Originally posted by wpqx
So I ask you to select 100 additional films/film series that you believe to be essential. Remember these are going more for essential status than personal favorites

Trying to separate what's essential from one's personal biases/values/esthetics is a losing proposition. All canons are subjective anyway. I could add some titles to the 240 posted but maybe you'd call them "personal". A minor point: some films like Close-Up from the Crits list includes both fiction and non-fiction elements. Fritz Lang called M a documentary. How did the crits make these distinctions? Why exclude "docs"?