Many of these films are not only the markers of their directors' ambitions, however — they fulfill those ambitions gloriously.
I was especially keen (and a little sceptical) to see whether the directors' ambitions for their museum to be like a 'cornershop or all-night pharmacy' had been realised.
Andrea Williams, managing director of Ambition, a recruiter in Hong Kong, said that things started to turn noticeably since April.
Andrea Williams, managing director of Ambition, a headhunting firm in Hong Kong, said that things started to turn noticeably from April onward.
Most clients "want 9 out of 10 boxes ticked" when it comes to candidates' qualifications, said Paul Endacott, managing director at Ambition in Singapore.
Its original German title, which translates as "Hitler, A Film from Germany," makes clear the scope of the director's ambition: to investigate Hitler as a psychic and aesthetic phenomenon, or, as is said in the film, as "fantasies of the mind and their blood realization".
There are scenes that swell with almost unbearable feeling, and the director's ambitions are enormous, but the movie almost entirely avoids melodrama or grandiosity.
Given the radio exposure, the reputation of the band members — some of the most in-demand players on the scene — and the persistence of the orchestra's executive director, Emily Tabin, ambitions are high for the album.
If the director has ambitions to make American pictures that go down easily, with gummi-coated sentimentality -- by the end of this film, all the dangling emotional ends are tied up neatly -- "What to Do in Case of Fire" could serve as his audition.
That's the question answered by this box set, which collects George Miller's four action-packed post-apocalyptic thrillers, adding hours of documentary reflections on how the director's ambitions grew.
