Sentences with phrase «most gifted directors»

After a shaky start with Alien ³ (most of which wasn't his fault), David Fincher has turned out to be one of the most gifted directors of the last fifteen years.

Yes, he made some of the most distinctive films of his time (and began and ended as one of the most gifted directors of drama on television) but the films were mostly serious, and Frankenheimer was a very funny man.

Again, a strong cast, consisting of Lili Taylor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah and Mary Steenburgen, reminds us that Sayles is one of American cinema's most gifted directors of actresses.

The film noir put out inky tendrils in many existent genres, forever altering even the Western (Anthony Mann, perhaps the most gifted director associated with the new vision, the new mode, also began his remarkable series of James Stewart Westerns in this era: Winchester» 73, The Naked Spur, etc.); and certainly its temperamental affinities to the science - fiction film, a prime manifestation of the McCarthy era, are worth a nod.

This is the most gifted director of his generation at the very top of his game — like Coppola with the Godfather II or Scorsese with GoodFellas (and, believe me, The Wolf of Wall Street is no GoodFellas).

Not exact matches

David was Asia marketing director for Knight - Ridder in the mid-1990s before moving to the Boston area where he was marketing VP for two publicly - traded U.S. companies, most recently at NewsEdge until he was fired shortly after it was sold to Thomson, delivering to him the gift of reinvention as a strategist advising organizations on the new realities of agile, Real - Time business.

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!

November 29 2001 At a news conference today, Commissioner of the Department of Consumer Services Caroline Orzac Shoenberger and KID Executive Director Nancy Cowles, among others, urged individuals to pay special attention to children's items most commonly used or given as gifts, such as cribs, car seats, high chairs, strollers / baby carriers and play pens during the holiday season.

I've always maintained that it's ok to boast about one's talent if you have actual talent, and De Palma, whose work has spanned so many genres, has gifted us with more indelible moments in any given film than most directors have in their entire careers.

No matter how good the cinematographer or how ingenious the director or even the most gifted cast in the world.

Best Picture «Äì «ÄúThe Social Network «Äù Best Director «Äì David Fincher for «ÄúThe Social Network «Äù Best Adapted Screenplay «Äì Aaron Sorkin for «ÄúThe Social Network «Äù Best Original Screenplay «Äì Chris Nolan for «ÄúInception «Äù Best Actor «Äì Colin Firth in «ÄúThe King «Äôs Speech «Äù Best Actress «Äì Natalie Portman in «ÄúBlack Swan «Äù Best Supporting Actor «Äì Christian Bale in «ÄúThe Fighter «Äù Best Supporting Actress «Äì Hailee Steinfeld in «ÄúTrue Grit «Äù Best Foreign Language Film «Äì «ÄúA Prophet «Äù Best Documentary «Äì «ÄúExit Through the Gift Shop «Äù Best Animated Feature «Äì «ÄúToy Story 3 «Ä ≥ Best Cinematography «Äì Wally Pfister for «ÄúInception «Äù Best Original Score «Äì Clint Mansell for «ÄúBlack Swan «Äù Most Promising Performer «Äì Jennifer Lawrence in «ÄúWinter «Äôs Bone «Äù Most Promising Filmmaker «Äì Derek Cianfrance for «ÄúBlue Valentine «Äù

Since the release of 1998's Boogie Nights, it's a commonality to hear Paul Thomas Anderson mentioned among the most gifted living directors.

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.

The act of trying to combine a road trip comedy and a teen sex comedy is one which only the most gifted Hollywood chemists should ever attempt, but director Sean Anders and his co-writer John Morris managed to deliver a strong, if raunchy, outing with Sex Drive.

Greta Gerwig, its most gifted actor, is now an Oscar - nominated director and screenwriter; Joe Swanberg remains prolific; the Duplass brothers have found success as producers and writers; Andrew Bujalski is still underappreciated.

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.

Years in the making and Hou's most expensive production by far, this Cannes Best Director winner (which absolutely should have taken home the Palme D'Or) is the Best Asian Film of 2015 and a gift to cinephiles the world over.

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.

Haynes is a prodigiously gifted director - his «Safe» and «Dottie Gets Spanked» rank with the past decade's most brilliant movies - and this new masterpiece reconfirms him as one of world cinema's most brightly shining stars.

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.

It may not have sounded like much on the surface (another reason why it probably didn't do very well with audiences or most critics) but legendary director Hill (the man behind such classics as «The Warriors,» «48 HRS» and «Streets of Fire») brought both his impeccable technical gifts and a genuine sense of personal style to the proceedings that elevated the material to something that came far closer to what one might refer to as «art» than one might rightly expect from a genre picture these days.

Roy (Michael Shannon) is a father desperate to protect his uniquely gifted, eight - year - old son in this genre - defying thriller which proves once again that director Jeff Nichols is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time.

Playing parts better suited to the periphery of Mean Girls, a trio of dynamic actors do what they can with playwright - director Leslye Headland's thin, unvariegated material: Regan (Kirsten Dunst) is the seething maid of honor; Katie (Wedding Crashers» gifted Isla Fisher) is a bobbleheaded sex fiend; and Gena (Lizzy Caplan, most alive when her cell is tossed out a window) is the caustic slacker, still bruised over a high - school rejection.

Thankfully, Spanish director Luis Prieto, most known for his intense, reasonably successful 2012 remake of Nicolas Winding Refn's Danish cult favorite Pusher, knows exactly what kind of screenplay writer Knate Lee has gifted him.

Established directors and some of the world's most gifted emerging talent will make up the diverse roster of creative filmmakers that will showcase twenty - six tales of mortality, beginning with the letter A and ending with the letter Z.

Proving himself to be one of the most gifted, insightful and versatile directors working today, Andrew Haigh (45 Years, Weekend) returns with Lean on Pete, a powerfully moving and deeply emotional story about a young boy's search for belonging on the fringes of contemporary American society.

Gifted the part by the film's directors, Joel and Ethan Coen, after sending in a highly convincing audition tape, the actor is suddenly gaining the most press of his career, and if the Oscar buzz is legit, it's not likely to stop soon.

As the former assistant vice president for resources / director of the Leadership Gift Program and most recently the acting vice president for resources at Wellesley College, Miles» distinguished career in development includes playing a key role in designing and executing a highly successful campaign that raised $ 472.3 million - a record for liberal arts colleges.

It's the single most difficult nut to crack» in gifted education, Tracy Cross, director of William and Mary's gifted - education center, told me.

Judy O'Neal serves as our Director of Advanced Academics and comes to us with over 30 years of experience in education as a classroom teacher, campus administrator, district Gifted and Talented education facilitator, and most recently as an advanced academics specialist at the regional level.

Darlene Boyd, Director, UCI Center for Educational Partnerships» Gifted Students Academy (GSA) I want to nominate the most amazing woman.

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.

Jeremy Fennell, Category Director at Dixons Retail said; «We expect tablets to take the computing market by storm and become one of the most popular gifts this Christmas... While top of the range tablets may be all singing and dancing, the Advent Amico is a great, no frills, starter product.

Donors can specify a dollar amount or a percentage of assets in their will, designating a particular program at the Delta Animal Shelter or leaving the gift to be used where it is needed most at the discretion of our Board of Directors.

Most recently, she has been Director of Leadership Gifts at the Integris Foundation, where she played a key role in raising more than $ 17 million for their current capital campaign.

«I think our tour director was the most gifted tour guide.

There's a reason gift cards are the most popular reward, accounting for about 55 percent of all reward redemptions in March 2010, says Carlos Dunlap, practice director of loyalty consulting for Kobie Marketing, which designs and manages reward programs.

1955 — 1973: Seymour H. Knox, Jr., gifts, and helps Director Gordon M. Smith acquire, nearly 700 works of Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Op art, and more, marking the most intense period of growth for the museum's collection.

Bedford will be the 10th director of the BMA, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2014, and recently completed the most comprehensive philanthropic campaign in its history, raising $ 80.7 million and adding nearly 4,000 gifts of art to the collection.

«This gift dovetails remarkably well with our existing collection — essentially adding strength on strength to one of the most distinctive and important collections of its kind,» said Rand Suffolk, Nancy and Holcombe T. Green, Jr., director of the High Museum of Art.

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.

According to Director / CEO and Chief Curator, Terry Graff: «The generous gift of this major public sculpture from Mr. Karpman at this pivotal time in the history of the Gallery is a statement - making expression of our exhilarating trajectory — a most fitting symbol of our expansion and revitalization as an important destination for national and international contemporary art.

Museum director Russell Panczenko called it «one of the most significant gifts» in the museum's history.

Tate director, Sir Nicholas Serota, called it «one of the most generous gifts ever to Tate by an artist or a foundation».

One of our most gifted theatrical directors talks with painter Michael Goldberg.

«We believe it is the largest and most significant gift of postwar art ever made to any museum,» Whitney director Maxwell Anderson said of the paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints.

Because most home and renters policies cap coverage on certain types of valuables, you might need extra coverage if you're buying a gift that fits into one of these categories and is worth more than the amount of the cap, says Chris Hackett, director of personal lines policy for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America.