Seen of Eric Henderson's "Light My Fire" Canon

Submitted by auto_matt_ic on Sat, 04/08/2006 - 12:57
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  1. Electrocuting An Elephant (Thomas Edison, 1903)
  2. San Francisco: Aftermath of an Earthquake (1906, newsreel)
  3. Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
  4. Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanov, 1926)
  5. Sunrise (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
  6. L’Âge d’Or (Luis Buñuel, 1930)
  7. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
  8. Blonde Venus (Josef Von Sternberg, 1932)
  9. Love Me Tonight (Rouben Mamoulian, 1932)
  10. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
  11. The Scarlet Empress (Josef Von Sternberg, 1934)
  12. Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo Mccarey, 1937)
  13. The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh, 1939)
  14. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
  15. The Mortal Storm (Frank Borzage, 1940)
  16. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
  17. The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur, 1943)
  18. The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943)
  19. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
  20. Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)
  21. Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947)
  22. Le Tempestaire (Jean Epstein, 1947)
  23. Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
  24. Long-Haired Hare (Chuck Jones, 1949)
  25. Un Chant d’amour (Jean Genet, 1950)
  26. Europa ‘51 (Roberto Rossellini, 1952)
  27. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953)
  28. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
  29. All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, 1955)
  30. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
  31. The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)
  32. Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (Sergei Eisenstein, 1958)
  33. Chronicle of a Summer (Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, 1961)
  34. The Ladies’ Man (Jerry Lewis, 1961)
  35. Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961)
  36. Advise and Consent (Otto Preminger, 1962)
  37. Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
  38. Confessions of an Opium Eater (Albert Zugsmith, 1962)
  39. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)
  40. To Beep or Not to Beep (Chuck Jones, 1963)
  41. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964)
  42. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)
  43. Simon of the Desert (Luis Buñuel, 1965)
  44. Vinyl (Andy Warhol, 1965)
  45. Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
  46. Breakaway (Bruce Conner, 1966)
  47. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
  48. Weekend (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
  49. Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma, 1970)
  50. Trash (Paul Morrissey, 1970)
  51. The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage, 1971)
  52. Land of Silence and Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1971)
  53. Pink Narcissus (James Bidgood, 1971)
  54. Score (Radley Metzger, 1973)
  55. The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
  56. Earthquake (Mark Robson, 1974)
  57. Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins, 1974)
  58. It’s Alive (Larry Cohen, 1974)
  59. The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
  60. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
  61. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
  62. The Human Tornado (Cliff Roquemore, 1976)
  63. Jeanne Dielman (Chantal Akerman, 1976)
  64. The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
  65. Desperate Living (John Waters, 1977)
  66. 3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977)
  67. The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978)
  68. All That Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)
  69. Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato, 1980)
  70. Cruising (William Friedkin, 1980)
  71. The Mystery of Oberwald (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1980)
  72. Lola (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981)
  73. Mommie Dearest (Frank Perry, 1981)
  74. Ms. 45 (Abel Ferrara, 1981)
  75. Tenebrae (Dario Argento, 1982)
  76. L’Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983)
  77. Sans soleil (Chris Marker, 1983)
  78. Sleepaway Camp (Robert Hiltzik, 1983)
  79. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
  80. Crime Wave (John Paizs, 1985)
  81. Day of the Dead (George A. Romero, 1985)
  82. Chat écoutant la musique (Chris Marker, 1988)
  83. Medea (Lars Von Trier, 1988)
  84. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
  85. Elephant (Alan Clarke, 1989)
  86. Clown Ministry Video (Group, 1990)
  87. Bitter Moon (Roman Polanski, 1992)
  88. Too Funky (Thierry Mugler, 1992)
  89. Showgirls (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
  90. first chapter of Spiritual Voices (Aleksandr Sokurov, 1995)
  91. Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
  92. Seventh Heaven (Benoît Jacquot, 1997)
  93. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
  94. Uncle Sam (William Lustig, 1997)
  95. Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
  96. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001)
  97. Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
  98. Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin, 2004)
  99. Light is Calling (Bill Morrison, 2004)
  100. Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
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To be updated when E.H. updates. Bring it! ;-)

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ephender04/10/2006

... I don't know whether I'm flattered or mortified.

auto_matt_ic04/11/2006

Hmmm, a combination of both seems appropriate. But who else on earth besides you and John Waters would include such a motley crew of movies in a personal canon? "Sleepaway Camp" and "Tropical Malady!?" I'm sold. ;-)

ephender04/11/2006

I already swapped out one John Waters favorite (the Kuchar) for I presume another (Pink Narcissus).

auto_matt_ic04/16/2006

Correction noted! (I haven't seen either the Kuchar film or "Pink Narcissus" yet.)

dayfornight04/16/2006

I'm almost tempted to see "Uncle Sam"...almost.

auto_matt_ic04/17/2006

After watching Lustig's "Maniac" I'm not too eager to investigate his other work. That said, I love Blue Underground's catalog of weirdness.

Cosgrove04/17/2006

"Maniac" is one of those films (like "I Spit on Your Grave" or "The New York Ripper") that I keep saying I'm going to watch... then I don't. I've assuredly seen worse, but their reputations precede them.

Blue Underground, however, is the shiznit. Lustig may not be a great director, but he's a hell of a film fan.

auto_matt_ic04/21/2006

That's so weird that you - of all people - haven't seen those films ("Maniac," "I Spit on Your Grave" and Fulci's "New York Ripper") and I have. I guess the truth is that in between the Bergmans and Tarkovskys and Truffauts, sometimes I wanna watch someone get stabbed. ;-(

Cosgrove04/21/2006

I know, you'd think, right? Mister Sleazoid himself. And I can't even use the Tarkovsky defense -- apparently I'm too busy trudging off to see the latest cinematic abortion based off some goddamn videogame I've never played.

auto_matt_ic04/22/2006

I hope you didn't think I meant it in a bad way. I'm just saying you cover a lot of ground. I hear Troma Films and generally want to run: you brace yourself for the storm. ;-)

Speaking of games, "Final Fantasy: Advent Children" is number one in my Netflix queue just because I'm obsessed with the Squaresoft series. The first FF movie didn't do it for me but you know ... Sephiroth's in it for heaven's sake!

Cosgrove04/28/2006

LOL... believe me, I took it in the spirit it was intended. I'm thinking I should see those three this year (my local kickass indie video store has all of 'em) just so I can keep my Exploitation Expert badge. (Won it in Cub Scouts, I did...)

auto_matt_ic04/28/2006

Joe Bob Briggs has nothing on you.

(Seriously. He has nothing on you.)

ephender04/28/2006

Whoa. You got way more responses here than I did over dere.

Maniac is one of those movies I sort of like "just enough" to give it the benefit of the doubt. (As I sort of indicated when I said it's "accidentally compelling" in my only substantial blog post in the month of April... tangents.) But I genuinely love Uncle Sam. Not that I'm recommending it. You sort of have to secretly like those movies whose VHS covers had shifty, 3-D effects on them.

auto_matt_ic04/28/2006

... just like the 3-D cover for "Jack Frost" (1996), right, with the snowman with the razor-sharp teeth? ;-)

(Oy is that movie a new breed of bad!)

As for movies that I love but have trouble recommending, "Mandingo," "Serial Mom," "Possession," "The Night Porter" and "Fando y Lis" all immediately come to mind.

Cosgrove04/28/2006

You want bad? Screw "Jack Frost" -- during a bout of insomnia, I sat through the goddamn sequel. Good... LORD. The screenplay had to written in crayon, I know it.

And... yeah, movies that are... um... troublesome recommendations. Let's just say that, if I were to make a list like ephender here, it would include "The Opening of Misty Beethoven" and "Wild Goose Chase." I don't think I need to explain that...

dayfornight04/28/2006

Well, I look forward to my video-projected showing of "Jack Frost" next week. Perhaps I'll follow it with "Monster Man."

Cosgrove04/29/2006

You're going to watch a "Jeepers Creepers" ripoff by the writer/director of the unholy "100 Girls"?

Wow. Godspeed, little doodle.

dayfornight04/29/2006

Said the man who sat through "Jack Frost 2." ;-)

Anyway, I wasn't interested in "Monster Man" until I read what Kim (kza's fave critic) Newman said: "Derivative of everything from Duel to Jeepers Creepers, this is good, trashy horror fun with a streak of Jackass-style grossness, some leftfield surprises and the always-reliable sense that the middle of America is a sucking pit of desperation that's out to get you."

Kza04/29/2006

I dunno that Newman's my favorite critic (that's probably J-Ro, and Danny Peary gets credit for being the one to get me interested in criticism) but his Nightmare Movies is a bible I keep by my bedside.

dayfornight04/29/2006

I need to rebuy that book. It was a fave of mine as well.