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 27 top lists Check
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    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 37 top lists Check
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    Fitzcarraldo

    1982, in 13 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
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