List added by AFIoscar on 6 May 2009 11:48

Total Film's 50 Movies That Shook The World

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7.7

8.1

1. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

sexy, violent, auteur-launcher

304

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

203

5.7

5.6

4. Flashdance (1983)

flashy film w/simple plot

258

7.4

7.5

5. Mean Streets (1973)

sountrack w/various artists

1440

7.1

8.3

6. Jaws (1975)

mega-blockbuster

AFIoscar's rating:

1823

6.9

7.6

7. Batman (1989)

marketing campaign bigger than film

225

6.8

7.1

8. Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

independant film explosion

594

7.1

9. Halloween (1978)

slasher films begin

AFIoscar's rating:

2180

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

852

6.9

7.8

14. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

first kid's film

1667

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

741

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

104

7.6

7.1

20. Catch-22 (1970)

first film with a bowel movement

337

7.6

7.9

21. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

first teen film

113

7.7

8.1

22. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

first anti-war film

5.4

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

268

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"

115

6.3

6.4

31. The Last Starfighter (1984)

first sci-fi film to use supercomputers

734

8.1

8.6

32. Citizen Kane (1941)

first to do many of today's methods of filmmaking

AFIoscar's rating:

331

7.1

8.1

33. King Kong (1933)

first FX feature

AFIoscar's rating:

705

8.1

8.6

34. Vertigo (1958)

first film to use different method of zooming

1741

8.2

8.5

35. The Shining (1980)

first film to be directed focussing on tracking shots

AFIoscar's rating:

3729

7.8

8.7

36. The Matrix (1999)

slow-motion action shots

AFIoscar's rating:

196

37. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

the first use of editing for meaning

2395

7.2

8.1

38. Toy Story (1995)

first feature length computer-animated film

255

8.2

39. Breathless (1960)

jump cutting of film used

515

6.8

7.5

40. The Abyss (1989)

first use of CGI for inanimate objects

AFIoscar's rating:

2671

8.2

8.9

41. Pulp Fiction (1994)

first post-modern classic

AFIoscar's rating:

2918

6.9

7.8

42. Jurassic Park (1993)

computer animated dinosaurs

954

8.1

8.7

43. Psycho (1960)

first hero killed before end of film

AFIoscar's rating:

355

7.5

7.9

44. Dirty Harry (1971)

a cop who kills

447

7.9

45. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

bleak, pessimistic ending

AFIoscar's rating:

2875

8.3

8.8

46. Fight Club (1999)

shattering of typical Hollywood convensions

AFIoscar's rating:

470

8.1

8.4

47. Metropolis (1927)

first sci-fi with future visions

AFIoscar's rating:

366

7.2

7.8

48. Blazing Saddles (1974)

broad genre-spoofing, sight gags

AFIoscar's rating:

293

7.4

7.6

49. Enter the Dragon (1973)

"Bond-style" martial arts film

1155

7.9

8.4

50. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

interplanetary travel

Comments

Jazzie

Posted : 6 months, 2 weeks ago at May 7 18:02

Wow, great list.

bob loblaw

Posted : 6 months, 2 weeks 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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