Sentences with phrase «when debut feature films»

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

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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.

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.

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-...]

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The film looks to be a female party comedy and a thoughtful treatise on self - definition when the rest of world wants to reduce you to just one thing and marks the feature debuts for both director Jones and screenwriter Julie Rudd.

Michael Pearce's debut feature is a love story trapped within a horror film; a dark fairytale about an emotionally isolated woman who comes under the spotlight of an island community when she falls in love with a man who is suspected of a series of brutal murders.

The film marks the directorial debut for the Pitch Perfect franchise scribe Kay Cannon and features a cast that includes Leslie Mann, Ike Barinholtz, and John Cena; check it out here... When three parents discover their daughters» pact to lose their virginity at -LSB-...]

That's the set - up for this deleted scene from Black Panther, which will be featured when the film debuts on digital May 8 and on the Blu - ray May 15.

Short film director David Brooks will make his feature directorial debut when the film goes into production this Fall.

As alumni of my school, the pair came to give a talk when I was about 14, and Cornish struck me as the more thoughtful, ambitious one even then, but nothing prepared me for his feature film debut.

When Augustine Frizzell's buddy - girl comedy Never Goin» Back bows Monday at midnight, it will mark the culmination of a four - year endeavor — an odyssey of sorts mined from Frizzell's own unconventional childhood, and one that required the first - time feature director to completely scrap her original film before re-writing, re-casting, and re-shooting her Sundance debut.

I had the opportunity to talk to Alan Ball about Towelhead, his first feature - film script after American Beauty and his feature directing debut, when he presented the film at the Seattle International Film Festival in June, 2008.

Co-written by Jeremy Saulnier go - to actor Macon Blair, who recently turned heads with his feature - length debut I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, the film follows a disgraced cop who's released from prison, only to enter a world of trouble when a dying mob boss decides to confess his sins before he keels over.

It is cause for celebration when not just any film but a spectacularly assured feature debut such as this one from director Dan Trachtenberg works like gangbusters on nearly every cinematic level.

Last but absolutely not least is Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999), her remarkable feature film debut that was one of the best releases of its year and not only does it hold up, but it has been given a top grade reissue by Criterion and Paramount (I'm still celebrating the studio finally working with Criterion on a regular basis) in a Blu - ray edition as strong as when I first saw the film theatrically.

Movies about people falling in love when one of them is dying is a particular sub-genre of romantic drama, and the latest entry into the field is Me Before You, a tearjerker adapted by Jojo Moyes from her novel of the same name, and directed by Thea Sharrock, a stage director making her feature film debut.

Coralie Fargeat's aptly - named feature film debut follows Matilda Lutz as Jen, initially drawn as a shy wallflower who is desperate to be loved (especially by her boyfriend, played by Kevin Jannsens), who is pushed to wild extremes when she's violated by the man she loves and his loutish group of friends who unexpectedly descend upon what was meant to be a quiet weekend away.

When I spoke with Victor Levin by phone on April 3, 2015, I was surprised to learn that one of the thing that I appreciated most about his feature film directorial debut, the practicality of the women of the piece about extra-marital affairs in contrast to the shock evidenced by the men, was not something... Read More»

For the 2018 edition of the festival, 37 percent of the 122 feature films premiering are directed by women, a slight uptick from last year when 34 percent of all films were helmed by female directors (in years past, the average has hovered around 25 percent), and their contributions were prominent across all sections, with women debuting films in not just the competition sections, but also in the forward - thinking NEXT section, the wild Midnight category (which played home to the long - gestating anthology «XX,» featuring four shorts directed by women), and even the starry Premieres docket.

Here is the chance to discover even more of the blockbuster film when The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1 Extended Edition, featuring eight minutes of never - before - seen footage, debuts only on Blu - ray Disc (plus Digital Copy and UV), DVD (plus Digital Copy and UV) and Digital Download on Saturday March 2nd from Summit Entertainment, a LIONSGATE company.

Hold on, Ingrid Goes West is smarter than your average wag, and the feature debut from director / co-writer Matt Spicer sports a welcome swagger that holds the film's satirical bite just when you think it's going soft.

A Mermaid Tale The tale of two mermaids who come ashore to work as nightclub performers, the ambitious first effort captured a World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Unique Vision and Design for director Agnieszka Smoczyńska to go along with the Best Debut Feature prize she won at her native Poland's Gdynia Film Festival when the film made its world premiere in September.

Documentarian Amy Berg makes her feature debut with a slow burn of a mystery, one that takes cues from her amazing fact - based films, Deliver Us from Evil and West of Memphis: the banality of evil, the inequities of the criminal justice system, the abuse that can occur when those who are supposed to love and protect the innocent and vulnerable don't have the best intentions at heart.

A film unlike anything you've seen (or will see), Julie Dash's rapturous feature debut is set at a moment of wrenching cultural crisis, when the island - dwelling Gullah — former African slaves living off the coast of South Carolina — decide in August 1902 to head to the nearby American mainland and endure the pain of a second separation from their past.

Southside With You is the debut feature film from New Jersey director Richard Tanne, combining the soft summer light of Chicago with a hard - hitting assessment of the issues that the Obama presidency would face, even when Barack was just a chain - smoking hotshot lawyer with a clapped out car.