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‘A film may have a director.’

[⟨det film.nhave.v ⟨det director.n⟩]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The MySpace movies channel will spotlight an interview with the film’s director, Davis Guggenheim.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Josell Ramos is the director of that film.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The site reports that their source is reliable, as it is the director of the film himself.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Here’s what the film’s OWN DIRECTOR, Matthieu Kassovitz, has to say about the Vin Diesel picture and the studio releasing it, Fox: “I’m very unhappy with the film…
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In Wikipedia:

The rule that a film can only have one single director, adopted to avoid producers and actors lobbying for a director’s credit, is strongly defended by the DGA and is only waived for recognized directorial teams (as determined by the DGA) such as the Wachowski Brothers, Hughes Brothers, Brothers Strause, and the Coen Brothers.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Charlie meets with the film’s director, Ronny Praeger (Hal Ozsan), and secures her the part, but only after investing $ 100,000 of his own savings.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The director of this film officiated at Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese’s wedding.
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In the British National Corpus:

The idea that a film’s director is the primary, shaping source of its meaning is simultaneously inscribed as middlebrow commonsense (see the film review columns of The Observer, City Limits, or any publication targeted at the bourgeois intelligentsia, with their umbilical linking of film title and director’s name) and dismissed as hopelessly outmoded by every branch of recent critical theory.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

One probably wouldn’t guess it, but the director of this film was the great Luis Bu? uel.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

We realized that what we thought was a sporadic practice was actually pretty common,? said Davide Sordella, the film’s director.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I knew that Drew Barrymore had signed on as the director of the film (and she’ll be playing a role), and that the main character will be played by Ellen Page, but with every new addition to the cast I am even more intrigued to see this movie.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The director of the film, however, is one crazy fucker…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The third film’s director, Rob Cohen, has spoken to MTV Movies about the possibility of a fourth film in the franchise, a film that both Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello are reportedly fighting to be made.
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In Wikipedia:

While an episode of Magna – Max is being filmed, the three gang members stake out the location, and, with Baldwin in the crosshairs, just as Magic Fingers squeezes the trigger on his scoped rifle, the director of the show, played by the film’s director Jaissle in a cameo, unluckily lunges into the path of the bullet and is killed.
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In Wikipedia:

He had originally unsuccessfully auditioned for a different part, but Brett Simon, the film’s director, was fond of his performance “Rocket Science” and so suggested that he take on another role.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Every time I wanted to complain I just had to look at the Director of the film, Alessandra, who is about two days more pregnant then I!
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In Wikipedia:

The film’s director, Fred Zinneman, had moved on to other projects after filming was complete and had little involvement in the editing, which wasn’t atypical of that era (the 1940s and 1950s) of filmmaking.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The director of the film Goldie Behl tells us.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Costner is a huge baseball fan, but to the best of my knowledge has never visited Cooperstown. * They figure to be overshadowed by Robbins and Sarandon, but actor Robert Wuhl and the film’s director, Ron Shelton, will also participate in the Q – and – A hosted by film critic Jeffrey Lyons.
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Queried on 2013-06-19.