Sentences with phrase «aviator who»

Leaving Honolulu, drive past the ritzy Kahala area en route to the Amelia Earhart Lookout, named in honor of the famous aviator who in 1935 completed the first successful solo flight from Honolulu to the continental US, landing in California.

When a tragic accident brings Owen, a young American aviator who fought in the Great War, to the south of France, he finds himself drawn into this flamboyant circle, and the Murphys find their world irrevocably, unexpectedly transformed.

And then there is Lincoln Beachey, perhaps the greatest aviator who ever lived, who dazzled crowds with an array of trademark twists and dives — and best embodied the romance with death that fueled so many of aviation's earliest heroes.

The timeless story by Antoine de Saint - Exupéry about an aviator who meets a small prince and learns about his...

Adding to the general festivity is John C. Reilly, as an aviator who has been stuck on Skull Island since 1944.

So he turns to a seasoned naval aviator who helps Dusty qualify to take on the defending champ of the race circuit.

Jean Renoir, the great humanist of cinema, cowrote and directed this superlative WWI story about two French aviators who are captured by a German captain (Erich von Stroheim, perfectly cast as a mannerly despot) and shuttled between prisons.

Of all the pioneer aviators who went on to manufacture cars, perhaps the least remembered is Edwin Prosser.

The Americans, who flew the «hump» over Burma to Chongquig (further up the Yangzte River) are still appreciated with a memorial for those aviators who help stem the Japanese tide into China.

Not exact matches

He is not a Jesus who will go out of style along with skinny jeans, tight cowboy shirts, and aviator sunglasses.

Veteran Navy combat aviator Linda Maloney said that she and Mrs Shults were among a small group of women who worked to see the combat exclusion rule repealed.

Harry Guggenheim, who was a naval aviator in both world wars, is a former Ambassador to Cuba (1929 - 1933) and is married to the former Alicia Patterson, editor and publisher of Long Island's profitable tabloid Newsday (of which he is president).

Hoffman, a former editor in chief of Discover, pays tribute to the long - overlooked Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos - Dumont, who piloted the world's first personal airship.

To come up with characters soldiers can relate to, Rizzo and his team showed them renderings of around 20 potential candidates before settling on the three most popular ones: Female Aviator, a young woman wearing a green aviator suit (pictured above); Battle Buddy, an African - American soldier with a shaved head; and Retired Sergeant Major, a plainspoken civilian with close - cropped silver hair and a blue sweater who sits on a porch that looks out on rolling farAviator, a young woman wearing a green aviator suit (pictured above); Battle Buddy, an African - American soldier with a shaved head; and Retired Sergeant Major, a plainspoken civilian with close - cropped silver hair and a blue sweater who sits on a porch that looks out on rolling faraviator suit (pictured above); Battle Buddy, an African - American soldier with a shaved head; and Retired Sergeant Major, a plainspoken civilian with close - cropped silver hair and a blue sweater who sits on a porch that looks out on rolling farmlands.

Who doesn't know the Aviator Ray - Ban model?

This particular pair are by Randolph Engineering, who are an American brand that supply classic aviators to the US military.

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After a lackluster period piece («Gangs of New York») and an uneven biopic («The Aviator»), director Martin Scorsese returns to familiar territory: the world of organized crime and the men and women who fall under its influence, either as willing participants or bitter antagonists.

McConaughey plays Detective Joe Cooper of the Dallas Police Department, an officer who cruises around in an unmarked car, wearing dark clothes, accessorised with aviator shades and the inevitable Stetson.

Co-producer Graham King, who also produced Gangs and The Aviator, recently said something to the effect that they were «going for money,» supposedly as opposed to artistry, with The Departed.

The Aviator is based on the life of one of the great pioneers of aviation in the 20th Century, Howard Hughes, who made quite a fortune, and a good share of fame, as one of the most prominent American figures in the 20s through the 40s, which is where John Logan's (The Last Samurai, Sinbad) script dedicates its focus on.

Oscar winner Christian Bale (The Fighter, the Dark Knight trilogy) as the cunning panther, Bagheera; Oscar winner Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine, The Aviator) as the sinister snake, Kaa; Oscar nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game, Avengers: Infinity War) as the fearsome tiger, Shere Khan; Oscar nominee Naomie Harris (Moonlight, Skyfall) as Nisha, the female wolf, who adopts the baby Mowgli as one of her cubs; and Andy Serkis (the Planet of the Apes trilogy, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) as the wise bear, Baloo.

Critic Consensus: With a rich sense of period detail, The Aviator succeeds thanks to typically assured direction from Martin Scorsese and a strong performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, who charts Howard Hughes» descent from eccentric billionaire to reclusive madman.

Critics Consensus: With a rich sense of period detail, The Aviator succeeds thanks to typically assured direction from Martin Scorsese and a strong performance from Leonardo DiCaprio, who charts Howard Hughes» descent from eccentric billionaire to reclusive madman.

A real movie lover's movie, The Aviator sees Martin Scorsese bring a touch of panache to this Howard Hughes biopic, which features probably Leonardo DiCaprio's best performance to date (though he does look rather too young for most of the film) and a host of other fine performances, none finer than Cate Blanchett, who is mesmerising as Katherine Hepburn (though never quite so mesmerising as Hepburn herself was).

Finally, special mention should go to Dominic Cooper, who resists the urge to imitate Robert Downey, Jr. (or Iron Man 2's John Slattery, for that matter) as Howard Stark — if anything, his performance probably owes more to Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes in The Aviator — and instead makes the part his own, pitching the performance as the more worldly counterpart to Steve and a man who, for all his Starkian bravado, is deadly serious about winning the war.

«At the heart of it all is The Little Girl (Mackenzie Foy), who's being prepared by her mother (Rachel McAdams) for the very grown - up world in which they live — only to be interrupted by her eccentric, kind - hearted neighbor, The Aviator...

Things pick up again around the one - hour mark, when Little Girl takes flight herself in Aviator's plane and ends up in a topsy - turvy alterna - universe where grown - ups rule the roost and the now - adolescent Prince (Paul Rudd) toils as a lowly nobody, having himself forgotten who he really is.

Jeremy Renner stars as Webb, who comes off like a bizarre caricature of a concerned, anti-establishment rabble - rouser; with his goatee, his aviator shades, his vintage MG and his Clash albums, this guy feels as much like a cartoon as Roland Burton Hedley, Jr. from «Doonesbury.»

whenever he removes his omnipresent aviator sunglasses, Depp's Bulger is more courtroom sketch than man, though he does provide the requisite menace to earn the fear of those who would consider crossing him.

With his pitched Monty Burns haircut, single brown tooth and comically oversaturated blue contact lenses that make him look like a White Walker from Game of Thrones whenever he removes his omnipresent aviator sunglasses, Depp's Bulger is more courtroom sketch than man, though he does provide the requisite menace to earn the fear of those who would consider crossing him.

From Academy Award - nominated screenwriter JOHN LOGAN (Gladiator, The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall) and acclaimed, Tony Award - winning director MICHAEL GRANDAGE in his feature film debut, comes Genius, a stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between the world - renowned book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and the larger - than - life literary giant Thomas Wolfe.

Looking like a 10 - cent Matthew McConaughey version of the «cool» kid who came to pitch for the «Bad News Bears,» he sports wispy facial hair, aviator shades, ugly shirts and an in - script - only sexual charisma that gets scantily - clad girls to do his bidding when he walks up to them and says «You wan na make out?»

By 1963, when he started filming Shock Corridor on a rented soundstage, Samuel Fuller had come ruefully and puckishly to view himself as a «Lindy,» a diminutive for Charles Lindbergh designating a prostitute who, like the famous aviator, opera...

King of Noir Robert Ryan plays the rough - hewn writer who is good enough to share her bed, but not her hand, while Zachary Scott plays the aviator millionaire too much the naïf to escape his fate.

Neither Scott nor the industry seems to have completely decided on his calling, but he's versatile enough to alternate between comedy hero and villain roles, somehow able to replace John Cusack in Hot Tub Time Machine 2 but also easily envisioned in a Woody Allen movie and capable of reuniting with Martin Scorsese, who directed him in The Aviator.

Ethan Hawke dons a pair of aviator sunglasses and a flight suit to play Major Tommy Egan, a six tour veteran who has been relegated to flying drone missions from an air - conditioned box outside of Las Vegas.

As stronger, more competitive contenders started to bubble to the top, all the film could muster was a single nod for Laura Linney, the National Board of Review winner who would lose out to Cate Blanchett for «The Aviator.»

In Megasaki, an earnest exchange student (Greta Gerwig) working for the school paper tries to Woodward - and - Bernstein her way through the secret history of the dogs» mistreatment while a twelve - year - old aviator named Atari (Koyu Rankin) flies to the Isle of Dogs in search of his own beloved pet, who has also been sent there.

He's a hopeless alcoholic / coke - head who hides his altered state beneath aviator shades.

The Little Girl agrees to knuckle down at first, but soon finds herself distracted by her peculiar elderly neighbour, The Aviator, who wishes to tell her the story of his encounter with The Little Prince - an other worldly being who lived on an astronaut before landing in the middle of a desert on Earth.

The aviator / film - producer depicted here by Beatty (who is twenty - years older than the character he's playing) is a past his prime, germaphobe whose eccentric behaviour leads many to want to have him committed.

Who could foresee «Almost Famous» beating «Gladiator» to Best Sound, or «Vera Drake» getting the better of «The Aviator» in the Costume Design race?

Steve plans to make a Part II to his ill - received film, hoping to exact revenge on the shark that killed his friend and colleague, and this time he's joined by the newly - met Ned (Wilson, Starsky & Hutch), a 30 - year - old who just may be Steve's biological son, and Jane (Blanchett, The Aviator), perhaps the only reporter interested in covering Zissou's adventure.

John Logan, who wrote the screenplay for The Aviator, is adapting the story and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the 28 Weeks Later director, is set to direct with Gore Verbinksi (Pirates of the Caribbean) producing.

There's nobody out there right now using the new grading technology quite like Scorsese, who demonstrated in The Aviator how colour processes evolved during the first half of the twentieth century.

Who we want to win: Art director Dante Ferretti and set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo, previous winners for The Aviator, helped make Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd the quirky, dark visual masterpiece that it is.

The Aviator is a grand Hollywood production about a man who inherited a fortune, worked his way into Hollywood, gambled with his money on government - sanctioned pet projects, and became the famous recluse of caricature.

She is distracted by her eccentric neighbor The Aviator (Jeff Bridges) who introduces The Little Girl to the extraordinary and innocent world of The Little Prince (Riley Osborne) and is taken on a journey to his universe which is at the same time a journey back to her own childhood and innocence.

Montlhéry: The Golden Era — The last of the great prewar banked circuits to survive in largely original condition: David Burgess-Wise researches its history up to 1939 / A hard seven days and nights — Paul Skilleter explains how a remarkably standard Jaguar XK 120 covered 16,851 miles in 168 hours at Montlhéry in 1952 / The aerodynamic world of Etienne Bunau - Varilla — Reg Winstone investigates the influential career of this pioneer aviator, engineer, businessman and inventor / Good things come to those who wait — Kay Hottendorff shares his experiences in tracking down his dream car — a Cord in Oily Rag condition / Child's Play: spotting car numbers — John Harrison and Adrian Tranmer look at the origins, development and hazards of this popular schoolboy hobby / Future of the Past?