MARTIN SCORSESE TELLS RICKSTER WHAT TO WATCH

AN INTERESTING ADJUNCT TO THE "MOVIES RICKSTER HASN'T SEEN" POST BELOW. 

While not actually a personal friend of mine, Martin Scorsese is of course a patron saint of this blog:  we are a member of the Holistic Order of St. Martin of Scorsese.  In a four hour interview with Rick Tetzeli for a recent issue of "Fast Company", the Oscar-winning director and avowed film nut gave an informal list of "85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film".  So in addition to my friends and neighbours who read this blog and have already made film recommendations (per my request in the post below), I thought I'd pretend ole Marty has responded as well and is talking to me when he recommends the following films (those which I've already seen are in red):

• ACE IN THE HOLE (1951)
• ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (1955)
• AMERICA, AMERICA (1963)
• AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)
• APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
• ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944)
• THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952)
• THE BAND WAGON (1953)
• BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY (1989)
• CAPE FEAR (1962)
• CAT PEOPLE (1942)
• CAUGHT (1949)
• CITIZEN KANE (1941)
• THE CONVERSATION (1974)
• DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
• DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)
• DUEL IN THE SUN (1946)
• THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (1921)
• EUROPA '51 (1951)
• FACES (1968)
• THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (1964)
• THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS (1950)
• FORCE OF EVIL (1948)
• FORTY GUNS (1957)
• GERMANY YEAR ZERO (1948)
• GILDA (1946)
• THE GODFATHER (1972)
• GUN CRAZY (1950)
• HEALTH (1980)
• HEAVEN'S GATE (1980)
• HOUSE OF WAX (1953)
• HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (1941)
• THE HUSTLER (1961)
• I WALK ALONE (1948)
• THE INFERNAL CAKEWALK (1903)
• IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
• JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963)
• JOURNEY TO ITALY (1954)
• JULIUS CAESAR (1953)
• KANSAS CITY (1996)
• KISS ME DEADLY (1955)
• KLUTE (1971)
• LA TERRA TREMA (1948)
• THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (1947)
• THE LEOPARD (1963)
• MACBETH (1948)
• THE MAGIC BOX (1951)
• M*A*S*H* (1972)
• A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946)
• MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER (1971)
• THE MESSIAH (1975)
• MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
• MISHIMA (1985)
• MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936)
• MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939)
• NASHVILLE (1975)
• NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950)
• ONE, TWO, THREE (1961)
• OTHELLO (1952)
• PAISA' (1946)
• PEEPING TOM (1960)
• PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953)
• THE PLAYER (1992)
• THE POWER AND THE GLORY (1933)
• STAGECOACH (1939)
• RAW DEAL (1948)
• THE RED SHOES (1948)
• THE RISE OF LOUIS XIV (1966)
• THE ROARING TWENTIES (1939)
• ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960)
• ROME OPEN CITY (1945)
• SECRETS OF THE SOUL (1912)
• SENSO (1954)
• SHADOWS (1959)
• SHOCK CORRIDOR (1963)
• SOME CAME RUNNING (1958)
• STROMBOLI (1950)
• SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941)
• THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)
• TALES OF HOFFMANN (1951)
• THE THIRD MAN (1949)
• T-MEN (1947)
• TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)
• THE TRIAL (1962)
• TWO WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN (1962)