My current personal film canon, one per director and in chronological order. I realise I pretty much have nothing pre-60s and post-80s but I'm trying to work on that!
TOP 100 (only 57 so far)
FREAKS (Tod Browning, 1932)
IMITATION OF LIFE (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
DAISIES (Vera Chytilová, 1966)
BARBARELLA (Roger Vadim, 1968)
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov, 1968)
DANGER: DIABOLIK (Mario Bava, 1968)
SATAN BOUCHE UN COIN (Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, 1968)
BIRDS, ORPHANS & FOOLS (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969)
CAMILLE 2000 (Radley Metzger, 1969)
FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
GO, GO, SECOND-TIME VIRGIN (Koji Wakamatsu, 1969)
VENUS IN FURS (Jesus Franco, 1969)
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Russ Meyer, 1970)
VALERIE & HER WEEK OF WONDERS (Jaromil Jires, 1970)
TRASH (Paul Morrissey, 1970)
DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (Harry Kümel, 1971)
DON'T DELIVER US FROM EVIL (Joël Séria, 1971)
THE DEVILS (Ken Russell, 1971)
GIRL SLAVES OF MORGANA LE FAY (Bruno Gantillon, 1971)
A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN (Lucio Fulci, 1971)
LIVING (Frans Zwartjes, 1971)
PINK NARCISSUS (James Bidgood, 1971)
THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS, RALLY IN THE STREETS (Shuji Terayama, 1971)
WALKABOUT (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
LUCIFER RISING (Kenneth Anger, 1972)
MORGIANA (Juraj Herz, 1972)
COFFY (Jack Hill, 1973)
THE FANTASTIC PLANET (René Laloux, 1973)
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
THE WICKER MAN (Robin Hardy, 1973)
CELINE & JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
FEMALE TROUBLE (John Waters, 1974)
SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST (Norifumi Suzuki, 1974)
SWEET MOVIE (Dusan Makavejev, 1974)
MANDINGO (Richard Fleischer, 1975)
SALO OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
ASSAULT! JACK THE RIPPER (Yasuharu Hasebe, 1976)
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (Jonas Middleton, 1976)
WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (Narciso Ibanez Serrador, 1976)
HAUSU (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
THE LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET (Roger Watkins, 1977)
SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento, 1977)
ALUCARDA (Juan López Moctezuma, 1978)
IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
FASCINATION (Jean Rollin, 1979)
THE BLOOD OF DR JEKYLL (Walerian Borowczyk, 1981)
MOMMIE DEAREST (Frank Perry, 1981)
POSSESSION (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
LIQUID SKY (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)
IN A GLASS CAGE (Agustí Villaronga, 1987)
SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY (Todd Haynes, 1987)
TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1988)
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
BAD BOY BUBBY (Rolf de Heer, 1993)
SHOWGIRLS (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
CRASH (David Cronenberg, 1996)
GHOST WORLD (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006)
TOP 100 (only 57 so far)
FREAKS (Tod Browning, 1932)
IMITATION OF LIFE (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
DAISIES (Vera Chytilová, 1966)
BARBARELLA (Roger Vadim, 1968)
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov, 1968)
DANGER: DIABOLIK (Mario Bava, 1968)
SATAN BOUCHE UN COIN (Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, 1968)
BIRDS, ORPHANS & FOOLS (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969)
CAMILLE 2000 (Radley Metzger, 1969)
FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
GO, GO, SECOND-TIME VIRGIN (Koji Wakamatsu, 1969)
VENUS IN FURS (Jesus Franco, 1969)
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Russ Meyer, 1970)
VALERIE & HER WEEK OF WONDERS (Jaromil Jires, 1970)
TRASH (Paul Morrissey, 1970)
DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (Harry Kümel, 1971)
DON'T DELIVER US FROM EVIL (Joël Séria, 1971)
THE DEVILS (Ken Russell, 1971)
GIRL SLAVES OF MORGANA LE FAY (Bruno Gantillon, 1971)
A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN (Lucio Fulci, 1971)
LIVING (Frans Zwartjes, 1971)
PINK NARCISSUS (James Bidgood, 1971)
THROW AWAY YOUR BOOKS, RALLY IN THE STREETS (Shuji Terayama, 1971)
WALKABOUT (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
LUCIFER RISING (Kenneth Anger, 1972)
MORGIANA (Juraj Herz, 1972)
COFFY (Jack Hill, 1973)
THE FANTASTIC PLANET (René Laloux, 1973)
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
THE WICKER MAN (Robin Hardy, 1973)
CELINE & JULIE GO BOATING (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
FEMALE TROUBLE (John Waters, 1974)
SCHOOL OF THE HOLY BEAST (Norifumi Suzuki, 1974)
SWEET MOVIE (Dusan Makavejev, 1974)
MANDINGO (Richard Fleischer, 1975)
SALO OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
ASSAULT! JACK THE RIPPER (Yasuharu Hasebe, 1976)
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (Jonas Middleton, 1976)
WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (Narciso Ibanez Serrador, 1976)
HAUSU (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977)
THE LAST HOUSE ON DEAD END STREET (Roger Watkins, 1977)
SUSPIRIA (Dario Argento, 1977)
ALUCARDA (Juan López Moctezuma, 1978)
IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1978)
FASCINATION (Jean Rollin, 1979)
THE BLOOD OF DR JEKYLL (Walerian Borowczyk, 1981)
MOMMIE DEAREST (Frank Perry, 1981)
POSSESSION (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981)
LIQUID SKY (Slava Tsukerman, 1982)
IN A GLASS CAGE (Agustí Villaronga, 1987)
SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY (Todd Haynes, 1987)
TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1988)
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER (Peter Greenaway, 1989)
BAD BOY BUBBY (Rolf de Heer, 1993)
SHOWGIRLS (Paul Verhoeven, 1995)
CRASH (David Cronenberg, 1996)
GHOST WORLD (Terry Zwigoff, 2001)
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006)
