Not to mention the imbalance between her career, now basically in the past tense, and his, which skyrocketed with
his recent debut feature film, Snow White & the Huntsman, which she is clearly supportive of:
Not exact matches
After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie
films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident
debut features in
recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.
After producing multiple shorts, documentaries and experimental
films, Meredith Danluck is the latest director to explore these ideas with her
feature - narrative
debut State Like Sleep (which premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival) starring Katherine Waterston as a photographer trying to find answers to her husband (Michiel Huisman)'s
recent death; co-starring Michael Shannon and Luke Evans.
Both his short and
feature debuts, «La Vie des morts» and «La Sentinelle,» premiered on the Croisette in the early 1990s, and all of his
films, bar 2004's «Kings and Queen,» have played the fest, with 2008's «A Christmas Tale» being the most
recent.
Yann Demange's
debut feature»71 has shown me exactly how ignorant I've been of
recent history, with a
film he himself describes as an excoriation of our propensity, across nations and time, for sending our young men off to fight «dirty» wars.
Joanna Hogg, the woman who directed Tom Hiddleston in his
feature film debut, is helming «The Souvenir: Part One,» which will be executive produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert Pattinson, a
recent snub for «Good Time.»
Mu «min's
debut arrives as part of a
recent wave of
films coming from creators in the Bay Area, as Boots Riley's «Sorry To Bother You» and Carlos Lopez Estrada's «Blindspotting» both captured attention at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and Ryan Coogler's «Black Panther»
features scenes explicitly set in Oakland.
The most
recent addition to his series is Chilean director Marcela Said's 2013 narrative
feature debut, The Summer of Flying Fish, which he first discovered while serving on a jury at a
film festival.
This arty vegetarian cannibal
feature debut tries to fill the
recent void of good French horror
films.
The DVD
debut of Squanto: A Warrior's Tale, as has become a norm for
recent Disney catalogue releases,
features fine video and audio presentation of the
film and absolutely nothing in the way of extras.
Assuredly framed, intricately written and ending with ambition and intrigue, the atmospheric and arresting
feature compels and challenges in equal measures, in one of the best
debuts — and
films — in
recent years.
Other
film credits include the
recent comedy «Keanu»; Peter Bogdanovich's «She's Funny That Way,» opposite Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson; «Life of Crime,» opposite Jennifer Aniston, John Hawkes, Tim Robbins and Isla Fisher; «Run and Jump,» which
debuted at the Tribeca
Film Festival and won the Best Irish
Feature Award at the Galway
Film Festival; the Adam Sandler Netflix comedy «The Ridiculous 6,» as well as «That's My Boy,» opposite Sandler and Andy Samberg; and «The Watch,» opposite Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and Vince Vaughn.