Wiseau and Sestero have never really been separated, having done
The Room midnight screening rounds together for nearly a decade now.
Not exact matches
Considered a form of outsider art, 2003's The
Room is a mainstay of
midnight film
screenings around the world, inspiring a massive cult following devoted to its distinctive awfulness.
Because his 2003 self - released movie, The
Room, did find its audience, and has become an enduring source of joy to thousands of fans who celebrate the movie's ineptness in
midnight screenings all over the globe.
For those who don't know, «The
Room» was the brainchild (for lack of a better word) of one Tommy Wiseau, a mysterious nobody who wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2003 vanity project, a box - office dud that has gone on to become a staple of raucous, sold - out
midnight screenings.
Celebrated for its unmatched terribleness, poor dialogue and the garbled, vaguely Eastern - European accent of its star, Wiseau, «The
Room» has spawned countless «Rocky Horror» - style
midnight screenings.
As for retrospective and special
screenings, the venerable The
Room returns for its monthly
midnight engagement at Landmark Inwood, tonight and tomorrow.
The version that world premiered at the South by Southwest film festival was presented as a «work in progress» — where it killed to a
room full of «The Room» obsessives, many of whom stuck around for a midnight screening of Wiseau's disasterpi
room full of «The
Room» obsessives, many of whom stuck around for a midnight screening of Wiseau's disasterpi
Room» obsessives, many of whom stuck around for a
midnight screening of Wiseau's disasterpiece.
Mike Gencarelli: Are you surprised by the cult status that «The
Room» has achieved and has become a
midnight screening cult classic?
Man @A24 play too much After seeing the TERRIFYING @HereditaryMovie at a
midnight screening last night (and checking every shadow of my
room before going to bed), I woke up with THIS waiting outside my hotel
room.
The
midnight screenings started because we got thousands of emails demanding to see «The
Room» in Los Angeles, which is how everything started.
Next we passed the former Laemmle Sunset 5, the theater that hosted dozens of
midnight Room screenings, and headed down Fairfax to Canter's Deli.
2003's The
Room, now a cult sensation that still enjoys
midnight screenings worldwide, certainly believes it is good.
«The Disaster Artist» somewhat chronicles the beginning of the friendship between Wiseau and Sestero, which led to the disasterpiece known as «The
Room,» a film that's now shown at
midnight screenings around the country and mocked much like the «Rocky Horror Picture Show.»
Though the movie The
Room was released almost exactly 13 years ago, Tommy Wiseau's dark comedy of errors lives on in infamy, immortalized through
midnight screenings worldwide during which spoons are thrown, footballs are tossed and lines from the movie are shouted in packed theaters.
Written, directed, and produced by its star, Tommy Wiseau — an enigmatic figure about whom little more is known now than when the film came out over a decade ago — The
Room is regularly celebrated with
midnight screenings at indie movie theaters around the world, by a rabid fan base that upholds such sacred traditions as hurling plastic spoons at the
screen during one key scene.
The atmosphere in the
screening rooms are terrific (don't even get me started on
Midnight Madness) and I haven't once encountered a problem where someone was acting obnoxious during a
screening.
Tommy Wiseau, the clueless writer - director of The
Room (2003), may bask in applause at a
midnight screening, but what's happening isn't much different from the cool kids in class patronizing the mentally challenged kid for laughs.
«The
Room,» which Wiseau intended as a dramatic masterpiece in the vein of «A Streetcar Named Desire» or «Rebel Without a Cause,» became a cult sensation in
midnight movie
screenings all across the country.
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