Sentences with phrase «one's debut as a director»

Horror author Barker made an auspicious debut as a director with this bloody shocker about a violent con artist who cheats death in gruesome fashion.

This is his feature debut as a director, but he was one of the writers for «Iron Man 3,» and worked with Christopher McQuarrie on the story for «Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation.»

This is Anderson's feature film debut as a director, after work on television.

Originally trained as an architect, Jafa made his cinematic debut as Director of Photography for Julie Dash's 1991 film Daughters of the Dust, for which he won best cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival.

British filmmaker Simon Aboud makes his full length debut as a director and writer of the indie film Comes a Bright Day.

Tinge Krishnan's big - screen debut as a director offers a nightmare vision of survival on the pavement, where the homeless and the addicted live by their own rules without, it would appear, any support from society.

Polish cinematographer Andrzej Bartkowiak (Exit Wounds, Cradle 2 the Grave), who also worked with Li on Lethal Weapon 4, makes an impressive debut as a director.

In hiss debut as a director, Sheridan tells a story that is compelling and suspenseful as it is brutally intense.

Also debuting as a director is Idris Elba with Yardie, which is also a novel adaptation.

Of all the oddball tales about the making of Gummo, Harmony Korine's vivid but unsettling debut as director, one of the strangest is how he discovered one of his stars.

This is a combination that Shane Black has been exploring for, literally, 30 years, being influenced by film noir to the point of doing a deconstruction of its style - or genre for some - with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang his hilarious debut as director.

He is going to debut as a director with Breathe on October 12 this year.

Cork - born John Crowley began his career as a director in theater before his 2003 feature film debut as a director, 2003's Intermission starring Colin Farrell, Kelly Macdonald and Cillian Murphy.

Writer / director John Michael McDonagh (making his feature debut as director) is brother to Martin McDonagh, who teamed with Gleeson and Colin Farrell on the underrated dark comedy In Bruges, and The Guard definitely looks like it has some of the same genes, maybe with even a touch of a less over-the-top Hot Fuzz in there.

British filmmaker Simon Aboud makes his full length debut as a director and writer of the indie film...

Mike White makes an impressive debut as a director, sustaining a deliciously offbeat mood.

While this isn't his debut as a director, it is probably his most well - known effort behind the camera.

Don Cheadle gives one of the best performances of his career as jazz legend Miles Davis in Miles Ahead, even if his debut as a director ends up being an unfocused disappointment.

Play Misty for Me marked Clint Eastwood's debut as a director, and it gave him the then - unusual opportunity to play a regular contemporary guy in a thriller about sex, obsession, and stalking.

Crowe is effectively restrained in his acting, but in his debut as a director, he overdoes the manipulative music and the pretty images from cinematographer Andrew Lesnie.

More of the same can be said for Crowe's debut as a director with the excellent Say Anything, showing once again he had a knack for taking what would ostensibly be a «just another...» film and taking it to depths no one had bothered exploring before.

It is filled with life and colorful characters and great lines of dialogue, and De Niro, in his debut as a director, finds the right notes as he moves from laughter to anger to tears.

His debut as a director is «Alex Of Venice `, and he's out promoting it.

, About a Boy) makes his debut as a director, shooting his modest film in 16 days on a shoestring $ 300,000 budget.

Chris Butler is a former storyboard artist on Coraline and Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride, and ParaNorman ushers in his debut as a director and screenwriter.

Breathe is not only Andy Serkis's debut as a director, but also a film based on the family experiences of its producer, Jonathan Cavendish.

Along with the likes of Karyn Kusama, Roxanne Benjamin and Jovanka Vuckovic, St. Vincent herself, Annie Clark, will make her debut as a director.

Rocky made him an instant star, but Stallone continued to work behind the scenes, writing numerous films and directing many of them: he debuted as director with Paradise Alley (1978), directed four out of the six Rocky films, made the Saturday Night Fever sequel Staying Alive (1983), directed 2008's Rambo, and launched a new franchise with 2010's The Expendables.

He began his career in film criticism with a very positive review of Sylvester Stallone's debut as a director, Paradise Alley (1978), which in itself revealed something of Carax's particular vision, a special feeling of urgency he was demanding from cinema and filmmakers — an embryonic version of the «smile of speed».

It appears he saved his best script for his debut as a director.

The curtain - raiser for the 61st London Film Festival was Breathe, not only Andy Serkis's debut as a director, but also a film based on the family experiences of its producer, Jonathan Cavendish.

Menashe marks his debut as a director of narrative fiction.

Released by The Weinstein Company, the film is due in theaters this year on December 2nd, 2011 and marks seasoned performer Ralph Fiennes» debut as a director.

Anchorman is perhaps the first movie that captures the absurd conceptual humor that Ferrell came to be known for during his stint on Saturday Night Live», which should come as no surprise, since Ferrell co-wrote the screenplay along with «SNL» writer Adam McKay, who makes his feature length film debut as a director.

Following two exemplary collaborations co-writing scripts with Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha reveals Noah Baumbach's luminous lighter touch; Mistress America explores the power of friendship beyond ego with endearment), Gerwig makes her debut as a director, and it's a tremendous work in its restraint and dynamism.

Nolan, who was born in London and holds both British and American citizenship, made his debut as a director 20 years ago, with Following, but his follow - up to that film, 2000's Memento, is what made people sit up and take notice.

-RRB-, Gerwig makes her debut as a director, and it's a tremendous work in its restraint and dynamism.

This is Richard Brooks» film debut as a director.

Debuting as director in Molly's Game, the eminent screenwriter (Moneyball, etc.) uses Oliver Stone - and Martin Scorsese - style visual overload to accompany all the endless proactive talk, talk and more talk.

She's set to make her debut as a director with the dramedy A Happening Of Monumental Proportions.

The trailer features a new version of «Cups,» the song that made the first movie and star Anna Kendrick famous, as well as several hilarious one - liners from Rebel Wilson, John Michael Higgins, and Elizabeth Banks (who also makes her feature film debut as director).

He made his debut as a director on the ecologically minded Silent Running, where his special effects crew included John Dyksra (who went on to become the Oscar - winning special effects supervisor of Star Wars and many other films) and Richard Yuricich (who partnered with Trumbull on many subsequent projects).

Bad Words marks Bateman's debut as a director.

His films have often toyed with the conventions of formula Hollywood fare, and now he finally has the freedom to cut completely loose, in his debut as director.

Transcendence, Wally Pfister's debut as a director, looks as off - the - wall nuts (in a good way) as something by Christopher Nolan (with whom Pfister worked on such films as Inception and the Dark Knight Trilogy).

In «Gone Baby Gone,» Ben Affleck, making his debut as a director, assumes we haven't read the four novels, approaches Patrick and Angie head on and surrounds them with a gallery of very, very intriguing characters.