Kült Nedir?
Kült, esas olarak dini bir anlama sahiptir. Bu anlam genel kabullerin ve alışılmışın dışında, çoğunluk tarafından kabul görmeyen ve dışlanan, az sayıda takipçisi olan bir inanışı temsil eder! Günümüzde kullanılış şeklinden dolayı anlaşıldığı gibi pozitif bir anlam ifade etmez ve esasen negatif bir anlam taşır! Kült' sözcüğü Türkçe'ye Fransızcadan (culte) gelmiştir. Kelimenin köklerine baktığımızda ise latince kökenli 'Cultus' yani 'Tapınma' anlamını taşıdığını görürüz!
Kült Film Neye Denir?
Kült ile ilgili bir de 'Kült Film' tabiri dilimizde sıkça kullanılmaktadır!
Mainstream tabir edilen gişe amaçlı yapılmış filmlerden farklı olarak bulunduğu zaman içerisinde fazlaca bir iltifat görmeyen ancak aradan geçen zamanla birlikte belirli bir kitle ya da kitleler arasında yayılarak alışılmışın dışında ünlenen filmler için kullanılır! Bunun dışında bir film gösterime girdiği tarihlerde de gişe başarıları elde etmiş fakat aradan geçen zamana rağmen (bu süre içerisinde film, çekim teknikleri ya da konu anlatımı olarak güncelliğini yitirse de) halen belli bir kemik kitle tarafından fanatikçe destek görüyorsa (Ör: Pulp Fiction, Star Trek vs.)
bu tür filmler de 'Kült Filmler' kategorisinde gösterilmektedir!
Birçok kaynakta verilen yıllara ayrılmış 100 filmlik bir Kült Film Listesi
1960s:
A Bout de Souffle (1960; dir by Jean-Luc Godard)
Psycho (1960; dir by Alfred Hitchcock)
Dr. No (1962; dir by Terence Young)
The Pink Panther (1963; dir by Blake Edwards)
Le Mépris (1963; dir by Jean-Luc Godard)
Giulietta degli Spiriti (1965; dir by Federico Fellini)
Repulsion (1965; dir by Roman Polanski)
Per un Qualche di Dollaro in Piu (1965; dir by Sergio Leone)
Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (1966; dir by Sergio Leone)
Blow-Up (1966; dir by Michelangelo Antonioni)
Persona (1966; dir by Ingmar Bergman)
Le Samourai (1967; dir by Jean-Pierre Melville)
Belle de Jour (1967; dir by Luis Bunuel)
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967; dir by Roman Polanski)
The Graduate (1967; dir by Mike Nichols)
Don't Make Waves (1967; dir by Alexander Mackendrick)
Point Blank (1967; dir by John Boorman)
In Cold Blood (1967; dir by Richard Brooks)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968; dir by Stanley Kubrick)
If.... (1968; dir by Lindsay Anderson)
Rosemary's Baby (1968; dir by Roman Polanski)
Night of the Living Dead (1968; dir by George A. Romero)
C'Era Una Volta il West (1968; dir by Sergio Leone)
The Wild Bunch (1969; dir by Sam Peckinpah)
Easy Rider (1969; dir by Dennis Hopper)
Midnight Cowboy (1969; dir by John Schlesinger)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969; dir by Peter R. Hunt)
Que la Bête Meure (1969; dir by Claude Chabrol)
Môjû (1969; dir by Yasuzo Masamura; aka Blind Beast)
1970s:
Zabriskie Point (1970; dir by Michelangelo Antonioni)
La Rupture (1970; dir by Claude Chabrol)
A Clockwork Orange (1971; dir by Stanley Kubrick)
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971; dir by Monte Hellman)
Straw Dogs (1971; dir by Sam Peckinpah)
Deliverance (1972; dir by John Boorman)
Solyaris (1972; dir by Andrei Tarkovski)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973; dir by Sam Peckinpah)
Turks Fruit (1973; dir by Paul Verhoeven)
La Grande Bouffe (1973; dir by Marco Ferreri)
Sleeper (1973; dir by Woody Allen)
The Godfather, Part II (1974; dir by Francis Ford Coppola)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974; dir by Tobe Hooper)
Chinatown (1974; dir by Roman Polanski)
Profondo Rosso (1975; dir by Dario Argento)
Taxi Driver (1976; dir by Martin Scorsese)
The Tenant (1976; dir by Roman Polanski)
Murder by Death (1976; dir by Robert Moore)
Logan's Run (1976; dir by Michael Anderson)
Suspiria (1977; dir by Dario Argento)
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977; dir by George Lucas)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977; dir by Lewis Gilbert)
Demon Seed (1977; dir by Donald Cammell)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1977; dir by Nicolas Roeg)
Apocalypse Now (1978; dir by Francis Ford Coppola)
Dawn of the Dead (1978; dir by George A: Romero)
Life of Brian (1979; dir by Terry Jones)
I... Comme Icare (1979; dir by Henri Verneuil)
Stalker (1979; dir by Andrei Tarkovski)
1980s:
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980; dir by Irvin Kershner)
The Ninth Configuration (1980; dir by William Peter Blatty)
The Shining (1980; dir by Stanley Kubrick)
Wolfen (1981; dir by Michael Wadleigh)
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981; dir by George Miller)
Excalibur (1981; dir by John Boorman)
Blade Runner (1982; dir by Ridley Scott)
Les Fantomes du Chapelier (1982; dir by Claude Chabrol)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983; dir by Godfrey Regis)
The Hunger (1983; dir by Tony Scott)
The Terminator (1984; dir by James Cameron)
The Company of Wolves (1984; dir by Neil Jordan)
Kaze No Tani No Naushika (1984; dir, scr; aka Nausicaä of the Valley of the Winds)
Legend (1985; dir by Ridley Scott)
Brazil (1985; dir by Terry Gilliam)
Henry - Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986; dir by John McNaughton)
In a Glass Cage (1986; dir by Agustin Villaronga)
Raising Arizona (1987; dir by Joel Coen)
Angel Heart (1987; dir by Alan Parker)
Die Hard (1988; dir by John McTiernan)
Santa Sangre (1989; dir by Alejandro Jodorowsky)
The Killer (1989; dir by John Woo)
1990s:
Jacob's Ladder (1990; dir by Adrian Lyne)
Bullet in the Head (1990; dir by John Woo)
Barton Fink (1991; dir by Joen Coen)
Delicatessen (1991; dir by Jeunet et Caro)
Reservoir Dogs (1992; dir by Quentin Tarantino)
True Romance (1993; dir by Tony Scott)
Nightmare Before Christmas (1993; dir by Henry Selick)
Nattevagten (1994; dir by Ole Bornedal)
The Hudsucker Proxy (1994; dir by Joel Coen)
Pulp Fiction (1994; dir by Quentin Tarantino)
Natural Born Killers (1994; dir by Oliver Stone)
Riget (1994/97; dir by Lars von Trier)
Twelve Monkeys (1995; dir by Terry Gilliam)
Tokyo-Ken (1995; dir by Shinya Tsukamoto)
Crying Freeman (1995; dir by Christophe Gans)
Tesis (1996; dir by Alejandro Amenabar)
Dead Man (1996; dir by Jim Jarmusch)
Jackie Brown (1997)
The Sixth Sense (1999; dir by M. Night Shyamalan)
Being John Malkovich (1999; dir by Spike Jonze)