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László Nemes» Oscar - winning debut about Jewish prisoners of war, an extraordinary work exhibiting courage and focus.

Not exact matches

This time, Wix.com launched its Super Bowl marketing campaign on Facebook Live, debuting a video featuring action movie stars Jason Statham and Gal Gadot fighting in (and destroying) a restaurant while a distracted chef in the kitchen reads about a new Wix contest offering users a chance to win up to $ 50,000.

I fully understand we just lost one game and uts not the end of the world but am struggling to deal with is the consistent lack of mental toughness that are the hallmarks of all title winning teams... we need to be proactive and stop been reactionary, simples... we had what is in all honesty a good couple of matches begining of the season WINNABLE games but we already fell short at the first hurdle now all the talk is about bouncing back, whatever happened to eyes on the ball straight from the off... a Westham side with a new manager, some new players and a 16 year old making his debut beating Arsenal at home is just plain disgraceful and whatever happens next does not in any way mitigate against that.....

Since making his debut about a month ago in the Premier League win over Southampton though, Mustafi has been an ever present and has nailed his place down with some fine performances and a growing understanding with our French international centre back Laurent Koscielny.

Poole spoke to the official Manchester United website after his first year at United, speaking about his time at his former club, his time on trial at United, playing the waiting game before he made his debut, his best performance last season, winning the Barclays U21 Premier League title and living in digs away from home.

The Ivorian defender spoke about his memories of his debut and the performance he put in during the match, also speaking about the work that was put in against Manchester City the weekend before last, seeing the side come from two goals down at half - time to equalise through a Paul Pogba brace, then win the match with a strike from Chris Smalling, putting the celebrations on hold for the noisy neighbours, then talking about the disappointing defeat to relegation candidates West Bromwich Albion at the Theatre of Dreams on Sunday.

It was an emblematic moment for Mr. Barron, who for the past 12 years has been among the most flamboyant and inflammatory figures on the New York City political scene — and who, after winning the Democratic primary in September to replace his wife Inez Barron in the Assembly, is about to make his debut on a far stuffier stage.

Rich in its love of surfing but curiously short on such footage, well - meaning directorial debut by producer Robert Mickelson is boosted by winning performances, but ultimately about as memorable as a day of 3 - 4 foot swells.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Oscar - winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin makes his directorial debut here with this real - life story about an ex-olympic skier (Jessica Chastain), who created an exclusive high - stakes poker game until she became an FBI target.

At Sundance, writer - director Robert Eggers won the U.S. Dramatic Competition Directing Award for his debut feature about a Puritan family in 1630s New England who leave their community to start their own farm on the edge of a forest.

Paris Can Wait, the directorial debut of Eleanor Coppola — wife of Oscar - winning director Francis Ford Coppola (of The Godfather fame)-- is about the renewal of love.

However, his prior filmmaking efforts were male dominated: In 2006, he won an Academy Award for his short film «Six Shooter,» which stars Brendan Gleeson; for McDonagh's 2008 feature - length debut «In Bruges,» he paired the actor with Colin Farrell in a devious tale about bumbling hitmen.

We don't know what it's about — but Jordan Peele's follow - up to his Oscar - winning debut, Get Out, now has a title and a rumored cast.

Her award - winning debut feature documentary Memories of a Penitent Heart, about her uncle Miguel's untimely death from AIDS, was called «exceptional» and «profoundly affecting» by The Village Voice.

Pam Grady: Once filmmaker John Carney returns with Sing Street his brightest, most crowd - pleasing musical yet, an autobiographical story of a young 1980s teen (a delightful Ferdia Walsh - Peelo in an indelible screen debut) who forms a New Wave band with his mates in a bid to forget about his troubles and win a girl's heart.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

As he debuts his western Wild Horses, the «American Olivier» talks about his debt to Ken Loach, the easiest way to win an Oscar and what Brando would think of Matthew McConaughey

My Mum's a Twat, the debut play of Anoushka Warden, certainly wins best new name, but it also stars the sublime Patsy Ferran; catch this comedy about losing your mother to a cult at the Royal Court from 8 January.

Martin McDonagh (pictured above), the award winning Irish playwright behind The Pillowman and the Oscar winning shot film Six Shooter, made his feature film debut in 2008 with In Bruges, an extraordinarily black dramedy about two hit - men (played by Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, the latter of whom picked up a Golden Globe for his efforts) on vacation in the medieval Belgian town of Bruges.

A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.

From Academy Award - nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award - winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world - renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger - than - life literary giant Thomas Wolfe.

Award - winning filmmaker Peter Kunhardt has not one but two documentaries in the running for Emmys this year — one that came out in April and another that is just about to make its debut.

This month also sees the publication of AJ Pearce's debut novel about wartime female friendship, Dear Mrs Bird, which was the subject of a seven - way bidding war won by Picador.

Ewan McGregor's directorial debut is a disappointing take on Phillip Roth's Pulitzer - winning 1997 novel about a family man (McGregor) who finds his life spiralling out of control when his 16 year old daughter (Dakota Fanning) rebels by committing a terrorist act during the Vietnam War.

Elizabeth Banks makes her impressive feature directorial debut in «Pitch Perfect 2» as well as produces and reprises her role as an A Capella judge in the sequel to 2012's hit musical comedy about the Barden Bellas, the first all - female group to win a national title.

# 4: Fruitvale - Thankfully, I had the honor of being at the premiere of this directorial debut by Ryan Coogler, and the film has since become one of the most buzzed about at the fest, not to mention winning both the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize.

PARK CITY, UT — Me, Earl and the Dying girl, a tender coming - of - age drama about befriending a girl with leukemia, won the high - profile U.S. Grand Jury Prize as well as an audience award at the Sundance Film Festival awards ceremony Saturday night, crowning a festival debut that wowed audiences from the word go.

Amazon's recently debuted The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, about a 1950s housewife who takes up stand - up comedy, won best TV series comedy, and best actress for Rachel Brosnahan.

We speak to Oscar - winning director Michaël Dudok de Wit about his feature debut, collaborating with Studio Ghibli and finding the film's identity.

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A24 has debuted the first trailer for The Vanishing of Sidney Hall, the new mystery from Shawn Christensen (director of the Acadamy Awarding winning short Curfew) about a mysterious set of arson crimes connected to the books written by a missing author.

Oscar - winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black is opening up about getting the chance to debut his limited series When We Rise on ABC.

«sex, lies and videotape» (1989) So much has been written about Soderbergh's Palme d'Or - winning debut in terms of its defining influence on the landscape of American indie cinema that the film itself tends to get a little bit lost in the discussion.

If Andrew Haigh, the director of Weekend, the earnest, prosaic, and mostly unsurprising British drama that won an Emerging Visions Audience Award at South by Southwest last night, is considered a fresh new voice in cinema, then what about Matt D'Elia, who shows more breathtaking audacity in his debut feature, American Animal, than Haigh shows in his Richard Linklater - ish romantic talkfest?

The directing duo of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris made about as strong a feature filmmaking debut as they could have in 2006 with Little Miss Sunshine, which won widespread acclaim and two Oscars from four nominations.

The film, which marks Garland's directorial debut, is described as an intense psychological thriller in which Caleb (About Time «s Domhnall Gleeson, soon to be seen in Star Wars Episode VII), a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan (Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac).

What is really disappointing about Abandon is that it is the directorial debut of Stephen Gaghan (Rules of Engagement), who won the Academy Award for his adaptation of Traffic.

Award - winning writer / director John Butler (RTE's award winning sketch show Your Bad Self, debut novel The Tenderloin) makes his feature directing debut with this hilarious and touching comedy about male friendship — developed and co-written with actor / writer Peter McDonald (I Went Down, When Brendan Met Trudy), and produced by Rebecca O'Flanagan and Rob Walpole (The Good Man).

Yan is an up - and - coming filmmaker whose feature directorial debut «Dead Pigs» — about «A bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly - modernizing Shanghai» — earned strong reviews and won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting at Sundance.

The Oscar - winning actress will not only star but make her producing debut with «Euphoria,» a film about two sisters (Vikander and Eva Green) who travel across Europe.

About the 2017 Honda Ridgeline The all - new Honda Ridgeline, 2017 North American Truck of the Year, available at Honda dealerships nationwide, builds on the unique and still industry - exclusive features that debuted in the award - winning first - generation Ridgeline in 2005.

A searing debut novel from the award - winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring.

We recently spoke with Phi, an award - winning poet and community activist, and Bui, a graphic novelist who's won recent acclaim for her debut graphic memoir, The Best We Could Do (2017), about their debut picture book, their collaboration, and how their own experiences growing up as Vietnamese immigrants in America helped inform the book.

Hannah Tinti, who won the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize for her 2008 debut, The Good Thief, returns this week with a gripping sophomore novel about a girl trying to come to terms with her father's criminal past.

From O. Henry Prize — winning author Emily Ruskovich comes a stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss.

An inventive suspense novel, a moving debut about growing up in the modern South and an award - winning memoir make for great group discussion this month.

Hoffman's charming debut novel about a 12 - year - old southern girl with a neglectful father and mentally ill mother won rave reviews and became a bestseller.

The Dry by Jane Harper Harper's debut was one of the most talked - about releases of the year, and it won Australia's Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript in 2015.

Under the Udala Trees By Chinelo Okparanta Mariner • $ 14.95 • ISBN 9780544811799 One of Granta's New Voices in 2012 and author of a prize - winning short story collection, Okparanta received the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction for this striking debut novel about a Nigerian girl's coming of age.