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It has been heralded as one of the landmark films of all time - but has anyone ever watched it?
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Andy Warhol's three-and-a-half hour epic The Chelsea Girls, blamed as the inspiration behind reality TV, has been voted into the top 100 most influential films.


The 1967 film, shot on location in eight rooms of New York's notorious Chelsea Hotel, features Warhol's glamorous entourage conducting their daily lives as a narcissistic show for the camera.


"Andy Warhol's underground film is to blame for reality television," according to the Radio Times Guide to Film 2007, out today.


The guide cites The Beatles' 1964 A Hard Day's Night as the first pop video. Cult Seventies porn film Deep Throat, starring Linda Lovelace, is on the list. The guide says it "took pornography out of the shadows and into the cinemas". The oldest film listed is 1902 classic Le Voyage dans la Lune, by pioneering film-maker Georges Melies.


Radio Times film editor Andrew Collins says: "This is not a list of the greatest movies ever made. This is a chronological journey pinpointing those films that changed the course of the industry, for better or worse."


Top 100 Landmark Films (in date order)

1 Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902)
2 Life of an American Fireman (1903)
3 The Birth of a Nation (1915)
4 Intolerance (1916)
5 The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)
6 Nanook of the North (1922)
7 Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horrors (1922)
8 Battleship Potemkin (1925)
9 The Gold Rush (1925)
10 Metropolis (1926)
11 The General (1927)
12 It (1927)
13 The Jazz Singer (1927)
14 Napoleon (1927)
15 Un Chien Andalou (1928)
16 Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
17 Frankenstein (1931)
18 M (1931)
19 Scarface (1932)
20 Ecstasy (1933)
21 42nd Street (1933)
22 King Kong (1933)
23 The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
24 L`Atalante (1934)
25 Becky Sharp (1935)
26 Triumph of the Will (1935)
27 The Story of a Cheat (1936)
28 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
29 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
30 Gone With The Wind (1939)
31 La Regle du Jeu (1939)
32 Stagecoach (1939)
33 Fantasia (1940)
34 Citizen Kane (1941)
35 The Maltese Falcon (1941)
36 Cat People (1942)
37 Rome, Open City (1945)
38 It`s A Wonderful Life (1946)
39 Song of the South (1946)
40 The Bicycle Thieves (1948)
41 Rashomon (1950)
42 M Hulot`s Holiday (1953)
43 The Robe (1953)
44 Les Diaboliques (1954)
45 On The Waterfront (1954)
46 Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
47 The Court Jester (1956)
48 Vertigo (1958)
49 A Bout de Souffle (1959)
50 The 400 Blows (1959)
51 Psycho (1960)
52 Victim (1961)
53 Dr No (1962)
54 A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
55 A Hard Day`s Night (1964)
56 Blowup (1966)
57 Persona (1966)
58 Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
59 The Chelsea Girls (1967)
60 In The Heat of the Night (1967)
61 The Graduate (1967)
62 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
63 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
64 Easy Rider (1969)
65 A Clockwork Orange (1971)
66 Get Carter (1971)
67 Sweet Sweetback`s Baadasssss Song (1971)
68 Deep Throat (1972)
69 Pink Flamingos (1972)
70 The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
71 The Exorcist (1973)
72 Mean Streets (1973)
73 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
74 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
75 Jaws (1975)
76 Nashville (1975)
77 Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
78 Rocky (1976)
79 Annie Hall (1977)
80 Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
81 Halloween (1978)
82 National Lampoon`s Animal House (1978)
83 Superman (1978)
84 Alien (1979)
85 Blade Runner (1982)
86 ET the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
87 Tron (1982)
88 This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
89 Blue Velvet (1986)
90 Withnail & I (1986)
91 Do The Right Thing (1989)
92 Jurassic Park (1993)
93 Pulp Fiction (1994)
94 Toy Story (1995)
95 Ring (1998)
96 Festen (1998)
97 The Blair Witch Project (1999)
98 The Matrix (1999)
99 Shrek (2001)
100 Brokeback Mountain (2005)