Kenji's "Canon": The Big 1000
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"I’ve called this list a canon, cos the original intention was of a wide-ranging canon, including established “classics” but also balancing the domination by Hollywood with a geographical spread. Now i’ve thought better of reinforcing received wisdom and the position of many popular and major films which hardly need promoting and which i’m not so keen on. So it’s become a personal “canon” like Rosenbaum’s 1000. Notable films I intend to see can be found on my “Percy the Porcupine” list. I need to keep extending my viewing in neglected areas of the world- Africa, Latin America, the Balkans and parts of Asia should then be better represented.
We didn’t have a TV till i was 12. My first memory of going to the cinema was Fantasia- my introduction to the devil and dinosaurs. Then there was a film called Emil and the Detectives. My small town’s cinema closed when i was 7- TV was too strong a competitor-, my sole memory of films there of “red Indians” on a hill. The bigger films were at the grand metropolis of the county town of 3,000 people 20 miles away, or an even greater city of a few thousand more in the other direction. How i wept when the childcatcher caught them in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and the sky outside had changed, with castles hidden in the majestic domes of cumulo-nimbus. At 11, The Great Escape was the greatest adventure, at 12, El Cid. At 13, i joined the school film society. I gazed in awe at the naked female on a motorbike in Vanishing Point- more fun than that boring Wild Strawberries. In my mid teens, the best discoveries were North by Northwest and Fred Astaire. At uni, on a French course, my special subject was French Cinema of the 30s- Renoir and Pagnol.. but i really got obsessively hooked on world cinema once i’d bought a video player in the late 80s (ooh those Wenders road movies!) and John Kobal’s book The Top 100 Movies (see my list on that); Tarkovsky and Mizoguchi were new names to me. Soon i saw Andrei Rublev and the rain and light had changed. Then a few years on (less availability in those days) it was the turn of Sansho the Bailiff."
Notes:
#361 Teen Kanya (Three Daughters, 1961) only refers to the segment "Postmaster"
#471 Le plus vieux métier du monde (1967) only refers to the segment "Anticipation, ou l'amour en l'an 2000"
#671 Fanny och Alexander (1982) specifically refers to the television version
1007 entries because....
#6-10 Fantômas (5 episodes) counted as one entry
#339-341 Ningen no jôken trilogy counted as one entry
#603-605 La batalla de Chile trilogy counted as one entry
Kenji's list now has only 999 entries
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The Gallopin' Gaucho
1928, in 0 top lists Check -
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Une nuit sur le mont chauve
1938 — a.k.a. A Night on Bald Mountain, in 1 top list Check -
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Snow-White
1933, in 4 top lists Check -
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Fétiche
1933 — a.k.a. The Mascot, in 2 top lists Check -
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Komposition in Blau
1935 — a.k.a. Composition in Blue, in 1 top list Check -
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Mickey's Trailer
1938, in 0 top lists Check -
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Fantasia
1940, in 20 top lists Check -
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Dumbo
1941, in 9 top lists Check -
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Begone Dull Care
1950, in 7 top lists Check -
260 +1
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
1953, in 3 top lists Check -
337 +1
Les astronautes
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
447 +2
Ruka
1965 — a.k.a. The Hand, in 7 top lists Check -
449 +2
Kanikuly Bonifatsiya
1965 — a.k.a. Boniface's Vacation, in 0 top lists Check -
558 +2
Our Lady of the Sphere
1969, in 3 top lists Check -
587 +2
Pohádky tisíce a jedné noci
1974 — a.k.a. A Thousand and One Nights, in 0 top lists Check -
595 +2
Flåklypa Grand Prix
1975 — a.k.a. The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix, in 6 top lists Check -
599 +2
Yozhik v tumane
1975 — a.k.a. Hedgehog in the Fog, in 4 top lists Check -
607 +2
Quasi at the Quackadero
1976, in 2 top lists Check -
625 +2
The Street
1976, in 1 top list Check -
638 +2
Skazka skazok
1979 — a.k.a. The Tale of Tales, in 6 top lists Check -
669 +2
Blok
1982, in 0 top lists Check -
703 +2
Street of Crocodiles
1986, in 6 top lists Check -
721 +2
Sciany
1988 — a.k.a. The Walls, in 0 top lists Check -
728 +2
Tonari no Totoro
1988 — a.k.a. My Neighbor Totoro, in 23 top lists Check -
730 +2
Neco z Alenky
1988 — a.k.a. Alice, in 10 top lists Check -
731 +2
Shan shui qing
1988 — a.k.a. Feelings of Mountains and Waters, in 1 top list Check -
744 +2
Tma/Svetlo/Tma
1989 — a.k.a. Darkness Light Darkness, in 0 top lists Check -
780 +2
The Wrong Trousers
1993, in 7 top lists Check -
797 +2
Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
806 +2
Toy Story
1995, in 25 top lists Check -
829 +2
Flatworld
1997, in 0 top lists Check -
834 +2
Glassy Ocean: Kujira no Chôyaku
1998, in 0 top lists Check -
845 +2
Outer Space
1999, in 2 top lists Check -
848 +2
The Iron Giant
1999, in 14 top lists Check -
888 +3
Fast Film
2003, in 1 top list Check -
891 +3
Finding Nemo
2003, in 17 top lists Check -
896 +3
Hauru no ugoku shiro
2004 — a.k.a. Howl's Moving Castle, in 18 top lists Check -
914 +5
Everything Will Be Ok
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
930 +5
Kafuka: Inaka isha
2007 — a.k.a. Franz Kafka's a Country Doctor, in 0 top lists Check -
947 +5
Coraline
2009, in 3 top lists Check -
949 +5
Mary and Max.
2009 — a.k.a. Mary and Max, in 6 top lists Check -
952 +5
L'illusionniste
2010 — a.k.a. The Illusionist, in 3 top lists Check
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