Subgenre Sampler
Documentary > Cult: 80 Films to Buy & Rent
- Nico Icon (1995)
- Dir. Susanne Ofteringer
- Most famous as one–time singer for the Velvet Underground or arguably just for being famous, this takes a biographical tour of the late German…
- Ed Wood: Look Back in Angora (1994)
- Doco on the B–movie director, that reveals the man beneath the pink cardy. Covering the time of Tim Burton's biopic and beyond, through to the…
- Endless Summer 2 (1994)
- Dir. Bruce Brown
Feat. Patrick O'Connell, Robert Weaver
- Brown is some thirty years older but his passion for surfing and engaging humour has diminished none. Awesome surfing footage is captured this time…
- Hated (1994)
- Dir. Todd Phillips
- Unflinching shock–umentary exposes the grubby exploits of the late GG Allin – punk rocker, nihilist, sad bastard – who, despite…
- Life & Times of Allen Ginsberg (1993)
- Dir. Jerry Aronson
- This resonant film double–acts as a nostalgic looking–glass into bohemian culture and as a showcase of the New York beat poet/political…
- Charles Manson - Then and Now (1992)
- Tracing America's morbid fascination with the infamous sociopath , jailed in 1970 after members of his cult "family" went on a murder spree, this…
- Cyberpunk (1992)
- Dir. Marianne Trench
Feat. William Gibson, Timothy Leary
- Low–budget insight into the cyberpunk counter–culture. Author William Gibson and many hangers–on offer their view of what it means…
- Fishing with John (TV Series) (1992)
- Dir. John Lurie
Feat. Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, Dennis Hopper…
- Neo–beatnik musician John Lurie hosts his own candid, off–beat TV show in which he takes a hipster celebrity pal on an exotic fishing…
- Commissioner of Sewers (1991)
- Dir. Klaus Maeck
- Dir. Maeck brings a European perspective to bear on the cult American writer, William S. Burroughs (NAKED LUNCH). A familiar blend of archival…
- Jodorowsky Constellation, The (1990)
- Dir. Louis Mouchet
- The creator of latterday surrealist films such as EL TOPO, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN and SANTE SANGRE, Alejandro Jodorowsky, gets due homage in this detailed…