Sentences with phrase «one's feature directing debut»

The film is written by Peter Craig, who recently penned Ben Affleck's «The Town» with director Asger Leth making his dramatic feature directing debut after his 2006 documentary «Ghosts of Cite Soleil.»

The characters aren't flat, the film isn't dull, it's vibrant and flashy and entertaining and a rather remarkable feature directing debut for Gordon - Levitt, better than I was expecting.

A child's angelic face conceals a budding sociopath in the audacious, senses - shattering feature directing debut from actor Brady Corbet, with a cast led by Robert Pattinson and Bérénice Bejo.

And the sidebar program, Un Certain Regard, opened tonight with Hunger, a provocative feature directing debut by British artist Steve McQueen.

McGregor, whose feature directing debut American Pastoral just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, is being given the Humanitarian Award in recognition of his work with UNICEF.

«Thunderbolt and Lightfoot» (1974) Michael Cimino's feature directing debut starred Clint Eastwood (who also produced the film and hired Cimino for the gig) as a Korean War vet who took in a young drifter, played by Jeff Bridges.

Disney's brand typically provides an edge with that group, but it's hard to bet against «Pitch Perfect» after its stunning $ 69 million debut last weekend, which was an eye - popping $ 30 million over projections and gave Elizabeth Banks» the best feature directing debut ever.

Actress - writer - director Zoe Lister - Jones» feature directing debut earned good reviews when it premiered at Sundance earlier this year.

Martin Ritt's impressive feature directing debut is a socially conscious drama, about union corruption, interracial integration, and moral integrity, well acted by John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier.

Animation veteran Jennifer Yuh Nelson, who was head of story and special sequence supervisor on the first Panda, makes a successful feature directing debut here, working with established characters and newcomers alike.

Clive Barker's feature directing debut graphically depicts the tale of a man and wife who move into an old house and discover a hideous creature — the man's half - brother, who is also the woman's former lover — hiding upstairs.

Hell hath no fury like a woman oppressed, as is shockingly born out by William Oldroyd's phenomenal feature directing debut — an adaptation not of the Bard but, rather, of Nikolai Leskov's 1865 novel Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

The film's wildly loyal producer Judd Apatow, then known as a showrunner of acclaimed but short - lived TV comedies, would again cast Rudd in his hit feature directing debut,

Aneesh Chaganty, in an exceptional feature directing debut, sparks high - voltage tension by making John Cho, as a frantic widower, track down his missing teen daughter (Michelle La) solely through modern technology.

Clive Barker's feature directing debut worked not only as a grisly splatterfest, but also as a welcome shift from the rash of teen slasher movies that followed the success of Halloween.

It's a lesson the coming - of - age stories that linger in your memory apply to vivid effect, and «Lady Bird,» Greta Gerwig's solo feature directing debut, is a good coming - of - age story.

Strikingly mounted, lighted, shot and scored, this tense, decidedly arty film marks a bravura feature directing debut for young American actor Brady Corbet («Melancholia,» «Martha Marcy May Marlene»).

Another Earth is both written and directed by American filmmaker Mike Cahill, whose feature directing debut was Boxers and Ballerinas in 2004.

Graphic designer Henry Hobson's feature directing debut stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Midwestern farmer who faces an unexpected crises when his oldest daughter (played by Abigail Breslin) is infected with a disease that gradually turns her into a cannibalistic zombie.

Eight years after making his feature directing debut, Bay teamed again with stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence for the sequel.

BEN STEINBAUER (Director, Writer, Producer) made his feature directing debut with the award - winning comedy, Winnebago Man, which Michael Moore called, «One of the funniest documentaries ever made!»

Jason Moore makes his feature directing debut after being nominated for best director (musical) at the 2004 Tony Awards for Avenue Q, and the script is an adaptation of Mickey Rapkin's book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory by 30 Rock writer Kay Cannon.

Screenwriter Lorene Scafaria (the similarly fey «Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist») is over her head in her feature directing debut, unable to establish a consistent tone in a movie that flirts with black comedy, satire, romantic comedy and touchy - feely earnestness without really delivering any of them.

An effectively moody, well - acted and impressively understated thriller by Greg Kwedar in his feature directing debut.

Banks also makes her feature directing debut from a script by Kay Cannon, who adapted the original film from Mickey Rapkin's book.

Writer / actress Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein 72, Ira & Abby 62) makes her feature directing debut with a romantic comedy about two best friends (played by Westfeldt and Adam Scott) who decide to have a baby together while maintaining a platonic relationship.

Colin Hanks makes his feature directing debut with this irresistible documentary about the evolution of the music business.

Making his feature directing debut, Hoffman shows considerable generosity toward the other players, which was probably a good idea given his own listless performance as the mumbling title character.

Nocturnal Animals is the new film by Ford, the fashion designer who made his feature directing debut on A Single Man.

Trespass Against Us is the feature directing debut of Adam Smith, whose work you may have seen on the British show Skins and Doctor Who.

Actress Lucie Borleteau makes her feature directing debut with this insightful study of a woman situated in an almost exclusively male milieu.

But this month Gillan is celebrating a more personally significant cinematic feat: Her feature directing debut, the Scotland - set «The Party's Just Beginning.»

The coming - of - age dramedy marks the feature directing debut of Jonah Hill, who also wrote the script.

Making his feature directing debut in 1997, Vincenzo Natali, working from a screenplay he co-wrote, shadows 7 involuntary inmates of a seemingly inescapable, booby trapped mazelike structure.

In his feature directing debut, Daniel Petrie Jr gets maximum mileage out of the derring - do of the final reels while emphasizing comic relief earlier on.

Montreal director Paolo Barzman makes his feature directing debut with an elegant, sensitive adaptation of Matt Cohen's novel about Holocaust survivors.

The latest A.I. tale is Ex Machina, the feature directing debut of sci - fi screenwriter Alex Garland, whose past work includes 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and Dredd.

By comparison, in the same year, Bluth's feature directing debut The Secret of NIMH earned just under $ 15 M, while Disney's reissues of Peter Pan and The Jungle Book racked up $ 17 M and $ 23 M, respectively.

Gudegast, making his feature directing debut after writing «A Man Apart» and «London Has Fallen,» seems to understand just enough about that element of Mann's film to recreate some of its conflicts — both in terms of crime scenarios and the characters» civilian lives — but lacks the discipline, or maybe skill, to lend them real emotional weight, much less originality.

This feature directing debut by I'm Not There co-scripter Oren Moverman plays in many ways like a stateside version of The Hurt Locker, sharing that film's taciturn stoicism, but it deals with explosions of the emotional kind.

Martin Ritt's feature directing debut, Edge of the City, is a social - conscious melodrama set in the rail yards of New York City.

Bird's feature directing debut was 1999's The Iron Giant, a critically celebrated box office flop based on a 1968 book by Ted Hughes.

Pearce, in his feature directing debut, proves himself a solid craftsman, with a gift for giving even derivative story elements a nerve - jangling tweak.

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

Now that we've wrung the best of 2016 dry, it's time to move on — and Get Out is just what the doctor ordered: a smart, bracing, original piece of work that marks Jordan Peele's feature directing debut.

Red Tails is directed by up - and - coming filmmaker Anthony Hemingway, making his feature directing debut after lots of TV work on HBO, including extended work as the first assistant director on «The Wire».

The horror - comedy, which marks Lowe's feature directing debut, played a few festival gigs in late 2016, including a showing at the Chicago International Film Festival in November, and will receive a general release in the U.K. on February 10, 2017.

The idea for 355 came from Chastain, and she pitched it to him while they worked on that superhero film on which Kinberg made his feature directing debut.

Indie starlet Chloë Sevigny, veteran Josh Lucas and Mud discovery Jacob Lofland have joined the already mentioned Elizabeth Banks and Boyd Holbrook in Sara Colangelo's feature directing debut.