Sentences with phrase «time filmmaker»

I love when first time filmmakers go for a game changing look and feel.

An impressive indie - noir from a first - time filmmaker who takes a simple idea and turns it into a surprisingly powerful film.

There's something about first - time filmmakers turning to the coming - of - age genre that feels oddly appropriate.

It may be a possibility that most of the first time filmmaker films submitted were very lousy this year.

Many of the year's most powerful, intriguing films came from first time filmmakers, though several of these are industry veterans.

There were more first - time filmmakers at Sundance this year than at any time since the fest's inception, and women were well - represented in that group.

Emily Bronte's novel is one of the most unsettling books you'll ever read, so it's about time a filmmaker made a darkly disturbing movie out of it.

Martha Marcy May Marlene is a haunting psychological thriller from first time filmmaker Sean Durkin, about a young woman trying to recover from her years of being part of a cult.

It is perhaps the most Kubrickian image of the year, which is saying something, given the number of times the filmmaker's name has been evoked in critical discussion of the year's cinema.

And as writer / director Stephen Fingleton creates an utterly plausible and devastatingly grim future, the film marks a first time filmmaker with an awful lot to say.

Read what Alisa Kovalenko has to say about their experiences as first time filmmakers working under truly extraordinary circumstances on THE FEMALE GAZE.

Thoroughbreds was written and directed by first - time filmmaker Cory Finley, and for other amateurs it's a masterclass in squeezing everything you can out of a small budget.

First time filmmaker Michael Tiddes is directing with Wayans producing and co-starring alongside Nick Swardson, Cedric the Entertainner, David Koechner, Essence Atkins and others.

The details surrounding the accused crime aren't important, which is why first - time filmmaker Jason Lew doesn't bother divulging them.

Columbia grad and first time filmmaker Ned Benson «s doomed affair starts amicably enough with our bubbly but impoverished couple dining and dashing at a chic joint before collapsing into each others arms at some darkness - clad NYC park.

By trying to include an entire acclaimed novel on - screen, first - time filmmaker Biyi Bandele waters down momentous real - life events.

First - time filmmaker Matt Sobel delivers a mysterious, tense coming - of - age story with Take Me to the River, a selection of the NEXT program in...

Its broken characters have that nonchalant charisma that is baffling in its ease and the script, from first - time filmmakers Hannah Marks and Joey Power...

The true - life thriller was one of the films we tipped to start a bidding war and with the distribution company negotiating for multiple territories, first time filmmaker John Krokidas must be feeling real good.

At times the filmmakers seem to be taking potshots at Philomena for her placidity; other times Martin is made to seem crass and unfeeling — insufficiently spiritual.

The festival's Camera d'Or award for a first - time filmmaker went to Michael Rowe's «Leap Year,» a romance that plays out in Mexico City.

Wisely, that's what first - time filmmaker Liv Corfixen does...

Indignation: First - time filmmaker James Schamus delivers an often enthralling adaptation of Philip Roth's novel that's beautifully acted and perfectly paced.

The 41st Telluride Film Festival is hard to get to, but worth the trip, and showcases the most anticipated U.S. premieres from first time filmmakers like Jon Stewart to veteran filmmakers including Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Bennett Miller.

Written and directed by first - time filmmaker Babak Anvari.

What you'll find in first - time filmmaker Julia Ducournau's Raw is a thoughtful coming - of - age tale.

That's exactly the catalyst first time filmmakers Ramon Malpica, Lindsey Cummings and Matthew Thomas took with their debut film, titled Beyond the Bridge.

The Sundance Institute has selected eight first time filmmakers for the Directors Lab (May 30 - June 23) and in the rare case, we might actually see one of these eventual films break into the Park City line - up as early as next January (rest assured we'll be keeping tabs).

The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival saw its fair share of first time filmmakers as well as returning and well experienced actors and directors.

Written and directed by first - time filmmaker Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Approaching the Unknown is a new space movie starring Mark Strong as a man on a solo mission to Mars who has to keep his ship and his sanity from falling apart.

First - time filmmaker Tony Aloupis, formerly frontman of the New Jersey rock band Shadows of Dreams, serves up Americana like a stale slice of apple pie.

The film hands her too many easy solutions, and the few times the filmmakers try to get inventive, it just comes off as dumb.

The inclusion of countless flashbacks and cutaways effectively perpetuates the off - the - wall, almost sketch comedy - like atmosphere, and it does become awfully difficult to resist the shamelessly affable nature of first - time filmmaker Grant Heslov's modus operandi.

Next up for the genre maven in Replace, directed by first - time filmmaker Norbert Keil, a horror - thriller starring Rebecca Forsythe (We Are Your Friends) as a young woman who is afflicted with a strange disease.

Signals Over The Air: First Time Filmmaker Chad Gracia Sees Russian Conspiracy Theory Transform Into Truth...

It's a shame to think what could have been accomplished in better hands than these controlling sensibilities exhibited by the not - ready - for - prime time filmmaker Ms. Taymor and the ever - present authority figure Ms. Hayek.

One of the biggest discoveries and best films of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival is a Belgian dramatic feature titled Girl, from first - time filmmaker Lukas Dhont.

The last time filmmaker Nick Park graced our screens, it was with the most recent «Wallace & Gromit» animated short, «A Matter of Loaf and Death» (2008), although he did co-write the wonderful 2015 «Shaun the Sheep Movie.»

A strong, intense and ambitious movie from first time filmmaker Director, Jason Hewitt.

In the Australian corner, the «Local Heroes» crop includes Guy Pearce and Miranda Otto in first - time filmmaker Simone North's thriller I Am You, Bill Bennett's Uninhabited, Jaws (also screening in a dive - in cinema special event alongside Deep Blue Sea) meets Open Water in The Reef, and True Blood «s Ryan Kwanten in Red Hill.

Compared with other first time filmmaker peers, Travis Gutiérrez Senger's feature debut appears to have benefited...

The actor and first - time filmmaker discusses why he wanted to take the helm of this raucous comedy, which expands nationwide starting today.

ANOTHER first time filmmaker Adam Pesce, makes a very strong debut here, as he chronicles the ill effects on these islanders of their dreams of competing in the inaugural Papua New Guinea National Surfing Titles.

Written and directed by first - time filmmaker J.C. Chandor, the film depicts the events that led up to the Financial Crisis of 2008 from an unnamed investment bank.

First - time filmmaker Aselton creates one of the most assured thrillers in recent memory, throwing finely developed characters into a very nasty situation that makes us squirm in our seats.

Instead, what Heckler — a first - time filmmaker finally getting to make his passion project after nearly 20 years — offers is a hard - won redemption story that doesn't cut corners and or look for easy answers.

«She said right from the beginning that there would be a bargain,» the 43 - year - old first - time filmmaker recalled at last month's Tribeca Film Festival - according to Variety.

Project X is directed by first - time filmmaker Nima Nourizadeh, from a screenplay by Matt Drake (Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman) and Michael Bacall (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and 21 Jump Street).