The Academy Award–nominated independent filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt has amassed a major cult following for his meticulously crafted animated movies, which includes the shorts Rejected (2000), The Meaning of Life (2005), Everything Will Be OK (2006), and I Am So Proud of You (2008) and the feature It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012). In September 2014, Hertzfeldt created an elaborate and surreal opening couch gag for The Simpsons, envisioning what the long-running series might look like in its eight hundredth season.
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The List
1
Harold and Maude
UnavailableHal Ashby
1971
92 min
2
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
UnavailableTerry Jones
1979
94 min
3tie
The Great Dictator
Charles Chaplin
1940
125 min
3tie
Modern Times
Charles Chaplin
1936
87 min
4
F for Fake
Orson Welles
1975
89 min
5
The Exterminating Angel
Luis Buñuel
1962
93 min
6
Koyaanisqatsi
UnavailableGodfrey Reggio
1983
86 min
7
Gimme Shelter
David Maysles , Albert Maysles , and Charlotte Zwerin
1970
92 min
8
Eraserhead
David Lynch
1977
89 min
9
RoboCop
UnavailablePaul Verhoeven
1987
102 min
10
Lonesome
UnavailablePaul Fejos
1928
70 min
11tie
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One
UnavailableStan Brakhage
243 min
11tie
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume Two
UnavailableStan Brakhage
454 min