Sentences with phrase «cult films such»

Seductive, humorous, and foreboding, the machine has visually and literally «taken» the woman, alluding to the femme fatales of cult films such as The Bride of Frankenstein as well as making highbrow reference to Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, (1915 - 23).

His interests and references include extraterrestrials, biker gangs and punk rock groups, German artist Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau (1931 — 33), Mike Kelley's book The Uncanny, and cult films such as Lloyd Kaufman's Toxic Avenger (1984).

Not exact matches

``... [the] gulf between the Church and the scientific mind... widens with each generation, and modern means of diffusing knowledge by the press, radio, and film, have brought us now to such a pass that the Christian, and especially the Catholic, whose beliefs are enriched in their religious manifestation by the ceremonies and practices of a most ancient past, finds himself considered the initiate of a recondite cult whose practices are not only unintelligible to men around him, but savour to them of superstition and magic.»

Cult: 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.

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

BE: You mentioned that you've been in more cult films than just about anybody, but you've also got such a diverse group of films to call your own, everything from «Super Troopers» to «X2.»

It ain't easy taking a popular cult film and adapting it into a successful TV series (emphasis on successful), but the advent of alternative digital platforms such as Netflix and Hulu are opening up more possibilities.

There will be those few who will rally a cult following around such a cartoon - y movie although they will have to do so in DVD since the film is getting a very limited release before it hits the living room.

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.

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.

Nevertheless, it does retain a small cult following, and can even be seen as a precursor of sorts to such films as the horror flick Event Horizon and Danny Boyle's dying sun thriller, Sunshine.

Gerwig envisions a program in which locals apprentice with seasoned crew members (if only such an agenda were in place when Memoirs of a Geisha and The Assassination of Richard Nixon were filming in the area), citing how the cult fantasy show Xena: Warrior Princess laid the groundwork in New Zealand for Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies, some of the biggest productions in motion picture history.

It really shouldn't be surprising if such heady fare fails to connect with the mainstream, but if that were to happen then hopefully the film will find a cult following via streaming (it will be released internationally via Netflix a few weeks after its stateside debut).

Mary Harron: A Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter, known for her socially - conscious independent films such as I Shot Andy Warhol (1996) about Valerie Solanas» life that led up to her failed assassination attempt of Warhol, and The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), a film about the 1950s pinup model who became a cult icon of sexuality and helped popularize pornography.

Although he was just a background voice in his first film, Jack's appearances in such television shows as The X-Files (1993), his breakthrough performance in High Fidelity (2000), and his rock - comedy band, Tenacious D, have created an ever - growing cult following.

This little gem features American treasure and all - around genre cinema maestro John Carpenter discussing his 1988 sci - fi / action / horror cult classic They Live, going into detail about such things as the conceptual ideas behind the movie's premise, his casting of professional wrestler «Rowdy» Roddy Piper as the protagonist, and the rebellious inspiration for the film's infamous fight scene between Piper and the great Keith David.

The festival focuses on genre films such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, Asian, and cult.

His films like «The Evil Dead» series have such a cult following behind them.

Suzuki, whose low - budget Japanese gangster films later became regarded as cult classics and inspired American directors such as Quentin Tarantino...

Two of his films, Alien and Blade Runner, have become such cult hits and are loved by many that when he announced he would be making a brand new sci - fi film that would be a tie - in to Alien, people went nuts.

Their heroes, such as they are, end up locked in an ideological opposition that somehow echoes a deeper, more pervasive tension in American life: the parasitic rivalry between Daniel Day - Lewis's monomaniacal capitalist and Paul Dano's maliciously self - denying man of the cloth in the 19th - century California landscape of There Will Be Blood (07); the uneasy mentorship that Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic cult leader develops with Joaquin Phoenix's broken - down vet as they move through the strange, suspended vision of Fifties America in The Master (12); and now, in Anderson's newest film Inherent Vice, the antagonistic buddy romance that emerges between a pothead PI and a shell - shocked, crew - cut detective as each navigates the splintered world of Los Angeles in the early, paranoid Seventies.

He made his professional début at 19 in Class, and has appeared in dozens of films, including such iconic movies as Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Less Then Zero, and cult favorites Weekend At Bernie's and Mannequin.

As an actor he has appeared in dozens of films including The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Joy Luck Club, Mulholland Falls, and of course such iconic movies as Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, and Less Then Zero, as well as cult favorites Weekend At Bernie's and Mannequin.

Inspired by the Hunger Games books and movies, as well as Kinji Fukasaku's cult film Battle Royale, it sees 100 players being dropped on to the island, before searching for useful items such as backpacks, body armour and guns and then trying to kill each other.

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.

One way Pinchbeck sought to connect to a higher wisdom was by visiting and participating in initiation rites and psychedelic drug rituals with tribes such as the Bwiti cult in Gabon - Pinchbeck also interviews Sting in the film about the singer's psychedelic experience taking the hallucigenic Ayahuasca in Brazil.