The Canon According to Non Plus: 100 Film Favorites
Submitted by Non Plus on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 03:12
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- Strike (Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925)
- Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926)
- Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926)
- The Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
- M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
- Trouble in Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932)
- Footlight Parade (Busby Berkeley, Lloyd Bacon, 1933)
- The Scarlet Empress (Josef von Sternberg, 1934)
- The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
- Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940)
- Black Narcissus (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
- Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948)
- They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948)
- Blood of the Beasts (Georges Franju, 1949)
- Angel Face (Otto Preminger, 1952)
- Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
- Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)
- Lola Montès (Max Ophüls, 1955)
- Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955)
- House of Bamboo (Samuel Fuller, 1955)
- Early Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1956)
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1958)
- Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959)
- Sergeant Rutledge (John Ford, 1960)
- The Ladies' Man (Jerry Lewis, 1961)
- Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1961)
- Ride the High Country (Sam Peckinpah, 1962)
- High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963)
- The Insect Woman (Shōhei Imamura, 1963)
- The Fire Within (Louis Malle, 1963)
- The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, 1963)
- The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)
- Woman in the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1964)
- Lemonade Joe (Oldrich Lipský, 1964)
- Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)
- Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
- Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
- Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
- The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov, 1968)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
- Blind Beast (Yasuzo Masumura, 1969)
- Tristana (Luis Buñuel, 1970)
- Eden and After (Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1970)
- The Butcher (Claude Chabrol, 1970)
- Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman, 1971)
- W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Dušan Makavejev, 1971)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
- Blanche (Walerian Borowczyk, 1971)
- Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (Shuji Terayama, 1971)
- Viva la Muerte (Fernando Arrabal, 1971)
- Don't Deliver Us from Evil (Joël Séria, 1971)
- Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1972)
- Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1972)
- Ecstasy of the Angels (Kôji Wakamatsu, 1972)
- Fat City (John Huston, 1972)
- The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
- The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)
- Occasional Work of a Female Slave (Alexander Kluge, 1973)
- Rites, Black Magic and Secret Orgies in the Fourteenth Century (Renato Polselli, 1973)
- Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
- The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog, 1974)
- The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975)
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
- Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
- L'Important C'Est D'Aimer (Andrzej Zulawski, 1975)
- Seasons of the Year (Artavazd Peleshian, 1975)
- The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
- Last Chants for a Slow Dance (Jon Jost, 1977)
- Perceval le Gallois (Eric Rohmer, 1978)
- In a Year with 13 Moons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
- We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire (Guy Debord, 1978)
- L'Enfant Secret (Philippe Garrel, 1979)
- The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)
- La Luna (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1979)
- La Nuit des Traquées (Jean Rollin, 1980)
- Inferno (Dario Argento, 1980)
- Arrebato (Iván Zulueta, 1980)
- Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980)
- Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
- L'Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
- Class Relations (Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, 1983)
- À Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983)
- Angst (Zbigniew Rybczynski/Gerald Kargl, 1983)
- Boy Meets Girl (Leos Carax, 1984)
- Hail Mary (Jean-Luc Godard, 1985)
- Prince of Darkness (John Carpenter, 1987)
- The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)
- Ladoni (Artour Aristakisian, 1993)
- Gummo (Harmony Korine, 1997)
- As Bodas de Deus (João César Monteiro, 1999)
- Platform (Zhang Ke Jia, 2000)
- Le Monde Vivant (Eugène Green, 2003)
- Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2003)
- Tale of Cinema (Sang-Soo Hong, 2005)
- Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa, 2006)
- Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
- Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008)
- Ballast (Lance Hammer, 2008)
- Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008)
It's nice to see true masterpieces like Class Relations and L'Enfant Secret on a list like this. Straub-Huillet and Garrel are among the greatest filmmakers I know. Lots of other great films here. I really want to see that Rivette.
Have to echo my friend Kyle's praise, some wonderful selections here. Rutledge is too often neglected, and of course my beloved Peleshyan. Pollet is almost never mentioned anymore, and Yang's "Terrorizers" is near the top of my wishlist at the moment. If you live near a major American city you may keep an eye out for a touring Robbe-Grillet series, finally some of his films getting screened this side of the pond.
Hello there!
I loved seeing The Pirate here.