Most influential movie
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Good choice. I think since you brought up Fritz Lang, we can also add "M".
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Pulp Fiction, like it or not, is incredibly influential. It spawned a whole genre.
Which brings me to an interesting hidden influence, Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train. I didn't especially like it when it came out in 1989, or most of his other movies for that matter. But over the years, i have seen many movies inspired by its play on out-of-order and intersecting timelines, including Pulp Fiction. I enjoy it more now on the rewatching.
Which brings me to an interesting hidden influence, Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train. I didn't especially like it when it came out in 1989, or most of his other movies for that matter. But over the years, i have seen many movies inspired by its play on out-of-order and intersecting timelines, including Pulp Fiction. I enjoy it more now on the rewatching.
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Citizen Kane. While Welles didn't invent most of the techniques he used in that film, he was the first to use them all in one piece. Also, I do believe that it was the first time that a celing was shown in the movies.
Someone mentioned Dr. Strangelove, and to that I'll add Failsafe which was the drama based on the same book. To really appreciate the wonderful job that Kubrik did, you have to see Failsafe.
Forbidden Zone. If for no other reason than it gave Danny Elfman a taste for movie scoring.
The Manchurian Candidate, the origional, not the recentpiece of crap remake. From a political POV, it shows a shaking of Eisnehower era feel-good about the Government and is a harbringer of the more dark and cynical anti-gavernment moveis to come. I know other movies showed this, but I think that this was one of the bigger hits that did it in the time frame.
Someone mentioned Dr. Strangelove, and to that I'll add Failsafe which was the drama based on the same book. To really appreciate the wonderful job that Kubrik did, you have to see Failsafe.
Forbidden Zone. If for no other reason than it gave Danny Elfman a taste for movie scoring.
The Manchurian Candidate, the origional, not the recent
TragicMonkey
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How about "Valley of the Dolls"? It certainly shocked my grandmother, who insisted on seeing it with my mother "to see if it's as wicked as everyone says".
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I gotta vote for 'Eraserhead' by David Lynch. A commercial flop, no real social or political significance, just an all round bizarre movie.
I'd like to add I like all of Lynch's work ....
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I'd like to add I like all of Lynch's work ....
Charlie (except for Dune) Monoxide
And a couple of more...
Roots (1977ish) Yes it was only a TV movie based on a best seller but it was extremely well made and well acted and at the time really griped mainstream America's attention. It also popularized genealogy as a hobby among all ethnic groups.
The Wizard of Oz (hmmm, also based on a book). What American doesn't know the characters? The songs? The quotes? "Toto, I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore."
Roots (1977ish) Yes it was only a TV movie based on a best seller but it was extremely well made and well acted and at the time really griped mainstream America's attention. It also popularized genealogy as a hobby among all ethnic groups.
The Wizard of Oz (hmmm, also based on a book). What American doesn't know the characters? The songs? The quotes? "Toto, I have a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore."
May I choose a director? Japanese director, Akira Kurasawa.
The Hidden Fortress (1958) apparently was inspiration for Star Wars (1977) - but I've not seen the former, so I can't comment too much. Kurasawa received an Honorary Oscar for: "Cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world." - in 1990.
Inspired by the Hollywood Western genre, his Seven Samurai (1957) was, in turn, adapted to the Magnificent Seven (1960). Leone stole his plot for Yojimbo (1961) to make A Fistful of Dollars (1964), and lost a court action to Kurasawa over the matter.
A Fistful of Dollars starred Clint Eastwood, who went on to make a few more Westerns, and move into the influential Dirty Harry cop films. Eastwood directed the Oscar award winning Western Unforgiven (1992) - and the use of the positioning of fire as symbol of passion is reminiscent of Seven Samurai. I recall seeing a doco that has Eastwood expressing admiration for Kurasawa's efforts.
The Hidden Fortress (1958) apparently was inspiration for Star Wars (1977) - but I've not seen the former, so I can't comment too much. Kurasawa received an Honorary Oscar for: "Cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world." - in 1990.
Inspired by the Hollywood Western genre, his Seven Samurai (1957) was, in turn, adapted to the Magnificent Seven (1960). Leone stole his plot for Yojimbo (1961) to make A Fistful of Dollars (1964), and lost a court action to Kurasawa over the matter.
A Fistful of Dollars starred Clint Eastwood, who went on to make a few more Westerns, and move into the influential Dirty Harry cop films. Eastwood directed the Oscar award winning Western Unforgiven (1992) - and the use of the positioning of fire as symbol of passion is reminiscent of Seven Samurai. I recall seeing a doco that has Eastwood expressing admiration for Kurasawa's efforts.
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From the filmmakers and critics I've always heard the most influential movie on the movie industry was Citizen Kane. It was the best film ever made so the critics say:
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane has been voted number one in the Sight and Sound poll of film critics in each of the last five polls over the last 40 years (the survey is carried out once every ten years). A separate poll of established film directors in the same magazine held for the first time in 2002 also had Citizen Kane at the top. Influential critic Roger Ebert says that "The Sight and Sound poll is generally considered the most authoritative of all 'best film' lists". Perhaps not coincidentally he considers Citizen Kane the best film ever. The film was also selected as number one in a Village Voice critics' poll, number one in a Time Out critics' poll in 1995 and listed as the greatest film ever by the American Film Institute in 1998.
Here's my favorite film on the 100 best films list:
Blade Runner (1982, the Director's Cut)
An expensive, stylish, despairing vision of 21st-century L.A. in which Daryl Hannah and Sean Young, both perfectly cast, play androids. The most borrowed/stolen-from film of the last 20 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_movies_that_have_been_considered_the_greatest_ever
Orson Welles' Citizen Kane has been voted number one in the Sight and Sound poll of film critics in each of the last five polls over the last 40 years (the survey is carried out once every ten years). A separate poll of established film directors in the same magazine held for the first time in 2002 also had Citizen Kane at the top. Influential critic Roger Ebert says that "The Sight and Sound poll is generally considered the most authoritative of all 'best film' lists". Perhaps not coincidentally he considers Citizen Kane the best film ever. The film was also selected as number one in a Village Voice critics' poll, number one in a Time Out critics' poll in 1995 and listed as the greatest film ever by the American Film Institute in 1998.
Here's my favorite film on the 100 best films list:
Blade Runner (1982, the Director's Cut)
An expensive, stylish, despairing vision of 21st-century L.A. in which Daryl Hannah and Sean Young, both perfectly cast, play androids. The most borrowed/stolen-from film of the last 20 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_movies_that_have_been_considered_the_greatest_ever
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I take this to mean that you have never tried Google searches that combine "vintage" with some suitable descriptive word.
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"I too was a friend of Jamis."May your blade chip and shatter!
