Sentences with phrase «excellent director as»

The same comedian / actor from the skit Comedy Central duo Key & Peele, turns out to be a pretty excellent director as well.

But with Higher Ground, she proves she's an excellent director as well.

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Vanessa Finley, Executive Director of First Step Fund, will continue to provide excellent leadership for the First Step Fund at 4747 Troost, as she has for 11 years.

This factor is the one where there's the biggest difference between boards that respondents say need to improve or improve significantly (44 percent prioritize it) and boards rated by their directors as excellent or very good (26 percent highlight this need).

Mark Maron turns some excellent scenes as director Sylvia struggling to keep his job while attempting to convince the bosses that there's a better way of storytelling than scraping the very bottom of the barrel for the lowest common denominator.

«We want to thank Bob for his long service as coach and for building an excellent program,» said De La Salle Athletic Director Leo Lopoz in a press release.

Walter (Hoot) Evers, former major league outfielder, did excellent job as farm director for three years, is now director of player personnel.

As a companion piece to Keith Cronin's excellent article on the use of PRP in which the both sides of the debate about PRP are presented, and based on a point - counterpoint debate conducted via email between the two experts whose views are expressed in Keith's piece, Dr. Nathan Mall, associate physician for the St. Louis Cardinals and Director for the St. Louis Center for Cartilage Restoration and RepairRegeneration Orthopedics, and Andrew M. Blecher MD, a Primary Care Sports Medicine physician and Medical Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Medicine at the Southern California Orthopedic Institute in Van Nuys, California, here are what Drs. Mall and Blecher have to say about the current state of the research on PRP.

-LSB-...] excellent new school food reform website, PEACHSF.org, and specifically to her article, «How to Make Friends with Your Nutrition Services Director,» which is on PEACHSF and also appeared here as a guest blog post.

«His extensive experience in compliance and corporate governance issues, coupled with his service as an officer and director on both for profit and non-profit boards, make him an excellent addition to the Board.

But I believe in giving people a second chance, and as the director of communications he does an excellent job for the Conservative party and behaves properly and in an upright way in everything that he does.»

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.

First author Professor Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Director of Institute of Experimental Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, who invented the mouse clinic concept, said: «Our findings with regard to the genes examined are now available to the scientific community as a valid data set, which can be downloaded free of charge from the IMPC (International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium) website, and form an excellent basis on which we and other research groups can develop and test new hypotheses.»

Justine Thorner serves as the Director of Operations and Marketing, where she focuses on scaling the operations, creating an excellent experience for students and employees, and growing the business.

One service collects just 30 % of it's payments via credit card Other notable presentations include - Frederic Bien, Director of Flirt.com - Richard Exon, Bus Dev Director for Bartle Bogle Hegarty gave an excellent presentation on TV advertising Marc Lesnick, the internet dating conference organiser, ran a speed - networking session as an experiment on the second day.

Equipped with a truly excellent villain (Marcel Iures), a charismatic cast and a talented visual director, this is one of those films that you can genuinely enjoy as long as you don't analyze or think too hard into what is going on.

Shane Carruth, the director of the time travel cult classic Primer 68, served as a consultant, while Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and (an excellent but underused) Jeff Daniels round out the cast.

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.

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.

Peter Yates, previously typed as an action director (Bullitt, The Deep), lends the film a fine, unexpected limpidity, and the principals are mostly excellent.

Director Fred Schepisi is excellent in the directors» seat, as is Meryl Streep in the lead role, proving once again why she's an acting legend.

Oslo, August 31st A 180 - degree turn from his 2006 semi — film - à - clef debut Reprise, Norwegian director Joachim Trier's sophomore feature follows a former drug addict (the excellent Anders Danielsen Lie) as he makes a tentative last stab at putting his life back together.

«Get Out» puts Peele in an excellent position for a career as a writer - director with real talent on both sides of the hyphen.

The Thunder Buddies return next week with the U.S. release of the comedy sequel Ted 2, and a rather excellent Flash Gordon - inspired poster has arrived online for the Seth MacFarlane film, which you can see right here... SEE ALSO: Watch the latest trailer for Ted 2 Seth MacFarlane returns as writer, director and co-star of -LSB-...]

Director Paul Greengrass has a knack for dramatizing real - life events (as evidenced in «Bloody Sunday» and the excellent «United 93»), and that success continues here, throwing the audience right into the middle of the action docudrama - style in order to fully capture the intensity of the situation.

Happily, director Phyllida Law, working from Catherine Johnson's excellent screenplay, moves the story along at a spirited pace by including as many musical numbers as possible.

This is Alex Garland's second feature as director, following Ex Machina, and his grasp of tone is already excellent.

The preview does an excellent job of establishing the tone of the narrative, another gritty crime drama that should fit right in Affleck's wheelhouse as a director.

It also pretty much reconfirms Affleck's talent as a director — following his excellent Gone Baby Gone which remains one of my favorite films from the last couple of years.

In actor - turned - director Raúl Arévalo's debut feature The Fury of a Patient Man, the mesmerizing Ruth Díaz was rewarded for her excellent performance as a pawn (to be sacrificed) in a sinister game of revenge.

Listing the former winners of the award - such as Tom Holland, Jack O'Connell, Will Poulter, Tom Hardy, Kristen Stewart, Noel Clarke, Eva Green and James McAvoy - Spencer remarked: «This tells us that the British public would make pretty excellent casting directors.»

In recent years, some of the most exciting releases have come from directors based in Chile and South Korea, but just as notable have been the run of excellent cinema coming out of Greece.

Tony Gilroy — «Michael Clayton» As this list will show as it goes on, screenwriters can break through into successful directing careers, but truly excellent debuts from screenwriter - turned - directors are rareAs this list will show as it goes on, screenwriters can break through into successful directing careers, but truly excellent debuts from screenwriter - turned - directors are rareas it goes on, screenwriters can break through into successful directing careers, but truly excellent debuts from screenwriter - turned - directors are rarer.

So many ideas and gags crash into each other that some are bound to miss, and there are one or two patchy spells, but it's in the melding of styles that Dodgeball works, as director Rawson Marshall Thurber blends character - based comedy with gross - out and an excellent deployment of cameos (Norris!

Like that film, writer - director Gary Ross's adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand's excellent non-fiction washes out as something creepily nostalgic, weightless, and unintentionally disturbing.

The fifth feature from About Elly writer / director Asghar Farhadi, and the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin Film Festival (as well as earning best actor and actress awards for the excellent ensemble cast at the same event), A Separation tells a personal tale rampant with politics.

The attempt to make a new version — once touted as a remake — of Gareth Evans» excellent action thriller The Raid has had a typically torturous development battle with actors and directors named then departing.

Trust's script, by Andy Bellin and Robert Festinger, pulls no punches and director Schwimmer elicits uniformly excellent performances from his cast, but even as we follow the emotional heart of the story — and realize that rape may not be the worst thing that's happened to Annie.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

Director Kevin MacDonald is best known for his excellent 2006 film The Last King of Scotland (with Forest Whitaker's Oscar winning performance as Idi Amin).

Alan Arkin delivers an excellent cameoas the director of Vince's acting class, especially during his attack on thepregnant pauses of Method actors such as Marlon Brando.

Writer / director Noah Baumbach is prepping his next film, While We're Young, and as usual, he's culling an excellent cast.

Colin Farrell is capable of delivering great work with the right material, and Terrence Howard is an excellent choice to play the silky - smooth villain, but more than anything else, this could be Oplev's coming out party as a director now that he's no longer stuck in the shadow of Stieg Larsson's popular novel.

I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) presents the events of Harding's life as a kind of ludicrous and darkly comedic story, with Margot Robbie playing Harding as both trashy and defiant, an athletic wonder and also a habitual liar, plagued by toxic relationships with her mother (an excellent Allison Janney) and later her husband, played with pathetic aggression but also an undercurrent of pure infatuation by Sebastian Stan.

Juame Balagueró is most widely known for his two entries in the excellent found - footage series [REC](co-directed by Paco Plaza), yet he has branched out alone in this latest effort and proven he can hold his own as a director.

Needless to say, nothing goes as the group plans in director Jordan Vogt - Roberts» Kong: Skull Island, a visually phantasmagoric action - fantasy - comedy hybrid that plays out as something of an unhinged, shaggy - eared prequel to Gareth Edwards» excellent 2014 reinterpretation of Toho Studio's legendary Godzilla.

With the director as conductor, Joe knows how to get the best out of every instrument in the filmmaking orchestra which makes him an excellent choice for Filmmaker.»

It's also not often you get the finest new generation of directors in one place but it happened as we saw the likes of JJ, Colin Trevorrow, Andrew Stanton, Gareth Edwards, Matt Reeves, and Pete Docter, plus the excellent Benedict Wong introducing the Marvel suite, a cameo from Raffey Cassidy from Tomorrowland, who was supposed to be with Brad Bird but we were told that very disappointedly his plane let him down.

Chadwick Boseman is excellent as Jackie Robinson while Harrison Ford is clearly having fun as the wily Dogders» director.

But those in the know have been keeping tabs on Nichols since his breakout sophomore effort, the provocative apocalypse tale Take Shelter, and over these three films (also including his debut, Shotgun Stories, and the moderately successful and excellent Mud), he has established himself as a strong Southern voice on the independent scene, the sort of director who makes you sit up and take notice whenever he announces a new project.