Movies, television shows, books: well known media awash with mediocrity and hackneyed, formulaic vehicles for commercialisation. "CultPrime" takes a dim view of this. This media listing has been painstakingly researched, its content the basis of many an argument due to this site's stringent requirements for inclusion. What we have listed, however, we believe to be a representative cross-section of original media from all three facets (film, TV and literature) whose content should be part of everyone's life-experience; familiarity doubtless will come based on your individual interests but whether on a quest for understanding of the human condition or merely an indulgent romp to pass an evening's entertainment, our selection spans the full spectrum.
CINEMA
Time of the Gypsies is Emir Kusturica's directoral coming-of-age - a grand, sprawling movie shot through with petty heroism and hopeless beauty. There is no film like this and it is one of the "CultPrime" paradigm films that ought, by rights, to define the medium - a yardstick against which most other films appear, at best, little more than pretty fluff.
Ghost World
Bladerunner - The Director's Cut
The Breakfast Club
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Vanishing (Dutch Original)
TELEVISION
The Prisoner was Patrick McGoohan's enigmatic contribution, masquerading as one of the many late 1960s crime-and-spy series, it is one of the few television creations one may cite as elevating that much-prostituted medium to genuinely enduring art. "CultPrime" recommends the viewer bear in mind the demands of the networks regarding number of episodes and regard first and last two episodes as the true reflection of McGoohan's work; though many of the interceding episodes are splendid and all contribute something to this once-in-a-generation production.
Colombo
Dallas
Peep Show
Miami Vice
The Young Ones
The Simpsons
LITERATURE
Belle du Seigneur / Albert Cohen depicts, ostensibly, the seduction of a beautiful bourgeoise by a bored but brilliantly inventive and charismatic diplomat in 1930s Geneva. But it is so much more: linguistically, characterisations, dazzling flow - and one of a clutch of novels representing the artistic and intellectual pinnacle of the medium.
Middlemarch
The God of Small Things
The Lord of the Rings
Catcher in the Rye
Catch 22
Crime and Punishment
King Solomon's Mines
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