Sentences with phrase «old director just»

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The 36 - year - old founder of I Love Rewards, a Toronto - based developer of employee recognition programs for corporations, experienced just such a head - shake upon receiving backing from John Albright, managing director of JLA Ventures, in 2007.

Travis Isaacson, senior director of organizational development at Access Development, a Salt Lake City, affinity marketing business, doesn't want anything that fancy, just an iPod Classic with 120 GB of memory instead of the old 80 GB model he has now so he can squeeze in more of the business books he downloads from Audible.com.

Working as an executive since 2016, when he had become PSG director of football, 42 - year old Dutchman Patrick Kluivert might get back to head coach status, since League One side Oxford United, which just sacked Pep Clotet (and entrusted Derek Fazackerley as a caretaker, are in talks with him, according to Mundo Deportivo.

The reason I know more details than normal about my fellow strangers - in - waiting is that little Natalie was serving as the social director, introducing herself to everyone, asking questions, and just generally being a friendly and vivacious three year old.

SNP Campaign Director John Swinney said: «This is an encouraging poll which shows a significant lead for the SNP amongst older people and a further fall in support for Labour amongst some of their traditional voters — highlighting just how far Labour have come from their founding principles.

The former director of public prosecutions has only just become an MP after being elected in Frank Dobson's old seat of Holborn and St Pancras, in North London at the general election.

«I just think they're refighting an old battle that they've already lost,» said Michael Dardia, co-research director at the Citizens Budget Commission.

«These are not just «nice to have» groups but organisations providing vital services for older people trying to maintain independent lives, vulnerable children and abused women,» said False Economy campaign director Clifford Singer.

«We know that older women who are socially engaged have better cognitive function and a lower risk of developing dementia later, but too much of a good thing just might be bad,» said NAMS Executive Director Margery Gass, MD..

Many drugs that have been heralded as improvements over existing opioids are just old opioids repackaged in new ways, says Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Alan Rickman faces other difficulties — not just in being older, but, in having established such a fastidious and slow - burning sardonic attitude, there is a danger that future pictures and lazy directors will simply tell him to «do Alan Rickman.»

It's fourteen years old now, so some of the effects seem just a little dusty, but they're still quite remarkable considering what was available to director Robert Zemeckis back then.

Lost Kisses (I baci mai dati) / Italy (Director: Roberta Torre; Screenwriters: Roberta Torre and Laura Nuccilli)-- A 13 - year - old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles.

At the same time, his daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), a minor who just turned 17, is starting an affair with a sixty - something film director (John Malkovich) who is legendary for his skill and productivity but also notorious for making films about older men having affairs with much younger women and doing the same thing in real life.

It just suffers from B - list actors, a less - than - inspired director, an old fashioned script, and a lack of fresh ideas.

Suddenly it makes more sense to campaign to Academy niches — women, old people, populists, Europeans, directors, actors, art - film lovers, traditionalists, whatever — instead of just selling the idea that your movie is «an Academy movie,» whatever that means.

While young and old get along just dandy when director Muylaert describes the tenderness that Val has for Fabinho, this is nothing like that affection between Val and her daughter Jessica (Camila Márdila), who have barely seen each other for a decade but who are tentatively united when the bright, progressive young woman, studying for a college entrance exam, moves into the spacious home of the well - to - couple in São Paulo.

Writer - director Ryan Coogler (Creed, Fruitvale Station) doesn't just elevate the comic - book superhero genre with Black Panther, Marvel's 18th entry in its ever - expanding, 10 - year - old - and - counting cinematic universe...

0:00 — Intro 5:10 — Headlines: Roseanne Reality Show and New Beavis and Butthead Show, Robocop Statue in Detroit, Shane Black Confirmed for Iron Man 3, Disney Announces Cars Spin - Off Called Planes, 2011 Breaks Record for Most Sequels in a Year 29:00 — Review: Mr. Nobody 1:12:45 — Trailer Trash: Apollo 18, Dead Island 1:28:00 — Other Stuff We Watched: Dogtooth, Pleasantville, Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Uncle Buck, Dial M for Murder, I Confess, Lifeboat, Foreign Correspondent, The Wrong Man, Suspicion, Megamind, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Superman, Network, Dog Day Afternoon, I Knew It Was You, Runaway Train 2:16:55 — Junk Mail: Film Junk Artwork Contest, Takashi Miike, Gates of Heaven, Arsenic and Old Lace, Directors We Wish Were Making Different Kinds of Movies, Machine Girl and Man v. Food, Name That Movie and Visually Amazing Films That Are Just Okay, Shutter Island Shutout at the Oscars and Sequel Titles 2:59:15 — This Week's DVD Releases 3:02:55 — Outro

The director himself referred to «Nebraska» as «just an old - fashioned comedy» and while our expectations have perhaps been damped by the muted response to date, we're looking forward to checking it out for ourselves come November.

This is his fifth collaboration with star Leonardo DiCaprio, but marks just his second feature shot digitally and combines a loosely mob - inflected story with a topical, high - finance setting, and so overall the film promises to deliver an exciting blend of the old and the new from the director.

Lionsgate just released this new international trailer for the upcoming horror film «Saw VII» aka Saw 3D by director Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Old Friends) stars Tobin Bell (Alice, Bump, Saw), Cary Elwes (The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, A Christmas Carol), Costas Mandylor (The Rogue, The Cursed), Betsy Russell (Chain Letter) and Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day).

Call this X-Men for Toddlers (or Just the Mentally Deficient), Zoom continues the slide into sub-mediocre family films for director Peter Hewitt, who continues to make movies that appeal almost exclusively to 10 - year - olds.

Director: Dani Menkin Cast: Alon Aboutboul Synopsis: Having just lost his job as a film projectionist, 60 year old Ronnie decides to travel from Israel to the US to seek out his long - lost love, Rachel.

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.

Lionsgate UK sent us this ultra gory red - band mashup just in time for the release of the upcoming horror film «Saw VII» aka Saw 3D by director Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Old Friends) stars Tobin Bell (Alice, Bump, Saw), Cary Elwes (The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, A Christmas Carol), Costas Mandylor (The Rogue, The Cursed), Betsy Russell (Chain Letter) and Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day).

The title is perfect: «Distant Voices, Still Lives» writer - director Terence Davies's adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons's 1932 novel of life in the Scottish countryside is like an old familiar tune, a lusty ballad of love and heartbreak sung with passion and power, and just a handful of off - key notes.

Just like you wouldn't expect comedy super-pros Sarah Silverman and Giovanni Ribisi to play straight - men to Seth MacFarlane in the writer / director / star's Old West send - up A Million Ways to Die In the West, you can't exactly expect straight answers from them at a press conference, either.

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.

It's not that working with the same people over and over again is a bad thing — in the old Hollywood studio system, that happened all the time, and the comedies of Preston Sturges, to name just one director, are filled with the same repeating cast — it's that there is a danger that your friends may not push you to make something interesting.

The 26 - year - old filmmaker had only ever had one actor in mind for the part, Michael B. Jordan of «The Wire» and «Friday Night Lights,» and the actor is likely to get just as much of a boost as his director.

A nice touch is added with the brief inclusion of Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy as Mortimer and Randolph, the swindling old codgers given their just desserts in «Trading Places», Murphy's previous project with director John Landis.

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.

He's just finished wrangling a dream cast of older actors (including Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren) into an effective fighting team for Red, and now director Robert Schwentke might just be looking to bring a long - gestating drama project back from the depths of development limbo, as he's become attached like a barnacle to submarine pic Shadow Divers.

LOGAN director James Mangold just tweeted out this black and white portrait photo of Sir Patrick Stewart as an older

Let me repeat this: just three nominations before Bigelow, making the total nominations of female directors a measly four in the Academy Awards» nearly ninety - year - old history.

In harrowing depictions, Haitian writer / director Raoul Peck just shows how the tragedy affected one man, Augustin Muganza (Idris Elba, of HBO's «The Wire»), and his family during the hundred days in the spring of 1994 where the Tutsis were being viciously slaughtered with guns and machetes by the extremist Hutu military, as well as Hutu citizens spurned on by the urgings of the radio to «stomp on the cockroaches», fueling the fans of decades old resentment among the Hutu majority.

As I said, the first half of Splice actually generates a lot of interest by virtue of its ideas and some solid execution by director Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Brainstorm), but then we get a scene that just extinguishes that interest in a flash and telegraphs that the rest will be just the same old, same old.

Maybe the little Indian boy's dog doesn't die when the big bad tornados threaten all of Mumbai — despite our general acceptance of millions of humans biting the dust in these things — but disaster movies might have just flatlined with director and co-writer Dean Devlin's chaotically stupid bid to emulate his old partner, catastrophe peddler Roland Emmerich.

Alba plays Honey Daniels, a 22 year - old street dance instructor that catches the eye of Michael Ellis (Moscow, Just Married), one of the top music video director's in the world of hip hop.

Shot in just over two weeks, the second feature from 29 - year - old writer - director Damien Chazelle stars Miles Teller as Andrew, a gifted jazz drummer seduced into a world of punishing exactitude by his brutal conservatoire teacher, Terrence Fletcher (Simmons).

Beyond the ickiness of the relationship between an infamously predatory director (John Malkovich) entering into a relationship with the 17 - year - old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) of Louis» character, the juxtaposition of a black - and - white,»40s - screwball comedy setting with profane, raunchy humor just never works.

It's pretty well known that filmmaker Richard Linklater and his four central actors — Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as the parents, Lorelei Linklater (the director's daughter) as the older sister, and Ellar Coltrane as Mason — shot the film over the course of 12 years to watch not just Mason but everyone in the fictional family grow up and evolve over time.

It's now common knowledge that filmmaker Richard Linklater and his four central actors — Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke as the parents, Lorelei Linklater (the director's daughter) as the older sister, and Ellar Coltrane as Mason — shot the film over the course of 12 years to watch not just Mason but everyone in the fictional family grow up and evolve over time.

For all the controversy over the explicit sex in writer - director Abdellatif Kechiche's three - hour adaptation of Julie Maroh's graphic novel «Blue Is the Warmest Color,» the film is ultimately just a sensitive and honest coming - of - age story, showing how a teenager discovers who she is with the help of her older lesbian girlfriend, then has to find herself again when they drift apart.

Now that it's got Blockbuster Horror Director Jon Krasinski on the hook for its upcoming Jack Ryan TV show — and not just boring old regular The Office star John Krasinski, like it used to — Amazon's making damn sure not to let him get away.

The 23 - year - old Golden Globe - nominated Baby Driver star has just dropped «Supernova» along with an accompanying music video directed by award - winning video director Colin Tilley, who has worked with artists including Kendrick Lamar, Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

Just turned 30, the latter actress had been around since Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon (1976) and, after years of working with director Nicolas Roeg (a significantly older Englishman she would marry), was seemingly a viable leading lady.

Long before «Baby Driver,» «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World» or breakout film «Shaun of the Dead,» writer / director Edgar Wright was just a young 20 - year - old filmmaker who wanted to make a feature film with his most immediate resources: a camera, some friends, some cowboy hats.

The series either ran out of steam or ran out of great old films and directors to reconsider; it just stopped.