Spike Lee's Essential List of Films for Filmmakers

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This is the list that Spike Lee distributes to his graduate students at NYU every year.

Spike says: "I've Been A Professor At The NYU Graduate Film For The Past 15 Years.The 1st Day Of Every Class I Hand Out My List Of Films That I Feel You Must See If You Want To Make Films. Please Look At This List And See What You Might Have Missed. As I Tell My Students If You Want Your Film "Game" To Be Tight You Must Have Seen Great Movies, World Cinema, It Just Can't Be Hollywood Films. Educate Yourself. Learn. Grow. Evolve. Make Great Films.

Peace, Onward And Upward,

Spike Lee."

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  1. 60 -8

    Cooley High

    1975, in 4 top lists Check
  2. 62 -8

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    1975, in 35 top lists Check
  3. 39 -2

    The Maltese Falcon

    1941, in 26 top lists Check
  4. 14 -

    The Night of the Hunter

    1955, in 34 top lists Check
  5. 30 -1

    Mad Max

    1979, in 13 top lists Check
  6. 40 -2

    The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    1948, in 25 top lists Check
  7. 41 -2

    Fat City

    1972, in 9 top lists Check
  8. 42 -2

    Midnight Cowboy

    1969, in 22 top lists Check
  9. 59 -8

    The Red Shoes

    1948, in 27 top lists Check
  10. 16 -

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957, in 32 top lists Check
  11. 57 -8

    Casablanca

    1942, in 39 top lists Check
  12. 27 -1

    Les quatre cents coups

    1959 — a.k.a. The 400 Blows, in 26 top lists Check
  13. 87 -8

    Days of Heaven

    1978, in 19 top lists Check
  14. 6 -

    Vertigo

    1958, in 42 top lists Check
  15. 73 -8

    Chinatown

    1974, in 31 top lists Check
  16. 46 new

    The Hurt Locker

    2008, in 13 top lists Check
  17. 26 -1

    The Godfather Part II

    1974, in 32 top lists Check
  18. 67 -8

    White Heat

    1949, in 15 top lists Check
  19. 53 -8

    Home of the Brave

    1949, in 1 top list Check
  20. 90 -8

    Lust for Life

    1956, in 3 top lists Check
  21. 84 -8

    Empire of the Sun

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  22. 25 -1

    The Godfather

    1972, in 42 top lists Check
  23. 45 new

    Daughters of the Dust

    1991, in 9 top lists Check
  24. 80 -8

    Kung fu

    2004 — a.k.a. Kung Fu Hustle, in 11 top lists Check
  25. 19 -

    A Face in the Crowd

    1957, in 14 top lists Check
  26. 88 -8

    The Wizard of Oz

    1939, in 37 top lists Check
  27. 89 -8

    An American in Paris

    1951, in 18 top lists Check
  28. 36 -2

    West Side Story

    1961, in 22 top lists Check
  29. 8 -

    Bonnie and Clyde

    1967, in 28 top lists Check
  30. 64 -8

    In the Heat of the Night

    1967, in 17 top lists Check
  31. 69 -8

    M*A*S*H

    1970, in 21 top lists Check
  32. 29 -1

    Patton

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
  33. 86 -8

    Badlands

    1973, in 23 top lists Check
  34. 54 -8

    Mean Streets

    1973, in 22 top lists Check
  35. 75 -8

    Dog Day Afternoon

    1975, in 23 top lists Check
  36. 83 -8

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
  37. 15 -

    Raising Arizona

    1987, in 9 top lists Check
  38. 34 new

    The Piano

    1993, in 14 top lists Check
  39. 63 -8

    District 9

    2009, in 10 top lists Check
  40. 5 -

    Rear Window

    1954, in 31 top lists Check
  41. 79 -8

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...

    1964, in 37 top lists Check
  42. 76 -8

    Singin' in the Rain

    1952, in 37 top lists Check
  43. 7 -

    North by Northwest

    1959, in 30 top lists Check
  44. 17 -

    Lawrence of Arabia

    1962, in 40 top lists Check
  45. 70 -8

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    1962, in 18 top lists Check
  46. 2 -

    Rashômon

    1950 — a.k.a. Rashomon, in 34 top lists Check
  47. 12 -

    Some Like It Hot

    1959, in 35 top lists Check
  48. 55 -8

    Raging Bull

    1980, in 34 top lists Check
  49. 85 -8

    Cool Hand Luke

    1967, in 13 top lists Check
  50. 23 -1

    8½

    1963, in 35 top lists Check
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