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)
City of God (directed by Fernando Meirelles, 2002)
CODA (directed by Sian Heder, 2021)
Enter the Dragon (directed by Robert Clouse, 1973)
Gone with the Wind (directed by Victor Fleming, 1939)
Jules and Jim (directed by François Truffaut, 1962)
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (directed by Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
Malcolm X (directed by Spike Lee, 1992)
Metropolis (directed by Fritz Lang, 1927)
Midnight Cowboy (directed by John Schlesinger, 1969)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (directed by Wes Craven, 1984)
Raging Bull (directed by Martin Scorsese, 1980)
Scarface (directed by Brian De Palma, 1983)
Singin’ in the Rain (directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952)
The Sound of Music (directed by Robert Wise, 1965)
Sunset Boulevard (directed by Billy Wilder, 1950)
This Is Spinal Tap (directed by Rob Reiner, 1984)
12 Years a Slave (directed by Steve McQueen, 2013)
The Wild Bunch (directed by Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
— March 23, 2023