Sentences with phrase «with sophomore effort»

Yeasayer changed course slightly with their sophomore effort, 2010's Odd Blood.

With her sophomore effort, Sullivan turns from friendships to family, writing with the same warmth and nuance as Commencement, but pushing her characters farther, creating an even more complex and satisfying whole in Maine.

Sullivan follows up the acclaimed Golden Boy (2013) with a sophomore effort that promises to be equally eye - opening for American readers.

Shane Carruth, the filmmaker behind the enigmatic puzzler «Primer,» returns with a sophomore effort starring Carruth and Amy Seimetz that is more emotional and even more accomplished.

Excision director, Richard Bates Jr., returns with his sophomore effort in the horror - comedy Suburban Gothic, starring Matthew Gray Gubler and Kat Dennings.

Back in 2007, Ben Affleck made his directorial debut with a phenomenal crime thriller called Gone Baby Gone starring his brother Casey Affleck, now he's back with his sophomore effort, The Town.

Six years on, Granik looks to have repeated the feat with her sophomore effort, but has made a better film in the process.

Sightseers, his latest offering coming close on the heels of Kill List, has more in common with that first film than with his sophomore effort, returning to the sort of wildly juxtaposed humour with which he made his initial impact.

Actor Christopher Denham (Argo, Shutter Island) has come to Tribeca with his sophomore effort in writing and directing after he received acclaim with the short film «Home Movie» back in 2008.

Not exact matches

Jack White's The Dead Weather is already halfway done recording their sophomore effort, which means in true White fashion, it will arrive to the public with little warning.

The Whale Wins Erickson's airy, light - filled sophomore effort (another Hot 10 winner in 2013) feels like a sleek seaside cottage — albeit with a wood - burning oven and tons of vegetables.

Aaron London (ex-Ubuntu) opened his first solo project, the veg - focused AL's Place; Ravi Kapur also struck out on his own at Liholiho Yacht Club, a globe - trotting spot with a heavy nod to his native Hawaii; sophomore efforts from Melissa Perello at Octavia and Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski at The Progress impressed; and there was a return to fine dining at Mourad from Mourad Lahlou.

They are releasing their sophomore effort with the new LP, Hungry Ghosts, which is coming out April 7th, 2017.

Ace team's sophomore effort comes with their trademark weirdness references from mystery science theater 3k to Greek mythology abound.

His sophomore effort, «An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn,» tamps down his gnarlier instincts for viscerally unsettling material and ratchets up the whimsy.

With a sizeable spate of accolades to his name for his debut effort El Bola and sophomore feature November (including two Goyas, a European Film and Cinema Writers Circle award, and recognition from the

Gia isn't hagiography, I'll give it that, but it is reductive to a fault; once known as a screenwriter with a literary bent, having risen to the challenge of distilling novels by no less than John Updike and Tom Wolfe, Cristofer turned into a sensationalist when he started directing, and virtually anything that's not an exploitation staple is relegated to the margins in Gia — not to mention in Cristofer's sophomore efforts Body Shots and Original Sin.

After taking home the top prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013 with Fruitvale Station, director Ryan Coogler moved into studio franchise filmmaking with Creed for his sophomore effort.

Norwegian helmer Joachim Trier burst on to the scene with his 2006 feature debut Reprise and while he has had a tendency to keep audiences waiting a bit since then - sophomore effort Oslo, August 31st arrived five years later and third effort Louder Than Bombs four years after that - he has firmly established himself as one of the premiere talents on the arthouse circuit.

Andy and Lana Wachowski first burst onto the scene with the 1996 crime thriller Bound, but it was their sophomore effort — ground - breaking sci - fi action thriller The Matrix — that went on to define their careers.

Kubrick may not be the best template for a hot young director to avoid sophomore slump, and the timing could be better, considering how closely it follows on the heels of Dylan Kidd's sophomore effort P.S., also about a woman, in this case Laura Linney, falling in love with a younger man she believes to be an ex-lover.

Star Trek Into Darkness, being Abrams» sophomore effort (he successfully rebooted the franchise in 2009 with «Star Trek»), opens with the crew traveling to Nibiru, a planet with a primitive civilization and a volcano that is poised to wipe it off the map.

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.

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Then again, it was probably smart that he took the time to find the perfect project for his sophomore effort, and he seems to have found it with «Seven Psychopaths,» which falls in the same wheelhouse as the Sundance crime comedy, albeit with a decidedly goofier tone.

Honorable Mentions: Some of the other debuts, sophomore efforts and general step - changes that impressed us this year include: Yuval Adler's Venice 2013 title «Bethlehem ``; E.L. Katz's pitch black, gross - out «Cheap Thrills ``; Eliza Hittman's lovely, heartfelt «It Felt Like Love ``; Anthony Chen's shockingly underseen «Ilo Ilo»; Charlie MacDowell's Sundance favorite «The One I Love»; Tim Sutton's lyrical, abstract «Memphis»; David Wnendt's transgressively icky «Wetlands»; Leigh Janiak's horror debut «Honeymoon»; terrific Israeli film «Policeman» by Nadav Lapid that finally got a release this year; Hong Khao's lovely «Lilting»; Daniel Patrick Carbone's wonderful «Hide Your Smiling Faces»; and Scott Cohen's debut film «Red Knot» with Olivia Thirlby also marks him out as one to watch.

The writer / director of In Bruges will reteam with Colin Farrell, along with Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken for his sophomore film effort, entitled «Seven Psychopaths ``.

This niche is populated solely by Miranda July's sophomore effort The Future, with unseen kitty Paw Paw (except for the appendages referenced) relating the experience of waiting for new owners Sophie (July, best known for debut effort Me And You And Everyone We Know) and Jason (Hamish Linklater, Fantastic Four) to take him home from the veterinary hospital.

Actor - turned - director Todd Field here releases his sophomore effort, and it's a doozy, filled with lively, fluid moments on a large, widescreen canvas.

Three years later, Cianfrance has switched gears for his sophomore effort with the crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines.

In keeping with the same brutally violent content and uncompromising style, «Green Room» is a fantastic sophomore effort.

Although at times channeling Malick — even featuring Sam Shepard early in the film — and carefully utilizing western genre convention, Dominik broke through in his sophomore effort with an elliptic reverie on obsession and notoriety that displayed an assured patience well beyond his relative inexperience.

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.

After a great directorial debut with «Gone Baby Gone» in 2007 and a brilliant sophomore effort with «The Town» in 2010, all eyes were on Ben Affleck in his third outing as director.

Cut to the present day with Cianfrance's sophomore effort and a common theme has already been established for the director.

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.

With the Merc with a Mouth hitting theaters this weekend in his sophomore effort, Deadpool 2's writers are already looking ahead to the futWith the Merc with a Mouth hitting theaters this weekend in his sophomore effort, Deadpool 2's writers are already looking ahead to the futwith a Mouth hitting theaters this weekend in his sophomore effort, Deadpool 2's writers are already looking ahead to the future.

Creevy's sophomore effort as a filmmaker, Welcome to the Punch, is a story of hero and foe uniting, a potentially trite set up that makes for a refreshingly streamlined film with a reliance on practical action.

Bill Pohlad, a producer who has overseen such films as Brokeback Mountain, Into the Wild, Tree of Life, and 12 Years a Slave, as well as the musically inclined biopic The Runaways, makes his directorial debut (technically a sophomore effort as his original debut was canned in the early 1990s) with a biopic of The Beach Boys» Brian Wilson that, while not a perfect film, is an interesting and sometimes illuminating portrait of an artist as a young and older man.

Boomerang is director Reginald Hudlin's sophomore effort after making a splash with the sleeper hit comedy, House Party.

Cold Comes the Night is the sophomore effort from indie director Tze Chun, who teams up with Nick Simon and Osgood Perkins on a screenplay about a single mother who is forced into criminal activities for the well being of her child.

*** 1/2 / **** DVD - Image A Sound A Extras A BD - Image C Sound A Extras A starring Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Brad Pitt, Rade Sherbedgia written and directed by Guy Ritchie by Walter Chaw Guy Ritchie's sophomore effort Snatch opens with a hyperkinetic homage to the first violent robbery of Ringo Lam's City on Fire and continues by aping the slick mod - cool of the British gangster films of the late -»60s and early -»70s.

Other films with female directors that got nominated were MUDBOUND, Dee Rees» stunning sophomore effort; FACES PLACES, legendary filmmaker Agnes Vardas» likely last film; and the charming feline doc KEDI, Ceyda Korun's debut feature film.

The subversive humor that occasionally brightened the first film the notion, for example, that an innocuous summer camp is actually a high - tech C.I.A. training base for child agents is absent from this sophomore effort, as is Hilary Duff, the popular teenage actress whose co-starring role in the first film probably had a lot to do with its success.

It's a setting grubbily familiar from the cinematic likes of Mystic River and The Departed, as well as Ben Affleck's own directorial debut Gone Baby Gone; now it plays host to his sophomore effort The Town, a heist drama with a heart.

Trey Edward Shults (Krisha) could take sophomore effort It Comes at Night and Jonas Alexander Arnby (When Animals Dream) could do this as well with We Watched the Sun Disappear, but some higher profile debuts, should they be ready in time, might snag a slot.

Cold Comes the Night is the sophomore effort from indie director Tze Chun, who teams up with Nick Simon and Osgood Perkins on a screenplay about a single mother who

What many don't realize, however, is that «Shaun» was their sophomore effort (their first project together, the television series «Spaced,» already secured their cult status on the other side of the pond), and so while the stakes are just as high with the release of the action comedy, «Hot Fuzz,» it's foolish to bet their futures on it.

When: December 4th Why: Writer / director Scott Cooper burst onto the scene in 2009 with «Crazy Heart,» netting Jeff Bridges the Oscar for Best Actor in the process, so it's not surprising to see that he's managed to land some equally impressive talent for his sophomore effort.

Now Green is back with All the Real Girls, and like most sophomore efforts after such a stunning debut, it disappoints slightly.