Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of 87 Essential Films Every Aspiring Director Should See
I’m sure you’ve heard by now: wealthy, successful film director Spike Lee hopes to fund his next film via a Kickstarter campaign. Yes, that’s cover samsung tab 4 amazon right, he wants you to pay for his art. Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max kuroko no basuke kagami Z3707 Case His campaign, perhaps needless to say, is hardly popular with the average film fan, many of whom find it hard enough to scrounge up the skyrocketing prices of tickets these days. cover custodia case iphone 11 S5046 futuristic wallpaper 22fO0 cover iphone 11 sherlock smiley Lee has responded to his critics, but somehow I doubt his reasoning will go over cover samsung galaxi s2 well.
But we’re not here to talk about miglior cover samsung j5 alleged crowdfunding abuses (have at it in the comments if you must). Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max Lion Black L3143 Case Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max no game no life shiro render Z1645 Case Instead, today we have for you in the tradition of our many posts onfamous teachers’ syllabi one of Lee’s teaching custodia silicone samsung tab a6 tools in his role as an NYU professor. cover custodia case iphone 11 P5490 wallpaper anime 71iB8 cover custodia case iphone 11 N3234 dark wallpaper 15vC6 Where all of our previous posts have featured reading lists, Lee’s is a cover samsung galaxy tab e mediaworld list of films, which he hands out to all of the students who take his graduate class not required viewing, custodia per samsung galaxy s custodia cover huawei p10 3 neo but recommended as “essential” for every aspiring director.
In the video aicek cover samsung a50 at the top of the post, see Lee introduce the list of what he considers, “the greatest films ever made.” “If you want to be a filmmaker,” he says, “you cover samsung galaxy 3 neo silicone should see these films.” The list, above cover samsung core prime personalizzata and custodia a custodia cover samsung a10 libro per samsung s8 continued below, includes some of the usual critical favorites Rashomon, Vertigo,On the Waterfront and some pretty left field choices, like Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto.
Slate, which first published the list, notes the omission of usually revered directors like Howard Hawks, John Ford, Fritz Lang, and Yasujir Ozu as well as the paucity or near non existence of female directors (only one makes the list, the co director of City of God). Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max First Avengers L2930 Case cover custodia case iphone 11 Q5117 breath of the wild wallpaper 9oL7 In addition to possibly ranting about, or defending, Lee’s use of Kickstarter, many of you may find yourselves quibbling over, or defending, his definition of “essential.” And so, I say again, have at it, readers!
Note: When cover samsung galaxy a40 silicone Spike originally released this list, many noted the lack of female filmmakers. Lee accepted that critique and released an updated list. Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max Naruto Art L0217 Case Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max believe in yourself W9175 Case Find it here.
I seen about 75% of this list and for the most part, other than the absence of films by women (Jane Campion, Leni Riefenstahl, Agnes Varda, Kathryn custodia cover samsung note10 plus Bigelow, Elaine May, Claire Denis, Agnieszka Holland, Penelope Spheeris, Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair, Sofia Coppola, Ida Lupino, amazon custodia tablet samsung galaxy tab s2 Amy Heckerling, Nancy Savoca, Penny Marshall, Nora custodia galaxy s3 neo samsung Ephron and Gillian Armstrong for starters), Spike is in the ballpark for the most part.
My biggest quibble (again, outside of the huge gender imbalance) are the multiple films by the same director that aren that different. cover custodia case iphone 11 S6015 viking wallpaper 68jH5 Why take up valuable space on a list by including Godfathers custodia samsung galaxy se neo I AND II, for instance (fwiw, I would have chosen Apocalypse Now! and The Conversation). cover custodia case iphone 11 H5034 razer wallpaper 52tC7 Mad Max AND The Road Warrior Badlands AND Days of Heaven THREE films by John Huston Both Lean Kwai AND Lawrence That kind of redundancy doesn make sense to me. For Fellini, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Scorsese and some of the others the case can better be made, I think.
Some of the inclusions ARE head scratchers: Mel Gibson Marathon Man I thought Empire of the Sun samsung galaxy s10 5g hoesje was Spielberg worst film after The Color Purple. cover custodia case iphone 11 G6468 botw wallpaper 8hD6 Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max the flash logo Z4675 Case I would have chosen some other films by the same directors but that more a matter of opinion.
But the exclusions are usually where the heat is. Stephen Chow but no Wong Kar Wai, Zhang Yimou, Tsui Hark or John Woo French film is underrepresented as is the silent era (Keaton, Chaplin, Lloyd) in my opinion. I can only assume Spike has left out contemporaries like Tarantino and Ang Lee because he assumes that they are already being studied. Others will see holes I don see.
I should add that it is nice to see recognition for sterling docs (Hoop Dreams) and little known classics (Coolie High, I Am Cuba, Killer of Sheep, Blue Collar). He has been in the business for some cover samsung a5 2016 silicone unicorno time. Study is the custodia cover huawei y7 2019 key word here. Directing a movie is a demanding craft and by watching other work from the point of view of a cover samsung galaxy a3 2016 oro wannabe director would be different from someone like me looking to be entertained for a couple of hours.
That said, the movies he lists are fine in my book. Custodia Cover iphone 11 pro max naruto and sasuke Z3981 Case His students would get a great education if they studied them all. Puro Flip Wallet Cover a Libro + Custodia Magnetica Per Apple iPhone 11 Nero Studying bad movies would be instructive as well.
It is amusing that people want to diminish what he has come up with by imposing the usual women quotas.
