Sentences with phrase «time feature director who»

Nor would I mind if Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird») or Jordan Peele («Get Out») pulled off an upset, less for the history - making implications than for the satisfaction of honoring a first - time feature director who knocked it out of the park.

Meet Leigh Janiak, a first - time feature director who's also the sole female filmmaker behind a SXSW 2014 Midnight Program official selection.

Bryan Buckley is a long - time commercials director but first - time feature director who works here from a screenplay Rauch wrote with her husband, Winston.

Not exact matches

Alexis Gambis is a French - Venezuelan scientist - veered filmmaker who has been featured by The New York Times, TED, Nature, Science, Cell, The Village Voice, and WNYC; he is Founder & Executive Director of the Imagine Science Film Festival.

Meetic will introduce features this year that let handset users find out real - time who's around them and interested in meeting, and match potential soulmates who, for example, frequent the same gym, Managing Director Philippe Chainieux said in an interview.The number of European Web users visiting a dating site «almost every day» through their mobile rose 49 % between February 2010 and 2011 to 2.8 M, according to comScore.

The feature, Actors in Search of a Story, applauds the entire cast of the film (right down to the woman who plays Harold's psychologist for about two minutes of screen time), Building the Team profiles director Marc Forster and some of his crew, and Words on a Page focuses on budding young screenwriter Zach Helm.

Its time, I think, is the 1970s, when directors like Alejandro Jodorowsky («El Topo,» «The Holy Mountain») and Nicolas Roeg («Don't Look Now,» «The Man Who Fell to Earth») made viscerally intense features with subjective visuals and sound effects and music and dissociative editing.

This year's First - Time Director's programme features Héléna Klotz, who will attend to present Atomic Age, which along with Alice Wincour's Augustine, and Elie Wajeman's Aliyah, showcase the wealth of new talent rising through French cinema.

First - time feature writer - director Mike Cahill (who co-scripted with Marling) gives Another Earth a raw visual aesthetic in keeping with its low budget, but just as suitable to its raw feelings of loss, regret, and longing.

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...

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...

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 feature director Chris McKay (who was an animation co-director on The Lego Movie) keeps the pace moving, and the five - person -LRB-!)

All of that didn't leave much time left over, but I did get to see one other film, a debut feature by directors Alex and Benjamin Brewer called The Trust, starring Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood as crooked Las Vegas cops who try to pull off a daring heist.

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize ($ 20,000) Marjorie Prime / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Michael Almereyda)-- In the near future — a time of artificial intelligence — 86 - year - old Marjorie has a handsome new companion who looks like her deceased husband and is programmed to feed the story of her life back to her.

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.»

It's also the title of co - writer / director team Tom Gould and John Serpe's feature directorial debut, a cutesy classic Hollywood tale adapted for modern times, about small - town dreamers who move to Los Angeles with stars in their eyes.

In the feature, Donaldson effectively compares and contrasts the career trajectories for Mimi Leder, who made her name through her Emmy - winning work on «ER,» directed the one of the top - grossing films of 1998 with «Deep Impact» and then went to «movie jail» and didn't direct another film for nine years after the middling performance of her 2000 family drama «Pay It Forward,» to those of Trevorrow, who made his feature debut with the Sundance hit «Safety Not Guaranteed,» won the choice gig helming «Jurassic World» on director Brad Bird's recommendation and managed steer to the reboot of one of the most popular film franchises of all time to giant box - office success.

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.

The last time director Thomas Carter made a feature film, it was the inspiring true story of high school coach Ken Carter who, though leading an undefeated team, believed there was something more important to the future of his players than winning.

Features relaxed commentary by director Lone Scherfig and actors Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard (who spend as much time reminiscing over the shoot and appreciating key moments as discussing the production and the characters), a nine - minute making of featurette (which also includes interviews with screenwriter Nick Hornby and author Lynn Barber) and 11 deleted scenes among the supplements on both DVD and Blu - ray.

The kid who had such a tough time getting through high school in Easy A is having teenage misfit woes all over again in Norman, the second feature by director Jonathan Segal.

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.

There is also a new feature length commentary with Adrienne Barbeau, who played Maggie, discussing her memories of the film with director of photography Dean Cundey, who credits Carpenter's vision for being so ahead of its time in even attempting to create a (seemingly large) whole different world on the tiny budget of an independent film.

Now in theaters everywhere is a movie titled Chronicle, from first - time feature director Josh Trank (hear his story), a found - footage movie about three high school teens in Seattle who get telekinetic superpowers and what happens after that.

Director Volker Schlöndorff had already made three feature films (including his influential 1966 debut, Young Törless) by the time he tackled this project, casting a twenty - four - year - old Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the role of a booze - soaked, womanizing poet who goes on a scorched - earth bender across the German countryside.

These young adult movies have seen some impressive names step behind the director chair but Maze Runner finds itself as the feature debut of visual effects artist Wes Ball and there's no doubting the fact that this feels like a first - time effort of someone who can't bring the energy required to keep a film's pulse moving.

Can you name any other director who made as many feature films over as long a time as Allen?

The Screenwriters Intensive is for first - time fiction feature writers or writer / directors who come from underrepresented communities, including women, artists of color, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities.

The Eyes of My Mother, directed by music - video prodigy Nicolas Pesce, who carves his name indelibly into the psyche with one of the most memorable horror films in recent memory; and Under the Shadow, from first - time feature film director and MIFF guest, Babak Anvari.

Susan Sarandon and Gideon Adlon have come aboard the Focus Features drama Mustang, from French actress and first - time director Laure de Clermont - Tonnerre, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

Starring a roster of great talent including Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, and Brie Larson — who reunites with her Short Term 12 director, Destin Daniel Cretton — and featuring a breakout performance by the «young Jeannette» actress, Ella Anderson (The Boss), The Glass Castle is an overlong waste of everyone's time.

The film comes from writers / directors Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer and features a large ensemble cast of actors who play multiple roles across different time periods and settings.

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.

A Far Off Place features some beautiful African photography, probably in part to first - time director Mikael Solomon, who earlier worked as a cinematographer for such films as The Abyss and Arachnophobia.

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).

Some of you may have seen his first two features — the teen - drama / time - travel film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the techno - apocalyptic dysfunctional family dramedy Summer Wars — but the director tops himself with his third and latest film Wolf Children, a stunningly beautiful, unabashedly sentimental, and surprisingly complex story that works as both a coming - of - age film and a study of the trials of being a single mottime - travel film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the techno - apocalyptic dysfunctional family dramedy Summer Wars — but the director tops himself with his third and latest film Wolf Children, a stunningly beautiful, unabashedly sentimental, and surprisingly complex story that works as both a coming - of - age film and a study of the trials of being a single motTime and the techno - apocalyptic dysfunctional family dramedy Summer Wars — but the director tops himself with his third and latest film Wolf Children, a stunningly beautiful, unabashedly sentimental, and surprisingly complex story that works as both a coming - of - age film and a study of the trials of being a single mother.

First - time feature director Eva Vives (who co-wrote «Raising Victor Vargas») has a lot to say and finds some provocative ways to express it all.

LMD: What was it like as a first time feature director to work with Ms. No, who's written quite a few hit films?

McCarthy, heretofore a Broadway actor who has also been a series regular on Boston Public and appeared on Ally McBeal, The Practice, and Law & Order: SVU, makes a surprisingly assured debut as a first - time feature director - writer.

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.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit has it's own fair share of we - want - more - and - more - movie - secrets goodness, this time featuring in both a pop up feature entitled Toon Town Confidential and of course, an Audio Commentary with director Robert Zemeckis, producers Frank Marshall and Steve Starkey, writers Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price, and visual effects guru Ken Ralston.

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.

The feature debut of writer - director Andrew Renzi, the film introduces a type of character we don't normally see on film: one who is both noble and, at times, as wildly inappropriate as a character in an Adam Sandler movie.

Quite an achievement for a movie by a first - time director (James Cameron making his directing debut after being kicked off Piranha 2) featuring an actor who had yet to make it to the A-list!

The first trailer for Three Days to Kill from Terminator Salvation director McG has arrived featuring Costner as a dying assassin who takes on one last mission in exchange for the potential of more time to reunite with his estranged daughter (Hailee Steinfeld).

«The 33» (November 13): The news headline phenomenon of the 33 miners who were trapped underground for 69 days gets its feature treatment, this time from Mexican director Patricia Riggen («Under the Same Moon» and «Girl in Progress»).

More news from the ever growing world of Halloween - inspired fan films on this #MichaelMyersMonday, as director Kohl Bladen released a new video today featuring Tony Moran, who played the briefly unmasked version of Michael Myers in John Carpenter's 1978 classic, explaining why he decided to reprise his most iconic role one more time in Halloween: The Night Evil Died, and unofficial non-profit sequel that will continue the story line from the original Halloween movie series (parts 1 - 8).