My film canon is more for personal study than anything, representing the films that define the term "canon" in my own subjective background. In other words, I don’t intend this to be an objective list of the greatest films of all time—these are my greatest films of all time, what I consider the highest points of their respective genres and of the "genre of film" as a whole.
Following this post, I plan to write weekly articles about the films in my canon, explaining why they were chosen and what about them specifically resonates with me. If I end up revisiting a film after posting this, or watch another previously unseen film that also feels "canonical," I will add it to the list and post about it that week.
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2009
Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Mother (Joon-ho Bong)
Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
A Serious Man (Ethan Coen/Joel Coen)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
Tetro (Francis Ford Coppola)
Up (Pete Docter/Bob Peterson)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
2010
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard)
I Wish I Knew (Jia Zhang-ke)
Louis C.K.: Hilarious (Louis C.K.)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
2011
Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick)
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<These are the first five hundred.>
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