Sentences with phrase «turned feature film director»

It's from documentarian recently turned feature film director James Marsh, who doesn't do much for the story besides move it along.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Wild, director Jean - Marc Vallee's impressive follow - up to last year's Dallas Buyer's Club is a compelling film about determination, rebirth and taking the road less traveled featuring a fearless lead performance by Reese Witherspoon and a strong supporting turn by Laura...

An extremely strange hybrid of dark comedy / drama, actor turned director John Slattery's (from Mad Men fame) film God's Pocket will likely be forever known only because of it's featuring of one of screen legend Philip Seymour Hoffman's last roles as grubby (when wasn't he grubby?)

When: January 13th Why: It's pretty funny that a movie about counterfeiting should turn out to be an imitation itself (the Icelandic film on which its based featured the U.S. version's director, Baltasar Kormákur, in the lead role), but despite the fact that its clichéd plot seems to have been ripped off from a number of generic action thrillers just like it, «Contraband» has one thing that a lot of those films didn't — a killer ensemble cast.

As with yesterday's post, here again we have a short - form work that was eventually expanded on and turned into a feature - length film by the director of the original.

It has been close to a decade since commercials and music video director turned filmmaker Jonathan Glazer released his sophomore feature film, «Birth.»

«On Chesil Beach» is his first feature film, and yet it's hard to imagine such a seasoned director being so intimidated by the new medium that he would turn in a film that's accidentally devoid of intention, purpose, meaning or inflection.

She first collaborated with the director on a 1979 radio play before going on to star in six of his feature films, climaxing with a stunning lead turn in 2002's «All or Nothing» that was shamefully ignored by awards bodies on both sides of the Atlantic.

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.

Still, it was snubbed in Feature and Director, similar to how things turned out for the film with the Gotham Awards recently.

The real - life account of the tragic fate of Northup and the appalling conditions he and millions of other slaves were forced to endure has been turned into a feature - length epic by British director Steve McQueen, who leads a largely British cast in the film that is being heralded by critics as a must - see film.

Director Edgar Wright, in only his second feature, creates a star turn for Simon Pegg and a film that manages to perfectly capture the transition in our culture from Gen - X to the age of Millennials.

Veteran television director Barnaby Southcombe takes his turn on his first feature film with mixed results, mostly due to his own problematic screenplay more so than anything he does from the director's chair.

Creator, writer, and director Doug Ellin and the cast talk about turning the series into a feature film, getting so many cameos, Mark Wahlberg's involvement, and more.

Luxembourg - born, French - based actress - turned - director Anne Fontaine is no novice to feature films or erotic material; her filmography includes Coco Before Chanel and Nathalie..., the film remade as America's Chloe.

One of the most unusual films based on a true story, writer / director James Steven Sadwith turns his own experience of meeting famous author J.D. Salinger into a feature film.

Hot off directing three episodes of The Handmaid's Tale — including the tone - setting pilot — cinematographer - turned - director Reed Morano is taking her second feature film to Sundance.

Australian actor turned director Jennifer Kent is the latest to attempt to take horror in a different direction with her feature debut The Babadook, a film that takes supernatural horror and shunts it off into a novel course.

Director Gabor Csupo's feature film debut is a simple story that turns into a complex one; the children talk openly about their fears and their hopes.

Natalie Portman's directorial debut A Tale of Love and Darkness screened as a Special Screening during the Cannes Film Festival, giving her the opportunity to promote this first film at the festival outside the competition unlike her actor - turned - director fellow Ryan Gosling, whose debut feature Lost River screened in last year's Un Certain Regard and received mixed and harsh reviews...