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

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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.

TGI Fridays is launching the Red Hot Summer of Music, a summer - long celebration featuring an online contest in search of the best undiscovered musical artists, with three - time Grammy Award - winning artist and Creative Director for Malibu Red NE - YO, and some of YouTube's top artists.

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!

It's tautly helmed by first - time feature director Title and well - acted by the able cast, particularly Vance and Annabeth Gish.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

But you could probably do better than spending 89 minutes with this Michael Bay - produced haunted house tale / board game adaptation from first - time director Stiles White, featuring a mostly no - name cast.

A gritty, relentless wartime drama that blends its action set pieces with palpable despair and historical observation, «' 71» maintains a polished intensity that fares well for first - time feature director Yann Demange.

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.

Despite his inclusion in the guild's highest honor, Davis failed to secure an Academy Award nomination for best director; the «Lion» helmer and his team were nevertheless rewarded with the award for outstanding directorial achievement of a first - time feature.

Lion director Garth Davis earned two nominations today, the top category as well as First - Time Feature Film.

First - time feature directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion keep a good pace and show some comic flair with performance and visuals.

Best Actor - George Clooney - The Descendants Best Actress - Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn Best Animated Film - The Adventures of Tintin Best Director - Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist Best Documentary - Page One: Inside the New York Times Best First Feature - Martha Marcy May Marlene - Sean Durkin Best Foreign Language Film - The Skin I Live In The Not - So - Obviously Worst Film - Hangover Part II The Obviously Worst Film - Transformers: Dark of the Moon Best Screenplay (Original)- The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius Best Screenplay (Adaptation)- Moneyball - Aaron Sorkin Best Supporting Actor - Albert Brooks - Drive Best Supporting Actress - Octavia Spencer - The Help

First - time feature director Anna Foerster seems well aware that the talky bits in the Underworld universe are best served in small doses, and that gives the extended cast — which also includes Theo James as a good guy, Tobias Menzies as a bad guy, Lara Pulver as a vampire lady we're not quite sure about, and (of course) the awesome Charles Dance emoting his way through some enjoyably colorful nonsense — ample time to beat the stuffing out of each other.

But the director is first - time feature filmmaker Dean Parisot, and while he does create a bleak, claustrophobic atmosphere, he hasn't managed to get the best performances from his actors.

Featured characters include Jack Warner, Eartha Kitt, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, and Pier Angeli... Underrated English indie filmmaker Duane Hopkins, director of 2008's Better Things, is finally back with his second feature, Bypass, a lost - youth drama about a young small - time fence (played by rising star George MacKay) who comes to a crossroads in his life...

The 2017 Directors Guild of America Awards announced their picks for both the best film directors and first - time feature directors of Directors Guild of America Awards announced their picks for both the best film directors and first - time feature directors of directors and first - time feature directors of directors of the year.

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.

Working closely under the tutelage of Terrence Malick for several years now, editor and second - unit director turned writer / director A.J. Edwards (who has logged time on «The New World,» «The Tree of Life» and «To the Wonder «-RRB-, might have been better advised to get out from under the shadow of his mentor for his feature - length debut, «The Better Angels.&better advised to get out from under the shadow of his mentor for his feature - length debut, «The Better Angels.&Better Angels.»

It reads like well - worn territory and when a first - time director picks their own life as inspiration for a debut feature, the results can often seem self - indulgent.

Say Anything features a very well - developed love story mixed with great comedy and serious drama, but also never seems uneven in tone, astonishing for a first - time director.

In a twist that nods in the direction of «Midsummer» (apparently a key influence on the script by David Berenbaum, Irene Mecchi and first - time feature director Gary Rydstrom), Roland, still bent on winning Marianne's hand and the crown that comes with it, decides to exploit the good - natured Sunny (Elijah Kelley), a diminutive, ebony - skinned elf who has unrequited feelings for Dawn.

Further features followed, including Jamie Thraves «underseen «Cry Of The Owl,» and Ruba Nadda «s «Cairo Time,» which landed the director a spot on Kris Tapley's competitive best shots of the year list in 2010, and rightly so — it was more great work from the DoP.

In this Oscar podcast the gaggle of Gold Rush Gang members (Erik, Matt M, Kenneth and Evan) dish on all things ladies; Lead Actress, Supporting Actress plus the hot Best Director race that could feature, for the first time, two women — Angelina Jolie and Ava DuVernay.

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.

The plucky and well - acted, if not always shiver - inducing, «Lights Out» — from first - time feature director David F. Sandberg, building on his popular viral short, and fright impresario James Wan («The Conjuring 2»)-- works a clever gimmick that seems tailor - made for the visual particulars of movies: a terrorizing figure one can only detect when there's no illumination.

It's been a while since we've seen any rumblings from the Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues, but his 2012 feature, The Last Time I Saw Macao, was one of the best of that year.

The audio commentary is well worth spending time listening to and features the writer - director John De Bello covering various aspects about the film and the other Tomato's pictures and cartoon series.

feature The Good Dinosaur was hit with its own extinction - level event two years ago, when director Bob Peterson was moved off the project in favor of longtime Pixar artist and first - time director Peter Sohn.

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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.

Good Kill is the latest feature film from Andrew Niccol, who sci - fi fans will know as the writer / director of the cult classic Gattaca (1997) and more recently for In Time (2011).

The Jay Scott Award for best feature film (honour named after the late Toronto Globe and Mail film critic) went to «The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada» by first - time director, Tommy Lee Jones.

DEADLINE — Melora Walters, Maddie Hasson and Billy Burke have been cast in Good After Bad, an indie from first - time feature director Anne - Marie Hess.

The Director's Guild also announced its nominations for Best First - Time Feature Film Director, where Peele will compete against — which is to say, given that he also made the Varsity cut, probably demolish — Geremy Jasper (Patti Cake $), William Oldroyd (Lady Macbeth), Taylor Sheridan (Wind River), and Aaron Sorkin (Molly's Game).

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.»

Well, if you're first - time feature director Gary Shore, you begin by spinning a tale about children heisted from Transylvania by some dastardly Turks and molded into a gruesome child army, all of which is visually expressed by very inventive almost - still - but - almost - moving tableaus of kids being taught to slaughter.

Timothée Chalamet would be the youngest Best Actor in a Leading Role of all time, while Best Documentary Feature director Agnès Varda (Faces Places) is the oldest - ever nominee.

Nominating Committee for Best Feature, Best Screenplay, and Breakthrough Director: Justin Chang, Film Critic, Los Angeles Times Peter Debruge, Chief Film Critic, Variety Christy Lemire, Film Critic, RogerEbert.com; Co-host of What the Flick?!

Very Good (3 stars) Unrated In Spanish with subtitles Running time: 97 minutes Distributor: Music Box Films DVD Extras: Commentary by co-stars Alfredo Castro and Antonia Zegers; interviews with Antonia Zegers and director Pablo Larrain; Berlinale press conference excerpt; and a collector's booklet featuring cast and crews interviews and an essay by film critic Jessica Kiang.

The director Patricia Cardoso — who's best known for her 2002 film Real Women Have Curves (which won a Sundance Audience Award)-- recalls how she was passed over to direct seven different feature films, and each time, the job went instead to a white male director.

First - time feature director Ron Underwood (The Adventures of Pluto Nash, In the Mix) keeps the pace brisk, while the screenwriting team of Wilson and Maddock (Wild Wild West, * batteries not included) serve up an always interesting array of situations and confrontations with which to engage us with some good laughs and good scares, sometimes simultaneously.

In a genre more and more dominated by in media res character pieces and verisimilitude, first time feature director Gillian Robespierre has found the best way to naturally draw the audience into her world.

Not only did first time feature writer - director Michael R. Roskam deliver a solid film, but he snagged an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Music video veteran and first - time feature director Anthony Mandler has been desperate to bring Monster to the screen for years, and now he's done so with a cast that includes such heavyweights as Jennifer Ehle, Jeffrey Wright, and Tim Blake Nelson, as well as musicians - turned - actors like Oscar - winner Jennifer Hudson, Nas, and A$ AP Rocky (real name Rakim Mayers) as Harmon's co-defendant.

Sports movies in general can get away with a lot if they feature well - made sequences of the sport in question being played, but director McG (no fast food jokes this time) even has a difficult time holding any interest in the rare times we see the game of football on screen.

Proudly and narrowly, «12 Strong» is a good - news war story, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by first - time feature director Nicolai Fuglsig, of Denmark.

Manos Sucias Co-writer and first - time director Josef Wladyka won Tribeca's Best New Narrative Director award for this tremendously immersive Colombian feature about two brothers hired to help deliver an immense cocaine cargo, hidden in a submerged torpedo shell they drag behind thedirector Josef Wladyka won Tribeca's Best New Narrative Director award for this tremendously immersive Colombian feature about two brothers hired to help deliver an immense cocaine cargo, hidden in a submerged torpedo shell they drag behind theDirector award for this tremendously immersive Colombian feature about two brothers hired to help deliver an immense cocaine cargo, hidden in a submerged torpedo shell they drag behind their boat.

Before delving into this project, Wolfe was already an award - winning music video director whose credits included The Shoes» «Time to Dance,» featuring a murderous Jake Gyllenhaal, as well as the intensely cinematic video for Paolo Nutini's «Iron Sky,» in which there are a number of aesthetic similarities to Catch Me Daddy.

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017), because it's the most powerful popular feminist statement in mainstream cinema thus far, inspiring countless young women and girls to dare to succeed; because Patty Jenkins more than deserved it after languishing in the wilderness of episodic television after her masterful film Monster (2003), when any male director would have gone on to direct four of five features on the strength of that one film; because it's about damned time that a female comic book feature got made; because Jenkins still had to fight to get a fair payday to direct WW 2 — enduring months of fight - to - the - death negotiations to get a directorial fee comparable to that of Zack Snyder or J.J. Abrams for the sequel; and finally because she's better than either of those two directors, who are overrated hacks with little or no vision at all.