Sentences with phrase «old director whose»

Ryan Coogler, the 31 - year - old director whose brief resumé already includes an acclaimed indie drama (the 2013 festival breakout Fruitvale Station) and an underdog triumph (2015's stellar Rocky reboot Creed), clearly fought hard to get Panther to the screen the way he envisioned it: Not as a boilerplate blockbuster window - dressed with African - American faces, but a story fully, joyfully rooted in black culture.

Complicating this professional venture is the fact that Maggie speaks no French and finds it hard to understand how the production is supposed to coalesce under the unsteady guidance of a cranky old director whose best days are obviously over.

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The 40 - year - old, who left Bellamy's in January, made a dramatic re-entry into the corporate world this week when she was announced managing director of an ASX minnow whose only asset is a 48 per cent stake in the gourmet food business, Maggie Beer Products, the business built up by celebrity cook Maggie Beer.

Writer - director Kat Candler's focus is on the ill - fated choices of angrily rebellious, motocross - obsessed 13 - year - old Jacob (newcomer Josh Wiggins) and his withdrawn, widowed father, Hollis (Aaron Paul), whose already tense relationship grows worse when custody of Jacob's younger brother, Wes, is given to Hollis» sister - in - law (Juliette Lewis).

«An American Crime» (TBA): Director Tommy O'Haver («Ella Enchanted») dramatizes the true story of the 1965 Indianapolis murder of a 16 - year - old girl, Sylvia Likens, whose brutal abuse made national headlines at the time.

The director: Markus Schleinzer (Austria) The talent: An actor and accomplished casting director — whose credits in the latter field include several films by his compatriots Michael Haneke and Jessica Hausner — 39 year - old Schleinzer has cast his debut feature as writer - director with several actors he previously tapped for other directors» films.

Joining Gerwig, Nolan, Peele, and Villeneuve in the Best Director category is Sean Baker, whose The Florida Project competes in 5 categories, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Willem Dafoe's acclaimed performance, and a nomination for Best Youth Performance for the film's star, 7 - year - old Brooklynn Prince.

campaign being led by director Nina Paley, whose Sita Sings The Blues (my # 2 movie of 2008) remains undistributed because she never cleared the rights for the 80 + year old songs she used in her film.

In writer / director Dan Fogelman's upcoming dramedy Danny Collins, Pacino plays an aging rocker whose career has since withered to singing only old hits of his own and cover songs galore.

The jurors — filmmaker Emily Yoshida, film critic Justin Chang, and IMDb founder Col Needham — also singled out director Carly Stone's comedy «The New Romantic,» about a college girl who starts dating older men, and presented a special jury prize for writing to Nijla Mu» min's «Jinn,» about a 17 - year - old girl whose mother suddenly converts to Islam.

Folk Tale Steven Galvin chats to director Tony Donoghue, whose breathtaking new short Irish Folk Furniture is an animated documentary about repairing and recycling old hand - painted furniture in rural Ireland.

The film's writer and director (whose previous credits include Say Anything and Jerry Maguire) did in fact start out as a 15 - year - old rock journalist, writing for Playboy and The Los Angeles Times prior to his Rolling Stone days.

Director / co-writer Kelly Reichardt, who established her style of naturalistic, deviously aimless filmmaking with the acclaimed «Old Joy» a couple of years back, gives us a portrait of a gal whose wayward existence — washing up in gas - station bathrooms, picking up cans on the sidewalk, sleeping in her car — makes her every bit as lost in America as her dog.

Margin Call is the breakthrough work of J.C. Chandor, a 37 - year - old commercial director whose father worked for and brought home friends from Merrill Lynch for 40 years.

The usually reliable Melanie Lynskey is stuck squeaking stray lines of dialogue in the direction of her feet, while actor - director Swanberg spends most scenes sitting on the floor making goo - goo eyes at his own two - year - old son Jude, whose cuteness has been severely overestimated by the filmmaker.

The 45 - year - old actor - who reprised the role of Mark Renton in the «Trainspotting» sequel earlier this year - is wanted for the project by director Marc Forster, whose previous work includes «World War Z» and James Bond movie «Quantum of Solace».

And for any whose heads are not yet spinning, writer - director Johnson throws in another loop or two: In the future, Old Joe's wife was killed by a mysterious, Keyser - Soze - like crime lord called the Rainmaker; now that he's back in the past, Old Joe is determined to find this villain as a boy, and snuff him out before he can grow into deadly manhood.

Deakins got his first Oscar nomination for his work on 1994's The Shawshank Redemption, and through the years, he's been nominated for all kinds of movies, from Best Picture nominees (No Country for Old Men; Fargo; The Reader) to more offbeat but lush achievements, working with directors like the Coen Brothers (whose movies make up for 5 of Deakins's 14 nods), Martin Scorsese (Kundun), Sam Mendes (Skyfall), and Angelina Jolie (Unbroken).

Another hit at Cannes was director Michael Haneke's heartbreaking French drama Amour, and 86 - year - old star Emmanuelle Riva enjoyed widespread acclaim for her gut - punch of a performance as an elderly woman whose stroke takes its toll on her relationship with her husband.

Other recipients include Jean - Paul Rappeneau for his project Belles familles; Louis Garrel, whose Les Deux amis will team the writer - director with Vincent Macaigne; and Christophe Honoré... Michael Caine will star in Paolo Sorrentino's In the Future, a drama about «friendship between two old people»... Abdellatif Kechiche is contemplating another helping of wrenching romantic anguish with a movie version of Héloïse et Abélard... Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are currently shooting an adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's novel Ten Thousand Saints, with Ethan Hawke and Hailee Steinfeld, about a young man (played by Hugo star Asa Butterfield) who moves in with his estranged father in Manhattan in 1987 at the height of the East Village punk scene...

A 2,000 - year - old society springs to life in The Emperor and the Assassin, director Chen Kaige's epic drama about the reign of China's first emperor, Ying Zheng (246 - 210 b.c.), whose ferocious military skills and relentless campaigns of terror united seven warring kingdoms under a central government.

Based in New York, he's part of a creative collective that includes his older brother and Rockstar CEO Sam (whose first big job was working with Pop Idol creator Simon Fuller), producer Leslie Benzies and art director Aaron Garbut, who've all been working on the series together since GTA III in 2001.

The revelation came from David Teater, a transportation director at the National Safety Council whose own 12 - year - old son was killed by a driver using a cell phone while driving a Hummer through a red light.

Dr. Lillas is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Training Institute, whose curriculum regarding high - risk pre-birth to five - years - olds in the foster care system is employed to train service providers across disciplines in Los Angeles County, through collaborative training efforts from the Department of Child and Protective Services, the Department of Mental Health, and Regional Centers.

We have four total,» said Katy Chu, who is tha communications director for RI Kids Count, whose two - year - old daughter, Vivian, first went to the dentist a few days before her first visit.