Sentences with phrase «cult films stills»

A fragmentary array of movie theater architectural tropes, cult films stills, performative environmental settings, and photographs of cinema personas, the exhibition focuses in cinema's social space as a privileged subject in Tom Burrs» sculptural model.

A fragmentary array of movie theater architectural tropes, cult films stills, performative environmental settings, and photographs of cinema personas, the exhibition focuses in cinema's social space as a privileged subject in Tom Burr's sculptural model.

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Sure, Showgirls is a cult classic, but some critics find it obscure why NC - 17 films can't even make it to a major wide release unless it's still an R - rated raunchfest.

Sure, Showgirls is a cult classic, but some critics find it obscure why NC - 17 films can't even make it to a major wide release unless it's still

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.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story has become a sports cult film of sorts — one of the best of the Frat Pack movies — telling the story of the scrappy dodgeball team at Average Joe's gym, led by Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), going against Ben Stiller's White Goodman and the formidable Purple Cobras from his Globo Gym.

As a cult film, however, The Room still plays once - a-year engagements before dedicated audiences, who recite its lines.

Although Preminger was already a name on the lists (compiled from the standard coffee - table guide books of the era) of filmmakers and films I had convinced myself I needed to catch up with, I had no real notion, back then, of the kinds of intense cults of cinephilic adoration, situated all over the world at diverse moments of film criticism's history, that had been (and were still to be) inspired by his work from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Overall, the film, which was produced by Tim & Eric themselves along with Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Dave Kneebone, is a true celebration of an off - brand style of niche cult humor that so many viewers still look for in shows like The Eric Andre Show, Check It Out!

Most notorious for being the movie red - hot Mark Hamill (Comic Book: The Movie) would do right after Star Wars, the film still did little business comparatively, although it has gained a small cult following, particularly for aficionados of the Corvette Stingray, which is featured prominently in the plot of the film.

As far as $ 150 million R - rated sequels to»80s cult films go, Blade Runner 2049 wasn't as transcendent as Mad Max: Fury Road, but still a worthy successor to the original Blade Runner.

«The Slammin» Salmon» is still very much a Broken Lizard film, and though it's unlikely to become a cult classic any time soon, it's a solid addition to their résumé that is sure to please fans.

(I know that the film is destined for re-evaluation and cult elevation, so let's call a spade a spade while it's still permitted.)

Like a lot of cult movies though, it has it's flaws; the settings are basic and it has the old flashing computers with an abundance of lightbulbs on show but it's testament to Carpenter's vision that his concept overrides these dated faults and the film still manages to remain suitably futuristic.

Reaching cult classic status, I only stumbled upon this film fairly recently; and though it was released back in 1995, it may still be the most relevant and resounding film to tackle the experience of middle school and family life for an unpopular suburban pre-teen girl.

The best part of Galaxy Quest, playing the guy playing the ethnic guy in a «Star Trek» - like cult television series, Shalhoub also stole the show as fast - talking lawyer Freddy Riedenschneider in his reunion with the Coen Brothers, The Man Who Wasn't There; demonstrated uncommon intelligence and sensitivity in the still - underseen Big Night; and made his feature - film debut behind the camera with wife Brooke Adams in the independent Made - Up, now trickling into video stores.

Although «Unsane» might require an unusual taste for both high and lowbrow cinema, and its approach may strike celluloid purists as anathema (fear not, Chris Nolan, there's still a place for actual film in the hearts of most movie lovers), Soderbergh's 27th film strikes as an immediate cult hit — the kind whose small budget will ensure success ad infinitum.

Still, an instant cult classic doesn't come out every day, so if you look through your video collection and notice that you own a great many films that others think you an odd person for enjoying, there's no question that Bubba Ho - Tep will most likely be a cherished part of it soon after your first viewing.

Citing the work of Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, Japanese horror movies and indie cult film «Martha Marcy May Marlene,» he purposefully created a still, watchful visual style for the film.

It's hard to say if the film would still have the same cult status if Anderson stopped working or if his other movies turned out to be duds.

This brings me helpfully to John Carpenter's timeless action horror cult classic They Live, a film that even after nearly 30 years still feels relevant in our crazy polarised world.

Shot on the cheap and loosely based on the Manson cult murders, which were still big news when the film was being shot in 1971, it's a potboiler about a serial - killing biker gang of women in thrall to a presumably charismatic, self - styled guru calling himself Satán.

This film is not going to convert anyone who has been resisting the cult of Tarantino, but it does prove that even 23 years after Reservoir Dogs first graced the silver screen, he is still the vital and impassioned director he has always been.

It's a little embarrassing to admit having never seen any of the «Mad Max» films in their entirety before, but after finally getting around to watching the cult classic trilogy over the weekend, I'm still puzzled as to why they're so popular.

The first stills from They Remain, a film about scientists trying to suss out exactly what happened to a doomsday cult, have hit the web.

Best known for making hand - written and printed text «wordscapes» or «still films», that retell in her own words entire feature films or sequences of events, Banner's 1998 Break Point is based on the chase scene in Kathryn Bigelow's cult film Point Break (1991).

Clark's still photography, which is filled with narrative tension has led him on to producing film and directing cult classics such as Kids (1995), Bully (2001) and Wassup Rockers (2006), films which blur the boundaries of documentary and fiction, often using untrained actors playing scenes which could be from their own lives.

A still from Jack Smith's cult film Flaming Creatures (1963) during the screening on May 7th of the newly restored film print at the Gladstone Gallery, New York.