Sentences with phrase «screen debut as a director»

Not exact matches

This moody screen adaptation of the Oprah - endorsed eponymous bestseller by Andre Dubus III's isn't a slam - dunk success, but it has plenty of sleeper potential and is a feather in the cap of director Perelman, a Russian émigré who debuts here as a feature filmmaker after a career in commercials.

Below, find out what critics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including films that screened out of competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and International Critics» Week programs.

The film is the director's first effort since A Single Man, Ford's directorial debut, which led to Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Academy Award nominations for Colin Firth, as well as a Golden...

Ripley is engulfed by darkness and despair in director David Fincher's claustrophobic and underrated big - screen debut (which looks a lot better in light of Seven — photographed by Alien Resurrection cinematographer Darius Khondji — and The Game), as she crash lands on Fiorina «Fury» 161, a remote, nearly deserted, Class C Prison, maximum security, Double Y Chromosome - Work Correctional Facility after drifting in space — again — for an unspecified time.

We have an exclusive interview with Agnès Varda, and Rebecca Daly talks about her debut feature, The Other Side of Sleep, which is screening as part of the Directors Fortnight at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Created by director Jim Mickle and his frequent co-writer Nick Damici — their most recent big - screen collaboration, the 2014 «Cold in July,» also adapted a Lansdale novel — the series, which debuts Wednesday, stars James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams as the eponymous, down - and - out duo, with Christina Hendricks a sort of down - home femme fatale in blue jeans.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

As his debut feature Savage — an arresting, violent and vengeful slice of Dublin life — hits Irish cinema screens, director Brendan Muldowney revisits some of his key inspirations with Jamie Hannigan...

In 1966, Mike Nichols made his debut as a film director by bringing Edward Albee's Broadway sensation to the screen, with celebrity couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton taking on the venomous leading roles.

As the title card for Unforgettable was projected onto the screen at the beginning of our preview of this new psychological drama from debut director Denise Di Nova, I could only imagine the thoughts of irony going through my fellow critics» heads as the film played out before uAs the title card for Unforgettable was projected onto the screen at the beginning of our preview of this new psychological drama from debut director Denise Di Nova, I could only imagine the thoughts of irony going through my fellow critics» heads as the film played out before uas the film played out before us.

Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

The project is finally moving forward with writer Joshua Zetumer (RoboCop) and director Rupert Wayatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes); as the movie will come out after Singer's Apocalpyse, though, it has been unclear when Tatum would make his big screen debut as the card - throwing mutant.

«Get Out» is Peele's big - screen directorial debut, but he's been honing his skills as an actor, writer, director and producer for more than a dozen years.

Clown Year: 2014 Director: Jon Watts An icky creature feature that never once blinks as it pushes its conceit as far as an especially game child actor's parents will allow, Clown is director Jon Watts» debut, a horror movie in which a lot of cute, innocent children are eaten — on screen — by a man in a cloDirector: Jon Watts An icky creature feature that never once blinks as it pushes its conceit as far as an especially game child actor's parents will allow, Clown is director Jon Watts» debut, a horror movie in which a lot of cute, innocent children are eaten — on screen — by a man in a clodirector Jon Watts» debut, a horror movie in which a lot of cute, innocent children are eaten — on screen — by a man in a clown suit.

Finding its way to the DVD format just a couple of weeks before another haunted house flick (Cold Creek Manor) debuts on the big screen, veteran television director Dan Curtis's horror quickie is one of those comfortable relics that doesn't scare so much as mildly chill, offering countless opportunities to shout at the screen without any sort of discernible payoff — until the end, that is, but even that shocker of a conclusion has been telegraphed since at least the midway point of the first act, muffling its surprise.

Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness screened as a Special Screening during the Cannes Film Festival, giving her the opportunity to promote this first film at the festival outside the competition unlike her actor - turned - director fellow Ryan Gosling, whose debut feature Lost River screened in last year's Un Certain Regard and received mixed and harsh reviews...