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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  1. 208 +1

    Les vampires

    1915, in 14 top lists Check
  2. 209 +1

    Tih Minh

    1918, in 9 top lists Check
  3. 69 +17

    The Art of Vision

    1965, in 2 top lists Check
  4. 534 -6

    Chelsea Girls

    1966, in 6 top lists Check
  5. 224 +2

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  6. 489 -7

    La région centrale

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  7. 417 -6

    Diaries Notes and Sketches

    1968, in 5 top lists Check
  8. 225 -

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
  9. 492 -7

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
  10. 191 -2

    Ordet

    1955, in 21 top lists Check
  11. 463 -8

    Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker

    1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, in 14 top lists Check
  12. 198 +2

    Staroye i novoye

    1929 — a.k.a. Old and New, in 4 top lists Check
  13. 537 -8

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  14. 192 -6

    Gertrud

    1964, in 11 top lists Check
  15. 120 -

    Journal d'un curé de campagne

    1951 — a.k.a. Diary of a Country Priest, in 14 top lists Check
  16. 234 +1

    Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

    1969, in 5 top lists Check
  17. 188 +2

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  18. 159 +1

    Orphée

    1950 — a.k.a. Orpheus, in 18 top lists Check
  19. 457 -7

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  20. 462 -5

    Triumph des Willens

    1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check
  21. 190 +2

    Vredens dag

    1943 — a.k.a. Day of Wrath, in 13 top lists Check
  22. 181 +4

    Zvenigora

    1928, in 6 top lists Check
  23. 184 -1

    Ivan

    1932, in 3 top lists Check
  24. 121 +3

    Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent...

    1956 — a.k.a. A Man Escaped, in 20 top lists Check
  25. 448 -6

    Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo

    1932 — a.k.a. I Was Born, But..., in 15 top lists Check
  26. 464 -8

    Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit

    1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty, in 14 top lists Check
  27. 123 -4

    Au hasard Balthazar

    1966 — a.k.a. Au Hasard Balthazar, in 18 top lists Check
  28. 154 +1

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 30 top lists Check
  29. 199 -3

    Ivan Groznyy

    1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check
  30. 197 +1

    Oktyabr

    1927 — a.k.a. October (Ten Days that Shook the World), in 12 top lists Check
  31. 449 -8

    Chichi ariki

    1942 — a.k.a. There Was a Father, in 3 top lists Check
  32. 186 +2

    Prästänkan

    1920 — a.k.a. The Parson's Widow, in 4 top lists Check
  33. 443 -6

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    1927 — a.k.a. Sunrise, in 36 top lists Check
  34. 182 -

    Arsenal

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  35. 158 -1

    La belle et la bête

    1946 — a.k.a. Beauty and the Beast, in 26 top lists Check
  36. 187 -

    Michael

    1924, in 6 top lists Check
  37. 416 -9

    The Illiac Passion

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  38. 205 +1

    Le mort qui tue

    1913 — a.k.a. Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed, in 9 top lists Check
  39. 466 -7

    La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV

    1966 — a.k.a. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, in 6 top lists Check
  40. 528 -9

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
  41. 453 -7

    Mat

    1926 — a.k.a. Mother, in 9 top lists Check
  42. 125 -

    Une femme douce

    1969 — a.k.a. A Gentle Woman, in 2 top lists Check
  43. 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
  44. 418 -6

    Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    1972, in 5 top lists Check
  45. 155 -10

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  46. 119 +2

    Les dames du Bois de Boulogne

    1945 — a.k.a. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne, in 7 top lists Check
  47. 465 -7

    Francesco, giullare di Dio

    1950 — a.k.a. The Flowers of St. Francis, in 10 top lists Check
  48. 228 -

    Le printemps

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  49. 250 -

    Rapt

    1934 — a.k.a. The Kidnapping, in 5 top lists Check
  50. 185 -4

    Aerograd

    1935 — a.k.a. Frontier, in 3 top lists Check
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