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.
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.
@@finnhaverkamp Thank you for mentioning midnight cowboy! almost nobody ever does
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.
Ive watched it and really appreciated all what you sited in your comment bro, but the damn aweful acting of the children really freaked me out I just couldnt feel all the greatness of the movie, I know it may sound a bit immature but these two really blocked the chemistry of this film for me. Ill rewatch it someday but for the moment I dont really feel like praising it.
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.
You mean "Cody" on White Heat and how he has the incident in the prison lunch room? I've watched that one 100 times lol.
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
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
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.
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
no the room? "your tearing me aaapart spike!"
Do The Right Thing, Being There, Tampopo, Last of the Mohicans, Master and Commander, Almost Famous, Blade Runner, Chinatown, The Conversation
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
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
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.
Rebel Without a Cause is overrated nonsense, with over the top acting If you're going to watch coming of age from the 50's, it's The 400 Blows.
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!
Tokyo Story, Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Satantango, Andrei Tarkovsky's The Mirror
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?
-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
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.
A few favorites, only because, as a kid, these were the first my pops took me too, bless his soul. 2001: A Space Odyssey and Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, first time I saw a great jump stunt, it blew my mind.
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.
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)
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
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.
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.
Let's not forget
- Boyz n the Hood
- Hoop Dreams
- Bad Lieutenant
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Apocalypto
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.
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?!
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.
Rope, Rebellion (aka Samurai Rebellion), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Apocalypse Now (theatrical), Hearts of Darkness Darkness and Apocalypse Now Redux (In that order!), Brother from Another Planet, Matewan, Eight Men Out and (the next is still in my top 3 movies of all time and it's my favorite from John Sayles...) City of Hope. That last one also contains my favorite Joe Morton performance.
“Anatomy of a Murder” with Jimmy Stewart
“ This Property is Condemned” with Natalie Wood
Great list from Spike.
SO MANY GREAT FILMS, I would add Sunrise (FW Murneau), Breathless (Godard), Persona (Bergman), The Mirror (Tarkovsky) and Jeanne Dielman.... (Akerman)
The Love Witch, Her, Moonlight, Parasite, The Favoriate, The Color Purple, Slumdog Millionaire, Gilda, East of Eden.
At least one from Cassavetes on there.
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
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...
I love it how this guy reads the names of the movies. Hilarious.
THANKS for this list @Spike Lee - I'll be sure to check it out in my research and study of cinematography and film making ....
12 Angry Men
Night on Earth
Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction
Scarface
A Clockwork Orange
The Good,The Bad & The Ugly
Once upon a time in America
Do the Right Thing
T2:Judgement Day
Django:Unchained
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)
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.
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
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.
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%
Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Luis Bunuel’s Belle de Jour (1967).
I’m going to watch all these movies right now 👍
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The Shining
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.
- 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
Revised list (older movies)
Ben Hur
One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
The Godfather 1 & 2
The Birds
The French Connection
Dog Day Afternoon
Jaws
The Exorcist
In The Heat of The Night
Cooley High
Brian's Song
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
To Sir With Love
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Bonnie & Clyde
The Deer Hunter
Bang the Drum Slowly
A Soldiers Story
The American friend Directed by wim wenders staring Bruno Ganz and Dennis hopper Masterpiece
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.
A lot of the ones being listed in the comments are great films but not essential for aspiring filmmakers.
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!!!
Operation Dumbo Drop is the best movie ever made!
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
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
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.
Great taste.
Great list. I think there is a preference to movies made prior to 1990. Sergio Leone was notably absent.
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
By Directors:
A matter of life and death - Powell/Pressburger
North by northwest - Hitchcock
Dr. Strangelove - Kubrick
Jaws - Spielberg
Scarface - DePalma
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.
Anyone notice how he ends certain words to quickly
Once upon a time in america..greatest movie ever!..
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 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.
I was surprised he didn’t include any Kubrick films, still a solid list though
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?
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...
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.
As should be on anyone’s top 10... pick any Sergio Leone film. Probably “once upon a time....”
Being There, by Hal Ashby
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.
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.
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.
I know this sounds cliche but pulp fiction needs to be there. It’s an incredible study of acting and writing. Also Barry Lyndon?
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).
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.
(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.
Amarcord by Fellini or some Kubrick. Still a great list though
How about "the room" best acting of all time
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.
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)
Switchblade romance
Blade runner
The shining
The birds
La haine
Alien
Goodfellas
On the waterfront
The fighter
Psycho (original)
Where’s Norbit (2006)?
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.
Good list but surprised you haven't put any Carl Dreyer pictures in there.
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.
Long story short he esp trolled me out of all my houses now I’m sleeping on the train
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
Thank you
Good list
Haile Gerima's "Sankofa". Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast." Stanley Kubrick's 2001 an Space Odessey" "Black Orpheus", Kurasawa's "Kagemusha".
Maybe Add some kubrick, Terrence malick, David lynch but overall great list
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)
Seen all but On the waterfront. And yeah they all great and a must see gem.
@@bibip12345 I’ve actually seen On The Waterfront. The film is very engaging. You connected with Terry Malloy quite easily, and so you sympathize for him as he is pressured by the mob and is forced to choose between abandoning his principals and stick to working for the mob, or rebelling against them.
@@bibip12345 On the Waterfront is fantastic. Hope you check it out and enjoy. It’s a Hollywood classic.
Thanks
@@JBaymusic1 No worries, Captain. Happy watching! 😁