This is a sugary drama, in which Crowe's big emotional moment looks as if some assistant director applied a trickling tear to his cheek with an eyedropper.
In Roma (1972; Fellini's Roma), the director applied the tools of fantasy to the national capital, alternating episodes of the modern hippie occupation of its monuments with his teenage visits to its brothels and the excavations that uncover what remains of the ancient city.
To this day, it's one of Lynch's best movies; as such, it's also evidence that Lynch himself is a victim of his times—his ideal calling would have been as a studio director, applying visionary artistry to such a varied range of classical stories that his sensibility would expand and deepen.
As the title suggests, it finds the actor and director applying his famously brisk manner to modern gender relations, with Berkoff's protagonist John an actor who is either profoundly misunderstood, or profoundly misunderstands why the universe and all its inhabitants obdurately refuse to organise themselves for his convenience.
Elsewhere, the debutant director applies himself with the same quiet assurance and attention to detail he's displayed in his acting projects, steadily building tension through character, while porting across, from his work in the likes of Animal Kingdom, a steely psychological edge rarely witnessed inside the modern multiplex.
And then the Berlin-born Italian-based director applied for his work visa.
Each artist, excluding Stewart (the group's director), applies their mathematical or scientific background to art: Gerard Kopek (mathematics), Leslie Park (biology), Stuart Harrison (physics), Richard Lee (chemistry), Kelly Norman (environmental science), and Arthur Richardson (radiology).
The funeral director applies makeup and a whole host of crazy contraptions and chemicals to make your grandma/grandpa look asleep.
One rule would specify that lock-ups that apply to officers and directors apply to all the shares they own.
The FSA made clear, however, that if former RBS directors applied to work in the City again it would take into account their "competence" before approving them.
