Studio Ponoc — that team of enthusiastic Studio Ghibli alum — have
now made their feature film debut with Mary and the Witch's Flower directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and adapted from Mary Stewart's 1971 book, The Little Broomstick.
Not exact matches
Rees, whose one and only
feature film until
now was her 2011 debut, «Pariah,» has said she set out to
make an «old - fashioned» movie, and she's done that, allowing her story to unspool at a refreshingly deliberate pace and her characters to find their own footing within the story and with one another.
At the same time, DreamWorks still has yet to
make a
film to put them on a par with Pixar in terms of being able to
make animated family
films that will last the test of time as classics in their genre, rather than populist
features that work primarily in the here and
now.
Bad Samaritan is directed by veteran producer / writer (of the scripts for Universal Soldier, Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, «The Outpost») and
now filmmaker Dean Devlin,
making his second
feature film after directing Geostorm previously.
Gehenna is directed by Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Katagiri, an FX legend working for years at Spectral Motion and Stan Winston Studios,
now making his
feature directorial debut after a few short
films previously.
While Majid Majidi's «The Song of Sparrows»
featured several poetic, and surprisingly funny sequences and Dorris Dorrie's emotional «Cherry Blossoms»
made me want to run out of the theatre and call me parents to tell them that I love them (incidentally,
Film Movement's, and more importantly, Sheboygan, WI native Meghan Wurtz is raving about the
film over my shoulder right
now), Fatih Akin's latest ruled my day.
«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.
So in a way Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke is an anomaly, a director who unapologetically has a definite moral agenda that he's been exploring for over 20 years
now, closer to 40 if one considers the TV work he
made in the»70s and»80s before embarking on his
feature film career in 1989.
He
made his
feature film debut at age 12 in «Cornbread, Earl and Me» and followed that up a few years later with «Apocalypse
Now.»
A blot on Hollywood is that, until
now, with «Selma,» no
feature - length dramatic
film has ever been
made about Martin Luther King, Jr..
Featuring brilliant editing and sound design by Walter Murch, very much a genius in his own right, «The Conversation» may not be as well known as Coppola's «Godfather»
films and «Apocalypse
Now,» but it remains one of the most devastating thrillers ever
made.
Long before Bay started
making Transformer
films, though, there was another
feature film that is often overlooked
now: Transformers: -LSB-...]
Director Bennett Miller has
now made three consecutive
features based on real - life people and / or events, and to my mind his
films suffer from a failure of imagination, skimming lightly (but often self - importantly) over the surface of the verifiable.
Based on Duncan Jones's first two
feature films, Moon and
now Source Code, the latter of which had its world premiere Friday night here at SXSW, one could say that Jones has a knack not for putting across breathtakingly original ideas in a breathtakingly original way, but for putting across familiar ideas with enough skill, intelligence, and heart to
make the end result seem fresh enough.
A smart screenplay (by Linda Woolverton), a gifted voice cast (that, it must be noted, is free of the marquee names that
now clutter animated
feature credits), and superior animation work would have already
made for a good
film, but what
makes Beauty so justly beloved is a generous helping of magic — namely the divine music by the legendary team of composer Alan Menken and the late, great lyricist Howard Ashman.
Although a certain cameo appearance in Thor has been well and truly leaked on the interwebs, the recent snafu
featuring everyone's favourite Australian
film critic Jim Schembri
makes this critic more wary of explicitly stating the who or why, but let's just say that a brief appearance by another character from The Avengers occurs and it isn't in the
now - obligatory post-credit sequence
featuring Samuel L. Jackson.
The only exception to the «no special
features» formula is Manos, a justifiably obscure
film that
now holds a place alongside Plan 9 from Outer Space as one of the worst movies ever
made (it currently sits at # 3 on IMDB's Bottom 100 list).
The best part of Galaxy Quest, playing the guy playing the ethnic guy in a «Star Trek» - like cult television series, Shalhoub also stole the show as fast - talking lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider in his reunion with the Coen Brothers, The Man Who Wasn't There; demonstrated uncommon intelligence and sensitivity in the still - underseen Big Night; and
made his feature - film debut behind the camera with wife Brooke Adams in the independent Made - Up, now trickling into video sto
made his
feature -
film debut behind the camera with wife Brooke Adams in the independent
Made - Up, now trickling into video sto
Made - Up,
now trickling into video stores.
Now the two
make their first foray into
feature film directing with «21 and Over,» a story about a med student celebrating his 21st birthday.
Before being selected to direct Black Panther, the director,
now 31 years old, had only
made two
feature films: Fruitvale Station, which won accolades at Sundance in 2013, and Creed, the seventh installment in the Rocky series, which garnered rave reviews in 2015.
With Control and
now The American Corbijn has not only proven his success in
making the transition into
feature films but asserted himself as one of the most talented directors working today.
I Think We're Alone
Now Cinematographer Reed Morano has had a buzzy year after her breakout directorial work on Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, and she's poised to
make even more of a mark this year with her second
feature film.
Liz W. Garcia's
feature film directorial debut «The Lifeguard,» starring Kristen Bell, is
now in theaters and Garcia talks about what it takes to get a movie
made.
Having suggested that he's
now done with
making feature films, director Steven Soderbergh's ambitions seem to be heading in another direction.
Now she's
making her
feature directing debut with the romantic - comedy, coming of age
film Carrie Pilby.
In addition to there being a movement right
now to
make Loving Day a Federal holiday, there is also a gorgeous - looking
film about the Lovings coming out from Focus
Features!
Now, 45 years later, the Fiction Factory documentary COP STORIES: THE
MAKING OF RICHARD FLEISCHER»S THE NEW CENTURIONS,
featuring new
filmed interviews with writer Joseph Wambaugh, star Stacy Keach, technical advisor Richard E. Kalk (Wambaugh's real - life LAPD partner) and assistant cameraman Ronald Vidor, chronicles the production of that landmark
film in all its stages from script to screen.
But «Revenge» is the
film we need right
now from a filmmaker we need right
now: French writer - director Coralie Fargeat,
making her stunning
feature debut.
Fifty
films, each under five minutes, have already been posted online, and executive producers Dawn and Jim are
now working on
making a two - hour
feature - length documentary out of the nearly 350 hours of footage captured.
After purchasing an Acura NSX, aside from receiving a digital
film featuring your new supercar and a customized 1:18 scale replica, owners
now have the option of a one - on - one, exclusive tour of where their NSX is
made.
And self publishers and Indie publishers in particular
now have a lot more options available to them in terms of actually pursuing their own projects, and getting their own stuff
made and adapted from their original source material into web series, television projects, various different short
films,
feature films, things like that.
Now these twin interests are being united in Hayden's most ambitious project to date: an August 12 event at Postmasters that will
feature the New York premiere of his transportingly quirky short
film «Hugh the Hunter» (directed by Zachary Heinzerling) as well as something the announcement describes as a «multi-sensory experience including a sculptural «chicken n» waffles» remix of a classic Scottish dish
made in collaboration with the culinary talents of Ghetto Gastro and wild game birds from D'artagnan.»
All the shows and record companies and skateboard graphics, ad campaigns, t - shirt brands, music projects,
feature and documentary
films these artists have produced
now blur together into a indecipherable glob of creative output that I can barely
make any sense of.
Now, the artist's latest project has been to extrapolate his early career -
making photographs into a new form: a three - part
feature film about his childhood titled Ray & Liz.
Two paintings in the exhibition
feature Buzz Lightyear and Woody, computer - animated stars of the 1995
film Toy Story, while two others include a helix logo
made of colored pixels, a new icon of the kind
now familiar from computer screens and handheld devices.
[Insert The Times has published a
feature about the
film and the director, including the fun detail that Robert Stone,
now 54,
made his first movie, on the dawn of environmental consciousness, using his mother's Super 8 camera on the first Earth Day.]