Sentences with phrase «when debut feature»

He emerged as a wunderkind when his debut feature «J'ai Tue Ma Mere» became a sensation of the Director's Fortnight, and made his official entry in the festival with «Les amours imaginaires» («Heartbeats») playing Un Certain Regard in 2010.

Creed by George Wolf When your debut feature film was a powerfully moving achievement that heralded limitless filmmaking potential, what's your next move?

Mexican director Patricia Riggen shares with Adrion how frustrated she was when her debut feature, 2007's «Under the Same Moon» cost $ 1.7 million to make and made $ 23 million at the box office but didn't lead to many directing offers.

And Jordan Vogt - Roberts more than justified all that this year when his debut feature, «Toy's House,» premiered and became one of the best - liked films of the festival.

Not exact matches

The Aussie duo has just released their debut album, When It Was Now, featuring the hit song, «Trojans.»

And when I started to brainstorm for the next big feature to debut on my wife's site, House of Yumm, it was the King who I turned to for some inspiration.

When the Mad Rex IPA bottles debut they will feature a custom and groundbreaking skull design that will coordinate with the interior decor and props that are found inside of Mad Rex.

Billboard has released the World Albums Chart for the week ending on January 20th, featuring K - pop releases making exciting debuts and also showing What do you thing when look at boy who dance alone?

When Wes Anderson's feature debut Bottle Rocket was released just two years after Pulp Fiction, the market had been saturated with cool, quirky, independent crime films, most of them trying to be the next Quentin Tarantino.

When it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year, writer - director John Maclean's debut feature won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize.

Following the series» demise in 1991, Helgenberger returned to television guest - star status on ER, where she had a four - episode - long recurring role, and in the miniseries The Tommyknockers.A presence on the big screen since 1989, when she made her feature - film debut in Steven Spielberg's romantic fantasy Always, Helgenberger has played a wide variety of roles in films ranging from Species (1995) to the moody The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997) to Steven Soderbergh's widely acclaimed Erin Brockovich (2000).

Director, Producer, and Actor Kasi Lemmons had the film world buzzing in 1997 when her feature - length debut «Eve's Bayou» hit art - house screens and racked up film festival awards along the way.

Especially when you factor in that this is Sara Colangelo's feature - length directorial debut, after having made a few shorts over the past few years.

The film marks the directorial feature debut for Ryan Prows and features a cast that includes Nicki Micheaux, Ricardo Adam Zarate, and Jon Oswald; check them out here... What happens when you throw together a fallen -LSB-...]

«Woody Allen said to Rebecca Hall once in a scene, «Do it once happy, do it sad, and do it indifferent, because I don't know where I'm going to be when I'm editing this,»» Messina, who premiered his feature debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

Theo Taplitz, in a remarkably mature, nuanced feature film debut, plays Jake, an introverted thirteen - year - old with dreams of being an artist who moves with this family from Manhattan to Brooklyn when his father inherits an apartment and a storefront there.

This precedent was set in this film, his feature debut, as Makoto struggles to decide what course to take when she is given power beyond anything she could've previously imagined.

Making his feature debut, writer - director Yan England, who scored an Oscar nomination for his 2011 short «Henry,» has a solid - enough feel for the stresses of adolescence, particularly when the cruelty of the many bears down on the few.

M. Manikandan's debut feature The Crow's Egg is a child's - eye tale of exuberance and kinship that only loses its focus when it wants to play grown - up.

Don't blame Strong, who wrote Lee Daniels's The Butler, and here makes his feature directorial debut, for failing to make writing cinematically interesting when no one else has pulled it off.

The weekend takes a terrifying turn when a meteorite crashes the party forcing everyone to face the darkest, screaming extraterrestrial nightmare imaginable... The Gracefield Incident is written and directed by up - and - coming filmmaker Mathieu Ratthe, making his feature directorial debut after a number of short films previously.

I heard a lot of buzz from the festival circuit about how Evan Katz «s debut feature was a top - notch horror film, so imagine my surprise when it turned out to be something entirely different.

When fire destroyed the negative to Sara Driver's 1982 debut feature, the film was thought lost forever.

Trachtenberg added that he has also been influenced by the horror genre as a filmmaker, particularly when he decided to delve into the «Cloverfield» universe to make his feature debut.

When Steven Soderbergh cast Andie MacDowell in his debut feature, he was well aware that she wasn't highly regarded; writing in his journal at the time, he described the reaction from his casting agent as «Uh-oh, Steven fell for the model.»

Barber previously worked with Lonergan on his acclaimed debut feature, «You Can Count On Me,» and she has provided music for films such as «Mansfield Park,» «Hysterical Blindness,» «A Price Above Rubies,» and «When Night Is Falling.»

Ford also made history when he won three awards including direction, debut and nonfiction feature film at the Cinema Eye Awards.

The title of Leah Meyerhoff's feature - length writing and directing debut, I Believe In Unicorns, seems designed to push away anyone dubious about preciousness, especially when it comes to stylish coming - of - age indies.

When the trailer debuted the other day, amongst the most striking features of the sci - fi epic were the rendering of Rosa Salazar's eyes.

The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999) Brad Bird's feature debut was traditional 2 - D animation when computer animation was the craze, released by studio folk who didn't realize just how special a film they had on their hands.

In his enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village.

Colorlessly directed by Colm McCarthy in his feature debut, this overlong contribution to the genre is set in the not - too - distant future, when a fungus has turned most everyone into brain - dead «Hungries» feasting on flesh and blood.

Studiocanal has debuted a new poster and trailer for Aardman Animation and Nick Park's prehistoric animated comedy Early Man which features a voice cast that includes Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Richard Ayoade, Selena Griffiths, Mark Williams, Timothy Spall, Johnny Vegas, Gina Yashere, and Simon Greenall; check them out below... Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric -LSB-...]

Terence Davies, an actor turned filmmaker who directed his first short film in 1976, has made a mere six features since 1988, when he released his debut feature Distant Voices, Still Lives.

His career took off when he starred in Amenábar's feature film debut, the surprise hit THESIS (1996), followed by OPEN YOUR EYES (1997) where he played alongside Penelope Cruz and received a Goya nomination for his performance.

It reads like well - worn territory and when a first - time director picks their own life as inspiration for a debut feature, the results can often seem self - indulgent.

Writer - director Boris Rodriguez's feature - film debut starts out reasonably well, sketching in the principal characters and rural setting with broad but compelling strokes, even doling out some perceptive laughs, before the narrative loses steam when it bogs down in repetition and predictability.

When the writer - director's debut, Pariah, about a black lesbian teenager coming to terms with her sexuality, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011, it was a darling with critics and was bought by distributor Focus Features.

Directing tandem Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead first hit the indie movie scene when their feature film debut Resolution took the genre by storm, delivering a skin - crawling psychological haunter that still has people talking.

When you're Rob Marshall and only have two other feature films on your directing resume, it takes some guts to embark on a project like Nine, even if you did manage to win a Best Picture Oscar for your directorial debut Chicago (an award that many film critics strongly disagree with, incidentally).

Boogie Nights (1997), Paul Thomas Anderson's first fully formed film after the frustration and battles of his debut feature Hard Eight (1996), was conceived when he was 17 years old.

When it first debuted, gamers were captivated by its satisfying 2D action gameplay and horror setting featuring a cast of various albeit cliché monsters such as skeletons, mummies, bats, and zombies.

Over the course of a couple of phone chats — one interrupted by a dead cell phone battery — one can hear the earnest joy in her voice, usually followed by that laughter, when talking about her journey from M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, her feature film debut, to the massive success of Jurassic World despite her character's penchant for running in heels from dinosaurs and, most recently, her 2017 Screen Actors Guild Award - nominated performance in an episode of Netflix's Black Mirror.

Following in the footsteps of Studio Ghibli (which co-produced the film), Michael Dudok de Wit's «The Red Turtle» is a surprisingly poignant feature - length debut that proves animation can be just as effective as live action when done right.

The first look the overwhelming majority of us had at Sharlto Copley was when the South African made his feature acting debut as the lead of Neill Blomkamp's District 9.

It didn't quite, although he's rarely out of work, and when Polley came to make her feature debut with «Away From Her,» Montpellier was her only choice, and his haunting wintry images are almost as crucial to the film as Julie Christie «s astonishing performance.

When the film opens, best friends Napoleon (Johnny Whitaker, who Disney must have seen as its new child star in 1972) and Samantha (Jodie Foster in her feature film debut) lead simple lives.

When Terry Zwigoff made his debut feature Louie Bluie in 1985, he didn't have big plans for a movie career.

Graphic designer Henry Hobson's feature directing debut stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Midwestern farmer who faces an unexpected crises when his oldest daughter (played by Abigail Breslin) is infected with a disease that gradually turns her into a cannibalistic zombie.

In the 1960s, his feature film debut, he plays the haunted and pale Boo Radley in To Kill A Mocking Bird; in the 1970s he immortalized his love for the smell of napalm in the morning as a general who like to surf and plays Wagner when going into battle; in the 1980s he plays a quiet, down - on - his - luck country singer who does odd jobs for room and board while trying to put his life back together; and in the 1990s his turn as the bombastic Apostle E.F. might just be the best single performance of that decade.