Sentences with phrase «of cult director»

Watching this movie one can not help but marvel at what had passed as scary back in 1951 - especially considering the gruesome remake the film would get in 1982 (simply as The Thing) at the hands of cult director John Carpenter!

«The career of cult director Richard Linklater has been a varied and often wonderful thing to behold»

Like a number of cult directors to emerge in the 1970s, Henry Jaglom values a party atmosphere at the expense of narrative cohesion.

Not exact matches

After all of this shit and the Emergent cult and Solomon's Porch with a crack pot Pastor Doug who covers up affairs, and rationalizes divorces, and tries to have sane people admitted into mental hospitals... then instructs Steve Knight (the webmaster at Emergent Village) to wipe out all of the posts and cross posts between he and Courtney Perry's and take down her bio from the Board of Directors page and «clean up the website,» all within 24 hours of my coming to his home crying and sharing the sex emails.

Nigeria's director of defense information denied the military's involvement in these extrajudicial killings, saying that insurgents or cult members were really behind the killings instead.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

I wonder how many people are going to continue to side with him on this, because many of his board of directors like Greg Laurie and even Chuck Smith will still say that Mormonism is a cult.

The Executive Director of the Centre for Family Peace Initiative, Mr Chinedu Ikogwe, said the project would re-orientate parents, teachers and other stakeholders to address the problems of children, including the upsurge of criminal gangs, drug abuse, cult activities and juvenile crimes across the country.

Director Uli Edel made the harrowing Last Exit To Brooklyn in 1989, an adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's cult novel and he moves the action along very adeptly here, helped by an excellent cast and a strong screenplay from Eichinger, no stranger to controversial subjects.

Although best known as the director of the cult classic films Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and the television series Twin Peaks, David Lynch is also a painter and designer.

But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film Connected, starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.

Blouse was founded by Geoffrey J Finch, the Australian former creative director of cult label Antipodium, who is now based in east London.

Driven largely by instinct and a cult of personality, the company's one - time dream team of «merchant prince» Mickey Drexler and «geek chic» creative director Jenna Lyons transformed the sleepy American catalogue business into a retail success story and cultural phenomenon, widely loved for its tongue - in - cheek take on classic, preppy tropes and famously embraced by former US first lady Michelle Obama.

Teaming with the maverick Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, the actress would essay the enigmatic, directionless title character in Morvern Callar, a dreamy, elliptical adaptation of Alan Warner's cult novel.

Zombie was producer Fabrizio De Angelis and director Lucio Fulci's unofficial sequel to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, cranked out long before Romero's film could obtain cult cachet, let alone financial wherewithal enough to warrant its own legit sequel, Day of the Dead.

Shane Carruth, the director of the time travel cult classic Primer 68, served as a consultant, while Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and (an excellent but underused) Jeff Daniels round out the cast.

Starring writer - director - producer and enigmatic «auteur» Tommy Wiseau, who had unlimited funds but questionable talent, the $ 6 - million film has been hailed «The «Citizen Kane» of bad movies,» a fascinatingly inept and endlessly quotable cult sensation that has carved out a place for itself as a midnight - movie communal experience.

No one has apparently been able to answer the first two, but director / star James Franco does a hell of a job on the third in «The Disaster Artist,» the story of Tommy Wiseau, the man behind a truly awful movie that became a cult classic.

While director and star James Franco's behind - the - scenes recreation of Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero's cult classic carries a lingering sense of «having their cake and eating it, too,» the film is less focused on mocking the failures of its source material.

With a cast that includes George Sanders, Louis Hayward, Gene Lockhart, and Rhys Williams, cult director Edgar G. Ulmer weaves a tale of intrigue and seduction.

Waititi, who was a writer and director of that cult HBO series, has carried on the show's New Zealand deadpan and childlike whimsy with varying success.

She then collaborated with British director Ken Russell for the cult horror fantasy The Lair of the White Worm and as the lead in the erotic drama The Rainbow.Moving to the U.S. in 1991, she appeared on the WWII - era ABC drama series Homefront.

With top TV talent and the director of cult favorite «But I'm a Cheerleader» at the helm, «Addicted to Fresno» should be good, or at the very least, enjoyably off kilter.

Maybe not ALL his films are hits, but pretty much all of them have some sort of cult following (The Mariachi trilogy, Spy Kids, Sin City, Machete, Dusk Till Dawn, Planet Terror)... and I'll take him over Michael Bay or any other cookie cutter director.

Elsewhere, there was the first of several events featuring director Stuart Gordon and actor Jeffrey Combs, a screening of cult horror favorite «Re-animator.»

A top - notch cult - movie cast — including Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton — anchors this wacky, blood - spattered commentary on the psycho - killer thriller from the writer - director of In Bruges.

Pavel Barter talks to director Neil Jordan about the making of his 1984 cult classic.

Yet it was not until the release of his fourth genre picture, Scanners, in 1981, that he became a cult director with fans in the U.S.

In it, four of the film's essential crew members — special makeup artists Stephan Dupuis and Chris Walas, director of photography Mark Irwin, and special effects supervisor Gary Zeller — talk about how they created the cult classic's signature effect.

It's only been a day since we shared the official trailer for director Hèctor Hernández Vicens» Day of the Dead: Bloodline, a reimagining of the late George A. Romero's 1985 cult classic zombie flick.

This film is actually terrible — I mean, yeah — it is scary in the sense that its creepy, but I think, really, the film is just the byproduct of global DVD residuals from the directors father — allowing Panatos to string together a series of overproduced, overgrained interior sequences, cheap synth score and a slasher movie ending, and trying to pass it off as a «cult movie», when really we, the audience, need to know who, what or where the protagonist is coming from, what her dramatic need is, who she interacts with, and so on.

The second feature film from Charlie McDowell, director of the cult favorite low - key sci - fi film The One I Love from Sundance 2014.

Director / writer Joseph Kosinski «s story (the script is credited to Karl Gadjusek and Michael DeBruyn, with William Monahan and Michael Arndt among those who worked on the film too) cribs liberally from other more familiar sci - fi tales, including one recent cult hit which mentioning the name of would likely tip you off to the film's big secrets.

Ryan Moody says he was tapped by director James Franco in 2013 to adapt the book about the making of the cult film «The Room.»

It did win the 1999 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards as the Best Film and German won Best Director before becoming an elusive cult classic.

While a lot of big - name directors wiped out this year, a few filmmakers risked self - parody with projects that indulged their personal tics and obsessions with unapologetic thoroughness; the results were strange, kind of wonderful exercises in playing to a dwindling cult on their studios» dime.

The much - honored, London - born Irish author of such plays as «The Beauty Queen of Leenane» and «The Cripple of Inishmaan,» and the writer - director of the cult comedy «In Bruges,» creates a setting and a people who could be anywhere, certainly Ireland.

Also on the nonfiction front, but decidedly more schlocky and a bit naughty and raunchy, is «Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore,» seeing release on Blu - ray alongside «The Blood Trilogy,» a one - disc DVD compilation of three of the director's cult classics.

From cult movie directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes a unique film experience: a double - bill of thrillers that recall both filmmakers» favorite exploitation films.

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....

Nevertheless, writer - director Sam Raimi, actor Bruce Campbell and producer Robert G. Tapert — all key players in 1981's «The Evil Dead» — attempted to recapture the magic of their cult hit.

Released: December 1 Cast: James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Alison Brie Director: James Franco (The Sound and the Fury) Why it's great: There are no half - measures with Tommy Wiseau, the failed actor / secret millionaire behind the notoriously awful cult drama The Room, and there are no half - measures in The Disaster Artist, James Franco's dramatic telling of the film's bizarre backstory.

Some of cinema's guiltiest pleasures have followed this formula to great success, and though director Joe Lynch's «Everly» desperately wants to join those ranks as the next cult classic shoot - «em - up, it falls disappointingly short.

Having powered his way through the «Lord of the Rings» trilogy, which had its occasional majesties, director Peter Jackson now feels compelled to give us this prequel, based on the Tolkien novel that spawned the cult I never joined.

It's an adaptation of a 1971 novel by cult Seventies neo-polar writer Jean - Patrick Manchette, whose Nada became an underrated 1974 film by Claude Chabrol, and whose 1981 novel The Prone Gunman has just been adapted by Taken director Pierre Morel with Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, and Mark Rylance under the rather uninspiring truncated title The Gunman.

Richard Linklater, director of cult classics «Dazed & Confused» and «Before Sunrise», is back with a new bit of worthy (well, looks...

HOT FUZZ and SHAUN OF THE DEAD director Edgar Wright will team up with Hollywood superstar Johnny Depp to bring the cult, hit show...

The good folks over at Arrow in the Head scored a brand new clip today from director Hèctor Hernández Vicens» Day of the Dead: Bloodline, a reimagining of the late George A. Romero's 1985 cult classic zombie flick.

More out - there offerings for the cult cineaste in us all includes music video director Geremy Jasper's feature debut Patti Cake $; about an aspiring rapper in a triumphant tale of how music can give a nobody a voice.

But it's still a cut above the majority of family entertainment, and director Paul King, who got his start helming the surreal cult comedy series The Mighty Boosh, continues to prove himself a confident and comparatively sophisticated stylist, employing cutaway sets, Rube Goldberg slapstick, animated sequences in different styles, and loads of visual gags to create the film's dollhouse - storybook world; the aesthetic influence of Wes Anderson is especially pronounced in the scenes set at the prison, where an early mishap involving a red sock and the prison laundry dyes the convicts» uniforms a Grand Budapest Hotel shade of lavender pink.