The Film Canon (launched in November 2012) is a series of articles and reviews of older movies that have entered, well, the film canon, for being creatively or culturally important. We plan to cover everything from Citizen Kane to The Breakfast Club to Fargo to Fight Club. We want create a diverse list of essential movies for the young cinephiles to watch, enjoy and discuss. (The index below may look a little empty, but hey! we just started!)

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1931 – City Lights (dir. Charlie Chaplin)

1940s

1943- Jane Eyre (dir. Robert Stevenson)

1948 -Bicycle Thieves (dir. Vittorio de Sicca)

1950s

1950 – Rashomon (dir. Akira Kurosawa)

1952 – Singin’ in the Rain (dir. Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen)

1954 – On the Waterfront (dir. Elia Kazan)

1960s

1962 – Jules and Jim (dir. François Truffaut)

1967 – Bonnie and Clyde (dir. Arthur Penn)

1967 – The Graduate (dir. Mike Nichols)

 

1970s

1976 – All the President’s Men (dir. Alan J. Pakula)

1977 – Star Wars (dir. George Lucas)

1980s

1989 – Do The Right Thing (dir. Spike Lee)

1990s

1991 – Armour of God II: Operation Condor (dir. Jackie Chan)

1999 – American Beauty (dir. Sam Mendes)