On Compiling A Film Canon. May 2017 Update.

It’s a bumper month for the Hope Lies Canon, which is apt given that this month we celebrate two years of being.

It’s a Noir heavy bunch of inductees for the most part, with Michael Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce and Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat. while genre outliers from Blake Edwards and Jean-Luc Godard also feature, in the latter’s Experiment In Terror and the former’s sci-fi noir hybrid Alphaville. I’ve written lengthy pieces on these two films (forgive me, illness ate up much of April), with one on Experiment In Terror here, and an essay on the Godard film here.

Away from films of a criminal tip stands Mike Mills’ contemporary masterpiece 20th Century Women. 2017’s greatness continues apace, with not a month having gone by without an entry from what is turning out to be an excellent year.

More information on the Hope Lies film canon can be found at our ongoing and regularly updated Letterboxd list.