The Movies canon

Sourced and screened.

Every film chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
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The Wizard of Oz

Directed by Victor Fleming
1939

Decades of television broadcasts made it what the Library of Congress calls the most-seen film in history: the switch from sepia Kansas into Technicolor Oz still lands like a door opening.

★ 9.1

Mulholland Drive

Directed by David Lynch
2001

Lynch built a Hollywood that runs entirely on dream logic and trusted the audience to assemble it: the whole thing feels like a half-remembered dream, and people keep returning.

★ 9.1