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TAKE SHELTER director Jeff Nichols» next project is taking shape with a number of familiar faces joining MUD.

Inevitably, Nichols can't entirely avoid the public face of this injustice, and later scenes with lawyers and the media feel especially perfunctory (Michael Shannon, helping out his old Take Shelter director, has a cameo as a Life photographer).

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«One of the most gruesome things we hear at the Ali Forney Center is our young people who have been recently diagnosed in their desperation to get shelter and housing will forsake taking the medication because they want to be eligible for the current HASA guidelines,» said Carl Siciliano, executive director of the group, which helps homeless LGBT youth.

At a technical briefing after the mayor's speech, at which de Blasio took no questions, Office of Management and Budget Director Dean Fuleihan said the shelter plan wouldn't add any new costs to the city's operating budget, because cluster sites and hotels are being phased out at the same time new shelters are being opened.

HRH Executive Director Ed Murphy told shelter clients that the policy is intended to encourage clients to find permanent housing more quickly; however, for most homeless, the cost of permanent housing is out of reach or takes several months to find.

After making his name with three independent films in Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud, director Jeff Nichols approaches his fourth feature with a bigger budget, making it his first studio production and allowing him to operate on a slightly more ambitious and grander scale.

Take Shelter (Director and screenwriter: Jeff Nichols)-- A working - class husband and father questions whether his terrifying dreams of an apocalyptic storm signal something real to come or the onset of an inherited mental illness he's feared his whole life.

Jeff Nichols, the talented director of «Shotgun Stories» and «Take Shelter» is back at Cannes with his third film, «MUD.»

At the Critics» Week — where, in the interest of full disclosure, I served on a competition jury comprised of three other critics and the South Korean director Lee Chang - dong — the highlight of an unusually strong lineup was Take Shelter, the second feature by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols, an acknowledged Malick acolyte whose new film shares a producer with The Tree of Life as well as a leading lady, Jessica Chastain (reportedly at Malick's personal recommendation).

Director Dan Trachtenberg embraces the «less is more concept», perhaps not to the extent of superior psychological thrillers «Take Shelter» or «Z For Zachariah», but still in the right direction.

In 2011, relatively unknown writer / director Jeff Nichols took a lot of people by surprise when he delivered one of the best films of the year in «Take Shelter ``.

It's not quite as good as «Take Shelter» but this is a director that has started strongly, backed it up with one of the best film's of 2011 and I believe will continue to go from strength to strength — time will tell with his forthcoming film «Mud» released later in 2012.

Included in this final batch of flicks the world premiere of director Tom Six's The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence; Retreat starring Cillian Murphy, Thandie Newton and Jamie Bell; Morgan Spurlock's documentary Comic - Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope; and director Jeff Nichols» drama Take Shelter starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain.

She said the presence of young directors like Green and Jeff Nichols («Take Shelter,» «Mud») in the city brings a whole new generation of recognition.

But since the new film from writer - director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud) works best as a very strange road - trip movie, that cliché feels apropos.

There were no answers at the end of Take Shelter, the film that introduced writer - director Jeff Nichols to the world.

He proves why once more in «Take Shelter,» writer - director Jeff Nichols» compelling but discomfiting study of a man struggling to balance his unshakable belief that the end is near with his recognition that he is, in all likelihood, going crazy.

In Take Shelter, writer / director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories, also with Michael Shannon) makes that threat — this 21st century fear of losing everything you have — and makes it physical.

Having wowed critics and, to a smaller degree, moviegoers with original stories on Mud, Take Shelter, and Midnight Special, writer - director Jeff Nichols changes gears on Loving, a drama based on a true story.

January 29, 2006 My first glimpse of lanky British director Stephen Frears was in passing as he took shelter from a frigid early - December wind in a doorway in front of Denver's historic Brown Palace Hotel.

A kind of subversive take on the traditional Noah story, Take Shelter made good on the promises of writer / director Jeff Nichols» first feature Shotgun Stories, establishing him as a powerful new voice in the film communtake on the traditional Noah story, Take Shelter made good on the promises of writer / director Jeff Nichols» first feature Shotgun Stories, establishing him as a powerful new voice in the film communTake Shelter made good on the promises of writer / director Jeff Nichols» first feature Shotgun Stories, establishing him as a powerful new voice in the film community.

Still, in smaller, quieter films, like those by indie director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud, Midnight Special), Shannon has been restrained and therefore palatable, his excess reduced to a manageable (and very watchable) simmer.

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say this is shaping up to be a very important partnership between director and actor, already having produced one film — the fiery, apocalyptic «Take Shelter» — nearly as impressive as any collaboration between, for example, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.

It was Nichols» sophomore feature, Take Shelter, that first brought attention to the writer - director.

Directors Jason Reitman («Up in the Air»), Cary Fukunaga («Beasts of No Nation»), and Jeff Nichols («Take Shelter») are among notable former festival winners earning recognition for their first films.

The nominees could very well end up being the same as Director (Beginners, The Descendants, Drive, Shame, and Take Shelter), though I'd say at least one gets upended by the likes of Like Crazy, Rampart, or The Tree of Life.

The film is the latest effort and first studio production from critically acclaimed writer / director Jeff Nichols, whose previous releases include Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud.

Movies, best seen in a big dark room full of strangers, are uniquely suited for creating and sustaining a sense of captivating mystery, and few films have done it better this year than Midnight Special, the latest from writer - director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud).

Writer / director Jeff Nichols» follow - up to his very strong Take Shelter is a grounded, rustic look at what it means to become a man.

Mud Year: 2013 Director: Jeff Nichols In 2011, Jeff Nichols turned heads at Sundance with his second film Take Shelter, as did his fast - rising stars Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon.

Special honors went to actress - director Angelina Jolie, who took the Board of Governors Award; Russell Carpenter (the Oscar - winning «Titanic») won the Lifetime Achievement Award; Alan Caso («Six Feet Under») earned the Career Achievement in Television Award; Russell Boyd (the Oscar - winning «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World») won the International Award; Stephen Lighthill («Gim me Shelter») grabbed the Presidents Award; and Frieder Hochheim, president and founder of Kino Flo Lighting Systems, earned the Bud Stone Award of Distinction.

In Take Shelter we saw Nichols and Shannon examine the nature of paranoia in a fascinating way, but with an added sci - fi element and a thriller pursuit narrative, Midnight Special opens up a world of possibility for the actor - director team.

The Take Shelter and Mud director reunites with a surging Michael Shannon to tell the story of a father (Shannon) protecting his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), from a government task force and a scary religious sect as they race to a secret location.

The Beach Boys» feelgood jukebox standard, «Help Me, Rhonda» is played twice in «Take Shelter» director Jeff Nichols's third feature, amplifying the sense of sunkissed nostalgia present throughout this amiable but over-familiar coming - of - age story — it's not set in the 1960s, but save a stray mobile phone or two, you could be forgiven for thinking it is.

Best Picture: The Artist Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Best Actor: Michael Shannon, Take Shelter Best Actress: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady Best Supporting Actor: Albert Brooks, Drive Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids Best Screenplay: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, Alexander Payne, The Descendants Best Ensemble Cast: Bridesmaids Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation Best Documentary: Cave of Forgotten Dreams Best Animated Film: The Adventures of Tintin Breakthrough Performer: Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, Coriolanus Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezski, The Tree of Life Best Use of Music: Ludovic Bource, The Artist Best Debut Director: Joe Cornish, Attack the Block

BEST PICTURE: THE ARTIST BEST DIRECTOR - MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS for The Artist BEST ACTOR: BEST ACTOR - MICHAEL SHANNON for Take Shelter (runners - up: MICHAEL FASSBENDER for Shame and GARY OLDMAN for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy) BEST...

After the terse, teasing ambiguities of «Shotgun Stories» and «Take Shelter,» however, it's disappointing just how conventional the director's latest is, its Hollywood sensibility building throughout the narrative to a ludicrous climactic shootout.

The movie's producers include Take Shelter / Mud writer - director Jeff Nichols and Nichols» own frequent producer Sarah Green; Hellion has some of the texture of Nichols» films.

The Beguiled Release Date: June 30 Director: Sofia Coppola Starring: Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst and Colin Ferrell Synopsis: At a girls» school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in.

Writer - director Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter) continues his clean record of outstanding cinema with another southern tale dense in its display of romantic ideals, youthful ignorance, emotional transference and the wisdom contained in broken adults.

After the one - two punch of Take Shelter and Mud, Jeff Nichols is among the top emerging directors that we're excited for here at filmmixtape.

But those in the know have been keeping tabs on Nichols since his breakout sophomore effort, the provocative apocalypse tale Take Shelter, and over these three films (also including his debut, Shotgun Stories, and the moderately successful and excellent Mud), he has established himself as a strong Southern voice on the independent scene, the sort of director who makes you sit up and take notice whenever he announces a new projTake Shelter, and over these three films (also including his debut, Shotgun Stories, and the moderately successful and excellent Mud), he has established himself as a strong Southern voice on the independent scene, the sort of director who makes you sit up and take notice whenever he announces a new projtake notice whenever he announces a new project.

Jeff Nichols has been steadily becoming the prominent American writer / director voice for the rural American male after the masterful psychological nightmare of Take Shelter and the open - hearted fable of Mud.

Director: Jeff Nichols Cast: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Tova Stewart Certificate: 15 Watch Take Shelter online in the UK: iTunes / TalkTalk TV Store

Five years after winning Cannes» Critics Week competition with «Take Shelter,» American director Jeff Nichols is back with a true story of an interracial Virginia couple fighting unjust laws in the 1960s.

Austin director Jeff Nichols, who drew critical acclaim for «Shotgun Stories,» «Take Shelter» and «Mud,» showed a clip from his upcoming movie «Midnight Special» on Saturday at South by Southwest.

Fresh: A clever blending of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Starman, ET and The Day the Earth Stood Still... writer / director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter) weaves the piece together with a deft balance of tension and wonderment.

Now, 34 years on, writer / director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud) at last allows us to see, pretty much, how that film might have turned out — Midnight Special taps into the Carpenter mood (Starman is a key influence) as a father and his mysterious son flee US agents.

Jeff Nichols, the writer and director of Take Shelter and Mud, teams with Michael Shannon once again for a sci - fi drama about a father taking his son on the run to protect him after learning he has special powers.

No director understands Shannon and his abilities better than Jeff Nichols, and this film is a nice companion to Take Shelter as a showcase for the actor's unique brand of emotionality.