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Darkstar. Go see it. Now!!!! NOW!!!

thewarn | 9 May '05, 13:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oldboy
spirited away
zatoshi
good bye lenin!
Fargo
All of the jay and silent bob fillms: clerks, mallrats, chasing amy, dogma, jay and silent bob strike back

thedaythatthatcherdies | 9 May '05, 13:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Easy Rider
Clockwork Orange (or as someone called in on these boards - Chocolate Orange haha)

marcofella | 9 May '05, 13:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Barton Fink.
Raising Arizona
Blood Simple
Miller Crossing
The Thing
Repo Man (no, really!)
Cube
Evil Dead 1 & 2
The Hills have eyes
Them!
Witchfinder General
Quatermass and the pit
Soylent Green
Ichi the Killer
City on Fire
Dark Days

Shit, there's loads man. How do you define 'cult movie'? Is blade runner a cult movie? Star Wars? Just stick to 'good' and 'bad' films. The above ones are good. Generally.

thewarn | 9 May '05, 13:32 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Swingers
Spinal Tap
Best In Show
A Mighty Wind
Dazed and Confused

colonol_k | 9 May '05, 13:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Donnie Darko

mexican_bat-hunting_badger | 9 May '05, 13:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Pi
Memento
Lost Highway
Mulhollan Drive
Requiem For A Dream
American Psycho
24 Hour Party People
Evil Dead
Army Of Darkness
La Haine
Cidade De Deus

so many, there's just a starter

Adrian_Denial | 9 May '05, 13:31 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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go watch 'la haine'

badger_lady | 9 May '05, 13:34 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Punch Drunk Love
Chungking Express
Amores Perros
Nine Queens
American Splendor
Magnolia
Short Cuts
Stranger Than Paradise (Or any Jim Jarmusch really)
Rushmore / Bottle Rocket (Early Wes Anderson Movies)
Last Life In The Universe
Three Colours Trilogy
Glengarry Glen Ross

Prufrock | 9 May '05, 13:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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run lola, run - it's a german film, but don't let that put you off.

so fucking what? - cliff spab is one of my heroes.

trident | 9 May '05, 13:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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A few more:

the life aquatic
i heart huckabees
the royal tenenbaums
28 days later
blue velvet

Theres absolutely loads, everything mentioned on here so far is worth seeing

thedaythatthatcherdies | 9 May '05, 13:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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What about:-

Amelie
Cool Runnings
Napolean Dynamite

waterwings | 9 May '05, 13:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Actually no, not Cool Runnings

AAAAH - Back to the Future trilogy!!!!

waterwings | 9 May '05, 13:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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reese witherspoon looks about 11 in that

tetsuo:iron man
testsuo: body hammer
brain dead
bad taste
the 9 lives of fritz the cat
plan 9 from outerspace

darkpigeon | 9 May '05, 13:53 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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dunno about cult, but good:

1. kids in the hall: brain candy
2. Hedwig and the angry inch
3. Any Gregg Araki film
4. Anchorman
5. Willard
6. Disneys beauty and the beast
7. ghost world
8. willard
9. Bill and teds excellent adventure
10. Zoolander

gay4conoroberst | 9 May '05, 14:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Recently-
Sin City. Watched it the other night, and it's incredible, up there with Pulp Fiction.
Napoleon Dynamite's great too, one of those films that you can watch any single scene from on it's own and it makes you laugh.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Bill Murray. Enough said really.

kovacs | 9 May '05, 14:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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A Shirt Film About Killing
Three Colours Trilogy
Talk To Her
Amores Perros
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Return
Elephant Man
Requiem For A Dream
Before Sunset/ Before Sunrise

Watch them all!

Pad1 | 9 May '05, 14:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Dont agree about before sunset/sunrise personally...

Just ethan hawk being iritating and smug.

Some beautiful scenery though

thedaythatthatcherdies | 9 May '05, 14:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Controversial...IMO they're two of the best romanctic films ever. and i like ethan hawk...even more controversial!

Pad1 | 9 May '05, 14:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Possibly a timing thing then, i watched them back to back with /after a one night stand.

Still find ethan hawk really iritating though, particularly the whole smug/wacky thing that he does in before sunrise in particular.

thedaythatthatcherdies | 9 May '05, 23:09 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i watched them back to back about a month ago, i thought they were fantastic - especially the way the 2nd one and how they link it in so well with the backstory

darkpigeon | 10 May '05, 12:57 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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ghost world
empire records
napoleon dynamite

wishpig | 9 May '05, 14:26 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oh and anchorman
and zoolander
rock n roll high school
saving grace
dazed and confused
and now for something completely different

wishpig | 9 May '05, 14:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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mulholland drive
anything by wes anderson
bubba ho-tep
tamala 2010

commandercool | 9 May '05, 14:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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il be miss state-the-obvious and suggest 'battle royale'

the sequel is kinda shoddy but still also worth a look

girl | 9 May '05, 14:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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ah, i loved battle royale.
the animated version is even more gruesome than the original. fantastic!
also, if you go for bloody gratuitous violence, ichi the killer is good. and starship troopers.

anime worth watching - ghost in the shell, perfect blue, neon genesis evangelion, princess monoke (sp?)

pretty_vacant | 9 May '05, 14:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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spirited away
kiki's delivery service (childish but good)
laputa castle in the sky

in fact all the studio ghibli films are worth watching
oh and you cant leave out akira. Fucking classic

thedaythatthatcherdies | 9 May '05, 14:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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ooo yeah, i forgot laputa!
never seen kiki's..., but if childish but good is up yr street, My Neighbour Totoro is also great.

akira? have never heard of it *looks ashamed*

pretty_vacant | 9 May '05, 14:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Buffalo 66
La Haine
Dobermann
Dancer In the Dark (Bjork is just amazing in this)

grinner | 9 May '05, 14:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i couldnt get into dancer in the dark. i'll try watching it again.

have remembered what akira is. motorbikes and such. yeah.

pretty_vacant | 9 May '05, 14:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Some more "cult" films that I don't think have been mentioned:

Paris, Texas,
Dekalog,
Betty Blue,
A Better Tommorow
The Killer
Q the winged Serpent,
Alligator,
Scum,

thewarn | 9 May '05, 14:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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THE WARRIORS!
MAN BITES DOG
FITZCARRALDO
AGUIRE WRATH OF GOD
the original SOLARIS
THE THING
REANIMATOR 1 and 2 (good HP Lovecraft based Horror comedy)
EVIL DEAD

optimist | 9 May '05, 14:51 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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have remembered what akira is. motorbikes and such. yeah.

Bit more than that :P

Having read the Akira books, the film is slightly problematic for me, because it doesn't really compare - the manga goes so much further with the storyline, and its probably the most compulsive thing I've ever read. I was working nightshifts at a call centre when I was reading it, and I'd go to work, read a volume, and then order the next one online while at work... :D

Still, technically a beautiful film, and damn fun to watch as well. It's so atmospheric, full of little background details - a perfect vision of a society teetering on a knife edge between salvation and complete and utter destruction.

With motorbikes.

guntrip | 10 May '05, 10:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i've never read the manga. i assume you'd reccomend it then? :P i might search it out in forbidden plant. i find manga quite hard to read though, the whole 'backwards' thing confuses me :D

pretty_vacant | 10 May '05, 14:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Don't worry, the Akira manga is 'flipped' - pages are mirrored so they read like any Western book.

The manga is a bit of an investment [6 300-ish page books, about £20/volume] but WELL worth it imho.

guntrip | 10 May '05, 14:36 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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really? oooh, i might buy it then (when i get my student loan of course. getting my priorities right :P), i've never found one that had been flipped.
i have tried reading manga, but i lose track of everything because i forget and started reading the pages back to front, which is utterly confusing!

pretty_vacant | 10 May '05, 15:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeah, me too :D I had some unflipped issues of the Eva manga, and although I would read the pages in the right order, I'd always forget to read right->left across the page :D

guntrip | 10 May '05, 15:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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neon genesis evangelion

This is probably my favourite piece of... anything. ever. bought all the videos when I was 16, fell in love with it.

Picked up the first two of the new "platinum" collection DVDs last week, lovely stuff.

Have seen seen the The End Of Evangelion movie? The end of the world never made so much sense to me..

guntrip | 10 May '05, 10:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i've not got to it yet. i've got series 1 through 7 and the film lying on my floor waiting impatiently for study leave when i can lock myself in with the tv and watch the entire lot in one go.

YAY

pretty_vacant | 10 May '05, 14:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oooh, you must see the movie as well - it's an alternative ending, that replaces episodes 25 & 26. A lot of the fanbase hated the TV series ending [it's.. uh.. slightly unorthodox] so they went back and made a big budget movie that turned out to be even more of a head fuck :D

Anyway, you can get it in a 2-movie boxset with Death & Rebirth, which if you don't know is a kind-of arty 'recap' movie, and its about £25 which isn't too bad.

Watching them all in one day.. I did that once. I think it cause a brain meltdown :D

guntrip | 10 May '05, 14:46 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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now you say it, i think it's death and rebirth that i have and possibly not 'the end of...' psht! one of my friends has it though, so i'll steal it when he's not looking :D

i will manage the all in one day thing at one point this week. i just managed to stay awake to watch eight hours of lord of the rings.

pretty_vacant | 10 May '05, 14:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I was having my first week off in over a year while between jobs, and spent a day eating bagels and watching video after video after video. After ten episodes, it seemed like a prudent idea to head straight for the home stretch, especially given how involving it gets in the second half of the series.

So, yeah, go for it.

But don't blame me if you start babbling about Instrumentality and Angels and Seele.

guntrip | 10 May '05, 15:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Being John Malcovich is class and also Eternal Sunshine of a spotless mind is worth watching.

julesfella | 9 May '05, 15:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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oh, and all tim burton films, which goes without saying really :)

pretty_vacant | 9 May '05, 15:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Gerry
Leaving Las Vegas
Rumblefish/The Outsiders
Carnival of Souls
Steamboat Bill Jr

silence-r | 9 May '05, 15:06 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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And......

The Wicker Man - Best psychological horror film ever. Christopher Lee rules. Also the source of much inspiration for the League of Gentleman (see poiceman in shop, the Salmon of Knowledge etc)

Brazil - Best British eccentric film made by an American ever. Terry Gilliam's excellent work here...fucking funny in parts & quite dramatic in others.

Eraserhead - Best 'what the fuck was that all about?' psychological horror film ever. Many people loathe it but I actually quite like it for it's aesthetic qualities, mutant baby & subtle background white noise.

Chopper - £3 on dvd in every HMV sale ever. A violent classic. Hilariously dark too. Enjoy.

Kleeb | 9 May '05, 15:35 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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haha I waited and waited to see if anyone put:

Blue Velvet
Welcome To The Dollhouse.

Patricide | 9 May '05, 15:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I was gonna put Blue Velvet but it's already up there ^^^ :-p

All David Lynch films are great....although some are quite odd/confusing

Kleeb | 9 May '05, 15:47 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Who made Mulholland Drive? I really don't get that film at all.

Patricide | 9 May '05, 15:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Lynch again. It's better than Mullholland Falls, which is the worst film I've ever paid good money to see. Apart from Regarding Henry.

thewarn | 9 May '05, 15:54 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Wow, Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz - my fave director)... dammit, why didn't i think of that??

Other incredible Todd S. films:

Happiness
Storytelling

& the incredible Palindromes

marcofella | 9 May '05, 15:58 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oh, happiness.
So good, so dark. When the father starts using salt again at the end...

I've yet to see Palindromes. That good, huh?

You have excellent taste in films by the way Marco. Todd Solondz and James Woods... Good stuff!

thewarn | 9 May '05, 16:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Kleeb, I agree with your recommendations, but I'm in an argumentative mood today, so:

Best psychological horror ever = the original vanishing.

Eraserhead: 'subtle' background white noise. You think? It's the first thing I notice, and am aware of it throughout the film. This is A GOOD THING!

But yeah, get all 4 of them. All superb films.

thewarn | 9 May '05, 15:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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David Lynch did Mullholland Drive....confusing yet great.

I have not seen the Original Vanishing so you may be right.

Throughout Eraserhead some of the white noise is louder than at other parts, but it certainly does add to the overall tenseness & nightmarish quality of the film. Watching that film late at night after a few bongs will taint your psyche slightly. My good lady on the otherhand thought it was the worst film she's ever seen, and I can understand that too.

Kleeb | 9 May '05, 15:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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My hopes aren't high for this year. I saw HGTTG, it wasn't that good.

Kes

Patricide | 9 May '05, 16:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Elephant.

team_cooper | 9 May '05, 16:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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napoleon dynamite
evil dead 1 & 2
clerks
shaun of the dead
bubba ho-tep

soapy | 9 May '05, 16:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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shaun of the dead was dreadful. i went to see it expecting big train random (prince/jockeys) genius. instead i got a romantic drama / comedy that dragged on like a burnley match... anyways...

legend
willow
labyrinth
He man the movie

^^^ god awful 80's films.

Pulp Fiction cannot be beaten.

wrightylew | 9 May '05, 16:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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bad films:

1. donnie darko
2. american beauty
3. magnolia

there i said it

gay4conoroberst | 9 May '05, 17:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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i have to agree on 1 and 2. not seen magnolia - but if it falls into the donnie darko/american beauty THIS REALLY IS A MEANINGFUL AND THOUGHT PROVOKING film then I'll steer well clear - thanks for the warning

silence-r | 9 May '05, 17:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Why don't you like Donnie Darko, and American Beauty for that matter, I think they are both fantastic. I'm just interested as to why you dislike them. Oh yeah and I'll back up anyone who said Spirited Away, it rules so much and has anyone said Delicatessen, I think that's how you spell it. It's about a French butcher in a post apocalyptic world. Oh and Iron Monkey, top class kung fu action.

smallpox_champion | 9 May '05, 17:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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It just seems there are certain films that are specifically designed to appeal to an audience that need to distinguish themselves from the popcorn munching masses by liking oh so arty and meaningful films, whilst still not bothering getting into anything to obscure and inaccessible (say the radiohead of film). American beauty seems especially contrived, some of the lines are so cheesy (admittedly disguised by good acting) e.g “ Our marriage is just for show. A commercial for how normal we are when we're anything but.”etc. I’d probably like it if I thought it was sincere but I can just imagine some studio exec saying ‘how can we cash in on this disaffected 90’s attitude’, it seemed like a really bad Douglas Coupland book to me. As for Donnie darko, I like the film the director talks about in the commentary but that’s not the film he made, so much just isn’t there, ambiguity isn’t meaning it’s the opposite. Might give the directors cut a shot though.

gay4conoroberst | 9 May '05, 17:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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'Bedazzled'.
1967 version, not the poxy 2000 remake. It was on telly a few months ago.
Out on DVD in October. I've already ordered mine. :)

shadyadie | 9 May '05, 17:04 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Mad Max - no matter how many times I see the boomerang slice off dude's fingers it's funny.

John Water's films, especially early 'blue' films - funniest movie scene ever is when Divine, a 400lb transvestite playing the role of a 16 yr old girl, throws her parents into the Christmas tree cos she didn't get the fuck-me pumps she wanted.

Drugstore Cowboy - Matt Dillion and friends are desperate for drugs. And why not?

Pope of Greenwich Village - Some of the best NYC banter you're ever gonna hear.

Party Girl - Parker Posey. Nuff said.

oceanRain | 9 May '05, 17:13 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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