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The new look for Shaka Tea — created by McLean Design — will debut at the Natural Products Expo West show, said Hughes, who recently appointed Tony Giannini as director of national sales as the brand gears up to announce «national distribution plans, launching in Q2 with one of the top distributors across the continental US.»

Xavi has been described as the «architect «and the «director of the orchestra», as he has been at the heart of the most successful team in the club's history since making his professional debut aged just 18.

ROME: Roma sports director Monchi called club legend Francesco Totti «a superhero» as the former captain marked the 25th anniversary of his Serie A debut on Wednesday.

Levine made his Met debut in 1971 and became one of the signature artists in the company's 135 - year history, conducting 2,552 performances and ruling over its repertoire, orchestra and singers as music or artistic director from 1976 until he stepped down two years ago due to Parkinson's disease.

Source Code In his 2009 debut feature, Moon, director Duncan Jones established himself as an impresario of mind - blowing science fiction.

Raf Simons made already his debut last summer as creative director of Dior with a couture collection.

Dundas will present his debut collection at the house in September, and will be responsible for both women's and men's ready - to - wear, the accessories collections and all of Cavalli's licenses in his new role as creative director.

Dominic Jones made his debut as creative director of jewelry brand Astley Clarke with three different collections.

Marissa Webb's debut collection as Creative Director of BANANA REPUBLIC has hit the racks and let me tell you, it's a breath of fresh air!

Kim Joo Hyuk last acting award is for best supporting actor in the movie Confidential director, his co-stars Hyun Bin, Yoo Hae Thirteen years after her debut as an actress, Kim Hyun Ju of Partner and Boys Before Flowers poses nude in the October issue of Singles to

Written by Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman, Human Nature was the feature debut from acclaimed music - video director Michel Gondry and featured Arquette as a woman cursed with a coat of fur covering her body.As the decade progressed, audiences could see Arquette in projects ranging from the star - studded documentary Searching for Debra Winger to the sleeper family film Holes.

Dunne debuted as a producer / director in 1955 with the Edwin Booth biopic Prince of Players.

As schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staAs schematic as a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas a popular entertainment needs to be yet refreshingly devoid of significant lulls in the action — for exposition, weapon reloading, lovemaking and the like — the film is fast, smart and single - minded, providing not only a satisfying bang for the ever - beleaguered moviegoing buck but memorable debuts for first - time feature director Mimi Leder and fledgling film studio DreamWorks SKG (Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen)-- as well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas well as ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie staas ringing confirmation that George Clooney is indeed a movie star.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven, who makes her feature debut as writer - director after a couple of short films, tells the story exclusively from the girls» point of view — both emotionally, as they have all our sympathy, and physically, as almost nothing happens that one of them could not be seeing.

This is the character actor's debut as a writer and director, and it's a good beginning as Buscemi is able to flesh out real people in an engaging character study, of characters who are not the inventions of Hollywood.

Dax Shepard, who serves as co-director, one of the several producers, writer, and star of Hit and Run, appears to be heading in the right direction for actors - turned - directors with his off - kilter debut film.

Kari was named by Hollywood Reporter as one of its «Ten Directors to Watch» for her debut as writer - director of Liberty Stands Still.

Angelina Jolie's debut as writer and director tells the story of two lovers, a Serbian played Goran Kostic and a Bosnian played by Zana Marjanovic, and how the Bosnian War impacts their relationship.

The feature debut of writer - director Aimee Lagos, the film feels overstuffed and overcooked, as if the filmmaker were trying to get too much out all in one go.

This moody screen adaptation of the Oprah - endorsed eponymous bestseller by Andre Dubus III's isn't a slam - dunk success, but it has plenty of sleeper potential and is a feather in the cap of director Perelman, a Russian émigré who debuts here as a feature filmmaker after a career in commercials.

Neil LaBute's debut film was an adaptation of his own darkly comedic 1992 play, and its provocative, Mamet-esque dialogue marked the writer - director as a rising star in indie film world in the late 1990s, while also launching the career of star Aaron Eckhart, here playing one of a pair of coworkers seeking cruel revenge against women.

In her debut feature as writer - director, Karen Gillan stars as a woman trying (and failing) to come to grips with the suicide of her friend.

I can't think of a single situation where Kelly Fremon Craig, who makes her feature debut as a writer - director, takes us to a place we haven't often been.

Documentary director John Maringouin's debut narrative feature stars David Zellner (the director of Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter) as a Texan hoping to acquire riches in China's booming economy.

Announcing that the 1996 - 1997 season of Roseanne would be his last, Goodman limited himself to infrequent appearances on the series, his absences explained away as a by - product of a heart attack suffered by his character at the end of the previous season.After making his 10th appearance on Saturday Night Live (2000), Goodman could be seen playing a red - faced bible salesman in director Joel Coen's award winning O Brother, Where Art Thou (2000), and participated in Garry Shandling's film debut What Planet Are You From?

This superb debut feature by Korean - American director So Yong Kim seems to be constructed entirely of the ineffable and intangible, those fleeting moments that most movies treat as throwaways.

Below, find out what critics are saying about all of this year's notable festival debuts, including films that screened out of competition or as part of the parallel Directors» Fortnight and International Critics» Week programs.

With an excellent, career - topping performance by the late Harry Dean Stanton, coupled with a strong supporting ensemble, this quiet, low - key debut feature from actor - director John Carroll Lynch explores the meaning of life and the secrets to help make it fulfilling, both while we're here and as we're about to make our ultimate transition.

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore is perhaps most notable as the debut of Macon Blair as a director, who gained notoriety primarily as an actor featured prominently in the films of Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), to which this film attempts to emulate to some degree.

Following Beshay, a man cured of leprosy, and Obama, an orphan, as they journey across Egypt in search of Beshay's parents, writer - director A.B. Shawky's debut feature is dividing critics, except for the praise given to Rady Gamal and Ahmed Abdelhafiz in the lead roles.

More of the same can be said for Crowe's debut as a director with the excellent Say Anything, showing once again he had a knack for taking what would ostensibly be a «just another...» film and taking it to depths no one had bothered exploring before.

Andrew Ahn's feature debut as writer - director examines the coming of age of a gay son of Asian immigrants with sensitivity and visual power

Much like the kids in this movie who come of age, so too does Robert Kirbyson's skill as a writer - director in his debut film Snowmen.

Writer / director Richard Ayoade, making his feature debut, nails a salient point about why it's so tough to stay grounded as a teenager: Oliver realizes that most of the «tragedies» of his life won't have meaning by the time he's 38, but that's scant comfort at the moment.

Billed as a sort of follow - up to Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning, Sara Jordenö's debut feature takes us back to the heart of the New York's ballroom scene - only this time the director casts her lens over a very specific part of that enduring cultural scene.

Debut director Yanne Demange does a remarkable job of ramping up the tension in the early scenes as his camera jostles with protestors summonsed by their wives and mothers» ritual banging of dustbin lids on the pavements.

This debut feature from writer - director David Veloz, based on a 1995 autobiography, starkly retells Stahl's rise and fall in LA - LA - land over the course of a multi-day shack - up with ex-addict Kitty (E.R.'s Maria Bello), a sucker for rehab patients who coaxes him away from a dead - end job (in, appropriately, Phoenix) in favor of sex (initially as frigid as the frozen chicken he was hacking at only hours earlier at his fast - food outpost) and conversation.

Director / co-scenarist Gerard McMurray's debut isn't as striking a treatment of the same theme as last year's divisive «Goat,» a film that went out of -LSB-...]

The National Board of Review's awards celebrate excellence in filmmaking with categories that include Best Picture, Best Director, Best Performances, Best Ensemble, Breakthrough Performances, Directorial Debut and Spotlight Award as well as signature honors such as the William K. Everson Award for Film History, Freedom of Expression, and Special Achievement in Filmmaking.

A few weeks back we brought you a first look image of Brian Cox as Winston Churchill in director Jonathan Teplitzky's upcoming biopic of the legendary British Prime Minister, and now Salon Pictures has debuted another still from Churchill to mark the end of principal photography, which sees Cox joined by Ella Purnell and Miranda -LSB-...]

This year's Grand Prix went to 38 - year - old debut director László Nemes for Son of Saul, the Auschwitz - set story of a prisoner working as a Sonderkommando, guiding Jews into the gas chambers and then disposing of their bodies.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Bill Chambers Punch - Drunk Love makes a rather auspicious Blu - ray debut as part of the Criterion Collection in a 2.39:1, 1080p transfer supervised by writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson.

Shane Meadows» previous film «Once Upon a Time in the Midlands» (2002) was, as its title would suggest, an attempt to transplant the American western onto English soil — but the hybrid which emerged was a disappointing romantic comedy that almost ruined the director's reputation (carefully built upon the improvised do - it - yourself naturalism of his 1997 debut «Twenty Four Seven» and his 1999 follow - up «A Room for Romeo Brass»).

Following this week's promo and three teasers for Dunkirk [check them out here], Warner Bros. has now debuted the main trailer director Christopher Nolan's hotly - anticipated World War II epic, which you can watch right here... SEE ALSO: Christopher Nolan explains Dunkirk's PG - 13 rating «Dunkirk opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces.

With little over a year to go before its release, Universal Pictures has debuted the first poster for director Sam Taylor - Johnson's adaptation of the all - but - forgotten E.L. James erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey, which features Jamie Dornan (Once Upon a Time) as Christian Grey...

Korean director Park Chan - wook's English - language debut plays like one giant homage to Alfred Hitchcock (particularly his 1943 film «Shadow of a Doubt»), but with a decidedly unique and erotic twist that's every bit as perverse as his previous work — the kind of movie that gets under your skin and stays there for days.

In highlighting the human element of the sport as well as the high - stakes, hair - raising reality of their exploits, debut director Richard De Aragues has crafted a film that transcends the bounds of traditional racing fans.

Unfolding like Roman Polanski's take on «The King of Marvin Gardens» while simultaneously serving as a suitable spiritual sequel to the director's debut, «Afterschool,» in which the male desire to connect meaningfully with others is frayed and warped by life experience, «Simon Killer» is Antonio Campos» latest chilly, chilling character study, with Corbet effectively replacing Ezra Miller, who led the previous film, as a neuroscience major who studied how the eyes and the brain relate, but has a seriously loose wire between his own brain and his heart.

Director Nicholas Stoller, whose debut Forgetting Sarah Marshall still stands as one of the best romantic comedies of the 2000s, shed some of his lengthier tendencies with Neighbors and crafted a hilarious comedy that didn't overstay its welcome, and I'm incredibly eager to see how he progresses the characters in his first - ever sequel.

Here he reunites with Shia LaBeouf, who served as the director's proxy in his debut, for his latest, Man Down, a PTSD melodrama concerning an anguished US veteran struggling to cope in the aftermath of a traumatic event during combat.