Who has received acclaim, and generated controversy, for his often surreal, disturbing films,  Henry Lehrman or Darren Aronofsky ?
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Darren Aronofsky Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American filmmaker. He has received acclaim, and generated controversy, for his often surreal, disturbing films.
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Henry Lehrman Henry Lehrman (March 30, 1886 – November 7, 1946) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer.
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The Elephant Man (film) The Elephant Man is a 1980 American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick), a severely deformed man in late 19th century London. The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Freddie Jones. It was produced by Jonathan Sanger and Mel Brooks, the latter of whom was intentionally left uncredited to avoid confusion from audiences who possibly would have expected a comedy.
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Ari Gold (filmmaker) Ari Gold is an American filmmaker, actor and musician. His short film "Helicopter", about the aftermath of his mother's death, won him a Student Oscar. His feature debut "Adventures of Power" premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and made its European debut at the 2008 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film was released in North America by Variance Films/Phase 4 Films. Gold is the son of writer Herbert Gold.
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Butterfly on a Wheel Butterfly on a Wheel (US: Shattered, Europe: Desperate Hours) is a 2007 British–Canadian mystery thriller film directed by Mike Barker, co-produced and written by William Morrissey, and starring Pierce Brosnan, Gerard Butler, and Maria Bello. The film's title is an allusion to a line of Alexander Pope's poem "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot": "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" The line is usually interpreted as questioning why someone would put great effort into achieving something minor or unimportant, or who would punish a minor offender with a disproportional punishment.
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List of frequent David Lynch collaborators David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician, and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, known as "Lynchian"; this style is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. The surreal and, in many cases, violent elements to his films have been said to "disturb, offend or mystify" their audiences.
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DethRok Aaron Havill, aka "DethRok," (born April 20, 1978) is an American music producer, engineer, singer and songwriter. His studio credits include work with Dax Riggs & Ministry. His first album "Us & Them" was released in 2013 on 13th Planet Records. It was recorded in residence at Al Jourgensen's El Paso compound, where he remained for the recording of Ministry's "From Beer To Eternity", "Enjoy the Quiet: Live at Wacken", & "Last Tangle in Paris" live DVD.
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Henry Joost Henry Joost (born in Frankfurt, Germany on July 25, 1981) is an American actor and filmmaker, best known for directing such films with Ariel Schulman as "Catfish", "Paranormal Activity 3", "Paranormal Activity 4" and "Nerve".
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Weird fiction Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It can be said to encompass the ghost story and other tales of the macabre. Weird fiction is distinguished from horror and fantasy in its blending of supernatural, mythical, and even scientific tropes. British authors who have embraced this style have often published their work in mainstream literary magazines even after American pulp magazines became popular. Popular weird fiction writers included Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, and Clark Ashton Smith.
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Darren T. Holmes Darren T. Holmes is a film editor whose credits include animated films such as "The Iron Giant" (1999), "Lilo & Stitch" (2002), "Ratatouille" (2007), "How to Train Your Dragon" (2010), and "The Croods" (2013). He also served as a consulting editor for "Song of the Sea" (2014).
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Bruce Sinofsky Bruce Sinofsky (March 31, 1956 – February 21, 2015) was an American documentary film director, particularly known for his films the "" trilogy, "Brother's Keeper" and "Some Kind of Monster", all created with Joe Berlinger.
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Jack Bankowsky Jack Bankowsky was the Editor-in-Chief of Artforum throughout the 1990s (1992-2003) and the founding editor of Artforum's sister publication, Bookforum, where he was editor from 1996 to 1998. He is currently Editor-at-Large of Artforum and a freelance critic and curator. Bankowsky has served on the juries of Takashi Murakami's GEISAI art fair and the Venice Biennale, and his controversial contemporary survey exhibition, "Pop Life: Art in a Material World," (co-curated with Alison Gingeras and Catherine Wood) opened at Tate Modern in the fall of 2009 before traveling to the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Germany and the National Gallery of Canada. A visiting scholar at Yale University in the fall of 2004 and 2005, and at UCLA in 2008, he has lectured extensively on contemporary art. Recent writings have addressed the art of David Hammons, Louise Lawler, Jason Rhoades, and Richard Prince. Bankowsky's essay "Ciao Rensselaerville," on the latter artist's work, appears in the catalogue of his 2007 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum retrospective.
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Fred Wilder Fred Wilder (born November 14, 1962) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, painter, and musician. His early career was devoted to painting, and creating electronic music including soundscape. His filmography as writer director includes the films Scream Karl (2006), and Karl Bites (2006), which feature the robot Fast Karl. Zombees (2008), and Vampire Flesh a Poem (2009), both of which are experimental films driven by poetry. Wilder's films are known for surreal otherworldly and dreamlike images and he often incorporates stop motion animation with live action scenes.
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Henry Rollins Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), better known by his stage name Henry Rollins, is an American musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian. He hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, and is a regular columnist for "LA Weekly" and "Rolling Stone Australia".
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Strange Voices Strange Voices is a 1987 television film about schizophrenia directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and written by Wayne and Donna Powers. It was one of the ten highest rated made for TV movies that year with a 33 share in the Nielsen Ratings. The reviews were mixed as the film was criticized as inferior to other made-for-television movies about the disorder, including "Promise" (1986). "The New York Times", for instance, called it "too much, too late".
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Richard Linklater Richard Stuart Linklater ( ; born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. Linklater is mostly known for his realistic and natural humanist films which mainly revolve around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time. Some notable films of his include the observational comedy film "Slacker" (1990), the coming-of-age comedy "Dazed and Confused" (1993), the romantic drama film trilogy "Before Sunrise" (1995), "Before Sunset" (2004), and "Before Midnight" (2013); the music-themed comedy "School of Rock" (2003), and the rotoscope animated "Waking Life" (2001) and "A Scanner Darkly" (2006). In 2002 he began filming "Boyhood" (2014), a passion project which took over twelve years to finish. The film was premiered in 2014 to critical acclaim. Linklater won the Golden Globe, Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Picture. He also received his first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, along with nominations for Original Screenplay and Picture. In 2015, "Time" magazine named Linklater one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual "Time 100" list.
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Jon Rafman Jon Rafman (born 1981) is an artist, filmmaker, and essayist. His work centers around the emotional, social and existential impact of technology on contemporary life. His artwork has gained international attention and was exhibited in 2015 at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (Montreal). He is widely known for exhibiting found images from Google Street View in his online artwork "9-Eyes" (2009-ongoing).
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Affluenza Affluenza, a portmanteau of "affluence" and "influenza", is a term used by critics of consumerism. It is thought to have been first used in 1954 but it gained legs as a concept with a 1997 PBS documentary of the same name and the subsequent book, "" (2001, revised in 2005, 2014). These works define affluenza as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more". The term "affluenza" has also been used to refer to an inability to understand the consequences of one's actions because of financial privilege, notably in the case of Ethan Couch.
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Airplane! Airplane! (titled Flying High! in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan and the Philippines) is a 1980 American satirical parody film directed and written by David and Jerry Zucker as well as Jim Abrahams, and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Lorna Patterson. The film is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film "Zero Hour!", from which it borrows the plot and the central characters, as well as many elements from "Airport 1975". The film is known for its use of surreal humor and its fast-paced slapstick comedy, including visual and verbal puns and gags.
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Shana Moulton Shana Moulton is a media artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego, Cynthia. Based in New York City, Shana uses colorful psychedelic performance to describe pathetic situations with humorous surrealism.
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Nymphomaniac (film) Nymphomaniac (stylised onscreen and in advertising as NYMPH()MANIAC) is a 2013 European two-part art film written and directed by Lars von Trier. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Willem Dafoe and Connie Nielsen. The film was originally supposed to be only one complete entry; but, because of its multiple hour length, von Trier made the decision to split the project into two separate films. "Nymphomaniac" was an international co-production of Denmark, Belgium, France, and Germany.
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Jonathan Lerman Jonathan Lerman (born 1987) is an American autistic savant outsider artist. He was born in Queens, NY, and currently resides in the upstate New York suburb of Vestal.