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Joe is such a good movie.
i lately have been obsessed with cage.
i should go to my local used record store and look for used dvds/blu rays of his movies.
nic cage marathon.
It was announced Thursday that RLJE Films has acquired all U.S. rights to the Nicolas Cage-starring action-thriller Mandy, and that the company plans to release the already semi-notorious film this summer. Written and directed by Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow), Mandy stars Cage and Andrea Riseborough as a couple whose existence is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand.
Clare King
@ClareBKing
Four minute standing ovation. #Mandy #nailedit #CannesFilmFestival #Nicholas Cage @panoscosmatos @LegionMOfficial
Erik Anderson
@awards_watch
MANDY is a trippy, revenge fantasy mind****. Mad Max meets Evil Dead by way of David Lynch. Nicolas Cage gives his best unhinged performance ever. #Mandy #Cannes2018
One of the most wonderful and surprising elements is Nicolas Cages performance as Red. He takes on the classic hero role and brings the life-saving amount of humour necessary for Mandy to succeed. He slips into the fantastical spirit of the film and strikes the perfect balance between being a realistic hero and embracing the over-the-top absurdity that is the plot.
Mandy is a risky move but the bigger the risk the bigger the payoff, right? Although weird and aggressive and at times just plain gross it easily has the potential to talk on cult following and become the stuff of legends.
For years, Nicolas Cages more extreme performances have been derided as a blight on cinema, but it turns out that cinema just had to catch up. Mandy, the new film from Panos Cosmatos, which had its European premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last night, is the ideal stage for an all-time-great Cage wig-out, and the actor ferociously obliges.
Equal parts supernatural splatter horror and hypnotic gallery installation, Mandy unfolds in a doom-laden narcosis that is not quite like anything else around, although there are cinematic reference points everywhere, including musky top notes of Lars von Triers Antichrist, Nicolas Winding Refns Valhalla Rising, Sam Raimis Evil Dead trilogy, and the fluorescing giallo horror of Dario Argento. It often looks like an Iron Maiden album cover cartoon come to life and there are [BLACKOUT]three brief animated dream sequences[/BLACKOUT] which owe a stylistic debt to Heavy Metal, the science fiction magazine.
Greatest actor in film history. Eat it, haters.t: