by Eric Gamache

Editor’s Note: Eric is a producer/director and co-owner of 17 West Productions. Visit his website here for more on his work.

I’ve been collecting films for well over 10 years. I started with VHS in high school before moving onto DVDs and of course Blu-ray. I had amassed a huge collection of  movies basically making my living room a video store. A few months ago, I made it my goal to finally watch those classic films that every serious cinefile should see.

Here are my 10 favorites so far:

The Seventh Seal

Dir. Ingmar Bergman

Seven Samurai

Dir. Akira Kurosawa

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Dir. Fritz Lang

The Great Dictator

Dir. Charles Chaplin

Battleship Potemkin

Dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein

8 1/2

Dir. Federico Fellini

The Red Shoes

Dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Breathless

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard

The 400 Blows

Dir. Francois Truffaut

Jules and Jim

Dir. Francois Truffaut (DVD)