Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Essential Films

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From his book "Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons" (2004).

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  1. 1.
    L'Arrivée d'un Train à la Ciotat
    by August & Louis Lumiere

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  2. 2.
    La Sortie des usines Lumière
    by Louis Lumière

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  3. 3.
    Le Tunnel sous la Manche
    by Georges Melies

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  4. 4.
    A Corner in Wheat (1909 Short)
    by D.W. Griffith

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  5. 5.
    The Musketeers of Pig Alley
    by D.W. Griffith

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  6. 6.
    Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine
    by Louis Feuillade

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  7. 7.
    The Avenging Conscience
    by D.W. Griffith

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  8. 8.
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    Child of the Big City (Ditya bolshogo goroda)
    by Yevgeni Bauer

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  9. 9.
    L'enfant de Paris
    by Léonce Perret

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  10. 10.
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    The Wishing Ring
    by Maurice Tourneur

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  11. 11.
    Les Vampires
    by Louis Feuillade

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  12. 12.
    Burlesque on Carmen
    by Charles Chaplin

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  13. 13.
    Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
    by D.W. Griffith

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  14. 14.
    Judex (Deluxe Edition)
    by Louis Feuillade

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  15. 15.
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    One A.M.
    by Charles Chaplin

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  16. 16.
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    Tih Minh
    by Louis Feuillade

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  17. 17.
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    Barrabas
    by Louis Feuillade

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  18. 18.
    Broken Blossoms
    by D.W. Griffith

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  19. 19.
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
    by Robert Wiene

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  20. 20.
    The Oyster Princess (1919)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  21. 21.
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    True Heart Susie
    by D.W. Griffith

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  22. 22.
    Last of the Mohicans (1920)
    by Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown

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  23. 23.
    The Parson's Widow : Three Films by Carl Theodor Dreyer
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  24. 24.
    Die Puppe (The Doll)
    by Ernst Lubitsch

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  25. 25.
    Cops (1922 short)
    by Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline

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  26. 26.
    Destiny (1921) aka Der müde Tod
    by Fritz Lang

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  27. 27.
    The Kid
    by Charlie Chaplin

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  28. 28.
    Nanook of the North - Criterion Collection
    by Robert J. Flaherty

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  29. 29.
    Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler
    by Fritz Lang

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  30. 30.
    Foolish Wives

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  31. 31.
    Nosferatu - Special Edition
    by F.W. Murnau

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  32. 32.
    Orphans of the Storm
    by D.W. Griffith

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    Raskolnikow
    by Robert Wiene

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    Le souriante Madame Beudet
    by Germaine Dulac

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  35. 35.
    The Covered Wagon (1923)
    by James Cruze

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  36. 36.
    Three Ages
    by Edward F. Cline

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  37. 37.
    Ballet mécanique
    by Fernand Léger / Dudley Murphy

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  38. 38.
    Greed
    by Erich von Stroheim

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  39. 39.
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    L'inhumaine
    by Marcel L'Herbier

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  40. 40.
    The Last Laugh
    by F.W. Murnau

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  41. 41.
    Michael
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  42. 42.
    Die Nibelungen
    by Fritz Lang

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  43. 43.
    Paris qui dort (At 3:25) (The Crazy Ray)
    by René Clair

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  44. 44.
    Peter Pan
    by Herbert Brenon

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  45. 45.
    Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
    by Buster Keaton

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  46. 46.
    Strike
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  47. 47.
    The Thief of Bagdad (Deluxe Edition)
    by Raoul Walsh

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  48. 48.
    The Big Parade
    by King Vidor

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  49. 49.
    Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka)
    by Vsevolod Pudovkin / Nikolai Shpikovsky

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Comments

Needs to go back. — 1 year ago

Only this time, unless I’ve missed something, ‘Flaming Creatures’ does belong. He even writes a section on the film in “Essential Cinema” and I know it exists on the list in his book.


Eggman
Denver

Whoa — 2 years ago

This is the most unique, frustrating, exhilerating film list I’ve ever seen. It’s great to see Rosenbaum’s quirks so evident. I knew he loved Feuillade, but I didn’t realize he loved him THAT much. And Spielberg’s 1941?

Thanks for putting up this list.
All respect to Rosenbaum,too.


some tweaks — 2 years ago

I resorted the last few movies so that they were in the right order. Also identified one film that did not belong (“Flaming Creatures”) and one that was missing (“Lumière d’Etè”).