James L Brooks – “Terms of Endearment” (1983) Clearly Boyle was quick to shake his TV ties: two years later, we’d be knocked sideways by his “Trainspotting.” Kinetic cinematography and editing by key Boyle collaborators Brian Tufano and Masahiro Hirakubo make this directorial debut a truly cinematic assault on the senses. A gruesome aftermath involving amateur dismemberment and inexorable doom follows as the trio tries to cover up the death and keep the dough for themselves. The Oscar-winning Englishman directed four TV movies and steered episodes of four series including PBS mystery “Inspector Morse” before blasting onto the indie film scene like a brick through a windshield with 1994’s “Shallow Grave.” This grisly, bloody, acid-tongued talkfest with shades of Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” from two years before hinges on three flatmates (Boyle bud Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Juliet Miller) whose sketchy new roommate (Keith Allen) turns up dead in the apartment with a bounty of cash. The relaxed chatter and winsome interplay of these two knockout actresses, who make their flawed characters relatable and even empathetic, shows Holofcener’s early gift for gab.

It was 1996 when “Walking and Talking,” a bittersweet, Woody Allen-lite story of existential crisis-addled, tortuously single Amelia (Catherine Keener) and her BFF Laura (Anne Heche), who’s getting married, premiered. Nicole Holofcener – “Walking and Talking” (1996)īefore busting out of Sundance with the low-key New York rom-com “Walking and Talking” and notching episodes of “Sex and the City” and “Parks and Recreation” and 2013’s Golden Globe-nommed “Enough Said,” indie director Nicole Holofcener wrote teleplays for the Canadian teen drama “Ready or Not.” This forgotten, five-season-long series aired on Showtime from 1993 to 1997.

Hot young stars John Magaro, Jack Huston and Bella Heathcote round out the ensemble of this restlessly intelligent postcard to Vietnam War-riven America and its explosion of youngsters eager to jumpstart a politically charged artistic coup. “Not Fade Away,” co-starring the inimitably great James Gandolfini in a poignant late-career performance, note-perfectly captures the freewheeling salad days of 1960s rock ‘n’ roll as a pack of friends form a British Invasion-style band with eyes on making it big. It’s a wonder that “Sopranos” creator David Chase, who redefined the TV drama paradigm and its archetypal antihero figure, didn’t direct a feature film sooner. ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ Trailer: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Has a Breakdown Over a White Lie

Just Before Dark by Jack MacLane