The Movies canon

Sourced and screened.

Every film chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
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Close-Up

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
1990

Kiarostami blurred documentary and fiction so completely that nobody has quite untangled it since: a man caught impersonating a director, with everyone involved playing themselves on camera.

★ 8.1

8.5

Directed by Federico Fellini
1963 · Italy

Fellini could not think of a film to make, so he made one about that: the result is a circus of memory and fantasy that every artist since has borrowed from.

★ 9.2