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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. 427 -6

    Le voyage à travers l'impossible

    1904 — a.k.a. The Voyage Across the Impossible, in 6 top lists Check
  2. 7 +2

    Scorpio Rising

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  3. 487 -7

    Wavelength

    1967, in 9 top lists Check
  4. 214 -

    Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  5. 27 +8

    Desistfilm

    1954, in 2 top lists Check
  6. 404 -9

    Free Radicals

    1958, in 7 top lists Check
  7. 41 +3

    Mothlight

    1963, in 6 top lists Check
  8. 454 -5

    Le retour à la raison

    1923 — a.k.a. Return to Reason, in 1 top list Check
  9. 306 +18

    Démolition d'un mur

    1896, in 1 top list Check
  10. 284 +36

    Repas de bébé

    1895 — a.k.a. Baby's Meal, in 3 top lists Check
  11. 279 +40

    L'arroseur arrosé

    1895 — a.k.a. The Waterer Watered, in 6 top lists Check
  12. 211 -

    Man of Aran

    1934, in 5 top lists Check
  13. 247 -

    The Play House

    1921, in 6 top lists Check
  14. 145 +2

    Easy Street

    1917, in 6 top lists Check
  15. 143 -

    A Night in the Show

    1915 — a.k.a. A Night at the Show, in 1 top list Check
  16. 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
  17. 182 -

    Arsenal

    1929, in 7 top lists Check
  18. 177 +2

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    1943, in 10 top lists Check
  19. 160 -1

    Le testament d'Orphée ou ne me demandez pas...

    1960 — a.k.a. Testament of Orpheus, in 7 top lists Check
  20. 157 +1

    Le sang d'un poète

    1932 — a.k.a. The Blood of a Poet, in 9 top lists Check
  21. 197 +1

    Oktyabr

    1927 — a.k.a. October (Ten Days that Shook the World), in 12 top lists Check
  22. 453 -7

    Mat

    1926 — a.k.a. Mother, in 9 top lists Check
  23. 467 -7

    Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt

    1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check
  24. 152 -4

    Pay Day

    1922, in 1 top list Check
  25. 463 -8

    Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker

    1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, in 14 top lists Check
  26. 151 +2

    The Idle Class

    1921, in 1 top list Check
  27. 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
  28. 199 -3

    Ivan Groznyy

    1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check
  29. 190 +2

    Vredens dag

    1943 — a.k.a. Day of Wrath, in 13 top lists Check
  30. 150 -1

    Sunnyside

    1919, in 4 top lists Check
  31. 192 -6

    Gertrud

    1964, in 11 top lists Check
  32. 271 -1

    The Music Box

    1932, in 9 top lists Check
  33. 275 new

    Way Out West

    1937, in 7 top lists Check
  34. 191 -2

    Ordet

    1955, in 21 top lists Check
  35. 465 -7

    Francesco, giullare di Dio

    1950 — a.k.a. The Flowers of St. Francis, in 10 top lists Check
  36. 121 +3

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

    1956 — a.k.a. A Man Escaped, in 20 top lists Check
  37. 522 -35

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  38. 183 +1

    Zemlya

    1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check
  39. 196 +3

    Stachka

    1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check
  40. 139 -1

    L'âge d'or

    1930 — a.k.a. L'Age d'Or, in 16 top lists Check
  41. 123 -4

    Au hasard Balthazar

    1966 — a.k.a. Au Hasard Balthazar, in 18 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
  43. 528 -9

    L'Atalante

    1934, in 21 top lists Check
  44. 492 -7

    Greed

    1924, in 21 top lists Check
  45. 527 -6

    Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège

    1933 — a.k.a. Zero for Conduct, in 17 top lists Check
  46. 189 +2

    Vampyr

    1932, in 18 top lists Check
  47. 225 -

    Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

    1916, in 24 top lists Check
  48. 243 +2

    One Week

    1920, in 12 top lists Check
  49. 224 +2

    The Birth of a Nation

    1915, in 21 top lists Check
  50. 457 -7

    La règle du jeu

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