Twenty Important Movies I Haven’t Seen (a couple of which I almost certainly never will)
(by request, and in alphabetical order)
Barry Lyndon (directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
The Birth of a Nation (directed by D. W. Griffith, 1915)
Das Boot (directed by Wolfgang Petersen, 1981)
Dial M for Murder (directed by Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Enter the Dragon (directed by Robert Clouse, 1973)
Gone with the Wind (directed by Victor Fleming, 1939)
The Handmaiden (directed by Park Chan-Wook, 2016)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (directed by Chantal Akerman, 1975)
Jules and Jim (directed by François Truffaut, 1962)
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (directed by Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
Lawrence of Arabia (directed by David Lean, 1962)
Metropolis (directed by Fritz Lang, 1927)
Midnight Cowboy (directed by John Schlesinger, 1969)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (directed by Wes Craven, 1984)
Once Upon a Time in the West (directed by Sergio Leone, 1968)
Raging Bull (directed by Martin Scorsese, 1980)
Singin’ in the Rain (directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952)
Sunset Boulevard (directed by Billy Wilder, 1950)
This Is Spinal Tap (directed by Rob Reiner, 1984)
The Wild Bunch (directed by Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
— September 4, 2025