The Film Canon

A series of articles and reviews of older movies that have entered, well, the film canon, for being creatively or culturally important. Everything from Citizen Kane to The Breakfast Club to Fargo to The Dark Knight. So we can all create a diverse list of essential movies for the young folk cinephiles to watch

The Film Canon: American Psycho (2000)

The film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel “American Psycho” went through a long process of…

The Film Canon: Ball of Fire (1941)

Around half a year ago, I watched Funny Face (1957) for the first time. As…

The Film Canon: Les Vampires (1915-16)

The Young Folks has covered many anniversaries in 2015. From films like Jaws (1975) and…

The Film Canon: Barton Fink (1991)

It’s been more than twenty years since the Coens’ last forayed into classic Hollywood cinema…

The Film Canon: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

The New Hollywood era of cinema, primarily in the 1970s, is one of sublime virtue…

The Film Canon: The Seventh Seal (1957)

A skeptic in a world without skepticism. The knight, Antonius Block, returns home from the…

The Film Canon: Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Sense and Sensibility is a film I discovered years later during an obsessive teenage phase…