This is taking us far from the thread topic, but here's some stuff from post 1980 that appears in sight and sound's top 100 (nothing from after 2001, though – perhaps you wouldn't expect anything to be 'canonised' after less than 20 years, but it would be interesting to speculate on if anything from the last 20 years will ever or
can ever make it).
In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed. The Sight and Sound poll is now a major bellwether of critical opinion on cinema and this...
www.bfi.org.uk
28: Mulholland Drive, David Lynch, USA 2001
35: Sátántangó, Béla Tarr, Switzerland/Germany/Hungary 1994
42: Close-Up, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran 1990
69: Blade Runnerm Ridley Scott, Hong Kong/USA 1982
69: Blue Velvet, David Lynch, USA 1986
69: Sans Soleil, Chris Marker, France 1982
78: Beau Travail, Claire Denis, France 1998
84: Fanny and Alexanderm Ingmar Bergman, France/Sweden 1984
84: A Brighter Summer Day, Edward Yang, Taiwan 1991
93: A One and a Two, Edward Yang, Japan/Taiwan 1999
Then OTOH there's the canon of popular taste, e.g.
https://www.imdb.com/chart/top
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 9.2
- The Godfather (1972) 9.2
- The Dark Knight (2008) 9.0
- The Godfather: Part II (1974) 9.0
- 12 Angry Men (1957) 9.0
- Schindler's List (1993) 8.9
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 8.9
- Pulp Fiction (1994) 8.8
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 8.8
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) 8.8
- Forrest Gump (1994) 8.8