Movies I've Seen of Jonathan Rosenbaum's "1,000 Favorites (A Personal Canon)"

Submitted by openstacks on Sat, 07/17/2004 - 08:07
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  1. This is from the list at the back of Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons, which is ordered by year. As you can see, I'd have a long way to go on this one.
  2. L'arrivée d'un train en Gare de la Ciotat
  3. La sortie des Usines Lumière
  4. Les vampires
  5. Intolerance
  6. Broken Blossoms
  7. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  8. Nanook of the North
  9. Nosferatu
  10. Greed
  11. The Thief of Bagdad
  12. The Big Parade
  13. The Gold Rush
  14. Metropolis
  15. Potemkin
  16. The General
  17. Un chien andalou
  18. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
  19. The Man with a Movie Camera
  20. All Quiet on the Western Front
  21. City Lights
  22. M
  23. Freaks
  24. Horse Feathers
  25. Scarface
  26. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  27. Duck Soup
  28. L'atalante
  29. Bride of Frankenstein
  30. The 39 Steps
  31. Modern Times
  32. La grande illusion
  33. Alexander Nevsky
  34. La regle du jeu
  35. The Wizard of Oz
  36. The Grapes of Wrath
  37. Pinocchio
  38. Rebecca
  39. The Thief of Bagdad
  40. Citizen Kane
  41. Dumbo
  42. The Maltese Falcon
  43. Suspicion
  44. The Magnificent Ambersons
  45. Sullivan's Travels
  46. Double Indemnity
  47. Les enfants du paradis
  48. Laura
  49. Ivan the Terrible, Parts 1 and 2
  50. The Best Years of Our Lives
  51. Notorious
  52. The Bicycle Thief
  53. Rope
  54. Adam's Rib
  55. The Third Man
  56. All About Eve
  57. Los olvidados
  58. Sunset Blvd.
  59. Alice In Wonderland
  60. Singin' in the Rain
  61. A Streetcar Named Desire
  62. Ikiru
  63. Duck Amuck
  64. Gentleman Prefer Blondes
  65. Tokyo Story
  66. Rear Window
  67. Senso
  68. Bad Day at Black Rock
  69. The Night of the Hunter
  70. Rebel Without A Cause
  71. Guys and Dolls
  72. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  73. The Killing
  74. The Searchers
  75. Twelve Angry Men
  76. The Wromg Man
  77. Touch of Evil
  78. Vertigo
  79. Anatomy of a Murder
  80. L'avventura
  81. Breathless
  82. The 400 Blows
  83. Good Morning
  84. North by Northwest
  85. Rio Bravo
  86. Psycho
  87. Spartacus
  88. The Hustler
  89. The Manchurian Candidate
  90. 8 1/2
  91. The Trial
  92. A Hard Day's Night
  93. La Jetée
  94. Alphaville
  95. Andrei Rublev
  96. What's Up, Tiger Lily?
  97. Belle de Jour
  98. Bonnie and Clyde
  99. Wavelength
  100. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  101. The Wild Bunch
  102. Tristana
  103. Woodstock
  104. McCabe and Mrs. Miller
  105. Aguirre, The Wrath of God
  106. Last Tango in Paris
  107. Badlands
  108. The Long Goodbye
  109. The Conversation
  110. Barry Lyndon
  111. Family Plot
  112. In the Realm of the Senses
  113. Annie Hall
  114. All That Jazz
  115. Apocalypse Now
  116. Real Life
  117. Blade Runner
  118. The King of Comedy
  119. Videodrome
  120. 1984
  121. Full Metal Jacket
  122. The Last Emperor
  123. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  124. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
  125. Do The Right Thing
  126. Defending Your Life
  127. My Own Private Idaho
  128. Rhapsody in August
  129. Naked Lunch
  130. Groundhog Day
  131. Red
  132. Before Sunrise
  133. Safe
  134. The Newton Boys
  135. Eyes Wide Shut
  136. Rushmore
  137. Yi Yi
  138. A.I.
  139. Mulholland Drive
  140. Waking Life
  141. Russian Ark
  142. Y tu mama tambien
  143. Elephant
lukeprog07/30/2004

It'd be nice if you simultaneously (and cunningly) posted a "movies I haven't seen of Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1000 Favorites" and "Movies I haven't seen of 1001 movies you must see before you die" so that those of us without the books could sneakily get the full lists for our own use :-)

openstacks07/30/2004

Yeah, I've considered it, but jim asked the 1,001 Movies people and they asked him not to (due to some imminent web goodies to come from them), so I've held off. But I still think about doing it from time to time. It's not like they told me not to reproduce it...or did they?

openstacks07/30/2004

Then again, Mr. Rosenbaum is proposing a type of cinematic canon, so I imagine that he aspires to disseminate his list as far and as wide as possible. Hmmm....

openstacks09/16/2004

Hey lukeprog, I noticed that you can find Rosenbaum's list here: http://www.alsolikelife.com/FilmDiary/rosenbaum.html

lukeprog09/17/2004

Aha!!!! Thanks, mate!

pherber09/16/2004

I have read the book "Midnight Movies" that was co-writen by him, and I get the feeling that he's a little bit snobby about the movies he likes? Do you think that's true?

openstacks09/16/2004

Oh, I don't think there's any question about it. He epitomizes elitism/pretension in film taste, but that sets his list apart from the more populist efforts. It is likely to be the most unique list of 1000 films you'll find that one might call authoritative or canonical. It's pretty remarkable how few of these films I've seen compared to the "1001 Films You Must See Before You Die."

pherber09/16/2004

1001 movies you must see before you die was a very user friendly book... I have it, and I just love it....