Start with the Greeks of cinema

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>>9885054
Barry Lyndon
Days of Heaven
Blow-up
Eyes Wide Shut
Kids
The Confession
Au Hasard Balthazar
Badlands
State of Seige
Repo Man
Dead Ringers
Heat
Videodrome
The Wages of Fear
Permanent Vacation
Black Orpheus
Purple Noon
High and Low
The Battle of Algiers
Pickpocket
The Tears of Petra Von Kant
Mouchette
Murmur of the Heart
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Electra Glide in Blue
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Fanny & Alexander
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Fitzcarraldo
L'Argent
Robocop
Cache
Total Recall
Nightcrawler
Cutter's Way
Walkabout
Deliverance
The Wicker Man (original)
The Vanishing
Buffalo '66
Welcome to the Dollhouse
The New World
Funny Games

>>9885284
>Robocop
Verhoeven is a hack.

3 women
La ceremonie
Come and see
The ascent
The servant
Persepolis
The tale of princess kaguya

8 1/2 is the only worthy film, the rest are trash.

>>9885054
The Big Lebowksi

>>9885304
you dont like showgirls? whatre u gay?

just google "criterion collection"

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I don't have a beginner chart, but Kagemusha, Seven Samurai, Amarcord, Ivan's Childhood, The 400 Blows, Burnt by the Sun, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre are all fairly accessible.

>>9885054
>>>/tv/

>>9885054
The entire filmographies of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Robert Bresson, Jacques Rivette, and Federico Fellini.

>>9885304
He may not be 'literary' per se (although that's immensely arguable, especially given a film like his recent 'Elle'), but Verhoeven is certainly not a hack.