ScreenAge Wasteland has always had one goal, and that is to bring back the cinema conversations of old. We’re dedicated to growing and harvesting a community that discusses every genre of film and TV whether it’s new, old, or obscure.
It’s the reason why we have recurring series like Question of the Day, Power Rankings, What to Stream, That Pairs Nicely, and Five Films for…Birthday. We’re a team of individuals who love film and want to discuss all aspects of it.
This brings us to The SAW Canon. During the last few months of 2019, our team worked together to select over 200 films from the dawn of cinema to the present day that we considered to be worthy of entering a sacred canon. In the event of Earth being completely nuked, these are films we would want the survivors to find safely locked away in a vault.
Our picks may not be as universally beloved as AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies, but that was never the idea. We picked films that aren’t just classics but damn good films. Films that changed and shaped us into the human beings we are today. And we want to share our thoughts with you on why these films feel like a part of us.
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We’re doing something different for Vault Six. All of the 31 films below that will comprise this vault of the ScreenAge Wasteland Canon will be podcast exclusives. Raf Stitt will be chatting with an array of guests on The Canon: An Essential Movies Watchlist podcast about why these films deserve to be watched. We promise it’s going to be a good time.
VAULT VI
1910s
- The Birth of a Nation (1915)
1920s
- Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)
- Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
- Faust (1926)
- Man With the Movie Camera (1929)
- Pandora’s Box (1929)
1930s
- Freaks (1932)
1940s
- The Third Man (1949)
1950s
- All About Eve (1950)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- The Seventh Seal (1957)
- The Hidden Fortress (1958)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
1960s
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- Easy Rider (1969)
1970s
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- The French Connection (1971)
- The Last Picture Show (1971)
1980s
- The Road Warrior (1981)
- Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
1990s
- Thelma and Louise (1991)
- Dumb and Dumber (1994)
- The Usual Suspects (1995)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
2000s
- Training Day (2001)
- The Hangover (2009)
2010s
- Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
2020s
- Sound of Metal (2020)
Vault Six begins on May 6th when Raf chats with Tyler Harner and Thomas Riest about Saving Private Ryan.
See you in the trenches, screenagers.
