Anthology Film Archives's Essential Cinema
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A very special series of films screened on a repertory basis, the Essential Cinema Repertory collection consists of programs of shorts and hundreds of features assembled in 1970-75 by Anthology’s Film Selection Committee – James Broughton, Ken Kelman, Peter Kubelka, P. Adams Sitney, and Jonas Mekas. It was an ambitious attempt to define the art of cinema. The project was never completed but even in its unfinished state the series provides an uncompromising critical overview of cinema’s history. The titles are still being screened under the brand of "Essential Cinema". Now and then additional titles are added to the collection.
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Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
155 -10
City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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The General
1926, in 34 top lists Check -
443 -6
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check -
188 +2
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
457 -7
La règle du jeu
1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check -
154 +1
The Gold Rush
1925, in 29 top lists Check -
522 -35
Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
121 +3
Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent...
1956 — a.k.a. A Man Escaped, in 20 top lists Check -
158 -1
La belle et la bête
1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check -
138 +3
Un chien andalou
1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check -
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L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
191 -2
Ordet
1955, in 21 top lists Check -
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916, in 24 top lists Check -
141 -1
Los olvidados
1950 — a.k.a. The Young and the Damned, in 25 top lists Check -
123 -4
Au hasard Balthazar
1966 — a.k.a. Au Hasard Balthazar, in 18 top lists Check -
189 +2
Vampyr
1932, in 18 top lists Check -
122 +1
Pickpocket
1959, in 20 top lists Check -
492 -7
Greed
1924, in 21 top lists Check -
224 +2
The Birth of a Nation
1915, in 21 top lists Check -
420 -6
Le voyage dans la lune
1902 — a.k.a. A Trip to the Moon, in 14 top lists Check -
159 +1
Orphée
1950 — a.k.a. Orpheus, in 18 top lists Check -
139 -1
L'âge d'or
1930 — a.k.a. L'Age d'Or, in 16 top lists Check -
190 +2
Vredens dag
1943 — a.k.a. Day of Wrath, in 13 top lists Check -
199 -3
Ivan Groznyy
1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check -
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Journal d'un curé de campagne
1951 — a.k.a. Diary of a Country Priest, in 14 top lists Check -
210 +2
Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
177 +2
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943, in 10 top lists Check -
183 +1
Zemlya
1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check -
196 +3
Stachka
1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check -
527 -6
Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège
1933 — a.k.a. Zero for Conduct, in 17 top lists Check -
192 -6
Gertrud
1964, in 11 top lists Check -
462 -5
Triumph des Willens
1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check -
448 -6
Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo
1932 — a.k.a. I Was Born, But..., in 15 top lists Check -
208 +1
Les vampires
1915, in 14 top lists Check -
124 -2
Mouchette
1967, in 10 top lists Check -
197 +1
Oktyabr
1927 — a.k.a. October (Ten Days that Shook the World), in 12 top lists Check -
463 -8
Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, in 14 top lists Check -
200 -3
Ivan Groznyy. Skaz vtoroy: Boyarskiy zagovor
1958 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, in 15 top lists Check -
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Scorpio Rising
1963, in 9 top lists Check -
487 -7
Wavelength
1967, in 9 top lists Check -
157 +1
Le sang d'un poète
1932 — a.k.a. The Blood of a Poet, in 9 top lists Check -
202 -1
La chute de la maison Usher
1928 — a.k.a. The Fall of the House of Usher, in 10 top lists Check -
467 -7
Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt
1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check -
319 +21
L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat
1896 — a.k.a. The Arrival of a Train, in 13 top lists Check -
140 -1
Las Hurdes
1933 — a.k.a. Land Without Bread, in 12 top lists Check -
464 -8
Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit
1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty, in 14 top lists Check -
220 +1
Un chant d'amour
1950 — a.k.a. A Song of Love, in 7 top lists Check -
243 +2
One Week
1920, in 12 top lists Check
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