What was his best film?

I'd agree with that pick. I think he's a bit underrated.

And many forget all the music stuff he did.

Besides Silence of the Lambs, I gotta go with Stop Making Sense. Anyone who's a Talking Heads fan needs to see this concert.

not considered one of his major films by most, but i absolutely love something wild. it's like a movie that was programmed specifically to make me happy. it goes all over the place - fun, weird, violent, brutal at times, and unpredictable.

stop making sense would be #2. best concert film ever made to this day, i'd say.

Silence of the Lambs of course but other than that definitely Something Wild.

I do feel that his best-known film (Lambs) is probably his finest hour, but I do like Melvin & Howard, Something Wild, Married to the Mob and Rachel Getting Married quite a lot, too. A talented filmmaker, gone too soon.

I haven't seen Stop Making Sense, Beloved or his pre-M&H films - I really should catch up.

I don't think there's even a competition. Silence of the Lambs, because that movie was a completely game changer when it came out. Not only did it make a clean break from 1980s style cinema and scoring, it created so many horror and crime tropes that you can't imagine both genres being without.