LONDON (AFP) – A cult 1970’s porn film has been voted one of the 100 most influential films, joining the likes of Gone With The Wind and Citizen Kane.

The 1972 film Deep Throat [Arrow Productions] appears on a new list of 100 Landmark Films included in the Radio Times Guide to Films 2007. The list has been compiled by Radio Times’ film reviewers and is not a list of the greatest ever films but rather a poll of landmarks for either an art form or the film industry.

“These are films whose time, context and circumstances have made them significant,” said Radio Times film editor Andrew Collins.

The film starred Linda Susan Boreman as “Linda Lovelace” and is described as “cheerfully trashy, charmingly silly” by the magazine. The movie was notable for popularising oral sex and launching a brief fad of “porn chic” — where it became fashionable to watch pornographic movies in traditional cinemas. Boreman went on to leave the pornography industry and became a spokeswoman for the anti-pornography movement.

The two most recent films to make it onto the landmark film list are Shrek (2001) and last year’s Brokeback Mountain.

The BBC Guide contains more than 21 000 film titles from a century of cinema, “covering everything from the greatest box office successes to the embarrassing tv movies that celebrities would rather forget about”.

T Monty comments on www.xxxporntalk.com: Referring to the time it was made and the large cultural impact “Deep Throat” had I think it’s justified to add it to this list of films especially when you consider that they didn’t want to list the “greatest” films ever made. “Deep Throat” was the first porn movie to bring porn into mainstream. Without “Deep Throat”, “Behind The Green Door” etc. the “Porno Chic” wave would have never happened. There were large crowds in front of the movie theatres (!) showing “Deep Throat” and it attracted an audience outside of the raincoaters crowd. Director Mike Nichols recommended this movie to Truman Capote and Frank Sinatra recommended it to Spiro Agnew. Linda Lovelace became some kind of recognizable cultural item in the country. Stuff like this just won’t happen anymore.

>Moron Boy comments: Well since it came out roughly a decade before I was born, along with the fact that I haven’t really studied the history of adult film or just plain old film for that matter, this article kinda caught me by surprise.

> Ozzie comments: Deep Throat had two elements to it that were rare for it’s time, anal sex and shaven pubic hair. Linda Lovelace engaged in both, and even had coca cola pured into her cunt and had it sucked out with a twirly straw.Revolutionary stuff back then!

> Phlogiston writes: Deepthroat brought porn into the publiuc conciousness and played a critical role in launching a multi-billion dollar industry. That’s a far bigger impact on society than Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, Titanic, Schindler’s List, or even Star Wars could ever have.

>Moronboy adds: Haven’t seen it, but I have something my friends and I thought was kinda funny. We were in this store that sold CDs and DVDs, and walked by the childrens’ dvd section of the store. The very end of the childrens’ rack had a short section for documentary DVDs, and when we walked past it we seen in plain, visible sight the front cover of “Inside Deep Throat” right next to Barney, Seasame St., and Ninja Turtles DVDs . Kinda pointless response, but me and my friends had a good laugh out of the situation though.