(Under construction)
The country of each film’s production is in the notes section.
Most selected directors:
8 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky
6 entries - John Carpenter // Lucio Fulci
5 entries - Rouzbeh Rashidi // King Hu // Béla Tarr // Humberto Solás // Mikhail Kalatozov
4 entries - Ingmar Bergman // Robert Bresson // Kiyoshi Kurosawa // Claudio Caldini // David Cronenberg // Fernando Pérez // Leida Laius // Theo Angelopoulos// Stanley Kubrick // Terence Fisher // Ali Khamraev // Sandy Ding // Jean-Luc Godard // Michelangelo Antonioni
Most films by country (minimum of 3 per country by at least 2 different directors):
115 entries - USSR
63 entries - US
47 entries - Cuba
27 entries - France…
(Under construction)
The country of each film’s production is in the notes section.
Most selected directors:
8 entries - Andrei Tarkovsky
6 entries - John Carpenter // Lucio Fulci
5 entries - Rouzbeh Rashidi // King Hu // Béla Tarr // Humberto Solás // Mikhail Kalatozov
4 entries - Ingmar Bergman // Robert Bresson // Kiyoshi Kurosawa // Claudio Caldini // David Cronenberg // Fernando Pérez // Leida Laius // Theo Angelopoulos// Stanley Kubrick // Terence Fisher // Ali Khamraev // Sandy Ding // Jean-Luc Godard // Michelangelo Antonioni
Most films by country (minimum of 3 per country by at least 2 different directors):
115 entries - USSR
63 entries - US
47 entries - Cuba
27 entries - France
26 entries - China
25 entries - Japan
24 entries - Italy
14 entries - Britain
11 entries - Hungary // Vietnam
10 entries - Argentina // Canada // Poland // India
9 entries - Czechoslovakia
8 entries - Ireland // East Germany
7 entries - Mexico // Yugoslavia
5 entries - Australia // Greece
4 entries - Brazil // Chile // Venezuela // Palestine // Germany
3 entries - Colombia // South Korea // West Germany // Denmark // Portugal // New Zealand // Singapore // Iran
Films by decade:
1920s - 13 entries
1930s - 9 entries
1940s - 13 entries
1950s - 26 entries
1960s - 93 entries
1970s - 95 entries
1980s - 89 entries
1990s - 40 entries
2000s - 51 entries
2010s - 86 entries
2020s - 35 entries
TV Canon:
The Twilight Zone, Eternal Call, Twin Peaks, Serial Experiments Lain, Mononoke, American Horror Story, Hunter x Hunter, Attack on Titan, Devilman Crybaby, Squid Game.
Painting Canon:
Sand Mandalas by Tibetan Monks, Cosmic Mandala Thangkas by Nepali Monks, Yantras by Hindu Monks, Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Black Square by Kazimir Malevich, Altarpiece by Hilma af Klint, Setting Sun by Tarsila do Amaral, Marxism Will Heal the Sick by Frida Kahlo.
Literature Canon:
Brocade River Poems by Xue Tao, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal, Ulysses by James Joyce, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda, And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov, Olive Leaves by Mahmoud Darwish, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, El Apando by José Revueltas, The Book of Questions by Pablo Neruda, Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, Crónica de los fuegos celestes by Carlos Noguera.
Music Canon:
Gayaneh by Aram Khachaturian, India’s Master Musician by Ravi Shankar, Call of the Valley by Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia & Brijbrushan Kabra, Cronología musical de la Revolución Cubana by Carlos Puebla, Join Inn by Ash Ra Tempel, Shahen-Shah by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ecstatic Computation by Caterina Barbieri.
Theatre Canon:
Tarelkin’s Death by Vsevolod Meyerhold, The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, The Drunken Concubine by Mei Lanfang.
Photography Canon:
Workers by Sebastião Salgado, Chasing Shadows by Santu Mofokeng.