It's Diane Lane road tripping through France on the way to Paris, guided by the script and direction of Eleanor Coppola, in
her narrative film debut (at age 80!).
Last summer
his narrative film debut If I Stay (starring Chloe Grace Moretz) was released by Warner Bros and MGM.
Not exact matches
Ondi Timoner, the director of the documentaries, We Live in Public 69 and Cool It 61 will make her feature
narrative debut with the latter
film.
Somewhere between his
debut feature Badlands and this year's Knight of Cups, Terrence Malick peeled conventional
narrative from his
films; his work became unashamedly naked.
«Jeff Unay's impressive and beautiful
debut unfolds like a
narrative film in which the story of Joe Carman and his journey is portrayed with empathy and universal accessibility,» Arianna Bocco, EVP of acquisitions and productions at IFC Films / Sundance Selects, said in a statement.
His
narrative feature
debut, Tornando a casa (Sailing Home) won the director several awards at international
film festivals in 2001 and was nominated for Best First Feature at the Italian Golden Globes.
The 2017 lineup, which kicks off with Sorkin's directorial
debut Molly's Game, will screen a total of 131
films, including 33
narrative films, 16 documentary
films and 82 shorts, most of which are already beginning to build momentum for award season.
Director Fabien Constant, in his
narrative feature
debut, finds a momentum in that knowledge that propels the
film forward, as Vivienne explores her fate (while never disclosing it) in encounters with friends, family and strangers.
After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental
films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her feature -
narrative debut State Like Sleep (which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.
In an industry where awards - season hopefuls make their
debuts during the Sundance Film Festival — more than 12 months before the Academy Awards at which they'll hopefully compete — and where certain
films (like Get Out) can sustain a prestige
narrative for an entire year, it's really never too early to start predicting which
films will make a splash at next year's Oscars.
Coming of her
debut film Somersault, Shortland's keen artistic eye makes Lore resonate despite its familiar
narrative: a young woman facing brutal survival, while all the while trying to triumph and rise above her familial political ties.
One of the breakout
films from the festival circuit this year was the unexpected
narrative debut from Maggie Betts (who received high praise for her documentary feature
Writer - director Boris Rodriguez's feature -
film debut starts out reasonably well, sketching in the principal characters and rural setting with broad but compelling strokes, even doling out some perceptive laughs, before the
narrative loses steam when it bogs down in repetition and predictability.
Dickinson, in his
film debut, almost makes this familiar
narrative feel fresh.
This is the second
narrative feature
film by writer / director Derek Cianfrance, who followed his little - known, Sundance - playing 1998
debut Brother Tied (made at age 23) with a number of shorts and music documentaries.
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After the
film's Fantastic Fest
debut, we sat down with Pesce to discuss the influences behind his first feature, the surprising personal history that was woven into the
film's
narrative, and more.
In addition to his directorial
debut, Cheshire has written two
narrative screenplays and recently taught a course on the history of
film at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The most recent addition to his series is Chilean director Marcela Said's 2013
narrative feature
debut, The Summer of Flying Fish, which he first discovered while serving on a jury at a
film festival.
The Russos, aided by a script from Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (the writes of both previous Captain America
films), have the unenviable task of corralling a mammoth cast (that recap paragraph didn't even have room to mention Paul Bettany's Vision, Jeremy Renner's Hawkeye, Paul Rudd's Ant - Man or the
debuting Tom Holland, bringing Spider - Man into the main Marvel Cinematic Universe) and steering them through a twisty
narrative chock full of multiple belligerents coming from all angles.
The
narrative thinness exacerbates the emptiness of the
film's stylish flourishes, turning this
debut into another «style over substance» cliche.
Also fitting into place was director Todd Phillips, not because his
narrative debut was titled Road Trip but because, while shattering expectations and box office records, his previous
film, Galifianakis» star - making The Hangover, displayed genuine and developing filmmaking talent.
For his
narrative feature
film debut, Oranges and Sunshine, director Jim Loach chose to tackle a sprawling tale of warped governmental policy, spanning three decades and involving the forced deportation of British kids to Australia.
British
film director Steve McQueen's 2008
debut film, Hunger, is notable for many reasons: It is a great
film, a great
debut film, uses an innovative
narrative structure, uses interesting cinematography in concert with its soundtrack, makes the best use of ambient sound to have the best non-musical soundtrack I've heard in a long time (if not ever), is the work of a black artist that is not obsessed with black only topics, and shows a maturity and grace that goes beyond even the first
films of directors like David Gordon Green, in George Washington, and Terrence Malick, in Badlands.
It's not often that a sincerely made, completely uncynical
film should turn out to be awful, but that's the case with «Paris Can Wait,» the
narrative feature
debut from Eleanor Coppola.
The event kicked off last night with the world premiere of The Five - Year Engagement and now we've got 11 days of
films ahead of us, one of which is the World
Narrative Competition entry First Winter, and Shockya.com is lucky enough to exclusively host First Winter's poster
debut!
by Walter Chaw Tom Green's Freddy Got Fingered is the most startling
debut since Luis Buñuel's Un chien andalou, with which it has a few things in common: both are constructed with a wilful disdain towards
narrative; both are aimed at the outer limits of shocking imagery; both display an open hostility for the cultural status quo; and both joke on their audience's entrenched preconceptions of
film form.
After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental
films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her feature -
narrative debut State Like Sleep.
With his 1959
narrative debut, Bernhard Wicki turned a «hymn to German courage» into an anti-war
film by focusing on the boys behind the soldiers.
Park Chan - wook's The Handmaiden (South Korea), his first
film since his superb but unheralded American
debut Stoker, returns to the intense imagery, twisting
narratives, perverse subcultures, and elevated emotions of his Sympathy trilogy with a story of con artists in 1930s Korea.
The complex spatial and temporal relationships that his
narrative films suggest are explored most boldly in the Primitive project (2009), which received its American
debut at the New Museum.