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Old 08.31.2008, 08:27 AM   #25
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Godard's A bout de souffle is a definite candidate I think. It's fair to say that prior to 1960 there really hadn't ever been a film quite like it, and yet you could point to so many films made since that owe almost everything to it.

Another one is Return of the Living Dead, which managed to anticipate that self-reflexive style of horror movie a good ten years before the likes of Freddy's Nightmare, Scream and (God help us) Scary Movie.
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