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With a cast mostly made up of rising, but still likely unfamiliar stars, and a first - time feature director at the helm, the film's been mostly under the radar until it premiered at the BFI London Film Festival today, but though it might appear familiar on the surface, the film proves to be more than worth investigating.

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While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Bassett was joined at CCEM by a panel led by Errol Louis, Director of Urban Reporting for the Journalism School and political anchor at NY1 News, and featuring City Limits Publisher Jarrett Murphy and Haitian Times Editor - in - Chief Vania Andre.

Extras: The Blu - ray includes quite a few extra features, including a detailed, if at times kind of lethargic commentary by director Lloyd; three interlocked featurettes detailing the stage genesis of the property, the vocal training of the actors (including a laugh out loud segment showing the largely incompetent Firth attempting «dance moves»), as well as the source ABBA music; another featurette detailing the making of «Lay Your Love on Me,» a duet between Seyfried and Dominic Cooper that becomes a bit of a production number; deleted scenes (including the cut musical number «The Name of the Game») and a music video of «Gim me!

Adapted for screen by Ian McEwan from his 2007 novella, this debut feature from four - time Olivier Award - winning theatre director Dominic Cooke is, at its heart, a deceptively simple tale.

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

The comic drama Krystal, marking William H. Macy's third time out as a feature director, is so baffling that it must be appreciated at least for its ability to defy all logic.

Dustin Hoffman, a 75 - year - old first - time feature director better known as a great old acting pro, conducts at a pleasant tempo.

Writer / director Richard Ayoade, making his feature debut, nails a salient point about why it's so tough to stay grounded as a teenager: Oliver realizes that most of the «tragedies» of his life won't have meaning by the time he's 38, but that's scant comfort at the moment.

This movie features three stories directed by three great foreign directors, and the cast features some of the best foreign actors at the time too.

Pixar's 2013 film, the comedy «Monsters University» from first - time feature director Dan Scanlon, just became the fourth Pixar film to pass $ 700 million at the global box office, finding a large audience despite comparatively moderate reviews.

From Humpday and Touchy Feely director Lynn Shelton, her first feature based on a script she didn't pen (that credit goes to first - time scribe Andrea Seigel), Laggies debuted at this year's Sundance film festival to mostly positive reviews.

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, the second feature film of Fred Schepisi, an openly ambitious and confident Australian director (7), was at the time of its release the biggest budget film made in Australia at $ 1.2 m.

Sleeping With Other People, the second feature by writer - director Leslye Headland (Bachelorette), doesn't so much subvert the conventions of its genre as redeem them, one terrific gag and remarkably frank sex scene at a time.

These are the sorts of probing questions peppered throughout «Dear White People,» first - time feature director Justin Simien's often hysterical look at the otherwise not - so - funny state of race relations in America.

Emily, the feature length debut from director Ryan Graves, takes a tiny - by - design story and earnestly goes deep, exploring the destructive impulses, badly timed stabs at nobility, and increasingly mixed signals of a couple on the brink.

For directors like Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg who tend to work on a massive scale with even larger budgets it takes more time and effort to turn in that final product, which makes it quite surprising that Ridley Scott has become as efficient at delivering a steady flow of features in the past few years.

At this year's Toronto International Film Festival, first time feature - film director Garth Davis, who's earned his stripes for his work on the BBC miniseries Top of the Lake, brought us the wor...

Despite an early snub at the Golden Globes, Peele won Best Directorial Debut from the National Board of Review and is up for both Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures and Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First - Time Feature Film Director at the Directors Guild Awards.

«I am a Flatbush girl», first - time feature director Eliza Hittman said proudly at the world premiere of It Felt Like Love in the Next section (it later went to Competition in Rotterdam), and, while not entirely autobiographical, the film draws from her experience of growing up in this largely working - class neighbourhood of New York City's most populous borough, of these endless summers where you have to escape to the sea with your friends for fear of melting like the asphalt under your feet.

Across all narrative and documentary feature films at the Sundance from 2002 to 2013, 24.3 per cent of directors are female, six times that of Hollywood's.

«Wonder Woman» Standard Definition DVD contains the following special features: · Crafting the Wonder · A Director's Vision: Themyscira: The Hidden Island · A Director's Vision: Beach Battle · A Director's Vision: A Photograph Through Time · A Director's Vision: Diana in the Modern World · A Director's Vision: Wonder Woman at War · Warriors of Wonder Woman — · The Trinity · The Wonder Behind the Camera · Finding the Wonder Woman Within · Extended Scenes · Blooper Reel

As for Day, who worked with first - time feature director Richie Keen on the TV series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, it's not that his performance was weak, but rather that I just didn't care about his character at all (despite the fact that he was given an overdue pregnant wife and young daughter as justification for why it was critical that he keep his job over others who had been let go in a massive, nonsensical layoff).

First time writer / director Eli Craig's Tucker & Dale Vs Evil is one such example, with the film making an appearance at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and also featuring on the SXSW bill the same year, yet remaining unreleased outside of the festival circuit everywhere except Kazakhstan, Russia, Estonia and Lithuania eighteen months later.

Despite my reservations of first - time feature director Todd McFarlane taking the helm, it landing at Blumhouse was music to my ears over the weekend.

«Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk» (Sony Pictures Entertainment) Although watching two - time Academy Award winner Ang Lee's latest feature takes some getting used to, there's no denying you're witnessing a director and an ensemble of actors (led by newcomer Joe Alwyn as Billy Lynn) at the height of their powers.

And with Jessica Lange, Tom Felton and Matt Lucas rounding out the eclectic cast, and first - time feature director Charlie Stratton at the helm, we're optimistic that this film may deliver a fresher, realer take on an often stuffy genre.

His sophomore feature Boogie Nights (1997), about the adult film industry in the late 1970s (partially inspired by the life of porno star John Holmes) is a surprisingly vibrant, funny, and at times quite warm story of a dysfunctional filmmaking family, with Burt Reynolds as a quiet but firm director Dad and Julianne Moore as the porn star surrogate mother to the company's teen stars Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Dirk Diggler (Mark Wahlberg), the «natural» from the suburbs who is quickly recruited.

Inspired by his time living in the working class and immigrant communities of southern Italy and supported by our inaugural FilmTwo Initiative, Jonas developed his second feature A Ciambra which made its world debut at Cannes in Directors Fortnight.

Since that film, the director has struggled at times with high - concept features.

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Thanks to the folks at Signature Entertainment, we've got an exclusive trailer for you in The Shanghai Job, the upcoming action thriller from first time feature director Charles Martin (Skins, Marcella), which sees superstar Orlando Bloom leading a cast that also includes Ip Man veterans Lynn Xiong, Simon Yam and Xing Yu.

«Birth of a Director» is a shorter, one - on - one interview with a French journalist, and as the title suggests, it's principally focused on Farhadi's humble beginnings and on the thematic and formal evolution of his work (A Separation is discussed at length, but the amount of time spent on his earlier films suggests that the extra will be more useful to people already familiar with his previous features).

What You Need To Know: Swedish - born first - time feature - length filmmaker Fredrik Bond might be an unknown in the film world, but he has accumulated numerous awards throughout the course of his successful career as a commercial director including one at Cannes.

James Cameron's romantic epic, at the time the most expensive film ever made and the biggest moneymaker of all time, winner of a record - tying 11 Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director), and the film that made Cameron the self - proclaimed «king of the world,» makes its long - awaited Blu - ray debut in both Standard Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D sets, both of them numbering four discs and both featuring two new, exclusive documentaries.

Academy Award — nominated director Jason Reitman returns to the Sundance Film Festival for the sixth time, having previously debuted four shorts and one feature at the Festival, while Academy Award — winning screenwriter Diablo Cody makes her Sundance Film Festival debut with Tully, a funny, moving, and insightful look at motherhood that features captivating performances by its two female leads.

Directors Guillermo del Toro («Pan's Labyrinth») and two - time winner Ang Lee («Brokeback Mountain,» «Life of Pi») take the stage at 8:30 a.m. ET to announce nominees in these categories: animated feature, cinematography, costume design, documentary feature, documentary short, makeup and hairstyling, song, animated short, live action short, sound editing and sound mixing.

Comedy Central's sketch show Key & Peele was groundbreaking for a number of reasons — the impeccable comic timing of Keegan - Michael Key and Jordan Peele, director Peter Atencio's pitch - perfect, feature - quality direction, and its breathless combination of committed lowbrow humor and incisive sociopolitical digs at race, gender, relationships and politics.

Included is an excellent new audio commentary by the always informative film historian / author Troy Howarth; an additional audio commentary by director Peter Duffell and author Jonathan Rigsby; a new 10 - minute interview with second assistant director Mike Higgins; A-Rated Horror Film, a 17 - minute vintage featurette about the film featuring interviews with director Peter Duffell and actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt, and Chloe Franks; the English and Spanish theatrical trailers for the film, both in HD; 4 radio spots; an animated image gallery with 68 stills containing on - set photos, promotional materials, and advertisements; and a collection of Amicus radio spots and still galleries for Asylum, At the Earth's Core, From Beyond the Grave, Madhouse, Scream and Scream Again, Tales from the Crypt, The Beast Must Die, The Land That Time Forgot, The Mind of Mr. Soames, The People That Time Forgot, and Vault of Horror.

The Chair, which is being submitted in the reality competition category at this year's Emmys, follows two first - time directors as they embark on the cinematic journey of creating a feature using the same original screenplay.

In the film, helmed by first - time feature director Luke Scott, Kate Mara (House Of Cards) plays a corporate risk management consultant who's sent to a remote research laboratory in order to investigate a deadly accident and determine what should be done with the experimental artificial being at its center.

Mathieu Amalric, Jodie Foster, James Franco and Guillaume Canet are among the actors - turned - directors who've had films featured at the festival in recent years, and it could be that their ranks are joined this time around by Ryan Gosling — the star, who featured at the festival in «Drive» and «Only God Forgives,» has stepped behind the camera for odd fable «How To Catch A Monster,» and it could well be a dark horse to feature somewhere in the lineup.

Release: Friday, June 12, 2015 (limited)[Netflix] Directed by: Crystal Moselle Short film director Crystal Moselle's first feature - length documentary probably would have never happened if she weren't on the right street corner at the right time of day.

Sure, the audio commentary with director Greg Coolidge and star Dane Cook is enjoyable at times, but the rest of the special features pale in comparison.

When Augustine Frizzell's buddy - girl comedy Never Goin» Back bows Monday at midnight, it will mark the culmination of a four - year endeavor — an odyssey of sorts mined from Frizzell's own unconventional childhood, and one that required the first - time feature director to completely scrap her original film before re-writing, re-casting, and re-shooting her Sundance debut.

Spike Jonze's return to the feature director's chair (and first time bringing a script he wrote entirely by himself with him) after a four year break is a thoroughly layered and personal film that is at times about the awkward nature of new relationships after a break up (and how we cope with that crushing in - between time), and at times about how technology shapes our modern world, and at times about how we demonstrate and understand love and relationships changes with both time and technology.

Today, the programmers at the Cannes Film Festival revealed the features that are playing in their Critics» Week sidebar: devoted to movies by first - and second - time directors.

Tim Grierson at Screen International: «In some ways, The Good Dinosaur is one of Pixar's most conventional films... But that template sets the stage for a mythic, visually resplendent treatment of familiar material, as first - time feature director Peter Sohn wrings considerable emotion from a tale that's part Western, part Incredible Journey - style adventure.»

Nominees for this year's Academy Awards are set to be unveiled during a two - part news conference starting at 5:30 a.m. Pacific time Thursday and featuring directors Alfonso Cuaron and J.J. Abrams, actor Chris Pine, and academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

The first (and only) feature directed by a promising young writer - director named Steve Gordon, who died the following year of a heart attack at age 44, the first Arthur was hardly a masterpiece, but it was a highly enjoyable comedy of manners done in a style that, even at the time, seemed quaintly old - fashioned.