Sentence examples for foremost director from inspiring English sources

Drawing on a sketch-style humor, it launched a new trend in French comedy, much as "Saturday Night Live" had in the United States, and generated a series of sequels ("Les Bronzes Go Skiing," 1979) and follow-ups ("Come to My Place, I Live at my Girlfriend's," 1980; "Keep Moving, There's Nothing to See," 1982) that established Mr. Leconte as the foremost director of comedy in France.

It's tempting to say -- and I'm giving in to the temptation -- that with his third obvious click, he's made himself our foremost director of rock musicals.

Aged 24, Roach's potential has been recognised by some of the industry's foremost directors and producers.

Harman and Ising left Warner Brothers in 1933, but they left behind a staff that included some of the foremost directors, animators, and story men of the day.

John Frankenheimer, one of the foremost directors of the 1960's with classic films like "The Manchurian Candidate," "Seven Days in May," "Birdman of Alcatraz" and "The Train," died Saturday of a stroke resulting from complications after spinal surgery.

Born into a filmmaking family, she said that she "inherited" Afghanistan from her father Mohsen Makhmalbaf, one of Iran's foremost directors and premier chronicler of the Afghan refugee saga in three of his films: "The Cyclist" in 1985, his post-9/11 documentary "Afghan Alphabet" and last year's passionate cautionary tale "Kandahar".

Born in Blackpool, the former BBC man is regarded as one of the world's foremost directors of live events.

His fluency and popularity in both stage and film echo that of Elia Kazan, who was the foremost stage director of his generation, known for his work with both Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller, and a successful film director too.

One of Australia's foremost theatre directors, Armfield was artistic director at Belvoir from 1994 to 2010.

Bresson waited several years before realising the project that established him as the foremost French director of the next three decades.

The series begins with "Rolling Home With a Bull" (Friday at 4 30 p.m ., the newest film by Korea's foremost female director, Yim Soon-rye.