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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Afgrunden
1910 — a.k.a. The Woman Always Pays, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Land Beyond the Sunset
1912, in 2 top lists Check -
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Bout-de-Zan vole un éléphant
1913 — a.k.a. Tiny Tim and the Adventures of His Elephant, in 0 top lists Check -
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Twee zeeuwsche meisjes in Zandvoort
1913, in 0 top lists Check -
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Suspense
1913, in 5 top lists Check -
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Ditya bolshogo goroda
1914 — a.k.a. Child of the Big City, in 1 top list Check -
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A Dog's Life
1918, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Goat
1921, in 4 top lists Check -
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Manhatta
1921, in 5 top lists Check -
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Entr'acte
1924, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Fall of the House of Usher
1928, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Gallopin' Gaucho
1928, in 0 top lists Check -
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Un chien andalou
1929 — a.k.a. An Andalusian Dog, in 25 top lists Check -
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La perle
1929 — a.k.a. The Pearl, in 2 top lists Check -
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Bezucelná procházka
1930, 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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The Song of Ceylon
1934, in 3 top lists Check -
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Das Stahltier
1935 — a.k.a. The Steel Animal, in 0 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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Partie de campagne
1946 — a.k.a. A Day in the Country, in 13 top lists Check -
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Mickey's Trailer
1938, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Private Life of a Cat
1947, in 1 top list Check -
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Begone Dull Care
1950, in 7 top lists Check -
253 +1
Les statues meurent aussi
1953 — a.k.a. Statues also Die, in 4 top lists Check -
298 +1
Toute la mémoire du monde
1956, in 4 top lists Check -
309 +1
Number 11: Mirror Animations
1956, in 1 top list Check -
311 +1
Amelia and the Angel
1958, in 0 top lists Check -
320 +1
Un giorno in Barbagia
1958 — a.k.a. A Day in Barbagia, in 0 top lists Check -
336 +1
Science Friction
1959, in 1 top list Check -
337 +1
Les astronautes
1959, in 0 top lists Check -
348 +1
L'amour existe
1960, in 1 top list Check -
362 +2
Very Nice, Very Nice
1961, in 3 top lists Check -
386 +3
Khaneh siah ast
1963 — a.k.a. The House Is Black, in 13 top lists Check -
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...A Valparaíso
1963 — a.k.a. Valparaiso, in 2 top lists Check -
419 +2
Go! Go! Go!
1964, in 1 top list Check -
423 +2
Noviciat
1965, in 1 top list Check -
442 +2
Pour le Mistral
1966, in 0 top lists Check -
447 +2
Ruka
1965 — a.k.a. The Hand, in 7 top lists Check -
448 +2
La fórmula secreta
1965 — a.k.a. The Secret Formula, in 2 top lists Check -
449 +2
Kanikuly Bonifatsiya
1965 — a.k.a. Boniface's Vacation, in 0 top lists Check -
478 +2
Les amours de la pieuvre
1967 — a.k.a. The Love Life of an Octopus, in 1 top list Check -
479 +2
Skizbe
1967 — a.k.a. Beginning, in 0 top lists Check -
481 +2
An shab ke barun amad
1967 — a.k.a. The Night It Rained, in 3 top lists Check -
555 +2
Chircales
1972 — a.k.a. The Brickmakers, in 2 top lists Check -
558 +2
Our Lady of the Sphere
1969, in 3 top lists Check -
573 +2
Ah verda!
1974, in 0 top lists Check -
576 +2
Krystyna M.
1973, in 0 top lists Check -
583 +2
They Do Not Exist
1974, in 0 top lists Check
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