Just over a decade ago, Lee posted this list of other people’s joints online.
400 Blows (François Truffaut)
8 1/2 (Federico Fellini)
Ace in a Hole (Billy Wilder)
American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli)
Apocalypto (Mel Gibson)
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)
Badlands (Terrence Malick)
Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus)
Black Rain (Shōhei Imamura)
Blue Collar (Paul Schrader)
Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn)
Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton)
Breathless (Jean‑Luc Godard)
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
Cool Hand Luke (Stuart Rosenberg)
Day for Night (François Truffaut)
Dead End (William Wyler)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp)
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumiet)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
Empire of the Sun (Steven Spielberg)
Face in a Crowd (Elia Kazan)
Fat City (John Huston)
Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola)
Godfather: Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
Home of the Brave (Mark Robson)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
I Am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov)
In Heat of Night (Norman Jewison)
Is Paris Burning? (René Clément)
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett)
Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow)
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini)
La Strada (Federico Fellini)
Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean)
Los Olvidados (Luis Buñuel)
Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli)
Mad Max (George Miller)
Maltese Falcon (John Huston)
Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica)
M*A*S*H (Robert Altman)
Night of Hunter (Charles Laughton)
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock)
On Waterfront (Elia Kazan)
One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest (Milos Forman)
Paisan (Roberto Rossellini)
Paths of Glory (Stanley Kubrick)
Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
Rain, Singin’ in (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock)
Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger)
Road Warrior (George Miller)
Rome Open City (Roberto Rossellini)
Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder)
Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick)
Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)
Thief (Michael Mann)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan)
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles)
Train (John Frankenheimer)
Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
West Side Story (Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise)
White Heat (Raoul Walsh)
Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming)
Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
Zelig (Woody Allen)
You can also find the list on Letterboxd, if ya wanna check ’em off. Surprised neither Old Boy or High and Low, both of which he’s remade. Happy to see a lot these, happiest about Night of the Hunter.