Sentences with phrase «cult directors like»

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).

Not exact matches

I wonder how many people are going to continue to side with him on this, because many of his board of directors like Greg Laurie and even Chuck Smith will still say that Mormonism is a cult.

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.

Another cult thriller just waiting to happen, Piercing's adapted from a book by Ryu Murakami, much like Takashi Miike's Audition, and comes to us from the severely fucked - up imagination of Nicolas Pesce, the young, New York - born director who gave us the brazenly screwy The Eyes of My Mother just last year.

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

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It looks like The Greatest American Hero is heading back to TV screens, with Deadline revealing that The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller are teaming with Dope helmer Rick Famuyiwa for a single - camera comedy remake of the cult 1980s TV series for 20th Century Fox TV.

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 Violence.

Unless director Panos Cosmatos and Nicolas Cage team up again, there will never be another Midnight movie quite like «Mandy,» which only started its cult following at Sundance.

The cult classic in the making by first - time director E.L Katz starts off innocently enough, just like a crime drama or an episode of «Dr. Drew.»

But he would contribute to a number of other notable films over the years as well, like with the lush Art Deco look of Prince's weird cult item «Under the Cherry Moon» (1986), or helping director Paul Newman keep his adaptation of «The Glass Menagerie» (1987) from feeling hopelessly stage - bound.

Before hitting it big with his smash hit Three Kings, writer - director David O. Russell made his mark with small indie comedies like Spanking the Monkey and this cult gem, Flirting with Disaster.

Like many recent films based on well - known cult comics, director and co-writer Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) attempts to translate, quite literally, the images from the comics to the screen, with phonetic musical demonstrations (songs written by alt - rock fave, Beck), visual name tags for character introductions, and bleeped (visually) foul language.

Endearing and original, director Dave McCary's Brigsby Bear takes some great risks ---- it kinda sorta plays out like Being There as imagined by the sibling team of Sid and Marty Krofft ---- and the results are a future cult classic that celebrates creativity and madness in many messed up yet warm «n» fuzzy ways.

How better to describe the work of the Greek writer and director Yorgos Lanthimos, whose particular storytelling style, exemplified by cult hits like 2009's Dogtooth and 2015's The Lobster, feels like a whole genre unto itself?

The sophomore class of our Directors Hall of Fame boasts both old - school legends like Coppola and Kubrick and new - school kings of cult like Tarantino and the Coen Brothers.

After appearing in cult classics like «Edward Scissorhands» (where he met equally eccentric director, Tim Burton) and «Ed Wood,» Johnny's talent for portraying the free spirit became the buzz of the red carpet, but he quickly proved to critics that there was even more to the rebellious actor, wowing them with dramatic roles in «What's Eating Gilbert Grape» and «Donnie Brasco» in the following years.

It shouldn't be a surprise that writers and directors responsible for a cult - classic like RoboCop took a premise with enduring appeal and wrapped it in thematic material that was relevant at the time of production.

Writer / director Ti West had a little too much fun making the movie look like it was filmed 30 years ago, but had I not known in advance that the film was made this last year, I might have thought it was an authentic 80's cult pic.

No, David Lynch doesn't have a major exhibition on currently on view — though we are seeing a renewed interest in the multi-talented director / producer / musician / visiual artist since the release of Twin Peaks: The Return — the Showtime television series that continues the 1990 - 91 ABC series that has garnered a cult - like following, to say the least.

The New York artist's «Garbage Gods,» cybernetic samurai reunited for the first time, will loom large at this Red Bull show, along with oral history stations featuring recollections of the artist by luminaries like fellow artist and filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and director Jim Jarmusch, who gave him a cameo in his cult classic Stranger Than Paradise.