Sentences with phrase «last directed a feature»

Five years since Andrew Dominik last directed a feature film.

It's been six years since Jane Campion last directed a feature film, but her earthy, melancholy new Bright Star, about the romance between poet John Keats and his great love, Fanny Brawne, was well worth the wait.

It's been more than half - a-century since John Ford's last directed feature, but who would have thought that the first film to invoke his spirit of community using a western template would be a female German director?

Not exact matches

Academy Award - winning director Boyle (last seen directing the opening ceremonies at the London Olympics) bounces around from genre to genre, but his upcoming art heist thriller Trance probably hews closest to his first feature, the small - scale modern noir Shallow Grave (which was also written by John Hodge).

It's directed by Brad Peyton, who was also in charge of San Andreas, Dwayne's last movie featuring a lot of helicopters.

Last week we featured the stellar white poster for the J. D. Chandor (Margin Call, All is Lost) directed New York City crime flick, A Most Violent Year.

Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for Martin Scorsese's «Taxi Driver,» «Raging Bull,» and «The Last Temptation of Christ» and has directed 18 feature films, including «American Gigolo,» «Affliction,» «Auto Focus,» and «The Canyons.»

In 2011, when Kevin Smith released his last feature film, Red State, he announced (with his usual long - windedness) that he'd be retiring from film directing after completing one more film.

One of the big surprises from last week's Nintendo Direct featured Splatoon 2 and its new content, both free and paid, coming to the game this year.

I have to admit that after interviewing Timothee Chalamet I was a bit spent, but I was incredibly eager to speak with Enyedi, particularly when I discovered it had been 18 years since she directed her last feature.

With several years having passed since the last feature film, someone has decided to dust off the cobwebs and give Paul W.S. Anderson a shot at directing the famous plot.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes and championed by such critics as Pauline Kael), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including such varied works as Barbarosa (1982), Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO - financed Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

The filmmakers have assembled a stellar cast, including Felicity Jones, nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role in The Theory of Everything; Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008's Oscar - winning Milk and 2013's Elysium; Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Bloodline and co-starring in the upcoming Mississippi Grind; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in Ip Man and Blade II; Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the award - winning Let the Bullets Fly and Devils on the Doorstep; Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically - acclaimed Lee Daniels» The Butler and winner of an Academy Award for his leading role in 2006's The Last King of Scotland; Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in The Hunt and was the memorable villain from 2006's Casino Royale; Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance - capture character in Rogue One, stars in the soon - to - be-released Con Man series and Trumbo, which releases this November; and Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in Nightcrawler and starred in the BAFTA - winning film Four Lions.

The Brothers Russo directed the last two Captain America features and have a breezy approach that prevents the action here from sagging in any serious way.

The Lazarus Effect is directed by David Gelb, whose last feature film was — and I've rechecked this three times to make sure it's not an error — the fascinating 2011 documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, about an old Japanese man who runs a tiny but renowned restaurant in Tokyo.

Screenwriter Jeremy Brock (The Last King of Scotland, Mrs. Brown) makes his feature directing debut with this modest, moving and semi-autobiographical film.

Other recent credits include ANY DAY NOW opposite Alan Cumming and directed by Travis Fine which won Best Feature at last year's Out Film Festival.

All of that changed last year when Disney released Tinker Bell, a direct - to - video feature film that gave the famous fairy a voice at long last, along with a whole world of fairy friends she could jabber with.

Last week, De Luca, James, Donna Langley (Universal Pictures) and James Schamus (Focus Features) announced that Sam Taylor - Johnson will be directing the first (cause lets be real this will be a trilogy) film!

Annabelle: Creation is directed by Swedish horror filmmaker David F. Sandberg, who made his feature debut with the horror film Lights Out (based on his own short) last year.

This interruption ended with Hardly Working, which was followed by Smorgasbord (which was released in North America as Cracking Up), the last feature film that Lewis has directed.

The last FilmDistrict release before the company is folded into Focus Features next month, this remake of the Park Chan - wook's 2004 Korean cult classic (which grossed $ 700,000 initially in the U.S. with major DVD interest after) was directed by Spike Lee and released as a modest - scale wide release.

The last theatrical feature he directed was Zoolander, and since then we've seen some woeful additions to his resume, culminating in the horribly bland Night at the Museum.

Last month it was announced that Warner Bros. has enlisted up and coming filmmaker Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) to direct Birds of Prey, a «girl gang» movie featuring Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn alongside other prominent female DC characters, thought to include the likes of Batgirl, Black Canary and the Huntress.

Overlap between the DGA and the directing branch of the Academy is particularly strong; last year's top feature film prize went to eventual Academy Award winner Damien Chazelle for «La La Land.»

«Mary Last Seen» was the short that Durkin wrote and directed prior to the full feature.

Last year he directed his second feature film with the period drama A little Chaos starring both himself and Kate Winslet.

And lets also consider that the last feature film the Farrelly brothers have directed was The Heartbreak Kid, which still refuses to admit its production budget.

READ MORE: Why Steve Carell Didn't Change His Approach For «Foxcatcher,» the Darkest Project Of His Career Three years after directing Brad Pitt to an Oscar nomination in the 2011 sports drama «Moneyball,» Bennett Miller (Oscar - nominated for «Capote») is finally back in theaters with his fourth feature «Foxcatcher,» which opened in select theaters last Friday after screening at every major festival this year, including Cannes, Toronto and New York.

However, co-writers Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich (the latter is returning to direct) have revealed that ID4 - 2 takes place in an alternate present - day reality, where humanity has spent the last two decades harvesting the alien technology featured in the first movie.

The three pictures nominated are: «Incendies», directed by Denis Villeneuve, winner of last year's Canadian Feature award for «Polytechnique»; «Splice», directed by Vincenzo Natali, and «Trigger», directed by Bruce McDonald.

It's been eight years since Mark Romanek last directed a movie (the unsettling thriller One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams), but he is about to make his triumphant return to feature filmmaking with Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Mad Men «s John Slattery co-wrote and directed God's Pocket, which is one of the last films to feature Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Wyatt has directed three feature films in his career, 2008's «The Escapist,» 2011's «Rise of the Planet of the Apes» and «The Gambler,» released last year and starring Mark Wahlberg.

Sure enough, three years after he proclaimed he had directed his last movie, Soderbergh may be preparing to return behind the camera for a new feature that is expected to star his frequent collaborator Channing Tatum as well as Michael Shannon, industry insiders have told TheWrap.

But after premiering a short at the festival last year, and directing two episodes of the excellent «Children's Hospital,» she's back in Park City for her feature debut, which delves into the competitive world of voiceover artists.

The series is created, written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, who is known for his work on feature films like «Mother and Child» and last year's «Albert Nobbs,» as well as television series such as HBO's «The Sopranos» and «Six Feet Under,» the latter of which has a similarly soap opera feel to it.

Last week Rodriguez added directing to her arsenal by helming her first episode of «Jane the Virgin,» joining Portman, who made her feature directing debut in 2015's «A Tale of Love and Darkness,» behind the camera.

Lisa Cholodenko, who helmed the four - hour «Olive Kitteridge» for HBO, had last directed «The Kids Are All Right» to a Best Picture Oscar nomination, while Dee Rees won prizes from the Independent Spirit Awards and Gotham Film Awards for her debut feature «Pariah» before turning to «Bessie.»

That's what Aaron Eckhart will soon learn in The Expatriate, a thriller he just signed to star in directed by Philipp Stolzl (a music video director whose last feature was the 2008 film North Face) from a script by by A.E. Amel.

Last summer he was in the thriller «Nerve,» starring opposite Emma Roberts and directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman; the hit sequel «Now You See Me 2,» alongside an all - star cast featuring Mark Ruffalo, Michael Caine, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson and Morgan Freeman; as well as the comedy «Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising» where he reprised his role of «Teddy.»

In December of last year, it was announced that Warner Bros. had tapped Arrowverse supremo Greg Berlanti to direct a feature remake of Little Shop of Horrors, and now comes word that we may be close to casting.

Running time: 129 minutes Studio: Fox Home Entertainment 3 - Disc DVD Extras: Widescreen theatrical feature film, unrated director's cut, Wolverine theatrical trailer, Valkyrie, S. Darko, The Wrestler, Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, commentary by director George Tillman, Jr., screenwriters Reggie Rock Bythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker, and editor Dirk Westervelt, commentary by with Biggie's mom Voletta Wallace, and his manager Wayne Barrow, Behind the Scenes: The Making of Notorious, I Got a Story to Tell: The Lyrics of Biggie Smalls, Notorious Thugs: Casting the Film, Biggie Boot Camp, Anatomy of a B.I.G. Performance, Party & [Expletive](never before seen footage), The B.I.G. Three - Sixty, Directing the Last Moments, It Happened Right Here, The Petersen Exit, The Shooting, The Impala, The Unfortunate Violent Act, The Window, 9 Deleted Scenes, 4 extended / alternate concerts, trailers from: Secret Life of Bees, Gospel Hill and Slumdog Millionaire, digital copy.

The deal rivals the biggest ever made at a film festival: the $ 20 million Focus Features paid for world rights to the Tom Ford - directed Nocturnal Animals at the last Cannes, which matched the $ 20 million Paramount paid for the Denis Villenueve - directed Story Of Your Life at Cannes 2014.

The Gist: It's been well over a decade since seminal American filmmaker (and sometime Indiewire blogger) Bogdonavich directed a narrative feature, and even as he's remained busy with journalistic pursuits and documentary work, it's hard not to wonder what sort of stories the man behind «The Last Picture Show» could tell today.

Last Sunday marked the forty - third birthday of German supermodel Claudia Schiffer, and the video embedded above contains The Sound Of Claudia Schiffer (2000), a short film directed by Nicolas Roeg starring Schiffer herself — who also provides a peculiar voiceover — and featuring an arresting musical soundscape designed by Portishead's Adrian Utley.

Even more excitingly, it's being directed by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, whose last feature film was 2005's The Curse of the Were - Rabbit.

After the impact of these two features (the latter screening at Cannes), Schepisi moved on to directing films overseas, including Plenty (1985), Roxanne (1987), The Russia House (1990), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Fierce Creatures (1997), Last Orders (2001) and the HBO telemovie Empire Falls (2005), which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for Television.

Of the last three Pixar features — and the next two coming down the pipeline — just one has been (or will be) directed by a member of that original quartet.