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At least when it comes to Natural Selection, director Robbie Pickering's debut, which won not just the grand jury and audience awards for narrative feature, but also best screenplay, editing, score and breakthrough performances for its two stars.
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Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised by the film's selection; the director himself certainly doesn't seem fazed.
In a statement when "I'm So Excited!" was announced as the festival's opening night selection, artistic director David Ansen declared: "Pedro Almódovar is the cinematic gift who keeps on giving".
Jones has assembled an impressive selection of directors to take part in the doc from David Fincher to Martin Scorsese to Richard Linklater.
That rivals the holdings of the Times Company's chairman, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and his family, who have effectively controlled the selection of directors.
To break this mutual back-scratching, shareholders should play a bigger role in the selection of directors, if necessary by engaging in a proxy contest.
His first, the 2004-5 season, with 9 new productions and 10 revivals, already suggests a more daring approach, notably in the selection of directors who, he hopes, will seek out "the modernity" in established works.
Institutional Shareholders also took aim at Mr. Lane, citing his role in championing the Autonomy acquisition without adequate due diligence and allowing the "direct participation" of Mr. Apotheker in the selection of directors.
Eyre said the group risked making the same mistakes again if it pushed through a proposal to hand selection of directors to a board sub-committee made up of management and their appointees.
At a Paris press conference announcing the selections, festival director Thierry Fremaux said the opportunity to see actors reinvent themselves was part of the pleasure of the film, and urged filmgoers to try to avoid learning about the actors and their preparation before seeing the movie.
Although the White House makes the final selection, the NSF director traditionally plays a major role in choosing the deputy director.
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