Sentences with phrase «gifted directors who»

Among gifted directors who are also shrewd businessmen, Steven Spielberg outranks them all.

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Honestly, paulinho is a disgrace to a midfield that once boasted of xavi deco etc As for the others I don't think details are necessary, the bottom line is that for a board with a sporting director Barca made a huge mistake in allowing lucho sign such players (he wasn't responsible for paulinho but he gave them such ideas), from now on we should keep a group of world class players (like RM), coaches who Believe in our PHILOSOPHY only should come and use these players to give us our football back, valverde is not successful because of messi only, he is successful because the core of this team is a group of the most technically gifted and intelligent players in the world, the board knows this and so do RM, that's why we are chasing players like fdj, deligt, and even alaba, because once this core of la masia talent is gone we would be useless if there are no adequate replacements, this board must continue signing replacements for our core and for once!

In one email from September 2009, Cynthia Reynolds, a former associate director who oversaw academic support for football players, told Nyang «oro in an email that «I hear you are doing me a big favor this semester and that I should be bringing you lots of gifts and cash???????»

Quintanilla, who works at the National Braille Press as its director of major gifts and planned giving, is looking for a tool that could help blind children read maps and graphs when taking standardized tests.

The prize includes a $ 6,000 cash award endowed by former PPPL Director Ronald Davidson, who donated to Princeton University a portion of the gift he received as the 1993 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Science, Education and Physics from the Kaul Foundation in Tampa, Florida.

Krakoff, who previously worked with Tiffany on the re-launch of its gifts, home and accessories collections, succeeds design director Francesca Amfitheatrof, who will leave the company after three and a half years in the role.

Disney's tried - and - true slapstick material (est. 1959) is here given a heinously unimaginative interpretation by five screenwriters and a director who manages to squander the gifts of an absurdly overqualified supporting cast.

Stale as week - old bread and every bit as bland, the movie saddles a strong cast with a groaningly ineffectual script (courtesy of Michael LeSieur, who wrote 2006's You, Me and Dupree) and wastes the director's gift for bringing lived - in charm and feeling to broad comic premises.

It's an intriguing sensation of shock, nurtured gracefully by the screenplay and imagined gloriously by gifted director Jennifer Yuh, who inch away from the original's overtly cartoon tendencies to widen Po's concern.

Rudolph, a gifted stylist who operates mainly as an independent, can be regarded as a child of Hollywood: he was the son of studio director Oscar Rudolph, and his style is predicated largely on a nostalgia for classic Hollywood tropes.

Director Bill Pohlad and screenwriter Oren Moverman get it: instead of going with the «rock «n» roll rise «n» fall» approach, they use two critical, defining slices of Wilson's life to render a beautifully complex, abstract interpretation of the man who gifted us «Good Vibrations» and «California Girls.»

Despite the star shine of Julia Roberts as Gilbert and the presence of gifted Glee creator Ryan Murphy in the director's chair, the movie left me with the feeling of being trapped with a person of privilege who won't stop with the whine whine whine.

The critic, after referring to «Nick Gomez's astounding, explosive debut,» went on: «Director Gomez, 29, who made the picture on a minuscule budget of $ 38,000, is the newest (and maybe the most gifted) member of a young generation of filmmakers — Spike Lee and Oliver Stone among them — who watched Martin Scorsese's «Mean Streets» and came away dying to make movies.

Released: September 29 Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas, Carel Struycken Director: Mike Flanagan (Hush) Why it's great: Like 128 Hours for BDSM amateurs, this adaptation of Stephen King's psychological novella gifts Gugino — long overlooked by Hollywood and underappreciated by her directors — the role of a lifetime, as Jessie, a woman handcuffed to a bed by her recently deceased husband who struggles to break free before starvation, dehydration or something worse sets in.

Director and co-writer Scott Derrickson (who previously wrote the unnecessary sequel Urban Legends: Final Cut) has been lucky enough to work with some gifted actors, especially Jennifer Carpenter (White Chicks) in the titular role.

Writer / director Matt Ruskin, who worked closely to earn the trust of the real Colin Warner, imbues this film with a gifted touch and emotional authenticity to shed light on a painful personal story — and on a horrifying systemic issue.

The French writer - director, who has a gift for portraying meaningfully changing lives and turning minor incidents into major themes, has perfected her dramatic style over the last decade; we'll see how she does with this globe - trotting premise, a change of pace from her usual, dependably low - key plotting.

«This project has award - winning talent teamed up with a gifted young writer - director who wrote a brilliant script.

The astonishingly gifted writer - director of «Thoroughbreds» is going places, which could also be said for Olivia Cooke («Vanity Fair») and Anya Taylor - Joy («Split»), the two note - perfect lead actresses who star in Finley's icy psychological thriller — a refined, upper - class riff on «Heavenly Creatures,» «Fun,» and the entire wicked subgenre in which two -LSB-...]

If there was ever any question to Michael Mann's genius after Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, or Heat, it must be laid to rest now — he's pushing Spielberg in terms of visual gift, trumping him in terms of maturity (and courage, of course), and he's moving into an upper echelon of cinematic directors (Stanley Kubrick, for example) who, when they're on, produce tapestries so pure that you feel as though if you tapped them they'd ring like crystal.

The astonishingly gifted writer - director of «Thoroughbreds» is going places, which could also be said for Olivia Cooke («Vanity Fair») and Anya Taylor - Joy («Split»), the two note - perfect lead actresses who star in Finley's icy psychological thriller — a refined, upper - class riff on «Heavenly Creatures,» «Fun,» and the entire wicked subgenre in which two girls, perfectly harmless on their own, prove to be homicidal in one another's company.

Following opening remarks from TIFF director / CEO Piers Handling, executive director / COO Michele Maheux and artistic director Cameron Bailey, who coined the term «Jakequake» to describe Gyllenhaal's impressive run of late, an excitable Vallee took the stage to introduce his bearded star and the rest of the cast, including Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Heather Lind and gifted newcomer Judah Lewis, who makes a strong first impression on the big screen.

Few have crafted stronger drama out of family conflict than A Separation director Asghar Farhadi, who apparently developed his gift for plumbing the crevices of middle - class Iranian life as early as 2006.

And to be able to start out with someone like her, who loves actors, is a natural and very gifted director, and has that insight, was very influential to me.»

Gifted is an original drama from sporadic screenwriter Tom Flynn (picking up his first credit in 15 years) and (500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb, who returns to indies after helming the two Andrew Garfield Spider - Man films.

Shane Black (Robocop 3), who plays Hawkins, the bespectacled commando with a gift for raunchy jokes, would go on to greater success the same year as the screenwriter for Lethal Weapon, kicking off a long and lucrative career as a screenwriter and, later, an action director in his own right.

That the movie succeeds at all is a testament to the gifts of director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol), who keeps things rolling along amiably, from a script he co-wrote with Damon Lindelof.

Moore gushed that «this part was a gift,» while thanking director Richard Glatzer, who has ALS, for his guidance in the role.

First - time director Bill Holderman, who co-wrote the script with Erin Simms, said the film was inspired by their mothers, for whom they bought the «Fifty Shades» trilogy as a Mother's Day gift.

Just as the French New Wave had one key cinematographer (Raoul Coutard — a resourceful, gifted technician who shot most of the early features of Jean - Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, and Jacques Demy), the Hong Kong / Taiwanese new wave has its own pivotal director of photography, Christopher Doyle.

Gifted director Richard Linklater filmed Boyhood over 12 years, with actor Ellar Coltrane, who portrays Texas boy Mason, growing from age 6 to 18 before our eyes.

Whether you believe Jerry Lewis is a comic genius, a braying clown, a shrewd show - biz pro who carefully cultivated a popular stage and screen persona, a hopeless egotist with a cringing need for attention, or simply a comic with a gift for manic physical humor that clicked with audiences in the fifties and sixties, most people agree that The Nutty Professor was his greatest film as a director and his most interesting variation on the child - man figure he had transformed into Hollywood gold.

A new comedy from writer / director David E. Talbert (Baggage Claim) and producer Will Packer (Ride along, Think Like a Man series), Almost Christmas tells the festive story of a beloved patriarch who asks his family for one gift this holiday season: to get along.

I concede he is a gifted man, among the great directors working today, and always someone who gives us a film worth watching.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Year: 2017 Director: Noah Baumbach In maybe his most well - tuned chamber drama (let's use this phrase loosely) since Frances Ha, Noah Baumbach takes time to observe the ways in which his characters run, their ambulatory gifts (or lack thereof) representing both their struggles to express their innermost selves and the ways in which they can't escape the parents who must pass themselves — their failures, their quirks, their anger — to their offspring.

The problem is that director Forman and screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who memorably humanized Hustler publisher Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt, do little to make the film appear to be more than a showcase for Carrey's gift for reverent mimickry.

A new comedy from Academy Award ® nominated director Jason Reitman (UP IN THE AIR, JUNO) and Academy Award ® winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (JUNO, YOUNG ADULT), TULLY follows Marlo (Academy Award ® winner Charlize Theron), a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Mark Duplass; SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED, BLUE JAY).

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The director explained, «we offer traditional academic courses for students who are high achieving and / or students who are identified as gifted and talented in academic areas.

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Fordham Institute President Michael Petrilli is nominating National Association for Gifted Children Executive Director M. René Islas and professor Jonathan Plucker, who works in the School of Education and Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University.

Having agreed the outline specification in May 1960 with company owner and Managing Director, Gianni Zagato, the design was entrusted to the the 23 year old Ercole Spada who became perhaps one of the most gifted designers of his period.

While absorbing the ways of radio, from writing to directing, he meets some extraordinarily brave and gifted people who touch his life in ways he could not have imagined — actresses Rue, Pauline, and Hazel; actor - director Waldo, creator of the magnificent black show Freedom Road; and enigmatic station owner Loren Harford, among others.

«Many authors who have either written Byliner Originals or had their nonfiction showcased in our archives happen to be very gifted fiction writers as well,» Byliner editorial director and co-founder Mark Bryant said in a release, «and they've been asking us when we would begin publishing original fiction.

«At the ARL, the visitors who come in looking for a pet to give as a gift to a friend or family usually know their loved ones, what they can take on, and the kind of animal they would like to have as a pet,» explains Maryann Regan, the ARL's director of shelter operations.

The Thursday event also includes Randy Balogh, philanthropic services director of the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, who will speak on charitable gift annuities benefiting the animal shelter.

The party will have gifts to be won via lottery for anyone who purchased the game, and will have a chance to meet with the Director, Shu Takumi, and Producer, Shintaro...

The museum's director, Fabrice Hergott, who selected the Werner gift, describes the donation as the most significant to the museum — which was established in 1937 and opened to the public in 1961 — since a 1951 bequest from Maurice Girardin.

The drawings are a gift of the estate of the artist in honor of Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at MoMA, who has organized exhibitions and produced publications of Darger's work.

With this gift, Alan and Curt join a family of collectors who have changed museums in this country forever,» director Philippe Vergne said.