When the time is in for a new feature, there is no point in delaying its arrival and no wrong time to introduce it. Hence, despite my publishing the new 100 Favourite Movies list just recently, today is another day for a change here at Lime Reviews and Strawberry Confessions.
In The Cinematic Cookbook, you will - as time goes by and more and more entries are published - be able to find recipes for any film-related meal. Be it the classic action flick or the new trend of philosophic, complicated films that search for a meaning in life, we know all about it. Theoretically, that is.
Perhaps you will find inspiration for your own soon to be coming production, or what is more likely and the actual intention of this, you will find amusement and pleasure in reading the various recipes and if possible sharing thoughts for additional ingredients or refinements with the other gourmets here.
To start with, I have decided to take up a meal that I have been ordering almost every night for the last two weeks; the cult film. The basis for my knowledge of this speciality has been derived from an excellent list from my favourite place for film-related lists - the 500 Essential Cult Movies list based on the book by Jennifer Eiss, published on icheckmovies.com (for some reasons there are 502 movies in the list). I was simply looking for some interesting new films to watch and decided on one of the lists I had seen fewest movies from and that didn't sound as scary as "The 100 Most Significant German Films" (notice the use of 'films' instead of 'movies' here).
Anyway, I've spent many of my recent evenings watching a wide range of very different films - there's really everything from "f*cking crazy" to "incredibly beautiful" in the list - that all have an extreme cult following by a supposedly small group of people in common. Some of these films have had an influence on cinema, others have gone by unnoticed and unwanted until (re)discovered by some people that could appreciate them.
Although some of them made it really hard for me to like them (sorry, but Assault on Precinct 13 is so predictable when you've seen the remake before the original), I was surprised to love most of them. So, now that there are only 459 movies left for me to watch, here's my newbie-ish suggestion on how to make a cult movie.
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