Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Influential American Films on TV

Do you know which films had the biggest impact? Texas satellite TV subscribers can check out these five films which have been the most influential in the American cinema. The No.1 is Vertigo. It is brilliant on many different levels. One might say that Hitchcock brought the thriller genre to the big leagues .

If this film did not exist, maybe Brian De Palma's career would have taken a very different turn. The No.2 is Shadows. John Cassavettes made this independent breakthrough. In Shadows, this film is the centerpiece of the Independent Film Channel collection. No.3 is The Godfather.In many ways, it showed the possibilities that filmmakers adapt a large work to the screen. It had been orchestrated by a master conductor.

For a generation of actors, the work of Brando, Pacino and De Niro was the entire textbook they would need. No.4 is Citizen Kane. Orson Welles use techniques from the theater, fine art and radio. Though it was thwarted by W.R. Hearst, the work became legend immediately and remains one of the top two or three films. The last one is the Mean Streets. The convincing characters makes it could be so many different things, but above all it should be life. Scorsese was just getting started.
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