The Essential Cinema List

From The Essential Cinema: Essays on the films in the collection of the Anthology Film Archives, 1975 NYU Press, edited by P. A Sitney.


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  • 01. James Agee
    • 1. In the Street [1952] (with Levitt and Loeb)
  • 02. Kenneth Anger
    • 1. Eaux D'Artifice [1953]
    • 2. Fireworks [1947]
    • 3. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome [1954-6]
    • 4. Invocation of My Demon Brother [1969]
    • 5. Kustom Kar Kommandos [1965]
    • 6. Puce Moment [1949-7]
    • 7. Rabbit's Moon [1950-7]
    • 8. Scorpio Rising [1963]
  • 03. Bruce Baillie
    • 1. All My Life [1966]
    • 2. Castro Street [1966]
    • 3. Mass [1963-6]
    • 4. Quick Billy [1971]
    • 5. Quixote [1965]
    • 6. Valentin de las Sierras [1968]
  • 04. Jordan Belson
    • 1. Allures [1961]
    • 2. Cosmos [1969]
    • 3. Meditation [1971]
    • 4. Momentum [1968]
    • 5. Phenomena [1965]
    • 6. Re-entry [1964]
    • 7. Samadhi [1967]
    • 8. World [1970]
  • 05. Stan Brakhage
    • 01. 23rd Psalm Branch [1966]
    • 02. Angels' [1971]
    • 03. Anticipation of the Night [1958]
    • 04. Blue Moses [1963]
    • 05. Bluewhite, Blood's Tone, Vein [1965]
    • 06. Cat's Cradle [1959]
    • 07. Desistfilm [1954]
    • 08. Deus Ex [1971]
    • 09. Dog Star Man [1961-6]
    • 10. Door [1971]
    • 11. Eyes [1971]
    • 12. Fire of Waters [1965]
    • 13. Flesh of Morning [1956]
    • 14. Lovemaking [1968]
    • 15. Loving [1956]
    • 16. Mothlight [1963]
    • 17. Pasht [1965]
    • 18. Reflections on Black [1955]
    • 19. Scenes from Under Childhood, 1-IV [1969-7]
    • 20. Sexual Meditation No. 1: Motel [1970]
    • 21. Sexual Meditation: Room with View [1971]
    • 22. Sirius Remembered [1959]
    • 23. Songs 1-14 [1964-6]
    • 24. Songs 15-22 [1965-6]
    • 25. Songs 24-27 [1967-6]
    • 26. Songs 28-30 [1968-6]
    • 27. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes [1972]
    • 28. The Animals of Eden and After [1970]
    • 29. The Art of Vision [1965]
    • 30. The Dead [1960]
    • 31. The Horseman, The Woman, & The Moth [1968]
    • 32. The Machine of Eden [1970]
    • 33. The Peaceable Kingdom [1971]
    • 34. The Weir-Falcon Saga [1970]
    • 35. The Wonder Ring [1955]
    • 36. Thigh Line Lyre Triangular [1961]
    • 37. Western History [1971]
    • 38. Window Water Baby Moving [1959]
  • 06. Robert Breer
    • 01. 66 [1966]
    • 02. 69 [1969]
    • 03. 70 [1971]
    • 04. Blazes [1961]
    • 05. Breathing [1963]
    • 06. Eyewash [1959]
    • 07. Fist Fight [1964]
    • 08. Form Phases 1 [1952]
    • 09. Form Phases 2 [1953]
    • 10. Jamestown Baloos [1957]
    • 11. Motion Pictures No. 1 [1956]
    • 12. Pat's Birthday [1962]
    • 13. Recreation [1956]
  • 07. Robert Bresson
    • 1. Au Hasard, Balthazar [1966]
    • 2. Le Journal d'un Curé de Campagne [1950] (Diary of A Country Priest)
    • 3. Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne [1944] (The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne)
    • 4. Mouchette [1966]
    • 5. Pickpocket [1959]
    • 6. Un Condamné à Mort s'est Echappé [1956] (A Man Escaped)
    • 7. Une Femme Douce [1969] (A Gentle Creature)
  • 08. James Broughton
    • 01. Dreamwood [1972]
    • 02. Four in the Afternoon [1951]
    • 03. Loony Tom, the Happy Lover [1951]
    • 04. Mother's Day [1948]
    • 05. Nuptiae [1969]
    • 06. The Bed [1968]
    • 07. The Golden Positions [1970]
    • 08. The Pleasure Garden [1953]
    • 09. The Potted Psalm [1946] (with Sidney Peterson)
    • 10. This Is It [1971]
  • 09. Luis Buñuel
    • 1. L'Age D'Or [1930] (The Golden Age)
    • 2. Land Without Bread [1932]
    • 3. Los Olvidados [1950] (The Forgotten)
    • 4. Un Chien Andalou [1928] (with Salvador Dali) (An Andalusian Dog)
  • 10. Alberto Cavalcanti
    • 1. Rien que les Heures [1927] (Nothing but the Hours)
  • 11. Charles Chaplin
    • 1. A Night at the Show [1915]
    • 2. A Woman [1915]
    • 3. Cure [1917]
    • 4. Easy Street [1917]
    • 5. Payday [1922]
    • 6. Selected Features (One Program per Cycle)
    • 7. Selected Shorts (One Program per Cycle)
    • 8. The Gold Rush [1925]
  • 12. Rene Clair
    • 1. Entr'acte [1924] (with Francis Picabia)
  • 13. Jean Cocteau
    • 1. La Belle et la Bete [1946] (Beauty and the Beast)
    • 2. Le Sang d'un Poete [1930] (The Blood of a Poet)
    • 3. Le Testament D'Orphee [1960] (The Testament of Orpheus)
    • 4. Orphée [1950]
  • 14. Bruce Conner
    • 1. A Movie [1958]
    • 2. Cosmic Ray [1961]
    • 3. Report [1965]
  • 15. Tony Conrad
    • 1. The Flicker [1966]
  • 16. Joseph Cornell
    • 01. A Legend for Fountains [1970] (photographed ca. 1957; completed in 1970)
    • 02. Angel [ca. 1957]
    • 03. Aviary [1955]
    • 04. Centuries of June [1955]
    • 05. Cotillion [1969] (finished by Larry Jordan)
    • 06. Ginr Rednow [1955]
    • 07. Nymphlight [ca. 1957]
    • 08. Rose Hobart [1939]
    • 09. The Children's Party [1969] (finished by Larry Jordan)
    • 10. The Midnight Party [1969] (finished by Larry Jordan)
  • 17. Douglas Crockwell
    • 1. Glens Falls Sequence [1946]
    • 2. The Long Bodies [1949]
  • 18. Maya Deren
    • 1. A Study in Choreography for Camera [1945]
    • 2. Meshes of the Afternoon [1943] (with Alexander Hammid)
    • 3. Ritual in Transfigured Time [1946]
  • 19. Alexandr Dovzhenko
    • 1. Aerograd [1935] (Frontier)
    • 2. Arsenal [1929]
    • 3. Ivan [1932]
    • 4. Zemlya [1930] (Earth)
    • 5. Zvenigora [1928]
  • 20. Carl Th. Dreyer
    • 1. Gertrud [1965]
    • 2. Ordet [1955] (The Word)
    • 3. Vredens Dag [1943] (Day of Wrath)
  • 21. Marcel Duchamp
    • 1. Anemic Cinema [1926] (with Man Ray)
  • 22. Viking Eggeling
    • 1. Symphonie Diagonale [1924]
  • 23. Sergei Eisenstein
    • 1. Bronenosets Potyomkin [1925] (Battleship Potemkin)
    • 2. Ivan Grozny I [1944] (Ivan the Terrible)
    • 3. Ivan Grozny II [1946] (Ivan the Terrible)
    • 4. Oktyabr [1928] (October)
    • 5. Stachka [1925] (Strike)
  • 24. Jean Epstein
    • 1. La Chute de la Majson Usljer [1928] (The Fall of the House of Usher)
    • 2. La Glace à Trois Faces [1927] (The Three-Sided Mirror)
  • 25. Louis Feuillade
    • 1. Fantomas [1913-1]
    • 2. Les Vampires [1915]
    • 3. Tih Minh [1919]
  • 26. Robert Flaherty
    • 1. Man of Aran [1934]
    • 2. Nanook of the North [1922]
  • 27. Bob Fleischner
    • 1. Blonde Cobra [1962] (with Ken Jacobs)
  • 28. Hollis Frampton
    • 1. Hapax Legomena I: (nostalgia) [1971] (nostalgia)
    • 2. Zorns Lemma [1970]
  • 29. Georges Franju
    • 1. Le Sang des Betes [1949] (Blood of the Beasts)
  • 30. Robert Frank
    • 1. Pull My Daisy [1959] (with Alfred Leslie)
  • 31. Jean Genet
    • 1. Un Chant D'Amour [1950] (The Song of Love)
  • 32. D. W. Griffith
    • 1. Intolerance [1916]
    • 2. The Birth of a Nation [1915]
  • 33. Alexander Hammid
    • 1. Meshes of the Afternoon [1943] (with Maya Deren)
  • 34. Marcel Hanoun
    • 1. L'Hiver [1969] (Winter)
    • 2. Le Printemps [1970] (Spring)
    • 3. Une Simple Histoire [1958] (A Simple Story)
  • 35. Jerome Hill
    • 1. Canaries [1968]
    • 2. Death in the Forenoon [1966]
    • 3. Film Portrait [1971]
  • 36. Ian Hugo
    • 1. Bells of Atlantis [1952]
  • 37. Ken Jacobs
    • 1. Blonde Cobra [1962] (with Bob Fleischner)
    • 2. Little Stabs At Happiness [1961]
    • 3. Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son [1969]
  • 38. Humphrey Jennings
    • 1. Listen to Britain [1941]
  • 39. Larry Jordan
    • 1. Duo Concertantes [1962-6]
    • 2. Gymnopedies [1968]
    • 3. Hamfat Asar [1965]
    • 4. Our Lady of the Sphere [1968]
    • 5. The Old House, Passing [1966]
  • 40. Buster Keaton
    • 1. Neighbors [1920]
    • 2. Selected Films (One Program per Cycle)
    • 3. The General [1926]
  • 41. Dimitri Kirsanoff
    • 1. Menilmontant [1924-2]
  • 42. Peter Kubelka
    • 1. Adebar [1957]
    • 2. Arnulf Rainer [1960]
    • 3. Mosaik im Vertauen [1955] (Mosaic in Confidence)
    • 4. Schwechater [1958]
    • 5. Unsere Afrikareise [1966] (Our Trip to Africa)
  • 43. Mike & George Kuchar
    • 1. Pussy On A Hot Tin Roof [1961]
    • 2. Tootsies In Autumn [1962]
  • 44. George Landow
    • 1. Diploteratology or Bardo Follies [1967]
    • 2. Film in which there Appear, Sprocket Holes, Edge Lettering, Dirt Particles, etc. [1966]
    • 3. Fleming Faloon [1964]
    • 4. Institutional Quality [1969]
    • 5. Remedial Reading Comprehension [1971]
    • 6. The Film that Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter [1968]
  • 45. George Landow
    • 1. Selected Films (One Program per Cycle)
  • 46. Fernand Leger
    • 1. Ballet Mécanique [1924] (with Dudley Murphy)
  • 47. Alfred Leslie
    • 1. Pull My Daisy [1959] (with Robert Frank)
  • 48. Helen Levitt
    • 1. In The Street [1952] (with Agee & Loeb)
  • 49. Janice Loeb
    • 1. In The Street [1952] (with Agee & Levitt)
  • 50. Louis & Auguste Lumiere
    • 1. Selected Films (One Program per Cycle)
  • 51. Len Lye
    • 1. Free Radicals [1958]
    • 2. Rhythm [1953]
    • 3. Trade Tatoo [1937]
    • 4. Tusalava [1928]
  • 52. Willard Maas
    • 1. Geography of the Body [1943]
  • 53. Christopher MacLaine
    • 1. The End [1953]
  • 54. Gregory Markopoulos
    • 1. Eros, O Basileus [1966]
    • 2. Gammelion [1968]
    • 3. Himself As Herself [1966]
    • 4. Ming Green [1966]
    • 5. Psyche [1948]
    • 6. Swain [1950]
    • 7. The Illiac Passion [1967]
    • 8. Twice A Man [1963]
  • 55. Jonas Mekas
    • 1. Diaries, Notes and Sketches [1964-6]
    • 2. Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania [1971]
  • 56. Georges Melies
    • 1. Selected Films (Five Programs)
    • 2. Selected Films (Four Programs)
    • 3. Selected Films (Four Programs)
  • 57. Marie Menken
    • 1. Andy Warhol [1965]
    • 2. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger [1961]
    • 3. Glimpse of the Garden [1957]
    • 4. Go! Go! Go! [1963]
    • 5. Lights [1965]
    • 6. Notebook [1962-6]
  • 58. F. W. Murnau
    • 1. Sunrise [1927]
  • 59. Dudley Murphy
    • 1. Ballet Méchanique [1924] (with Fernand Leger)
  • 60. Robert Nelson
    • 1. Bleu Shut [1970]
    • 2. The Great Blondino [1967]
  • 61. Yasujiro Ozu
    • 1. Chichi Ariki [1942] (There Was a Father)
    • 2. Umarete Wa Mita Keredo [1932] (I Was Born, ... But)
  • 62. Sidney Peterson
    • 1. Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur [1949]
    • 2. The Lead Shoes [1949]
    • 3. The Petrified Dog [1948]
    • 4. The Potted Psalm [1946] (with James Broughton)
  • 63. Francis Picabia
    • 1. Entr'acte [1924] (with Rene Clair)
  • 64. Vsevolod Pudovkin
    • 1. Mat [1926] (Mother)
  • 65. Man Ray
    • 1. Anemic Cinema [1926] (with Marcel Duchamp)
    • 2. Emak Bakia [1927]
    • 3. Etoile de Mer [1928]
    • 4. Le Retour à la Raison [1923] (Return to Reason)
  • 66. Jean Renoir
    • 1. La Règle du Jeu [1939] (Rules of the Game)
  • 67. Ron Rice
    • 1. Chumlum [1964]
  • 68. Hans Richter
    • 1. Alles Dreht Sich, Alles Bewegt Sich [1929] (Everything Revolves, Everything Turns)
    • 2. Rhythmus 21 [1921]
  • 69. Leni Riefenstahl
    • 1. Olympia [1938]
    • 2. Triumph des Willens [1934-3] (Triumph of the Will)
  • 70. Roberto Rossellini
    • 1. Francesco, Giullare di Dio [1949] (The Flowers of St. Francis)
    • 2. La Prise de Pouvoir par Louis XIV [1966] (The Rise to Power of Louis XIV)
  • 71. Walther Ruttmann
    • 1. Berlin, die Symphonie der Grosstadt [1927]
  • 72. Paul Sharits
    • 1. N : O : T : H : I : N : G [1968]
    • 2. S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S SECTIONED [1968-7]
    • 3. T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G [1969]
  • 73. Harry Smith
    • 1. No. 1-5, 7, 10: Early Abstractions [1941?-1]
    • 2. No. 11: Mirror Animations [1957]
    • 3. No. 12: Heaven and Earth Magic, The Magic Feature [1958-6]
    • 4. No. 13: Oz. Kaleidoscope [1962]
    • 5. No. 14: Late Superimpositions [1964]
    • 6. No. 16: The Tin Woodman's Dream [1967]
  • 74. Jack Smith
    • 1. Flaming Creatures [1963]
    • 2. No President [1969]
    • 3. Scotch Tape [1962]
  • 75. Michael Snow
    • 1. <-> [1969]
    • 2. La Region Centrale [1970-7] (The Central Region)
    • 3. Wavelength [1967]
  • 76. Frank Stauffacher
    • 1. Sausalito [1948]
  • 77. Erich von Stroheim
    • 1. Greed [1924]
  • 78. Karl Valentin
    • 1. Der Firmling [1934] (Confirmation Day)
  • 79. Dziga Vertov
    • 1. Chelovek s Kinoapparatom [1929] (with a Movie Camera)
    • 2. Entuziasm [1931] (Enthusiasm)
    • 3. Kinoglaz [1925]
    • 4. Newsreel Material (Kinonedelia) [1918-1] (Kinonedelia)
    • 5. Newsreel Material (Kinopravda) [1922] (Kinopravda)
    • 6. Odinnadtsati [1928] (The Eleventh Year)
    • 7. Tri Pesni O Leninye [1934] (Three Songs About Lenin)
  • 80. Jean Vigo
    • 1. A Propos de Nice [1929-3]
    • 2. L'Atalante [1934]
    • 3. Taris [1931]
    • 4. Zéro de Conduite [1933] (Zero for Conduct)
  • 81. Andy Warhol
    • 1. Blow Job [1963]
    • 2. Eat [1963]
    • 3. Harlot [1964]
    • 4. Kiss [1963]
    • 5. My Hustler [1965]
    • 6. Sausalito [1967]
    • 7. The Chelsea Girls [1966]
  • 82. John Sibley & Webber, Melville Watson
    • 1. Fall of the House of Usher [1928]
  • 83. Orson Welles
    • 1. Citizen Kane [1941]
  • 84. James Whitney
    • 1. Lapis [1963-6]
  • 85. John & James Whitney
    • 1. Film Exercises 1-5 [1943-4]

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