Ian Haydn Smith's FilmQuake - The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema
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Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up.
FilmQuake introduces 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy.
From unbelievable developments in technology (Citizen Kane (1941)) to feminist triumphs (Wanda (1970); films that kickstarted New Queer Cinema (Paris is Burning (1990) to others that challenged lawmakers (A Short Film About Killing (1988) – FilmQuake presents the movies that questioned boundaries, challenged the status quo and made shockwaves we are still feeling today.
From film's first innovators, people like the Lumière brothers, whose short film of a train arriving was reported to have terrified audiences in 19th century Paris, through iconoclasts like Sergei Eisenstein and Luis Buñuel, to titans of 20th century cinema like Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, discover the stories behind the films which incontrovertably changed the course of cinema forever.
Into the modern day, this book examines how filmmakers have addressed themes of prejudice and inequality, from the Black Lives Matter movement and Jordan Peele's unmissable Get Out to Bong Joon-ho's cutting study of the lives of the wealthy in Parasite, as well as innovative new cinematic techniques emerging in films like 28 Days Later and Blair Witch Project.
In telling the history of cinema through the works that were truly disruptive, and explaining the context in which each was created, FilmQuake demonstrates the heart of modern film, which is to constantly question boundaries and challenge expectation.
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L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat
1896 — a.k.a. The Arrival of a Train, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
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Within Our Gates
1920, in 7 top lists Check -
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check -
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Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check -
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L'âge d'or
1930 — a.k.a. L'Age d'Or, in 16 top lists Check -
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L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
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Triumph des Willens
1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Great Dictator
1940, in 25 top lists Check -
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
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Roma città aperta
1945 — a.k.a. Rome, Open City, in 23 top lists Check -
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Rashômon
1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check -
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Pather Panchali
1955, in 21 top lists Check -
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Det sjunde inseglet
1957 — a.k.a. The Seventh Seal, in 25 top lists Check -
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Some Like It Hot
1959, in 35 top lists Check -
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À bout de souffle
1960 — a.k.a. Breathless, in 29 top lists Check -
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Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
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Victim
1961, in 7 top lists Check -
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Cléo de 5 à 7
1962 — a.k.a. Cleo from 5 to 7, in 15 top lists Check -
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La battaglia di Algeri
1966 — a.k.a. The Battle of Algiers, in 29 top lists Check -
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Bonnie and Clyde
1967, in 28 top lists Check -
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2001: A Space Odyssey
1968, in 45 top lists Check -
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Wanda
1970, in 11 top lists Check -
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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
1971, in 12 top lists Check -
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Touki bouki
1973 — a.k.a. Journey of the Hyena, in 9 top lists Check -
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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080...
1975, in 12 top lists Check -
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Jaws
1975, in 29 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
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Fitzcarraldo
1982, in 14 top lists Check -
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Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Thin Blue Line
1988, in 12 top lists Check -
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Krótki film o zabijaniu
1988 — a.k.a. A Short Film About Killing, in 12 top lists Check -
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Do the Right Thing
1989, in 25 top lists Check -
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Paris brûle-t-il?
1966 — a.k.a. Is Paris Burning?, in 1 top list Check -
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Daughters of the Dust
1991, in 9 top lists Check -
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
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Reservoir Dogs
1992, in 26 top lists Check -
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Chung Hing sam lam
1994 — a.k.a. Chungking Express, in 19 top lists Check -
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La haine
1995 — a.k.a. La Haine, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Blair Witch Project
1999, in 14 top lists Check -
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Russkiy kovcheg
2002 — a.k.a. Russian Ark, in 9 top lists Check -
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Brokeback Mountain
2005, in 21 top lists Check -
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United 93
2006, in 5 top lists Check -
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Tangerine
2015, in 5 top lists Check -
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Get Out
2017, in 16 top lists Check -
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Atlantique
2019 — a.k.a. Atlantics, in 6 top lists -
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For Sama
2019, in 3 top lists -
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Gisaengchung
2019 — a.k.a. Parasite, in 22 top lists
Last updated on Mar 20, 2022; source