Sentences with phrase «of the cult classic films»

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.

It is also the 25th anniversary of his cult classic film «UHF».

Fred Dekker is the writer and director of the cult classic films Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad (written with Shane Black).

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The chain is famous for League's strict anti-texting policy, as well as the stars who show up to premiere films at the Austin location and the special posters designed for many of the screenings, which may pair cult classics with themed foods.

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 went for a modern 90's vibe today — it was one of my favorite decades for film and fashion the first time round (think Sex And The City, Clueless, Melrose Place and other cult classics!)

Even though Bloody Days tries to walk the walk and talk the talk, ultimately it feels less like a creative homage to a cult film classic and more like a shallow imitation with a hint of Tarantino flair.

Directed by and starring James Franco, this film is much more of an homage to the cult classic that is The Room, as well as a nod to the passion it takes to make something so terrible.

This unintentionally hilarious Depression Era propaganda film has become a cult classic for its outrageous claims about the effects of marijuana, as told by a concerned school principal (Joseph Forte) to a PTA meeting.

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.

is a 24 - hour eclectic mix of cult cinema, independent films, classic television, music and anything wacky!

A few of his many film credits include BURLESQUE, TAKERS, SAHARA, KINGS OF THE EVENING, MEN OF HONOR, GREMLINS, and the cult classic COOLEY HIGof his many film credits include BURLESQUE, TAKERS, SAHARA, KINGS OF THE EVENING, MEN OF HONOR, GREMLINS, and the cult classic COOLEY HIGOF THE EVENING, MEN OF HONOR, GREMLINS, and the cult classic COOLEY HIGOF HONOR, GREMLINS, and the cult classic COOLEY HIGH.

The hard - working actress has made a career of choosing diverse and challenging projects both in film and television, starting with her acting debut in the movie JOE, which she soon followed with the 1975 cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

Now an indie darling and cult classic, the film certainly resonates because of its following of a family's turmoil, but more importantly the role of the deadened senses of the young, and how a person in a quagmire really needs to grab at life for the good.

Donnie Darko, the 1st cult classic of the 21st century, a masterclass in assiduous filmmaking, remains one of the most relevant, urgent and timely films of the last 50 years.

It's not that it revitalizes a dead genre, but it does give a bit of new life and twist to the zombie genre, while also paying tribute to the classic cult films like Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead, Mad Max, among others.

Spawning a juggernaut of a franchise featuring a number of sequels, comic books, toys, novels, and Internet videos, «Predator» has become completely immersed in pop culture and gone from a cult classic to an iconic film.

Turner claims FilmStruck offers the largest streaming library of contemporary and classic arthouse, indie, foreign and cult films.

Carrie is a film adaptation of Stephen King's work, which got turned into a cult horror classic in 1976 and was directed by Brain De Palma.

The No. 1 request from FilmStruck users was to have access to classic Hollywood films, in addition to the lineup of art house, indie, foreign and cult films on the service, according to execs.

Based on the book The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell, the film tells the behind - the - scenes story behind one of modern cinema's biggest cult classics The Room.

Although the film didn't connect as strongly with mass audiences (although it's considered a «sleeper hit,» you have to wonder what it could have done if it had been released after Whedon's little art house film «The Avengers «-RRB- and more than a few critics found it befuddling and arch (it's neither), «The Cabin in the Woods» is the kind of movie that will ultimately live on as a deserved cult classic, perfect for drunken film studies students and bored kids at slumber parties alike.

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.

In a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Wiseau says he welcomes descriptions of the film as a «cult classic.»

The film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau's dreadful movie The Room, a wannabe serious drama that turned into a certified cult comedy classic on the midnight show circuit — certainly not by original intention.

His breakthrough year was 2001, however, with standout turns in a pair of indie films: a haunted adolescent in the cult classic Donnie Darko and a gawky teen in love with an older woman in Lovely & Amazing, a performance he more or less repeated the next year opposite Jennifer Aniston in The Good Girl.

The film tells the tale of the making of Hollywood dreamer Tommy Wiseau's dreadful movie The Room, a wannabe serious drama that turned into a certified cult comedy classic on the midnight show circuit — certainly not by original... Read

Details The Texas Theatre presents a 35 mm print of Dario Argento's cult classic giallo film Deep Red (1975), 8 pm, June 30, at the theater.

Val Lewton also produced a series of atmospheric supernatural horror films in the 1940s, including the cult horror classic Cat People (1942) and its fantasy follow - up Curse of the Cat People (1944).

In this wickedly smart (and downright wicked) cult classic turned quintessential high - school film, smart - girl Veronica (Winona Ryder) throws in with the popular crowd (headed by a bratty group of girls all sharing the name Heather).

Following the modern cult classic In Bruges, Martin McDonagh fully delivered on that film's vast promise with Seven Psychopaths — a fiery genre cocktail of crime & dark comedy.

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.

Criterion not only further verifies its dedication to streams of both classic and cult films, but effectively (and correctly) resuscitates a cult object as a certifiable classic.

Gervasi's previous work includes the cult classic ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL, and the feature film THE BIG TEASE, which ripped the lid off hairdressing competitions.

Breck Eisner («The Crazies») is attached to direct the remake of the 1981 cult classic film «Escape From New York» for New Line / Warner Bros..

The film has been heralded as somewhat of a crazy new Australian cult classic in the works.

Original cast members Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander present the first - ever screening of the cult classic's third film, in which the lost boys and girls of San Cazador prepare to party under the Blood Moon — while an alpha vampire conspires to turn these unsuspecting ravers into an army of undead.

-- or go all but unnoticed at the Oscars and become something of a cult classic, like his first film, A Single Man.

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 thoroughly awful movie that resulted from their collaboration would go on to become a midnight cult classic, one of the most highly regarded so - bad - it's - good films ever made.

His cinematography and camera orchestrations are as sumptuous as ever, almost worth watching without dialogue, and yet, he doesn't exactly offer anything new here — it occasionally seems like he is trying to remake his cult classic, Chungking Express, for a Western audience, with some of the more interesting bits of his other films tossed in for good measure.

The fact of the matter is, the first film only made $ 100 million total at the domestic and international box office though it's become something of a cult classic on DVD.

Whether or not this film will go down as the cult classic that Rogen and Goldberg are clearly hoping for remains to be seen, but come the end of 2013, it will certainly register in the memory banks of cinema - goers to a much larger degree than all the comedy films that have preceded it this year.

«Rifftrax Live: The Room» reteams Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett of «Mystery Science Theater 3000» to skewer cult classic films.

Now at last, Mitchell — best known as the director and star of 2001 cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch — releases his next film, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, in select theaters this month.

The ever - growing cult behind Russell and his work will undoubtedly enjoy this riveting look back on the maverick director right in the midst of filming his chaotic classic, which, negative press notwithstanding, ended up kicking off a series of successes in the 1970s.

Nielsen worked for over 60 years in TV and movies, first gaining attention as a serious actor in such films as Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure, before eventually becoming best known as the muse of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, creators of the cult classic Police Squad!

Coming from a director credited for cult classics such as The Craft and Dick, I had a level of expectation for this film, which by the end of the 90 minutes was not met.

Bone Tomahawk is a cult - classic type of film that completely delivers on its promise, and, in the post - Tarantino / Rodriguez Grindhouse age, that's one of the rarest gems of all.

The Room improbably went on to become the equivalent of a cult classic (if for all the wrong reasons), a film made in direct contradiction of every rule of «good» filmmaking, but also one of the most purely enjoyable (if only ironically) cinematic experiences made in the last two decades (best seen and heard in a group of like - minded, possibly inebriated friends, acquaintances, and strangers).