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/788/movies/decalogue/ http://cultprojections.com/788/movies/decalogue/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 03:33:22 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=788 Poland | 1989 | Directed by Krzystof Kieslowski Logline: Ten modern fables loosely based on each of the Ten Commandments, all set within different apartments in the same high-rise block. When Polish filmmaker was commissioned to make a series of hour-long dramas for Polish television little did he know the impact his work would have [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/788/movies/decalogue/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/776/movies/the-sheltering-sky/ http://cultprojections.com/776/movies/the-sheltering-sky/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:47:44 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=776 UK/Italy | 1990 | Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci Logline: The plight of an American woman, and her husband, whilst traveling through the desert and villages of the Sahara, North Africa, in 1947. Peter Bowles’ best-seller adapted for the big screen by master Italian director Bertolucci, co-scripted with Mark Peploe, and starring John Malkovich as Port [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/776/movies/the-sheltering-sky/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/765/movies/my-summer-of-love/ http://cultprojections.com/765/movies/my-summer-of-love/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:15:13 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=765 UK | 2004 | Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Logline: A naïve teenager, in despair over her working class father’s born again Christianity, seeks solace and escapism in a romantic fling with an upper-middle class teenage girl. With a cast of only eight speaking parts, five of which barely have more than a line or two, [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/765/movies/my-summer-of-love/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/751/movies/henri-georges-clouzots-inferno/ http://cultprojections.com/751/movies/henri-georges-clouzots-inferno/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:46:32 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=751 France | 2009 | Directed by Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea Logline: A documentary about the making of the ill-fated feature Inferno by a legendary French director and starring a legendary Austrian actress. French director Henri-Georges Clouzot had an illustrious career, with two brilliant movies in particular; The Wages of Fear and Diabolique. In 1964 [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/751/movies/henri-georges-clouzots-inferno/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/734/movies/the-robber/ http://cultprojections.com/734/movies/the-robber/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:41:10 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=734 Germany/Austria | 2010 | Directed by Benjamin Hesienberg Logline: The true story of an ex-con who trains as a marathon runner whilst leading a double life as a masked armed robber. A thoroughly gripping drama that borders on being an action thriller The Robber is driven, in every sense of the word. Based on real [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/734/movies/the-robber/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/724/movies/the-ghost-writer/ http://cultprojections.com/724/movies/the-ghost-writer/#comments Thu, 10 Jun 2010 23:07:21 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=724 France/Germany/UK | 2010 | Directed by Roman Polanski Logline: A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers dangerous secrets that put his own life in jeopardy. Returning to the genre he knows and understands best, the brilliant Roman Polanski, now aged a stately 76-years-old, delivers a moody political thriller [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/724/movies/the-ghost-writer/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/667/movies/oldboy/ http://cultprojections.com/667/movies/oldboy/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:22:05 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=667 South Korea | 2003 | Directed by Chan-wook Park Logline: An ordinary man is kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, then suddenly released, confused and bewildered, only to be informed he must find his captor in five days. “Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.” Adapted for the screen from [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/667/movies/oldboy/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/656/movies/three-burials/ http://cultprojections.com/656/movies/three-burials/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:23:10 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=656 USA/France | 2005 | Directed by Tommy Lee Jones Logline: A ranch foreman honours the final Mexican burial wishes of his murdered best friend and makes sure the man responsible, an arrogant and reckless Border Patrolman, is held accountable. It’s curious how a respected actor decides he needs to try his hand at directing, gets [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/656/movies/three-burials/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/646/movies/show-me-love/ http://cultprojections.com/646/movies/show-me-love/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:44:16 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=646 Sweden/Denmark | 1998 | Directed by Lukas Moodysson Logline: Two teenagers – an unhappy girl with a secret crush on the cute popular girl  – find themselves the centre of attention, much of it very awkward. Writer and director Lukas Moodysson had been writing serious poetry for years before finally turning his hand to telling [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/646/movies/show-me-love/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/625/movies/control/ http://cultprojections.com/625/movies/control/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:17:06 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=625 UK/USA/Australia/Japan | 2007 | Directed by Anton Corbijn Logline: The story of Ian Curtis, the singer of seminal UK indie band Joy Division, whose personal and professional troubles lead to him committing suicide at age 23. “When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. And resentment rides high, but emotions won’t grow. And we’re changing [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/625/movies/control/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/594/movies/bad-blood/ http://cultprojections.com/594/movies/bad-blood/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:08:03 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=594 New Zealand | 1981 | Directed by Mike Newell Logline: The true story of Stanley Graham, a poor farmer, who shot dead seven men during a WWII arms surrender, then hid in the surrounding bush land, whilst a manhunt was launched. Despite the B-movie title this is a highly competent production with a compelling narrative [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/594/movies/bad-blood/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/574/movies/house-of-sand/ http://cultprojections.com/574/movies/house-of-sand/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:39:46 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=574 Brazil | 2005 | Directed by Andrucha Waddington Logline: The plight of a woman, and her feisty daughter, over the span of nearly sixty years, as she tries in vain to adapt to a life in a desolate landscape of shifting sand dunes. This is a stunningly realised character study of mother and daughter, juxtaposed [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/574/movies/house-of-sand/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/452/movies/the-wrestler/ http://cultprojections.com/452/movies/the-wrestler/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:29:32 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=452 USA | 2008 | Directed by Darren Aronofsky Logline: A middle-aged professional wrestler struggling with drug addiction, thankless gigs, and being estranged from his daughter, is told to retire by his doctor, yet he’s reluctant to throw in the towel. This was the comeback gig that touched Hollywood’s heart, but not quite enough to win [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/452/movies/the-wrestler/feed/ 3 http://cultprojections.com/380/movies/when-night-is-falling/ http://cultprojections.com/380/movies/when-night-is-falling/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:12:26 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=380 Canada | 1995 | Directed by Patricia Rozema Logline: An uptight and conservative woman, working as a Christian university professor and engaged to another of the college’s professors, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman whom works at a local carnival which has come to town. A deeply lush and exquisitely sensual drama [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/380/movies/when-night-is-falling/feed/ 6 http://cultprojections.com/365/movies/betty-blue/ http://cultprojections.com/365/movies/betty-blue/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:55:29 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=365 France | 1986 | Directed Jean-Jacques Beineix Logline: A carefree handyman begins a passionate relationship with a beautiful, but emotionally volatile young woman who wants desperately for him to succeed as a writer, and to have his child. I love this movie with an aching in my melodic heart. A celebration of love and life [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/365/movies/betty-blue/feed/ 2 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/317/movies/state-of-grace/ http://cultprojections.com/317/movies/state-of-grace/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:03:00 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=317 USA | 1990 | directed by Phil Joanou Logline: An undercover cop returns to his NYC stomping ground in order to bring an Irish-blooded criminal family and associates to justice, but finds the danger too close for comfort. One of the best gangster flicks set in New York City, Phil Joanou’s blistering tale of corruption, [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/317/movies/state-of-grace/feed/ 9 http://cultprojections.com/207/movies/wake-in-fright/ http://cultprojections.com/207/movies/wake-in-fright/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:24:22 +0000 admin http://cultprojections.com/?p=207 Australia/USA | 1971 | Directed by Ted Korcheff Logline: An English Outback teacher on route to Sydney finds himself trapped and out of his depth in a small township, caught up in the local pastime of drinking, gambling, and aggressive hospitality. Based on a blistering first novel by Kenneth Cook written in 1961, with an [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/207/movies/wake-in-fright/feed/ 1 http://cultprojections.com/195/movies/the-tin-drum/ http://cultprojections.com/195/movies/the-tin-drum/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:15:24 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=195 West Germany/France/Poland/Yugoslavia | 1979 | Directed by Volker Schlöndorff Logline: In Danzig, Germany, as WWII begins, a three year old boy with extraordinary intellect and a distorted morality decides to stop growing in defiance against the absurdity and contradiction of the adult world he sees around him. Based on the best-selling novel by Günter Grass [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/195/movies/the-tin-drum/feed/ 7 http://cultprojections.com/167/movies/the-unknown/ http://cultprojections.com/167/movies/the-unknown/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 16:32:48 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=167 Italy | 2006 | Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore Logline: A determined and troubled Ukrainian woman becomes the maid and nanny to a young, affluent Italian family, befriending the young impressionable daughter as part of her elaborate mission to uncover a sad and shocking truth. Nominated for Best Foreign Language film at the 2008 Academy Awards [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/167/movies/the-unknown/feed/ 4