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prophecy girl - October 5, 2006 05:14 PM (GMT)
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Deep Throat, thought to be the most successful pornographic movie, features in a list of 100 landmark films.
Radio Times magazine said Deep Throat was "the worst film to have major influence", but that it took "porn out of the back room and into the cinema".

Made in 1972, it was the first pornographic film widely seen in cinemas, earning $600m (£320m).

The list, for the Radio Times Guide to Films 2007, also includes Citizen Kane, Psycho, Pulp Fiction and Shrek.

The Radio Times said about Deep Throat: "Cheerfully trashy, charmingly silly, this was a phenomenon of its day, a sign that the sexual revolution was in full swing."

The film was banned in 23 US states on its release, and UK censors only passed an uncut version in 2000.

Computer-generated fantasy Shrek and last year's gay cowboy movie Brokeback Mountain are the only films released since 2000 on the list.


SELECTED 'LANDMARK' FILMS
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Vertigo (1958)
Easy Rider (1969)
Jaws (1975)
Blade Runner (1982)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Brokeback Mountain (2005) 

Andrew Collins, the magazine's film editor, said: "While many of these movies are truly great, this is not a list of the greatest films of all time.

"These are films, major and minor, whose influence is still felt; time, context and circumstances have made them significant."

Disney's first full-length feature from 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is included.

The Beatles' 1964 film A Hard Day's Night is credited as a forerunner of modern music videos.

Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster Jaws is said to have "redefined the marketing for all future event movies".


Story from BBC NEWS:

prophecy girl - June 22, 2007 10:25 AM (GMT)
100 best American films of all time

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:rolleyes:

willowroolz - June 22, 2007 10:57 AM (GMT)
Why the :rolleyes: ? The top 20 seems pretty decent to me, although I may have placed It's A Wonderful Life and Some Like It Hot a bit higher :ponder:

Quite how Titanic gets in there at all is beyond me, though :shrug:

Those clips of the "worst ever" movies are hilarious :lmao:

little pixie - June 22, 2007 12:47 PM (GMT)
No Third Man ? :o :blink:

prophecy girl - June 22, 2007 01:44 PM (GMT)
:rolleyes: because it's 100 american films .......... the day they will mind doing a top 100 UK or other country films (unless you are telling me there is no 100 UK films worth it ....................... :unsure: )

willowroolz - June 22, 2007 02:19 PM (GMT)
Well that's a bit daft. Why should they? Let the NFT do the top British films if they want :shrug:

prophecy girl - June 22, 2007 04:00 PM (GMT)
:ermm: it would be interesting to see if american have any interest for films from outside USA (apart for the very short list of nominee for the oscar each year) :unsure:

Laura - June 22, 2007 08:22 PM (GMT)
The worst movies thing I'd seen before but the Shark Attack JB moment always makes me laugh :lol:. Apparently he ad-libbed the line as a joke and they just left it in :blink:

willowroolz - June 23, 2007 09:52 AM (GMT)
I bet her cat wasn't happy :lol: :ph43r:

Powdered Water - June 24, 2007 05:10 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (prophecy girl @ Jun 22 2007, 03:44 PM)
:rolleyes: because it's 100 american films .......... the day they will mind doing a top 100 UK or other country films (unless you are telling me there is no 100 UK films worth it ....................... :lol: << gone hiding>>)

I could not agree more there's so many fantastic movies made outside the U.S. it's not even funny. It's a great discussion though.




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