Sentences with phrase «for cult filmmaker»

An international trailer has arrived online for cult filmmaker Takashi Miike's new gangster - vampire mash - up Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld, which you can watch below... Akira (Hayato Ichihara) admires Genyo Kamiura who is the most powerful yakuza.

Not exact matches

One of the foremost American filmmakers of our time, Richard Linklater achieved cult immortality with the «90s classic Dazed and Confused, won critical respect for the sublime Before trilogy, and redefined cinematic storytelling with the groundbreaking Boyhood.

It risks a late detour into magic realism and comes out the other end as an even stronger and more idiosyncratic piece of work — and, thanks to Mortensen's presence, a possible international breakthrough for a filmmaker whose cult could stand to grow a little going forward.

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.

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.

The filmmaker is also producing and co-wrote the script for Robert Rodriguez» Alita: Battle Angel, which is based on the cult manga of the same name.

A series based on the filmmaker's 1994 cult classic is the first scripted program to be announced for the network, which launches in December.

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.

Perhaps the most widely polarizing film in recent memory, Kill List, a kitchen - sink drama meets surreal cult horror hybrid, confirmed at least one thing for everyone who walked out of the theater, both awed and annoyed alike: Whether for good or for ill, Ben Wheatley is one of Britain's most interesting contemporary filmmakers.

The Scorecard Review news News: Cult filmmaker, Kevin Smith, is currently holding an open call for comic book lovers for a reality show on AMC.

Out doing press for «Solo: A Star Wars Story» this week, filmmaker Ron Howard has surprisingly revealed that his previous collaboration with Lucasfilm, 1988's cult fantasy feature «Willow,» may be coming back in the near future.

In Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Michael finishes the job he started in the previous film by killing his niece, so to fill the narrative void of no more family members, the filmmakers introduce the concept of the «Cult of Thorn,» who are supposedly the ones responsible for Michael's evil behavior all along.

For those of us who came to the Japanese filmmaker (and nearly never returned) via his hyper - violent, cult horror films Audition and Ichi the Killer, the barrage of comedies, musicals, even children's films can be as disorienting as the grisly sights of his alienating breakthroughs.

Working with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers in both independent and studio films, Gyllenhaal starred in Ang Lee's classic «Brokeback Mountain,» for which he received an Oscar ® nomination and won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor; Bong Joon - ho's «Okja;» David Ayer's «End of Watch;» Antoine Fuqua's boxing drama «Southpaw;» Dennis Villeneuve's highly acclaimed films «Prisoners» and «Enemy;» Richard Kelly's cult hit «Donnie Darko;» David Fincher's «Zodiac;» Sam Mendes» «Jarhead;» Nicole Holofcener's «Lovely and Amazing;» Ed Zwick's «Love and Other Drugs,» for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, and Tom Ford's «Nocturnal Animals,» for which he earned a BAFTA nomination.

For the die - hard fans of the cult classic, the filmmakers have also laced this tale about male camaraderie with subtle, loving nods and nuances.

A better Alex Cox film for Criterion Collection enshrinement than his dismal 1987 dud Walker (reviewed here), this debut feature from the radical filmmaker became an immediate cult hit but also the high point of a career that failed to distinguish itself much after the one - two punch of this and 1986's Sid & Nancy.

The clear precedent for Franco's project is Tim «Speaking of Bad Movies» Burton's Ed Wood (1994), about the cheapo 1950s cult filmmaker Ed Wood (played by Johnny Depp), whose ingenious sense of trash was a source of inspiration for Burton himself.

Cult filmmaker Tommy Wiseau («The Room») explains why he agreed to give actor - director James Franco his life rights for «The Disaster Artist» and critiques what Franco got right — and wrong — in his performance as Tommy.

Based on the best - selling tell - all book about the making of the cult - classic disasterpiece The Room, «The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made», by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, and written for the screen by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist tells the hilarious true story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau — an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable — into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds.

Neon has unveiled a new official US trailer for the wacky sci - fi thriller from eccentric Spanish filmmaker Nacho Vigalondo, of the cult hit Timecrimes previously.

Here's a neat little nugget featuring filmmaker Alex Cox giving an introduction to Robin Hardy's 1973 cult horror classic The Wicker Man for BBC2's weekly cult movie series Moviedrome, the original incarnation of which ran from 1988 to 1994 with Cox as its host.

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.

A postmodern and critical cult began with the likes of Godard, Truffaut and Rohmer, who soon paved the way for American filmmakers such as Scorsese, Spielberg and De Palma.

by Walter Chaw Genre poetry from B - movies» poet laureate, Quentin Tarantino's conclusion to Kill Bill is marked by the filmmaker's carefully - calibrated celluloid insanity, as well as a deceptive maturity that allows a few powerfully - struck grace notes for the cult of femininity and the sanctity of motherhood.

The New York artist's «Garbage Gods,» cybernetic samurai reunited for the first time, will loom large at this Red Bull show, along with oral history stations featuring recollections of the artist by luminaries like fellow artist and filmmaker Charlie Ahearn and director Jim Jarmusch, who gave him a cameo in his cult classic Stranger Than Paradise.

Those include two exhibitions set for 2014: A survey of Utah cult filmmaker Trent Harris, and a large - scale group exhibition looking at Danish migration in Utah.