Sentences with phrase «director of the maverick»

Before her stint in Washington, Canales served as the executive director of the Maverick County Development Corporation in Texas and was an adjunct faculty member for Southwest Texas Junior College for seven years.

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He is on the Board of Directors of the US Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investing (US - SIF), he is on advisory boards of Real Impact Tracker and 1 - Earth Institute, on the steering committee of Institutional Investor Educational Foundation, is a member of the UN Green Finance Advisory Group that developed the recently released UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative, and was named one of 30 «Eco Rock Stars and Environmental Mavericks» in Origin Magazine.

«Little Children» director and former Mavericks batboy Todd Field is in talks to direct and write an adaptation of the documentary «The Battered Bastards Of Baseball,» I've learneof the documentary «The Battered Bastards Of Baseball,» I've learneOf Baseball,» I've learned.

Teaming with the maverick Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, the actress would essay the enigmatic, directionless title character in Morvern Callar, a dreamy, elliptical adaptation of Alan Warner's cult novel.

Nashville (1975) is maverick director / producer Robert Altman's classic, multi-level, original, two and a half - hour epic study of American culture, show - business, leadership and politics - and one of the great American films of the 1970s.

The ever - growing cult behind Russell and his work will undoubtedly enjoy this riveting look back on the maverick director right in the midst of filming his chaotic classic, which, negative press notwithstanding, ended up kicking off a series of successes in the 1970s.

With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped - down narrative from maverick director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.

The film was also notable for the casting of various maverick directors in acting roles.

Special Achievement awards will honor the work of Codeblack Entertainment CEO, Jeff Clanagan; director John Singleton; Maverick Carter and LeBron James» SpringHill Entertainment.

A portrait of the maverick director behind such films as «Holy Motors,» «The Lovers on the Bridge» and «Pola X.»

The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.

Director, writer, pulp fiction author, raconteur and all - around maverick character Samuel Fuller was as proud of his military service as any of his artistic accomplishments.

Now it remains to be seen if an adventurous cameramen will pick out the maverick director out of the Oscar crowd and lock on to the man's eternally and blissfully blazed face — assuming, that is, Herzog even shows up.

The fest is also set to fete director Monte Hellman (1966's «The Shooting,» 1971's «Two - Lane Blacktop») for his innovative and diverse filmography with their first presentation of the L.M. Kit Carson Maverick Filmmaker Award.

Who better to tell the tale than Abel Ferrara, maverick director of «King of New York» and «Bad Lieutenant» and a former Chelsea resident?

David will speak of the making of the movie and work with maverick director Lindsay Anderson and actor Malcolm McDowell and afterwards will sign copies of his new book «Filming if...»

Director Martin Scorcese («Cape Fear,» «GoodFellas») guides a wonderful cast including the very young future Academy Award - winner Jodie Foster («Maverick,» «The Silence of the Lambs»), singer - actor Kris Kristofferson («Lone Star,» «A Star Is Born») and Oscar - nominees Diane Ladd («Ramblin» Rose») and Harvey Keitel («Pulp Fiction»).

Now 60, and always more of a wry classicist than a maverick, the writer - director Olivier Assayas is one of the steadiest and most reliable filmmakers in contemporary cinema.

Times were you were lucky to get a movie out of Terrence Malick, the maverick director's maverick director.

And Tim Burton's zany Ed Wood (1994) was about the maverick, low - budget, Hollywood director (Johnny Depp) of cult films who often is regarded as the «worst director» of all time.

Director Jang Hoon (The Front Line, Rough Cut), who developed under the tutelage of maverick Kim Ki - dook (Pietà, 3 - Iron), has become a fully formed filmmaker in his own right, albeit a more commercial one.

Yet for all that, and despite the collaboration of two estimable directors — Michael Apted (the «Up» series) and Curtis Hanson («L.A. Confidential»)-- «Chasing Mavericks» moves as fast as a runner in waist - high water and wears out its welcome.

Director: Martin Brest Cast: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, Steven Berkoff, Ronny Cox, Jonathon Banks, James Russo, Paul Reiner Plot: Maverick cop, Axel Foley's (Murphy) witnesses his friend get killed by gangsters and takes a leave of absence to track the killers down to Beverly Hills.

More recently, Trumbull worked with Terrence Malick (another maverick director who commands complete control over this films) to create the birth of life sequences for The Tree of Life.

And new work by Britain's top two maverick directors: Mike Leigh, whose «Naked» portrays a hapless, cruel drifter in post-Thatcher England, and Ken Loach, whose «Raining Stones» tells an equally bleak but much funnier story of an unemployed man determined to buy his daughter a confirmation dress.

Kwan interviews heterosexual directors Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, and Zhang Yuan (a maverick mainland independent) about their sexual attitudes — and charges Chen's Farewell My Concubine with homophobia, particularly in relation to the Lilian Lee novel it's based on — and in the process bears intelligent witness not only to the changes in sexual sensibility and family values taking place across the Chinese - speaking world, but also to the range and vitality of the recent filmmaking that reflects these changes.

Ferrell favorite writer / director Adam McKay doesn't hit the comic alchemy of Anchorman or Talladega Nights, but Wahlberg is terrific as the misguided maverick exasperated by his social misfit partner Ferrell.

Josef von Sternberg is the great stylist of the thirties, a Hollywood maverick with a taste for visual exoticism and baroque flourishes (which prompted David Thomson to dub him «the first poet of underground cinema»), but step back into his silent work and you'll find a storyteller of unparalleled talent and one of the great directors of silent cinema.

The maverick director's hubris has grown exponentially since he locked a bunch of gangsters in a warehouse back in 1992 to see who might break first.

Director: Tony Scott Cast: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer, Tom Skerritt, Michael Ironside Plot: Best friends, Maverick (Cruise) and Goose (Edwards) are given the opportunity to become Top Guns, the best fighter pilots of the best.

In Maverick, Mel Gibson gives a jokey portrayal of Bret Maverick that at times relies too much on his schtick from the Lethal Weapon films (not surprisingly since Maverick director Richard Donner helmed those films and we even get a pointless cameo by Lethal Weapon co-star Danny Glover as a bank robber).

Stephen Farber talks with director Philip Kaufman and ponders the career of a maverick who's finally making it big.

Maverick young directors like Brian De Palma, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg and Dario Argento developed into the cinematic voices of a generation.

Additional speakers include Gary Chartrand, chairman of the Florida State Board of Education; Frank Biden, the president of Mavericks in Education and the brother of Vice President Joe Biden; Jeanne Allen, pioneering education reform champion and founder of The Center for Education Reform; Wendy Howard, the founder and executive director of the Florida Alliance for Choice in Education; Christie Bassett, 2015 Florida Teacher of the Year and a teacher at Highlands Park Elementary School in Polk County, Florida; Jason Fischer, member of the Duval County School Board; Lisa Graham Keegan, senior advisor to National School Choice Week and the former superintendent of public instruction for Arizona; and Randan Steinhauser, an advisor to National School Choice Week, who will join the event live via satellite from Austin, Texas.

Headed by flashy airline and music entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and self - help writer Deepak Chopra — an odd couple if ever there was one — Virgin Comics launched in 2006 with a line of comics based on figures from Indian mythology and soon added two other lines, Directors Cut, which featured comics created by well known movie directors, and Maverick / Voices (the imprint was renamed), featuring comics by musicans, actors, and relatively unknownDirectors Cut, which featured comics created by well known movie directors, and Maverick / Voices (the imprint was renamed), featuring comics by musicans, actors, and relatively unknowndirectors, and Maverick / Voices (the imprint was renamed), featuring comics by musicans, actors, and relatively unknown artists.

However, this trailer suggests something much grander than just a new direction for the company, something supported by not only the cryptic nature of the trailer, but by the use of Yakuza director and known maverick Toshihiro Nagoshi as the narrator.

Penelope Curtis, the former director of Tate Britain, has described Flanagan as «a maverick figure, but a maverick who was absolutely central to the artistic conversations of the 60s and 70s».

One of Britain's most original and inventive sculptors, Penelope Curtis, former director of Tate Britain, has described Flanagan as «a maverick figure but a maverick who was absolutely central to the artistic conversation of the 1960s and 70s».2 One of the influential generation of artists studying at St Martin's School of Art in the early to mid-1960s, Flanagan reacted against the formal rigidity of sculpture at that time, challenging the nature of the medium and contributing to a new understanding of the practice.

On Friday we'll get a good round up of voices, with Mia Fineman (curator of the Met's 2012 exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop), Julia Kaganskiy (Director of New Museum's new Incubator for Art, Technology, and Design), and Cory Arcangel (who you probably know as digital artist who had a solo show at the Whitney Museum in 2011), and artist - Twitter mavericks Carla Gannis and Clement Valla.

This year's panel of judges comprises Royal Academy artistic programmes director Tim Marlow, maverick gallerist Javier Peres, street art innovator José Parlá, Glasgow International director Sarah McCrory, artist and musician Steven Claydon and Dazed visual arts editor Francesca Gavin.

He is a director of a number of public and private companies including e3 Solutions Inc., a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Micromem Technologies Inc. (US and CNSX listed company); Chairman of the Independent Review Committee of Portland Investment (formerly AIC); and Chairman and CEO of Maverick Inc., a private investment and consulting firm.