Sentences with phrase «which veteran directors»

In a year in which veteran directors whom I have consistently respected turned out work that I loathed (The Tree of Life and Hugo were two of 2011's worst movies) or that couldn't even get me to the theater (Almodóvar, Cronenberg, von Trier), I was very happy to see veterans like Herzog, Weir, and Breillat turn out work that kept them on their toes.

Not exact matches

Mr. Grisanti is a founding director of Building Homes for Heroes - a highly rated national non-profit which builds and renovates homes for severely wounded U.S. veterans.

Rodney Bullard is a United States Air Force veteran, former Assistant U.S. Attorney and White House Fellow and currently serves as the Vice President of Community Affairs for Chick - fil - A and as the Executive Director of the Chick - fil - A Foundation where he shepherds the organization's extensive philanthropic and social responsibility efforts, which primarily focus on youth and education.

The act would allow funeral directors to grant qualified veterans» organizations the right to receive the cremains of a veteran which has not been claimed by a relative or friend of the deceased within one year after cremation.

ALBANY, NY (11/12/2015)(readMedia)-- Edward C. Farrell, Executive Director of the Retired Public Employees Association, today called upon Governor Cuomo and the Legislature to include veterans who have already retired in the proposal which is being developed regarding veteran credits.

Peggy Jeffries, Fort Smith - Former Arkansas State Senator, served from 1996 to 2000; Arkansas contact for Eagle Forum, former Arkansas RNC Committeewoman Bishop Robert Smith, Little Rock - Founder of Total Outreach for Christ Ministries, Inc. and Word of Outreach Christian Center Tami Greever, Little Rock - Executive director of Team Coleman, which is focused on electing conservative, constitutional candidates statewide Luke Helms, Russellville - Students for Cruz Arkansas Diana Harton, Monticello - Chairwomen Drew County Republicans, President of Arkansas Republican County Chairman's Association Hunter Ray, Benton - Board Member of Arkansas for Education Freedom, Board Member of Arkansas Against Common Core Mark Shaffer, Van Buren - Crawford County Republican Party Chairman Neil White, Sebastian County - Veteran and business executive

As we wrote in the autumn, «What the Electoral Commission will have to decide is whether Lee Rotherham «co-ordinating with... allied groups» counted as «working together» as defined by Commission rules, and if it included such co-ordination with Veterans for Britain, of which Rotherham would soon become executive director.»

What the Electoral Commission will have to decide is whether Lee Rotherham «co-ordinating with... allied groups» counted as «working together» as defined by Commission rules, and if it included such co-ordination with Veterans for Britain, of which Rotherham would soon become executive director.

The signs of CTE (which can only be diagnosed postmortem) in the brains of blast - exposed military veterans were indistinguishable from those found in the deceased athletes, according to the researchers, led by Lee Goldstein, an associate professor at Boston University School of Medicine (B.U.S.M.) and Boston University College of Engineering, and Ann McKee, a B.U.S.M. professor and director of the Neuropathology Service for the VA New England Healthcare System.

«Up to now, no one has been able to say if multiple TBIs, which are common among combat veterans, are associated with higher suicide risk or not,» says the study's lead author, Craig J. Bryan, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah and associate director of the National Center for Veterans veterans, are associated with higher suicide risk or not,» says the study's lead author, Craig J. Bryan, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah and associate director of the National Center for Veterans Veterans Studies.

«Essentially, they cause acetylcholine to build up in the brain, causing hyperexcitability of neurons as well as the death of some neurons, which leads to inflammation in the brain,» said Ashok K. Shetty, PhD, a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine at the Texas A&M College of Medicine, associate director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, research career scientist at the Olin E. Teague Veterans Medical Center, Central Texas Veterans Health Care System and senior author of the paper.

Now, 65 years later, as part of The Mouse House's current trend of remaking / reimagining classics from the vault (which will continue over the next few years with new versions of «The Jungle Book», «Pete's Dragon» and «Beauty and the Beast»), veteran director Kenneth Branagh brings to life the latest live - action interpretation of the glass slipper story.

Veteran director Scott misses the directing line - up, which includes the aforementioned Iñárritu and Miller, as well as first - time nominees Lenny Abrahamson («Room»), Adam McKay («The Big Short»), and

Veteran director Scott misses the directing line - up, which includes the aforementioned Iñárritu and Miller, as well as first - time nominees Lenny Abrahamson («Room»), Adam McKay («The Big Short»), and Tom McCarthy («Spotlight»).

That was the inclusion of Irish director Abrahamson (previously best known for the singular «Frank,» which featured Michael Fassbender inside a papier - mâché head), an inclusion that likely came at the expense of the man who'd been the odds - on favorite to not only be nominated but also to take home the Oscar itself — «The Martian's» canny veteran, Ridley Scott.

The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and producer.

Veteran French actor André Wilms, whose association with the filmmaker dates back to 1992's «The Bohemian Life» (for which he won a European Film Award) takes the lead here, while other Kaurismäki alumni in the cast include New Wave icon Jean - Pierre Léaud and, of course, the director's favorite actress Kati Outinen.

Now the icing on the cake comes courtesy of veteran director Clint Eastwood, whose film THE 15:17 TO PARIS lends this inspirational trio a cinematic platform of which to tell their harrowing tale.

Deathdream belies its low budget with both an impressive cast headed by veteran character actors and director Bob Clark's creative economy, which he had displayed two years earlier in his jokey - gory horror debut Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972), which Ormsby co-wrote and starred in.

Lynch, a seasoned veteran of the Christopher Guest improv films, marries a deadpan ferocity and complete obtuseness as the founder and director of the mentoring program in which our heroes find themselves.

HIFF's Breakthrough Performers Program has successfully sought out and supported promising new actors in film and grown into a dynamic, enriched program which includes intimate gatherings with directors, producers, writers, veteran actors and prominent industry executives who attend the festival.

And it is this uphill battle which is vividly recounted in Amazing Grace, a compelling bio-pic from veteran director Michael Apted of the 7 UP series fame.

Thanks to the folks at Signature Entertainment, we've got an exclusive trailer for you in The Shanghai Job, the upcoming action thriller from first time feature director Charles Martin (Skins, Marcella), which sees superstar Orlando Bloom leading a cast that also includes Ip Man veterans Lynn Xiong, Simon Yam and Xing Yu.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

This time the veteran director brings us Irrational Man, for which the first official look has been provided by USA Today -LSB-...]

Three documentaries will be presented as New York Film Festival special events: Susan Lacy's «Spielberg,» about the veteran director; Jennifer Lebeau's «Trouble No More,» which includes rare concert footage from Dylan's 1979 - 80 concert tour during his controversial Christian music period; and Susan Froemke's «The Opera House,» about New York's Metropolitan Opera House.

The film, which was scheduled to arrive in May 2014, was taken over by a collection of Pixar veterans such as John Lasseter and Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich, but no replacement director was named.

Director Fede Alvarez advances to a stunning degree with Don't Breathe, a straightforwardly plotted, yet twisty - as - hell reverse - home - invasion - flick, in which our junior criminals (including the stellar Jane Levy) find themselves outmatched by a blind Army veteran (Stephen Lang) with a cache of cash.

The post-apocalyptic Outback setting (Fury Road was shot in Namibia) which Miller first had a hand in cultivating way back in 1979 remains unchanged, but the veteran writer / director somehow manages to make the environment of the film feel entirely fresh.

«Reel Chicago» will include Raul Zaritsky and Linda Williams's Maxwell Street Blues (1981), about the musicians who shaped the city's electric - blues sound as they performed in the legendary open - air market; Tom Palazzolo's Chicago, which collects key short works by the veteran city chronicler; The Films of Gordon Weisenborn, a quartet of half - hour educational films by the little - known director; and The People vs. Paul Crump (1965), a profile of the death - row inmate turned novelist that was one of the first films by director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection).

A seminal moment in New York's musical counterculture gets the biopic it certainly didn't deserve in «CBGB,» which transforms the glory days of Hilly Kristal's Bowery punk / No Wave club into exactly the sort of moldy sitcom one might expect from writer - director Randall Miller (a veteran of the middling, mid - «90s Disney comedies «Houseguest» and «The Sixth Man»).

· Borgman — An unsettling, blackly comic fable from veteran Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam, which will screen at 11 am on Saturday, 22nd February.

It is the first time SPC has worked with veteran Chilean director Sebastián Lelio, who had a hit stateside in 2014 with Gloria, which grossed $ 2.1 M.

The mandate from «Harry Potter» veteran director David Yates was not too make the creatures overly fantastical and thereby unrelatable, which is why there are so many distinct animal influences.

Raimi and his competent crew, which includes composer Danny Elfman (patching up a decade - old rift with the director), cinematographer Peter Deming (The Cabin in the Woods, Mulholland Drive, and Mike Myers comedies), make - up effects artists from The Chronicles of Narnia and visual effects veterans of Marvel hits, deliver a film that is lively, polished, and picturesque,

Veteran direct - to - DVD action director Isaac Florentine attempts to energize the proceedings with exotic visual flourishes, but his efforts are defeated by the endlessly talky, convoluted script which aspires to psychological depth.

The veteran writer / director has enjoyed quite a career in comedy, which is reflected in a resume that includes Anchorman (2004), Talladega Nights (2006), Step Brothers (2008) and The Other Guys (2010), The Campaign (2012), Anchorman 2 (2013) and Get Hard (2015).

Singer can't take blame for the deficiencies of the screenplay, which credits his Oscar - winning The Usual Suspects writer Christopher McQuarrie, TV veteran Dan Studney, and DreamWorks Animation scribe Darren Lemke, who shares story credit with comedy director David Dobkin (Wedding Crashers, Fred Claus).

As a director, Franco knows to get out of the way and let his veterans do that which they do best.

After many years of abandoned American projects, Scottish director Lynne Ramsey comes with You Were Never Really Here, a tale promising to revisit Ramsey's dark edginess, in which Joaquin Phoenix plays a war veteran who gets involved in saving a young girl from a sex - trafficking ring and where things get radically out of hand.

Newcomer Haley Lu Richardson (Columbus, which also received Director and Screenplay nominations) sits right next to veteran Lois Smith (Marjorie Prime), both with their first individual Gotham nominations (Smith won the Ensemble award as part of the cast of 2010's Please Give).

In 2012, Jewell - Sherman received the Dr. Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award from the American Association of School Administrators, which recognizes leaders who exemplify the qualities modeled by the late Dr. Effie Hall Jones, a veteran educator and AASA associate executive director.

All of this emerged from studio veteran Jan - Bart van Beek — the art director besotted with the idea of a world in which machines were as natural as the wildlife.

The Arcslinger is developed by Big Red Button Entertainment, which employs some very talented veterans from Naughty Dog, even the founder of the company itself, Big Rafel was an art director at Naughty Dog and was working on projects like Jak and Daxter, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.

, a powerful antiwar film made in 1919 by the French director Abel Gance, in which he persuaded scarred first world war veterans to play the war dead summoned up by the film's protagonist as a lesson to the living.

Ebell, a 64 - year - old veteran of Washington's policy wars, is director of energy and environmental policy for a libertarian nonprofit organization called the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), which helped start the Cooler Heads Coalition in 1997.