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/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/708/movies/the-temptation-of-st-tony/ http://cultprojections.com/708/movies/the-temptation-of-st-tony/#comments Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:45:34 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=708 Estonia/Finland/Sweden | 2009 | Directed by Veiko Õunpuu Logline: A mid-level manager finds himself inexorably drawn across a lonely landscape, through a series of nightmarish incidents that test his morality and twist his perspective on love, life and death. Probably the strangest movie I’ve seen in many moons, an enigma, a psychologically labyrinthine, yet physically [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/708/movies/the-temptation-of-st-tony/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/695/movies/queen-under-review/ http://cultprojections.com/695/movies/queen-under-review/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 00:50:23 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=695 USA | 2006 | Directed by Chris Davies Logline: A two-part quasi-documentary that focuses on the music and performance of legendary British rock band Queen. A curious production; low-fi, subjective, oddly selective, yet passionate, detailed and informative, this is an independent critical analysis of the music of Queen, the bombastic English group of highly talented [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/695/movies/queen-under-review/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/636/movies/rec/ http://cultprojections.com/636/movies/rec/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:49:54 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=636 Spain | 2007 | Directed by Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza Logline: A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside an apartment building along with two firemen, two policemen … and a bloodthirsty virulent disease that is spreading amongst the residents. A low-budget horror that twists the zombie conventions on its head and delivers [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/636/movies/rec/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/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/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/582/movies/halloween/ http://cultprojections.com/582/movies/halloween/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:21:52 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=582 USA | 1978 | Directed by John Carpenter Logline: An escaped psychopath returns to his childhood neighbourhood, terrorising and killing several people whilst his doctor desperately tries to warn the local sheriff of the killer’s intent. “Black Cats and Goblins and Broomsticks and Ghosts Covens of Witches with All of Their Hopes, You May Think [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/582/movies/halloween/feed/ 0 http://cultprojections.com/562/movies/moon/ http://cultprojections.com/562/movies/moon/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:14:51 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=562 UK | 2009 | Directed by Duncan Jones Logline: A harvesting contractor who is working alone on the moon, and keen to return to his wife and baby daughter, is badly injured, so the earth-based company tries to rectify the situation, but a glitch has occurred with alarming results. Moon joins the ranks of District [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/562/movies/moon/feed/ 5 http://cultprojections.com/549/movies/the-thing/ http://cultprojections.com/549/movies/the-thing/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:52:04 +0000 brunodante http://cultprojections.com/?p=549 USA | 1982 | Directed by John Carpenter Logline: A scientific research station in the Antarctic is infiltrated by a xenomorphic alien life-form that steadily consumes and imitates each member. John Carpenter’s brilliant remake of Howard Hawk’s B-movie The Thing From Another World (1951) is without a doubt one of the greatest modern horrors ever [...]]]> http://cultprojections.com/549/movies/the-thing/feed/ 2