Spike Lee's essential films in this video: 3 films by Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon (1950) Yojimbo (1961) Ran (1985) 3 films by Alfred Hitchcock: Rear Window (1954) Vertigo (1958) North by Northwest (1959) 1 film by Arthur Penn: Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 1 film by Bernado Bertolucci: The Conformist (1970) 2 of some of Spike Lee’s favourite films by Billy Wilder: Ace in the Hole (1951) Some Like It Hot (1959) 1 film by Charles Burnett: Killer of Sheep (1978) 1 film by Charles Laughton: Night of the Hunter (1955) 1 film by David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 1 film by Elia Kazan: On The Waterfront (1954) 3 of Spike’s favourites by Frederico Fellini: La Strada (1954) La Dolce Vita (1960) 8 ½ (1963) 2 films by Francis Ford Coppolla: Godfather 1 (1972) Godfather 2 (1974) 2 films by Francois Traffaut: Day For Night (1973) The 400 Blows (1959) 3 films by John Huston: The Maltese Falcon (1941) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Fat City (1972) 3 films by Martin Scorsese: Mean Streets (1973) Raging Bull (1980) Goodfellas (1990)

Spike Lee is a great lover and maker of film. He has built a wonderful body of work. Keep going, Spike!

These ones: Sans toit ni loi - Agnès Varda - 1985 Entranced Earth (Terra em Transe) - Glauber Rocha - 1967 Pixote (Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco) - Hector Babenco - 1981 Seppuku - Masaki Kobayashi - 1962 Solaris (Solyaris) - Andrei Tarkovsky - 1972 Persona - Ingmar Bergman - 1957 The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet) - Ingmar Bergman - 1957 Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders - 1984 Mulholland Dr. - David Lynch - 2001 Eraserhead - David Lynch - 1977 The Exterminating Angel (El Ángel Exterminador) - Luis Buñuel - 1962 Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie - Luis Buñuel - 1972 F for Fake - Orson Welles - 1973 Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna) - Ingmar Bergman - 1963 Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog - 1982 Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) - Werner Herzog - 1972 Tôkyô monogatari - Yasujirô Ozu - 1953 Banshun - Yasujirô Ozu - 1949 A Woman Under the Influence - John Cassavetes - 1974 Oldboy - Chan-wook Park - 2003 Onibaba - Kaneto Shindô - 1964 The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Th. Dreyer) Vampyr - Carl Th. Dreyer 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese The King of Comedy - Martin Scorsese Olympia - Leni Riefenstahl Robocop - Paul Verhoeven

Andrei Rublev, Citizen Kane, La regle du jeu, The conversation, City Lights, Wild Strawberries, Paths of Glory, Au hasard Balthazar, L'année dernière à Marienbad, and so on...... in any decent list of the kind there should be at least 100 movies, I think.

2001 Space Odyssey is one the greatest. Kubrick was able to keep the tension and storyline going without using a lot of dialogue. incredible cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth. Network and China Syndrome are also great ones

Night of the Hunter is insanely good. Ahead of its time with its "dream sequence" on the river and Mitchum's primal characterization. What must have audiences thought when they watched it in the theater? And the sets are impressionistic with striking use of black and white shade and shadow. . Overall, Spike's list is primo.

Marlon Brando`s performance in 1951`s "Streetcar named desire" is the template for all modern acting, All leading men must be judged against that. Honourable mention to James Cagney in 1949`s "White heat", The scene where Jody learns of the death of his mother and reacts is remarkable even to this day.

Here's a chunk of my list, Spike: "A Hard Day's Night"; "The Silence of the Lambs"; "Psycho," Hitchcock's version; "Carrie," De Palma's version; "Citizen Kane"; "Singin' in the Rain"; "Reservoir Dogs"; "Do the Right Thing"; "Goodfellas"; "Casablanca"; "Some Like It Hot"; "The Seven Year Itch"; "Night of the Hunter"; "Boogie Nights"; "Raging Bull"; "Rocky"; "The Quiet Man"; "Eraserhead"; "This Is Spinal Tap"; "Malcolm X"; "Roman Holiday"; "Nights of Cabiria"; "Kika"; "Sunset Boulevard"; "Stalag 17"; "Midnight Cowboy"; "The Graduate"; "Harlan County U.S.A."; "The African Queen"; "Pulp Fiction"; "Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"; "The Shawshank Redemption"; "Rear Window"; "The Shootist"; "The Misfits"; "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"; "The Shootist"; "Memento"; "All the President's Men"; "Tootsie"; "Gallipoli"; "The Road Warrior"; "The Dark Knight"; "The Slender Thread"; "The Big Lebowski"; "Pink Flamingos"; "Cry-Baby"; "Angels With Dirty Faces"; "Female Trouble"; "M*A*S*H"; "Bowfinger"; "White Heat"; "The Godfather"; "The Godfather, Part II"; "Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten." Thanks for encouraging us to share. Keep teaching. Shawn R., Mo-Mutt Music #Music4URSpirit

Rocco And His Brothers, A Place In The Sun, The Conformist, Some Like It Hot, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Taxi Driver, O Lucky Man, Notorious, Psycho, Marnie, Rear Window, Midnight Cowboy, Rosemary's Baby, The Age Of Innocence.

Old boy, in the mood for love, Mulholland drive, city of God,the return (russian) are some of my favorite films from last 20 years Close-up(Iranian), thin red line, banded queen, days of being wild[my favorite from 90s]

I watched The Night of the Hunter based on Spike’s appearance on TCM as a guest programmer, and I absolutely loved it! One of my all-time favorites now

Great list but I have a few I'd add some of which came out after this list: - Son of Saul - There will be Blood - Bronson - Drive - John Carpenter's The Thing - The Act of Killing - The Look of Silence and a cheeky bit of Herzog like Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo as well as most of his documentaries

This is a great list from Spike but he left out "Do The Right Thing." He should give himself some credit there.

Do The Right Thing, Being There, Tampopo, Last of the Mohicans, Master and Commander, Almost Famous, Blade Runner, Chinatown, The Conversation

no the room? "your tearing me aaapart spike!"

Rebel Without A Cause, The Graduate, Jaws, Back to the Future, Dirty Harry, Pulp Fiction, Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, Bowling For Columbine...all essential as pioneers in their respective genres.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Cinematography, Score Pulp Fiction - Storytelling, Dialogue Apocalypse Now - Storytelling, Cinematography, Build-up Taxi Driver - Character Study, Cinematography No Country for Old Men - Cinematography, Sound

Tokyo Story, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Satantango, Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror

i'll just list some: taxi driver, do the right thing (not sucking up, it is a great film), pulp fiction, there will be blood, police story by jackie chan, mulloholland drive or blue velvet, chungking express, day night day night, grapes of wrath (?), dogville, requiem for a dream, blade runner, 2001 space odyssey, pan's labyrinth, in the mood for love, oldboy (south korea)

Citizen kane, apocalypse now, touch of evil, full metal jacket, the shining, taxi driver, goodfellas, rumble fish, return of the 36 chambers, seven samurai, jaws, and...gotta add Do The Right Thing because it was that film that made me want to be a filmmaker after I saw it

You can search for the entire list. The list contains 95 films. Interesting in that only 5 were made after 1990 - The Hurt Locker, Daughters of the Dust, The Piano, Bad Lieutenant, City of Gods. Gotta love Spikes love of film. Most of the great directors have an almost obsession with cinema.

Spike - question - would you say these films are your favourites and essential viewing because of the character arc in the story or because of the artistic direction?

Start with: - Tarkowski Movies - Almodovar Movies - Amenabar Movies - Scorsese Movies - Kurosawa - Tino Trivino Movies :p - Spike Lee Movies ;) - Oliver Stone Movies - Robert Redford (as Director) Movies etc

An important film I feel is missing is Douglas Sirk's "Imitation of Life", probably the most gut-wrenching melodrama ever produced. Also, no Fassbinder?!

Excellent list Mr. Lee...excellent list. I've actually seen about 85% of the films on this list, but I definitely want to check out remaining films I haven't seen on this list.

I love Charlie Chaplin (The Great Dictator and Modern Times). I was really sad that there were no Chaplin movies on the list. Also, 2001: A Space Odyssey is like looking up at the ceiling of the Sistine chapel. It's the only movie that's ever given me a religious experience. Oh and I just wanted to mention that my favourite Spike Lee film is "School Daze" because I normally like fantasy and sci-fi movies and "School Daze" is the one Spike Lee film that takes you, because of its surrealism , into a different world.

my favourite of the list is night of the hunter. what about solaris, andrei rubliov, stalker, maybe a summer's tale, mulholland drive, day of the jackal, diabolique, the apartment, peeping tom. a prophet for a recent one. greetings, although spike will never read this. los olvidados, that obscure object of desire

Thanks Spike! Nice list. Thanks pedraam, best additins. Apocalypse Now is a must! I'll add Brazil (Gilliam), Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio), Waking Life (Linklater), the Matrix (Wachowski), The Conversation (Coppola), Eraserhead (Lynch), 2001 (Kubrick), Blood Simple (Cohen), More Hitchcock should be on the list. I might even include Fantasia.

“Anatomy of a Murder” with Jimmy Stewart “ This Property is Condemned” with Natalie Wood

DEAR SPIKE LEE, MORE POWER TO YOU BROTHER! Thank you Sir for the list! You are the only filmmaker that accurately tells Black stories and takes great pride in telling them! All your projects might not SEEM to be large enough budget all the time because the LARGE NETWORKS do not want to fund your Black stories. You represent US well and have never made a mockery of Black folks through your film.

I think Intolerance (1915) is an extremely important film to have on an Essential Film List, the reason being that because of Lenin’s viewing of the film, it encouraged him to broadcast the film across the Soviet Union, effectively inspiring an entire country of filmmakers, one of which includes the great Lev Kuleshov, the founder of the Kuleshov Effect, or the Shot-Reverse-Shot, as it’s more commonly known.

Professor Lee, rather than add my "Essentials," I thought to respectfully suggest this instead: (a) As suggested on "Shadow & Act" adapting "School Daze" as a Broadway musical. (b) Doing a 3-part omnibus of 30 min. shorts with updates on Tommy Hicks & Nola, Fish & friends from "Daze" & Theresa/Girl 6 or even Imperioli & the sis from "Fever." It could be something you & Ernest shoot together + we'd get to see you reunite w/some of your original actors & characters we love. Please consider...

Cooley High, Mo' Betta Blues, A Raisin In the Sun, Lady Sings the Blues, Barefoot In the Park, Annie Hall, Paris Blues, In the French Style, The Story of A Three-Day Pass, Imitation of Life, A Knife in the Water, The Learning Tree, Sweet Sweetback's Baaaaaddass Song, Hollywood Shuffle, Malcolm X, Casino, Taxi Driver, Dead Presidents, A Warm December, She Killed in Ecstasy, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Putney Swope, SGT. Pepper's Lonely Hearts, Club Band, Big, Bad Willie Walker, Intimate Friends.....Just to name a few!

Cityzen Kane = for camera and lighting work. Breathless = for editing and style. Pulp Fiction = for nonlinear storytelling and dialogue. Amelie Poulin= for originality and creativity. The Good The Bad and The Ugly = for casting, cinematography and score.

SO MANY GREAT FILMS, I would add Sunrise (FW Murneau), Breathless (Godard), Persona (Bergman), The Mirror (Tarkovsky) and Jeanne Dielman.... (Akerman)

Hard to argue with those choices though only modesty would prevent him from mentioning two very influential films: Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing

The Love Witch, Her, Moonlight, Parasite, The Favoriate, The Color Purple, Slumdog Millionaire, Gilda, East of Eden.

I love it how this guy reads the names of the movies. Hilarious.

-la haine -Seven Samurai -amores perros -AKIRA - do the right thing - wings of desire -The good the bad & the ugly -IKIRU (Kurosawa) - stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky ) -Los olvidados -Barry Lyndon -the seventh seal -persona -the exterminating angel -el topo ( jodorofsky -Sunset Boulevard -yojimbo -Lawrence of Arabia -Doctor Zhivago -rashomon -8 1/2 -la dolce vita -la strada -the mirror(andrei Tarkovsky -the holy mountain -Casablanca -citizen Kane -bycicle thieves -the 400 blows - the seventh seal - who is afraid of Virginia wolf (1966) - Barry Lyndon - doctor Strangelove - blade runner 1982 -true Romance - Blue velvet -mullholand drive -the lives of others(2006 original) -children of men -el secreto de sus ojos (2009) -in the mood for love -the three of life -perfect blue -Carlitos way -trainspotting - good time -fear and loathing in Las Vegas

The American friend Directed by wim wenders staring Bruno Ganz and Dennis hopper Masterpiece

Cinema Paradiso, Casablanca, African Queen, any Marx Brothers film, North By Northwest, Leolo, Juliette & The Lions, Love in the Time of Hysteria (Solo Con Tu Pareja, The directorial debut of Alfonso Cuarón), so many good films.

At least one from Cassavetes on there.

Great list from Spike.

Sansho the Bailiff, Ugetsu, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, Aguirre Wrath of God, Eraserhead, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Mulholland Drive, Baron Munchausen (1962), Safe (1995), The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Punch-Drunk Love, There will be Blood, My Winnipeg, Under the Skin, The Emigrants/The New Land, The Thin Red Line, Adaptation

Good list! Also John Ford's "Stagecoach", "The Searchers", "They Were Expendable". Martin Scorsese's "The Departed", Akira Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai" and "Kagemusha". Federico Fellini's "Nights of Cabiria" and "Juliet of the Spirits". There's so many more it's almost beyond comprehension!!!

Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Luis Bunuel’s Belle de Jour (1967).

Sir Spike ( Thanks for giving me an elbow greet while I was humbly dumpster diving at LAX, on a. Tuesday. I built swmming pools for 26 years. You caught me on a downward spiral from doing my best work as my parents caregiver. No, regrets!I am a huge fan. Thank you for pursuing your dreams. 1. Mo Betta Blues 2. Deconstructing Harry 3. Gone Are The Days...aka, " Purly " 4. The Man In The Grey Flannel Suit 5. FIRST BLOOD 6. Glengarry Glenn Ross 7. BOSS'n UP 8. Cooley High 9. The Brothers McMullen 10. PAYBACK 11. Mohaghany 12. Carmen Jones 13. BLOW MY eldest sister has a script ready for submittal..I have a clever true life series as well. Sis, has been a student of the industry, I just know a good one when I see it! STAY, U%

I’m going to watch all these movies right now 👍

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Shining

Once upon a time in america..greatest movie ever!..

Pixote (Brazil), Cidade de Deus (Brazil). Encounter of a Spooky Kind (I and II but more I) is a highly entertaining supernatural horror martial arts comedy (Hong Kong Sammo Hung).

Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Tokyo Story, The Seven Samurai-Rashomon, The Seventh Seal-Persona, Breathless, 81/2, Andrei Rublev-Mirror, Taxi Driver, Bicycle Thieves, 400 Blows...Let me know what you think.

The next 10 that come to mind - 12 Angry Men, All the President's Men, The Apartment, Do the Right Thing, Dog Day Afternoon, The Hustler, Jaws, JFK, Notorious, Raiders of the Lost Ark

I definitely have to get more into the foreign filmmakers. I just finished shooting my first short and now I'm into the editing process and the more I branch out the better I'm sure. I would like to add "Twelve Angry Men" directed by Sidney Lumet in 1957 to the list. If you haven't seen this one I strongly recommend it. Another excellent film is "The Learning Tree" directed and written by Gordon Parks Sr. in 1969.

The Deer Hunter, HEAT, The Apartment, Midnight Run, Double Indemnity, Pulp Fiction, The Seventh Seal, Nosferatu, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, The Sand Pebbles, The Shining and on and on and on.

(2) That tarnishes what Kickstarter is. Part of what's great about Kickstarter is the backers get great products for great deals, the more backers the more cool stuff the backers get. In a big budget film like this over funding just helps Spike, not the backers. Projects like this lower the reputation of Kickstarter. He gets richer, and the backers get very little in return. If he funded it himself there would be risk, he is hiding from the risk, but the backers really get jack squat.

Agreed with you. Akira is a visually stunning film that more people should see. Also, in a more related film I see Blade Runner is not on his list.

THANKS for this list @Spike Lee - I'll be sure to check it out in my research and study of cinematography and film making ....

By Directors: A matter of life and death - Powell/Pressburger North by northwest - Hitchcock Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick Jaws - Spielberg Scarface - DePalma

My favorite films are (top 5 and then in alfabetical order) : 1) Paris, Texas, 2) Taxi Driver, 3) Back to the Future, 4) Repo Man, 5) Nashville 8 1/2, 12 Angry Men, After Hours, All That Jazz, Baby Driver, Badlands, Blue Velvet, Boogie Nights, Chasing Amy, I vitelloni, No Country for Old Men, Prisoners, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Reservoir Dogs, Rope, Terminator 2, There Will Be Blood, The Killing, The Long Goodbye, The Master, The Shawshank Redemption, The Thing, Zodiac

Anyone notice how he ends certain words to quickly

I agree with what you're saying however consider this: at the end of the day people on Kickstarter have the choice of whether to back something or not, whether it is $10,000 or $1,000,000. Do you want to remove choice? Because saying that greed per se should be removed out of a system is a dangerous path of thought...

Great taste.

Spring Summer Autumn Winter...And Spring(2003) by Kim Ki Duk, Werckmeister Harmonies(2000) by Bella Tarr, Dancer in the dark(2000) by Lars von Trier, Winter's bone, The Hunt, I saw the devil, almost every film the Dardenne brothers have ever made etc etc you get my point. Stop putting Citizen Kane at the top of every list..To me The Return is the best and most complete film I've ever watched. Ecumenical message, unparalleled cinematography, compelling acting and technically flawless.

I was surprised he didn’t include any Kubrick films, still a solid list though

Great list. I think there is a preference to movies made prior to 1990. Sergio Leone was notably absent.

The founders are experimenting, crowd funding is relatively new. On their FB page if the comments aren't talking about the list(which is good) they are yelling that this will ruin kickstarter. It doesn't matter what the founders of Kickstarter think, it's a company that relies on good PR and public opinion. What matters is what the public thinks. The public thinks this is a bad idea. If big people/companies keep using Kickstarter it will lose it's soul, then people will stop backing great thing.

I'm going to say it Seven Samurai should be on the list. It inspired the original The Magnificent Seven. Honestly I'm surprised that none of your own work like Do the Right Thing isn't on this list. The first Superman movie by Richard Donner has opened the door for Superhero genre. His other film The Goonies is timeless. Almost anything directed by John Hughes, particularly The Breakfast Club set the tone for teen movie before it became a genre. Comedies such as Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein by Mel Brooks reminds us the importance of parody. Parody has almost disappeared in recent times as if it's a lost art. The movie Enemy Mine has been overlooked as a sci-fi film. The science fiction movie that defines the genre and set the standard is Metropolis, directed by Fritz Lang. Tron was ahead of its time. I could go on… Walt Disney set the standard for animation. If there's one movie to choose from would be Fantasia. If you are reading this I hope you will revise your list with at least one John Hughes movie. The man created a genre. His movies were honest about coming of age. I strongly recommend that your students look at his work. His perspective on coming of age movies were honest.

Haile Gerima's "Sankofa". Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast." Stanley Kubrick's 2001 an Space Odessey" "Black Orpheus", Kurasawa's "Kagemusha".

I know Citizen Kane is well known, and that is probably why it doesn't get a mention over Touch Of Evil because I find it difficult to believe he liked that more. I also think 2001: A Space Odyssey is deserving if you are listing Kubrick films. Much love for The Night Of The Hunter. As far as the Coens go No Country For Old Men would make it on my list for it's use of silence over musical cues alone. Fargo deserves some love as well. I didnt see Clint Eastwood anywhere on the list as far as directing is concerned and Million Dollar Baby is a wonderful example of minimalism. My all time favorite is Wim Wenders' Wings Of Desire but I would also mention his movie Paris, Texas. This is Spike Lee's list but Do The Right Thing belongs on my list. Also, David Lynch would make it either through The Straight Story or Eraserhead. With Francis Ford Coppola I would include Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut. Ingmar Bergman's Persona. Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave. Fritz Lang's Metropolis and "M" is on my list. Scorsese's GoodFellas would make it but as a movie I think deserves more exposure I would include Bringing Out The Dead. Mario Van Peebles' Baadasssss. As for PTA, Phantom Thread is my favorite of his movies but as for his wonderful sense of showmanship, staging, and sense of character I gotta put Boogie Nights on that list and Magnolia after that one. Polanski's Chinatown. Friedkin's The French Connection, To Live And Die In L.A., and Socerer. As for Spielberg, he has some classics and though Jaws is there for the simplicity of how it portrays a threat with camera work and simple score, I think Munich should be mentioned among the ranks of Scorsese because it felt like one of his darker most personal efforts. Many movies I listed are more contemporary but still powerful skillfully made films in my opinion.

Amarcord by Fellini or some Kubrick. Still a great list though

Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, Seven Samurai, Wild Strawberries, Amelie, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Blue Velvet, The Unforgiven, Strangers on a Train, Shadow of a Doubt, Solaris (original), Grand Illusion, Good Will Hunting, A Place in the Sun, Red River, The Searchers, Saving Private Ryan, Jaws, Chinatown, The Conversation, The Outsiders, Bridge on the River Kwai, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, Annie Hall, Midnight in Paris, Fargo, The Dark Knight, The Social Network, Incendies, The Revenant, Badlands, A History of Violence, Parasite, Snowpiercer, Tokyo Story, His Girl Friday, The Man Who Would Be King, Gunga Din, To Be or Not To Be (original) and Pan's Labyrinth.

Taxi Driver should be there too, Scorsese's finest imo. The Searchers by John Ford, E.T, Raiders & Jaws by Steven Spielberg, Chinatown by Polanski, Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, Pulp Fiction by Tarantino, In a Lonely Place by Nicholas Ray, No Country for Old Men & Fargo by the Coens, Boyhood by Linklater, Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn, Psycho by Hitchcock, His Girl Friday & The Big Sleep by Hawks and Mad Max: Fury Road by George Miller should be added; in my opinion.

A lot of the ones being listed in the comments are great films but not essential for aspiring filmmakers.

Spike, I just saw your list. What the hell, man? No John Ford? Stagecoach. The Searchers. No Howard Hawks? Rio Bravo. His Girl Friday. What about some Renoir, Ozu or Ophuls? I'd even put George Lucas's Star Wars, American Graffiti and THX-1138 on the list.

I'd add to Spike's list at least one of Citizen Kane (Orson Wells) Brief Encounter (David Lean) Third Man (Carol Reed) for the Cinematography... Have never understood the fascination with "Some like it Hot" replace that with "The Apartment"

Some Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Winter Light, Persona, Cries and Whispers), Andrzej Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds, Katyn) and Andrei Tarkovsky (Andrei Rublev, Mirror, Stalker and The Sacrifice) on the list and it'll be great. Oh, and Antonioni's La Notte and Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra's Embrace of the Serpent.

Most essentially Citizen Kane and for my money The Magnificent Ambersons (still brilliant even with the editing by Robert Wise who directed West Side Story, one of the greatest movie musicals of ALL time)

I checked out the actual list (and I'm not an expert in any shape or form) but was surprised that Almodovar and Ingmar Bergman was not on it. Great list though and agree that it as quite sad that new filmmakers (to be filmmakers) don't learn from previous generations. Seems to be a trend in all industry. Oh and Tarantino although I would think they would see at least something from him, right?

Being There, by Hal Ashby

I was wrong it got funded, it happens. I still think large projects by those who have the means to find financial backing elsewhere will harm the soul of what kickstarter is about. To me KS is about the interweb coming together to help unknown people with massive talent break through the financial barriers so they can share their talents with the world. It's not about people who already have money finding ways to avoid having to pay investors back. That's my .02 on the matter.

Operation Dumbo Drop is the best movie ever made!

As should be on anyone’s top 10... pick any Sergio Leone film. Probably “once upon a time....”

How about "the room" best acting of all time

Bergman?

i'd add some antonioni, kitano, audiard, the easy life (d. risi), and of course spike's movies.

Ok I was not aware of the full business model behind Kickstarter. However I think you got the gist of my point. You argue well and have DYOR. Good day sir

I know this sounds cliche but pulp fiction needs to be there. It’s an incredible study of acting and writing. Also Barry Lyndon?

She's Gotta Have It (1986) School Daze (1988) Do the Right Thing (1989) Mo' Better Blues (1990) Jungle Fever (1991) Malcolm X (1992) Crooklyn (1994) Clockers (1995) Girl 6 (1996) Get on the Bus (1996) He Got Game (1998) Summer of Sam (1999) The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) Bamboozled (2000) 25th Hour (2002) She Hate Me (2004) Inside Man (2006) Miracle at St. Anna (2008) Passing Strange (2009) Red Hook Summer (2012) Old Boy (2013) Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) Chi-Raq (2015) BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Chinatown, The Last Picture Show, The Dark Knight, Malcolm X, Apocalypse Now, Psycho, Strangers on a Train, Shane, Once Upon A Time in The West & America, Alien, Blade Runner, Dunkirk, Lonesome Dove, How Green Was My Valley, The Searchers, MASH, Nashville, The Conversation, Tender Mercies, Raising Arizona, Snow White, The French Connection, JFK, Dances With Wolves, Seven to name a few.

Here's my list, shown by decade, which I mostly inspired from you :) 1900s: A Trip to the Moon 1920s: Un Chien Andalou 1930s: Frankenstein The Bride of Frankenstein The Wizard of Oz 1940s: Citizen Kane How Green Was My Valley Casablanca The Best Years of Our Lives Bicycle Thieves 1950s: Sunset Boulevard Rashomon Ace in the Hole Singin' in the Rain On the Waterfront Rear Window The Night of the Hunter Rebel Without a Cause The Searchers 12 Angry Men Paths of Glory Vertigo Mon Oncle The 400 Blows Black Orpheus 1960s: La Dolce Vita Breathless Aimless Bullet Rocco and His Brothers Yojimbo Jules and Jim Vivre Sa Vie 8 1/2 The Sound of Music The Battle of Algiers In the Heat of the Night 2001: A Space Odyssey 1970s: Five Easy Pieces The Conformist The Godfather Aguirre, The Wrath of God Enter the Dragon Mean Streets Nashville Picnic at Hanging Rock One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Killer of Sheep Days of Heaven The Marriage of Maria Braun Apocalypse Now 1980s: Raging Bull Thief Raiders of the Lost Ark The Secret of NIMH Blade Runner Tootsie Stranger than Paradise Paris, Texas Amadeus Stop Making Sense Back to the Future Empire of the Sun Akira The Last Temptation of Christ Cinema Paradiso Do the Right Thing Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? 1990s: The Double Life of Veronique Boyz n the Hood The Piano Hoop Dreams La Haine Toy Story Fargo Schizopolis Good Will Hunting Christmas in August Rushmore Show Me Love The Thin Red Line The Matrix Ratcatcher Peppermint Candy 2000s: Mulholland Drive Millennium Actress Take Care of My Cat City of God The Pianist Kung Fu Hustle Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Host Wendy and Lucy A Town Called Panic Redline 2010s: We Need to Talk About Kevin Fruitvale Station

The Seventh Seal, The Third Man, Dr Strangelove, The Celebration (1997), Aguirre Wrath Of God, A Short Film About Killing, Sunset Boulevard, The Gospel According To Saint Matthew, City Lights, The Children Of Paradise, The Last Picture Show

Where’s Norbit (2006)?

older than what? The mid-80s? Bicycle Thieves, The Red Shoes, The Third Man, The Searchers, Psycho, Man with a Movie Camera, The Seventh Veil, Chinatown, The French Connection, The Graduate, also from W Wilder - The Apartment, Once upon a Time in the West. and if it qualifies, Come and See.

I couldn't agree more,it almost feels like you took the words right out of my mouth.I find Tyler's work so embarassing it pains me,like someone said he's arguably the worst filmmaker in the industry.

Read his list, I felt that it should include Paris,Texas, Nashville, La Haine, and The Shawshank Redemption.

Good list

I'm surprised the only Coen brothers movie on that list is Raising Arizona.

How about some docs! Thin Blue Line, Cheap fast and Out of Control, Lessons of Darkness, Grizzly Man, or White Light/ Black Rain?

- Glory - Training Day - Once Upon a Time in America - Rain Man - Green Book - Raging Bull - The Irishman - Boyz n the Hood - Silence of the Lambs - The Birds - Philadelphia - Dog Day Afternoon - Driving Miss Daisy - Terms of Endearment - There Will be Blood - Down in the Delta - Do the Right Thing - Sling Blade - Cool Hand Luke - Schindler's List