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It has a nice prison setting, conspiracy theories, bloodthirsty zombies, a perfectly hideous 80s-touch and it is a directorial effort by actor John Saxon, who also plays a bad (you guessed it) a bad guy.
Every bit of drama and forward motion of the story is sucked dry by director Ye Lou's somnambulist directorial style.
Jonathan Demme's directorial debut for Roger Corman's legendary exploitation outfit New World Pictures rates highly as one of the finest chicks-in-chains 70's grindhouse classics to ever grace celluloid.
Scott's directorial choices are simply astonishing, and he pulls a great performance out of Denzel Washington.
Tough to believe it was Bill Paxton's directorial debut, though some shots do look EXACTLY like a storyboard version.
The film does have some connection to blockbusters; for a start it's an early directorial effort for Renny Harlin; the capable director behind a number of action films including Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger and Deep Blue Sea; and secondly we have an early role for Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen.
And what a directorial debut by Bernard Rose!
Jackie Chan's classic directorial feature POLICE STORY (1985) is among the most influential and over-the-top modern day police actioners ever to come out from Hong Kong.
In his first directorial effort, first of many I hope, Denzel Washington confirms once again, that he has a truly beautiful mind and soul.
Since I think this is his directorial debut it might prove even more interesting.
Jafar Panahi, unlike J.L. Godard or F. Truffault, believes in simple story telling; Schematic Narratives is one of the main traits of his directorial job.
Director Irvin S. Yeaworth, Jr., made his directorial debut with "The Blob."
As Jack Nicholson's directorial debut, Drive, He Said displays at the least that he is a gifted director of actors.
This is a great directorial debut for Karyn Kusama, and an outstanding first performance for Michelle Rodriguez.
Knowing what to expect (on the whole) from a Denzel Washington performance - quality, integrity, gravitas, wry humour - will prepare you for what to expect from his directorial debut.
Actor Paxton made his directorial debut with this chilling, dark, and competently made thriller about a widowed mechanic (Paxton himself) who ropes his two sons into participating in savage ax murders, claiming that the victims are not human beings at all but "demons", and that they have been selected by God to destroy these "demons".
Govind Nihalani's directorial venture of Vijay Tendulkar's novel is brilliant.
Ida Lupino was one of the few women to break through the directorial glass ceiling in Hollywood under the studio system.
I will bring to your attention that Nataile Portman makes an impressive directorial debut directing, and writing a skit about a caretaker, and Ethan Hawke and Maggie Q are excellent as a flirting man and a hooker.
As his directorial debut, no less.
BORN TO BOOGIE is a real 'find'--though a rock fan for nearly thirty years, I only first saw the film a few days ago, and rank it among the top rock films of all time; the music's terrific (the cream of T. Rex) and the visuals consistently exciting and unusual, leaving this viewer craving any more past directorial efforts of Ringo Starr, who did a fine job here.
A very promising directorial debut for Bill Paxton.
Based on his autobiography "Finding Fish" written many years after the events, his story is dramatized in the film Antwone Fisher, Denzel Washington's first directorial effort.
Caged Heat is the directorial debut of Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme, and it's a well done little flick with plenty of entertainment value!
Here director duo Abbas-Mustan did a very different and unique job as compared with their previous and after directorial ventures.
His son-in-law actor Anthony Quinn who had the supporting role of Beluche in the '38 film is the director in his directorial debut and swan song as he had never directed a film before and never would again.
Hard to believe this is Ms. Blom's directorial debut, it is beautifully paced and performed.
Before George Clooney directed Sam Rockwell in his directorial debut "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind", they starred together in this movie.
"The Plainsman" represents the directorial prowess of Cecil B. DeMille at its most inaccurate and un-factual.
Abhay Deol's second film, written by Imtiaz Ali, maiden directorial effort by Shivam Nair.
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