Sentences with phrase «cult figure after»

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After turning Chile into one of the most thrilling teams in international football and inspiring Pep Guardiola to bring a more intense and frantic pressing game to Barcelona, Marcelo Bielsa was already a cult figure by the time he finally crossed the Atlantic to take his first job in Europe in 2011 at Athletic Club of Bilbao.

A cult figure this season for Liverpool after finally fulfilling his # 18 million price tag from Paris Saint - Germain in 2013, Sakho scored in the thrilling Europa League quarterfinal win over Borussia Dortmund and again in the recent 4 - 0 thrashing of local rivals Everton.

It is only after hacker cult figure Morpheus agrees to show Tom «how deep the rabbit hole goes» that Tom, and we, learn The Ugly Truth: the surface of the earth has been uninhabitable for centuries, and all humans are spending their lives in a virtual reality construct, while a complex network of machines uses the electrical energy and body heat from their real bodies, which are stored in individual pods, as a fuel source.

Two rich deals came after all - night bidding (a welcome sight after the frigid pace of the market at Sundance): for Karyn Kusama's follow - up to «The Invitation,» a cult - and - cop thriller starring Nicole Kidman called «Destroyer» that went for a reported eight figures to Megan Ellison's Annapruna Pictures.

Just four years after The Silence of the Lambs made Levine sort of a cult figure, the film is the first to capitalize on his new status, its resounding failure freeing him to return to the character actor ghetto.

Yabuki has become something of a cult figure amongst fans ever since he was thrust into the limelight at this year's E3 - and breaking out into Min Min's winning pose after pulling off the now famous combo certainly did his popularity no harm.

Within a few short months after settling in New York, the artist received widespread attention for her work, particularly a group of canvases populated with figures inspired by the cult German film We Children from Bahnhof Zoo about the heroin subculture of the 1970s.

Originally from New Zealand and now living in London, Upritchard makes figures that appear archaic, yet they also seem to be devotees of contemporary cults, marooned in an alternative universe, ineptly groping after spirituality.

Los Angeles artist Paul McCarthy went from cult figure to mainstream art world celebrity soon after his appearance in Paul Schimmel's 1992 exhibition «Helter Skelter» at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

This is why generation after generation rediscovers him as a cult figure — a painter always at the top of his game and always open to interpretation.