Sentences with phrase «by veteran director»

I'll freely admit, many of the reasons to recommend Happy Feet reside primarily in the «bells and whistles», with some very good animation, nicely presented, and directed in a very competent fashion by veteran director George Miller (Babe: Pig in the City, The Road Warrior).

Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg — masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström — is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death.

Not exact matches

Another veteran FBI counterintelligence agent who knew Strzok but requested anonymity to discuss internal DOJ decisions called him an «expert» in counterintelligence work who «rose to the level of Deputy Assistant Director in the usual way: by being a reliable, consistent, and capable member of the executive team.»

Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the studio wanted to maintain the film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.

Appointed to the Board of Directors by former Speaker of the House Will Weatherford to represent military spouses and families, both active, transitioned, and retired, Jamee Graff brings a wealth of experience to the Veterans Florida Board.As a military spouse and mother, Jamee has been a champion for military spouses and families for more than twenty years.

The company prides itself on continuous innovation and its product development team is led by industry veteran Stacy Woodward, Florida Caribbean Distillers» director of quality assurance / control and product development for 25 years.

The session will be led by Michael Moran, CRPR and CYSA, a 30 - year veteran of the parks and recreation field who is the Director of Parks and Recreation at the City of Iowa City; and Julienne Hefter, founder of Safety First Aquatics, LLC and renowned speaker and author on a variety of recreation management and administrative topics; and CYSA Leadership Committee members.

Sherman Jewett, 44, a veteran Democratic operative, will work as a part - time consultant to the city to fill a void left by the December retirement of Tim Carroll, Miner's director of mayoral initiatives.

His campaign, however, to get Abeiku Sagoe as his boss was dashed as the veteran actor was beaten at the presidency by veteran movie director Sam Fiscian.

The act would allow funeral directors to grant qualified veterans» organizations the right to receive the cremains of a veteran which has not been claimed by a relative or friend of the deceased within one year after cremation.

The Executive Director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre of the National Democratic Institute, Clement Nwankwo, somewhat a veteran in the monitoring of elections in Nigeria, told Channels Television on Saturday evening of several instances of violence and the pilfering of election materials by officials.

«The thought they would freak out, be unprepared or panic is completely belied by the facts that have come out during this debate,» said Alexander Nicholson, a former soldier who is executive director of Servicemembers United, an organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey will be joined by VA Hudson Valley HCS Director Margaret Caplan, Cortlandt Supervisor Linda Puglisi, and local veterans to break ground on a $ 5.5 million federally - funded upgrade to the Montrose VA facility's indoor pool, VA Hudson Valley Health Care System, Montrose Campus, Building 26, 2094 Albany Post Rd., Montrose.

Congressman Brian Higgins joined by VA WNY Healthcare System Director Brian Stiller and Veterans Advocate Patrick Welch.

David Shenk, Director of EC Veterans Service Agency was accompanied by EC Executive Mark Poloncarz, and navy...

As we wrote in the autumn, «What the Electoral Commission will have to decide is whether Lee Rotherham «co-ordinating with... allied groups» counted as «working together» as defined by Commission rules, and if it included such co-ordination with Veterans for Britain, of which Rotherham would soon become executive director.»

- Monroe County Sheriff, where Republican Incumbent Patrick O'Flynn is being challenged by Democrat and former Greece Police Chief and Veterans Outreach Center director Todd Baxter.

He's being challenged by Todd Baxter, the former Greece Police Chief and former executive director for the Veterans Outreach Center.

What the Electoral Commission will have to decide is whether Lee Rotherham «co-ordinating with... allied groups» counted as «working together» as defined by Commission rules, and if it included such co-ordination with Veterans for Britain, of which Rotherham would soon become executive director.

Speculation about his interest in the seat now held by Republican Patrick O'Flynn has been heating up since Baxter left his position as executive director of the Veterans Outreach Center last month.

The signs of CTE (which can only be diagnosed postmortem) in the brains of blast - exposed military veterans were indistinguishable from those found in the deceased athletes, according to the researchers, led by Lee Goldstein, an associate professor at Boston University School of Medicine (B.U.S.M.) and Boston University College of Engineering, and Ann McKee, a B.U.S.M. professor and director of the Neuropathology Service for the VA New England Healthcare System.

Albright's job will be temporarily filled by mechanical engineer Bret Knapp, a LLNL veteran who is now principal associate director for weapons programs at the rival Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Committee member Robert Kerns, a professor of psychiatry at Yale University and director of pain management with the Veterans Health Administration, is encouraged by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy's recent acknowledgement of those concerns and the importance of striking a balance between legitimate medical needs and law enforcement, he noted at a press briefing on the report.

A long - unavailable underground hit that anticipated The Hunger Games novels by eight years, veteran director Fukasaku's epically violent, still - controversial and deeply influential genre masterpiece takes place in a dystopian alternate universe.

Veteran director Walter Hill helms this graphic novel adaptation about New Orleans (or, going by the film, Crescent City - NOLA's nickname) hitman James «Jimmy Bobo» Bonomo (Sylvester Stallone) who teams up with greenhorn D.C. cop Taylor Kwon (Sung Kang) to bring down the killers of their respective partners.

Indie veteran director Matthew Porterfield writes about how on his fourth feature «Sollers Point» he made a better film by remaining open.

Even though Cannes veteran Hirokazu Kore - eda left with this year's top prize and Spike Lee took home second place (a deserving win but also a good make - up after the director was ignored in 1989 for Do the Right Thing), the strong slate was buoyed by new blood and (a few) more women directors.

The fight scenes are staged cleanly enough by Newt Arnold, a veteran assistant director (to Sam Peckinpah, among others) making his debut at the helm.

He deflected the question with a Sundance veteran's skill, saying he was inspired by American filmmakers such as Sam Peckinpah, a director known for making violence felt on the big screen.

For the music, director Dean Parisot turned to David Newman, veteran of a number of comedy films by that time.

by Walter Chaw A joint project between a Japanese film crew and veteran American director Richard Fleischer (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Tora!

Director: David Ayer Cast: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Shia LaBeouf, Michael Pena, Jason Isaacs Plot: Normal Ellison (Lerman) replaces a dead bow gunner for a tank regiment, much to the disapproval of the unit, led by a gruff war veteran (Pitt).

Because the few set - pieces soak up the majority of the budget, it is never apparent that Predestination is put together by a group of unknown directors, using a relatively new yet promising actress in Sarah Snook and two veterans to the acting profession that often take a cut in pay if the story is there (Hawke and Tayor).

Directed by veteran Pixar animator and director, Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who!)

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

Now she's taking a break from the director's chair and circling a new role, according to Variety, as the lead in «Shoot Like a Girl,» based on the memoir by Purple Heart veteran Maj. Mary Jennings Hegar.

Director Matt Shakman is a veteran television director — who, in fact, directed two episodes of the TV series «Fargo» — and he works from an original script by RobertoDirector Matt Shakman is a veteran television director — who, in fact, directed two episodes of the TV series «Fargo» — and he works from an original script by Robertodirector — who, in fact, directed two episodes of the TV series «Fargo» — and he works from an original script by Roberto Patino.

Deathdream belies its low budget with both an impressive cast headed by veteran character actors and director Bob Clark's creative economy, which he had displayed two years earlier in his jokey - gory horror debut Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972), which Ormsby co-wrote and starred in.

As directed by Steven Bernstein, a veteran director of photography who makes his feature film debut here, «Decoding Annie Parker» frequently dangles on the precipice of falling into Lifetime Original Movie territory.

This is the case with Momentum, brought to the screen by veteran camera operator - turned - rookie director Stephen S. Campanelli.

But we'll have to wait and see if Will Ferrell will star... A movie version of John le Carré's 2010 novel Our Kind of Traitor has just started shooting, helmed by veteran British TV and Nanny McPhee Returns director Susanna White, hot off HBO and the BBC's Parade's End, not to mention four episodes of Generation Kill.

Robin Hood is directed by English filmmaker Otto Bathurst, a veteran TV director (episodes of «Peaky Blinders», «Black Mirror», «Criminal Justice», «Hustle», «UGetMe») making his feature film directorial debut with this.

Veteran director James Ivory, 89, won the adapted screenplay award for «Call Me by Your Name» and saluted late colleagues Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and Ismail Merchant.

It's not a great film by any means, but humanist director Robert Benton (Nobody's Fool) and veteran screenwriter Nicholas Meyer (Time After Time, certain Star Trek films) manage to keep it alive and moving.

by Walter Chaw There's something desperately wrong with veteran television director Leslie H. Martinson's spy spoof Fathom, and it took me the whole movie to figure it out: Raquel Welch, as the titular va - va - va - voom dental hygienist cum parachutist cum superspy spends the entire film running from symbols of aggressive virility.

The 15:17 to Paris is directed by veteran actor / filmmaker Clint Eastwood, director of the films Gran Torino, Invictus, Hereafter, J. Edgar, Jersey Boys, American Sniper, and Sully most recently.

News from the Star Wars universe had fans nervous, as screenwriter Michael Arndt left his Episode VII draft to be rewritten by director JJ Abrams and Star Wars veteran Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote 1980's The...

First Reformed is both written and directed by veteran American filmmaker Paul Schrader, director of films including Blue Collar, Hardcore, American Gigolo, Cat People, Light of Day, The Comfort of Strangers, Light Sleeper, Forever Mine, Auto Focus, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist, The Walker, Adam Resurrected, The Canyons, The Dying of the Light, and Dog Eat Dog previously.

Helmed by veteran TV director Mimi Leder in somehow small - screen - friendly Panavision (that she manages to make her panoramic establishing shots look like the stock transitions in any episode of «Hart to Hart» should be included in a textbook somewhere), the picture goes through the motions — from discovery of the peril by naïfs to the involvement of the Internet to the slow - in - coming participation of the powers that be — of a genre most recently (and faithfully) resurrected by The Day After Tomorrow.

Laughably over-staged (talky scenes take place at batting cages, below circus trapezes and while jogging) and populated with stereotypes (Fisher Stevens plays a greasy, deceptive record - label scout), the film seems to have made from a My First Movie do - it - yourself kit purchased by the director (a veteran of music videos, and it shows) from a street vendor on Hollywood and Vine.