"Pushing Hands", the green-card romantic comedy "The Wedding Banquet" and "Eat Drink Man Woman" were the first three features by which film director?
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Pushing Hands (film) Pushing Hands () is a film directed by Ang Lee. Released in 1992, it was his first feature film. Together with Ang Lee's two following films, "The Wedding Banquet" (1993) and "Eat Drink Man Woman" (1994), it forms his "Father Knows Best" trilogy, each of which deals with conflicts between an older and more traditional generation and their children as they confront a world of change.
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The Wedding Banquet The Wedding Banquet () is a 1993 romantic comedy film about a gay Taiwanese immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet and he has to hide the truth of his partner.
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Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Ann Bigelow ( ; born November 27, 1951) is an American director, producer, and writer. Her films include the vampire Western horror film "Near Dark" (1987), the action crime film "Point Break" (1991), the science fiction action thriller "Strange Days" (1995), the mystery thriller "The Weight of Water" (2000), the submarine thriller "" (2002), the war film "The Hurt Locker" (2008), the action thriller war film "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012), the short film "Last Days" (2014), and the period crime drama "Detroit" (2017). "The Hurt Locker" won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. She has also acted as producer and writer for many of her films.
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Picnic (1955 film) Picnic is a 1955 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film filmed in Cinemascope. It was adapted for the screen by Daniel Taradash from William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Joshua Logan, director of the original Broadway stage production, directed the film version, which stars William Holden, Kim Novak, and Rosalind Russell, with Susan Strasberg and Cliff Robertson in supporting roles. "Picnic" was nominated for six Academy Awards and won two.
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Idle Hands Idle Hands is a 1999 American stoner black comedy body horror film directed by Rodman Flender, written by Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer, and starring Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, and Vivica A. Fox. The main plot follows the life of an average lazy stoner teenager, Anton Tobias (Sawa), whose hand becomes possessed and goes on a killing spree, even after being cut off from his arm.
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Sliding Doors Sliding Doors is a 1998 British-American romantic drama film written and directed by Peter Howitt and starring Gwyneth Paltrow and John Hannah, while also featuring John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Virginia McKenna. The film alternates between two parallel universes, based on the two paths the central character's life could take depending on whether or not she catches a train, and causing different outcomes in her life.
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Jonathan Demme Robert Jonathan Demme ( ; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with his comedy films "Melvin and Howard" (1980), "Swing Shift" (1984), "Something Wild" (1986), and "Married to the Mob" (1988), as well as the critically acclaimed concert film "Stop Making Sense" (1984), in collaboration with the band Talking Heads. He became best known for directing "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He later directed the acclaimed films "Philadelphia" (1993) and "Rachel Getting Married" (2008).
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Stanley Donen Stanley Donen ( ; born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are "Singin' in the Rain" and "On the Town", both of which he co-directed with actor and dancer Gene Kelly. His other noteworthy films include "Royal Wedding", "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers", "Funny Face", "Indiscreet", "Damn Yankees!", "Charade", and "Two for the Road". He received an Honorary Academy Award in 1998 for his body of work and a Career Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival in 2004. He was hailed by film critic David Quinlan as "the King of the Hollywood musicals". Donen married five times and had three children. His current long term partner is film director and comedian Elaine May.
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Eric Mendelsohn Eric Mendelsohn (born November 1, 1964) is an American film director and screenwriter. Two of his films have been screened in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes: "Through an Open Window" in 1992 and "Judy Berlin" in 1999., which won the Directing Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. His third film, "3 Backyards", also earned the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, making him the only person in history to receive that honor twice. Mendelsohn also co-wrote the screenplay of the 2017 film "Love After Love" with Russell Harbaugh.
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Five Fingers (2006 film) Five Fingers is a 2006 American drama-thriller film directed by Laurence Malkin, and written by Chad Thumann and Malkin. The film had ten producers, including actor Laurence Fishburne, who stars in it alongside Ryan Phillippe, Gina Torres, Touriya Haoud, Saïd Taghmaoui and Colm Meaney. "Five Fingers" was filmed in the Netherlands, Morocco, and Louisiana in 2004.
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Terence Macartney-Filgate Terence Macartney-Filgate {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born August 6, 1924 in England, United Kingdom) is a British-Canadian film director who has directed, written, produced or shot more than 100 films in a career spanning more than 50 years.
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Actor's and Sin Actors and Sin is a 1952 American black-and-white comedy-drama film written, produced and directed by Ben Hecht. The film marks Edward G. Robinson's second film with actress Marsha Hunt. Also known by its section names of "Actor's Blood" and "Woman of Sin", the film debuted in New York City on May 29, 1952. Lee Garmes was co-director and cinematographer, as he was on most of the films Hecht directed.
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Wide-Eyed and Legless Wide-Eyed and Legless (also known as The Wedding Gift) is a 1993 made-for-TV British drama film directed by Richard Loncraine. It is known in the US as "The Wedding Gift".
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Hold Your Man Hold Your Man is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by an uncredited Sam Wood and starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, the third of their six films together. The screenplay by Anita Loos and Howard Emmett Rogers was based on a story by Loos.
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The Wedding Party (1969 film) The Wedding Party is a 1969 American film farce created as a joint effort by Sarah Lawrence theatre professor Wilford Leach and two of his students, protégé Brian De Palma and Cynthia Monroe, who bankrolled the project. Leach went on to a successful career as a Tony Award-winning theatre director, while De Palma continued as an auteur of films frequently emulating the themes and techniques of Alfred Hitchcock.
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Charles P. Boyle Charles P. Boyle (June 26, 1892 – May 28, 1968) enjoyed his first credit as a cinematographer in 1925. Three years later, he was the director of photography on one of the silent cinema's biggest comedy hits, "Tillie's Punctured Romance". He was second unit director on the Errol Flynn swashbuckler "The Adventures of Robin Hood" in 1938 and did additional work on "Duel in the Sun" in 1946.
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John Waters John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films.
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Ed Blum Ed Blum is the director and producer of "Scenes of a Sexual Nature" (2006), a low budget British movie starring Ewan McGregor and Sophie Okonedo, filmed entirely on Hampstead Heath. This was his first full-length feature and as Blum said, was made "for less than "Love Actually" 's catering budget."
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Drunk Wedding Drunk Wedding is a 2015 American comedy film directed by Nick Weiss and written by Anthony Weiss and Nick Weiss. The film stars Nick P. Ross, J.R. Ramirez, Christian Cooke, Bethany Dwyer, Dan Gill and Victoria Gold. The film was released on May 22, 2015, by Paramount Pictures.
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John Byrum John Byrum (born March 14, 1947) is an American film director and writer known for "The Razor's Edge", "Heart Beat", "Duets" and "Inserts".
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Mike Mills (director) Michael Chadbourne "Mike" Mills (born March 20, 1966) is an U.S. film and music video director and graphic designer. He is perhaps best known for his independent films "Thumbsucker", "Beginners", and "20th Century Women". For the latter film, Mills was nominated for an Academy Award for his original screenplay.
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John Ford filmography John Ford (1894–1973) was an American film director whose career spanned from 1913 to 1971. During this time he directed more than 140 films. Born in Maine, Ford enter the filmmaking industry shortly after graduating from high school with the help of his older brother, Francis Ford, who had established himself as a leading man and director for Universal Studios. After working as an actor, assistant director, stuntman, and prop man – often for his brother – Universal gave Ford the opportunity to direct in 1917. Initially working in short films, he quickly moved into features, largely with Harry Carey as his star. In 1920 Ford left Universal and began working for the Fox Film Corporation. During the next ten years he directed more than 30 films, including the westerns "The Iron Horse" (1924) and "3 Bad Men" (1926), both starring George O'Brien, the war drama "Four Sons" and the Irish romantic drama "Hangman's House" (both 1928 and both starring Victor McLaglen). In the same year of these last two films, Ford directed his first all-talking film, the short "Napoleon's Barber". The following year he directed his first all-talking feature, "The Black Watch".