Groundbreaking Films

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 4:05pm

Which ones do you consider to be groundbreaking? It can be because of technology or subject matter.

examples:
The Jazz Singer - first to use sound.
Do The Right Thing - for its depiction of contemporary racism.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 4:25pm

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs -the first animated feature in English and Technicolor; ushered in the Golden Age for Walt Disney

Toy Story - also for its groundbreaking animation

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 4:26pm

BONNIE AND CLYDE -- For it's graphic and realistic depiction of violence. Also, first film of the "New Hollywood."

[Mrs Mangel]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 5:03pm

"THE STORY OF THE KELLY GANG" (1906) The first motion picture with a story.

[pab]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 5:04pm

Deep Throat

[Mrs Mangel]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 5:07pm

"IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT"- for the first to get the top trifecta at the Oscars.

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 5:08pm

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 5:31pm

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST -- First animated film to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and the first to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy).

Updated On: 1/12/08 at 05:31 PM

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 5:54pm

Caligula - the first porn movie to go mainstream and use star actors.

[nmartin]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 6:01pm

Citizen Kane. If you don't know why, watch it.

[pab]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 8:58pm

""IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT"- for the first to get the top trifecta at the Oscars."

Grand Slam would be more appropriate than trifecta which suggests a first, second and third. "It Happened One Night" won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Actress.

[RetroBoy]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 9:05pm

WEST SIDE STORY - The first movie musical to win a total of 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture. Also to award a Best Director Oscar to two directors: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It's also the first film to receive an Oscar for excellence in film choreography awarded to Mr. Robbins.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 9:06pm

Don't forget Best Screenplay, pab.

[pab]

Posted: 1/12/08 at 9:32pm

Correct! It was also followed by grand slams for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Silence of the Lambs."

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 4:25pm

STAR WARS, definitely CITIZEN KANE, and I'll have to think more about the others.

[professor]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 6:37pm

In addition to what's already been mentioned:
-A Trip to the Moon (1902)and The Great Train Robbery (1903) paved the way for cinema as a narrative (not just photographic) form

-Birth of a Nation (1915) showed us that individual shots were the building blocks of cinema

-Battleship Potemkin (1925) showed the storytelling power of montage and editing

-Breathless (1960) deconstructed what all of the above pioneers created and broke all the rules of narrative filmmaking, paving the way for modern independent cinema

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 8:12pm

[DG]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 8:50pm

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 9:23pm

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 9:23pm

JAWS.

Pretty much created the summer blockbuster.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 9:45pm

[DG]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 9:47pm

I know I'm in a tiny minority, but I just love OVERBOARD. It makes me laugh - a lot - every time I watch it.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 9:48pm

I love that movie so much.

"What do you think his name is?"

"...Roy?"

[RetroBoy]

Posted: 1/13/08 at 11:53pm

How is OVERBOARD a groundbreaking film?

[Liverpool]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 1:24am

STOP ASKING QUESTIONS AND JUST ACCEPT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!