in "essential cinema: on the necessity of film canons" (2004), he appended a more general list of his 1,000 favorite films of all nationalities, slightly over half of which were american. he starred his 100 favorite films on the list, marking both traditionally canonical films like "greed" and "citizen kane" and harder-to-find films like michael snow's "la région centrale" and jacques rivette's "out 1".