Sentences with phrase «cult filmmaker herschell»

Those include two exhibitions set for 2014: A survey of Utah cult filmmaker Trent Harris, and a large - scale group exhibition looking at Danish migration in Utah.

Once a prominent investigative journalist, his career has very publicly crashed and burned after he made outrageous accusations and a not - so - veiled threat against the elusive cult filmmaker Stanislas Cordova.

Readers follow Scott McGrath, a journalist who watched his career crumble after leveling a threat against Stanislas Cordova — an elusive cult filmmaker reminiscent of early horror visionaries like Alfred Hitchcock and Dario Argento.

Meanwhile, cult filmmaker Monte Hellman is prepping a new film, again according to Screen.

Fresh off his return to the dramatic arena on the newly acclaimed HBO series «The Deuce,» Academy Award nominee James Franco («127 Hours») may earn a second with his eerily irresistible portrayal of the aloof and mysterious cult filmmaker Tommy Wiseau.

Cult filmmaker Tommy Wiseau («The Room») explains why he agreed to give actor - director James Franco his life rights for «The Disaster Artist» and critiques what Franco got right — and wrong — in his performance as Tommy.

The 56 - year - old cult filmmaker, who smashed independent cinema to pieces over 20 years ago with 1995's Welcome to the Dollhouse, offers a sardonic twist on mortality through the sordid adventures of an adorable dachshund.

The clear precedent for Franco's project is Tim «Speaking of Bad Movies» Burton's Ed Wood (1994), about the cheapo 1950s cult filmmaker Ed Wood (played by Johnny Depp), whose ingenious sense of trash was a source of inspiration for Burton himself.

Jodorowsky's Dune is an intriguing and frequently fascinating documentary exploring cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky's efforts at mounting an ambitious adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune back in the 1970s, with the movie fleshing out what could've been through interviews, animated storyboards, and other assorted tools.

We discussed the craziness of the show, how they are approaching season two (in a way only Max Landis can describe it), and I got to ask my nerdiest question ever: how Max Landis feels about cult filmmaker Neil Breen.

Cult filmmaker Tommy Wiseau («The Room») critiques what actor - director James Franco got right — and wrong — in «The Disaster Artist,» based on Wiseau's own legendary experience making the best - worst movie of all time.

The Scorecard Review news News: Cult filmmaker, Kevin Smith, is currently holding an open call for comic book lovers for a reality show on AMC.

An international trailer has arrived online for cult filmmaker Takashi Miike's new gangster - vampire mash - up Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld, which you can watch below... Akira (Hayato Ichihara) admires Genyo Kamiura who is the most powerful yakuza.

Wiseau fit his definition and the cult filmmaker also fascinated Toby Emmerich who, at the time, ran New Line, taking it over to Warner Bros when he switched jobs.

The cult filmmaker made over 200 films, editing, cutting, and repurposing movies to fit current demands and The Sadist of Notre Dame, as it had its beginnings as Exorcism and then as Sexorcism — complete with a nude woman on an upside down cross — is no different.

In the early 1970s, cult filmmaker Jess Franco inspired by the Hammer horror films being made in the UK revisited the iconic monsters of yesteryear, placing them in the castles and crypts of the Spanish countryside, and bracketing the thrills with scenes of frank eroticism.

Set in an average neighborhood that is anything but ordinary, The «Burbs blends slapstick comedy and spine - thrilling mystery and is superbly directed by cult filmmaker Joe Dante (Piranha, Gremlins, Matinee, The Howling).»

Well Russ continued in his exploitive areas becoming a gigantic cult filmmaker, beloved by «geeks» everywhere, and Roger went into the film criticism arena.

Cult filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis directed this outrageously campy story of an all - female motorcycle gang called The Man - Eaters.

Not exact matches

Jared Hess, the filmmaker behind cult classics like Nacho Libre and Napoleon Dynamite, is back with his first movie since 2009's Gentlemen Broncos.

However, the «cult of natural birth» filmmakers were interviewing scientists, perinatologists, nurses, midwives even an OB if I remember correctly about how the foundation of the immune system (the transfer of microbes from mother to baby) might be facilitated through natural birth OR by artificial, mechanical means after a Cesarean birth.

In addition to his duties of teaching film school to up and coming filmmakers, Duncan has built a cult following on Youtube.

Critics Consensus: Lean, taut and compellingly gritty, John Carpenter's loose update of Rio Bravo ranks as a cult action classic and one of the filmmaker's best.

One of the foremost American filmmakers of our time, Richard Linklater achieved cult immortality with the «90s classic Dazed and Confused, won critical respect for the sublime Before trilogy, and redefined cinematic storytelling with the groundbreaking Boyhood.

Justin and Aaron (played by impressive filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead) are two California brothers who fled a strange UFO cult a decade before the story begins.

The Disaster Artist review: James Franco directs and leads the cast as Tommy Wiseau, the legendary modern filmmaker who made The Room, the cult...

We're immediately thrown into the world of Peter and Lorna, two documentary filmmakers who refuse to shrink from their thesis, dead - set on exposing a phony cult leader who becomes more convincing every single day.

It risks a late detour into magic realism and comes out the other end as an even stronger and more idiosyncratic piece of work — and, thanks to Mortensen's presence, a possible international breakthrough for a filmmaker whose cult could stand to grow a little going forward.

While a lot of big - name directors wiped out this year, a few filmmakers risked self - parody with projects that indulged their personal tics and obsessions with unapologetic thoroughness; the results were strange, kind of wonderful exercises in playing to a dwindling cult on their studios» dime.

On Michael Reeves and British gothic film [New York Times] Credited with directing three déclassé horror movies, dead from an overdose of barbiturates at 25, the British filmmaker Michael Reeves (1943 - 1969) is a quintessential cult figure.

Filmmaker Sean Durkin, whose most significant credit was the art house movie about a woman escaping a cult, «Martha Marcy May Marlene,» is reportedly set to direct.

From cult movie directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes a unique film experience: a double - bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers» favorite exploitation films.

Few filmmakers can put together a hangout movie like Richard Linklater has, and his crowning achievement in that realm is, to this day, 1993's high school cult classic Dazed and Confused.

It's an instant cult classic that I can see a lot of people discovering on the home video front and not so much theatrically, which is a shame, because films like this need audiences support to help fund future projects for talented filmmakers like Martin McDonagh.

Two years ago I had the privilege of watching Oliver Stone's violently controversial and polarizing cult hit classic Natural Born Killers where immediately afterwards the man himself took part in an eye - opening Q&A as to what makes him tick as a filmmaker.

Sadako vs Kayako is written and directed by veteran Japanese horror filmmaker Kôji Shiraishi, of the films Ju - Rei: The Uncanny, Dead Girl Walking, Noroi: The Curse, Ghost Zombie, Grotesque, Occult, Teketeke 1 & 2, Shirome, Chô Akunin, Cult, Foe 1 & 2, and A Record of Sweet Murderer previously.

This is from the same filmmaker who made the cult horror hit The Loved Ones, and the film first premiered at festivals a few years ago.

WHY: John Carpenter's 1981 cult classic may not have come close to predicting the future as it would be in 1997, but it marked the beginning of a beautiful friendship between the filmmaker and star Kurt Russell, who would go on to work together again in «The Thing» and «Big Trouble in Little China.»

Refn clearly has a love for the likes of Walter Hill and John Carpenter, as well as cult classics like Silent Running and Logan's Run, a film he was looking to remake for some time; von Trier has grander aspirations as a filmmaker, a compulsive need to make the audience feel something, anything, at the end of his works.

Crash is the story of James Ballard (James Spader), a filmmaker who has a car crash with Helen Remington (Holly Hunter) and ends up with a weird cult of people who get off sexually by watching and experiencing car crashes.

The filmmaker is also producing and co-wrote the script for Robert Rodriguez» Alita: Battle Angel, which is based on the cult manga of the same name.

While the filmmaker's cult is still growing stateside, Cannes took him into their hearts long ago, with all of his last three pictures playing in competition at the festival.

Hot on the heels of the Alice Lowes and Ben Wheatleys of this world, are an entire new movement of young, cult - driven filmmakers, pushing old - school movie monsters and pitch black dark comedy to the very front of their repertoires.

Finally, Maria takes us through the cult films of the beloved filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro!

Hot on the heels of the Alice Lowes and Ben Wheatleys of this world, are an entire new movement of young, cult - driven filmmakers, pushing old - school -LSB-...]

Does this prolific underground filmmaker deserve his cult following?

Why you shouldn't miss it: An unabashed love letter to trash cinema, Best Worst Movie reveals the improbable heartfelt story of an Alabama dentist - turned - cult - movie icon and an Italian filmmaker as they come to terms with their internationally revered cinematic failure.

Although Preminger was already a name on the lists (compiled from the standard coffee - table guide books of the era) of filmmakers and films I had convinced myself I needed to catch up with, I had no real notion, back then, of the kinds of intense cults of cinephilic adoration, situated all over the world at diverse moments of film criticism's history, that had been (and were still to be) inspired by his work from the 1940s through the 1960s.

A series based on the filmmaker's 1994 cult classic is the first scripted program to be announced for the network, which launches in December.

Then there are Andrew Garfield (Breathe) as advocate Robin Cavendish, one of the longest - living polio survivors in Britain; Benedict Cumberbatch (The Current War) as electricity titan Thomas Edison; Jason Clarke (Mudbound) as Henry McAllan, a city worker who relocates his family to a rural farm post-World War II; Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman) as P.T. Barnum; and, less likely, James Franco (The Disaster Artist), completely losing himself in a Method turn as failed filmmaker - turned - cult icon Tommy Wiseau.