cult films

by olaf cuadras ferré

a young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. then he meets hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.

dir.: spencer susser
drama 
2010

joseph gordon-levitt as hesher
devin brochu as t.j.
rainn wilson as paul forney
piper laurie as grandma
natalie portman as nicole

some facts:

- elephants make several appearances in the film. rainn wilson’s character is watching a tv show about elephants and we hear them in the background, the car dealership has a large pink elephant on the roof and beside t.j’s bed there is a figurine of another elephant. 
- in the pool scene, hesher asks r2 to shut down all the trash compactors. this refers to r2-d2 from star wars. director spencer susser also directed a tv special short, r2-d2: beneath the dome (1992). 
- all of hesher’s “persona”, according to joseph gordon-levitt, is inspired by late bass player from metallica, cliff burton. not only that, but the movie features a significant amount of music from the “burton” era, including the solo that hesher plays in the garage (anesthesia, from the kill ‘em all album) and, of course, the hesher lettering. 
- most of the songs on the film’s soundtrack are tracks from american heavy metal band metallica and british hard rockers motorhead.
- hesher (slang/noun): a person who is a fan of, and displays the appearance of heavy metal or hard rock music. a male enthusiast of heavy metal music, particularly one who adopts the hair style and dress of his idols. the female equivalent is a hesher-chick. 

impermeable:

stanley kubrick’s new york series

in 1945, for $25, he sold a photograph to look magazine of a broken-hearted newsvendor reacting to the death of president franklin d. roosevelt. a few months later kubrick joined look’s staff to become the youngest staff photographer in the magazine’s history. he continued to work for look until 1950 when he left to pursue filmmaking.

now, for the first time, fine art prints of kubrick’s work as a photojournalist are available for sale.

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the rocky horror picture show - behind the scenes
tim curry getting his hair and make up done
1975 

two brothers meet at their mother’s funeral, each in his way on a path of self-destruction, both haunted by a tragedy in their youth.

dir.: thomas vinterberg
2010
drama / drugs / violence

some facts:
- based on a jonas bengtsson’s book of the same name.
- it received public funding through the danish broadcaster tv2, whose condition for providing the money was that half of the cast and production crew would be first-timers.
- feature-film debutants included the cinematographer charlotte bruus christensen, the scriptwriter tobias lindholm and the stage actor peter plaugborg who played nick’s brother.

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christopher nolan
on the set of the dark knight rises (2012)

(Source: formerlyhansflorianzimmer)