Paul Schrader - Film Canon

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A definitive list titled "Canon Fodder" from film critic, screenwriter, and director Paul Schrader, taken from his (in)famous article in the September/October 2006 issue of Film Comment magazine.

There are 60 films in the list, divided into Gold (1-20), Silver (21-40), and Bronze (41-60). One of his stated limitations in compiling the list was to allow no more than one film from the same director.

Online copy of the list:

http://www.cinematical.com/2006/11/14/paul-schraders-film-canon/

See also the follow up comments by readers and his responses to them:

http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/nd06/furtherfodder.htm

(Note in his responses that he says that Rosellini’s Viaggio in Italia was omitted by mistake, as he prefers Salvatore Giuliano to The Battle of Algiers, which should come off the list. The list below is the list as published.)

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  2. 2.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu
  3. 3.
  4. 4.
  5. 5.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang
  6. 6.
    Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Orson Welles
  7. 7.
    Orpheus (Original French) [Criterion Collection]
    by Jean Cocteau
  8. 8.
    Masculin Feminin (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  9. 9.
    Persona
    by Ingmar Bergman
  10. 10.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock
  12. 12.
    The Searchers (Two-Disc 50th Anniversary Edition)
    by John Ford
  13. 13.
  14. 14.
    The Conformist (Extended Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci
  15. 15.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini
  16. 16.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola
  18. 18.
    The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    by Carol Reed
  19. 19.
    Performance
    by Nicolas Roeg
  20. 20.
    La Notte
    by Michelangelo Antonioni
  21. 21.
    Mother and Son
    by Aleksandr Sokurov
  23. 23.
    Dublineses (The Dead)
    by John Huston
  24. 24.
    2001: Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick
  25. 25.
    Last Year at Marienbad
    by Alain Resnais
  26. 26.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  27. 27.
    Jules and Jim (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut
  28. 28.
    The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut
    by Sam Peckinpah
  29. 29.
    All That Jazz

  30. 30.
    Life of Oharu [VHS]
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  31. 31.
    High and Low (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  32. 32.
    Sweet Smell of Success
    by Alexander Mackendrick
  34. 34.
    An American in Paris

  35. 35.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo
  36. 36.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese
  37. 37.
    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (The Criterion Collection)
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  38. 38.
    Blue Velvet (Special Edition)

  39. 39.
    Crimes and Misdemeanors

  40. 40.
    The Big Lebowski
    by Ethan Coen
  41. 41.
    The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
    by Michael Powell
  42. 42.
    Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Gene Kelly
  43. 43.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski
  44. 44.
    Crowd, The [VHS]
    by King Vidor
  45. 45.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder
  46. 46.
    Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)

  47. 47.
    Shanghai Express - (Russian Import - PAL DVD)
    by Josef von Sternberg
  48. 48.
    Letter from an Unknown Woman
    by Max Ophüls
  50. 50.
    Salvatore Giuliano (The Criterion Collection)
    by Francesco Rosi

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MestnyiGeroi

Thanks! Great job. — 4 years ago

Nicely introduced.

Nov 17, 08:39AM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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