Sentences with phrase «life cult director»

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This frequently jaw - dropping documentary by director Alex Gibney, drawn largely from the book of the same name by Lawrence Wright, demonstrates vividly how a cult can spread among people searching for something greater in their lives, some advantage over others, some grand answer....

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James Franco won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his performance in The Disaster Artist as Tommy Wiseau, the real - life director, writer, and star of the so - bad - it's - good cult film The Room.

The late, prolific cult director Ray Dennis Steckler, who stars under the pseudonym Cash Flagg, also was responsible for 1971's «The Mad Love Life of a Hot Vampire» and 1979's «The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher.»

Last Days Here Directors: Don Argott & Demian Fenton The film follows middle - aged rocker Bobby Liebling, lead singer of the cult hard rock / heavy metal band Pentagram, as he leaves his parents» basement in search of the life he never lived.

Amid a scattered range of responses, one film seemed to emerge as a consensus pick: writer - director Sean Durkin's «Martha Marcy May Marlene,» a solemn - sounding drama starring Elizabeth Olsen (younger sister of Those Twins) as a damaged young woman rebuilding her life after fleeing a religious cult.

The Room's elusive writer, director and star, Wiseau is mum on where the inspiration stemmed from for the disastrous cult film, chalking it up to «life,» and insists he acquired the film's $ 6 million budget from his leather jacket business.

LIGHTNING OVER WATER is a film about the last months in the life of American director Nicholas Ray, who is probably best known for his cult film «Rebel Without a Cause».

Below, director / star James Franco, and actors Dave Franco, Ari Graynor, and Josh Hutcherson discuss how they brought the story behind the 21st century's biggest cult film to life, while the real Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero also pop in to give their thoughts.

Director Darren Lynn Bousman («Saw II,» «Saw III,» «Saw IV») turns his bloodthirsty lens on the Troma film vaults and comes up with a remake of the studio's gleefully grody 1980 cult classic, about a trio of ex-con brothers who return home from prison, only to discover that their house has a new family living in it.

Director Peter Care's adaptation of Chris Fuhrman's cult novel The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys tries to address this essential «Blake - ian» paradox (extolling the virtues of experience in the act of static creation) by splitting its protagonists between the primogenitor (Kieran Culkin as Tim) and the chronicler (a fantastic Emile Hirsch as Francis), with Jena Malone's haunted Margie left a metaphor for the balance between innocence and experience (explored by Blake in his most well - known works («Songs of Innocence,» «Songs of Experience»)-RRB-.

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.

Extras: Making Life Difficult — The Intense and Physically Exhausting Creation of the Film, Being Mia — The Physical and Psychological Transformation into «Evil Mia», Directing The Dead — Director Fede Alvarez re-imagines a cult horror classic, Commentary featuring Jane Levy, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, Director Fede Alvarez and Writer Rodo Sayagues, Featurette - Unleashing The Evil Force — Exploring the origins and design of the new «Book of the Dead», Featurette — Evil Dead the Reboot — Cast Rehearsals, Bruce Campbell, Deadites and more...

THE DISASTER ARTIST: The real life story of writer - director Tommy Wiseau (James Franco, director - star), the man behind «The Room» — often referred to as «The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies» — is brought to life, chronicling the odd film's troubled development and eventual cult success.

Filmed in gritty Black & White (color would have spoiled it), Night of the Living Dead plunges right in with the action and when its dismally bleak ending comes around, it becomes quite clear that this 1968 movie by a first time director is definitely deserving of its cult status.

Having only been live for just under twelve hours since its initial surprise announcement by series writer and director Yu Suzuki during Sony's E3 press conference, Shenmue 3 — an eagerly demanded follow - up to the cult classic series — has reached its initial $ 2 million goal in little over nine hours.

The cult horror hit Deadly Premonition is on the way to the PS3 in Director's Cut form and the new site is live and loaded with media, news, and pre-order info.

Also just announced are award - winning folk singer Sam Lee; counter-cultural writer Stewart Home, experimental composer and saxophonist John Butcher; theatre director, choreographer and designer Simon Vincenzi; artist, writer and artistic director of cult experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment Tim Etchells, text, song, sculpture, film and performance - maker Hilary Koob - Sassen and live documentation from LuckyPDF.