Sentences with phrase «up directorial effort»

Ed Helms and Lake Bell star in Bell's follow - up directorial effort, a rom - com about three couples whose characters find themselves in ridiculous situations and where the moments of brilliance are fleeting.

His follow - up directorial effort,

A fine piece of genre film making, The Town is Ben Affleck's follow - up directorial effort to Gone, Baby, Gone.

Not exact matches

Not up to the standard of Victor Nunez's previous directorial efforts.

In his latest directorial effort, Kevin Macdonald teams up again with The Last King of Scotland screenwriter Jeremy Brock to bring Rosemary Sutcliff's historical fiction series Eagle of the Ninth to the big screen.

In 1996, Huston made her directorial debut with Bastard out of Carolina, a praised adaptation of Dorothy Allison's novel of the same name, and followed that up with another behind - the - camera effort, Agnes Browne, in 1999.

Bryan Cranston and James Franco are also teaming up on the latter's next directorial effort, In Dubious Battle.

This 10 - disc box set from Reel DVD (literally a cardboard sleeve over a DVD case so as to take up minimal room on one's shelf) features all nine directorial efforts from Woody Allen between 1994 and 2002 is a fine one - stop shop for Allen fans and newcomers alike, perhaps made even more interesting by the fact that this was a notoriously rocky period for Allen's creative legacy.

Don't worry, we won't be making any such weighty theological pronouncements — though these terms have all been bandied about in the run - up to Gibson's first directorial effort in the 10 years since «Apocalypto.»

Jordan Peele, who has been picking up critics awards right and left in both categories, somehow missed out for his debut directorial effort.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

As George Clooney ramps up pre-production on his next directorial effort, the WWII drama The Monuments Men, he's starting to focus on casting the film.

Mike Birbiglia's sophomore directorial effort left my throat dry and my eyes welling up.

Mike Birbiglia's sophomore directorial effort is about the agonies and ecstasies of any creative pursuit — it just so happens that these characters are in the pursuit of making people laugh while making shit up off the top of their heads.

Starring Leslie Mann (Knocked Up), the film marks the second directorial effort from Lucas and Moore after 21 & Over, and is based on an original screenplay from the duo.

With the fall film festival line - ups now pretty much all revealed, it seems we may have to wait until 2013 to see the sophomore directorial effort of Roman Coppola.

Transcendence marks the first directorial effort from producer Christopher Nolan's favorite cinematographer Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises), and if it proves anything, it's that a man with an eye for how to shoot a scene doesn't always equate to excellence in how to set up a story, or to get quality performances from his actors.

But could some of the projects he's involved with in other roles end up providing his next directorial effort?

The Playlist correspondent Jennifer Vineyard caught up with «Sunrise» /» Sunset» star Julie Deply to discuss her latest directorial effort «2 Days In New York,» and got the scoop on the Linklater trilogy - closer, and it turns out they could be as far as a year and a half out.

Radnor may not yet be up to par with the filmmakers that have inspired him, namely Woody Allen, but his sophomore directorial effort, «Liberal Arts,» is practically bursting with promise.

Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door, with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)

Helgeland has two truly great directorial efforts under his belt - the underappreciated A Knight's Tale and the REALLY underappreciated Payback: Straight Up - and one terrible one, The Order.

Conceived as a silly comedy about a shallow US celebrity talk show host and his producer conscripted to kill the leader of North Korea, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's second directorial effort (following last year's pleasant This is the End) is now always going to be about the absurdity that surrounded it in the weeks leading up to its release.

Landesman, who made his directorial debut on the 2013 JFK picture Parkland, will follow up with this as - of - yet untitled effort.

Whereas Franco's previous directorial efforts have gone largely unseen, «The Disaster Artist» is shaping up to be the movie that puts him on the map as a Hollywood director.

Inevitably, there's no denying a comparison of technique with Altman and Mike Leigh (Canijo spent two years developing the characters with the actors via a series of workshops as Leigh does), but the film stands quite firmly as an often uncomfortable, unpleasant, and always fascinating family saga that would, in a fair world, finally open up the English speaking market to Canijo's previous directorial efforts, which date back to the early 80s.

Writer / director Adam Brooks may not have a great track record when it comes to the romantic comedy genre, but he's certainly making up for it with his latest directorial effort.

Following her short film's debut «Come Swim» at Cannes last year and then Sundance in January, actress Kristen Stewart is moving up in her directorial efforts with plans for a feature debut which aims to shoot this Summer.

Considering Beth's working relationship with Ryan Gosling (worked on Ryan's directorial effort Lost River), could we see him end up playing Adam Warlock?

-- James Franco's latest directorial effort, «Zeroville,» has been picked up by Alchemy.

He brings with him the same strengths he's brought to all of his feature directorial efforts; above all else he is a master at clockwork storytelling, of setting things up and paying them off, with a visual flair and an ever - more - confident feel for action.