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Re: Cult movies
« Reply #30 on Aug 7, 2011, 8:55pm »		[Quote]
I must have blanked the violence in usual suspects. I got quite taken by it.

Nobody mentioned "memento"? is is a modern cult movie?
What about Grease?
for french speakers, I guess "La soupe aux choux" "la grande vadrouille" and a few others with de Funes (who has the ability to annoy or please to extreme) and Bourvil.

I am soon to discover the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Am going to the cinema to watch it with a fan. Am getting quite excited about it and am planning my outfit.
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« Reply #31 on Aug 7, 2011, 9:54pm »		[Quote]
I think some of Luc Besson's films - thinking particularly of Leon and of The fifth element here are cult films.

could we define a cult film by the fact that the audience isn't enormous and that it's usually a love it or hate it film?
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« Reply #32 on Aug 8, 2011, 5:27am »		[Quote]
Obviously -- any film with a devoted following is a cult film, whether or not the fanbase is 200 people or 20 million people.

Mentioning Luc Besson brings up another aspect of cult films -- there are also cult directors. A few names that come to mind are David Lynch, Pedro Almodovar, Wong Kar Wei or even Alfred Hitchcock.
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« Reply #33 on Aug 8, 2011, 10:28am »		[Quote]
oh, yes, cult directors...
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« Reply #34 on Aug 8, 2011, 8:31pm »		[Quote]
Withnail & I (altho I didn't like it)

Rocky Horror Picture Show....just for Tim Curry's brilliant Frankenfurter...but I agree about all the audience participation...jolly annoying when people jump up in front of one and start dancing about...gggrrr...

The Blues Brothers (ditto)


Dark Star...

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« Reply #35 on Aug 8, 2011, 8:37pm »		[Quote]
Leon OF COURSE!

Casa Blanca.....?
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« Reply #36 on Aug 8, 2011, 8:38pm »		[Quote]
I absolutely loved Withnail & I while the person with whom I saw it loathed it -- true sign of a cult movie, because others either should hate it or at least say "I don't understand why you liked it."

I have always despised The Blues Brothers. (We cult people need to be extreme one way or the other.)
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« Reply #37 on Aug 8, 2011, 8:52pm »		[Quote]
What about 'Harvey' and 'It's a Wonderful Life'? I have borrowed them from my sister because I've neverv really watched them....

I dunno whether they could be classed as 'cult' movies...but here in the UK (amongst certain groups...) there is a tremendous fondness for the Ealing Comedies...like 'Passport to Pimlico', Whisky Galore' and 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'....British war propaganda films like 'In Which We Serve' , 'A Matter of Life and Death' etc....and comedies like 'Murder at the Gallop'and 'Blyhthe Spirit'


The original Poltergeist film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Exorcist (dreadful film) An American Werewolf In London...2001 A Space Odysey....eeeh there's loads of them.....
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« Reply #38 on Aug 8, 2011, 8:54pm »		[Quote]
Cult Directors have to include James Cameron, Stanley Kubrick.......er.....
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« Reply #39 on Aug 8, 2011, 9:13pm »		[Quote]
Yes, of course. Those movies you mentioned just above must be a peculiar British cult. ;) I have heard the title Passport for Pimlico, though. I feel it must have some sort of kindred relationship to the French movie Un Taxi pour Tobrouk. 8-)
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« Reply #40 on Aug 9, 2011, 7:26pm »		[Quote]
Has no one mentioned The Big Lebowski yet? Huge cult film, especially among fans of herbal refreshments. :) I used to wonder what the big deal was, but on second viewing it grew on me.
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« Reply #41 on Aug 9, 2011, 7:53pm »		[Quote]
Oh, I've never had a second viewing -- maybe that's the problem. :D But I do very much like most of the Coen brothers movies (not all of them, so they are not cult directors for me).
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« Reply #42 on Aug 9, 2011, 9:22pm »		[Quote]
what about cult actors?
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« Reply #43 on Aug 9, 2011, 9:42pm »		[Quote]
They are a rare commodity but they do exist... like Jean Pierre Léaud, Mickey Rourke :-X or Tura Satana....
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« Reply #44 on Aug 10, 2011, 5:51am »		[Quote]

Aug 9, 2011, 9:42pm, kerouac2 wrote:
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« Reply #45 on Aug 10, 2011, 10:21am »		[Quote]
Edward Norton?
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« Reply #46 on Aug 10, 2011, 3:17pm »		[Quote]
I think Harry Dean Stanton could be considered a cult actor. I'm part of that cult.
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« Reply #47 on Aug 11, 2011, 4:39pm »		[Quote]
Johnny Depp is a big cult actor. Pre-"Pirates" he was an indie thespian, post-"Pirates," he now has legions of children in his fan base.
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« Reply #48 on Aug 11, 2011, 4:55pm »		[Quote]
We mustn't forget Russ Meyer as a cult director, although it was always very difficult to hear the actors since the audience was howling with laughter.

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« Reply #49 on Aug 11, 2011, 7:32pm »		[Quote]
Ed Wood, famous for making "the worst film of all time" (Plan 9 from Outer Space). And anything by Ray Harryhausen (thinking of the Sinbad films). As a kid (and as an immature adult) I loved the 1950's and 1960's sci-fi films (The Head That Wouldn't Die, The Colossal Man etc.). And all the Godzilla and assorted Japanese monster films.

The movie Slackers is a cult film. Indie film maker Harmony Korine is a cult film maker, with movies like "Kids" and "Gummo".
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« Reply #50 on Aug 11, 2011, 8:51pm »		[Quote]
Gummo -- I curse a German 'friend' for borrowing my copy and never returning it, because it is extremely difficult to get a personal copy.
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« Reply #51 on Aug 15, 2011, 4:38pm »		[Quote]
2 of our favourite film...Cult? in certain circles... ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBewQPFdKE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5B8sSBkRF0

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« Reply #52 on Aug 15, 2011, 5:11pm »		[Quote]
Both of those are great! :D

I watch Shaun every time it shows up on television.
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« Reply #53 on Aug 15, 2011, 9:07pm »		[Quote]
love'em both, CPB!
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« Reply #54 on Aug 15, 2011, 9:09pm »		[Quote]
Lars von Trier is definitely a cult director, even though I haven't liked all of his films. But he certainly redeemed himself with Melancholia.
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