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nutella23

17:16 / 26.09.02

You are now in charge of programming for a late-night film festival. You have full-scale access to the world's movie archives. What are you going to show?

My own recommendations:

1) Videodrome (David Cronenberg)
2) Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
3) Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
4) Heaven & Earth Magic (Harry Smith)
5) Begotten (Elias Mehridge)
6) Institute Benjamineta (sp?) (The Brothers Quay)
7) Tetsuo/Iron Man (can't recall)
8) Brazil (Terry Gilliam)
9) Fantastic Planet (Roland Topor?)
10) Salo (Passolini)
11) Stalker (Tarkovsky)
12) The Divine Horsemen (Maya Deren)
13) The Trial (Orson Welles)
14) Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger)
15) City of Lost Children (can't recall)
16) Alice (Jan Svankmajer)
17) The Manchurian Candidate (can't recall)
18) Apocalypse Now ( Copola)
19) Pink Flamingos (John Waters)
20) Tribulation 99 (Craig Baldwin)

spidervirus

17:54 / 26.09.02

1)tetsuo the iron man
2)man bites dog
3)cannibal holocaust
4)eraserhead
5)pi
6)performance
7)tokyo fist
8)scanners
9)wild at heart
10)uzumaki

nutella... from your list, shinya tsukamoto directed tetsuo and jean-pierre jeunet directed city of the lost children.

Jack Fear

17:56 / 26.09.02

And John Frankenheimer directed The Manchurian Candidate.

The Strobe

18:08 / 26.09.02

In the title you say Cult. In the abstract you say "strange, disturbing, or downright odd". Are the two the same? I'd argue not. What we appear to be producing is our favourite lists of "arty, slightly challenging films". We'are aiming to provoke thought? How about in sequencing - two films together in the same festival can work really well. I'll come up with a list in time, but I was just wondering if you could explain "cult" a bit better... it seems to be cult in a MoviedromeWithMarkCousins kind of way...

gridley

18:34 / 26.09.02

Buckeroo Banzai
Flash Gordon
Big Trouble in Little China
Hudson Hawk
1941
Dr. Caligari (the 1989 Stephen Sayadian version)
The Last Days of Man on Earth (aka The Final Programme)
Fantastic Planet (la Planete Sauvage)
Logan's Run
Yellow Submarine

The Strobe

21:31 / 26.09.02

gridley: Ooh, planet sauvage!!! Never seen it, but I do have a copy of the soundtrack, which is wonderful... (and I'm not sure about 1941).

((I am working on my own list. Just thought I'd put some threadrot in on the side)).

Jack Fear

11:56 / 27.09.02

Feh. Isn't this just another excuse for a "list your favorite films" thread?

that

11:59 / 27.09.02

Uh, yeah. I agree with Jack (stop that, it happens occasionally). We should probably say *why* we think these films should be 'required viewing for all', even if its just one line to go with each...

gridley

15:32 / 27.09.02

paleface: watching planete sauvage always hits me like an acid trip. it really bends my mind and sometimes gets to me so much, I have to stop watching for a while and come back later. my copy is especially interesting because it's both dubbed and subtitled, but with two different translations, one more literal, one more poetic.

nutella23

16:51 / 27.09.02

OK, redefining what I meant by "cult": non-mainstream films that should be shown more because they challenge the viewer, have something interesting to say that you won't often find in film these days, or somehow play with/bend the conventions of filmmaking.

And thanks for all the names of those filmmakers/directors I couldn't recall. (Short-term memory loss, you know how it is.)

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