialogue, and this intriguing character study is gripping from the first scene to the last, centered on a brilliant political battle and with an intense performance by the always fantastic Ryan Gosling.