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. 185 -4

    Aerograd

    1935 — a.k.a. Frontier, in 3 top lists Check
  2. 182 -

    Arsenal

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  3. 123 -4

    Au hasard Balthazar

    1966 — a.k.a. Au Hasard Balthazar, in 18 top lists Check
  4. 224 +2

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  5. 534 -6

    Chelsea Girls

    1966, in 6 top lists Check
  6. 449 -8

    Chichi ariki

    1942 — a.k.a. There Was a Father, in 3 top lists Check
  7. 537 -8

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  8. 155 -10

    City Lights

    1931, in 34 top lists Check
  9. 121 +3

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

    1956 — a.k.a. A Man Escaped, in 20 top lists Check
  10. 119 +2

    Les dames du Bois de Boulogne

    1945 — a.k.a. The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne, in 7 top lists Check
  11. 203 +1

    Fantômas - À l'ombre de la guillotine

    1913 — a.k.a. Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine, in 9 top lists Check
  12. 206 +1

    Fantômas contre Fantômas

    1914 — a.k.a. Fantomas: The Mysterious Finger Print, in 9 top lists Check
  13. 207 +1

    Le faux magistrat

    1914 — a.k.a. Fantômas: The False Magistrate, in 9 top lists Check
  14. 125 -

    Une femme douce

    1969 — a.k.a. A Gentle Woman, in 2 top lists Check
  15. 2 +1

    Fireworks

    1947, in 5 top lists Check
  16. 484 -7

    Flaming Creatures

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  17. 192 -6

    Gertrud

    1964, in 11 top lists Check
  18. 201 +2

    La glace à trois faces

    1927 — a.k.a. The Three-Sided Mirror, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 154 +1

    The Gold Rush

    1925, in 29 top lists Check
  20. 492 -7

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
  21. 416 -9

    The Illiac Passion

    1967, in 1 top list Check
  22. 225 -

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
  23. 184 -1

    Ivan

    1932, in 3 top lists Check
  24. 120 -

    Journal d'un curé de campagne

    1951 — a.k.a. Diary of a Country Priest, in 14 top lists Check
  25. 204 +1

    Juve contre Fantômas

    1913 — a.k.a. Fantomas: The Man in Black, in 9 top lists Check
  26. 139 -1

    L'âge d'or

    1930 — a.k.a. L'Age d'Or, in 16 top lists Check
  27. 528 -9

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
  28. 227 -

    L'hiver

    1969 — a.k.a. Winter, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 141 -1

    Los olvidados

    1950 — a.k.a. The Young and the Damned, in 25 top lists Check
  30. 453 -7

    Mat

    1926 — a.k.a. Mother, in 9 top lists Check
  31. 249 +2

    Ménilmontant

    1926, in 6 top lists Check
  32. 187 -

    Michael

    1924, in 6 top lists Check
  33. 205 +1

    Le mort qui tue

    1913 — a.k.a. Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed, in 9 top lists Check
  34. 124 -2

    Mouchette

    1967, in 10 top lists Check
  35. 533 -6

    My Hustler

    1965, in 1 top list Check
  36. 197 +1

    Oktyabr

    1927 — a.k.a. October (Ten Days that Shook the World), in 12 top lists Check
  37. 191 -2

    Ordet

    1955, in 21 top lists Check
  38. 159 +1

    Orphée

    1950 — a.k.a. Orpheus, in 18 top lists Check
  39. 448 -6

    Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo

    1932 — a.k.a. I Was Born, But..., in 15 top lists Check
  40. 188 +2

    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
  41. 122 +1

    Pickpocket

    1959, in 20 top lists Check
  42. 186 +2

    Prästänkan

    1920 — a.k.a. The Parson's Widow, in 4 top lists Check
  43. 228 -

    Le printemps

    1971, in 1 top list Check
  44. 424 -1

    Le puits fantastique

    1903 — a.k.a. The Enchanted Well, in 1 top list Check
  45. 4 +4

    Rabbit's Moon

    1950, in 2 top lists Check
  46. 250 -

    Rapt

    1934 — a.k.a. The Kidnapping, in 5 top lists Check
  47. 28 +18

    Reflections on Black

    1955, in 1 top list Check
  48. 457 -7

    La règle du jeu

    1939 — a.k.a. The Rules of the Game, in 24 top lists Check
  49. 157 +1

    Le sang d'un poète

    1932 — a.k.a. The Blood of a Poet, in 9 top lists Check
  50. 72 -25

    Scenes from Under Childhood Section #1

    1969, in 3 top lists Check
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