Sentences with phrase «second film directed»

You have to wonder if a film like this could actually win both Best Picture and Best Director, becoming only the second film directed by a woman in 90 years to do so.

The choice in opening night film was notable because it was only the second film directed by a female director to open the festival.

Annihilation is the second film directed by novelist - turned screenwriter - turned - filmmaker Alex Garland, and it proves a worthy follow - up to his directorial debut, Ex Machina (2015), a clinical psychodrama that used an artificial intelligence robot to force us to question the fundamental essence of humanity.

In many ways Desierto, the second film directed by Jonas Cuarón, is quite similar to that blockbuster that he just wrote with his father Alfonso, Gravity.

Not exact matches

Over the course of five days ending May 3, Indigenous Media posted enough live, 10 - second clips — all filmed entirely through the picture and video sharing app — to constitute the bulk of a full - length, 68 - minute horror film called Sickhouse written and directed by Hannah Macpherson.

The directors of the second film, Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, have a cinema verité style, which is a different style from Davis Guggenheim's [who directed An Inconvenient Truth].

The second direct - to - video sequel of the hit teen cheerleading film Bring It On, Bring It On: All or Nothing concerns one Britney Allen, who must make new friends when her rich family moves into less desirable environs.

The second film to be made from Woody Allen's successful stage comedy (following a 1969 feature starring Jackie Gleason), Don't Drink the Water is a made - for - television adaptation directed by and starring Allen himself.

The fourth film, Goblet of Fire, was ably but unmemorably directed by Mike Newell (who, in a truly odd coincidence, is scheduled in 2012 to become, with Cuarón, the second Potter director to release an adaptation of Great Expectations).

This belated second sequel to The Three Musketeers is a rather slapdash, uneven patchwork of weak writing and sloppily directed set pieces that fails to recreate the magic of the previous films.

Director Alexandre Aja who directed the film Haute Tension (High Tension) directs and as with his second film, he delivers the gore.

When Frankenheimer got a second movie to direct - «The Young Savages» in 1961 - he had a far better time, and he made no fewer than three big films the following year, including «The Manchurian Candidate», an instant classic.

Better known in the last few years for directing episodes of such shows as The Wire, Treme, and the American version of The Killing, Agnieszka Holland returns to her native Poland for another film of hers concerning the plight of people during the Second World War.

Well, what we didn't tell you (because we didn't know) is that it's a prequel to My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument that takes us back to the teenage years of the characters in the 1995 film... And least promising sequel of the week has to be Spring Breakers: The Second Coming, a cash - in scripted by Irvine Welsh and directed by Jonas Akerlund, the man behind such bad - boy music videos as «Smack My Bitch Up» and the 2002 meth - addict comedy Spun.

It's been seven years since designer Tom Ford made a splash with his award - winning writing - directing debut A Single Man, and it's no surprise that his second film is just as exquisitely beautiful to look at...

After completing the second and third films in his Pusher crime saga, and before embarking on the production of his 2008 biopic Bronson, Nicolas Winding Refn directed a feature - length episode of the British ITV television show Agatha Christie's Marple (also known as Marple) entitled «Nemesis».

In 2008, he directed his first short film, «Ethics» and in 2011, he wrote and directed his second short film, «Blind Death.»

Bad Samaritan is directed by veteran producer / writer (of the scripts for Universal Soldier, Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, «The Outpost») and now filmmaker Dean Devlin, making his second feature film after directing Geostorm previously.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

The Ryan Coogler - directed film becomes only the fourth film ever to cross $ 100 million mark its second weekend along with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, and The Avengers.

Sony Pictures Classics has revealed a trailer for the lovely indie film Puzzle, from producer + filmmaker Marc Turtletaub, his second feature film that he's directed.

The second film is already slated for a 2018 release and David Yates will return to direct and Rowling will return as the screenwriter.

For the second consecutive year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists is partnering with DOXA Documentary Film Festival to present EDA Awards for best female - directed films at the 16th annual festival, to be held from May 4 to 14, in Vancouver, BC.

Puzzle is directed by American producer / filmmaker Marc Turtletaub, an experienced indie film producer, directing his second feature film after Gods Behaving Badly in 2013.

Is Lionsgate lining up Steven Soderbergh to direct the second film?

Less certain to return this time, or at least not yet confirmed: Jon Favreau, who played bodyguard Happy Hogan as well as directing the first two movies (Favreau also has beef with Marvel, according to many reports from the second film), or Sam Rockwell, who played villain Justin Hammer.

And While We Were Here is the second feature film written and directed by Kat Coiro.

While many speculated that the jury might award only the second Palme d'Or to a film directed by a woman, the most likely contender — Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Capernaum — was instead given Cannes» jury prize.

«Game Night» was directed by John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein, marking their second film as co-directors, following the comedy «Vacation.»

The as - yet untitled Star Wars standalone movie, heavily rumoured to follow a group of bounty hunters around the galaxy, has been gaining traction of late; Gary Whitta, the movie's original writer, left the project, while Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Star Wars Rebels) has joined The Empire Strikes Back scribe Lawrence Kasdan for the second standalone film, which will be directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle).

That is, until her unexpected host decides to keep her company... Lost Gully Road is directed by Australian filmmaker Donna McRae, making her second film after debuting with Johnny Ghost in 2012, as well as short films previously.

This is Demme's second remake of a classic film in row, however, unlike his overcooked update of Charade in The Truth About Charlie, he directs with just the right amount of style here, always staying true to the events of the story as they unfold.

Attack of the Killer Donuts is directed by an American filmmaker named Scott Wheeler, who is also an experienced special / digital effects supervisor, camera operator, producer, and second unit director, plus director of a few other bad horror films previously including Martian Land, Transmorphers: Fall of Man, Sink Hole, and Avalanche Sharks.

This project marks Logan and Mendes» second major collaboration, following Skyfall, their recent critically - acclaimed and box office record - breaking James Bond film, which Mendes directed and Logan co-wrote; and their first ever collaboration for television.

Still, this is an informed, fairly candid piece wherein the likes of biographer Eric Lax and punmeister Gene Shalit — who was evidently close friends with Newman — touch on the actor's collaborations with Martin Ritt (inevitably, Paramount's Hud gets short shrift, while the movies Newman made for Robert Altman at Fox are not even mentioned), his feud with Jack Warner, and the two films in which he directed second wife Joanne Woodward.

(Best tidbit: the reminder that John Frankenheimer was originally slated to direct; the film he made instead, Seconds, with Rock Hudson delivering the same variety of «never be able to pull it off» performance as Liz in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Johnson is writing and directing the second of the new Star Wars trilogy films, and Benicio Del Toro has been the subject of some other, villain - centric casting speculation.

by Walter Chaw The only genre that boasts more direct - to - video fare than horror is porn, and since we haven't quite reached the point of quiet desperation needed to begin reviewing porn, find here a smelted cheddar of four dtv horror features (actually, The Boogeyman got a theatrical release in 1980, though I can't understand why): the eighth film in Clive Barker's venerable horror octology, Hellraiser: Hellworld; The Boogeyman and its second sequel, the legitimately straight - to - video Return of the Boogeyman; and Kevin VanHook's The Fallen Ones.

Final Verdict: The first half is fantastic and while the second half has to take upon itself to handle the darker side of things, overall it is a well directed, beautifully written and superbly acted film.

Finally, Felicity Jones (Like Crazy, the upcoming Warren Beatty Howard Hughes film, if it ever happens) has been cast as Nelly Ternan in a film called The Invisible Woman that Ralph Fiennes will direct as his second feature.

It's a question that, for better and worse, takes on a two-fold meaning in Edgar Wright's latest T - shirt slogan - spawning buddy caper: first as a direct link to the film's plot; second as a veiled statement of self - reflexivity.

Last year he directed his second feature film with the period drama A little Chaos starring both himself and Kate Winslet.

Tangentially, the directing pair Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, who come out of the «Paranormal Activity» / Jason Blum stable (they directed # 3 and 4) have a second film release this weekend.

The Future is Miranda July's long - awaited second full - feature film which she once again directed, wrote and starred in.

The film, directed Nancy Meyers and starring the double Oscar winner as a septuagenarian intern at an e-commerce company, debuted at second place with $ 18.2 m.

Peyton Reed is back to direct the second installment, with Rudd returning as the former systems engineer - turned - Avenger, Evangeline Lilly as the Wasp, as well as Michael Douglas, Michael Peña and T.I. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige is producing with film, which is scheduled to bow in theaters July 6, 2018.

Awards are of obvious interest to this film, the second feature directed by John Wells, the longtime executive producer whose TV credits include «ER» and «The West Wing.»

With Cumberbatch looking spot on as the Doctor and horror maven Scott Derrickson directing, Marvel's second film of 2016 could be pure magic.

Ketchum and O'Rourke come off as goons for being impressed by this, particularly when O'Rourke follows up her observation by comparing The Lost to The Sixth Sense (which she says was directed by «that guy whose last name everybody always mispronounces») as one of those films where you pick up stuff that the filmmaker has hidden in plain sight the second and third time you see it.

For the second year in a row my favorite film of the year was not directed by a woman, but as per tradition it was also a queer romance.