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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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916, in 24 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check -
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Oktyabr
1927 — a.k.a. October (Ten Days that Shook the World), in 12 top lists Check -
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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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The Scarlet Empress
1934, in 12 top lists Check -
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Aleksandr Nevskiy
1938 — a.k.a. Alexander Nevsky, in 10 top lists Check -
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Genroku Chûshingura
1941 — a.k.a. The 47 Ronin, in 4 top lists Check -
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Ivan Groznyy
1944 — a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible, Part I, in 19 top lists Check -
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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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Francesco, giullare di Dio
1950 — a.k.a. The Flowers of St. Francis, in 10 top lists Check -
266 +1
Senso
1954, in 12 top lists Check -
290 +1
Nuit et brouillard
1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check -
340 +1
Ningen no jôken
1959 — a.k.a. The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity, in 12 top lists Check -
341 +1
Ningen no jôken
1961 — a.k.a. The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer, in 12 top lists Check -
380 +3
Seppuku
1962 — a.k.a. Hara-Kiri, in 16 top lists Check -
389 +3
Il gattopardo
1963 — a.k.a. The Leopard, in 18 top lists Check -
390 +3
The Great Escape
1963, in 14 top lists Check -
404 +2
Il vangelo secondo Matteo
1964 — a.k.a. The Gospel According to St. Matthew, in 14 top lists Check -
407 +2
Padurea spânzuratilor
1965 — a.k.a. Forest of the Hanged, in 2 top lists Check -
428 +2
Tini zabutykh predkiv
1965 — a.k.a. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, in 12 top lists Check -
432 +2
Obyknovennyy fashizm
1965 — a.k.a. Triumph Over Violence, in 6 top lists Check -
467 +2
Andrey Rublyov
1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check -
470 +2
Marketa Lazarová
1967, in 9 top lists Check -
493 +1
Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach
1968 — a.k.a. The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, in 6 top lists Check -
494 +1
Ich war neunzehn
1968 — a.k.a. I Was Nineteen, in 3 top lists Check -
501 +2
In the Year of the Pig
1968, in 4 top lists Check -
520 +2
Le chagrin et la pitié
1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check -
534 +2
Il giardino dei Finzi Contini
1970 — a.k.a. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, in 9 top lists Check -
541 +2
Blanche
1971, in 2 top lists Check -
562 +2
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
1972 — a.k.a. Aguirre, the Wrath of God, in 18 top lists Check -
565 +2
Mogholha
1973 — a.k.a. The Mongols, in 4 top lists Check -
580 +2
The World at War
1973, in 1 top list Check -
588 +2
Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo
1974 — a.k.a. Brothel No. 8, in 3 top lists Check -
592 +2
Edvard Munch
1974, in 9 top lists Check -
593 +2
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
1974 — a.k.a. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, in 11 top lists Check -
596 +2
Barry Lyndon
1975, in 24 top lists Check -
598 +2
O thiasos
1975 — a.k.a. The Travelling Players, in 11 top lists Check -
611 +2
Ai no korîda
1976 — a.k.a. In the Realm of the Senses, in 16 top lists Check -
631 +2
Molière
1978, in 0 top lists Check -
633 +2
L'albero degli zoccoli
1978 — a.k.a. The Tree of Wooden Clogs, in 13 top lists Check -
665 +2
La notte di San Lorenzo
1982 — a.k.a. Night of the Shooting Stars, in 4 top lists Check -
678 +2
Rue Cases Nègres
1983 — a.k.a. Sugar Cane Alley, in 4 top lists Check -
717 +2
The Untouchables
1987, in 9 top lists Check -
749 +2
Kuroi ame
1989 — a.k.a. Black Rain, in 6 top lists Check -
756 +2
'Non', ou A Vã Glória de Mandar
1990, in 4 top lists Check -
774 +2
El viaje
1992 — a.k.a. The Journey, in 2 top lists Check -
778 +2
Schindler's List
1993, in 35 top lists Check -
784 +2
Afrique, je te plumerai
1992 — a.k.a. Africa, I Will Fleece You, in 1 top list Check -
795 +2
Jeanne la Pucelle I - Les batailles
1994 — a.k.a. Joan the Maid 1.: The Battles, in 1 top list Check
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