All night, I'd been wondering why the Met brought a first-rank cast and a first-rank director together with a second-rank conductor, Sebastian Weigle.
By Dec. 8, the pool was down to eight contenders: six men and two women, all top-rank directors.
These are excellent films by first-rank directors, but what made them so soul-satisfying was a quality of intimacy, palpable and immediate.
Costing $125 a year, IMDbPro provides fuller contact details for talent, as well as their upcoming projects; and, crucially, it boasts the Starmeter, which ranks actors, directors, writers and producers in order of desirability.
Mr. Hess, 54, a former high-ranking director of homeless services in Philadelphia, will be replaced by Mr. Diamond, a longtime city official who grew up in New York, but has relatively little experience working on homelessness.
In its first week up, Mr. Dallow said, the Live Mansion site attracted over 10,000 members and more than half entered the first round of the movie's development process, ranking prospective actors and directors on a scale of 1 ("The world needs ditch diggers, too") to 5 ("All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up").
Burger ranked as assistant director, Hackenschmied was cameraman, and Mrs. Kline was interpreter.
Gene spread the good news about tennis for 50 years--as a world ranked player, tournament director, author, television producer and commentator and through the written word in Tennis Week magazine, which he founded in 1974.
But right after Liu's premiere steps in seasoned TV director Steph Green, who helms the second episode, bringing more diversity in the directors' ranks to the Netflix hit. .
He won an official contest with the very first short story he wrote and switched to the cultural bureaucracy, where he rose to the rank of director of the Caribbean Studies Centre of Casa de las Américas.
