Paul Schrader's Canon Fodder

By: Anthony

After attempting to write a book for newbie cinephiles, Schrader gave up and wrote this article – http://paulschrader.org/articles/pdf/2006-FilmComment_Schrader.pdf – and included this list as an appendix. Ta da.

• 01
  The Rules of the Game
  Jean Renoir
• 02
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 03
  City Lights
  Charlie Chaplin
• 04
  Pickpocket
  Robert Bresson
• 05
  Metropolis
  Fritz Lang
• 06
  Citizen Kane
  Orson Welles
• 07
  Orpheus
  Jean Cocteau
• 08
  Masculine Feminine
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 09
  Persona
  Ingmar Bergman
• 10
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 11
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 12
  The Searchers
  John Ford
• 13
  The Lady Eve
  Preston Sturges
• 14
  The Conformist
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 15
  8½
  Federico Fellini
• 16
  The Godfather
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 17
  In the Mood for Love
  Wong Kar-wai
• 18
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 19
  Performance
  Donald Cammell
• 20
  La notte
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 21
  Mother and Son
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 22
  The Leopard
  Luchino Visconti
• 23
  The Dead
  John Huston
• 24
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 25
  Last Year at Marienbad
  Alain Resnais
• 26
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 27
  Jules and Jim
  François Truffaut
• 28
  The Wild Bunch
  Sam Peckinpah
• 29
  All That Jazz
  Bob Fosse
• 30
  The Life of Oharu
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 31
  High and Low
  Akira Kurosawa
• 32
  Sweet Smell of Success
  Alexander Mackendrick
• 33
  That Obscure Object of Desire
  Luis Buñuel
• 34
  An American in Paris
  Vincente Minnelli
• 35
  Voyage to Italy
  Roberto Rossellini
• 36
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 37
  Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• 38
  Blue Velvet
  David Lynch
• 39
  Crimes and Misdemeanors
  Woody Allen
• 40
  The Big Lebowski
  Joel Coen
• 41
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 42
  Singin' in the Rain
  Stanley Donen
• 43
  Chinatown
  Roman Polanski
• 44
  The Crowd
  King Vidor
• 45
  Sunset Boulevard
  Billy Wilder
• 46
  Talk to Her
  Pedro Almodóvar
• 47
  Shanghai Express
  Josef von Sternberg
• 48
  Letter from an Unknown Woman
  Xu Jinglei
• 49
  Once Upon a Time in the West
  Sergio Leone
• 50
  Salvatore Giuliano
  Francesco Rosi
• 51
  Nostalghia
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 52
  Seven Men from Now
  Budd Boetticher
• 53
  Claire's Knee
  Éric Rohmer
• 54
  Earth
  Aleksandr Dovzhenko
• 55
  Gun Crazy
  Joseph H. Lewis
• 56
  Out of the Past
  Jacques Tourneur
• 57
  Children of Paradise
  Marcel Carné
• 58
  The Naked Spur
  Anthony Mann
• 59
  A Place in the Sun
  George Stevens
• 60
  The General
  Buster Keaton