The films that make my heart go "thump thump" i.e. the Reuben canon (sorted chronologically)

Submitted by mistercreepy on Thu, 03/02/2006 - 03:35
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  • The Man With the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
  • Regen (Joris Ivens, 1929)
  • Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932)
  • Land Without Bread (Luis Buñuel, 1933)
  • It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934)
  • Ball of Fire (Howard Hawks, 1941)
  • The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
  • Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
  • No Regrets for our Youth (Akira Kurosawa, 1946)
  • The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
  • Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel, 1950)
  • Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)
  • Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)
  • Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcok, 1954)
  • Crazed Fruit (Ko Nakahira, 1956)
  • The Cranes Are Flying (Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 1957)
  • Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcok, 1958)
  • The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
  • The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
  • L'Avventura (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1960)
  • Ivan's Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)
  • Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
  • High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
  • Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)
  • Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964)
  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)
  • Loves of a Blond (Milos Forman, 1965)
  • Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa, 1965)
  • Report (Bruce Conner, 1967)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968)
  • Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut, 1968)*
  • Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda, 1969)
  • If You Were Young: Rage (Kinji Fukasaku, 1970)
  • El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970)
  • Cabaret (Bob Fosse, 1972)
  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972)
  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Ivan Dixon, 1973)
  • The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)*
  • Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975)
  • The Bad News Bears (Michael Ritchie, 1976)
  • Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, 1976)
  • Stroszek (Werner Herzog, 1977)
  • Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
  • The Fog (John Carpenter, 1980)
  • The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982)
  • Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 1983)
  • Raising Arizona (The Coen Brothers, 1987)
  • RoboCop (Paul VerHoeven, 1987)
  • The Sky Over Berlin (Wim Wenders, 1987)*
  • How to Get Ahead in Advertising (Bruce Robinson, 1989)
  • Isle of Flowers (Jorge Furtado, 1989)
  • The Stolen Children (Gianni Amelio, 1992)
  • Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
  • Time Indefinite (Ross McElwee, 1994)*
  • Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
  • Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
  • The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1998)
  • The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)
  • The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999)*
  • Tears of a Black Tiger (Wisit Sasanatieng, 2000)
  • Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan, 2000)
  • Josie and the Pussycats (Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, 2001)
  • Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
  • Welcome to the Show/Intermission in the Third Dimension/The End of the Show (Don Hertzfeldt, 2003)
  • 3-Iron (Ki-duk Kim, 2004)*
  • The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004)
Author Comments: 

(When there are two films in the same year, they are listed alphabetically)

An attempt to chart my growing love of cinema and map what I think is a respectable group of films to get both a sense of my particular leanings and the world of cinema at large.

Obviously, this list is very fluid, and although I won't change it daily when I see a film that I think I should put on here, others will be subject to the axe while certain unrepresented pictures might just muscle their way in.

I can't believe I forgot Harlan County, U.S.A. finally being released on DVD by Criterion in May!

*=10.0/10.0

ephender03/10/2006

Very nice. I didn't do a count to see how many we share, but the Sleepaway Camp overlap is really enough, isn't it?

mistercreepy03/10/2006

Well the idea came from reading your list, so of course there's some overlap. Everyone I've met either loves Sleepaway Camp or Sleepaway Camp 2, so I don't understand why it's not on more canons.

Thanks for the article rec btw; I've been pimping it everywhere.

ephender04/10/2006

I just put 2 & 2 together. (LJ + Listology.)

mistercreepy04/10/2006

Whoops, I thought I had made that explicit. Yup, same guy.

ephender04/10/2006

You probably did and I'm just that ridiculously dense.

mistercreepy04/11/2006

You are not dense.

Cosgrove04/10/2006

"The Spook Who Sat By the Door". Niiiiice.

Also, yay Hertzfeldt! (Those three shorts, actually, represent the only Hertzfeldt I have yet to see. Damn.)

mistercreepy04/11/2006

They are easily the best in my opinion. Crazy that he has an academy award.

auto_matt_ic04/11/2006

"Shivers" and "El Topo"!!?? Hooray!

(I'm still holding onto the possibility of Jodorowsky um, you know, directing another movie. One day. Eventually. You know.)

mistercreepy04/11/2006

He's doing a sequel to El Topo sometime soon I believe.