It plays on TCM as
part of the Cult Movies line - up for July and you'll why it fits the bill: the tension between personal loyalty and the communal good and the contrast between the peaceful beauty and the savage violence of the wilderness defines the film.
Not exact matches
One
of our favourite
movies of the latter
part of this year in the upcoming The Disaster Artist, James Franco's feature that looks into the making
of the
cult film The Room, one that is heralded as being the Citizen Kane
of bad
movies.
From
cult classics to box office blockbusters, child actor to leading man, the
movies he has been such a memorable
part of are staples for any avid
movie buff's collection and his public life has been something to be proud
of as well.
The film has been given the Blu - Ray treatment from 101 Films as
part of their «
Cult Movie Collection».
Mills's live soundtrack for the 1966
cult movie Fantastic Voyage was
part of a weekend
of happenings at London's Barbican Centre this past summer that nodded to the pioneering DJ and producer's decades - long experiments in sound and image.
His appearances in film and television throughout the years were jump - started by his turn as ambitious warehouse manager Daryl Philbin in
cult TV classic The Office which in turn resulted in a string
of parts in Evan Goldberg comedies including Pineapple Express, This is the End and, most recently, Sausage Party as well as features on other notable comedies as Knocked Up, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Zack and Miri Make a Porno and a starring role in the two Hot Tub Time Machine
movies (though we wish we could forget that second one.)
Judged against the original 2001
movie version
of Wet Hot American Summer — a film no one saw in theaters, before it became a
cult obsession in
part because then - unknown actors like Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, and Elizabeth Banks became huge stars — the two Netflix spinoff seasons (including 2015's First Day
of Camp prequel) can't help but come up wanting.
In
part because the billboard stayed up for fucking years, and in
part because the
movie itself is so wackadoo, the
cult of The Room grew and grew.
I vividly remember when word began to spread, in the loose community
of movie and culture bloggers
of which I was then a
part, about the 2003
cult phenomenon The Room, a self - produced and self - distributed
movie that was the vanity project
of an enigmatic figure by the name
of Tommy Wiseau.
His father, Warren McCollum, the son
of an actress in New York and a child actor himself, performed a number
of small
parts on the Broadway stage, and a few small roles in
movies in the late 1930s and early 1940s, including the role
of «Jimmy Lane» in the 1938
cult classic, Reefer Madness; he remained active in local theater groups throughout much
of his life, while working as a security guard at a local research corporation.