The Film Canon Reviews
Millennium Actress — Satoshi Kon
September 14, 2023
Johnny Guitar — Nicholas Ray
August 31, 2023
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence — Nagisa Ôshima
August 24, 2023
Ulzana’s Raid — Robert Aldrich
August 22, 2023
King of New York — Abel Ferrara
August 15, 2023
The Band Wagon — Vincente Minnelli
August 2, 2023
The Naked Spur — Anthony Mann
July 24, 2023
The Great Escape — John Sturges
July 19, 2023
La Commune — Peter Watkins
July 12, 2023
Dressed to Kill — Brian De Palma
July 12, 2023
The Room — Tommy Wiseau
July 4, 2023
Déjà vu — Tony Scott
July 3, 2023
Pistol Opera — Seijun Suzuki
June 20, 2023
The Terrorizers — Edward Yang
May 26, 2023
Gun Crazy — Joseph Lewis
May 5, 2023
Total Recall — Paul Verhoeven
April 21, 2023
Silver Lode — Allan Dwan
April 7, 2023
Unknown Pleasures — Jia Zhangke
March 31, 2023
Full Moon in Paris — Éric Rohmer
March 24, 2023
The Hitch-Hiker — Ida Lupino
March 24, 2023
Gang of Four — Jacques Rivette
March 3, 2023
Paris Is Burning — Jennie Livingston
February 24, 2023
Local Hero — Bill Forsyth
February 17, 2023
Hard Boiled — John Woo
February 10, 2023
The Harder They Come — Perry Henzell
February 10, 2023
Videodrome — David Cronenberg
February 4, 2023
The Last Days of Disco — Whit Stillman
January 20, 2023
The Devil’s Rejects — Rob Zombie
January 13, 2023
Morvern Callar — Lynne Ramsay
January 13, 2023
The Conformist — Bernardo Bertolucci
January 6, 2023
Gummo — Harmony Korine
January 6, 2023
The Heartbreak Kid — Elaine May
December 16, 2022
Exiled — Johnnie To
December 13, 2022
The Boston Strangler — Richard Fleischer
December 9, 2022
The Duchess of Langeais — Jacques Rivette
December 2, 2022
Boarding Gate — Olivier Assayas
November 28, 2022
Bad Lieutenant — Abel Ferrara
November 25, 2022
Malcolm X — Spike Lee
November 18, 2022
The Mirror — Jafar Panahi
November 4, 2022
Avatar — James Cameron
October 10, 2022
Ishtar — Elaine May
October 3, 2022
La Région Centrale — Michael Snow
September 26, 2022
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me — David Lynch
September 2, 2022
Audition — Takashi Miike
August 22, 2022
Flowing — Mikio Naruse
August 19, 2022
Casque d’or — Jacques Becker
August 15, 2022
The Last House on the Left — Wes Craven
August 5, 2022
Full Contact — Ringo Lam
July 29, 2022
Fat City — John Huston
July 25, 2022
Damnation — Bela Tarr
July 22, 2022
The Executioner — Luis García Berlanga
July 15, 2022
Gertrud — Carl Theodore Dreyer
July 8, 2022
The Thing — John Carpenter
June 27, 2022
Hatari! — Howard Hawks
June 17, 2022
Lolita — Stanley Kubrick
June 14, 2022
Advise & Consent — Otto Preminger
June 6, 2022
Losing Ground — Kathleen Collins
May 30, 2022
Cure — Kiyoshi Kurosawa
May 23, 2022
Showgirls — Paul Verhoeven
April 25, 2022
25th Hour — Spike Lee
April 22, 2022
High Plains Drifter — Clint Eastwood
April 4, 2022
Taboo — Nagisa Ôshima
March 28, 2022
The River — Jean Renoir
March 18, 2022
The Brood — David Cronenberg
March 14, 2022
Last Year in Marienbad — Alain Resnais
March 11, 2022
Esther Kahn — Arnaud Desplechin
March 4, 2022
Va savoir — Jacques Rivette
February 28, 2022
Once Upon a Time in China — Tsui Hark
February 25, 2022
Secrets & Lies — Mike Leigh
February 21, 2022
Assault on Precinct 13 — John Carpenter
February 18, 2022
Cabaret — Bob Fosse
February 15, 2022
Ruby Gentry — King Vidor
February 11, 2022
Nitrate Kisses — Barbara Hammer
January 24, 2022
On Dangerous Ground — Nicholas Ray
January 17, 2022
The Trout — Joseph Losey
January 14, 2022
What Time is It There? — Tsai Ming-liang
January 10, 2022
Day of the Outlaw — André De Toth
October 18, 2021
Southern Comfort | Walter Hill
September 27, 2021
Carrie | Brian de Palma
September 17, 2021
Loulou | Maurice Pialat
September 3, 2021
The Exorcist | William Friedkin
August 27, 2021
Old Joy | Kelly Reichardt
August 25, 2021
An American Werewolf in London | John Landis
August 20, 2021
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah
August 18, 2021
Deep End | Jerzy Skolimowski
August 11, 2021
S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION: S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED | Paul Sharits
August 9, 2021
Ghost World | Terry Zwigoff
August 4, 2021
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son | Ken Jacobs
August 2, 2021
3:10 to Yuma | Delmer Daves
July 28, 2021
Trust | Hal Hartley
July 26, 2021
Blow Out | Brian De Palma
July 21, 2021
Pulse | Kiyoshi Kurosawa
July 19, 2021
In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar-wai
July 16, 2021
Martin | George A. Romero
July 12, 2021
Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman
July 7, 2021
Oxhide | Liu Jiayin
July 5, 2021
Klute | Alan J. Pakula
June 28, 2021
Jungle Fever | Spike Lee
June 7, 2021
Remember My Name | Alan Rudolph
May 31, 2021
Noroît | Jacques Rivette
May 10, 2021
The Music Room | Satyajit Ray
May 3, 2021
Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola
April 30, 2021
Ms. 45 | Abel Ferrara
April 26, 2021
Miami Blues | George Armitage
April 23, 2021
Serial Mom | John Waters
April 19, 2021
India Song | Marguerite Duras
April 16, 2021
Excalibur | John Boorman
April 12, 2021
Regular Lovers | Philippe Garrel
April 5, 2021
Girlfriends | Claudia Weill
April 2, 2021
Thief | Michael Mann
March 26, 2021
Crooklyn | Spike Lee
March 19, 2021
L’humanité | Bruno Dumont
March 15, 2021
When Harry Met Sally… | Rob Reiner
March 5, 2021
Angel Face | Otto Preminger
March 1, 2021
Artists and Models | Frank Tashlin
February 22, 2021
A History of Violence | David Cronenberg
January 25, 2021
Irma Vep | Olivier Assayas
January 18, 2021
Hitcher | Richard Harmon
January 11, 2021
Princess Mononoke | Hayao Miyazaki
January 5, 2021
Husbands and Wives | Woody Allen
December 5, 2020
Hyenas | Djibril Diop Mambéty
November 14, 2020
Dog Star Man | Stan Brakhage
October 1, 2020
Metropolitan | Whit Stillman
September 23, 2020
Casa de Lava | Pedro Costa
August 3, 2020
Independence Day | Roland Emmerich
July 4, 2020
Possession | Andrzej Zulawski
July 2, 2020
Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott
June 27, 2020
Vive L’amour | Tsai Ming-liang
June 10, 2020
The Quince Tree Sun | Victor Erice
May 29, 2020
Tea and Sympathy | Vincente Minnelli
May 25, 2020
New Rose Hotel | Abel Ferrara
May 13, 2020
Blue | Derek Jarman
May 7, 2020
Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle
April 29, 2020
Cruising | William Friedkin
April 27, 2020
Smoking/No Smoking | Alain Resnais
April 24, 2020
Mission: Impossible | Brian De Palma
April 1, 2020
Mauvais sang | Leos Carax
March 28, 2020
Chungking Express | Wong Kar-wai
March 26, 2020
Fargo | Joel & Ethan Coen
March 25, 2020
Red Beard | Akira Kurosawa
March 24, 2020
Blade | Stephen Norrington
March 23, 2020
Eraserhead | David Lynch
March 19, 2020
Chelsea Girls | Andy Warhol
March 15, 2020
The Hole | Tsai Ming-liang
February 27, 2020
La Promesse | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
February 21, 2020
Fists in the Pocket | Marco Bellocchio
January 24, 2020
Le Bonheur | Agnes Varda
January 23, 2020
Alien | Ridley Scott
January 23, 2020
Badlands | Terrence Malick
January 23, 2020
Terminator 2: Judgment Day | James Cameron
November 20, 2019
To Live and Die in L.A. | William Friedkin
August 25, 2019
Black God, White Devil | Glauber Rocha
August 5, 2019
Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch
July 10, 2019
A Touch of Zen | King Hu
June 13, 2019
Naked | Mike Leigh
May 6, 2019
The Night of Counting the Years | Shadi Abdel Salam
April 21, 2019
Deep Red | Dario Argento
April 11, 2019
Scanners | David Cronenberg
April 1, 2019
Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick
March 15, 2019
Tout va Bien | Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin
March 3, 2019
A Perfect World | Clint Eastwood
March 3, 2019
A City of Sadness | Hou Hsiao-hsien
February 16, 2019
Casualties of War | Brian De Palma
February 2, 2019
Cockfighter | Monte Hellman
January 26, 2019
All That Jazz | Bob Fosse
January 19, 2019
Comanche Station | Budd Boetticher
January 12, 2019
Days of Being Wild | Wong Kar-wai
July 16, 2015
The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese
July 16, 2015
Miller’s Crossing | Joel & Ethan Coen
July 13, 2015
The Cable Guy | Ben Stiller
June 15, 2015
Fallen Angels | Wong Kar-wai
June 3, 2015
The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo
May 14, 2015
Santa Sangre | Alejandro Jodorowsky
May 4, 2015
7 Women | John Ford
April 27, 2015
Se7en | David Fincher
March 23, 2015
Night Tide | Curtis Harrington
March 16, 2015
Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant
March 9, 2015
Scream | Wes Craven
March 2, 2015
Sátántangó | Bela Tarr
February 23, 2015
The Sun’s Burial | Nagisa Ôshima
February 17, 2015
The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick
February 9, 2015
The Bridges of Madison County | Clint Eastwood
February 2, 2015
A Summer’s Tale | Eric Rohmer
January 26, 2015
Heat | Michael Mann
January 19, 2015
A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang
January 21, 2014
They Live | John Carpenter
December 5, 2013
Escape from New York | John Carpenter
July 19, 2013
Portrait of Jason | Shirley Clarke
April 19, 2013