Sentences with phrase «from debut writers»

«Novitiate»: This movie from debut writer / director Margaret Betts concerns a young woman training to be a nun in the 1960s, and along with the audaciousness of the concept I'm excited about the cast; there's bound to be a breakout performance from this group.

In this refreshingly rowdy, distinctly feminist film from debut writer - director Maggie Carey an inexperienced, tirelessly sensible teenage girl prepares herself for college life by taking charge of her own sexual awakening.

Not exact matches

Writer - director Ned Benson's debut feature explores the dissolution of a marriage from the perspective of Eleanor (Jessica Chastain) and Connor (James McAvoy).

A young woman with anorexia checks into a group home overseen by a rather unconventional medical professional in To the Bone, the feature debut from screenwriter and small - screen writer - producer Marti Noxon (Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce, UnReal).

Bold and brutal in shocking spurts, the indie horror drama from writer - director O'Shea is a startling debut that leaves a fresh mark on the genre while celebrating its forbears.

The new Salinger biopic from writer / director Danny Strong («The Hunger Games: Mockingjay») makes it clear that the celebrated author practiced an aggressive form of self - isolation in response to the acclaim and public scrutiny that followed his hugely influential debut novel, «Catcher in the Rye.»

Deniz Gamze Ergüven, who makes her feature debut as writer - director after a couple of short films, tells the story exclusively from the girls» point of view — both emotionally, as they have all our sympathy, and physically, as almost nothing happens that one of them could not be seeing.

REVIEW: LANDLINE is the sophomore feature from writer - director Gillian Robespierre, whose debut, THE OBVIOUS CHILD, was one of the buzziest titles in recent Sundance memory.

The debut feature from writer - director Nicholas Smith, who surely will go on to more compelling work.

This remarkable film from Australia, the debut feature of writer - director Cate Shortland, moves to the lyrical rhythms and unhurried pace of a 1970s road movie.

After the whimsy of last week's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and the real - life dramas of 2017's Another Mother's Son, the Channel Islands become home to something altogether more eerie in this Jersey - set debut feature from writer - director Michael Pearce.

The first feature from Rupert Goold, artistic director of London's Almeida Theatre, the film owes a dramatic and stylistic debt to Capote, another stage veteran's big - screen debut about the complicated relationship between a prisoner facing a murder rap and the writer looking to capitalize on his experiences.

Writer - director Damien Power advances from his work on short films with his feature debut, a solidly visceral and harshly unforgiving pic that's lean and taut in its plotting and pacing, even as it shakes up linear chronology initially to tell its tale.

This debut feature from writer - director David Veloz, based on a 1995 autobiography, starkly retells Stahl's rise and fall in LA - LA - land over the course of a multi-day shack - up with ex-addict Kitty (E.R.'s Maria Bello), a sucker for rehab patients who coaxes him away from a dead - end job (in, appropriately, Phoenix) in favor of sex (initially as frigid as the frozen chicken he was hacking at only hours earlier at his fast - food outpost) and conversation.

New Blood is the feature debut from writer - director Michael Hurst.

The feature - debut from writer / director Christopher Mazzei, this frenetic thriller is set amidst the criminal underbelly of the drug - soaked world of raves.

The actor recently wrapped production on Farming, the directorial debut from Nigerian - British writer - director Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje, opposite Damson Idris and Gugu Mbatha - Raw.

It almost gets there, thanks primarily to a carefully intense performance from Radcliffe, but writer - director Daniel Ragussis, making his feature debut, fails to engage on a level deep enough to leave a lingering mark.

The «Americans» actress plays a woman obsessed with Jane Austen novels in the directorial debut from «Napoleon Dynamite» writer Jerusha Hess

With a sizeable spate of accolades to his name for his debut effort El Bola and sophomore feature November (including two Goyas, a European Film and Cinema Writers Circle award, and recognition from the

From the writers of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and Horrible Bosses 2, making their directorial feature debuts.

Marking the feature - length debut of writer - director Pearce, it stars Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn and Geraldine James and centers on a small island community where a troubled young woman falls for a mysterious outsider who empowers her to escape from her oppressive family.

What You Need To Know: Jason Statham fans are spoilt for choice in 2013; the bald British bruiser has three films, starting off with Taylor Hackford «s «Parker» in the near future, with «Hummingbird,» the intriguing directorial debut from «Eastern Promises» writer Steven Knight following on later in the year (we've heard some good buzz, and it apparently stretches The Stath's acting muscles more than most).

Adapting David Finkel's bestselling book, American Sniper writer Jason Hall is also making his directorial debut with the drama, which follows various troops looking to make the transition from the chaos and bonds of war to the relative calm and connections of family life.

The World Cinema Dramatic competition featured two world premieres today: from Georgia, directors Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross introduced the world to «My Happy Family»; from South Africa, co - writer / director John Trengove made his feature debut with «The Wound.»

«Revenge» is the film we need right now, from a filmmaker we need right now: French writer / director Coralie Fargeat, who makes her stunning feature debut with a rape - revenge fantasy that's as brutal as it is thrilling.

For a debut feature — from writer - director Jennifer Kent — it mines maternal fears with alarming precision.

Looper is the third feature from writer / director Rian Johnson, whose debut, Brick (rent it if you haven't seen it), was a crackling neo-noir that played out like The Maltese Falcon as written by John Hughes.

Two things are missing in this debut directing effort from writer Steve Conrad - a sufficient number of jokes and anybody worth rooting for.

After testifying against her abusive father, Shelly finds herself rehoused on a sink estate in this powerful directorial debut from acclaimed writer Helen Walsh.

After making a striking debut with 2013's based - on - fact, tragically devastating drama Fruitvale Station and following that up with the stunning, Oscar - nominated Rocky spin - off Creed in 2015, the young writer / director was seemingly given the keys to the kingdom by Marvel as it pertained to Black Panther, the studio apparently feeling comfortable to let him do whatever he wanted with this story of an African superhero from the secluded fictionalized nation of Wakanda.

Half Magic, Heather Graham's feature debut as a writer / director, is a witty, agreeably low - key comedy about Finding Yourself that benefits from a keen sense of irony about Tinseltown.

Artsploitation Films has debuted the official trailer for a holiday horror movie titled Red Christmas, from writer / director Craig Anderson.

It's a stunning directorial debut from veteran writer Alex Garland, with a can't - look - away performance from Oscar Isaac.

Son of a Gun comes from writer and director Julius Avery, who makes his feature debut with this project following a decade of short films.

The debut feature from the British writer / director has being touted as the UK's answer to Brokeback Mountain, and tells a contemporary tale of self - discovery set in the heart of rural Yorkshire.

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

Writer - director Josh Mond (a «Martha Marcy» producer) makes his directorial debut with the film, which is sure to carry strong performances from its lead actors.

Not to be confused with Samuel L. Jackson's other snake movie, «Black Snake Moan» is the sophomore effort from writer / director Craig Brewer, whose debut film «Hustle & Flow» (another movie about a Southern musician battling his inner demons) earned the director critical acclaim in 2005 as one of the generation's most promising young talents.

Entertainment One has debuted the official trailer for David Brent: Life on the Road, which sees writer - director Ricky Gervais reprising his role from The Office as we catch up with everyone's favourite «chilled - out entertainer» as sets out on tour in an effort to fulfill his dream of rock stardom.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has debuted the trailer for indie drama Nancy, from writer / director Christina Choe making her feature debut.

From his lead role on the NBC comedy «Scrubs» to his directorial debut, «Garden State,» the writer / director / actor seems capable of just about anything — including undertaking the role of music producer and launching the careers of his musician friends in his spare time.

Actress is wasted in a midlife crisis comedy that marks a negligible debut from writer - director Hallie Meyers - Shyer

But discrimination didn't discourage him after the war from publishing with the help of «a talented young writer named Alex Haley» the debut issue of Essence Magazine, a short - lived precursor of the popular periodical for black females.

Adapted from a William Giraldi novel by regular Saulnier collaborator / star Macon Blair, whose directorial debut won Sundance last year, Hold The Dark takes the canine terror to a new level with the story of a writer (Jeffrey Wright) hired to find and rescue a 6 - year - old boy dragged into the Alaskan wilderness by wolves.

Andrew Stanton, a writer on Pixar's first five hit films, the director of the biggest of those hits (Finding Nemo) and a Burroughs fan from childhood, successfully pitched the project at Disney, which would become his live - action directing debut.

Working closely under the tutelage of Terrence Malick for several years now, editor and second - unit director turned writer / director A.J. Edwards (who has logged time on «The New World,» «The Tree of Life» and «To the Wonder «-RRB-, might have been better advised to get out from under the shadow of his mentor for his feature - length debut, «The Better Angels.»

After debuting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, the directorial debut from The Descendants writers and comedy actors Jim Rash and Nat Faxon has debuted a trailer.

Conceived, written, shot and finished in less than nine months from page to premiere, the film is the second feature from «Eastern Promises» and «Dirty Pretty Things» writer Steven Knight, who made his debut only a few short months ago with Jason Statham vehicle «Hummingbird» (known in the U.S. as «Redemption»).

From writer - director Andrea Di Stefano, making her directorial debut, the film tells the story of a young Canadian surfer that meets the woman of her dreams.