Sentence examples for lesser director from inspiring English sources

And whereas a lesser director would have been content to leave us amused and amazed, Abrahamson ensures that we are also moved.

Because I am Frank!" - at which point a lesser director might have awarded the actor not a contract but a restraining order.

A lesser director shooting this same picture in New York would have rubbed your nose in the notable points of interest in every second scene.

All of which sounds so hellish that a lesser director would end up floundering in hyperbole, or in comedy as black as tar.

Where a lesser director would likely wink and hint throughout at film-noir classics with characters in similar situations — something that was already done, to epochal effect, by Jean-Luc Godard in "Breathless," in 1960 — Seimetz finds original turns of cinematic style to seek what's distinctive in her characters' actions and emotions.

A film-maker such as Kiarostami deserves many considerations, and one of them is a repeat viewing, though a lesser director might be suspected of just having thought of a great beginning and middle of a conventional story, but failed to come up with an ending.

He has always lacked the arid sophistication lesser directors display to such advantage".

Lesser directors had been filming song-and-dance scenes with a dull, stage-bound fidelity; Berkeley — the subject of a Film Forum series Dec. 7-15 — themed them into extravagant fantasies that could only be realized on film.

One constant bugbear is the debasement of Eisenstein's 1925 film Battleship Potemkin by the lesser directors who have bowdlerised the celebrated baby-bouncing-down-the-stairs-in-the-pram scene.

The film "is so good and strong that even those things in the movie that strike me as being first-class mistakes are of more interest than entire movies made by smoothly consistent, lesser directors," Vincent Canby wrote in The Times in 1969.

Where lesser directors' displays of virtue come off as sermons, Nolan's, in "Interstellar," comes off as the world's largest greeting card, as if sent to his children as an apology for not being home as often as he'd like, because he's been busy saving the world.