Sentences with phrase «best gift any director»

Sofia Coppola is one writer / director that constantly helped Roger see the world differently, which is just about the best gift any director can give a film critic.

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«The best gifts reflect the recipient's tastes and interests,» notes Diane Domeyer, the Creative Group's executive director.

But with his typical zeal and enthusiasm, Lord Harris «adopted» the gardens, finding a new director, William Purdie, and giving the garden many cash donations and other gifts like a Wardian Case (a portable miniature greenhouse) in 1854 and at one time a gift of «# 200 sterling, to be appropriated in prizes for the best specimens of native farming and garden produce brought forward at a public competition.»

«It's the best gift you can give your child,» says Trudy Carpenter, director of special services for Ledyard public schools in Connecticut.

«That you, AVM Olutayo Tade Oguntoyinbo whilst serving as Chief of Training and Operations, Nigerian Air force and the CEO / Managing Director as well as the sole signatory to the account of Spaceweb Integrated Services Limited with Wema Bank, on or about the 11th July, 2014 at Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did accept a gift in the sum of One hundred and Sixty Six Million Naira (N166, 000,000) from Societe D' Equipments Internationaux Nigeria Limited, a contractor with the Nigerian Air force in performance of your official act and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section17 (a) of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and punishable under Section 17 (c) of the same Act».

For correctly guessing all six winners (Best Movie: «Argo,» Best Director: Ang Lee, Best Actor: Daniel Day - Lewis, Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz and Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway), she wins a $ 100 gift certificate to the Mattituck Cinemas, courtesy of Times / Review NewsGroup.

The charge reads: «That you, AVM Olutayo Tade Oguntoyinbo whilst serving as Chief of Training and Operations, Nigerian Air force and the CEO / Managing Director as well as the sole signatory to the account of Spaceweb Integrated Services Limited with Wema Bank, on or about the 11th July, 2014 at Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Court did accept a gift in the sum of One hundred and Sixty Six Million Naira (N166, 000,000) from Societe D' Equipments Internationaux Nigeria Limited, a contractor with the Nigerian Air force in performance of your official act and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section17 (a) of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and punishable under Section 17 (c) of the same Act».

That's how the gifted young Argentine writer - director Matías Piñeiro makes his movies, in a style that seems casual and feels sure - handed — casual and sure - handed being about as good a combination as artistry, in any medium, has to offer.

No matter how good the cinematographer or how ingenious the director or even the most gifted cast in the world.

Best Picture «Äì «ÄúThe Social Network «Äù Best Director «Äì David Fincher for «ÄúThe Social Network «Äù Best Adapted Screenplay «Äì Aaron Sorkin for «ÄúThe Social Network «Äù Best Original Screenplay «Äì Chris Nolan for «ÄúInception «Äù Best Actor «Äì Colin Firth in «ÄúThe King «Äôs Speech «Äù Best Actress «Äì Natalie Portman in «ÄúBlack Swan «Äù Best Supporting Actor «Äì Christian Bale in «ÄúThe Fighter «Äù Best Supporting Actress «Äì Hailee Steinfeld in «ÄúTrue Grit «Äù Best Foreign Language Film «Äì «ÄúA Prophet «Äù Best Documentary «Äì «ÄúExit Through the Gift Shop «Äù Best Animated Feature «Äì «ÄúToy Story 3 «Ä ≥ Best Cinematography «Äì Wally Pfister for «ÄúInception «Äù Best Original Score «Äì Clint Mansell for «ÄúBlack Swan «Äù Most Promising Performer «Äì Jennifer Lawrence in «ÄúWinter «Äôs Bone «Äù Most Promising Filmmaker «Äì Derek Cianfrance for «ÄúBlue Valentine «Äù

Director Colm McCarthy's The Girl With All the Gifts is one of the best zombie films ever made, and this Blu - ray release from Lionsgate is a solid treatment for this relatively low - budget marvel.

Director Bill Pohlad and screenwriter Oren Moverman get it: instead of going with the «rock «n» roll rise «n» fall» approach, they use two critical, defining slices of Wilson's life to render a beautifully complex, abstract interpretation of the man who gifted us «Good Vibrations» and «California Girls.»

director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a well - shot British zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between good and evil.

The Gift is astonishly well put - together and especially for a first - time director.

Joel Edgerton wears many hats in The Gift as writer, director and actor, but none of them fit particularly well, here.

This commemorative gift set also includes all 10 + hours of bonus content from the equally amazing 2007 Ultimate Collector's Edition, as well as all five feature film versions — The Final Cut, «92 Director's Cut, Domestic and International Theatrical versions and the rare Workprint.

It might not match some of his top tier work, but it was reminder that Crowe's gifts as a writer (the script was co-written by Aline Brosh McKenna) and director are still very much intact, holding the promise of even better things to come.

[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Down] Joel Edgerton wears many hats in The Gift as writer, director and actor, but none of them fit particularly well, here.

Lucky McKee's 2002 breakout is a showcase for his own talent as both writer and director, as well as his gift for casting.

Capturing the horror of the camps like few filmmakers before and displaying a gift for camerawork both realistic and with a heightened terror that Inarritu and Lubezki would be jealous of, it's sure to win him a Foreign Language Oscar nod and could lead to Best Picture and Best Director nominations as well, while he's currently developing his second feature «Sunset,» a thriller set in Budapest in 1910.

Years in the making and Hou's most expensive production by far, this Cannes Best Director winner (which absolutely should have taken home the Palme D'Or) is the Best Asian Film of 2015 and a gift to cinephiles the world over.

Darren Aronofsky is the kind of artiste director whose films tend to play well with the cineaste crowd and prompt cricket chirps at the cineplex, but he's also got savvy commercial instincts and a gift for casting (Mickey Rourke, whose career was brought back to life thanks to his star turn in Aronofsky's «The Wrestler,» would surely agree).

Released: February 24 Cast: Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine Director: Colm McCarthy (Outcast) Why it's great: If you're fed up with «young adult dystopia,» and equally over the zombie movie, The Girl with All the Gifts is good news.

Best Picture: The Social Network Best Director: David Fincher, The Social Network Best Lead Actor: Colin Firth, The King's Speech Best Lead Actress: Natalie Portman, Black Swan Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, The Fighter Best Supporting Actress: Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit Best Original Screenplay: Christopher Nolan, Inception Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins, True Grit Best Editing: Lee Smith, Inception Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 3 Best Foreign Language Film: Mother Best Documentary: Exit Through The Gift Shop

That so many actors — Quaid and Young, but also Cort, Gordon, Lee Grant, David Carradine, Peter Sellers, Jack Warden and Bruce Dern, among others — delivered arguably the best performances of their careers in Ashby films is perhaps the finest testament to his gifts as an actor's director.

Zemeckis's is the better film, thanks to the director's superior technical proficiency and Rube Goldberg - like gift for articulating complex gags — not to mention the depth, honesty, and consistency of his mean - spiritedness.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Year: 2017 Director: Noah Baumbach In maybe his most well - tuned chamber drama (let's use this phrase loosely) since Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach takes time to observe the ways in which his characters run, their ambulatory gifts (or lack thereof) representing both their struggles to express their innermost selves and the ways in which they can't escape the parents who must pass themselves — their failures, their quirks, their anger — to their offspring.

It may not have sounded like much on the surface (another reason why it probably didn't do very well with audiences or most critics) but legendary director Hill (the man behind such classics as «The Warriors,» «48 HRS» and «Streets of Fire») brought both his impeccable technical gifts and a genuine sense of personal style to the proceedings that elevated the material to something that came far closer to what one might refer to as «art» than one might rightly expect from a genre picture these days.

Playing parts better suited to the periphery of Mean Girls, a trio of dynamic actors do what they can with playwright - director Leslye Headland's thin, unvariegated material: Regan (Kirsten Dunst) is the seething maid of honor; Katie (Wedding Crashers» gifted Isla Fisher) is a bobbleheaded sex fiend; and Gena (Lizzy Caplan, most alive when her cell is tossed out a window) is the caustic slacker, still bruised over a high - school rejection.

Gifted director Laurent Cantet began with a best - selling autobiographical novel by a teacher, Francois Begaudeau.

«This generous gift ensures that USC's stem cell research center will continue to attract the best and brightest emerging talent and encourages their pioneering work as they transition into the next stage of their careers,» said Andy McMahon, Ph.D., F.R.S., director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.

By requiring greater public accountability through state and district level reporting on the achievement of their high - performing students, we will bring parity to the reporting process and better understand how these students are — or are not — progressing,» said NAGC President Tracy L. Cross, Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at the College of William & Mary.

«NAGC is committed to providing opportunities and resources to better understand and serve all gifted and talented children,» said M. René Islas, NAGC Executive Director.

Implement a nurturing and talent development model for transforming K - 12 instruction and curriculum for all students that provides: 1) Professional Development on best research - based practices and curriculum for teachers, principals and curriculum directors; 2) Concept - based curriculum for all students and 3) Differentiated classrooms that engage students in gifted intelligent behaviors, interests and learning styles to solve problems through performance tasks within interdisciplinary concept - based curriculum units.

«Many authors who have either written Byliner Originals or had their nonfiction showcased in our archives happen to be very gifted fiction writers as well,» Byliner editorial director and co-founder Mark Bryant said in a release, «and they've been asking us when we would begin publishing original fiction.

Guest blogger Rachel McPherson is the founder and executive director of The Good Dog Foundation in New York City and author of the new book Every Dog Has a Gift.

Dr. Philippe Coudrai is a gifted veterinarian and surgeon as well as our Medical Director.

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«This gift dovetails remarkably well with our existing collection — essentially adding strength on strength to one of the most distinctive and important collections of its kind,» said Rand Suffolk, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., director of the High Museum of Art.

The first drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the collection, Chronos Devouring his Child (Fig. 4), was purchased in 1934 from A. Everett «Chick» Austin, Jr., director of the Wadsworth Athenaeum at Hartford and a fellow Harvard graduate student with Professor of Art Agnes Rindge; Austin evidently bought the sheet from the Savile Gallery in London.21 The brown ink and wash drawing with traces of black chalk is a variation of a work in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is related to a drawing in The Pierpont Morgan Library that is very close in concept to a portion of the ceiling of the Palazzo Clerici in Milan.22 Other gifts of drawings came in the 1930s, mostly contemporary American art, as well as nineteenth - century sketchbooks by Sanford Robinson Gifford, which complemented the four paintings by this Hudson River School painter that were already in the Magoon collection.

You'd be hard pressed to find someone that isn't a fan of the directorial work of J.J. Abrams, George Lucas or the Coen Brothers — as cult movie directors, they're all up there with the best of»em, making this series of illustrative prints by Maria Suarez the perfect Christmas gift.

PAMM director discusses Craig Robins» donation of 100 contemporary artworks, as well as gifts from others, including museum namesake Jorge M. Pérez.

Member, Ophthalmic Women Leaders (OWL); Board of Directors, Chairman of Budget and Steering Committee, Chairman of Medical and Special Gifts Divisions, United Way of Muskingum, Morgan and Perry Counties (OH); President, Chairwoman, Zanesville (OH) Art Center - Beaux Arts Club; Board of Trustees, Good Samaritan Medical Center Foundation Board, Zanesville, OH; Board of Trustees and Chairman, Southeastern Ohio Symphony Orchestra of Symphonic Society

Campus Director Ginger Rezmer made fancy homemade caramel apples to give as gifts as well as provided some Traverse City Pie Company pies.