The instigator of this methodical madness is the conductor, composer, opera director, and political gadfly Iván Fischer, who co-founded the B.F.O. in 1983.
In restructuring Canal Plus, Mr. Méheut may have been helped by a methodical nature, said Patrick Lamassoure, managing director of Film France, a promotional body for the country's movie industry.
Mr. Salander was "not a dealer that one would describe as reserved and methodical," said Maxwell L. Anderson, a former director of the Whitney Museum of American Art who is now director and chief executive of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
At screenings, Mr. Zhao became exposed to the works of foreign directors whose slow, methodical styles greatly influenced him.
(Mr. Hamer's fastidiousness makes him seem like the perfect director for the detached, methodical Steve Martin who emerges in magazine profiles.) In the meantime Mr. Hamer makes the most of his cast.
The director David Cromer's style — slow, methodical, intimate — is too much like the script, and watching the play can feel like a weekend in the country with hosts who won't shut up.
Uwais is the same methodical blur of bone-snapping brutality, but his director has become more comfortable in his choreography and much more confident in his editing.
"Gold," the German director Thomas Arslan's typically laconic and methodical take on the western, chronicles the arduous expedition of several fortune-seeking German emigrés into the Klondike hinterlands — less gold rush than death march, a collective journey in which everyone, not least Nina Hoss's poised heroine, remains hauntingly alone.
Its director, Nicolas Winding Refn, constructs quiet and methodical scenes that burst suddenly into apocalyptic violence.
Mr. Greenwald addresses all of this and a good deal more -- or rather, his subjects do, since the director himself is unseen and all but unheard -- with methodical sobriety.
