Sentences with phrase «capable hands of director»

Dean's first starring performance was guided by the capable hands of director Elia Kazan, who had been looking for the right actor to play the role of Cal Trask in John Steinbeck's East of Eden (1955).

The Flashpoint movie is confirmed and is happening under the capable hands of the director duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein.

In the capable hands of director Matt Reeves and motion - capture star Andy Serkis as Caesar, I'd gladly watch more new APES films by 20th Century Fox to see just where the narrative will take us and how closely it will skew to the original franchise storyline.

Continuing to be the most original and resonant of the Marvel superhero franchises, the X-men return in the capable hands of director Bryan Singer, who again stirs plenty of meaty subtext beneath the thrilling action...

But in the capable hands of director David O. Russell («Three Kings,» «I Heart Huckabees»), working from a screenplay by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, and Eric Johnson, Micky Ward's hardscrabble rise to the top — OK, to the middle — makes for a compelling underdog sports drama.

This could easily have turned out to be one of those formula feel good films with their predictable story book endings but, In the capable hands of director Mara Nair («Amelia»), she brings warmth, emotion and an understanding of the Ugandan culture into this lovely and heart warming film.

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Calling Murphy a «capable pair of hands,» Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, wrote in an investor note.

entry will ultimately stay in the capable hands of Skyfall director Sam Mendes.

This could have gone horribly awry if left in less capable hands, but writer - director Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines) still retains his title as the master of searing, and often hard - to - watch relationship dramas.

So began what Kirby dubs the happiest job of her life, one that played out over eighteen months with many months of filming to come, and one which placed Kirby in the ever - capable hands of writer - producer Peter Morgan and storied director Stephen Daldry, and alongside castmates Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II and Matt Smith as Prince Philip.

Yet, in the capable hands of female director Rama Burshtein, this is The Wedding Plan, an Israeli - set subtitled drama whose message is much more altruistic than any of those assembly line efforts Hollywood has a predilection for green lighting.

Under the competent hands of America's most consistently mediocre director (Ron Howard, subbing in for the LEGO guys), Solo is a perfectly fine bit of blockbuster action filmmaking, with a capable cast and some neat special effects upholding a wholly conventional screenplay with nary a hint of the idiosyncrasy that has marked every other Star Wars film, for good or for ill.

Writer / director Richard Ayoade, who has directed some music videos, displays a hand behind the camera that is not only sure but also capable of unique feeling and wit.

But in the capable hands of debut feature director

In the hands of a less capable filmmaker than writer - director Raymond De Felitta, the epic comic - tragedy of it could merely have referred to the film itself, which is laden with the potential to be everything that such small, personal, indie filmmaking is: self - conscious, sentimental, precious.

I hand over the leadership of the Foundation to the very capable hands of Nancy Johnson and look forward to continuing to serve the Foundation as a Director.