Balder Strååt's Personal Film Canon

By: Balder Strååt

Missing:

Satiemania – 1978, Zdenkó Gasparovich
1001 Nights – 1999, Mike Smith
Passageraren – 1966, Eric M Nilsson
WVLNT – 2003, Michael Snow
Super Mario Movie – 2005, Cory Arcangel
Europa 1900 – 1968, Eric M Nilsson
Farfale – 1907
Mt. Head – 2002, Koji Yamamura
Yantra – 1955, James Whitney
An Optical Poem – 1937, Oskar Fischinger
Time Between Dog and Wolf – 2007, Jeon Soo-il
Bläckfiskens Bok – 1993, Eric M Nilsson

• 01
  Pastoral: To Die in the Country
  Shûji Terayama
• 02
  Whisper of the Heart
  Yoshifumi Kondô
• 03
  The Man Who Sleeps
  Bernard Queysanne
• 04
  With the Girl of Black Soil
  Jeon Soo-il
• 05
  Peppermint Candy
  Lee Chang-dong
• 06
  The Seventh Continent
  Michael Haneke
• 07
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 08
  The Eve of Ivan Kupalo
  Yuri Ilyenko
• 09
  House
  Nobuhiko Obayashi
• 10
  The Son of the White Mare
  Marcell Jankovics
• 11
  Mind Game
  Masaaki Yuasa
• 12
  You, the Living
  Roy Andersson
• 13
  Songs from the Second Floor
  Roy Andersson
• 14
  Grass Labyrinth
  Shûji Terayama
• 15
  Sleeping Man
  Kôhei Oguri
• 16
  Cat Soup
  Tatsuo Sato
• 17
  The House of Small Cubes
  Kunio Katô
• 18
  Daisies
  Věra Chytilová
• 19
  The Taste of Tea
  Katsuhito Ishii
• 20
  The Fall of the House of Usher
  Jean Epstein
• 21
  Moving
  Shinji Sômai
• 22
  Birds, Orphans and Fools
  Juraj Jakubisko
• 23
  Come and See
  Elem Klimov
• 24
  Oasis
  Lee Chang-dong
• 25
  Seance on a Wet Afternoon
  Bryan Forbes
• 26
  Ballad of Narayama
  Keisuke Kinoshita
• 27
  Sátántangó
  Béla Tarr
• 28
  Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion
  Kazuya Tsurumaki
• 29
  The Phantom Carriage
  Victor Sjöström
• 30
  Playtime
  Jacques Tati
• 31
  Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  Jonas Mekas
• 32
  As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  Jonas Mekas
• 33
  A Page of Madness
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 34
  Scenes from Under Childhood Section
  Stan Brakhage
• 35
  Russian Ark
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 36
  Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
  Susumu Hani
• 37
  The Hole
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 38
  A Tale of the Wind
  Joris Ivens
• 39
  Only Yesterday
  Isao Takahata
• 40
  A Woman Under the Influence
  John Cassavetes
• 41
  Fruit of Paradise
  Věra Chytilová
• 42
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 43
  Blissfully Yours
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 44
  Eureka
  Shinji Aoyama
• 45
  Happy End
  Oldřich Lipský
• 46
  Duck Soup
  Leo McCarey
• 47
  Dimensions of Dialogue
  Jan Švankmajer
• 48
  Mother and Son
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 49
  The Cassandra Cat
  Vojtěch Jasný
• 50
  The Glass Harmonica
  Andrey Khrzhanovskiy
• 51
  Harakiri
  Masaki Kobayashi
• 52
  Spiritual Constructions
  Oskar Fischinger
• 53
  In Memory of the Day Passed By
  Sharunas Bartas
• 54
  Eraserhead
  David Lynch
• 55
  The Cremator
  Juraj Herz
• 56
  Dream Work
  Peter Tscherkassky
• 57
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 58
  The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
  Peter Greenaway
• 59
  Outer Space
  Peter Tscherkassky
• 60
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 61
  Chumlum
  Ron Rice
• 62
  I Stand Alone
  Gaspar Noé
• 63
  Sweet Movie
  Dušan Makavejev
• 64
  The Draughtsman's Contract
  Peter Greenaway
• 65
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 66
  Persona
  Ingmar Bergman
• 67
  Woman of the Lake
  Yoshishige Yoshida
• 68
  The New Land
  Jan Troell
• 69
  Weekend
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 70
  Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis
  Daïchi Saïto
• 71
  Mon oncle
  Jacques Tati
• 72
  Sink or Swim
  Su Friedrich
• 73
  The Shining
  Stanley Kubrick
• 74
  Hospital
  Frederick Wiseman
• 75
  L'ange
  Patrick Bokanowski
• 76
  Early Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 77
  Amarcord
  Federico Fellini
• 78
  Belladonna of Sadness
  Eiichi Yamamoto
• 79
  Blessing Bell
  Hiroyuki Tanaka
• 80
  Meshes of the Afternoon
  Maya Deren
• 81
  Silence Has No Wings
  Kazuo Kuroki
• 82
  Forest of Bliss
  Robert Gardner
• 83
  Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells
  Jeon Soo-il
• 84
  The Word
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 85
  Nazi Concentration Camps
  George Stevens
• 86
  Ritual
  Hideaki Anno
• 87
  The Tale of the Fox
  Wladyslaw Starewicz
• 88
  Pierrot le fou
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 89
  The Stone
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 90
  Winter Light
  Ingmar Bergman
• 91
  Angel's Egg
  Mamoru Oshii
• 92
  City of Pirates
  Raúl Ruiz
• 93
  The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  Mamoru Hosoda
• 94
  A Tree in Tanjung Malim
  Tan Chui Mui
• 95
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 96
  Who's Singing Over There?
  Slobodan Šijan
• 97
  Ugetsu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 98
  Airplane!
  Jim Abrahams
• 99
  Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets
  Shûji Terayama
• 100
  The Lonely Voice of Man
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 101
  Typhoon Club
  Shinji Sômai
• 102
  The Bed You Sleep In
  Jon Jost
• 103
  Drifting Clouds
  Aki Kaurismäki
• 104
  The Thief and the Cobbler
  Richard Williams
• 105
  Red Beard
  Akira Kurosawa
• 106
  Four Nights of a Dreamer
  Robert Bresson
• 107
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 108
  Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine
  Peter Tscherkassky
• 109
  Sans soleil
  Chris Marker
• 110
  World of Glory
  Roy Andersson
• 111
  The Hart of London
  Jack Chambers
• 112
  Through a Glass Darkly
  Ingmar Bergman
• 113
  The Bird People in China
  Takashi Miike
• 114
  Humanité
  Bruno Dumont
• 115
  My Neighbor Totoro
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 116
  Rashômon
  Akira Kurosawa
• 117
  The Seine Meets Paris
  Joris Ivens
• 118
  The Woman Who Powders Herself
  Patrick Bokanowski
• 119
  There Was a Father
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 120
  Prelude: Dog Star Man
  Stan Brakhage
• 121
  Sawdust and Tinsel
  Ingmar Bergman
• 122
  The Emigrants
  Jan Troell
• 123
  Tale of Cinema
  Hong Sang-soo
• 124
  Wedding Trough
  Thierry Zéno
• 125
  Adagio
  Garri Bardin
• 126
  The Fifth Seal
  Zoltán Fábri
• 127
  Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
  Stan Brakhage
• 128
  A Man There Was
  Victor Sjöström
• 129
  Rumpelstilzchen
  Jürgen Reble
• 130
  The Crucified Lovers
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 131
  Cat City
  Béla Ternovszky
• 132
  julien donkey-boy
  Harmony Korine
• 133
  The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
  Aleksandr Petrov
• 134
  Goodbye, Dragon Inn
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 135
  Psalm III: 'Night of the Meek'
  Phil Solomon
• 136
  All About Lily Chou-Chou
  Shunji Iwai
• 137
  Vive l'amour
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 138
  Zazie dans le métro
  Louis Malle
• 139
  Mouchette
  Robert Bresson
• 140
  Sherlock Jr.
  Buster Keaton
• 141
  Berlin Horse
  Malcolm Le Grice
• 142
  The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 143
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 144
  The Asthenic Syndrome
  Kira Muratova
• 145
  Barton Fink
  Joel Coen
• 146
  Water-mirror of Granada
  José Val del Omar
• 147
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 148
  The Little Island
  Richard Williams
• 149
  The Young Girls of Rochefort
  Jacques Demy
• 150
  A Day at the Races
  Sam Wood
• 151
  Camel(s)
  Park Ki-Yong
• 152
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 153
  Mermaid
  Aleksandr Petrov
• 154
  Shame
  Ingmar Bergman
• 155
  Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
  Wallace McCutcheon
• 156
  Rat-Trap
  Adoor Gopalakrishnan
• 157
  Emotion
  Nobuhiko Obayashi
• 158
  The Mistral
  Joris Ivens
• 159
  F for Fake
  Orson Welles
• 160
  The Life of Oharu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 161
  Blazes
  Robert Breer
• 162
  Maborosi
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 163
  Ikiru
  Akira Kurosawa
• 164
  A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 165
  Anatomy of a Relationship
  Luc Moullet
• 166
  Faces
  John Cassavetes
• 167
  The Cameraman
  Edward Sedgwick
• 168
  Pee-wee's Big Adventure
  Tim Burton
• 169
  Chronicle of a Summer
  Edgar Morin
• 170
  Manufraktur
  Peter Tscherkassky