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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The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
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Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
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City Lights (2 Disc Special Edition)
by Charles Chaplin
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Pickpocket - Criterion Collection
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Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
by Fritz Lang
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Citizen Kane
by Orson Welles
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Orpheus (Original French) [Criterion Collection]
by Jean Cocteau
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Masculin Feminin - Criterion Collection
by Jean-Luc Godard
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Persona
by Ingmar Bergman
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Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
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The Searchers (Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)
by John Ford
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The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection
by Preston Sturges
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The Conformist (Extended Edition)
by Bernardo Bertolucci
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8 1/2 - Criterion Collection
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The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
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In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection
by Kar Wai Wong
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The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
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Performance
by Nicolas Roeg
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La Notte
by Michelangelo Antonioni
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Mother and Son
by Aleksandr Sokurov
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The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.0 Import - Australia ]
by Luchino Visconti
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The Dead [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Spain ]
by John Huston
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2001: A Space Odyssey
by Stanley Kubrick
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Last Year at Marienbad
by Alain Resnais
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The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
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Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
by François Truffaut
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The Wild Bunch - The Original Director's Cut
by Sam Peckinpah
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All That Jazz
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Life of Oharu
by Kenji Mizoguchi
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High and Low - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
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Sweet Smell of Success
by Alexander Mackendrick
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That Obscure Object of Desire - Criterion Collection
by Luis Buñuel
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An American in Paris
by Vincente Minnelli
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The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
by Gillo Pontecorvo
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Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
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Ali - Fear Eats the Soul - Criterion Collection
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Blue Velvet (Special Edition)
by David Lynch
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
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The Big Lebowski
by Joel Coen
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The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
by Emeric Pressburger
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Singin' in the Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Donen, Stanley
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Chinatown
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Crowd, The
by King Vidor
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Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
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Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
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Shanghai Express - (Russian Import - PAL DVD)
by Josef von Sternberg
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
by Max Ophüls
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Once Upon a Time in the West
by Sergio Leone
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Salvatore Giuliano - Criterion Collection
by Francesco Rosi
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