In an effort not to have a list filled with only PTA, QT and Marty, I limited myself to one movie per director. I'm sure I fucked up somewhere. In alphabetical order:
Bicycle Thieves - De Sica
Blue Velvet - Lynch
Breathless - Godard (close call over Le Mepris)
Do The Right Thing - Spike (close call with Malcolm X)
Goodfellas - Scorsese (I really wanted to pick After Hours, but it has to be Goodfellas or Taxi Driver)
Inglorious Bastards - Tarantino (on any given day I might sub Pulp or Once Upon a Time. Or Jackie fucking Brown. Or cheat with True Romance)
M - Fritz Lang
On The Water Front - Kazan
Rear Window - Hitchcock (so hard. Rebecca, Psycho, NxNW, Notorious, etc.)
There Will Be Blood - PTA (tough call for me over Phantom and The Master)
My 11th is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly or No Country for Old Men. Others that missed the cut: Badlands, Casablanca, Chinatown, Deer Hunter, Frances Ha, Godfather I and II, Lost In Translation, Manhattan/Annie Hall, Once Upon a Time in America, Rushmore, The Shining, The Third Man.