Sentences with phrase «cult film for»

James has written on cult film for Vertigo, Monolith and One + One, he has curated film seasons and film tours across the UK and recently featured as part of the Congress of Curious Peoples at Coney Island, New York.

His international breakthrough, Dogtooth, tackled social conditioning (parental or otherwise) through a nightmare experiment in child rearing; it remains a shock - buzzer cult film for the ages.

It's become something of a cult film for bodybuilders, the same way «Pumping Iron» has.

For example, if you're a printmaker and you've just finished a range of posters based on 80s cult films for a local exhibition, the most effective way to spend your money could be promoting your work to men interested in cinema aged 35 - 45 within 10 km of the gallery, instead of all genders, all ages, all across the UK.

While popular in New Zealand, these were mainly cult films for international audiences who had to purposefully seek out these quirky and raunchy examples of genre by the then - little known Kiwi auteur.

Not exact matches

The chain is famous for League's strict anti-texting policy, as well as the stars who show up to premiere films at the Austin location and the special posters designed for many of the screenings, which may pair cult classics with themed foods.

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

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.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

I went for a modern 90's vibe today — it was one of my favorite decades for film and fashion the first time round (think Sex And The City, Clueless, Melrose Place and other cult classics!)

In 1991, Oedekerk also wrote a script for a motion picture, High Strung, in which he played the lead; the film didn't do well at the box office, but it later gained a cult following, and was reissued after bit player Jim Carey rose to fame.

But amazingly for a 50's space flick its a very intelligent and deep adventure which has become a full top level cult and the quintessential science fiction film up alongside the likes of» 2001: A Space Odyssey».

It's been over 13 years since the release of the first Trainspotting film, and the cult following that it has gained over the years is absolutely tremendous, at least for hardcore film fanatics.

Starring writer - director - producer and enigmatic «auteur» Tommy Wiseau, who had unlimited funds but questionable talent, the $ 6 - million film has been hailed «The «Citizen Kane» of bad movies,» a fascinatingly inept and endlessly quotable cult sensation that has carved out a place for itself as a midnight - movie communal experience.

This unintentionally hilarious Depression Era propaganda film has become a cult classic for its outrageous claims about the effects of marijuana, as told by a concerned school principal (Joseph Forte) to a PTA meeting.

The film is very much of its time, trying desperately for «cult» credibility as it is by casting Lemmy, Iggy Pop and that bloke from Fields Of The Nephilim in cameo roles; it also sports a soundtrack by Goth - punk rockers The Ministry and contains the inevitable fractal imagery and pretentions towards artiness that were peculiar to post 80s popular culture.

Tommy Wiseau was a bizarre man of indeterminate age and background who became a cult figure in Los Angeles in 2003 for The Room — a toe - curlingly awful film he financed, directed, wrote and starred in.

Dave Franco (brother of James) may be much shorter than the real - life Sestero, but without his wide - eyed enthusiasm gradually giving way to disillusionment, The Disaster Artist would merely be an in - joke for the enjoyment of the cult film's rabid devotees.

Other screen work includes the films AFFINITY, for which she won Best Actress at Nymphe d'Or, MR. SELFRIDGE, THE SECRET DIARIES OF MISS ANNE LISTER, Anya in the cult series UTOPIA, SECRET STATE with Gabriel Byrne, BRIDESHEAD REVISITED and IN BRUGES.

If there was ever a film developed solely for a cult audience, it's this one.

Now an indie darling and cult classic, the film certainly resonates because of its following of a family's turmoil, but more importantly the role of the deadened senses of the young, and how a person in a quagmire really needs to grab at life for the good.

This is a must see for obscured cult film fans.

I appreciate that the film has quite a cult following and that I surely would have had a different reaction if I'd seen it back in the day, but I'm sorry to say it did nothing for me.

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

Officially licensed screen print for the 80s cult comedy horror film commissioned by and available to buy from the super-cool Fright Rags (www.fright-rags.com).

For a few years now a cult as formed around Michael Mann's film adaptation of his own 80's TV series.

While The Discovery plays in many ways like a more effective version of the concept - choked Brit Marling / Zal Batmanglij movies, the cult scenes feel underdeveloped next to their film The Sound of My Voice, an intriguing but ragged thread left dangling as The Discovery turns towards more concrete, backstory - driven explanations for its characters» obsessions.

Rich's dry sense of humor and irrepressible nose for digging out great cult films was a boon to the site.

Released by various entities in all formats all over the world for years, The Monster Club is a very easy film to find and deserves to command a much bigger cult following.

Cox feuded with volcanic actor Harry Dean Stanton and drove veteran cinematographer Robbie Muller up the wall on more than a few occasions, but whatever he had to learn on the job, he learned quickly enough to channel the chaos into a distinctly anarchic vision, and the result was a genuine cult film whose appeal has endured for nearly three decades.

It's an instant cult classic that I can see a lot of people discovering on the home video front and not so much theatrically, which is a shame, because films like this need audiences support to help fund future projects for talented filmmakers like Martin McDonagh.

«Baby Driver» is a step - up for Wright (whose other films include the Simon Pegg / Nick Frost cult - favorite «Cornetto» trilogy).

An official trailer has debuted for the latest Chucky doll film, titled Cult of Chucky.

Breck Eisner («The Crazies») is attached to direct the remake of the 1981 cult classic film «Escape From New York» for New Line / Warner Bros..

From 3D cane toads on opening night (Cane Toads: The Conquest) to John Woo kung fu to close the program (Reign Of Assassins), possibly the world's first «womantic» feature (the Brisbane - based comedy Jucy) to the utterly indescribable (Tommy Wiseau cult phenomenon The Room), the new look festival — in a new timeslot and new venues (Palace Centro and Barracks cinemas, and Tribal Theatre)-- has assembled an amazing line - up, with films for young (well, 18 and over for the most part, given the severing of links between BIFF and Cine Sparks) and old.

A legendary B movie actor, Campbell is most famous for his starring roles in cult films like The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Crimewave, Army of Darkness, Maniac Cop, Bubba Ho - tep, Escape From L.A. and Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat.

Hirsch is best known as being the creator of Disney's the cult favourite «Gravity Falls,» so with him and Perlman both being in the mix, should they do end up writing it, Detective Pikachu might just wind up being a film worth watching for those who aren't Pokémon fans, as well as the ones that are.

Refn clearly has a love for the likes of Walter Hill and John Carpenter, as well as cult classics like Silent Running and Logan's Run, a film he was looking to remake for some time; von Trier has grander aspirations as a filmmaker, a compulsive need to make the audience feel something, anything, at the end of his works.

His cinematography and camera orchestrations are as sumptuous as ever, almost worth watching without dialogue, and yet, he doesn't exactly offer anything new here — it occasionally seems like he is trying to remake his cult classic, Chungking Express, for a Western audience, with some of the more interesting bits of his other films tossed in for good measure.

Whether or not this film will go down as the cult classic that Rogen and Goldberg are clearly hoping for remains to be seen, but come the end of 2013, it will certainly register in the memory banks of cinema - goers to a much larger degree than all the comedy films that have preceded it this year.

He has also had memorable roles in numerous cult favorites, including John Carpenter's films The Thing (as Childs) and They Live (as Armitage), the Riddick films Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick (as the Imam), the General in Armageddon, King in Oliver Stone's Platoon, and Big Tim in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream.

Throughout the early 1980s, he appeared in commercials (including one for Coca - Cola), short films including the NFB drama One Step Away and stage work such as Brad Fraser's cult hit Wolf Boy in Toronto.

The selection of films incorporates some of the most significant (and most discussed) examples of international «art cinema» and off - Hollywood cult cinema from recent years, the bulk of them released between 2000 and 2006; examples include In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar - wai, 2000), Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000), Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001), Irreversible (Gaspar Noé, 2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004), and Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005).

Nielsen worked for over 60 years in TV and movies, first gaining attention as a serious actor in such films as Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure, before eventually becoming best known as the muse of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, creators of the cult classic Police Squad!

Coming from a director credited for cult classics such as The Craft and Dick, I had a level of expectation for this film, which by the end of the 90 minutes was not met.

The Room improbably went on to become the equivalent of a cult classic (if for all the wrong reasons), a film made in direct contradiction of every rule of «good» filmmaking, but also one of the most purely enjoyable (if only ironically) cinematic experiences made in the last two decades (best seen and heard in a group of like - minded, possibly inebriated friends, acquaintances, and strangers).

It became personal for me, very important, that we made the film the best it could be, because it's destined to become an instant classic, a favorite, a potential cult film.

These films have received a cult following for a very good reason.

On a very small budget, but with tons of passion for filmmaking, an unknown director would make one of the most classic cult films of all time that not only was a head of its time, but would become the number one movie responsible for a genre.

Clearly that was the trajectory of the film's road to cult status compressed significantly for dramatic effect, right?