Like a number
of cult directors to emerge in the 1970s, Henry Jaglom values a party atmosphere at the expense of narrative cohesion.
«The career
of cult director Richard Linklater has been a varied and often wonderful thing to behold»
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!
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.