Like Godard or Resnais or the Bergman of "Persona," he is a director possessed by a critical and disruptive view of conventional representation.
Assemblyman Thiele said it was most important "that the new director possess good people skills, be a good listener and hear the concerns of the various stakeholders".
Moods of grief and depression are almost impossible to make exciting unless a director possesses something comparable to, say, Bergman's theatrical intensity ("Persona") or Antonioni's mastery of psychology and landscape ("L'Avventura").
Less frequently itemized in this array of requirements is a director possessed of useful ideas – but that's also important, as the Metropolitan Opera's strange new misfire of a production makes clear.
Another sort of director, possessed of a more conventional liberal scruple, might have felt the need to show a torturer's inner pain or the torturee's hidden backstory.
The corporation should explain procedures for maintaining or increasing the diversity of the board and for ensuring that directors possess the requisite skills, including by means of director orientation, tutorials and retreats for in-depth review of key issues.
WES ANDERSON has only two previous features, "Bottle Rocket" (1996) and "Rushmore" (1999), but it's already clear that this 31-year-old writer-director possesses one of the freshest voices in American movies.
See Barkan, 567 at2d at 1287 ("When, however, the directors possess a body of reliable evidence with which to evaluate the fairness of a transaction, they may approve that transaction without conducting an active survey of the market".).
Although he was a better producer than director, he possessed some of the easily inflamed sensitivity of the artists he devoted his life to nurturing.
The lead director who possesses them can engender the element of trust on both sides of the equation, which may be their biggest contribution.
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, the company formed in 2003 by the Wal-Mart heiress Nancy Laurie and led by its artistic director, Benoit-Swan Pouffer, possesses spacious Chelsea headquarters, the money to commission works by out-of-town choreographers and an online store.
