
What films first showed you that the rules could be broken?
So I was listening to an episode of The Big Picture the other day & Network came up, and it was described by one of the panelists as one of the first films they saw that showed them you could “break the rules” of cinema. And so I’m wondering what those films were like for yall: what did you see that made you sit up and ask “wait, you can DO that”?; what made you see the movies in a new way?
My answer is very route one: Eraserhead. On the wave of a horror kick I found my way to Lynch and it ended up knocking me sideways — and definitely doing a lot to shape my taste in horror & experimental film