Sentences with phrase «promise as a director»

Fans of his will be happy to hear that he continues his promise as a director with great depth and substance.

Penn is a true talent, but there's just enough languid pretension to» The Pledge» to make you wonder if he's ultimately more interested in parading his promise as a director than in fulfilling it.

Edgerton shows good promise as a director and the strong reviews you've read are there for many good reasons.

I agree that Gordon - Levitt shows a lot of promise as a director.

Messina shows major promise as a director, and with a couple more films under his belt could be great.

The heartthrob does show some promise as a director, but he will need material much better than his aimless original script to succeed behind the camera.

To be fair, her films always had a cloying or whimsical tinge to them and her last few movies didn't reach the heights of her earlier work like A League of Their Own and Big but she always showed promise as a director — with Awakenings, arguably, being her most accomplished work.

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«This has enormous promise in changing the way we do mental health care as well as medical care,» says David Ahern, director of behavioral informatics and e-health at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

It's a big promise, and to shepherd her game into the healthcare arena, McGonigal has taken an «entrepreneurial sabbatical» of undetermined length from her role as director of games research and development at Palo Alto, Calif.'s Institute for the Future.

«Nearly one in five job ads for China's 2018 national civil service called for «men only» or «men preferred,» while major companies like Alibaba have published recruitment ads promising applicants «beautiful girls» as co-workers,» Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, said.

Hampton — who has had a career spanning investment banking, and boardroom positions as a finance director and as chairman of supermarket chain Sainsbury's — had promised to stay until Ross McEwan, who replaced Hester last October, had settled in.

White House Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Wednesday laid out the administration's skeleton plan for tax cuts that was big on promises, but remarkably sparse on details, as President Donald Trump sprints to the Saturday finish line marking his first 100 days in office.

Hockley co-founded and works as managing director of Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Newtown that works toward preventing gun violence through education in, as Hockley says, «those days, weeks, months, years before someone decides to pick up a firearm and hurt someone else or themselves.»

The results are promising; we built the foundation for a first - of - its - kind unified business ledger where any entity locally and globally can join and be part of Dubai's vision to be the Blockchain capital of the world as part of the Dubai Blockchain strategy 2016,» said Mohamed Alqaizi, IT Director in DED.

«We see coffee as a great way to tell the story about Pasture Promise free range milk as coffee shops have an opportunity to explain how they support farmers and growers through the ethical sourcing of both coffee and milk,» says Carol Lever, Director at the Free Range Dairy Network.

It is thought, however, that Wenger still wants to sign a «superstar» striker, as promised to him by Gunners director Lord Harris, and that the capture of Reus would not change this.

«Theresa May promised the government wouldn't use this tragedy as a reason to carry out immigration checks,» Martha Spurrier, director of Liberty, said.

The Trump administration is already interviewing for a new interim director and promised to name a potential permanent director as early as the end of the week.

Miliband has had a promising start to the new year - and the shrewd appointment of Tom Baldwin, formerly of the Times, and Bob Roberts, formerly of the Daily Mirror, as his directors of strategy and media, respectively, has added guile and energy to Team Ed.

Biba last worked as the deputy political and finance director of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner's Promise PAC.

Bill Lipton, the party's state director, said the party decided to stick with Mr. Cuomo because he promised to support some of its top goals, such as raising the minimum wage and providing public financing for state political campaigns.

Despite describing City Hall as a «bare - bones operation» Gallo since taking office has moved to eliminate at least one city post, director of urban cultural parks, and promised consolidation elsewhere in city government.

Ben Walsh, Miner's former economic development director, won the mayor's race this year as an independent who promised to «rise above» political squabbling.

He also serves as Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience — a national team of scientists, legal scholars, and judges who are jointly exploring both the promise of, and the limits of, using neuroscientific findings in legal contexts.

As a result, the Sri Lankan government has now promised to give all mangroves legal protection and provide rangers for coastal patrols, says Seacology's director Duane Silverstein.

In a 14 May Next Wave article, NIH's Ruth Kirschstein and colleagues noted that «portable or transitional grant awards to promising fellows should be considered as a means of facilitating their advancement into independent positions at academic institutions»; this, indeed, is one of several proposals «under consideration by the senior staff of NIH and the Advisory Committee to the director of NIH.»

Director of research and prpgrammes at Arthritis Research UK, Dr Stephen Simpson, said: «Dr de Moor's research is certainly novel, and we believe may hold promise as a future source of pain relief for people with osteoarthritis.

«While the 2017 R&D budget request and the proposed increase of 6 % is certainly aspirational, its political future is not as promising,» said Joanne Carney, director of the AAAS office of government relations.

turned into 10 years of systematic research to identify the enzyme PLK4 as a promising therapeutic target and develop a small molecule inhibitor to block it,» says Dr. Mak, Director of The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.

Review co-author Andrea Ferrari, who chairs the Executive Board of the Graphene Flagship, and is director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre, offers a soberly optimistic view of the potential for graphene in this area: «Graphene and Related Materials have great promise in these areas, and the Graphene Flagship has identified energy applications as a key area of investment.

«PROMISE establishes CTA as a viable alternative to stress testing for the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary disease,» said Udo Hoffmann, M.D., principal investigator of the PROMISE Imaging Core and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital «With the addition of high - risk plaque assessment and CT fractional flow reserve technology on the horizon, we may have yet to see the full potential of CTA.»

«These are very promising findings and, as the first study to demonstrate protection from Zika in the pregnancy setting, are an important development in our efforts to combat Zika virus,» said Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, and Associate Director, Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Program at Washington University School of Medicine, and a lead author on the Cell paper.

As a former Whitley Award winner, Dr. Charudutt Mishra, the Snow Leopard Trust's Science & Conservation Director has the privilege of nominating promising young scientists for this honor.

As the director of thoracic medical oncology at Perlmutter Cancer Center, I work to bring promising new therapies to people who have lung cancer.

American Film Institute: AFI is America's promise to preserve the history of the motion picture, to honor the artists and their work and to educate the Batman begins making a name for himself just as the flamboyant Joker takes over the Mafia in director Tim Burton's adaptation of the comic book.

Director David O. Russell not only succeeded in his promise to set his biography about boxer Mickey Ward (played by Mark Wahlberg) apart from other sports memoirs by showcasing the fighter's rise to fame, but by chronicling his struggles with his family as well.

The promising atmosphere is perpetuated by an engrossing early sequence in which the central foursome debate the fates of three seemingly innocent bystanders, and yet it's equally clear that the movie begins to peter out almost immediately following that electrifying interlude - as writer / director Berg's less - than - cinematic visual choices result in a lack of thrills that grows more and more problematic as time progresses.

Barry shows tremendous promise as a coming - out party for Hader's hidden talents as an actor, writer, and director.

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).

It's a promising setup that's employed to curiously (and consistently) uninvolving effect by director Stanley Kubrick, as the filmmaker, working from a script cowritten with Terry Southern and Peter George, proves unable to wholeheartedly capture the viewer's interest right from the get - go - with the movie suffering from a stagy, talky vibe that grows more and more problematic as time progresses.

Think of Red Doors as a promise, and hope that [director] Georgia Lee keeps it.

That's the story — and the promise — embedded in the title of this, the second film from Angelina Jolie as director, and there's nothing in its near 2 1/2 hour running time that allows for the idea that happy endings are impossible and redemption is never far off.

So by hiring an actor as interesting as Michael Fassbender and a director as promising as Justin Kurzel, Ubisoft has already given itself a huge leg up in this race.

With Emile Hirsch already locked in to play the Blue Brothers star, Steve Conrad in the writer / directors chair, Judy Belushi - Pisano (as she is now known) and Belushi's old friend and colleague Dan Aykroyd involved as producers the film is certainly gaining promise.

Alex Garland, who wrote and directed the film, has shown a lot of promise as a writer so I am curious to see what he can do in the directors chair.

And little indie Blue Valentine sees its director, Derek Cianfrance, finally getting some recognition as Most Promising Filmmaker.

This is the writer - director's take on the promise of American ideals, even more so than Django Unchained, for which it was originally intended as a sequel.

COLCOA French Film Festival The annual festival opens with director Eric Barbier's Promise at Dawn, starring Pierre Niney as celebrated French author and diplomat Romain Gary (real - life husband of Jean Seberg) and Charlotte Gainsbourg as his overbearing...

After all, despite losing both of its directors, The Flash standalone film has a lot of promise in terms of talent already, after assembling an exciting cast for movie with Miller, Kiersey Clemons as Iris West, Billy Crudup as Henry Allen, and Ray Fisher set to reprise his role as Victor Stone / Cyborg in the film.

Director / writer Guy Ritchie distinguishes himself as a promising force in new British cinema.