After the match, Melina and Phoenix engaged in a confrontation over a fan of Phoenix's named Rosa Mendes, who had attacked Melina.

The prototype for this model can be found in Bolos of Mendes ' second century BCE work, Physika kai Mystika ( On Physical and Mystical Matters ).

Conrad Hall was not the first choice for director of photography ; Mendes believed he was " too old and too experienced " to want the job, and he had been told that Hall was difficult to work with.

Hall was recommended to Mendes by Tom Cruise, because of Hall's work on Without Limits ( 1998 ), which Cruise had executive produced.

Maslin felt that Mendes directed with " terrific visual flair ", saying his minimalist style balanced " the mordant and bright " and that he evoked the " delicate, eroticized power-playing vignettes " of his theater work.

He said Mendes ' " sure hand " was " as precise and controlled " as his theater work.

McCarthy cited Hall's involvement as fortunate for Mendes, as the cinematographer was " unsurpassed " at conveying the themes of a work.

Mendes, Pryce and Dexter received Olivier Award nominations for their work on Oliver !.

In 2003, Mendes established Neal Street Productions, a film, television and theatre production company he would use to finance much of his later work.

The concept was the work of Raimundo Teixeira Mendes, with the collaboration of Miguel Lemos, Manuel Pereira Reis and Décio Villares.

In addition to Grusin's jazz, film work and other collaborations, he has also lent his talents as a producer / arranger / musician to numerous albums by artists including Paul Simon, Sérgio Mendes, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau, Patti Austin, Dave Valentin and Sadao Watanabe.

Besides his work with Toto, he also performed as a session musician with artists such as Paul McCartney, Dire Straits, Willy DeVille, Jackson Browne, Donald Fagen, Steely Dan, Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Jackson, Go West, Nik Kershaw, Love and Money, Paul Simon, Don Henley, Madonna, Airplay, Al Jarreau, George Benson, the Manhattan Transfer, America, Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees, Tom Scott, Michael McDonald, Amy Holland, Joe Cocker, Stan Getz, Sérgio Mendes, Lee Ritenour, Christopher Cross, James Newton-Howard, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh, Jim Messina, Poco, Exile, the Four Tops, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Natalie Cole, Les Dudek, Gerry Sack, Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt, David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Roger Hodgson, Paul Anka, Eric Carmen, Eric Clapton, Miles Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Tommy Bolin, Larry Carlton, Mari Iijima and Seals & Crofts.

Skinner has worked with directors that include Mike Leigh, Trevor Nunn, Tim Burton and Sam Mendes, but she remembers one particular director, Alan Ayckbourn, when she started out: " He was a great influence for me as he pushed me so hard, but every director you work with has a big influence in some way, they really push you .”

The sources of Téllez's work were the histories of Manuel de Almeida, Afonso Mendes and Jerónimo Lobo.

This work was followed by a large number of studies, including exact results ( Barrat and Weigt, 1999 ; Dorogovtsev and Mendes ; Barmpoutis and Murray, 2010 ).

But it goes beyond that: " The work of Drummond reaches – as Fernando Pessoa and Jorge de Lima and Murilo Mendes Herberto Helder – a coefficient of loneliness that detached from the soil of history, leading the reader to an attitude free of references, trademarks or ideological or prospective, " said Alfredo Bosi ( 1994 ).

" Luzzatto's pupil in Amsterdam, David Franco Mendes ( 1713 – 92 ), in his imitations of Jean Racine (" Gemul ' Atalyah ") and of Metastasio (" Yehudit "), continued his master's work, though his works are not as respected as were Luzzatto's.

Gaia began work in the Amazon when they were invited by Chico Mendes, a famous rubber tapper leader who was later assassinated, and Ailton Krenak, an indigenous leader, to form an " affectionate alliance " with them.

During the film, Lester's physique improves from flabby to toned ; Spacey worked out during filming to improve his body, but because Mendes shot the scenes out of chronological order, Spacey varied postures to portray the stages.

He said that Mendes worked the script's intricacies smoothly, to the ensemble's strengths, and staged the tonal shifts skillfully.

Among the notable artists he worked with personally are Chris Montez, The Carpenters, Sérgio Mendes and Brasil ' 66, Bill Medley, Lani Hall ( Alpert's second and current wife ), Liza Minnelli and Janet Jackson ( featured vocalist on his 1987 hit single " Diamonds ").

He and his wife Joan worked with Robert Jacobvitz, an executive at the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay ( Oakland, CA ), to start and run the " International Committee to Commemorate Dr. Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

Mendes has worked as a spokesmodel for Cocio chocolate milk, Magnum ice cream, Revlon make-up, Calvin Klein underwear and perfume, Cartier jewellery, Thierry Mugler perfume, Reebok trainers, Campari apéritif, Pantene shampoo, Morgan clothes and Peek & Cloppenburg clothes.

Jeremy Mendes is an interactive artist producing English-language interactive works for the NFB, whose projects include a collaboration with Leanne Allison ( Being Caribou, Finding Farley ) on the webdoc Bear 71.

* The first contact of Japan with the West occurs when a Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, lands Fernão Mendes Pinto, Diogo Zeimoto and Cristovão Borralho in Japan.

Next he teamed up with American Beauty director Sam Mendes for the adaptation of Max Allan Collins's and Richard Piers Rayner's graphic novel Road to Perdition, in which he played an anti-hero role as a hitman on the run with his son.

Cinematographer Conrad Hall complemented Mendes ' style with peaceful shot compositions to contrast with the turbulent on-screen events.

Reviewers praised most aspects of the production, with particular emphasis on Mendes, Spacey and Ball ; criticism tended to focus on the familiarity of the characters and setting.

In the same year, Mendes ( then a theater director ) revived the musical Cabaret in New York with fellow director Rob Marshall.

Beth Swofford of the Creative Artists Agency arranged meetings for Mendes with studio figures in Los Angeles to see if film direction was a possibility.

Mendes came across American Beauty in a pile of eight scripts at Swofford's house, and knew immediately that it was the one he wanted to make ; early in his career, he had been inspired by how the film Paris, Texas ( 1984 ) presented contemporary America as a mythic landscape and he saw the same theme in American Beauty, as well as parallels with his own childhood.

Mendes later met with Spielberg ; impressed by Mendes ' productions of Oliver!

Ball was also keen ; having seen Cabaret, he was impressed with Mendes ' " keen visual sense " and thought he did not make obvious choices.

Ball felt that Mendes liked to look under the story's surface, a talent he felt would be a good fit with the themes of American Beauty.

Over two meetings — the first with Cooper, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, the second with Cooper alone — Mendes pitched himself to the studio.

The studio soon approached Mendes with a deal to direct for the minimum salary allowed under Directors Guild of America rules —$ 150, 000.

" Mendes offered Bening the role of Carolyn without the studio's consent ; although executives were upset at Mendes, by September 1998, DreamWorks had entered negotiations with Spacey and Bening.

To prepare, Mendes provided Bentley with a video camera, telling the actor to film what Ricky would.

Mendes made sure to establish the line of sight early on in the film to make the audience feel a sense of familiarity with the shot.

Mendes ' dominating visual style was deliberate and composed, with a minimalist design that provided " a sparse, almost surreal feeling — a bright, crisp, hard edged, near Magritte-like take on American suburbia "; Mendes constantly directed his set dressers to empty the frame.

Mendes said the camera provided the scene with a " kinetic ... off balance energy ".

" Despite Spielberg's support, DreamWorks and Mendes fought constantly over the schedule and budget — although the studio interfered little with the film's content.

Mendes was so dissatisfied with his first three days ' filming that he obtained permission from DreamWorks to reshoot the scenes.