List added by AFIoscar on 6 May 2009 11:48

Total Film's 50 Movies That Shook The World

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391

7.6

8.1

1. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

sexy, violent, auteur-launcher

301

7.7

8.1

2. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

original angry, young man

6.6

6.8

3. The Jazz Singer (1927)

the first talkie

200

5.7

5.6

4. Flashdance (1983)

flashy film w/simple plot

254

7.4

7.5

5. Mean Streets (1973)

sountrack w/various artists

1425

7.1

8.3

6. Jaws (1975)

mega-blockbuster

AFIoscar's rating:

1805

6.9

7.6

7. Batman (1989)

marketing campaign bigger than film

224

6.8

7.1

8. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

independant film explosion

586

7.1

9. Halloween (1978)

slasher films begin

AFIoscar's rating:

2161

7.9

8.8

10. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

first of Hollywood money grabbers

7.7

11. The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)

first feature film

7.7

7.5

12. Splendor in the Grass (1961)

first tongue kiss

5.7

6.7

13. The Moon Is Blue (1953)

the first censor challenger

843

6.9

7.8

14. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

first kid's film

1651

7.6

8.5

15. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

first film costing $100 million

AFIoscar's rating:

6.3

7.4

16. Women in Love (1969)

first film showing genitals

729

6.8

7.4

17. Carrie (1976)

first shocker ending

AFIoscar's rating:

6.8

18. Ecstasy (1933)

first sex scene

6.3

19. I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)

first film to utter the F-word

103

7.6

7.1

20. Catch-22 (1970)

first film with a bowel movement

333

7.6

7.9

21. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

first teen film

112

7.7

8.1

22. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

first anti-war film

5.3

5.2

23. Deep Throat (1972)

first mainstream porno-film

6.7

7.1

24. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

the first racist film

4.8

4.7

25. The Driller Killer (1979)

the first senseless video

6.8

7.7

26. The Defiant Ones (1958)

the first racist-issue film

7.7

27. Room at the Top (1959)

first film of British new-wave

265

7.1

7.5

28. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

first film questioning God

7.8

29. Triumph of the Will (1935)

first propoganda film

7.6

7.8

30. Victim (1961)

the first film to utter the word "homosexual"

113

6.3

6.4

31. The Last Starfighter (1984)

first sci-fi film to use supercomputers

731

8.1

8.6

32. Citizen Kane (1941)

first to do many of today's methods of filmmaking

AFIoscar's rating:

327

7.1

8.1

33. King Kong (1933)

first FX feature

AFIoscar's rating:

698

8.1

8.6

34. Vertigo (1958)

first film to use different method of zooming

1721

8.2

8.5

35. The Shining (1980)

first film to be directed focussing on tracking shots

AFIoscar's rating:

3706

7.8

8.7

36. The Matrix (1999)

slow-motion action shots

AFIoscar's rating:

195

37. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

the first use of editing for meaning

2376

7.2

8.1

38. Toy Story (1995)

first feature length computer-animated film

253

8.1

39. Breathless (1960)

jump cutting of film used

511

6.8

7.5

40. The Abyss (1989)

first use of CGI for inanimate objects

AFIoscar's rating:

2651

8.2

8.9

41. Pulp Fiction (1994)

first post-modern classic

AFIoscar's rating:

2896

6.9

7.8

42. Jurassic Park (1993)

computer animated dinosaurs

945

8.1

8.7

43. Psycho (1960)

first hero killed before end of film

AFIoscar's rating:

352

7.5

7.9

44. Dirty Harry (1971)

a cop who kills

439

7.9

45. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

bleak, pessimistic ending

AFIoscar's rating:

2847

8.3

8.8

46. Fight Club (1999)

shattering of typical Hollywood convensions

AFIoscar's rating:

464

8.1

8.4

47. Metropolis (1927)

first sci-fi with future visions

AFIoscar's rating:

364

7.1

7.8

48. Blazing Saddles (1974)

broad genre-spoofing, sight gags

AFIoscar's rating:

291

7.3

7.6

49. Enter the Dragon (1973)

"Bond-style" martial arts film

1142

7.9

8.4

50. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

interplanetary travel

Comments

Jazzie

Posted : 6 months, 1 week ago at May 7 18:02

Wow, great list.

bob loblaw

Posted : 6 months ago at May 8 8:03

Great list indeed, though I think Bergman in his films has dealt with questioning of God many times before The Last Temptation of Christ was even made. But it might be the first religious film that has done it.

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In May of 2002, Total Film Magazine's writers came up with their definitive list of 50 films that changes we watch films forever. For one reason or another, each of these films skewed the perception of film entertainment that we, previous to the release of these films, thought we had seen/heard it all.

Total Film thinks that these are the fifty reasons we see film in a new light...


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