Sentences with phrase «old director first»

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CEO Óscar Grau, director of football Raül Sanllehí, and first team squad director Javier Bordas have travelled to the UK willing to spend $ 120 million (# 108 million) on the 25 - year - old.

Now the 89 - year - old, the Academy's second oldest nominee (eight days younger than Faces Places director Agnès Varda), seems to have a clear shot at his first win for his gentle and poignant treatment of André Aciman's love story Call Me by Your Name.

[2] He is also the director and founder of the first Atheist Film Festival, as well as San Francisco's oldest Darwin Day celebration, Evolutionpalooza.

The text of Inwood's piecewas leaked, and caused a fine old brouhaha, on blogs near and far: at first, Bishop Hollis hotly defended Inwood's piece, saying that he did not «have to vet everything that is said by those who advise me and Paul Inwood is our Director of Liturgical Formation.

Leverkusen director of sport, Rudi Voller — who has strong ties to the «giallorossi «after both playing and coaching there — believes the 24 - year - old will be an excellent alternative / sidekick to veteran «Werkself» front - man, Stefan Kießling and is hoping to take him on a «loan first, buy later» basis.

One of the speakers at Veggie Fest, Dr. James Gruft, director and founder of From Pain to Wellness, LLC, and a vegetarian who is raising his 12 - year - old twins as vegetarian, says he has seen first - hand not only how healthy his children are, but how a change in diet improves his patients» nutrition while reducing their chronic pain.

Also take into account whether or not the news is public knowledge: «If you're telling anyone, tell your older child first,» says Charles Shubin, M.D., Director of pediatrics at Mercy Family Care in Baltimore.

«We wanted to take a fresh look at booster seats» effectiveness to reduce injury among this age group, because when we first evaluated the protective benefits of booster seats in 2002, most children using them were 4 and 5 years old,» explains lead researcher Kristy Arbogast, PhD, director of Engineering at CHOP's Center for Injury Research and Prevention.

The three most important points to grasp about the new Chief Whip are, first, that he is highly intelligent (you don't get to be a director of Lazards if you're not); second, that he is a survivor (to move from being Mr Davis's campaign manager to Mr Cameron's Chief Whip indicates a certain unsinkability) and, third, that he is rather an old - fashioned model.

The snow stranded Tori Ferraina, executive director of the Old First Ward Community Center, which runs the race, in her driveway for a time Friday, but she sent word that the race is a go.

The first report on the safety and efficacy of this therapy in children under 12 years old — led by Guy Young, MD, director of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Center of Children's Hospital Los Angeles — has been published in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

A 67 - year - old man undergoes the region's first pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE), an intricate life - saving procedure for removing blood clots from the lungs, pioneered by Dr. Kenneth Moser, professor of medicine and director of critical care medicine.

«First, cells known as osteoclasts remove old, weakened bone,» explains Andrea Singer, MD, clinical director of the NOF.

On Sunday evening, Hunter Boots — a 158 - year - old company known almost exclusively for its tall, $ 150 rubber wellington boots — staged its first fashion week show in London to create buzz around its expanding ready - to - wear line (and its new creative director, Alasdhair Willis).

Freeman (director Jackson's first choice for the title role) is inspired casting as Bilbo Baggins, and makes for a more likeable protagonist than Wood's rather other - worldly Frodo (who, along with Holm as the older Bilbo, makes an appearance in the film's opening framing story).

Old School, which follows three grown men (Luke Wilson's Mitch, Will Ferrell's Frank, and Vince Vaughn's Beanie) as they turn their house into a fraternity, marks director Todd Phillips» first fictional endeavor since Road Trip, and it's immediately clear that the movie, like that 2000 Tom Green comedy, manages to entertain in spite of a distinct lack of overt laughs.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

First - time 31 - year - old director Koldo Serra's thriller The Backwoods (AKA El bosque de las sombras, 2006) re-charts thematic territory covered, in years prior, by such well - worn classics as Deliverance and Southern Comfort, and such B - grade horror pictures as Savage Island (2004).

Indeed, this is the 51 - year - old Crowe's first time as a movie director, but he's hardly a novice actor stepping behind the camera for some sort of vanity project.

Dustin Hoffman, a 75 - year - old first - time feature director better known as a great old acting pro, conducts at a pleasant tempo.

Nelson, who has done major time in the animation trenches, including as head of story for «Kung Fu Panda,» seems like an old pro despite «P2» being her first time in the director's chair.

First - time director Steve Beck hurls a dozen ghosts and probably a million dollars» worth of prosthetic makeup at us for a full 90 minutes, but it's old hat and not a bit scary.

It marked the director's first collaboration with Grégoire Colin, a dark - eyed, arresting young actor whom Denis would also employ to great effect in both Nénette et Boni and Beau Travail.The former film, made in 1996, was another coming - of - age drama that centered on the relationship between a lovelorn young man (Colin) and his rebellious, pregnant 15 - year - old sister (Alice Houri).

Such glib, blithe quips are the motor oil of the teen comedy, but in her first outing as a solo writer and director, Gerwig is as sensitive to place and the fragility of young and old bodies as she is to her protagonist's often hurtful words.

The first trailer has arrived for «Drive» and «Only God Forgives» director Nicolas Winding Refn's upcoming Amazon series «Too Old to Die Young».

Luke Wilson first came to fame as one of the stars of the 1996 indie «Bottle Rocket,» which was based on a short film he made with his older brother Owen and director Wes Anderson.

From first - time feature director David Barrett, FIRE WITH FIRE is an old - school action flick that sadly isn't able to reach the heights it threatens to.

As a first - time director, Smigel explains that he found solace in the friendship of his old friends.

(Fun fact: One of NOFF's earliest winners was a documentary by first - time director Todd Phillips, who has gone on to direct The Hangover and Old School.)

Writer / director Howard Weiner (a Neurologist and Harvard professor — thanks Google) delivers his first narrative feature film as a statement on old age, pride and dying.

First time director James Schamus (founder of Focus Features) is an Oscar nominated producer (Brokeback Mountain) and writer (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and he tackles the popular 2008 Philip Roth novel... one that the 83 year old novelist admits to being influenced by his own college years.

The 24 - year - old actress received the first of her three Academy Award nominations 11 years ago: for director Joe Wright's film of Ian McEwan's novel Atonement, in which she played 13 - year - old Briony Tallis, who tells a lie about a rape which destroys two people's lives.

Ahead of its UK release later this month, Lionsgate has debuted the first poster and trailer for director Anna Rose Holmer's award - winning drama The Fits; take a look below... THE FITS is a psychological portrait of 11 - year - old Toni (Royalty Hightower)-- a tomboy assimilating to a tight - knit dance team in Cincinnati's West End.

Lionsgate has debuted the first trailer for director Susanna Fogel's upcoming action comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me which sees Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon leading a cast that includes Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan, Gillian Anderson, and Hasan Minhaj; check it out here... The film tells the story of Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), thirty - year - old -LSB-...]

In his first feature as a writer / director, Geremy Jasper has created a memorable outsider character with this strong - willed 23 - year - old protagonist.

The first trailer for Z for Zachariah has debuted, the next film from Compliance director Craig Zobel, adapted from an old sci - fi novel by Robert C. O'Brien.

While writer / director Rian Johnson continues to depict the struggle between good and evil, represented by the Resistance and the First Order, he veers away from the Star Wars of old by subverting one of the saga's core components: the Skywalkers.

Neighbors, a new comedy from the director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, may be the first film of its subgenre to acknowledge how old the freaks of Freaks And Geeks have actually gotten, and to express nostalgia for the days when they could still believably play overgrown adolescents.

More consciously seeking to recreate an old Hollywood vibe is the latest from Peter Bogdanovich, the refugee from the first golden age of cinephile directors who has found film work increasingly hard to find in recent years (this is his first theatrical fiction feature since 2001's The Cat's Meow).

The first trailer for upcoming music - drama Boychoir — the latest film from acclaimed director François Girard (The Red Violin, Thirty Two Films About Glenn Gould)-- has been released online by Informant Media, along with a new poster which we have for you here... In the film, 12 - year - old newcomer Garrett Wareing plays Stet, a rebellious -LSB-...]

With a built - in audience of mostly 14 - 17 year - old girls, director Gary Ross («Pleasantville,» «Seabiscuit») puts forth The Hunger Games — a rather faithful version of the first novel in Suzanne Collins» best - selling trilogy, telling the tale of a post-apocalyptic North America divided into 12 districts.

For her first narrative feature since Winter's Bone (the Ozark - set documentary Stray Dog was made in the interim), writer - director Debra Granik adapts Guggenheim recipient Peter Rock's 2009 novel My Abandonment, about a father (Ben Foster) and his 13 - year - old daughter (newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), homeless yet living in surprisingly peaceful fashion in empty urban wilderness on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, until a small mistake derails their lives in shattering fashion.

Jake Kasdan, a 22 - year - old first - time director and screenwriter, created the oddball private detective Daryl Zero in the new movie «Zero Effect» for Pullman.

Future Weather is an indie drama from first feature director Jenny Deller, about a passionate thirteen - year - old girl who must learn to survive on her own when her mother abandons her.

In his first English language film, the 40 - year - old surprisingly molds Jackie in the same structure of fellow Chilean director Alejandro Amenábar's The Others (2001).

First - time feature director Peter Livolsi supplies his adaptation of Peter Bognanni's novel with just enough edge, heart and humor to make «Tomorrow» cool enough for older high - schoolers while being relatable for their elders, thanks in large part to its wonderfully in - sync multi-generational cast.

The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.

Even then in May, amongst the line - up of melodramas and arthouses from auteurs all around the world, it stood out as an entertaining and commercial thriller, though this is just the first take on live - action from the 39 - year - old South Korean director who packed on his back only several animated movies, most notably The King of Pigs and The Fake.

BEST DIRECTOR Oldest nominee: Richard Linklater, age 51 (last year: Martin Scorsese, age 71) Youngest nominee: Wes Anderson, age 45 (last year: Steve McQueen, age 44) Average age: 49 (last year: 55) Returning winners: — None Returning nominees: Alejandro G. Iñarritu, Bennett Miller First time...

First Girl I Loved (Director & Screenwriter: Kerem Sanga)-- Seventeen - year - old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school.