Watch: 100 Shots From 100 Years of Cinema
This is one of those weird videos that doesn't really qualify as a supercut, and doesn't really qualify as a video essay either. But regardless of categorization, editor Jacob T. Swinney's selection of 100 shots — one from each of the past 100 years of cinema history — is very cool to watch. Added bonus: it played at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Hans Zimmer's masterful "Time," from the Inception soundtrack, does a lot of the heavy lifting, but Swinney makes some excellent choices here and this is well worth a few minutes of your time. Find a full list of the movies used below:
A journey through the past 100 years of cinema--the most memorable shot from each year (in my opinion). While many of these shots are the most recognizable in film history, others are equally iconic in their own right. For example, some shots pioneered a style or defined a genre, while others tested the boundaries of censorship and filmgoer expectations. If anything, I want this video to be a reminder as to why we all love cinema so much.
Birth of a Nation
Intolerance
The Immigrant
A Dog’s Life
Broken Blossoms
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
The Kid
Nosferatu
Safety Last
Sherlock Junior
Battleship Potemkin
The General
Metropolis
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Un Chien Andalou
All Quiet on the Western Front
Frankenstein
Scarface
King Kong
It Happened One Night
The Bride of Frankenstein
Sabotage
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Wizard of Oz
The Great Dictator
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
The Outlaw
To Have and Have Not
Rome, Open City
It’s a Wonderful Life
Dark Passage
The Bicycle Thief
The Third Man
Sunset Boulevard
A Streetcar Named Desire
Singing in the Rain
Shane
Rear Window
The Seven Year Itch
The Searchers
The Seventh Seal
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Psycho
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Lawrence of Arabia
8 1/2
A Fistful of Dollars
The Sound of Music
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Graduate
2001: A Space Odyssey
Easy Rider
Patton
A Clockwork Orange
The Godfather
The Exorcist
Chinatown
Jaws
Rocky
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Superman
Apocalypse Now
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T.
Scarface
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Breakfast Club
Platoon
Dirty Dancing
Die Hard
Batman
Goodfellas
The Silence of the Lambs
Reservoir Dogs
Jurassic Park
The Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart
Mission: Impossible
Titanic
Rushmore
Fight Club
Gladiator
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Spider-Man
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Brokeback Mountain
300
There Will be Blood
The Dark Knight
Avatar
Inception
The Tree of Life
The Avengers
Gravity
Boyhood
Mad Max: Fury Road
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