A Year of Essential Cinema
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Inspired by the chronological charting of film, and the vast history of world cinema, as presented by Mark Cousin's superb 'A Story of Film: An Odyssey', I have decided to make 2012 the year where I finally get to watch those recognised classics and take a bite out of the canon.
Follow me as I take on the world of cinema from the silent era to the explosion of the talkies, through the golden age of Hollywood to the uprising of new wave cinema across Europe and worldwide, the uprising of the movie brats to the dawn of independent film making right through to the current digital boom.
This list will constantly be updated throughout the year.
January - 1895 - 1927
February - 1928 - 1936
March - 1937 - 1946
April - 1947 - 1954
May - 1955 - 1962
June - 1963 - 1967
July - 1968 - 1972
August - 1973 - 1979
September - 1980 - 1987
October - 1988 - 1995
November - 1996 - 2002
December - 2003 - Present
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1 -
L'arroseur arrosé
1895 — a.k.a. The Waterer Watered, in 6 top lists Check -
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L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat
1896 — a.k.a. The Arrival of a Train, in 13 top lists Check -
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Le voyage dans la lune
1902 — a.k.a. A Trip to the Moon, in 14 top lists Check -
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916, in 24 top lists Check -
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Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
1919 — a.k.a. Broken Blossoms, in 13 top lists Check -
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Way Down East
1920, in 7 top lists Check -
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Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
1920 — a.k.a. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in 30 top lists Check -
8 +1
Der müde Tod
1921 — a.k.a. Destiny, in 8 top lists Check -
9 +1
Körkarlen
1921 — a.k.a. The Phantom Carriage, in 16 top lists Check -
10 -2
The Kid
1921, in 17 top lists Check -
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Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens
1922 — a.k.a. Nosferatu, in 28 top lists Check -
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Our Hospitality
1923, in 13 top lists Check -
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Safety Last!
1923, in 16 top lists Check -
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Der letzte Mann
1924 — a.k.a. The Last Laugh, in 17 top lists Check -
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Stachka
1925 — a.k.a. Strike, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Big Parade
1925, in 13 top lists Check -
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Bronenosets Potemkin
1925 — a.k.a. Battleship Potemkin, in 27 top lists Check -
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Metropolis
1927, in 36 top lists Check -
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Napoléon vu par Abel Gance
1927 — a.k.a. Napoleon, in 24 top lists Check -
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The Cameraman
1928, in 13 top lists Check -
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The Crowd
1928, in 20 top lists Check -
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The Wind
1928, in 14 top lists Check -
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
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Die Büchse der Pandora
1929 — a.k.a. Pandora's Box, in 18 top lists Check -
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Zemlya
1930 — a.k.a. Earth, in 16 top lists Check -
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L'âge d'or
1930 — a.k.a. L'Age d'Or, in 16 top lists Check -
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Frankenstein
1931, in 18 top lists Check -
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Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
1931, in 11 top lists Check -
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City Lights
1931, in 34 top lists Check -
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Love Me Tonight
1932, in 11 top lists Check -
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Freaks
1932, in 19 top lists Check -
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Otona no miru ehon - Umarete wa mita keredo
1932 — a.k.a. I Was Born, But..., in 15 top lists Check -
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Vampyr
1932, in 18 top lists Check -
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King Kong
1933, in 26 top lists Check -
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L'Atalante
1934, in 21 top lists Check -
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A Night at the Opera
1935, in 17 top lists Check -
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The 39 Steps
1935, in 16 top lists Check -
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Modern Times
1936, in 30 top lists Check -
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Partie de campagne
1946 — a.k.a. A Day in the Country, in 13 top lists Check -
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Make Way for Tomorrow
1937, in 16 top lists Check -
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Aleksandr Nevskiy
1938 — a.k.a. Alexander Nevsky, in 10 top lists Check -
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Stagecoach
1939, in 21 top lists Check -
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Zangiku monogatari
1939 — a.k.a. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, in 13 top lists Check -
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Rebecca
1940, in 23 top lists Check -
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The Shop Around the Corner
1940, in 14 top lists Check -
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The Great Dictator
1940, in 25 top lists Check -
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Sullivan's Travels
1941, in 24 top lists Check -
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How Green Was My Valley
1941, in 11 top lists Check -
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To Be or Not to Be
1942, in 24 top lists Check
Last updated on Apr 6, 2012;