Sentences with phrase «cult director»

Reviled by critics upon its initial release (Ebert dismissed it as a «freak show» for instance) and doing badly at the box office, this 1982 horror movie by cult director John Carpenter has undergone a bit of a rehabilitation recently — partly because of Gen X fans who recall it vividly and partly because horror flicks strangely enough became more tame and predictable with the years.

Johnny Depp is «Ed Wood» (Touchstone), the angora loving, cross-dressing cult director in Tim Burton's loving film biography, perhaps the most loving portrait of a filmmaker ever put on screen.

Watching this movie one can not help but marvel at what had passed as scary back in 1951 - especially considering the gruesome remake the film would get in 1982 (simply as The Thing) at the hands of cult director John Carpenter!

Long considered by many to be the de facto «worst movie ever,» this notorious effort from cult director Ed Wood finds aliens attempting to take over Earth by animating dead bodies — at least three of them.

Reviled by critics upon its initial release (Ebert dismissed it as a «freak show» for instance) and doing badly at the box office, this 1982 horror movie by cult director John

Releasing «movies that fell through the cracks» is the company's tagline and mandate, which translates as unearthing rare film treasures that may have remained forgotten and ignored, including B - movies by cult director Edgar G. Ulmer, and classics by such legendary filmmakers as Fritz Lang, and Luis Bunuel.

The late, prolific cult director Ray Dennis Steckler, who stars under the pseudonym Cash Flagg, also was responsible for 1971's «The Mad Love Life of a Hot Vampire» and 1979's «The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher.»

Violent erotic horror from cult director Jean Rollin, about a young woman who finds herself stranded in a remote village where the population has become infected by a deadly zombie virus.

Instead of wasting your time hate - watching The Room or hate - laughing at The Room via The Disaster Artist, watch Tim Burton direct two true artists pay tribute to two true artists in cult director Ed Wood and actor Bela Lugosi.

One Missed Call was a novel written by Yasushi Akimoto that was adapted into a movie by cult director Takashi Miike.

Making a pun on the most famous cult director of all time, they serenaded Hollywood with «Ed Woodn't.»

Cult director Judorowsky also acts, and he delivers a film that is remarkable in the way that it showcases its violence.

Evidently a favorite of such cult directors as Roger Corman, Russ Meyer and Sam Fuller, D'Arcy was given a few shining moments in Corman's St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Meyer's The Seven Minutes (1971) and Fuller's Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972).

The new film from cult director Bert I. Gordon - The Amazing Colossal Man, Earth vs the Spider, Empire of the Ants, and The Food of the Gods.

James Franco has fun with his entertaining account of the real - life cult director who created anti-masterpiece The Room — but tantalising questions remain

Cult director Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy) still retains his writing credit on the film, even though none of his script made it to this film.

Phil Collins» actress daughter Lily is to play Snow White opposite Julia Roberts in cult director Tarsem Singh's quirky take on the classic...

And movie buffs will want to note that cult director Jack Arnold directed three episodes.

But the actor, who died yesterday in a freak automobile accident at the age of 27, went in the opposite direction, putting his franchise clout to work on movies by cult directors like Jim Jarmusch (Only Lovers Left Alive), Joe Dante (Burying the Ex), Paul Schrader (Dying of the Light) and Michael Almereyda (Cymbeline).

2 Limited Edition Boundary - breaking early crime thrillers, mob dramas and action movies from legendary cult director Seijun Suzuki.

The homoerotic themes that have been associated with John Woo's best - known Hong Kong action thrillers are basically carryovers from the work of the late French cult director Jean - Pierre Melville, to whom Woo's 1989 The Killer is explicitly dedicated.

Synopsis: Cult director Edward L. Cahn (Curse of the Faceless Man) wonderfully directs this sci - fi shocker about invisible body snatchers invading earth to conquer humanity one corpse at a time.

Each December, Artforum asks cult director John Waters to compile a list of his favorite films of the past 12 months, and this year he has responded with an eclectic roundup of both mainstream and indie selections.

«The career of cult director Richard Linklater has been a varied and often wonderful thing to behold»

Well, we're about to find out in this cinematic mashup from Foe and Cult director Shiraishi Kōji.

But the real stranger in this strange land was cult director Nicolas Roeg, fascinated by the American Southwest — its listless nurses (the brilliant Candy Clark) and bored college professors (a fearless Rip Torn).

Endless Poetry Quintessential cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo), now a robust 88, completes another unexpectedly entertaining memoir / film.

Thankfully, just because that's so doesn't make it any less entertaining, cult director James Gunn (Slither, Super) enlivening the proceedings with distinctively ingratiating bits of visual ingenuity and a sideways sense of humor I responded to.

The main difference, however, is that where Scorsese took a broad view, Tavernier's slant is to deep - dive into a select group of lightning - rod artists that sparked his film education, from the famous (Jean Renoir, Jean Gabin, Jean - Pierre Melville) to the underappreciated (Eddie Constantine's tough - guy vehicles, cult director Edmond T. Gréville).

This is legendary 79 - year - old cult director Monte Hellman's («Two - Lane Blacktop» / «Cockfighter» / «The Shooting») first film in twentyone - years (he taught film at Cal Arts during that period), after the bomb he directed in 1989 called «Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!».

Lau sifu is currently working with cult director Wong Kar - wai on his long - awaited kung fu film called «The Grand Master».

For this, and for singlehandedly making Brendan Gleeson into one of the business's hottest leading men, he's our nominee for the Most Quotable Cult Director of the next decade.

Image Entertainment has nabbed the U.S. rights for cult director Brian Trenchard - Smith's Drive Hard, starring John Cusack and Thomas Jane.

Old - school any way you slice it Japanese cult director Takashi Miike has a unique problem: He makes too many damn movies.

With a cast that includes George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, and Rhys Williams, cult director Edgar G. Ulmer weaves a tale of intrigue and seduction.

One of the prolific cult director's best - known features — thanks in part to a groovy soundtrack — gets a deluxe treatment on Blu - ray.

Like a number of cult directors to emerge in the 1970s, Henry Jaglom values a party atmosphere at the expense of narrative cohesion.

Yet it was not until the release of his fourth genre picture, Scanners, in 1981, that he became a cult director with fans in the U.S.

It actually did just fine for a small film from a cult director, that wasn't based on any well - known source material.

Note: San Francisco's Michael Lehmann (Heathers The Truth About Cats & Dogs), a cult director in his own right, directed one episode.

Before embarking on his next film, a vehicle for the Rock titled Jungle Cruise, Collet - Serra talked to Film Comment about his latest, as well as about the movies that brought him to this point, poised somewhere between a cult director and a bona fide power player.

If you've been keeping track, the film's cast includes almost only cult actors often involved with cult directors: Dafoe, Shannon, Sevigny, Kier, Dourif, Zabriskie, and I haven't even mentioned Oscar nominee Irma P. Hall and Gabriel Pimentel.

The cult director recalls a defining moment in his career in this exclusive clip from The Art Life.

A cult director himself, Spike Lee has decided to take on the challenge by adapting the Chan Wook Park's Oldboy.

Second of all, it's from Richard Kelly, who doesn't get to be known as a cult director by making popular films.

The cult director has recorded new versions of Halloween, Escape from New York, Assault on Precinct 13 and The Fog.

And if that isn't queasy guarantee enough, Six shows up as a cult director named Six to high - five his own handiwork.

The cult director used «Minecraft» to build sets, hates playing with a controller, and watches games more than he plays them