Sentences with phrase «turned feature director»

The plot is incoherent as Leitch (a former stunt coordinator turned feature director) once again values style significantly over substance.

Not exact matches

At 116 Pall Mall, The Institute of Directors is hosting a typically swanky bash, featuring champagne, canapés and a turn by special guest Rory Bremner.

Corruption is the law of the land in the every - city of Edison, and the only soul brave enough to peer into the fire and face the wrath of an entire squad of corrupt cops is a fresh - faced journalist in this neo-noir thriller from television director - turned - feature helmer David J. Burke.

Less Is More, More is Less: In his second feature film, photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn tries his best to match Clooney's hostile stillness with distance of his own, but his attempts at visual nuance inadvertently come off as conspicuous filmmaking choices overly fraught with meaning.

With Unbroken, her second feature as a director, she turns the undeniably inspiring true story of Louie Zamperini into an oddly old - fashioned drama.

Bille August is a photographer - turned - director whose penchant for weaving deeply personal stories eventually gave way to adapting seemingly impenetrable novels into moderately successful features.

Jeunet, the imaginative French director behind such films as Amélie, Micmacs, and The City of Lost Children, turns to Reif Larsen's novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet as the source for only his second English - language feature (the first being Alien: Resurrection) and first shot in 3D.

Accepted was the first feature film from screenwriter - turned - director Steve Pink.

A cynical New York salesman (Michael Keaton) finds his scornful ways unexpectedly softened upon falling for the fiancée of his new business partner (Brendan Fraser), a Midwest transplant attempting to find his footing in the city, in screenwriter - turned - director Michael Caleo's feature directorial debut.

Artist - turned - director Noaz Deshe's debut feature about Alias (Hamisi Bazili), an adolescent boy struggling to survive in his native Tanzania, is in some ways the definition of challenging cinema.

A bit more suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie thrills.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

Beginners proves no exception to his varied array of cinematic efforts, as expected given its status as the sophomore feature from designer turned director Mike Mills.

The film, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice festival earlier this year, is the second feature by cinematographer - turned - director Warwick Thornton.

Also, this is Grandage's first feature film; he was previously a theater actor turned theater director and has won several distinguished awards, including the Laurence Olivier theater award for Best Director for «Caligula» director and has won several distinguished awards, including the Laurence Olivier theater award for Best Director for «Caligula» Director for «Caligula» in 2004.

A Touch of Zen features one of the best villains of any 1970s swordplay film, a cunning enemy commander whose troops dog Hsu at ever turn, portrayed by Han Ying - chieh, who also served as action director.

Screenwriter John Romano served time as writer - producer on Hills Street Blues, L.A. Law and Monk, while director Brad Furman turned to crime in his first feature, The Take.

As the film's star once again tramples across a vast expanse of land — albeit in rather different circumstances to The Hobbit trilogy — first - time feature director duo Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke turn a zombie pandemic into a musing on parental love, environmental destruction and the nation's cultural disharmonies.

An astoundingly confident debut feature from actress - turned - director Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird chronicles an entire year in the life of its eponymous teenage protagonist in just ninety minutes, without ever feeling scant or vague.

Analysis: Director Jonathan Glazer turned a lot of heads with his debut feature, the gritty crime drama Sexy Beast, a movie that shocked and impressed with its unique story and characters, so the thought that his follow - up could fail to deliver on those very same elements is surprising.

Reed Morano): The ossified, calcified post-apocalyptic sub-genre gets a semi-successful art - indie treatment in I Think We're Alone Now, cinematographer - turned - director Reed Morano's first feature film since Meadowland debuted at the Sundance Film Festival three years ago...

Bonus features come by way of a feature - length audio commentary track with director Amiel, a special making - of documentary, and around 10 other separate featurettes which include a wide array of cast, crew and academic - leaning interviews, as well as a tour of Darwin's home, which has been turned into a museum.

Like every Edgar Wright movie since «Shaun of the Dead,» the director's fifth feature, «Baby Driver,» takes a ludicrous concept and turns it into a brilliant exercise in high style and a rush of big ideas.

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.

Actor turned director Tate Taylor proves to be even less adept crafting mystery thrillers than he does insincere period melodrama with his third feature, The Girl on the Train, an adaptation of the bestselling pulp novel by Paula Hawkins.

Before long she was Hollywood's only female director, turning out seven feature films and over one hundred TV episodes over a period of approximately two decades.

In only his second feature, Chazelle exhibits a control over the material that is comparable to directors twice his age, as he turns what could have been a relatively typical story of mentor and student into one of the most exhilarating, intense and captivating experiences I've had the pleasure of viewing in years.

After securing the 2013 Sundance Film Festival's Screenwriting award, a slot on the National Board of Review's top ten list of indie films, and the vocal support of critical heavy hitters like A.O. Scott, Lake Bell's pitch - perfectly precise comedy In A World... announced itself as one of the more confident debut features in recent memory, let alone from an actor - turned - director / writer.

In actor - turned - director Raúl Arévalo's debut feature The Fury of a Patient Man, the mesmerizing Ruth Díaz was rewarded for her excellent performance as a pawn (to be sacrificed) in a sinister game of revenge.

Director Tim Miller's freshman outing, which is sure to be a mega blockbuster, features a career - making performance by Reynolds as Wade Wilson, a special - forces soldier turned low - end mercenary who finds out he has terminal cancer - like, all over the joint.

A muddily solemn study of refugees at an Amazonian intersection of nationalities — and other existential states — turns quite literally luminous in «Los Silencios,» a sensitively observed, patience - rewarding sophomore feature from Brazilian writer - director Beatriz Seigner.

The film would mark director Jonathan Glazer's (Birth) feature - length debut and earn Ben Kingsley an Oscar nomination for his wacko and volatile turn as a British thug.

Verdict: Easily our favorite film of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, the fantastic directorial debut of cinematographer / writer - turned - feature filmmaker Daniel Patrick Carbone, «Smiling Faces» may have been the most striking debut we saw all last year (though not mentioned on our Breakout Directors list because it wasn't released in 2013).

Although the noted writer / director continues his trend of capturing excellent performances from his leading ladies (having worked with Jane Birkin in La Fille prodigue, her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg in Amoureuse, Juliette Binoche in La Vie de famille and Isabelle Huppert in La vengeance d'une femme), The Three Way Wedding fails to turn its significant female presence into anything more than an expressive yet insubstantial feature, instead existing in the space between amusing and neurotic, and passionate and melodramatic.

In his sophomore feature Kill List, the former television comedy writer director (with Time Trumpet, Modern Toss, The Wrong Door and Ideal on his resume) retains the same thematic undercurrent whilst increasing the psychological tension, unravelling the extreme exploits of a former solider turned self - styled hitman caught in a wicked web.

As a playwright turned feature film director, Finley adapts to the new medium as if it was his calling all along.

This latest entry is described as the the most technical racing game ever created, by Turn 10 creative director Dan Greenawalt, and will feature over 700 cars from Porsche, Lamborghini, Ferrari, and more.

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.»

Actor - turned - director Tony Goldwyn (A Walk on the Moon, The Last Kiss) does about as good as he can with the material, but whatever decent ideas it has seems spread too thin to cover a full - length feature.

Bad Poetry Tokyo is the debut feature from Anshul Chauhan, an animator turned indie film director.

Now US writer / director Trey Edward Shults is turning up the heat with his second feature, It Comes at Night, which stars Joel Edgerton and Riley Keough alongside a small, lesser - known cast.

The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.

... Turning to Fox now and the studio gave us our very first glimpse of its latest X-Men spinoff this week, releasing the trailer for director Josh Boone's horror - themed The New Mutants, which features a cast that includes Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) as Wolfsbane, Anya Taylor - Joy (The Witch) as Magik, Charlie Heaton (Stranger Things) as Cannonball, Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why) as Sunspot, Blu Hunt (The Originals) as Danielle Moonstar and Alice Braga (Queen of the South) as Dr. Cecilia Reyes.

Only four years after the disastrous 1492: Conquest of Paradise (a film that would have destroyed a lesser director's career), Ridley Scott was back in nautical territory with White Squall, a semi-successful, fact - based survival / courtroom drama that featured a sizable collection of up - and - coming actors, including Scott Wolf, Ryan Phillippe, Jeremy Sisto, Eric Michael Cole, Balthazar Getty, and Ethan Embry (among others), and a creditable turn by Jeff Bridges as the ill - fated leader of a sailing trip threatened by the «white squall» (a sudden, violent windstorm) of the title.

Sad that a post featuring a great woman director turned into such as misogynistic mess in the comments section.

Chris Rock's latest project, Top Five, features the writer - director - actor playing a comedian - turned - film star who gives full access to his life to a pretty journalist (Rosario Dawson).

Underworld: Blood Wars is directed by filmmaker Anna Foerster, a cinematographer turned director making her feature debut after work on «Outlander» and «Criminal Minds».

The actor - turned - director seemed shockingly confident and assured in his first feature, 2007's marvelous Gone Baby Gone, but as The Playlist reminded us this week, his first film (pre-Good Will Hunting, even) was a 1993 short inventively titled I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Ηung Ηer on a Μeathook & Νow I Have a Three - Picture Deal with Disney.

Story of Your Life will be the director's fourth English - language feature and will be a hard left turn for Villeneuve.

In the latest episode of my new Deadline video series Behind The Lens, in which I explore the art and style of directors in one - on - one conversations, I talk to a relative newcomer to helming, Stephen Chbosky whose third feature film, Wonder, has turned into an out - of - the - b0x hit for Lionsgate since it opened in November, so far grossing well over $ 100 million domestically and going strong.