Sentences with phrase «directors came of age»

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«We have baby boomers coming down the pike and getting close to that age, and so we want to look more frequently at flexible arrangements,» says Nicole Arienzale, AltaGas director of human resources and administrative services.

Oscar Hussel, director of educational systems development for Joint Educational Development, emphasizes the urgency of the church's present situation: «As Americans move out of their age of innocence and the culture is increasingly secularized, it becomes doubly crucial for the church to be able to tell its members what it is, where it came from, where it is meant to go, and what it should be about.

Actor Mark Wahlberg and director Michael Bay team up for their first collaboration since Transformers: Age of Extinction, coming together to co-host a star - studded charity event at the Paradise Valley home of Washington Nationals manager Matt Williams.

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Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be by Daniel Loxton (2010); $ 18.95 at kidscanpress.com; ages 8 to 13 Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, touts this book as «an excellent introduction to a topic not frequently covered in children's books.

«However, it came as a complete surprise to all of us that this thermophilic snake actually «overwintered» in Central Europe during the Pleistocene Ice Age,» explains Professor Dr. Uwe Fritz, director of the Senckenberg Natural History Collections in Dresden.

To examine the relationship from one more angle, Bagi worked with MCG Vascular Biology Center Director, Dr. David Fulton, to come up with a version of ADAM17 that's missing its enzymatic activity — and so the ability to cleave proinflammatory proteins — to see if that makes the aged mice healthier.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

The Utah boy was discovered at age 10 by the director of Next LA, Alexis Borges, who told Smith to come back to him in a few years, realizing the kid had potential.

Gilchrist starred in the Focus Features film IT»S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola DaviOF A FUNNY STORY, a coming - of - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Daviof - age story from writer - directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (HALF NELSON) opposite Zach Galifianakis, Emma Roberts, and Viola Davis.

Waititi does an excellent job of balancing the sweet and humorous moments with the more poignant bits (like Bella's heartbreaking death scene), but what separates the movie from the typical coming - of - age tale is the unique brand of humor that's become synonymous with the director.

Landline being a zippy and friendly episodic comedy and coming - of - age story from the director Gillian Robespierre, whose well - received 2014 Obvious Child starred Jenny Slate.

Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of - age drama Our Song, both of which were featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Director Elia Kazan gives us his adaptation of the Betty Smith novel about a young girl coming - of - age in 1900s Brooklyn.

David Lynch, The Art Life will entrance the director's fans and, who knows, inspire budding, out - of - the - box creators in an artistic coming - of - age tale, told in his own words and deliberate tones.

Director Marc Evans and screenwriter Laurence Coriat fumble both the musical side of their movie and the coming - of - age side.

Though his breakout success could only be hinted at when he appeared in director Julian Schnabel's critically acclaimed drama Before Night Falls the previous year, it was his turn as a naïve, sex - starved teen in Cuarón's coming - of - age comedy drama that catapulted him to international stardom.

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

Industrial Light and Magic special - effects wizard Stefen Fangmeier makes the leap into the director's chair with this coming - of - age fantasy concerning a young boy whose discovery of a mysterious dragon egg leads him on a predestined journey to become a Dragon Rider and defend his peaceful world against an evil king.

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.

First - time writer - director David Robert Mitchell tells a coming - of - age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before.

It marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former film, made in 1996, was another coming - of - age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).

Equal parts road comedy and coming - of - age drama, director Taika Waititi masterfully weaves lively humor with emotionally honest performances by Sam Neill and Julian Dennison.

British writer - director Richard Ayoadeâ $ ™ s indie coming - of - age dramedy Submarine sporadically descends into the darker depths of true adolescent volatility, but ultimately surfaces in the safe harbor of fanciful quirkiness.

Co - writer / director Barry Jenkins tells his tale of a young man's emotional and sexual coming - of - age through sharp dialogue and clearly articulated scenes that build to small or large epiphanies.

RAW France, 2016 US Premiere, 98 min Director — Julia Ducournau Part sister bonding, part coming - of - age story, part gross - out horror flick, Julia Ducournau's debut feature is the terror discovery of 2016.

Dotted with honest observational drama and comedy, it makes a curious spiritual sibling to Lady Bird (another coming - of - age movie and another female director's solo debut), though it's considerably more sanguine.

It's hard to imagine a creative trio bringing Colm Tóibín's 2009 novel, «Brooklyn,» to the screen as elegantly as star Saoirse Ronan, screenwriter Nick Hornby, and director John Crowley; it was a seamless fit for this sweeping coming - of - age adaptation about a an Irish girl relocating to America in the 1950's.

Céline Sciamma's 2014 festival favorite — it debuted at Cannes» lauded Directors» Fortnight, later making stops at Toronto, London, Hamburg, and more — is a highly relatable coming - of - age tale set against an indelible backdrop.

Also screened: Sadako Vs. Kayako (Grade: B --RRB-, an entertaining, teen - friendly marriage of the The Ring and The Grudge mythologies that (thank God) has a sense of humor about itself, even though its final confrontation is less than satisfying; Dearest Sister (Grade: C +), a poetic (and rather slow) meditation on class conflict couched in a ghost story from Laotian director Mattie Do; and Down Under (Grade: B --RRB-, a Superbad - style profane coming - of - age comedy set against the backdrop of the Cronulla race riots that took place in Sydney, Australia in Christmas 2005.

You'll Be a Man A decade separates precocious 10 - year - old Leo (Aurelio Cohen) from his new babysitter, Theo (Jules Sagot), in this French coming - of - age drama from director Benoît Cohen, but that doesn't stop the two from becoming best friends.

A popular coming - of - age drama featuring three close friends who love surfing, Big Wednesday was semi-autobiographical for the director and remains popular today.

Built out of crowd - pleasing elements as durable as a lacquered, sky - high»80s hairdo, writer - director John Carney's coming - of - age musical is a synth - drenched joy: a tuneful, deeply personal ode to the impulse that forges a high school rock band.

WHY: Director John Crowley's coming - of - age tale about a young Irish woman immigrating to America in the 1950s is a beautiful little movie that shines in its simplicity.

Check out Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz and Sam Rockwell in the new trailer and teaser poster from director Lynn Shelton's upcoming coming - of - age comedy Laggies — opening in select theaters October 24h!

For Richard Linklater's epic coming - of - age film, shot in real - time in Texas, Austin casting director Sepko brought in local actors and stayed nimble during an unstructured shoot.

The coming - of - age drama shot over a 12 - year period also won honors for director Linklater,...

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Two boys attempt to come of age amidst united, untoward pre-adolescent circumstances; one director embraces the darkness and the delicacy, the industrialisation and the nature of the West Yorkshire landscape in updating Wilde's fable to a melancholy modern context.

«Boyhood,» director Richard Linklater's experimental coming - of - age film that was shot over 12 years on a shoestring budget, followed with three nominations for its ensemble cast and for Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.

Outside of its TIFF write - up I knew next to nothing about Raw, French director Julia Ducournau's «coming of age cannibalism» film...

Cornelia too is more fully fleshed than we have come to expect from this writer - director, the experience of making the divisively wide - eyed Frances Ha (which he co-wrote with star Greta Gerwig) apparently broadening his horizons as much as the experiences of ageing and parenting.

The theme of «Moonlight,» writer - director Barry Jenkins» melancholy meditation on one young man's coming - of - age, is summed up in an early scene in the film.

Director Fritz Böhm and Florian Eder's screenplay starts under enigmatic circumstances and becomes a strange but sympathetic coming - of - age story.

In actress - turned - writer / director Greta Gerwig's autobiographical coming - of - age drama, Ronan is Christine «Lady Bird» McPherson, a Catholic high school senior who longs to escape her stultifying lower - middle - class Sacramento environs for East Coast college life.

Writer - director Greta Gerwig's poignant coming - of - age drama Lady Bird came in as the runner - up.

Before SXSW kicked off, I spoke with writer / director Noah Baumbach, who shared writing credits with his wife Jennifer Jason Leigh for his latest film, GREENBERG; a coming of age story about a guy (Ben Stiller) who's way too old to be coming of age.

Maybe because adolescence is surreal enough, French writer - director Michel Gondry restrains his usual visual quirks in the charming coming - of - age comedy «Microbe & Gasoline.»

Gerwig's wise and perceptive coming - of - age comedy shares the Best Film category with Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, a time - bending WWII epic, and Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread, a resplendent melodrama with a prickly and poisonous aftertaste; Gerwig, Nolan, and Anderson assume their respective places in the Best Director category.

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, director & writer) Terrific coming - of - age story written and directed by Greta Gerwig.