Sentences with phrase «first attempt at directing»

Synecdoche, New York is a two hour long, 2008 film from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, and was his first attempt at directing films.

The critics did not approve of Stewart's first attempt at directing but to me, it was one of the most powerful films I saw this year.

This is Stuart Baird's first attempt at directing a Star Trek feature, but his career as editor and also as director for decent films like Executive Decision and U.S. Marshals prove he has the talent necessary to bring it all together.

Not exact matches

Poke, Facebook's failed first attempt at developing a Snapchat competitor, was essentially a direct rip - off of the service.

The first hundred and fifty or so pages of his Leviathan show forth his attempt to paint that portrait of human being, but by almost universal agreement, he failed — that is, he could not both present human being as a part of the new nature and at the same time do justice to our direct experience of what it is to be human.

The showdown at JFK marks the first direct confrontation of Trump's infant administration, and the first attempt at obstructing the new commander - in - chief's implementation of his most controversial campaign promises via fiat.

Written and directed by Dale Launer, who had been the screenwriter for some pretty good comedies, such as My Cousin Vinny, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Ruthless People, this would be his first and last attempt at directing (also his last screenplay).

Its easy to find fault in a person's work but Muschietti can be forgiven for a few of your noted misteps — it his first attempt at writing and directing.

Sophie Barthes directs this latest attempt, written by first - timer Rose Barreneche (née Felipe Marino), and it's rather a wonder that anyone felt that, one, what the world was lacking at the moment is another Madame Bovary adaptation, or two, that quite so much money and talent should be thrown into it.

David Chase created one of the most revered modern television series in «The Sopranos» and yet his first attempt at writing and directing a feature film after that — 2012's Not Fade Away — came and went with hardly anyone noticing.

The first attempts at performance assessment in literacy can be traced back to the 1960s and the use of direct writing assessment instead of indirect measures such as multiple - choice tests (cf. Freedman, 1993).

At the same time, Jaguar has outlined the platform strategy that will underpin both its first SUV and its long - awaited second attempt at a direct competitor for the BMW 3 SerieAt the same time, Jaguar has outlined the platform strategy that will underpin both its first SUV and its long - awaited second attempt at a direct competitor for the BMW 3 Serieat a direct competitor for the BMW 3 Series.

Our great learned societies realised just how little there was to the evidence, that it was manipulated along with the peer review process, as was the IPCC AR4 assessment, that there was even evidence of inventing data and further evidence of attempts at thwarting the free dissemination of data and codes in direct contravention of one of the first principles of the scientific method, that of reproducibility and / or falsification.