Sentences with phrase «making auspicious»

Since that defining decade of the festival, the trajectories of the directors making auspicious starts at Sundance have splintered in three different directions.

Does that make it an auspicious time to launch your business?

Ringwald only lasted a season before she was let go, but her television work paved the way for subsequent screen roles.In 1982, Ringwald made an auspicious film debut in Paul Mazursky's acclaimed Tempest, earning a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of John Cassavetes» daughter.

Asian actress Lisa Lu made an auspicious American film debut as Mme Sue - Mei Hung in the 1960 war drama The Mountain Road.

Robert Downey, the father of the noted and troubled actor Robert Downey Jr., made his auspicious debut with the 1967 Chafed Elbows.

That makes it difficult to talk about in any significant detail — it'd be a shame if many of those ways are even hinted at, for fear of giving the entire game away — but it will suffice to say that the actor Joel Edgerton, here making his directorial debut with his own screenplay, has made an auspicious, enjoyable debut with this late summer surprise.

Horror author Barker made an auspicious debut as a director with this bloody shocker about a violent con artist who cheats death in gruesome fashion.

Australian actor Joel Edgerton («Animal Kingdom,» Warrior,» «The Great Gatsby») makes an auspicious directorial debut with this taut psychological thriller.

There's an attempt at closure that leaves both women and the viewer unsatisfied, but Sigismondi, a video director who makes an auspicious feature debut, should be congratulated for refusing a nice neat bow.

Of course, any Western with dips into orgiastic images of blood splashes has to owe some sort of gratuity or hat tip to Sam Peckinpah, whose name is synonymous with plasma bursts and gratis gore ever since The Wild Bunch (1969) made its auspicious and unforgettable debut, and Bone Tomahawk has a similar tenebrous heart.

Based on Mary Mapes» «Truth and Duty: The Press, The President, and the Privilege of Power» (2005), screenwriter James Vanderbilt («White House Down,» «Zodiac») makes an auspicious directing debut with this layered, detailed condemnation of how Internet obsession with minutia / gossip has obliterated the big picture — and responsible reporting can not be rushed.

Goldwyn made an auspicious feature directorial debut with «A Walk on the Moon» starring Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen.

A former Harvard Lampoon cartoonist and punk rock performer, Burwell made an auspicious movie debut along with the Coen Brothers for 1984's «Blood Simple,» a score that immediately showed the composer's talent for capturing clever, dramatic irony.

Putting a new spin on his cartoonish paintings of «everyman» figures, the Russian - born artist Sanya Kantarovsky made an auspicious foray into animation with his 2014 piece Happy Soul.

In Washington, DC, the firm recently made the auspicious addition of former Jenner & Block alumnus Lorelie Masters, further bolstering what was already considered a deep bench of insurance practitioners.

Not exact matches

It may seem auspicious, coming as it does while the federal government ponders approval of China National Offshore Oil Co.'s $ 15 - billion purchase of Calgary - based Nexen, but the new investment agreement with China that is soon to be ratified in Parliament was actually 18 years in the making.

The volatility of recent weeks would seem to make it a less - than - auspicious time for the Fed to consider raising interest rates, at least from a global perspective.

But improved health, and its handmaidens, may well make it possible for the pace of material advance, under auspicious circumstances, to be quickened.

Instead, I'll make a cheap joke about how it sure looks like Rick Warren was present at McKinley's inauguration as well as Obama's (compare this photo with this one) and note a less auspicious historical resonance that has nothing to do with church history but will be irresistible to you history nuts.

The auspicious times must be found both for the actual contract of the marriage and for the ceremonial encounter, which may take place some hours after the making of the contract.

The energy of the Super Full Moon is very powerful and creates an auspicious time to make a big step on your Spiritual Path: Forgive and be Forgiven.

Gunpati Kriya Meditation To Make the Impossible Possible Thursday, September 7th 2017, 7 pm Join us for the Full Moon Meditation on this auspicious day concluding the festival celebrating Lord -LSB-...]

Take Spira's advice — don't be superstitious, rather, make this day auspicious, and go out and snag yourself a date on this Friday the 13th!

Written by Riley, Sorry To Bother You will make its polite and auspicious debut on July 6.

THE BLU - RAY DISC by Bill Chambers Punch - Drunk Love makes a rather auspicious Blu - ray debut as part of the Criterion Collection in a 2.39:1, 1080p transfer supervised by writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson.

Despite these triumphs, Leonard's reputation mainly rests on the series of six musical films he made with the singing team of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy; Leonard directed all but two of their features, including Maytime (1937), long established as the uncontested favorite of the cycle.In Leonard's late career, the properties he handled were somewhat less auspicious, though there is a surprise in the hard - boiled melodrama The Bribe (1949), a respected film noir that is the only film of its kind in Leonard's canon of 161 known titles.

Written and directed by Stacie Passon in an auspicious directing debut effort, and produced by Rose Troche, CONCUSSION is a poignant sexual examination of Abby (Robin Weigert in a star making breakout turn), a forty something married wealthy, lesbian housewife who, after suffering a blow to the head from getting smacked by her son's baseball — walks around every corner of her suburban life to confront a mounting desire for something else.

What's shaping up as an auspicious Black History Month for movies — multiple Oscar contenders in multiple categories — continues this week with the release of Get Out, a movie that makes history.

Calling into question the very meaning of the film's title, the climax of Pearce's auspicious debut seems to come out of left field, but it makes a kind of perfect, if perverse, sense.

The playwright Kenneth Lonergan's 2000 directorial debut, «You Can Count on Me,» was highly auspicious and made a star out of the then all - but - unknown Mark Ruffalo.

This is the directorial debut of Alison Eastwood (daughter of Clint), and while it is certainly less - than - auspicious, the fact that she somehow manages to occasionally make some of the kooky family dynamics work beyond some campy Lifetime movie is at least a sign of promise for things that might come.

The same can be said of Kelly, who makes a most auspicious debut.

On Halloween of 2008, an auspicious day, I made the decision to become an indie author.

As in the best collections, the stories enhance each other, forging connections between recurrent characters and building a world where real locations like Islamabad and Lahore blend with imagined households... Themes of struggle and progress may be familiar, but Mueenuddin's rich stories make them fresh and powerful, marking a debut as auspicious as any so far this year.

It did not seem an auspicious time to make the life - changing choice of adopting a pig.

The auspicious combination of vibrant flora and dramatic coastline makes it a truly one - of - a-kind location for landscape photography.

As well as keeping the bed cool, ancient Chinese ceramic pillows made for auspicious gifts and warded off evil spirits

Agustina Ferreyra noted that the upcoming slew of shows associated with «Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA,» which is previewed in the September issue of Artforum, made it seem like an auspicious moment to launch such a venture: «Most of us will have artists participating in projects there, and it's a good city to have a foot in right now.»

This is among the most impressive sculptures ever made honoring Mami Wata — pidgin English for «Mother of Water» — an auspicious being of great spiritual power celebrated throughout Africa and the African Diaspora.

Featuring work and installations made from the ordinary and everyday, the smart and auspicious show includes artists and designers like the Campana Brothers, Tara Donovan, Xu Bing, El Anatsui, and Season 2's Do Ho Suh, who contributes a jacket made of military dog tags.

In the pursuit of breaking new ground in a genre, one must of course make it work formally, particularly in abstract painting; in this regard, some of Stella's periods have been more auspicious than others.

Whatever cosmic forces make August 16th such an auspicious day are respected even more around the Sir James Dunn Law Library, as today is the 22nd anniversary of the Library burning down.

Professor Vaver made special note that the date of Justice Rothstein's official swearing - in ceremony — April 10th, 2006 — was auspicious for sharing the anniversary of the commencement of the Statute of Anne and potentially meant important things to come for the field of copyright law as a result.

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