Which ones have been left out? Remember - not best film - most influential on English speaking audiences.
Monday, September 21, 2009
[most influential films of all time] my top four
Breathless, The Seventh Seal, Casablanca, Die Hard, Battleship Potemkin and so on and so on - how can any of these be left off a list of influential films? To choose the four most influential is a near impossibility but mine are below.
Which ones have been left out? Remember - not best film - most influential on English speaking audiences.
Which ones have been left out? Remember - not best film - most influential on English speaking audiences.
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Most influential. Where did you get XXX from out of that?
ReplyDeleteOK here we go.
Deep Throat.
Star Wars.
Dr No.
Nosferatu.
Most influential and not favorite are..
ReplyDeleteMetropolis (Original)
King Kong (Original)
Nosferatu (Agreed with Lord T)
Gone with the wind
I'm going to go with
ReplyDeleteGone With The Wind
Triumph of the Will
Birth of a Nation
The Jazz Singer ( Jolson not Diamond)
Goodfellas
ReplyDeleteMade the f word cool, normalised it into a form of punctuation, desensitised our approach to violence
Star Wars
Almost any Vietnam movie - the introspective feeling from America shaped and has influenced the role of film in the war debate ever since
The Exorcist
changed the way we think about horror, torture etc
I still don't feel comfortable in the shower after Psycho, so good choice ,along with Citizen Cane.
ReplyDeleteMine would also be those 2 plus
Postcards From The Edge
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
and bonus
Blue Angel
Trust Lord T to say Deepthroat.
ReplyDeleteUber,
ReplyDeleteIt brought porn films into the mainstream and out from seedy movie parlours.
As a special bonus it made a particular sex act something to try out and not something that only hookers do.
And did it improve your skills in that particular sex act, Lord T?
ReplyDeleteWell my part is fairly easy. So no skills required at all. Last time I checked I was missing that last evolutionary step that made my spine more supple and I'm not queer so no need to have any skills in that area at all.
ReplyDeletePerchance what should have been?
ReplyDeleteAnything by Greenway.
if only for the voluptuousness of the artwork. (there is a theme?).
Goodfellas I'll happily run with.
And, Arthurfecksakes who took over this thread?
Lordee Uber? Uberee Lord?
To get back t'it point: perhaps Jacobs Ladder and...
Ha!
Driving Miss Daisie.
Eat yer hearts out peeps.
STB.
I'd like to vote for "The Lord of the RIngs" for having influenced all those people to lie - the ones who said they'd read the book in a recent poll.
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