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Personal Canon

540 films 67 Edit

The first 50 movies are my current top 50. Everything else is in chronological order.

  • Mexican Bus Ride
  • Land Without Bread
  • That Obscure Object of Desire
  • Nazarin
  • Él

Luis Buñuel - Ranked (badass edition)

32 films 108 6 Edit

10 reasons why Buñuel is a badass:

1) Told Jean Epstein to go fuck himself. 2) Out-surrealed the surrealists, got…

  • The Butcher
  • The Bench of Desolation
  • The Good Girls
  • La Ceremonie
  • Elective Affinities

Claude Chabrol, Ranked

41 films 42 1 Edit

  • Summer Clouds
  • Sound of the Mountain
  • Sudden Rain
  • Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
  • Two in the Shadow

Mikio Naruse, Ranked

32 films 59 3 Edit

Cinema's greatest melodramatist.

If my characters move even a little, they quickly hit the wall. - Mikio Naruse

During the…

  • Way of a Gaucho
  • The Leopard Man
  • Nightfall
  • Canyon Passage
  • Stranger on Horseback

Jacques Tourneur, Ranked

28 films 66 6 Edit

DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP

I'll do this picture for nothing. - Jacques Tourneur

During the 20 years from 1939…

  • The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
  • The Pig
  • Edvard Munch
  • Albert Savarus
  • The Age of the Medici

Made for Television

24 films 170 16 Edit

I’ve become increasingly interested in the work that film directors have done in the television medium. Here are my favorites.…

  • Red Line 7000
  • Albert Savarus
  • Contactos
  • L'Amour fou
  • The Gun Hawk

2024 First Viewings

87 films 46 1 Edit

Discovery: Alexandre Astruc

Rewatch: Claude Chabrol 

Reevaluation: Raoul Walsh

  • The Man I Love
  • Gentleman Jim
  • The Strawberry Blonde
  • Objective, Burma!
  • The World in His Arms

Raoul Walsh, 2024

34 films 20 Edit

All the Walsh movies I (re)watched in 2024, ranked. One thing I learned was that he was probably the greatest…

  • A Nos Amours
  • We Won't Grow Old Together
  • Van Gogh
  • Graduate First
  • The Mouth Agape

Maurice Pialat,Ranked

24 films 35 Edit

It’s in the reaction shots that Pialat engages in his ethical battle against resentment. If, in the past (as Godard…

  • Wagon Master
  • The Naked Dawn
  • Two Rode Together
  • The Gun Hawk
  • The Tall T

The Western, or American Cinema Par Excellence

50 films 183 9 Edit

The Western is always the same, which gives the director tremendous freedom. - Jean Renoir

The western of the 1950s…

  • Wagon Master
  • The Long Gray Line
  • Donovan's Reef
  • Two Rode Together
  • 7 Women

John Ford, Ranked

43 films 45 23 Edit

  • The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
  • The Messiah
  • Journey to Italy
  • The Age of the Medici
  • Blaise Pascal

Roberto Rossellini, Ranked

21 films 44 21 Edit

In 1974, while visiting a friend in Los Gatos, California with scarcely a dime in my pocket, I learned that…

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