Sentences with phrase «in midnight screenings»

The South Korean film premiered in the Midnight Screenings section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Festival programmers had originally thought to put it in Midnight Screenings or the Directors» Fortnight sidebar, where it would no doubt have been greeted with less hostility.

Because his 2003 self - released movie, The Room, did find its audience, and has become an enduring source of joy to thousands of fans who celebrate the movie's ineptness in midnight screenings all over the globe.

The second is the documentary on The Stooges, Gim me Danger, playing in the Midnight Screening's section.

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And what rabid fans they are, dressing up in full Imperial Stormtrooper regalia to line up around the block and see the first screening at midnight on opening day.

Then, over phone calls, not so average first dates of midnight showings of «The Big Lebowski» (Lord knows I love a good weasel in a bathtub scene), actual theatre screenings of my favorite film «Gone with the Wind» accompanied by my most adored meal out — diner grilled cheese with a milkshake (Yes, really.)

While it underperformed at the box office it has gained a cult status in the likes of Rocky Horror Picture Show with midnight screenings throughout the year and country and people dressing up as characters from the musical.

For those who don't know, «The Room» was the brainchild (for lack of a better word) of one Tommy Wiseau, a mysterious nobody who wrote, directed, produced and starred in the 2003 vanity project, a box - office dud that has gone on to become a staple of raucous, sold - out midnight screenings.

It's meant for the drive - in or a midnight screening at the indie theater.

If you stare at the poster and repeat the title five times at the stroke of midnight, rumor has it that Kristen Stewart will climb out of your computer screen in a shimmery metallic frock!

Nichols is a rising director with the fantastic indie Mud under his belt, and he also has a sci - fi movie called Midnight Special coming in 2015, so maybe executives have already seen some impressive work from that movie to give them confidence in his tackling of a big screen comic book adventure.

What You Need To Know: A sensation at Midnight Madness at TIFF way back in 2011, we'll finally get to see low - budget horror «You're Next» on screens late this summer.

The film, which is considered the «' Citizen Kane of bad movies»,» became a cult hit, spawning midnight screenings across the nation and now worldwide where fans quote iconic lines like «Oh hi, Mark» and «You're tearing me apart, Lisa» as they watch the film onscreen — in between throwing plastic spoons.

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Though the popularity of cult films used to spread through midnight screenings in cities and often - borrowed VHS or DVD copies, the internet and digital streaming has increased the admiration of certain cult films exponentially.

Click to see titles in the TFF 2015 World Documentary Competition, World Narrative Competition, Viewpoints, Midnight, and Special Screenings categories.

Sure, they play well at midnight screenings at film festivals in front of rowdy, half - drunk crowds.

Much like Midnight in Paris and To Rome with Love, Vicky Cristina Barcelona is as much concerned with conjuring charming, witty characters as it is about presenting a kind of hyper - stylised European tourism on screen.

I'm actually looking forward to attending a midnight screening of Blood Simple this weekend at the IFC Center here in NYC.

The version that world premiered at the South by Southwest film festival was presented as a «work in progress» — where it killed to a room full of «The Room» obsessives, many of whom stuck around for a midnight screening of Wiseau's disasterpiece.

This will be the director's 14th movie to screen at Cannes and the third to open the prestigious French festival, after «Hollywood Ending» in 2002 and «Midnight in Paris» in 2011.

The feature debuted at Sundance where it screened in the Midnight section.

The Cannes Film Festival has proven a fertile space for the release of the best the country has on offer to Western markets, and following the success of Yeon - Sang - ho's extraordinary zombie film Train to Busan in 2016, Cannes» Midnight Screenings this year featured Jung Byung - gil's high - octane female - centred action movie The Villainess.

And though this is his first one - hander in quite a while, De Niro has an appealing supporting cast assembled around him, giving us a chance to see him share the big screen with Harvey Keitel yet again and to reunite with Charles Grodin for the first time since the classic 1988 buddy comedy Midnight Run.

Jarmusch is also represented with a second film, his Iggy Pop chronicle «Gim me Danger,» in an out - of - competition, midnight screenings slot.

Plus the last time I went to a midnight screening (in 2015), I found myself witnessing a really awkward «assault» on a side street next to the Roosevelt.

Hoflin, as Scott, isn't as memorable as you want him to be (Tom Hiddleston's portrayal of Fitzgerald in Woody Allen's «Midnight in Paris» is far more striking with far less screen time) but proves serviceable; supporting player standouts include David Strathairn, Jim True - Frost and Talia Balsam.

Today, the festival has announced a slew of films that will be screening next month in Park City in the Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, and New Frontier categories.

The midnight screenings started because we got thousands of emails demanding to see «The Room» in Los Angeles, which is how everything started.

He's joined Out of Competition by Steven Spielberg's The BFG, Jodie Foster's Money Monster, Shane Black's The Nice Guys and Na Hong - Jin's Goksung, one of three South Korean selections, alongside Yong Sang - Ho's Train to Busan, a midnight screening, and Park Chan - wook's The Handmaid (Agassi) in the main competition.

Among the movies showing in town that can be broadly categorized as thrillers, two represent murder and mayhem with particular enthusiasm: the neatly constructed Funny Games, a home - invasion fable playing at Facets Multimedia Center for one week, and the erratic effects vehicle The Beyond, a supernatural horror rerelease screening midnight Friday and Saturday at the Music Box.

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Yesterday the 2013 Sundance Film Festival announced the lineup for films competing in the Dramatic and Documentary categories, and today they've unveiled the films that will screen in the Spotlight, Park City at Midnight, and New Frontier programs.

(Jarmusch has two films in Cannes; his Iggy Pop doc «Gim me Danger,» also an Amazon release, will screen out - of - competition at midnight.)

Among the hotly - tipped movies that have been confirmed this morning are David Cronenberg «s inside - Hollywood tale «Maps To The Stars» starring Mia Wasikowska, Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Olivia Williams and Robert Pattinson, «The Rover,» «Animal Kingdom» helmer David Michod «s apocalyptic follow - up, also starring Pattinson along with Guy Pearce and Scoot McNairy (which is a Midnight Screening rather than in - competition as expected), Olivier Assayas» «Sils Maria,» with Juliette Binoche, Chloe Moretz and Kristen Stewart, and the Dardennes ««Two Days One Night» starring Marion Cotillard.

«I've seen it twice,» says Mantzoukas, noting that he had heard about the midnight screenings and seen the famous billboard in Hollywood and knew it was part of the conversation but was not an aficionado like Scheer.

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And the Midnight Madness screenings are still the most fun you can have in a Toronto theatre, though I have yet to recapture the electricity of that Braindead screening in 1992, when Quentin Tarantino clapped me on the shoulder on the way out of the Bloor at 2 AM, most of his exhausted Reservoir Dogs cast trailing behind him.

Surviving Theater 9 Short Narrative Country: USA Director: Tim McGrath Writer: Tim McGrath Starring: Stacey Oristano, Tim McGrath, Luke Columbero, Brittany Ishibashi, Chelsey Crisp, Corben Bernsen After the mass shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, filmmaker Tim McGrath and his fellow survivors offer an inside look in this intriguing and inspiring movie.

Kristian Levring's new feature film The Salvation is headed to Cannes shortly in the Out of Competition section, as part of the Midnight screenings.

«Whitney» Kevin Macdonald (Midnight Screenings) The director of fact - based narrative films («The Last King of Scotland») and documentaries («One Day in September») turns his sights to the glorious art and tragic life of Whitney Houston for one of a small number of documentaries in the Cannes lineup.

Titled on screen as Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight), it's a Frankenstein monster of a movie in that Welles, as scripter, pieced together bits from no less than five Shakespeare plays.

Though the movie The Room was released almost exactly 13 years ago, Tommy Wiseau's dark comedy of errors lives on in infamy, immortalized through midnight screenings worldwide during which spoons are thrown, footballs are tossed and lines from the movie are shouted in packed theaters.

(courtesy Sundance Institute) Rory Culkin plays a Norwegian Black Metal musician in Jonas Åkerlund's Lords of Chaos, which will screen in the Midnight program of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

At a midnight screening in a Los Angeles multiplex, the atmosphere hovers somewhere between rambunctious and mildly terrifying.

Like the midnight «Rocky Horror Show» screenings, fans come in costume and with props.

Peter Strickland's ode to classic giallo film, Berberian Sound Studio hits screens of all shapes and sizes in the US on June 14th when IFC Midnight releases the film in select cinemas, on iTunes and VOD June 14th.

Premiering as the midnight screening on Sunday night, I watched Office in a smaller theater that was about half full.

The main lineup may be lighter on films that could figure into the Oscar race than in some recent years; it won't likely have as much of a U.S. awards presence as it did in 2011, when Best Picture nominees «The Tree of Life,» «The Artist» and «Midnight in Paris» all screened in Cannes, or last year, when «Nebraska,» «Inside Llewyn Davis,» «The Great Beauty,» «Fruitvale Station,» «All Is Lost» and «The Great Gatsby» were part of the program.

Initially screened at Sundance Film Festival's Midnight section, The A.V. Club described it as «the most traumatically terrifying horror movie in ages.»