Sentences with phrase «about the midnight screenings»

«I've seen it twice,» says Mantzoukas, noting that he had heard about the midnight screenings and seen the famous billboard in Hollywood and knew it was part of the conversation but was not an aficionado like Scheer.

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Much like Midnight in Paris and To Rome with Love, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is as much concerned with conjuring charming, witty characters as it is about presenting a kind of hyper - stylised European tourism on screen.

My next screening looms, so very quickly: Takashi Miike's For Love's Sake, playing here as a midnight movie, may or may not be his first musical since 2001's The Happiness of the Katakuris — I can't be sure because the dude makes three films a year on average and I can only keep up with about half of his output.

Despite horrendous reviews, word about the movie's awfulness spread around Los Angeles and the film quickly became a cult classic, complete with Rocky Horror-esque traditions at midnight screenings.

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.

Premiering as the midnight screening on Sunday night, I watched Office in a smaller theater that was about half full.

His first prominent screen credit, which won him an Oscar, was for the screenplay of Midnight Express (1978)-- Alan Parker's masochistic bit of bombast about an American preppy serving time in a Turkish prison for possessing hash.

He regularly attended local screening series including shows by the Trak Film Group and Movies Round Midnight and famously wrote about an unpopular screening of Andy Warhol's Sleep.