My "52-Week Film Canon" Starter Pack At the end of last year, I had started getting into more arthouse films, learned about the Criterion Collection, and picked up my first couple Criterions during the Black Friday Sale (Barry Lyndon and Do the Right Thing), which opened the door to me getting interested in collecting, as well as watching different kinds of movies. My all-time favorite movies from my formative years are super typical of the film bro archetype. Pulp fiction, the godfather, goodfellas, big Lebowski, fight club. I still love all these films, but I wanted to expand my horizons. Anyways, picking up my first few criterions during the Black Friday sale, and having all of December off work and school, led me to invest some time into curating a viewing syllabus for myself to build my understanding of world film history. I did a fair bit of research online and compiled a list of 52 films to watch (one per week) in 2026.…