"She has been a remarkable director of Liberty," he said.
Nevertheless, Penn is a remarkable director when he has something to work with.
"Carlos is a remarkable director," he said, "with a gift for staging and lighting that make everything he does strikingly visual".
This remarkable director has become a bit unfashionable: his kind of high European cinema doesn't command attention the way it did.
Nevertheless, Pabst was a remarkable director, capable of creating films in which atmosphere is as much created by small detail as by more grandiose effects.
Berry said Leigh, who has been working on his film Mr Turner – to be screened in Cannes next month – was a remarkable director.
"At university, Corin was not only a formidable intellectual and a charismatic figure, he was a remarkable director of plays, seemingly certain to be successful in that discipline professionally.
Ross and Gill joined forces in 1963 for a Talk sketch of Alfred Hitchcock, who refers to Truffaut's interviews of him and mentions Truffaut's films: "Truffaut is a most remarkable director, but I keep warning him to be careful; he isn't making pictures for a single street, by which I mean the Champs-Elysées, but for the world.
There are a few longueurs, admittedly, and it is arguable that, however spectacular and pleasing a film this is, its remarkable director is not exactly challenging himself with another genre movie custom-tailored to appeal to those western audiences who lapped up his Hero and House of Flying Daggers.
Yet for more than a decade now, it has had a remarkable artistic director in Kevin Spacey and this seems the perfect moment to take stock as he makes way for Matthew Warchus.
