Sentences with phrase «of auspicious debuts»

A couple of auspicious debuts are included in our latest rights update, as well as historical fiction, a children's entry, serial work and noir.

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Ringwald only lasted a season before she was let go, but her television work paved the way for subsequent screen roles.In 1982, Ringwald made an auspicious film debut in Paul Mazursky's acclaimed Tempest, earning a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of John Cassavetes» daughter.

This auspicious feature debut for Michael Pearce portrays a young woman flirting with danger on the English island of Jersey.

An auspicious directorial debut by DreamWorkers Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, working with a nicely barbed script from a team headed by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, Shrek is a happy display of whizzy advances in computer animation (developed at PDI / DreamWorks) that allow faces and bodies to move and light to play on textures realistically.

The film, which was inspired by Denis» own experiences in Africa and those of working amongst the stark Southwest landscapes of Paris, Texas, proved to be a very auspicious debut, screening at Cannes that year and earning both a Golden Palm nomination and a César nomination for Best New Director.Denis followed her debut the next year with Man No Run, a documentary about Les Têtes Brulées («the Flaming Heads»), a Cameroon band on their first French tour.

«The industry is bracing for the record - setting debut of the highly anticipated «Avengers: Infinity War» that is expected to break through the $ 200 million opening weekend sound barrier as the summer movie season of 2018 gets off to an early and auspicious start,» mentioned comScore field place of business analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Bill Chambers Punch - Drunk Love makes a rather auspicious Blu - ray debut as part of the Criterion Collection in a 2.39:1, 1080p transfer supervised by writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson.

In an auspicious directing debut, Edgerton provides more than just sound narrative structure and an atmosphere in which his co-stars have clearly flourished — nevermind the fact that he shot his own role two weeks into production and in the span of a single week.

Robert Downey, the father of the noted and troubled actor Robert Downey Jr., made his auspicious debut with the 1967 Chafed Elbows.

There can surely be no greater test of an actor's ability than to carry a whole film almost single - handedly, and in Duncan Jones» auspicious debut feature

Both an intensely personal odyssey and an exploration of the impact of conflict on communities, this sharply involving thriller marks an auspicious debut for director Yann Demange.

That makes it difficult to talk about in any significant detail — it'd be a shame if many of those ways are even hinted at, for fear of giving the entire game away — but it will suffice to say that the actor Joel Edgerton, here making his directorial debut with his own screenplay, has made an auspicious, enjoyable debut with this late summer surprise.

Written and directed by Stacie Passon in an auspicious directing debut effort, and produced by Rose Troche, CONCUSSION is a poignant sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert in a star making breakout turn), a forty something married wealthy, lesbian housewife who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son's baseball — walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else.

Why it could succeed: After his auspicious debut feature Pride & Prejudice, Joe Wright has steadily become one of the industry's most respected film directors.

Garden State, an auspicious writing and directing debut from Braff (of TV's charming Scrubs), is about Largeman's return to his New Jersey hometown, and like Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, it's more about mood and moments than telling a single story (and like that film, it's about an actor feeling numb to the «real» world).

This is all to say that it comes as something of a surprise to come back to the Coens» auspicious debut, Blood Simple, over a quarter - century after it was released and a solid decade since I last saw it, and find that it remains the one true oddity in the Coen canon that I had faintly remembered it as.

Since that auspicious debut, he has continued to collaborate with Anderson on «The Darjeeling Limited» (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola); the short film «Hotel Chevalier»; his animated feature, «Fantastic Mr. Fox» (for which he contributed his vocal talents); «Moonrise Kingdom» (part of Anderson's stellar ensemble cast of Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand), which set a new record at the specialty box office over Memorial Day weekend for best limited indie debut of all time, and, the Academy Award nominated film, «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» whose eclectic cast brought back thespians Murray, Norton and Swinton, along with Willem Dafoe, Soirsae Ronin, Ralph Finnes, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody.

That is the burning question at the center of Medicine for Melancholy, an alternatively breezy and sophisticated sit - dram which marks the auspicious directorial and scriptwriting debut of Barry Jenkins.

Calling into question the very meaning of the film's title, the climax of Pearce's auspicious debut seems to come out of left field, but it makes a kind of perfect, if perverse, sense.

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A most auspicious directorial debut, featuring — like most of the other films on this list — a gallery of richly achieved performances.

The playwright Kenneth Lonergan's 2000 directorial debut, «You Can Count on Me,» was highly auspicious and made a star out of the then all - but - unknown Mark Ruffalo.

This is the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood (daughter of Clint), and while it is certainly less - than - auspicious, the fact that she somehow manages to occasionally make some of the kooky family dynamics work beyond some campy Lifetime movie is at least a sign of promise for things that might come.

Based on Mary Mapes» «Truth and Duty: The Press, The President, and the Privilege of Power» (2005), screenwriter James Vanderbilt («White House Down,» «Zodiac») makes an auspicious directing debut with this layered, detailed condemnation of how Internet obsession with minutia / gossip has obliterated the big picture — and responsible reporting can not be rushed.

The same can be said of Kelly, who makes a most auspicious debut.

LONDON — Short of a chance to back the car over Robert McCrum just outside the Hospital Club in Covent Garden, it's hard to think of a more auspicious debut for Authoright's new London Author Fair.

As in the best collections, the stories enhance each other, forging connections between recurrent characters and building a world where real locations like Islamabad and Lahore blend with imagined households... Themes of struggle and progress may be familiar, but Mueenuddin's rich stories make them fresh and powerful, marking a debut as auspicious as any so far this year.

It won major Australian literary prizes including the 1996 National Fiction Award and was described by the Times Literary Supplement as «one of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing.»

In an auspicious debut, Johns sold three paintings (two targets and a numeral), to Alfred Barr, founding director of MoMA.

Sixteen Americans, which handed the then - unknown Stella the most auspicious debut of postwar American art, arrived as Abstract Expressionism was at its last gasp and upstarts like Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg were already sticking forks in it.

Rashid Johnson took the title of his auspicious New York solo debut from a 1964 book of poems by LeRoi Jones, now Amiri Baraka, that he produced during a transitional phase in his career, between his associations with the Beat movement and black nationalism.

During the peak of his debut, respected art critic for the The New York Times, Holland Cotter concluded, «Mr. Milan's work has plenty of finesse, but also feels flexible, on a growth curve an auspicious debut» (NYT, December 16, 2005).

Less auspicious is the debut of News, at least in its iPhone implementation.