http://cultprojections.com Basking in the dark sunshine of cult cinema Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:33:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://cultprojections.com/800/movies/my-life-as-a-dog/ http://cultprojections.com/800/movies/my-life-as-a-dog/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:20:06 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=800 Sweden | 1985 | Directed by Lasse Hallström Logline: A young mischievous boy is sent to live with his uncle after his ill mother can’t tolerate the fighting between him and his older brother. Before Lasse Hallström became widely-known for directing the Hollywood films What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (which introduced Leonardo DiCaprio), The Cider House [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/800/movies/my-life-as-a-dog/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/610/movies/taxidermia/ http://cultprojections.com/610/movies/taxidermia/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:13:06 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=610 Hungary | 2006 | Directed by György Pálfi Logline: Three generations of dysfunctional men; a lusty, flame-sucking soldier, an obese, champion extreme eater, and a ratty embalmer on an artful perversion. The themes of copulation, consumption and preservation are studied in perverse, visceral and controversial detail in one of the most outlandish and exceptional tales [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/610/movies/taxidermia/feed/ 1 http://cultprojections.com/602/movies/dating-the-enemy/ http://cultprojections.com/602/movies/dating-the-enemy/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:32:28 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=602 Australia | 1996 | Directed by Megan Simpson Huberman Logline: A couple struggling to make a relationship work wake up one morning to find each trapped in the other’s body and the struggle to relate to friends and work becomes a comedic nightmare. This is the kind of comedy Hollywood would never make. They dabble [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/602/movies/dating-the-enemy/feed/ 1 http://cultprojections.com/525/movies/la-grande-bouffe/ http://cultprojections.com/525/movies/la-grande-bouffe/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:43:33 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=525 Italy/France | 1973 | Directed by Marco Ferreri Logline: Four wealthy and successful middle-aged men, in contempt of their lifestyles, move into a plush villa and proceed to overeat until they expire. There’s not a straight forward translation for this exceptionally uncompromising display of gastronomic, erotically perverse and scatological self-indulgence. In Italy it is called [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/525/movies/la-grande-bouffe/feed/ 2 http://cultprojections.com/485/movies/withnail-and-i/ http://cultprojections.com/485/movies/withnail-and-i/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:04:49 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=485 UK | 1986 | Directed by Bruce Robinson Logline: It’s 1969 and two disheveled, unemployed London actors decide to spend a rejuvenating weekend in the country only to have their escapade turn into a series of embarrassing incidents and disasters. Quite frankly I think Bruce Robinson’s semi-autobiographical yarn is one of a rare handful of [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/485/movies/withnail-and-i/feed/ 5 http://cultprojections.com/476/movies/down-by-law/ http://cultprojections.com/476/movies/down-by-law/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:50:59 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=476 USA | 1986 | Directed by Jim Jarmusch Logline: When three mischievous strangers find themselves sharing the same jail cell after each being set-up, framed or simply acting in self-defence, they escape into the wilderness of the Louisiana everglades. Maverick indie auteur Jim Jarmusch hit the nail of bittersweet irony squarely and beautifully on the [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/476/movies/down-by-law/feed/ 4 http://cultprojections.com/390/movies/swingers/ http://cultprojections.com/390/movies/swingers/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:16:42 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=390 USA | 1996 | Directed by Doug Liman Logline: An aspiring NYC comedian based in LA, pining for his ex-girlfriend, struggles to get back into the dating scene with the help of his buddy, a cocky ladies man. With a killer script by co-producer and star Jon Favreau Swingers is the ultimate debunking of male [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/390/movies/swingers/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/356/movies/surviving-desire/ http://cultprojections.com/356/movies/surviving-desire/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:01:46 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=356 USA | 1991 | Directed by Hal Hartley Logline: A college professor falls for one of his students but becomes a confused emotional wreck when she decides to end the short term relationship not long after they’ve become lovers. I was a fan of indie darling Hal Hartley’s early movies, and still am, especially his [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/356/movies/surviving-desire/feed/ 4 http://cultprojections.com/346/movies/ex-drummer/ http://cultprojections.com/346/movies/ex-drummer/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:25:15 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=346 Belgium | 2007 | Directed by Koen Mortier Logline: A manipulative and cynical writer joins a desperate punk band under the pretence he is as handicapped as the other three, when the reality is he simply wants to shake up his complacent existence and disturb theirs. You want to upset your cinematic sensibilities, then leave [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/346/movies/ex-drummer/feed/ 8 http://cultprojections.com/257/movies/bagdad-cafe/ http://cultprojections.com/257/movies/bagdad-cafe/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:23:46 +0000 admin http://cultprojections.com/?p=257 West Germany/USA | 1987 | Directed by Percy Adlon Logline: When a German tourist is abandoned by her husband she seeks solace at a dysfunctional Californian desert café motel and inadvertently brings disruption, then joy to the staff, guests and patrons. A film festival favourite when it was first released Bagdad Café (aka Out Of [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/257/movies/bagdad-cafe/feed/ 2 http://cultprojections.com/248/movies/bronson/ http://cultprojections.com/248/movies/bronson/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:47:47 +0000 admin http://cultprojections.com/?p=248 UK | 2009 | Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Logline: The prison life story of Michael Peterson, Britain’s most notorious criminal, originally sentenced to seven years, he’s spent thirty-four years behind bars, thirty of them in solitary confinement. Denmark’s enfant terrible turns his attention to making a docu-drama-cum-biopic unlike anything seen before. The true story [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/248/movies/bronson/feed/ 4 http://cultprojections.com/240/movies/dons-party/ http://cultprojections.com/240/movies/dons-party/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:32:09 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=240 Australia | 1976 | Directed by Bruce Beresford Logline: On the night of the 1969 Australian election, Don holds a party in his Sydney home, where his crass middleclass friends discuss sex and politics, get drunk and try to seduce each other’s wives. Arguably playwright David Williamson’s finest hour-and-a-half, Don’s Party is a superbly sustained [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/240/movies/dons-party/feed/ 1 http://cultprojections.com/227/movies/repo-man/ http://cultprojections.com/227/movies/repo-man/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:16:42 +0000 admin http://cultprojections.com/?p=227 USA | 1984 | Directed by Alex Cox Logline: An indignant teenage punk-rocker is recruited by a car repossession agent and becomes embroiled in the chaotic pursuit and secret agent shenanigans for a car containing deadly cosmic material. Made on the smell of an oily rag and sporting some of the cheesiest special effects this [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/227/movies/repo-man/feed/ 4 http://cultprojections.com/215/movies/cold-souls/ http://cultprojections.com/215/movies/cold-souls/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:53:21 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=215 USA | 2009 | Directed by Sophie Barthes Logline: After a neurotic actor discovers an unorthodox solution to his mid-life crisis: a company that specializes in soul extraction and storage, he then rents the soul of a Russian poet, only to discover his own soul has been stolen and given to a Russian actress. The [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/215/movies/cold-souls/feed/ 6 http://cultprojections.com/61/movies/johnny-suede/ http://cultprojections.com/61/movies/johnny-suede/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:49:46 +0000 admin http://cultprojections.worldblogosphere.com/?p=61 USA | 1991 | Directed by Tom DiCillo Logline: A naïve and immature young man with aspirations of being a country-rock star receives a few lessons in life and love while strutting around in his newly acquired blue suede shoes. “John had just about everything: the look, the hair, the clothes … everything, except one [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/61/movies/johnny-suede/feed/ 0