(In no particular order:)
1. This is Spinal Tap
2. In the Loop
3. Withnail and I
4. Slacker (depends on how you feel but I am either great fun to watch Slacker w/ or a terrible bore. I know every frickin' single person in it. Still the greatest representation of Austin ever.)
5. Dazed and Confused (maybe the finest French New Wave film ever made in the US. It is not just a genre picture.)
6. Me & Orson Welles (not really a cult film, I suppose, but I wanted to get some more Richard Linklater in here.)
7. School of Rock
8. An Education (not really a cult film, again, but part of my Nick Hornby selections.)
9. Fever Pitch (UK edition! About Arsenal! Not the one w/ Drew frickin Barrymore in it.)
10. High Fidelity
11. Dirty Pretty Things (you see, now I have slipped in to Stephen Frears' category.)
12. Dangerous Liaisons (I think this would be a great rep house cult movie. It is prob just me, though.)
12 1/2. The Snapper
13. Sexy Beast (this received a vote in someone's Top Ten! Matthew L's.)
14. Bottle Rocket
15. Rushmore (also made Matthew L's Top Ten!)
16. The Life Aquatic
17. The Royal Tennenbaums
18. The Big Lebowski
19. Serial Mom
20. Polyester
21. Female Trouble
22. A Hard Day's Night
23. Yellow Submarine
24. Shaun of the Dead
25. Hot Fuzz (also made Matthew L's Top Ten!)
26. Spaced (the two season fourteen episode English teevee show that Wright and Pegg did before Shaun of the Dead.)
27. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
28. Welcome to the Dollhouse
29. Storytelling
30. Happiness
31. Life During Wartime
32. Palindromes
33. Poison
34. Safe
35. Velvet Goldmine
36. Evil Dead 2
37. The Shining
38. Don't Look Now
39. Bad Timing
40. The Man who Fell to Earth
41. The 39 Steps
42. The Lady Vanishes
43. Young and Innocent (yeah, so I am being a little 'loose' w/ this cult definition! So sue me.)
44. Rebecca
45. Notorious
46. Strangers on a Train
47. North by Northwest
48. The Man who Knew too Much (the orig UK edition w/ Nova Pilbeam in it -- what a name, hunh?)
49. Rear Window
50. Under Capricorn
51. Rope
52. The Commitments
53. Angel Heart
54. Lolita (the Kubrick version, thank you very much!)
55. Dr Strangelove
56. 2001
57. The Maltese Falcon
58. The Big Sleep
59. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
60. The Third Man
61. The Magnificent Ambersons
62. The Lady from Shanghai
63. Passport to Pimlico
64. It Always Rains on Sunday
65. Pink String and Sealing Wax (they better mention Googie Withers in the Memoriam Tribute at the Oscars.)
66. Dead of Night
67. Whisky Galore!
68. Day For Night
69. Claire's Knee
70. Pauline at the Beach
71. Les Bonnes Femmes
72. Repulsion
73. Chinatown
And I am going to stop there. But I will be probably keep adding to this list, so if you are interested, just check back every now and then.
Mwah, ...
UPDATE! (2/9/12):
74. Darling
75. Cold Comfort Farm
76. Two for the Road
77. Bedazzled (orig Cook/Moore version w/ Eleanor Bron.)
78. Singing in the Rain
79. An American in Paris
80. Footlight Parade
81. Night Nurse
82. Baby Face
83. The Blue Angel
84. Bringing Up Baby
85. Shanghai Express
86. Twentieth Century
87. Shop Around the Corner
88. Design for Living
89. Ninotchka
90. To Be or Not to Be
91. The Merry Widow
92. The Thin Man
93. My Man Godfrey
94. Make Way for Tomorrow
95. Some Like it Hot
AH
(more soon, ... )
UPDATED! (2/11/12):
96. Tabloid
97. Man on Wire
98. Inside Job
99. The Thin Blue Line
100. The Most Dangerous Man in America
101. Roger and Me
102. Bowling for Columbine
103. Fahrenheit 9/11
104. Casino Jack
105. Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
106. The Fog of War
107. Standard Operating Procedure
108. Manufacturing Consent
109. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
110. The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
111. We Were Here
111 1/2. The Corporation
112. The Deal
113. The Queen
114. The Damned United
115. Longford
116. The Special Relationship
117. The Wire (tv series)
118. Treme (tv series)
119. Generation Kill (tv miniseries)
119 1/2. Mildred Pierce (tv miniseries)
120. Lone Star
121. Matewan
122. City of Hope
123. Return of the Secaucus Seven
124. Brother from Another Planet
125. Sunshine State
126. Passion Fish
127. Swimming to Cambodia
128. Monster in a Box
129. Terrors of Pleasure
130. Stop Making Sense
131. Silence of the Lambs
132. Something Wild
133. Mildred Pierce (Curtiz/Crawford film)
134. Eight Men Out
135. Bull Durham
136. Damn Yankees
137. Moneyball
UPDATE! (2/15/12) :
138. The Art of the Steal
139. Theremin
140. Helvetica
141. Sideways
142. Election (It has been all downhill for Reese Witherspoon since Election)
143. Junebug
144. Little Miss Sunshine
145. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
146. Loves of a Blonde
147. California Dreamin'
148. Tales of the Golden Age
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