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In the other audio interview, Jessica Dwyer of the Fangirl Radio podcast interviews Tim Sullivan, a cult director in his own right and good friend of Robert Quarry.

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

Not exact matches

Nigeria's director of defense information denied the military's involvement in these extrajudicial killings, saying that insurgents or cult members were really behind the killings instead.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

A chance meeting in Austin with casting director and producer Don Phillips led him to director Richard Linklater, who launched the actor's career in the cult classic «Dazed and Confused.»

Director Uli Edel made the harrowing Last Exit To Brooklyn in 1989, an adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's cult novel and he moves the action along very adeptly here, helped by an excellent cast and a strong screenplay from Eichinger, no stranger to controversial subjects.

Nigel Farage has become a «snarling, thin - skinned, aggressive» man who is making Ukip look like a «personality cult», the party's campaign director has claimed in a devastating attack.

But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film Connected, starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.

Blouse was founded by Geoffrey J Finch, the Australian former creative director of cult label Antipodium, who is now based in east London.

Driven largely by instinct and a cult of personality, the company's one - time dream team of «merchant prince» Mickey Drexler and «geek chic» creative director Jenna Lyons transformed the sleepy American catalogue business into a retail success story and cultural phenomenon, widely loved for its tongue - in - cheek take on classic, preppy tropes and famously embraced by former US first lady Michelle Obama.

Teaming with the maverick Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, the actress would essay the enigmatic, directionless title character in Morvern Callar, a dreamy, elliptical adaptation of Alan Warner's cult novel.

Case in point, director / star Tommy Wiseau's 2003 cult flick, «The Room.»

No one has apparently been able to answer the first two, but director / star James Franco does a hell of a job on the third in «The Disaster Artist,» the story of Tommy Wiseau, the man behind a truly awful movie that became a cult classic.

She then collaborated with British director Ken Russell for the cult horror fantasy The Lair of the White Worm and as the lead in the erotic drama The Rainbow.Moving to the U.S. in 1991, she appeared on the WWII - era ABC drama series Homefront.

Jim Mickle, the director behind recent cult classics STAKE LAND and WE ARE WHAT WE ARE returns to the big screen with COLD IN...

A top - notch cult - movie cast — including Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton — anchors this wacky, blood - spattered commentary on the psycho - killer thriller from the writer - director of In Bruges.

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.

In it, four of the film's essential crew members — special makeup artists Stephan Dupuis and Chris Walas, director of photography Mark Irwin, and special effects supervisor Gary Zeller — talk about how they created the cult classic's signature effect.

This film is actually terrible — I mean, yeah — it is scary in the sense that its creepy, but I think, really, the film is just the byproduct of global DVD residuals from the directors father — allowing Panatos to string together a series of overproduced, overgrained interior sequences, cheap synth score and a slasher movie ending, and trying to pass it off as a «cult movie», when really we, the audience, need to know who, what or where the protagonist is coming from, what her dramatic need is, who she interacts with, and so on.

A cult hit on DVD, the 2008 horror / comedy Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer endeared up - and - coming genre director Jon Knautz to many in...

Paul Giovanni — «The Wicker Man» (1973) From «Witchfinder General» to «A Field In England,» pastoral horror has been a particularly British concern, one that reached its perfect form with Robin Hardy's bizarrely terrifying 1973 cult hit «The Wicker Man» and its folk soundtrack by American playwright and director Paul Giovanni.

After all, this is a non-franchise movie without any huge stars in it (sorry Vanessa Hudgens), from a director who has a cult following but not a huge mainstream following.

Ryan Moody says he was tapped by director James Franco in 2013 to adapt the book about the making of the cult film «The Room.»

The Greasy Strangler (review) left our jaws on the floor at SXSW Film Festival earlier this year, where we also caught up with writer / director Jim Hosking and lead actors Sky Elobar and Michael St. Michaels to chat about the cult classic in the making (interview).

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.

The much - honored, London - born Irish author of such plays as «The Beauty Queen of Leenane» and «The Cripple of Inishmaan,» and the writer - director of the cult comedy «In Bruges,» creates a setting and a people who could be anywhere, certainly Ireland.

This frequently jaw - dropping documentary by director Alex Gibney, drawn largely from the book of the same name by Lawrence Wright, demonstrates vividly how a cult can spread among people searching for something greater in their lives, some advantage over others, some grand answer....

Nevertheless, writer - director Sam Raimi, actor Bruce Campbell and producer Robert G. Tapert — all key players in 1981's «The Evil Dead» — attempted to recapture the magic of their cult hit.

Released: December 1 Cast: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie Director: James Franco (The Sound and the Fury) Why it's great: There are no half - measures with Tommy Wiseau, the failed actor / secret millionaire behind the notoriously awful cult drama The Room, and there are no half - measures in The Disaster Artist, James Franco's dramatic telling of the film's bizarre backstory.

The good folks over at Arrow in the Head scored a brand new clip today from director Hèctor Hernández Vicens» Day of the Dead: Bloodline, a reimagining of the late George A. Romero's 1985 cult classic zombie flick.

«Holy Hell» Lowdown: The director moved to West Hollywood after film school in the 1980s where he ended up joining a cult that no one seemed to know about.

More out - there offerings for the cult cineaste in us all includes music video director Geremy Jasper's feature debut Patti Cake $; about an aspiring rapper in a triumphant tale of how music can give a nobody a voice.

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.

Director William A. Levey's 1973 cult horror classic Blackenstein is coming to Blu - Ray for the very first time in the United States via Severin Films, which stars John Hart, Ivory Stone, and Joe De Sue.

Bryan Lee O'Malley's guitar - slinging Canadian comic book hero Scott Pilgrim came into the world in 2004, and after a series of five award - winning graphic novels (and a 6th debuting on July 20th) Scott Pilgrim makes his big screen debut with Canuck cult actor Michael Cera in the lead, Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright at the helm, and a cast that includes Kieran Culkin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and indie favourite Jason Schwartzman!

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

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).

After garnering a cult following courtesy of his satanic panic stylings in House Of The Devil, up - and - coming horror writer, director and producer Ti West retraces familiar territory in the haunted hotel effort The Innkeepers.

Now at last, Mitchell — best known as the director and star of 2001 cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch — releases his next film, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, in select theaters this month.

The ever - growing cult behind Russell and his work will undoubtedly enjoy this riveting look back on the maverick director right in the midst of filming his chaotic classic, which, negative press notwithstanding, ended up kicking off a series of successes in the 1970s.

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

Fassbender will star in the new action - comedy alongside actor - director David Sandberg and cult icon David Hasselhoff, who appeared in the original short and -LSB-...]

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Actress Grace Lynn Kung, who starred in (Cube 2, «The Strain») has joined the cast of director Don Mancini's Cult of Chucky, the eighth horror franchise...

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She ultimately wrote about her desert adventure in 1980 in the travelogue Tracks, which became a cult favourite around the world and has only now been beautifully adapted for the big screen by director John Curran (The Painted Veil).

Last month it was reported that former Doctor Who star Matt Smith was in talks to play notorious cult leader Charles Manson for American Psycho director Mary Harron, and now Variety is reporting that he has officially signed on to the project, titled Charlie Says.

James Franco won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his performance in The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau, the real - life director, writer, and star of the so - bad - it's - good cult film The Room.

We are still loving the phoenix - like renaissance of the Western genre over the past couple years, and it appears that cult indie director Ti West is getting in on the game with In A Valley Of Violencin on the game with In A Valley Of ViolencIn A Valley Of Violence.

This year Onion City's opening - night program reflects this tendency even more: it includes a video by cult horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Peter Tscherkassky's radical reworking of footage from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in 35 - millimeter and «Scope, Andy Warhol's two 1966 «screen tests» with Bob Dylan, and best of all Abbas Kiarostami's half - hour Roads of Kiarostami.