Sentences with phrase «as a first time director»

Fogelman also excels as a first time director, managing sequences with the right balance of charm and whimsy as well as more serious subject matter, the redemptive journey of Danny intertwining with the difficulties that Tom faces.

Great review, I truly would have like this movie to up the craziness one more notch but as a first time director she proved to be someone to keep an eye out for

Molly Bloom's life as brought to the screen here is an engrossing romp full of twists and turns, wonderfully played by a catty, confident Chastain, and Sorkin ably shepherds his vision to the screen as a first time director.

Their handling of that film apparently impressed Evans, in a statement to the press he said: «As a first time director, I'm so excited that we found a home with RADiUS.

Serving here as a first time director as well, Arriaga fends off derivation (though I'm sure many would disagree) and tells a fresh story.

Unfortunately, I think Pfister may have bitten off more than he could chew here as a first time director.

Not exact matches

Within the first five months, we'd hit six figures and I was able to «retire» Pat from his corporate job as a TV director (which basically means he works with me full time).

«We excluded existing subscribers from the offer and asked folks to pay us upon receipt of their first issue, which included a bill basically saying, «Now is the time to pay as you wish,»» says Patrick Hainault, Inc.'s director of consumer marketing.

Anthony Armstrong, who was a managing director and head of technology in the Americas, left the firm for Morgan Stanley last year, as first reported by The New York Times.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

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By the time Linda joined the team in 2012 - first as the Director of Market Development and ultimately as COO - 50 % of its customers were outside of the US.

From 1994 to 2005, he served as the first full - time director of the Center for Ethics at Emory.

By Darran Messem, Managing Director, Certification, Carbon Trust Introduction If as expected atmospheric CO2 averages 400 parts per million (ppm) this year, for the first time in over 800,000 years, -LSB-...]

It's not the first time and likely won't be the last that Raiola has clashed with a club either, as he was involved in a spat that's still on - going with AC Milan sporting director Massimiliano Mirabelli over Gianluigi Donnarumma which started last summer.

Marvin Miller, the first full - time executive director of the MLBPA, agreed to the owners» request to bar collusion, so long as it also barred owners from colluding against the players.

I find it atrocious that after working so hard to pump milk to send with him for months then trying to introduce the right types of solids at home, including as much organic stuff as I can afford, that I'm now supposed to be totally fine with the him eating lunches of frozen pizza, canned corn, canned peaches and cookies for a snack.I plan to speak to the daycare director about their menu, but I anticipate I'll be seen as an overzealous first - time mom.

In 1976, during her tenure as national president of the School Nutrition Association (then the American School Food Service Association) Dr. Martin was instrumental in securing federal authorization for the National Food Service Management Institute (NFSMI); ten years later, she came out of retirement to become the first full - time director of NFSMI.

«For me as an English person in France, it was first time I understood these ideals weren't abstractions,» professor Andrew Hussey, director of the Centre for Post-Colonial Studies (CPS) in Paris, says.

A reader who forwarded the link to Carrion's imminent appearance noted this is the second time in less than a month that the ex-Democratic lawmaker has made the trek north from Washington, D.C. where he has been working as first director of the White House Office on Urban Affairs since last winter.

In 2006, Baker served as deputy communications director on Ohio Governor Ted Strickland's landslide victory that returned the governor's mansion to the Democrats for the first time in 16 years.

The bespectacled former spin doctor worked for Salmond during his time as first minister of Scotland and before that was strategic communications director for the SNP.

As the National Republican Senatorial Committee's political director during the last election cycle, the former Marine helped orchestrate a stunning nine - seat GOP gain, seizing Senate control for the first time since 2006.

First - time director, producer and film - maker Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to the outspoken critic while working as a journalist in Beijing.

The same article states that this was the first time CRF reported hedge fund investments and refers to Maureen Kipper as «director».

Kellner's camp denied he ever worked for Schumer's congressional office and said that he only worked for the campaign, first as an unpaid intern then as a part - time deputy finance director.

Should Trump consider Kelly, the former commissioner of the New York City Police Department, it wouldn't be the first time the long - time New Yorker was mentioned as a possible candidate for FBI director.

A group of first - time candidates is running to replace term - limited Bronx Councilwoman Annabel Palma: Democrats Elvin García, 30, former Bronx borough director for Mayor Bill de Blasio; Amanda Farias, 27, who served as director of special projects for Queens Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley; and community organizer Michael Beltzer, 31, who has served on the NYPD 43rd Precinct Community Council and volunteered on former City Comptroller John Liu's citywide campaign.

«As a result, for the first time, we were able to visualize the protein's location, at minute scale, under physiologic conditions in an intact brain cell,» noted Chung, who is now Scientific Co-founder and Associate Director at Yumanity Therapeutics in Cambridge.

As Maurizio Battino, researcher at UNIVPM and Director of the study, said: «This is the first time a study has been published that supports the protective role of the bioactive compounds in strawberries in tackling recognised markers and risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.»

«But this is the first time that the community of statisticians, as represented by the ASA Board of Directors, has issued a statement to address these issues.»

Collins, who in 2008 stepped down after 15 years as director of NIH's genome institute, spoke publicly about his ideas for the first time since his name surfaced as the leading candidate to head the agency.

«As Secretary, I plan to set the agenda and lead this dialogue with the clear understanding that the lab leadership are strategic partners,» he wrote, adding that he met with lab directors three times in person or by videoconference during his first 6 weeks on the job.

Mark S. Guyer, Ph.D., currently director of NHGRI's Division of Extramural Research, becomes only the third deputy director of the institute, which was originally founded in 1988 as an office to lead NIH's portion of the effort to sequence the human genome for the first time.

Led by Leena Gandhi, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and director of thoracic medical oncology, researchers from the KEYNOTE - 021 study demonstrated for the first time that combining an immune checkpoint inhibitor — in this case, pembrolizumab — with a platinum - doublet chemotherapy regimen might be more effective than chemotherapy alone as first - line treatment for advanced, non-squamous NSCLC.

During his time at Balmain, the designer was hired as creative director of Jean Patou in 1959, and launched his first haute couture collections.

Banana Republic, which grabbed the industry's attention when it appointed Marissa Webb — formerly the head of J.Crew's womenswear division — as its creative director last April, will be staging a presentation for its men's and women's collections for the first time, a spokesperson for the company has confirmed.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staAs schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

The first «American» film by the director of Time of the Gypsies is every bit as bizarre and imaginative as his earlier work, although it's also maddeningly indulgent and erratic.

Inspired by nocturnal thrillers such as The Warriors and John Carpenter's Escape from New York, with his»71 the dynamite first - time feature director Yann Demange gives us his take on the Troubles, a violent 30 - year struggle over the constitutional status of Northern Ireland.

First - time director / screenwriter Antonio Negret details the frightening trend of kidnapping in Columbia with this tense tale of a young photographer who is abducted and held for ransom as his desperate parents scramble to raise the money that could save their child's life.

While the choreography is generally fairly minimal (at least for this sort of mega-production), first time film director Phyllida Lloyd (who helmed the original stage version) has woven together a tightly edited and exceedingly well shot film that capitalizes on the music wonderfully while never worrying too much about such nettlesome items as character or motivation, providing enough other movement that one ultimately doesn't miss huge dance numbers a la Robbins or Fosse that much in the long run.

First - time 31 - year - old director Koldo Serra's thriller The Backwoods (AKA El bosque de las sombras, 2006) re-charts thematic territory covered, in years prior, by such well - worn classics as Deliverance and Southern Comfort, and such B - grade horror pictures as Savage Island (2004).

It's ultimately clear, however, that Fear and Desire simply isn't able to justify its feature - length running time (ie the whole thing feels padded - out even at 61 minutes), with the movie's less - than - consistent vibe paving the way for a second half that could hardly be less interesting or anti-climactic - which does, in the end, confirm the film's place as a fairly ineffective first effort that does, at least, highlight the eye - catching visual sensibilities of its preternaturally - talented director.

Indeed, this is the 51 - year - old Crowe's first time as a movie director, but he's hardly a novice actor stepping behind the camera for some sort of vanity project.

In recent times, and especially since «First Reformed» debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, the writer / director has spoken about his work in numerous interviews and discussions, and his comments — which I encourage interested readers to seek out — are invariably as stimulating and insightful as they are candid.

Dustin Hoffman, a 75 - year - old first - time feature director better known as a great old acting pro, conducts at a pleasant tempo.

Nelson, who has done major time in the animation trenches, including as head of story for «Kung Fu Panda,» seems like an old pro despite «P2» being her first time in the director's chair.