Paul Schrader's Canon: 50 Essential Films

List creator: GreenCineStaff Created on: October 27, 2006 - 2:21 PM PDT Description: As seen in the writer-director's lengthy, invigorating article in Film Comment Magazine.

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	The Rules of the Game (Criterion Collection) (1939)
	Tokyo Story (Criterion Collection) (1953)
	City Lights (Chaplin Collection) (1931)
	Pickpocket (Criterion Collection) (1959)
	Metropolis (The Complete Restored Edition) (1927)			Not Rated
	Citizen Kane (1941)
	Masculin/Feminin (Criterion Collection) (1966)
	Persona (1966)			Not Rated
	Vertigo (Special Edition) (1958)
	Sunrise (1927)
	The Searchers (1956)
	The Lady Eve (Criterion Collection) (1941)			Not Rated
	The Conformist (Extended Edition) (1970)			Not Rated
	8 1/2 (Criterion Collection) (1963)
	The Godfather (1972)
	In the Mood for Love (Criterion Collection) (2000)
	La Notte (1961)			Not Rated
	Mother and Son (1997)			Not Rated
	The Leopard (Criterion Collection) (1963)
	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
	Last Year at Marienbad (Criterion) (1961)			Not Rated
	The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion Collection) (1928)			Not Rated
	Jules and Jim (1962)			Not Rated
	The Wild Bunch (Director's Cut) (1969)
	All That Jazz (1979)
	High and Low (Criterion Collection) (1962)			Not Rated
	Sweet Smell of Success (Criterion) (1957)			Not Rated
	That Obscure Object of Desire (Criterion Collection) (1977)
	An American in Paris (Special Edition) (1951)			Not Rated
	The Battle of Algiers (Criterion Collection) (1966)			Not Rated
	Taxi Driver (1976)
	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Criterion Collection) (1974)
	Blue Velvet (1986)
	Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
	The Big Lebowski (1998)
	The Big Lebowski (Collector's Edition) (1998)
	The Red Shoes (Criterion Collection) (1948)			Not Rated
	Singin' in the Rain (1952)
	Orpheus (Criterion Collection) (1950)
	Chinatown (1974)
	Sunset Boulevard (1950)			Not Rated
	Talk to Her (2002)
	Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
	Salvatore Giuliano (Criterion Collection) (1962)
	Nostalghia (1983)			Not Rated
	7 Men from Now (1956)			Not Rated
	Claire's Knee (Criterion Collection) (1970)
	Earth (1930)			Not Rated
	Gun Crazy (1949)			Not Rated
	Out of the Past (1947)			Not Rated
	Children of Paradise (Criterion Collection) (Disc 1 of 2) (1945)