Sentences with phrase «career as a critic»

Though he began his career as a critic and groundbreaking screenwriter, Paul Schrader has emerged — over the past four decades — as one of American cinema's most accomplished and perennially underrated directors.

In 1959, partially in an attempt to support his art - making, Judd began his career as a critic and art writer.

It's the first time in my career as a critic that something I've proposed has taken on a life of its own.

Not exact matches

Still, this perk has stirred some controversy and critics say it may send the message that motherhood as a liability to success in one's career.

Critics predicted Genuity would fail, which is why the Canaccord acquisition is seen by some as vindication for Kassie's career.

He has his critics, to be sure, but the man has spent his entire career studying the depression, and it seems to have paid off, as Bernanke helped bring us back from the brink of disaster — at least for now.

Gran Torino has been seen by many critics as a response by its star and director, Clint Eastwood, to his own lengthy career of playing hyper - violent urban vigilantes like Dirty Harry Callahan.

People who succeed in life quiet the inner critic as much as possible... those who make a career out of criticising everyone and everything are usually spinning their wheels.

Niebuhr began his career as a liberal, but he became one of liberalism's most ardent critics.

Paul's conversion, or at least the beginning of his missionary career, can hardly be dated as early as the majority of critics are inclined to place it.

As with Eliot, one suspects, so with Ozick, whose own career has included the twinned and twined roles of storyteller and literary critic.

Jesus» career, which Christians believe to be a supreme movement of God's occasional in - break, has been read by some apparently honest critics as a demonic ministry.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

About James Suckling Suckling began his wine critic career in 1981 as an assistant editor for Wine Spectator magazine.

Why can't people for God sake understand the angle the young man was coming from, this is a guy who has come out to suggest what he feel will be of great glory to the team, futbol is about winning trophy not the samba, champaign, tick taka or jambody style Of playwill be accredited to ur cv after retirement, every professional player will wants to be identify with a medal, mind you he have limited years to his career, therefore we should not allow sentment or affections we have for our various teams erode the basic objective of the game.we should also think about their future too, this guys are proffessionals which young lads are looking up to and questions will be ask tomorrow about theirs playing days.can people tell me why pele and some other famous players in the world both present and past are been celebrated today the answer is simply cos they are successful in their career and have trophy to show for it in their respective clubs or countries, why the complain in nigeria?its simply cos our team for quite a while now has not recorded any troph to her glory, fans should learn how to call a spade a spade in order to balance situation and also for better performance of the team.why then did arsene wenger hurridly went to buy more experienced players after the poor outing he had at the beggining of last season?this players know beta cos they are at the centre of it all, we don't have to trash what they say, we fans are only watching from screen, in as much as we beliv in arsen wenger, we should also know that without the boys no arsen wenger, fans should try to reason along with the players too.an hypotetical cases of similar to rvp has been tested by some players and have put them right over the coach and the team.so, whatelse does the fans needs to prove that futbol has gone beyond living in the past.for example, fabrigas and nasri were able to prove their critics wrong.thank God for them, we should always be objective in our submission, how else do we expect players to show their commitment to a team that was in 8 on the log table and later fought their way back to 3rd this boys are commendable and deserve to be encouraged, I think is high time the manager and the mgt board of arsenal futbol team get to know that game of futbol has gone beyond two teams domination, its now like a pendilum which can swing either way only with a powerful insrument called money.you can't eat ur cake and have.

And existing blogs such as Political Gastronomica and Blog P.I. have been weighing in ever since the first ’08 exploratory committee sites were launched, with the folks at the Bivings Report seeming to build a second career as online campaign critics (they're very good at aggregating the reviews of others as well).

Pence's most controversial moment as a national figure — and the biggest stumble of his political career — came after he signed a law in Indiana that critics had warned would allow businesses to discriminate against gay men and lesbians.

Some critics also said Abraham Attah was not even schooling in Ghana as he is resident in the United States, courtesy of his acting career.

But over lunch, on a particularly hot day at the conference's midpoint, Hameroff sought a seat in the shade and argued that he merely gives as good as he gets: His critics may couch their judgments in academic niceties, he says, but essentially they're saying he wasted his career in a wrong - headed attempt to steer neuroscience into sheer speculation and quantum woo.

Rebecca Leffler is an author, journalist and consultant who, after a long career in entertainment as France Correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter and film critic on French TV network...

Chris started his online career in 2005 when he successfully served as a web critic for new websites and online games.

The film did only a fraction of the business of, say, the previous year's Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, but it did earn a few favorable reviews even as it repulsed critics such as Roger Ebert.Thereafter, Fleming's career waxed extremely uneven from a critical standpoint, though his grosses remained generally favorable throughout and the projects kept rolling in.

Select highlights of her stage career include performances as Lucia in WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Mrs. Lovett in John Doyle's production of SWEENEY TODD (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Maria Callas in MASTER CLASS; Reno Sweeney in ANYTHING GOES (Drama Desk Award; Tony Award nomination); Moll in THE CRADLE WILL ROCK; Nancy in OLIVER!

-- A conversation / Q & A with director Michael Haneke conducted by critic Elvis Mitchell before an audience in L.A., covering Amour in part but delving into Haneke's entire cinematic career as well.

He has since gone on to enjoy a prolific freelance writing career with regular bylines in publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Esquire, Smithsonian, and Playboy magazine (where he served as film critic for six years).

He is a unique filmmaker, holding two successful and parallel careers as writer and director, as well as representing the critic - turned - filmmaker mythology.

Ironically for a director seldom regarded as an artist by American critics, Aldrich's union activism on behalf of directors» prerogatives alienated studio heads and cost him work at the end of his career.

The verdict that critic Andrew Sarris passed on Nichols near the beginning of his career, harsh as it may have been, has stood the test of time: «No American director since Orson Welles had started off with such a bang [The Graduate, 1968], but Welles had followed his own road, and that made all the difference.

And I have never walked out of a movie, not in my ten - year career as a film critic, not before.

Of those, A Scanner Darkly does get some actual commentary from critic and New York Film Festival honcho Kent Jones, where he posits it as considerably underrated, but the group's otherwise just put out there as something of a dark stage in the man's career, where he had a string of films failing to be embraced by audiences, critics or both, but with little extrapolation as to why those films were made, or what Linklater thinks of them.

In 1943, Ida Lupino received the Best Actress Award from the New York Film Critics Association for her work in The Hard Way, but, in truth, she was becoming disenchanted with her career as an actress.

HitFix film critic Drew McWeeny joins the show to talk the films of April 2014, look at why the rest of the world is increasingly getting Hollywood blockbusters before the US, and pay tribute to the great Harold Ramis as we explore his directorial career.

«Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris (Unrated) Bittersweet bio-pic revisits the rise and fall of Jackie Paris (1924 - 2004), a once - promising singer who burst on the postwar jazz scene to win the Downbeat Critics Poll as the Best New Male Vocalist in 1953 only to labor in obscurity for most of his career following that explosive debut.

«No [Sundance] film seemed to touch as many attendees, however, as Life Itself, Steve James's intimate look back at the career of the late film critic Roger Ebert.

The latter merited a bad on - camera review from Sean Penn who between this show and his criticism of Ricky Gervais at Golden Globes, seems to be developing a side career as a real - time award show comedy critic.

Over the course of his career, he has spent time as a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a PR flack, a seriously terrible marine biologist and a slightly better - than - average competitive swimmer.

Martin Thomas Martin Thomas began his career as a film critic in 1997 on the Austin airwaves with the weekly TV show «The Reel Deal».

As of this writing, Sucker Punch sits with a 19 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes (10 % if you're looking at critics with careers).

It seems pertinent that Altman has shown a career - long love of and respect for actors as well as a pronounced fear of and contempt for most critics.

So you were talking about this kind of karmic circle where it comes back around — where now «Hoop Dreams,» a film Ebert helped make successful, he was someone that shined a light on these less - well - known films that had weaker marketing budgets or so forth, drew people's attention to Errol Morris, who you saw on screen, really helped launch the careers of some of these people by shining that light on them... and you were saying how from your experience as a critic and all that, you say in your own words, you yourself feel the same desire, that your job is to cast that light.

It puts me in mind of something critic Peter Matthews once wrote about Julianne Moore's career - best (to my mind) turn in Todd Haynes» «Safe,» an indisputably great performance, but one in which her character is so unnervingly muted as to be disorienting: «It's as if the actress and the filmmaker have entered into a sadomasochistic contract whereby he binds her head and foot while she derives a perverse pleasure from being so bound.»

Critics are calling Gyllenhaal's performances as Davis one of the best of his career, commanding in the role of an assured, confident man whose life is thrown into emotional and existential chaos after he loses his wife in a car accident.

Hoberman («emerges from the mists of time... as a career - capping epic tragedy») to the New Yorker's Anthony Lane («lovers of cinema should reach for their fedoras, turn up the collars of their coats, and sneak to this picture through a mist of rain») to Newsweek's David Ansen («the best foreign film of the year»), critics from across the spectrum, who almost never agreed, rallied around Melville's neglected masterpiece.

In a performance described by critics as «transcendent» and a «career - best,» Gyllenhaal effortlessly embodies the edgy, borderline psychotic nature of his character to skin - crawling perfection, making Nightcrawler not just perfect Halloween viewing but absolutely unmissable, full stop.

As a result this has generated him a huge cult following over his career with both critics and the public alike but has also put him in the firing line of many a heated and publicised debate, most recently with Channel 4 news presenter and journalist «kristian guru murthy»

A candid and human drama, The 400 Blows not only launched the feature career of Truffaut, a 27 - year - old who had gained notice as a film critic, but also the French New Wave, an era of cinema that is revered by many and often channeled by Wes Anderson, one of today's most acclaimed filmmakers and the active one by far most recognized by Criterion.

Improbably, at the end of a four - decade - long career as the nation's most prominent education historian and a vocal advocate for education reform, Ravitch has emerged as reform's fiercest critic.

His leading opponent, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, early in his career worked for the United Teachers of Los Angeles and as a consultant for the CTA, but has been a harsh critic of the teachers unions on numerous issues over a period of many years.

Her work as a freelance developmental editor at Writing-Partner.com [5] follows a nineteen - year career as a dance critic.

As Maria Popova — whom you may know better as the Brainpicker — took to the stage at Tools of Change to make a somewhat oblique case about the difficulty of supporting a career on the web, the «anonymous critic» whom Ingram mentions already had launched his challengAs Maria Popova — whom you may know better as the Brainpicker — took to the stage at Tools of Change to make a somewhat oblique case about the difficulty of supporting a career on the web, the «anonymous critic» whom Ingram mentions already had launched his challengas the Brainpicker — took to the stage at Tools of Change to make a somewhat oblique case about the difficulty of supporting a career on the web, the «anonymous critic» whom Ingram mentions already had launched his challenge.