A Century+: The Essentials

The original chronological list I used to track essential films as part of my “A Century+ of Cinema” blogging project. For each decade from the 1900s to the 2010s, I identified twenty-five favorite and/or important films (after researching and creating my viewing spreadsheet for those decades) for a total of 300 films.* As I blogged the first few decades, I updated the list accordingly. I stopped updating this list with the 1920s (after which I moved this list to Letterboxd.

*For the purposes of this project, 1895–1909 is considered one decade. Also, in the MUBI database, La meglio gioventù is listed in two parts, which...