My Personal Canon

Submitted by jonp72 on Thu, 11/02/2006 - 08:43
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  1. A Trip to the Moon (Melies)
  2. Mobilier Fidèle (Emile Cohl)
  3. The Cameraman’s Revenge (Wladyslaw Starewicz)
  4. An Unseen Enemy (Griffith)
  5. The Insects’ Christmas (Starewicz)
  6. Judith of Bethulia (Griffith)
  7. Les Vampires (Feuillade)
  8. Intolerance (Griffith)
  9. One A.M. (Chaplin)
  10. Broken Blossoms (Griffith)
  11. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Weine)
  12. Last of the Mohicans (Clarence Brown/Maurice Tourneur)
  13. Destiny (Lang)
  14. The Kid (Chaplin)
  15. Orphans of the Storm (Griffith)
  16. Cops (Keaton)
  17. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (Lang)
  18. Haxän: Witchcraft through the Ages (Benjamin Christensen)
  19. Nanook of the North (Flaherty)
  20. Nosferatu (Murnau)
  21. Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton)
  22. Three Ages (Keaton)
  23. Ballet Mecanique (Ferdinand Leger/Dudley Murphy)
  24. Greed (von Stroheim)
  25. Die Niebelungen (Lang)
  26. Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton)
  27. The Thief of Bagdad (Raoul Walsh)
  28. The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
  29. Chess Fever (Pudovkin)
  30. The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
  31. Paris Qui Dort/The Crazy Ray (Clair)
  32. Seven Chances (Keaton)
  33. By the Law (Lev Kuleshov)
  34. A Page of Madness (Teinosuke Kinugasa)
  35. The General (Clyde Bruckman/Buster Keaton)
  36. Metropolis (Lang)
  37. Sunrise (Murnau)
  38. The Docks of New York (Sternberg)
  39. The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein)
  40. An Italian Straw Hat (Clair)
  41. Lonesome (Fejos)
  42. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
  43. Spies (Lang)
  44. Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton)
  45. Blackmail (Hitchcock)
  46. Un Chien Andalou (Dali/Buñuel)
  47. The New Babylon (Kozintsev/Trauberg)
  48. Laughter (D’Arrast)
  49. Frankenstein (James Whale)
  50. M (Lang)
  51. Crazy Town (Dave Fleischer)
  52. Freaks (Tod Browning)
  53. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy)
  54. I Was Born, But… (Yasujiro Ozu)
  55. Land without Bread (Buñuel)
  56. The Mask of Fu Manchu (Charles Brabin)
  57. Me and My Gal (Walsh)
  58. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Lang)
  59. Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch)
  60. Blood Money (Rowland Brown)
  61. Bombshell (Victor Fleming)
  62. Design for Living (Lubitsch)
  63. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey)
  64. Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy)
  65. Wild Boys of the Road (Wellman)
  66. The Black Cat (Ulmer)
  67. It’s A Gift (Norman McLeod)
  68. The Scarlet Empress (von Sternberg)
  69. The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
  70. Bride of Frankenstein (Whale)
  71. A Night at the Opera (Wood)
  72. Ruggles of Red Gap (McCarey)
  73. Wife! Be Like a Rose! (Mikio Naruse)
  74. Modern Times (Chaplin)
  75. Rose Hobart (Joseph Cornell)
  76. Sisters of the Gion (Kenji Mizoguchi)
  77. The Awful Truth (McCarey)
  78. Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir)
  79. Make Way for Tomorrow (McCarey)
  80. You Only Live Once (Lang)
  81. The Adventures of Robin Hood (Curtiz)
  82. La Bête Humaine (Renoir)
  83. Bringing Up Baby (Hawks)
  84. The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)
  85. You and Me (Lang)
  86. The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
  87. The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)
  88. Foreign Correspondent (Hitchcock)
  89. His Girl Friday (Hawks)
  90. The Philadelphia Story (Cukor)
  91. Pinocchio (Sharpsteen)
  92. Citizen Kane (Welles)
  93. The Lady Eve (Sturges)
  94. The Maltese Falcon (Huston)
  95. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
  96. Cat People (Jacques Tourneur)
  97. The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles)
  98. To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch)
  99. Day of Wrath (Dreyer)
  100. I Walked with a Zombie (Tourneur)
  101. Red Hot Riding Hood (Avery)
  102. At Land (Maya Deren)
  103. Double Indemnity (Wilder)
  104. Jammin’ the Blues (Gjon Mili)
  105. Laura (Preminger)
  106. The Woman in the Window (Lang)
  107. Children of Paradise (Carne)
  108. Detour (Ulmer)
  109. Open City (Rossellini)
  110. Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
  111. The Big Sleep (Hawks)
  112. It’s A Wonderful Life (Capra)
  113. Notorious (Hitchcock)
  114. Miracle on 34th Street (Seaton)
  115. The Bicycle Thief (DeSica)
  116. Force of Evil (Polonsky)
  117. The Lady from Shanghai (Welles)
  118. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls)
  119. The Red Shoes (Powell/Pressburger)
  120. Secret Beyond the Door (Lang)
  121. Begone Dull Care (McLaren)
  122. Blood of the Beasts (Franju)
  123. Gun Crazy (Lewis)
  124. The Heiress (Wyler)
  125. Jour de Fête (Tati)
  126. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer)
  127. The Third Man (Reed)
  128. The Flowers of St. Francis (Rossellini)
  129. In a Lonely Place (Ray)
  130. Los Olvidados (Buñuel)
  131. Rashomon (Kurosawa)
  132. Stage Fright (Hitchcock)
  133. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder)
  134. The River (Renoir)
  135. Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)
  136. A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan)
  137. Ikiru (Kurosawa)
  138. Madame de… (Ophuls)
  139. Park Row (Fuller)
  140. Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen / Gene Kelly)
  141. Beat the Devil (Huston)
  142. The Big Heat (Lang)
  143. Duck Amuck (Jones)
  144. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Tati)
  145. Pickup on South Street (Fuller)
  146. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
  147. Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
  148. Johnny Guitar (Ray)
  149. On the Waterfront (Kazan)
  150. Rear Window (Hitchcock)
  151. Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)
  152. All That Heaven Allows (Sirk)
  153. Diabolique (Clouzout)
  154. Kiss Me Deadly (Aldrich)
  155. The Ladykillers (Mackendrick)
  156. The Man with the Golden Arm (Preminger)
  157. Mr. Arkadin (Welles)
  158. Night and Fog (Resnais)
  159. The Night of the Hunter (Laughton)
  160. Ordet (Dreyer)
  161. Rebel without a Cause (Ray)
  162. Rififi (Dassin)
  163. Salt of the Earth (Biberman)
  164. Baby Doll (Kazan)
  165. Bigger than Life (Ray)
  166. The Girl Can’t Help It (Tashlin)
  167. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Siegel)
  168. The Killing (Kubrick)
  169. A Man Escaped (Bresson)
  170. The Searchers (Ford)
  171. 12 Angry Men (Lumet)
  172. The Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick)
  173. The Wrong Man (Hitchcock)
  174. Big Deal on Madonna Street (Monicelli)
  175. A Movie (Bruce Conner)
  176. Murder by Contract (Lerner)
  177. Touch of Evil (Welles)
  178. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
  179. Les Astronautes (Walerian Borowczyk/Chris Marker)
  180. Breathless (Godard)
  181. North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
  182. Pickpocket (Bresson)
  183. Rio Bravo (Hawks)
  184. Shadows (Cassavetes)
  185. Some Like It Hot (Wilder)
  186. The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb (Lang)
  187. Window Water Baby Moving (Brakhage)
  188. The Apartment (Wilder)
  189. Jazz on a Summer’s Day (Avakian/Stern)
  190. Peeping Tom (Powell)
  191. Psycho (Hitchcock)
  192. Shoot the Piano Player (Truffaut)
  193. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse)
  194. Blast of Silence (Baron)
  195. Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
  196. Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais)
  197. One, Two, Three (Wilder)
  198. Viridiana (Buñuel)
  199. A Woman Is a Woman (Godard)
  200. Yojimbo (Kurosawa)
  201. An Actor’s Revenge (Ichikawa)
  202. Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey)
  203. Le Doulos (Melville)
  204. The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel)
  205. La Jetée (Marker)
  206. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford)
  207. The Manchurian Candidate (Frankenheimer)
  208. My Life to Live (Godard)
  209. Ride the High Country (Peckinpah)
  210. 8½ (Fellini)
  211. Les Carabiniers (Godard)
  212. Contempt (Godard)
  213. Mothlight (Brakhage)
  214. Le Petit Soldat (Godard)
  215. Shock Corridor (Fuller)
  216. Band of Outsiders (Godard)
  217. Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)
  218. A Hard Day’s Night (Lester)
  219. The Naked Kiss (Fuller)
  220. Onibaba (Shindo)
  221. Alphaville (Godard)
  222. Bunny Lake Is Missing (Preminger)
  223. Kwaidan (Kobayashi)
  224. Pierrot Le Fou (Godard)
  225. Repulsion (Polanski)
  226. Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)
  227. Au Hasard, Balthazar (Bresson)
  228. Breakaway (Conner)
  229. Masculin Feminin (Godard)
  230. Mouchette (Bresson)
  231. Persona (Bergman)
  232. Seconds (Frankenheimer)
  233. Bonnie and Clyde (Penn)
  234. Playtime (Tati)
  235. Point Blank (Boorman)
  236. Le Samourai (Melville)
  237. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard)
  238. Wavelength (Snow)
  239. Weekend (Godard)
  240. The Alphabet (Lynch)
  241. Head (Rafelson)
  242. If… (Anderson)
  243. Je T’aime, Je T’aime (Resnais)
  244. Night of the Living Dead (Romero)
  245. Petulia (Lester)
  246. The Plot against Harry (Roemer)
  247. Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski)
  248. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Part One (Greaves)
  249. Targets (Bogdanovich)
  250. Yellow Submarine (Dunning)
  251. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
  252. Bambi Meets Godzilla (Newland)
  253. The Conformist (Bertolucci)
  254. Funeral Parade of Roses (Matsumoto)
  255. Medium Cool (Wexler)
  256. Mister Freedom (Klein)
  257. The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah)
  258. Z (Costa-Gavras)
  259. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Meyer)
  260. Le Boucher (Chabrol)
  261. Gimme Shelter (the Maysles Brothers)
  262. The Honeymoon Killers (Kastle)
  263. Husbands (Cassavetes)
  264. Trash (Morrissey)
  265. Woodstock (Wadleigh)
  266. Zabriskie Point (Antonioni)
  267. A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick)
  268. The French Connection (Friedkin)
  269. Get Carter (Hodges)
  270. The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich)
  271. McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Altman)
  272. Punishment Park (Watkins)
  273. Straw Dogs (Peckinpah)
  274. Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Schlesinger)
  275. Two-Lane Blacktop (Hellman)
  276. Wanda (Loden)
  277. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Herzog)
  278. Deliverance (Boorman)
  279. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Buñuel)
  280. The Godfather (Coppola)
  281. Pink Flamingos (Waters)
  282. The Ruling Class (Medak)
  283. Solaris (Tarkovsky)
  284. Tout Va Bien (Godard/Gorin)
  285. Badlands (Malick)
  286. F For Fake (Welles)
  287. Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci)
  288. The Long Goodbye (Altman)
  289. Mean Streets (Scorsese)
  290. Parade (Tati)
  291. The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
  292. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
  293. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette)
  294. Chinatown (Polanski)
  295. The Conversation (Coppola)
  296. Lacombe, Lucien (Malle)
  297. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
  298. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet)
  299. Jaws (Spielberg)
  300. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (Cassavetes)
  301. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Gilliam/Jones)
  302. Nashville (Altman)
  303. Night Moves (Penn)
  304. The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos)
  305. All The President’s Men (Pakula)
  306. Family Plot (Hitchcock)
  307. Ici et Alleurs (Godard)
  308. The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
  309. Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
  310. The American Friend (Wenders)
  311. Annie Hall (Allen)
  312. Citizen’s Band (Demme)
  313. Colloque de Chiens (Ruiz)
  314. Martin (Romero)
  315. Mongoloid (Conner)
  316. Perceval (Rohmer)
  317. 1941 (Spielberg)
  318. Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
  319. The Brood (Cronenberg)
  320. The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (Ruiz)
  321. The Warriors (Hill)
  322. Atlantic City (Malle)
  323. Gates of Heaven (Morris)
  324. Melvin and Howard (Demme)
  325. Raging Bull (Scorsese)
  326. Used Cars (Zemeckis)
  327. Blade Runner (Scott)
  328. Diva (Beneix)
  329. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (Spielberg)
  330. The King of Comedy (Scorsese)
  331. Local Hero (Forsyth)
  332. Videodrome (Cronenberg)
  333. Paris, Texas (Wenders)
  334. Stop Making Sense (Demme)
  335. This Is Spinal Tap (Reiner)
  336. Brazil (Gilliam)
  337. Lost in America (Brooks)
  338. Ran (Kurosawa)
  339. Blue Velvet (Lynch)
  340. House of Games (Mamet)
  341. Matewan (Sayles)
  342. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Haynes)
  343. Wings of Desire (Wenders)
  344. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Gilliam)
  345. Dead Ringers (Cronenberg)
  346. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Davies)
  347. Hairspray (Waters)
  348. Housekeeping (Forsyth)
  349. The Thin Blue Line (Morris)
  350. The Vanishing (Sluizer)
  351. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (Zemeckis)
  352. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Almodovar)
  353. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen)
  354. Do the Right Thing (Lee)
  355. Drugstore Cowboy (van Sant)
  356. Enemies, A Love Story (Mazursky)
  357. The Killer (Woo)
  358. My Left Foot (Sheridan)
  359. Mystery Train (Jarmusch)
  360. Roger & Me (Moore)
  361. Sweetie (Campion)
  362. The War of the Roses (DeVito)
  363. Goodfellas (Scorsese)
  364. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou)
  365. The Nasty Girl (Michael Verhoeven)
  366. The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)
  367. Paris Is Burning (Livingston)
  368. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
  369. The Silence of the Lambs (Demme)
  370. Slacker (Linklater)
  371. Tribulation 99 (Baldwin)
  372. Howards End (James Ivory)
  373. Intimate Stranger (Alan Berliner)
  374. Léolo (Lauzon)
  375. One False Move (Franklin)
  376. The Player (Altman)
  377. The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou)
  378. Dazed and Confused (Linklater)
  379. Farewell, My Concubine (Kaige)
  380. Map of the Human Heart (Ward)
  381. Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (Rappaport)
  382. Short Cuts (Altman)
  383. Three Colours: Blue/White (Kieslowski)
  384. The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park)
  385. Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
  386. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
  387. Clean, Shaven (Kerrigan)
  388. Ed Wood (Burton)
  389. Exotica (Egoyan)
  390. Heavenly Creatures (Jackson)
  391. Hoop Dreams (Gilbert/James/Marx)
  392. Quiz Show (Redford)
  393. Crumb (Zwigoff)
  394. Safe (Haynes)
  395. Welcome to the Dollhouse (Solondz)
  396. The Cable Guy (Stiller)
  397. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Berlinger/Sinofsky)
  398. Secrets & Lies (Leigh)
  399. Boogie Nights (P.T. Anderson)
  400. The Ice Storm (Ang Lee)
  401. In the Company of Men (LaBute)
  402. Jackie Brown (Tarantino)
  403. The Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan)
  404. The Big Lebowski (the Coen Brothers)
  405. Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (Grimonprez)
  406. Histoire(s) du Cinema (Godard)
  407. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
  408. Being John Malkovich (Jonze)
  409. Election (Payne)
  410. Three Kings (Russell)