My sister gave me homework for the summer. Her and her friend (who works at Movieland) composed a list of summer watching to keep me fresh for the summer. I'm going into Cinema at Dawson, so this list is made to enrich my tastes and all. I've already started on the project, it's pretty fun.

Brian De Palma - Carlito's Way
Steven Soderbergh - Out Of Sight
Modern Day Film Noir:
- L.A. Confidential
- Chinatown (Polanski)
Shallow Grave - Thriller
Trainspotting - Modern
American Beauty
Steven Shainberg:
- Hit Me
- Secretary
Todd Sollondz - Welcome to the Dollhouse
Gus Van Sant - Drugstore Cowboy
Every Coen Brothers Movie - *The Big Lebowski
Spike Lee:
- Do The Right Thing
- Mo Better Blues
Scorsese:
- Raging Bull
- Taxi Driver
Documentaries:
- Rize
- Dogtown and Z-Boys
- The Endless Summer
Steven Spielberg:
- Schindler's List
- Jaws
- Duel
Jim Jarmusch - Dead Man
American Splendor
Crash
Mysterious Skin
C.R.A.Z.Y.
David Cronenberg - Naked Lunch
Horror (John Carpenter):
- Halloween
- The Thing
Italian Horror:
- Lucio Fulci's Zombie
- The Beyond
- Susprira (Dario Argento)
Italian Giallo:
- The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (Sergio Martino)
Donnie Darko
Primer
Blade Runner
Badlands
Charlie Chaplin:
- City Lights
- Modern Times
The Wizard of Oz
Fritz Lang's M
Silent - Nosferatu
Western - Once Upon A Time In The West
Film Noir:
- Double Indemnity
- Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
Frankenstein (1930's)
Bride of Frankenstein
Orson Welles - Touch of Evil
Classic:
- On The Waterfront
- The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford)
Experimental/Asian Cinema:
-Tetsuo The Iron Man
Horror:
- Audition
- A Tale of Two Sisters
Cult Classics:
Blaxploitation - The Mack
Evil Dead 2
John Waters:
- Cecil B. Demented
- Crybaby
Peter Jackson:
- Dead Alive
Terry Gilliam:
- Brazil
- 12 Monkeys
Any Tim Burton Movie
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Musicals)
Pulp Fiction
Billy Wilder movies
Comedies:
Wes Anderson
Mel Brooks
P.T. Anderson:
- Boogie Nights
- Punch Drunk Love
- Magnolia
Italian Film:
8 1/2 - Fellini
La Dolce Vita
The Graduate (70's)
Breathless - Godard - French New Wave
Band of Outsiders
Rashomon - Akira Kurosawa (Japanese)
Ran
Chungking Express - Wong Kar-Wai
Persona - Bergman
Wings of Desire - German
Element of Crime - Lars Von Trier
Accatone - Pier Paolo Pasolini
All About My Mother - Almodovar
Kubrick Films - 2001
The Godfather series
David Lynch:
- Elephant Man
- Mullholland Drive
Oliver Stone - Platoon
Woody Allen:
- Annie Hall
- Shadows and Fog
Alfred Hitchcock:
- Strangers on a Train
- Rear Window
Peeping Tom (Classic Horror)
Biopics:
- Basquiat
- Before The Night Falls
- Capote
- JFK