Sentence examples for skilled directors from inspiring English sources

Superb costuming, accomplished actors, and skilled directors such as Bryan Singer and Sam Raimi all played a part in finally elevating the genre of live-action superhero films from silly to exciting.

Austin Pendleton is a skilled director of actors.

If this was a suggestion from the otherwise skilled director, Joseph Discher, it was misguided.

Together with Lars Von Trier (2), he is the most skilled director I've worked with (3).

Ironically, in the hands of a less skilled director, Hanna would have been a much more enjoyable film.

Michael Curtiz, a very skilled director, keeps the camera moving through the café, rushing from table to table like an eager waiter.

While we don't know quite how moody an entry Edwards has been putting together, a skilled director ought to be able to brighten up the filmic firmament with a few well-timed moments of levity.

He is loved, not least, by Mr. Penn, who has shown himself, in three previous films ("The Indian Runner," "The Crossing Guard" and "The Pledge") to be a thoughtful and skilled director.

With such films as Popioły (1965; The Ashes), Brzezina (1970; The Birch Wood), Wesele (1973; The Wedding), Ziemia obiecana (1975; The Promised Land), Panny z Wilka (1979; The Young Girls of Wilko), and Danton (1983), Wajda established himself as a skilled director of literary adaptations that represent conflicts inherent in the human situation and also examine Polish national myths.

But several lovely, poetic, dialogue-free sequences — a nighttime soccer match that morphs into a brawl, a thrashing performance in a crowded club that, well, morphs into a brawl — reflect a different truth: that Mr. Mortier, before turning to films, was a skilled director of commercials and music videos.

However, Variety found her "entirely undirected... she needs to find a skilled director to tamp her down and channel her obviously abundant energy".