Sentences with phrase «one's second directorial effort»

The belated second directorial effort from Moonrise Kingdom co-writer Coppola (CQ, his debut, was released back in 2002) is probably the closest thing we'll get to a Wes Anderson - style film this year, which makes the mixed early reviews a bit of a letdown.

Tom Tykwer's second directorial effort after Run Lola Run has him keeping the running time brief (about 97 minutes), but the pace is similar to his more somber film in between, The Princess and the Warrior.

Alex Garland's second directorial effort again lands itself in the science - fiction genre, though this time around it is not as easy to explain.

Helen Hunt's second directorial effort finds her playing an uptight New Yorker changed by California.

Anchored by an expressive mother - daughter story in which unconditional love and enmity often seem one and the same, and elevated by an entrancing Saoirse Ronan (easily among the best and most intimate actors of her generation), Gerwig's accomplished second directorial effort makes you wish she'd spend more time behind the camera.

The project marks Edgerton's second directorial effort after the underseen «The Gift».

Mélanie Laurent's second directorial effort, Breathe follows typical French teenager Charlie (Joséphine Japy) as she befriends a new girl in class (Lou de Laâge's Sarah)- with the movie subsequently detailing the ups and downs of said friendship.

Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Benedict Cumberbatch, Chris Cooper, and Ewan McGregor head an ensemble cast in a darkly comedic tale of a large Oklahoma family reunited by a funeral, the second directorial effort for noted TV and film producer Wells (The Company Men).

So, yes, I walked into «Annihilation,» Garland's second directorial effort (screenplay also by him) with a good amount of anticipation and a little trepidation.

Garland's second directorial effort, Annihilation, is another mind - bending masterstroke in the writer - director's ambitious oeuvre that will prove profound to some viewers, but polarizing to others.

The war drama marks her second directorial effort.

The second directorial effort from Academy award - winning actor Sidney Poitier, this romantic drama is about widowed American doctor Matt Younger (Poitier) who travels to London with his daughter, Stefanie (Yvette Curtis).

Don't be fooled by the glossy, bourgeois look and feel of the opening moments; Hunt's second directorial effort is winning, warm, smart and tough

Not only will he make his second directorial effort (after cult indie thriller DARK COUNTRY), but Jane will also star.

Similarly, Jolie's second directorial effort, the true - story W.W. II survival tale Unbroken, lacks any real point of view.

This is the second directorial effort by M. Night Shyamalan, who also wrote the script.

Instead we get one superb movie called Unbroken, with Angelina Jolie at the helm in her second directorial effort.

We learned earlier this year that the Sunshine and 28 Days Later scribe was tackling an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's brilliantly terrifying enviro - horror novel Annihilation for his second directorial effort, with Natalie Portman starring to boot.

If you thought Armando Iannucci had already mined political cynicism to its fullest with «The Thick of It» and «In the Loop», he taps a rich new seam in a second directorial effort that swaps modern - day bureaucracy for deadlier Stalinist double - dealing.

George Clooney's second directorial effort is a powerful, precise and pertinent portrait of journalists holding power to account.Read More

With her second directorial effort Unbroken set to hit cinemas later this year, Angelina Jolie is already at work on her third, By The Sea which co-stars hubby Brad Pitt.

The Hollars will be Krasinski's second directorial effort, after 2009's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

The director of Garden State makes his second directorial effort with a family drama that brings one man's life into sharp focus.

For the record, I in no way disapprove of the direction Jolie took on her second directorial effort, but I do believe that working in a genre beloved by the old, white male majority that dominates AMPAS» current membership is extremely advantageous.

He also has his second directorial effort, «A Little Chaos,» coming out not to far down the line.

Ben Affleck has returned behind the scenes with The Town, his second directorial effort after 2007's Gone Baby Gone.

Starring Leslie Mann (Knocked Up), the film marks the second directorial effort from Lucas and Moore after 21 & Over, and is based on an original screenplay from the duo.

«Boy Erased» is the second directorial effort from actor Joel Edgerton following «The Gift.»

We must reiterate, this film is not an absolute disaster, and Abraham's second directorial effort is a fairly decent take on largely uncatalogued life.

Robert Kojder chats with Mercury in Retrograde stars Najarra Townsend and Alana Arenas... Mercury in Retrograde is the second directorial effort from Chicago - based filmmaker Michael Glover Smith and reaches profound messages on relationships; this is aesthetically pleasing, strongly written and directed, superb work with an outstanding ensemble.

SPENCER: After collaborating on his masterful 2010 film Putty Hill, writer / director Matt Porterfield re-teamed with cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier (who is currently enjoying critical praise for his second directorial effort Blue Ruin) for the Baltimore - based filmmaker's latest — marvelous — movie I Used To Be Darker.

The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) In Tommy Lee Jones's second directorial effort he gives us the story of a pioneer woman (Hilary Swank) who is an independently wealthy spinster whom the townspeople respect but that no one wants to marry (she's told twice that she's «bossy.»)

Unfortunately, though, the irony of how messy and contrived Alan Rickman's second directorial effort is not a...

His second directorial effort, The Driver (1978), couldn't be more different — a contemporary drama of cops and crooks in the modern city locked in a struggle that has become (for no explicable reason) personal, all loners with temporary alliances at best — yet we're in the same Hill universe of tough, terse professionals who define themselves by their abilities and express themselves in action.

«Michael Mann's second directorial effort, 1983's curiously undefinable World War II fairytale The Keep, remains sorely overlooked» — read our full review.

The Jeff VanderMeer adaptation marks the second directorial effort of «Ex Machina» helmer Alex Garland.

He later shot Wayne's second directorial effort, «The Green Berets,» in 1968.

Over the years, he's turned out a number of modern classics, largely in the crime genre, but his second directorial effort, 1983's curiously undefinable World War II fairytale The Keep, remains sorely overlooked.

David Schwimmer's second directorial effort, «Trust,» is about online sexual predators, and for the most part he and his screenwriter, Andy Bellin, resist sensationalism.

The wartime espionage thriller Five Graves to Cairo, starring Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter, marks Billy Wilder's second directorial effort.

Vacation was his second directorial effort after 1980's Caddyshack, and it actually demonstrated some real growth in Ramis» abilities.

The first trailer for Ralph Fiennes» second directorial effort The Invisible Woman has been released online.

The writer of «Being John Malkovich» makes his second directorial effort one to remember.

Not only is it the second directorial effort from Ex Machina filmmaker Alex Garland, it's based on a novel by Jeff Vandermeer that is as haunting as it is compelling — and boy is it compelling.

A lighthearted play with spy movies, erotica, and storytelling from 1967, Trans - Europ - Express is the director's second directorial effort and his most popular success and audience - friendly production.

This is the second directorial effort from Taylor Sheridan, but the barely released 2011 genre film Vile was made before he became Wunderkind Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, the Oscar - nominated scribe behind Sicario and Hell or High Water.

Conceived as a silly comedy about a shallow US celebrity talk show host and his producer conscripted to kill the leader of North Korea, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's second directorial effort (following last year's pleasant This is the End) is now always going to be about the absurdity that surrounded it in the weeks leading up to its release.

Conceived as a silly comedy about a shallow US celebrity talk show host and his producer conscripted to kill the leader of North Korea, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's second directorial effort (following last year's pleasant

Garland's second directorial effort after the Oscar - winning Ex Machina, Annihilation is a mashup of science - fiction thriller, mystery, and horror based on the first installment in author Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach novel trilogy.