The Movies canon

Sourced and screened.

Every film chosen by hand and annotated for why it matters.
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The Big Red One

Directed by Samuel Fuller
1980

Samuel Fuller fought in the division he is filming and waited thirty-five years to tell it: a squad from North Africa to Sicily to Normandy, filmed as a job that does not end.

★ 3.3

Ugetsu

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
1953

Mizoguchi's ghost story is the one other directors mention when asked what changed them: two peasants chase money through a civil war, and the crossing through fog is unearthly.

★ 8.2