{"id":5356,"date":"2009-04-14T23:31:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T22:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2009-04-15T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T17:46:57","slug":"tcms-most-influential-classic-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/04\/14\/tcms-most-influential-classic-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"TCM’s Most Influential Classic Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TCM<\/a>TCM<\/a>, which is 15 years old this month, have published a list of the\u00a0Most Influential Classic Movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Normally I’m a little sceptical about these kinds of lists, but this one is pretty hard to argue with.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Birth of a Nation<\/a> (1915)<\/li>\n
  2. Battleship Potemkin<\/a> (1925)<\/li>\n
  3. Metropolis<\/a> (1927)<\/li>\n
  4. 42nd Street<\/a> (1933)<\/li>\n
  5. It Happened One Night<\/a> (1934)<\/li>\n
  6. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs<\/a> (1937)<\/li>\n
  7. Gone with the Wind<\/a> (1939)<\/li>\n
  8. Stagecoach<\/a> (1939)<\/li>\n
  9. Citizen Kane<\/a> (1941)<\/li>\n
  10. The Bicycle Thief<\/a> (1947)<\/li>\n
  11. Rashomon<\/a> (1950)<\/li>\n
  12. The Searchers<\/a> (1956)<\/li>\n
  13. Breathless<\/a> (1959)<\/li>\n
  14. Psycho<\/a> (1960)<\/li>\n
  15. Star Wars<\/a> (1977)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I think a more challenging exercise might be to list films over the last 30 years that will have a similar status in future.<\/p>\n

    Off the top of my head I’d go for:\u00a0<\/p>\n