Sentences with phrase «old feature writer»

Frank Bascombe, a 38 - year - old feature writer for an unnamed sports magazine (like the defunct Inside Sports, where Ford once worked), narrates the three - day action, mixed with flashbacks, in the present tense.

Not exact matches

But going on their 11th year in space, the red, blue, and orange bots seem increasingly old and obsolete, says writer Evan Ackerman in a recent feature story at IEEE Spectrum.

Irina Gonzalez, a 32 - year - old freelance writer, sticks to pretty standard meals — typically one vegan slow cooker concoction per week featuring a bean or lentil, starchy veggie, tomato sauce, and greens — but she gets creative with her aromatics.

- featuring celebrated journalist and writer Robert MacNeil in his first public television documentary The old «round pound» has ceased to be legal tender - here's what to do if you have any left

Jessie Buckley (left) plays Moll, a 27 - year - old misfit still living at her parents» house who becomes involved with Pascal (Johnny Flynn), a working - class hunk, in «Beast,» writer - director Michael Pearce's feature debut.

Writer / director Chris Kelly's debut feature sums it up in a scene between David and an old friend named Gabe (John Early).

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.

Not strictly an origin story, this will instead feature 12 - year - old versions of the characters, which C3 and writer / director Harris Goldberg (Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo) are hoping will spawn a new, separate franchise.

Writer / director Michael Pearce, in his debut feature, has crafted a bizarre and intense story of a sheltered 27 - year - old woman, Moll Huntford (Jessie Buckley), and her new - found obsessive love, Pascal Renouf (Johnny Flynn).

So there's something near - miraculous about the performances in «The Child in Time,» Sunday's «Masterpiece» presentation featuring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald in a story that both viewer and performer might approach with trepidation: During a routine trip to the supermarket, the 4 - year - old daughter of the well - known children's book writer Stephen Lewis (Mr. Cumberbatch) simply disappears.

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.

Moroccan writer - director Meryem Benm» Barek tearfully accepted the Best Screenplay award for her debut feature «Sofia»; a Casablanca - set drama about a 20 - year - old woman facing arrest after giving birth to a baby out of wedlock, it draws heartfelt attention to the lack of women's rights in the filmmaker's home country.

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

Today, we've got a poster round - up for you, featuring some new domestic and international looks: Liberal Arts, stars writer / director Josh Radnor (Happythankyoumoreplease) as a thirty - something loser who falls for a 19 - year - old college student (Elizabeth Olsen) when he returns to his...

In addition to running original fiction by major authors (Stephen King was a regular), the magazine contained features about older writers such as Lovecraft and Machen along with book reviews by Thomas Disch, film reviews by Gahan Wilson, interviews and more.»

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.

As the writer and director of the feature films Knocked Up and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, the producer of the blockbuster comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and the creator of the acclaimed television series «Freaks and Geeks» and «Undeclared,» Apatow has developed a reputation for stories that are equal measures sentimental and unrefined.

The endeavor of dramatizing the events of something as horrific as the 2002 Washington D.C. killing spree of «The Beltway Snipers», John Allen Muhammed and his then 17 - year - old partner, Lee Malvo, requires a deft hand and a measure of control and restraint typically demonstrated only by the most seasoned of filmmakers, especially if you're going to examine the infamous killers as intimately as writer - director Alexandre Moors does in his debut feature, Blue Caprice.

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.

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).

Writer - director Ayman Jamal initially conceived of animated feature Bilal: A New Breed of Hero, which opens in 300 theaters on this continent this weekend, when he saw his 7 year - old wearing a Superman costume.

The 94 - year - old comic book writer is renowned for creating iconic superhero characters, including Iron Man, Captain America and Spider - Man, but Lee has admitted there is one particular hero he wants to see secure a feature - length film.

The first (and only) feature directed by a promising young writer - director named Steve Gordon, who died the following year of a heart attack at age 44, the first Arthur was hardly a masterpiece, but it was a highly enjoyable comedy of manners done in a style that, even at the time, seemed quaintly old - fashioned.

The feature film debut by western New South Wales writer and director Cate Shortland that adroitly tells of a mixed up 16 - year - old's perplexing, perilous and sensitive coming - of - age story.

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.

Most of all, Boogie Nights is a showcase for 26 - year - old writer - director - producer Anderson, who proves himself a major talent to watch with this, his second feature (following the acclaimed Reno underworld saga Hard Eight).

Following on from the surprise hit, 40 Year Old Virgin, Apatow's second feature as a writer and director works as a neat one - two punch of comedy gold, a wildly successful entry into the American comedy banks.

Writer - director Sara Colangelo premiered her feature debut «Little Accidents» at Sundance back in 2014, and now she returns to the festival with her adaptation of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid's drama, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a restless Staten Island teacher who takes special interest a five - year - old student's poetry.

For her second feature at Sundance (after her highly praised 2014 debut Little Accidents), writer / director Sara Colangelo has chosen to remake a four - year - old Israeli drama to examine the dying practice of encouraging and protecting artistic genius.

Director David MacKenzie (Starred Up) and writer Taylor Sheridan (Sicario) serve up a quasi-western featuring a crusty old Texas Ranger doggedly pursuing two bank robbing brothers.

Advertisements featuring writer and presenter Anni Llyn will run for two weeks on television, local radio stations and online, encouraging parents, carers and guardians of three to seven - year - olds to take time to talk, listen and play.

Even back then, the kind of books I was intending to write were fetching so little in advances that I would have done better selling a couple - to - four articles at my old feature rate (we're talking 2500 word features, too — so, I'd make more for less work writing and selling four of those as WFH or open license pubs than I would for writing an 80k word reference book for writers, for example).

His short stories and essays have been published extensively in literary journals and anthologies, including Image Magazine, Far From Home (a Seal Press anthology), Ex-Files: New Stories About Old Flames (a Context Books fiction anthology featuring high - profile writers such as Jennifer Egan, and Junot Diaz), The Seattle Review, Crosscurrents, Cimarron Review, and others.

A new feature called Kindle Serials will bring back the old trend of serialized publishing: Fiction writers will be able to offer serialized offerings, with readers paying once and having all subsequent installments delivered to their device.

2: 25 Things Writers Should Know About Rejection — It's been a while since I featured Chuck Wendig, but this older article of his reminds me how I can always turn to him for advice, no matter what's going on in my career.

One of the oldest independent literary publishers, featuring new writers, neglected older writers, and innovative, energetic work.

The book, edited by writer David Tabatsky, features a collection of stunning color photos of old dogs, as well as articles ranging from tear - jerking to funny, penned by writers such as Dean Koontz, Anna Quindlen, Doris Day and Marlo Thomas.

According to writer Catherine Sedgewick, they feature young, big - breasted women being pursued by lecherous old men in the context of hippie culture.

1989 — present — Developing a feature length film based on the novel «Old Rosa» — «La Vieja Rosa» by Cuban writer and political dissident Reinaldo Arenas.

We're looking forward to seeing her work at the fair, featured in an exhibition of works that combine new and old media with paint, curated by Brooklyn - based writer and curator Ryan E. Steadman and New York based multimedia artist and curator Ryan Wallace.

Well, a freelance writer for Bauer Media's new homes mag happened upon that old blog of mine and to cut a long story short... this ole high school teacher from Murwillumbah is going to have her home featured in print.

I retreated upstairs to seethe and search (yet again) for my old Cosmopolitan magazines, so I'd have some old feature stories to put on the blog next time I get writer's block.