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Explore the Essential Films Canon, a personal canon looking at all the various aspects of film-making that elevate the medium as one of the most important art forms of contemporary times.

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The Essential Films series of reviews by Ion Martea is intended to help readers understand how film has gone from being a mere curiosity to the most popular art form worldwide in little more than a century, by analysing individual films from the dawn of the medium to the present day.

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