Sentences with phrase «film cult characters»

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The 3:47 «Meet Katie» focuses on the story of the furry little yak who just steals her scenes in the film, as the creators talk about the development of the character from a background drawing to full - fledged cult hero.

Reynolds» superb turn as unhinged central character goes a long way towards smoothing over The Voices» various faults, which finally does confirm the film's place as a distinctive black comedy that is, in essence, an instant cult classic.

«2003 saw two films that: (1) featured female lead (s), (2) valued action, atmosphere, and attitude over plot, (3) replaced character depth with exhaustive references to pop culture and / or cult films.

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.

The movie is nominally seen through the eyes of Hitler's naïve secretary Junge (Lara) who has become attracted by Hitler's magnetic personality cult, but the film finds time to draw in several other characters to give different impressions of life in the dying city.

Occasionally, characters wear the iconic wide - brim, super-tall hat made famous in Alejandro Jodorowsky's druggy, cosmic 1973 cult film The Holy Mountain, which, like Dirty Computer, deals with personal freedom and sexual liberation.

The film feels both cozy and oppressive as it deals frankly with one character's death wish, familial and romantic love, the power of a cult to drive a member toward suicide, the sustaining warmth of a circle of friends, and the seductive allure of both art and oblivion.

Loyal fans of cult film director Tobor Takacs (The Gate, I, Madman, Sabrina the Teenage Witch) know well the terrifying supernatural thrillers THE GATE and GATE II, based on characters created by Michael Nankin (Battlestar Galactica, Hell on Wheels).

The cult classic has long been rumoured to be getting a sequel, with some reports suggesting that a film centring around John Turturro's character was already casting.

The first half of the film runs nearly 30 minutes longer than necessary and never utilizes the amazing supporting characters that pop in and out of the story, including Giancarlo Giannini and cult veteran Mickey Rourke.

In a funny yet poignant film, Michael Fassbender's turn as cult character Frank Sidebottom proves liberating rather than limiting, writes Mark Kermode

In fact, one of the saga's most beloved characters, Boba Fett, does next to nothing in the actual films, yet has maintained an absolutely diehard cult following.

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.

While The Big Lebowski is the Coen comedy that has spawned a cult following and seems to be endlessly quoted, Raising Arizona is, at the very least, that film's equal in terms of memorable characters and comic moments.

The film fails when it comes to characters, but at the very least, it builds up to a funny finale and has enough quotes and memorable scenes to be a pretty decent cult viewing.

But that's what Franco's latest feature, «The Disaster Artist,» is, and unlike the picture it's about, the new film is receiving rave reviews, as is Franco for his portrayal of the totally bizarre character who made and starred in the 2003 calamity - turned - cult - hit, Tommy Wiseau.

A cast of bizarre characters and a dark form of very physical comedy combined to make this an instant cult classic in the film world.

Harry Dean Stanton, the shambling, craggy - face character actor with the deadpan voice who became a cult favorite through his memorable turns in «Paris, Texas,» «Repo Man» and many other films and TV shows, died Friday at age 91.

The creative differences behind the scenes allegedly were just too much to overcome, whereas the situation with the Deadpool film was just a matter of FOX being scared to release an R - Rated movie starting a cult comic book character.

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.

Some other memorable moments that emerged while compiling this: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep (both Oscar - nominated) and Tom Waits on the downward spiral in Hector Babenco and William Kennedy's bleak «Ironweed»; John Huston's lyrical direction of the posthumously released adaptation of James Joyce's «The Dead»; the joyous Cajun -, zydeco -, R&B and gospel - flavored soundtrack of «The Big Easy,» gumbo for the ears; the consummate character actor John Mahoney breaking out (at least for me) in «Tin Men,» «Suspect» and «Moonstruck» and and Hunter delighting in «Raising Arizona,» «Broadcast News» and just about anything that came after; plus two British indies: Emily Lloyd as a cheeky 16 - year - old in David Leland's delightful comedy - drama «Wish You Were Here»; and one of the great cult films of the decade, Bruce Robinson's savagely witty «Withnail and I» with Richard E. Grant and Paul McCann.

She had a coming out doubleheader at this year's Sundance Film Festival where she was the star of two of its most buzzed about films: Martha Marcy May Marlene, in which she plays a girl who escapes from a cult, and Silent House a film that uses a single camera shot to follow her character, a terrified girl descending into madness, around an abandoned summer house.

After the Vilarasau character does some creepy investigating in an abandoned clinic, the film goes downhill quickly, making a wild leap from an intriguing, intimate chiller to over-the-top nonsense about cults and grandiose plans about unleashing some type of Ultimate Evil.

In the work presented here, Leventis focuses on interiors and characters that occupy suspense films, particularly cult films that are noteworthy for their vivid Technicolor and stylistic flourishes.

Schneemann's influence has even been felt in popular culture: most notably in the character of Maude Lebowski, played by Julianne Moore, in the Coen Brothers» cult film «The Big Lebowski.»