Sentences with phrase «of a stretch for director»

Consequentially, this reference may have been a bit of a stretch for the directors.

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«The extra reward you get in the form of higher yields from stretching on maturity will come back to haunt you should inflation trend upwards faster than expected,» said financial advisor Manisha Thakor, director of wealth strategies for women at The BAM Alliance.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

«I think that the people that are trying to make those small amounts of money stretch and feed all of these children have one of the hardest jobs,» says Marlene Schwartz, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

During closed - door testimony that stretched roughly nine hours, White House communications director Hope Hicks was pressed about whether she had ever lied for Trump — and acknowledged she has had to tell what amounted to white lies, according to a source with direct knowledge of her testimony.

Buffalo Niagara Film Commission Executive Director Tim Clark said a two - and - a-half mile stretch of the outbound expressway between downtown and Scajaquada Expressway will be closed for four or five hours on Friday night as lighting experts perform tests.

According to Ingo Titze, director of the National Center for Voice and Speech at the University of Utah, vocal cords are able to produce a wide range of sound frequencies because of the larynx's ability to stretch vocal cords and the cords» molecular composition.

«For the ninth consecutive month, we see improvement in the employment - to - population ratio for people with disabilities; the longest stretch ever seen since the BLS started publishing disability employment statistics in October 2008,» noted John O'Neill, PhD, director of employment and disability research at Kessler FoundatiFor the ninth consecutive month, we see improvement in the employment - to - population ratio for people with disabilities; the longest stretch ever seen since the BLS started publishing disability employment statistics in October 2008,» noted John O'Neill, PhD, director of employment and disability research at Kessler Foundatifor people with disabilities; the longest stretch ever seen since the BLS started publishing disability employment statistics in October 2008,» noted John O'Neill, PhD, director of employment and disability research at Kessler Foundation.

Directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina deliver an exceedingly appealing opening stretch that seems to promise an above - average animated endeavor, as the filmmakers suffuse the beautifully - animated proceedings with a whole host of appealing elements and characters - with, in terms of the latter, Gonzalez's Miguel certainly as likable and charismatic a protagonist as one could possibly imagine (and this is to say nothing of the adorable stray dog that follows Miguel for much of the picture).

Though infused with impressive bursts of style, Johannes Roberts» 47 Meters Down is, for the most part, a disappointingly generic offering that contains few elements designed to capture and sustain one's interest - with the film's less - than - captivating opening stretch, which establishes the somewhat one - dimensional protagonists, unable to cultivate the atmosphere of abject suspense that director Johannes Roberts is clearly striving for.

Light - years stretch out between the set - up of a gag and its payoff, and for a director who has always depended on the quantity of his jokes rather than the quality, the gap is fatal.

With a spirit of genuine curiosity and generous fun, director Sean Baker dives into a certain subculture - transgender sex workers, the men who troll for them, the dealers and pimps trying to control everything - cruising around the seamier stretches of Hollywood on the day (and night) before Christmas.

«Midnight in Paris» McAdams teamed up with Owen Wilson (again) and Woody Allen for the 2011 Oscar winner «Midnight in Paris,» kicking off a stretch of prestige films in which she worked with auteur director such as Terrence Malick on «To the Wonder,» Brian de Palma on «Passion» and Wim Wenders on «Every Thing Will Be Fine.»

A tinny thriller with porno - like production values, the original hasn't stood the test of time, remaining more of an earned stretch mark for the director than a creative highlight.

Most notable among these is the gently playful shoehorning of genre elements into a whispery character study: 40 - odd minutes in, the film casually yawns, stretches and takes up an shaggy - dog mystery plot born of the director's love for detective fiction.

Like other Hong Kong directors, he did a stretch in L.A., helming a couple of Jean Claude Van Damme movies, and returning home when the international taste for the S.A.R.'s low - budget thrillers had atrophied.

Writer - director Rawson Marshall Thurber has gathered together a team of talented comedic actors for his first film and given them one joke to stretch to feature - length.

American Hustle 2013, 138 minutes, R / Director: David O. Russell / Writers: Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell / Stars: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C.K., Jack Huston, Michael Peña, Shea Whigham, Alessandro Nivola, Robert De Niro Buy It: Blu - ray Combo • DVD • Instant Video If you're immune to the charms of David O. Russell, this has got to be a rough stretch for you, but this is as high as the writer - directDirector: David O. Russell / Writers: Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell / Stars: Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence, Louis C.K., Jack Huston, Michael Peña, Shea Whigham, Alessandro Nivola, Robert De Niro Buy It: Blu - ray Combo • DVD • Instant Video If you're immune to the charms of David O. Russell, this has got to be a rough stretch for you, but this is as high as the writer - directordirector gets.

She has remained as visibly employed and famous as almost any actress in that time, occasionally getting to stretch her dramatic muscles for esteemed directors like Oliver Stone (Any Given Sunday), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), Cameron Crowe (Vanilla Sky), and Martin Scorsese (Gangs of New York).

This double feature of pre-World War II Ozu is a beautiful match - set of dramas in duty and sacrifice, but the five years between 1936 and 1941 make all the difference in the world, for both Ozu the artist stretching himself into the sound era and Ozu the director doing his duty in the Japanese film industry.

French - Aregentine director Gaspar Noe's reputation for pushing buttons at Cannes stretches back to 2002, when the infamous nine - minute rape scene of «Irreversible» elicited walkouts and raves alike.

«Like so many others who are sacrificing to make ends meet, we are stretching our limited funding to meet all of our costs,» said John Taylor, executive director for Booker T. Washington Academy.

For one, the F - Pace's bulging hood, rounded shoulders, and stretched taillights are familiar, but Jaguar production studio director Wayne Burgess stresses that 81 percent of the F - Pace's parts are unique to the vehicle.

Only to have him depart also... This has kept McDonnell pretty stretched over the past couple of years — for quite some time, he rather bizarrely took over the duties of Finance Director, concurrent to being CEO!

Cocurated by Alfred Pacquement — the former Musée National d'Art Moderne director who previously helped organize the artist's 2013 retrospective at the Centre Pompidou — and uniting fourteen large - format paintings, the exhibition tracked Hantaï's production in the crucial years 1960 — 71, when he developed his signature practice of pliage: painting variously crumpled or knotted canvases and then subsequently unfolding and stretching them for exhibition.

The show has been arranged by Micol Forti, director of the Vatican's modern and contemporary art department, a little - known sliver of the extraordinary Vatican Museums responsible for the Collection of Modern Religious Art — that little - remarked - upon stretch of donated paintings by artists from van Gogh to Fontana and Botero that most visitors to the Holy See skip over on their way to the Sistine Chapel.

Kate Beaumont, Samsung's director of strategic product planning, gave the example of the Gear Sport reminding her to stretch while buckled in for a flight.