Sentences with phrase «steady hand of director»

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«The successful test of this new way to control our orientation gives us great confidence that we'll have a steady hand at Ceres, which will enable us to get really close to a world that we only know now as a fuzzy dot amidst the stars,» said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, based at JPL.

Reitman has never been a super flashy director, just a really solid one and he maintains that reputation here, serving the story well with some inspired bits of editing and a steady hand, if some unusual frame compositions.

What is more, he never once goes over the top, proving himself a steady director who calls the shots and doesn't let things get out of hand.

K - 19: The Widowmaker (hereafter K - 19) has a tedious narrative married to vein - swelling performances presented in that frank gracelessness indicative of director Kathryn Bigelow's sledgehammer - chic since long about Point Break, brought together under the steady hand of a legendary editor (Walter Murch) that only just guides this behemoth of conflicting ideas and wet (and drunken) Russian submariners into the dry dock of coherence.

Two other Turkish films from noted auteurs were in the retrospective section: Semih Kaplanoglu's Süt (Milk, 2008), a rich story of a young man's quest to become a poet, done with sharp social observation by the director, but degenerating into hazy symbolism by the end, a device that also marred the director's next film, Mal (Honey, 2010); and Kasaba (Small Town, 1997) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the director's debut feature, already displaying his steady hand and broad compassion.

Director Randal Kleiser (Grease, Flight of the Navigator) brings a steady hand to the proceedings, which never wander into sentimentality.

Director Jon Turteltaub provides a steady hand on the tiller, but much credit belongs to screenwriter Dan Fogelman, for fleshing out his original treatment in a manner that allows for the inclusion of substantive discord.

This was one of the biggest surprises of 2015, a game that cleverly blended the history and tropes of the slasher flick (under the steady, brilliant hand of writer / director / actor Larry Fessenden) with the capabilities of the PS4 and the modern art of motion capture.