Sentences with phrase «whose debut film»

Peele also made history in the spring when he became the first writer - director whose debut film earned more than $ 100 million at the box office.

Director / writer Jeff Nichols, whose debut film Shotgun Stories also starred Shannon in an emotionally intense and conflicted role, takes us through Curtis» nightmarish visions but keeps his story and his ordeal rooted in the real world.

Not to be confused with Samuel L. Jackson's other snake movie, «Black Snake Moan» is the sophomore effort from writer / director Craig Brewer, whose debut film «Hustle & Flow» (another movie about a Southern musician battling his inner demons) earned the director critical acclaim in 2005 as one of the generation's most promising young talents.

They ought to be a whole lot scarier than they are in this tepid genre offering from director Robert Harmon, whose debut film «The Hitcher» set a high bar for screen terror in the 1980s.

Not exact matches

Nigerian writer and filmmaker, Onyeka Nwelue, whose debut documentary film, The House of Nwapa premiered in the US at Harvard University recently, has kicked - off a new political party, urging young people in Nigeria to join hands with him to dethrone President Muhammadu Buhari.

Science spoke with director Ridley Scott; Andy Weir, whose debut novel provided the tale; and Jim Green, NASA's director of planetary science and an adviser on the film, to find out how they made movie magic while staying largely faithful to the science — leaving out a raging dust storm and a few other moments of implausibility.

«Love Me - The Documentary,» collaboration between Powershot and A Foreign Affair, (whose website, loveme.com, inspired the name of the film) will debut this month at the Toronto Film Festival.

Rees, whose one and only feature film until now was her 2011 debut, «Pariah,» has said she set out to make an «old - fashioned» movie, and she's done that, allowing her story to unspool at a refreshingly deliberate pace and her characters to find their own footing within the story and with one another.

The film reps a new career high for director Dee Rees, whose remarkable 2011 debut feature Pariah is a semi-autobiographical deep dive into a black girl's struggles with coming out.

The question of whose disobedience, and what kind of disobedience it is, are at the heart of this absorbing and moving love story from Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, his English language debut, following very quickly on the heels of his film A Fantastic Woman which has been a festival - circuit hit this year.

The Shadow was directed by former music video creator Russell Mulcahy, whose feature film debut Highlander (1986) was a cult classic.

In this modern era, the Coen Brothers are often credited as the life support system for classic noir, but the Coens appear to have serious competition in the form of Australian filmmaker and stuntman Nash Edgerton, whose feature debut, The Square, is a brilliantly twisty, gritty contemporary film noir.

The director: Markus Schleinzer (Austria) The talent: An actor and accomplished casting director — whose credits in the latter field include several films by his compatriots Michael Haneke and Jessica Hausner — 39 year - old Schleinzer has cast his debut feature as writer - director with several actors he previously tapped for other directors» films.

As his English - language debut and first time working with Hollywood actors, The Lobster marks the beginning of a new chapter for Yorgos, whose previous films (My Best Friend, Kinetta, the Academy Award — nominated Dogtooth, and Alps) were each made in Greece on an extremely modest budget with a crew made up of Yorgos's friends.

What follows is an extraordinary setup for the middle action of À nos amours, a shrapnel - soft portrait of a teenager (Sandrine Bonnaire, in her film debut) whose sexual awakening coincides with her father leaving the home.

«Intermission» (2003) The debut feature of theater director John Crowley (whose «Brooklyn» should be a major player in the awards season later this year), «Intermission» is exactly the sort of film that should sink a neophyte: a sprawling ensemble piece mired in an unshakeable (and to some audiences, incomprehensible) Dublin argot.

At Toronto last fall where The Weinstein Company bought the film for around $ 3 million, Benson debuted two versions of the film that stars James McAvoy and Jessica Chastain as a married couple whose relationship disintegrates.

Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act of Killing» debuted at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel of the Stars» (1981), an hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.

Tunisia will be represented by Ala Eddine Slim, whose film «The Last of Us» won the Lion of the Future for Best Debut Film at the 2016 Venice International Film Festival.

Cynthia Mort, a veteran television writer and producer whose credits include «Roseanne» and «Will & Grace,» will make her feature directorial debut with the film, which she also wrote.

Director Kasi Lemmons, whose hypnotic 1997 Eve's Bayou is still one of the best directorial debuts in a while, goes more mainstream with her third film.

In her feature film debut, «American Idol» sensation Jordin Sparks stars as Sparkle, a young woman whose big dreams seem almost impossible.

Disney makes the kind of superhero films that Captain America himself, whose first film debuted just before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, would watch and enjoy.

A festival trailer has debuted for the film A Quiet Passion, from director Terence Davis (whose other film Sunset Song was just released in theaters this year).

Now comes A Kind of Murder, from first - time screenwriter Susan Boyd and veteran television director Andy Goddard (Downton Abbey), whose debut feature film, Set Fire to the Stars, came out in 2014.

Indeed, Robert Eggers — whose debut feature this is — has previously directed a few short films, but mainly worked as a Production Designer, Art Director and Costume Designer on the films and theater productions of others.

Inspired by a nightmare, Twixt — filmed in 3 - D, but never widely seen outside film festivals, and now making a belated debut on home video — drifts between the waking and sleeping hours of down - on - his - luck horror novelist Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer), whose book tour takes him to the small town of Swann Valley and to a poorly attended signing held at a hardware store.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Jeremy Lovering («In Fear») If you went to Sundance looking for the next Christopher Nolan or Rupert Wyatt (who both had films premiere at the festival early in their careers), you'd be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Jeremy Lovering, whose feature film debut «In Fear» has been scaring the living shit out of people in the Midnight strand of the festival.

«Amman is a visionary, whose deep humanity informs every frame of this beautiful debut film.»

Jumping the Broom, whose title comes from a wedding tradition Pam alone wishes to see honored here, marks the feature film debut of director Salim Akil (a veteran of TV's «Soul Food», «Girlfriends», and «The Game») and Arlene Gibbs, who shares screenplay credit with story - credited Elizabeth Hunter (an alum of «ER», «The L Word», and «Charmed»).

It was the solo directorial debut of Jack Hill (whose Coffy and Foxy Brown both recently hit Blu - ray from Olive), a low - budget film that was financed by real estate developers who wanted to get into the movie business and got stuck in limbo for years when the producers went bankrupt.

The Orchard has debuted an official trailer for the film Super Dark Times, an indie thriller about a group of teens whose friendships is tested by a violent tragedy involving a samurai sword.

While Tarantino's debut sits at a cosy stall right at a crossroads in»90s film history, Bottle Rocket might actually be deemed the better film, a bungled crime caper revolving around a lead character whose pluck and moxie shroud serious psychological damage.

Since that auspicious debut, he has continued to collaborate with Anderson on «The Darjeeling Limited» (which the pair wrote with Roman Coppola); the short film «Hotel Chevalier»; his animated feature, «Fantastic Mr. Fox» (for which he contributed his vocal talents); «Moonrise Kingdom» (part of Anderson's stellar ensemble cast of Murray, Tilda Swinton, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand), which set a new record at the specialty box office over Memorial Day weekend for best limited indie debut of all time, and, the Academy Award nominated film, «The Grand Budapest Hotel,» whose eclectic cast brought back thespians Murray, Norton and Swinton, along with Willem Dafoe, Soirsae Ronin, Ralph Finnes, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Owen Wilson and Adrian Brody.

In 1933, James Whale's adaptation of the 1897 H.G. Wells novel — about a doctor who figures out how to make himself invisible, not realizing that he'll go stark raving mad as a result — was the US film debut of British actor Claude Rains, whose face was mostly covered in bandages throughout the film.

Bigelow will forever have my heart as the women responsible for one of my foundational films as a younger asshole, Near Dark, whose band of nomadic Midwestern vampires led me to her Two - Lane Blacktop homage The Loveless (the debut vehicle for Willem Dafoe); her fascinating phallus - play Blue Steel; and then forward into the years - ahead - of - its - time Strange Days.

The film marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, whose seven beloved Harry Potter books were adapted into one of the highest grossing film franchises of all time.

Aubrey Plaza (alongside Emile Hirsch, Craig Robinson, Jemaine Clement, and Snuff Box's Matt Berry) has signed on for a new film from Jim Hosking, the director whose gross - out debut The Greasy Strangler provoked a mixture of laughs and gags from critics last year.

The film marks the unlikely feature directorial debut of Michael Rapaport, a veteran actor whose juiciest credits came in Tribe's one successful decade and include Beautiful Girls, Cop Land, Deep Blue Sea, and a recurring role on «Friends.»

Fun Fact: This film marked the feature directorial debut from author Michael Crichton, the man whose book inspired another dangerous theme park adventure you may have heard of called Jurassic Park.

Emerging Finnish filmmaker AJ Annila («Sauna») will make his English - language feature film debut on the project, which Steve Buscemi and Wren Arthur of Olive Productions are executive producing with Tannaz Anisi, whose 13 Films will sell foreign rights at the Cannes Film Market.

The film will mark the directorial debut of Saturday Night Live's Taran Killam, who also writes and co-stars, and «centers on an arrogant but accomplished assassin (Schwarzenegger) whose fed - up colleagues try to take -LSB-...]

Greta Gerwig, whose very personal, coming - of - age debut film Lady Bird was hotly tipped, lives in New York but happened to be in LA for work.

Sounds like a perfect job for Spanish director J.A. Bayona, whose feature debut was the horror film «The Orphanage,» but who proved he could handle big - screen disasters with the tsunami - themed «The Impossible.»

The film marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, whose beloved Harry Potter books were adapted into the top - grossing film franchise of all time.

The Canadian Moyle, whose inauspicious directorial debut was the 1977 tax - shelter crime flick The Rubber Gun, discovered teenagers three years later with his oddity of a second film Times Square and has rarely looked back since.

The horror film, which told the story of a black man who was dating a white woman whose family turns out to be auctioning his body to a group of white supremacists, was Peele's directorial debut.

Andy Serkis, the pre-eminent digital actor whose mime and voice work animate Caesar from the recent Planet Of The Apes films (2011 - 2017), makes his directing debut.

The film is directed by Joseph Kosinski, whose previous and debut film was TRON: Legacy (which I actually really enjoyed), and has quite an impressive supporting cast including Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Seven Psychopaths), Andrea Riseborough (Shadow Dancer), Melissa Leo and Morgan Freeman looking as cool as ever.