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Steven Speilberg(American)

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Saving Private Ryan (1998), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Jurassic Park (1993)

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Krzysztof Kieślowski (polish)

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Three Colors: Blue (1993), A Short Film About Killing (1988),

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Michael Curtiz(Hungarian American)

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Casablanca (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945)

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Yasujirō Ozu(Japonese)

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The Record of a Tenement Gentleman(1947), I Was Born, But (1932), Tokyo Story (1953), Late Spring (1949)

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Carol Reed(English)

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Odd Man Out (1947), The Third Man (1949), The True Glory(1945)

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Jean-Luc Godard(French)

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Two or Three Things I know About Her(1967), Vivre sa Vie (1962), A bout de souffle (1959), Un femme Mariee (1964), Bande a Part(1964))

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Martin Scorsese(American)

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Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), Mean Streets (1973), Italianamerical (1974), Goodfellas

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William Friedkin

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The French Connection (1971), The Exorcist (1973),

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Louis Le Prince(French)

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Father of Cinematography, shot some of the first films including ‘Traffic crossing Leeds Bridge) 1888

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William Kennedy Dickson(English)

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The Kiss(1896), Annabelle Serpentine Dance(1896),Sandow(1984) body builder

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Louis Lumière(French)

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Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895), Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896)

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Edwin S. Porter(American)

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[]What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City (1901), Life of an American Fireman (1903), The Great Train Robbery (1903)

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Georges Méliès(French)

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[Did special effects like hand painted color] Cendrillon (1899), La Lun a un metre (1898)

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George Albert Smith(English)

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[Invented initial color motion picture 1908] The Kiss in the Tunnel (1899), The Sick Kitten (1903)

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Stanley Kubrick(American)

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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining (1980)

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Sergei Eisenstein(Russian)

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[“invented the montage”] October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1928), Glumov’s Diary (1923), Battleship Potemkin (1925)

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Sergio Leone(Italian)

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Once Upon a Time in the West(1968), Once Upon a Time in America(1984), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly(1966), A Fistfull of Dollars(1964)

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Buster Keaton(American)

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[Physical Comedy and deadpan face] Sherlock, Jr.(1924), One Week(1920), Three Ages (1923), The General (1926)

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D. W. Griffith(American)

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Intolerance (1916), The Birth of a Nation (1915)

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Victor Sjöström(Swedish)

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Ingeborg Holm (1913) , The Phantom Carriage (1921)

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Josef von Sternberg(Austrian American)

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Shanghai Express (1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934), Blonde Venus(1932)

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Irvin Kershner(American)

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The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

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Orson Welles(American)

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Citizen Kane (1941), Chimes at Midnight(1965), Touch of Evil (1958), The Trial (1962)

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Raoul Walsh(American)

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[In birth of a nation] The Theif of Bagdad(1924)

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Victor Fleming(American)

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Wizard of Oz(1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), A Guy Named Joe (1943)

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Mervyn LeRoy(American)

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Little Caesar(1931), Gold Diggers of 1933(1933)

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Gene Kelly(American)

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Singin’ in the Rain(1952)

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John Huston(American)

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The Maltese Falcon(1934)

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Charlie Chaplin(English)

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Limelight(1952), City Lights(1931), The Kid(1921) The Great Dictator (1940), Modern Times (1936)

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Jacques Tati(French)

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Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday(1953), Mon Oncle (1956)

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Billy Wilder(Austrian American)

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Sunset Boulevard(1950), Some Like it Hot(1959), The Apartment (1960), Double Indemnity(1944)

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Fred C. Newmeyer / Sam Taylor

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Safety Last (1923)[famous scene with man hanging off clocktower], Never Weaken (1921)

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Ernst Lubitsch(Austrian American)

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The Oyster Princess (1919), The Mointain Cat(1921), The Marriage Circle (1924), Ninotchka (1939), The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

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Abel Gance(French)

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La Roue(1923), Napoleon(1927)

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Alfred Hitchcock(English)

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The Lodger(1927), Spellbound (1945), Vertigo (1958), Saboteur (1942), Sabotage(1936), The 39 Steps (1935), Marnie (1964), Psycho (1960)

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Fritz Lang(Austrian American)

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Metropolis(1927), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse(1933), Scarlet Street(1945)

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Luis Buñuel(Spanish)

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Un Chein Andalou(1929), L’age d’Or(1930), Los Olvidados(1950), Viridiana(1961)

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Brian De Palma(American)

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Scarface(1983), The Untouchables(1987)

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Alexander Dovzhenko(Ukrainian)

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Arsenal(1928), Earth(1930)

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Kenji Mizoguchi(Japanese)

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Osaka Elegy(1936), Chikamatsu Monogatari(1954), Ugetsu Monogatari(1953)

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Takashi Miike(Japanese)

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Audition(1999)

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Howard Hawks(American)

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Scarface(1932), Twentieth Century(1934), Bringing Up Baby(1938)

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Christopher Nolan(British-American)

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The Dark Knight(2008), Inception(2010)

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Jean Vigo(French)

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Zero de conduite(1933), L’Atalante(1934)

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Marcel Carné(French)

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Le Quai des brumes(1938), Les Enfants du paradis(1945)

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Jean Renoir(French)

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La Regle du jeu(1939), La Grande Illusion(1937), La Chienne(1931)

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Roman Polanski(French)

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Two Men and a Wardrobe(1958), Hamlet(1948), Knife in the Water(1962), Fearless Vampire Killers(1967), Chinatown(1947)

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Leni Riefenstahl(German)

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Das Blaue Licht (1932), Triumph of the Will (1935), Tiefland(1954)

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John Ford(Irish-American)

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Stagecoach(1939), The Searchers (1956), The Iron Horse (1924), My Darling Clementine (1946)

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Michael Haneke(Austrian)

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Code Unknown(2000), Funny Games(1997)

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Ridley Scott(American)

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Gladiator(2000), Blade Runner(1982)

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James Cameron(Canadian)

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Terminator 2: Judgement Day(1991), Titanic(1997), Avatar (2009)

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Vincente Minnelli(American)

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An American in Paris(1951)

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Michael Powell(British)

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The Read Shoes(1948), A Matter of Life and Death(1946)

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Stanley Donen(American)

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Singing’ in the Rain(1952), Indiscret(1958), Two for the Road(1967)

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Nicholas Ray(American)

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Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Johnny Guitar (1954)

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Youssef Chahine(Egyptian)

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Cairo Station (1958), The Sparrow (1972)

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Akira Kurosawa(Japonese)

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Ikiru (1952), Stray Dog (1949), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957),The Hidden Fortress (1958)

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Francis Ford Coppola(American)

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The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974)

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Sam Peckinpah(American)

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The Wild Bunch (1969), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

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Kenneth Anger(American)

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Fireworks (1947), Scorpio Rising (1964)

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David Lean(English)

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Great Expectations (1946), Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

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Lindsay Anderson(English)

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O Dreamland (1953), If…. (1968)

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Ingmar Bergman(Swedish)

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Summer with Monika (1953), The Seventh Seal (1957), Winter Light (1963), Persona (1966)

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Robert Bresson(French)

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Pickpocket (1959),Au hasard Balthazar (1966)

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Federico Fellini(Italian)

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Fellini’s Casanova (1976), Nights of Cabiria (1957), 8½ (1963)

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Woody Allen(American)

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Stardust Memories (1980), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979)

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François Truffaut(French)

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The 400 Blows (1959), Jules et Jim (1962)

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Paul Schrader(American)

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American Gigolo (1980), Light Sleeper (1992), The Walker (2007)

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Pier Paolo Pasolini(Italian)

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Accattone (1961), The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964), Arabian Nights (1974)

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Carl Theodor Dreyer(Danish)

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The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Ordet (1955), Vampyr (1932), Gertrud (1964)

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Luchino Visconti(Italian)

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Senso (1954), Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

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Michelangelo Antonioni(Italian)

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L’eclisse (1962), The Passenger (1975)

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Pedro Almodóvar(Spanish)

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What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984), Labyrinth of Passion (1982)

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Roman Polanski(Polish-French(

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Hamlet (1948), Knife in the Water (1962), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Chinatown (1974)

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Miloš Forman(Czech-American)

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The Fireman’s Ball (1967), One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

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Andrei Tarkovsky(Russian)

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Andrei Rublev (1966), The Mirror (1975), Stalker (1979), Nostalghia (1983), The Mirror (1975)

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Nagisa Oshima(Japanese)

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Boy (1969), In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

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Shōhei Imamura(Japanese)

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The Insect Woman (1963), Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu Onboro No Seikatsu (1970)

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Ritwik Ghatak(Indian)

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Ajantrik (1958), The Cloud-Capped Star (1960), Jukti Takko Aar Gappo (1975)

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Ousmane Sembène(French-African)

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Black Girl (1969), Xala (1975)

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Jørgen Leth(Danish)

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The Perfect Human (1967), The Five Obstructions (2003),66 Scenes from America (1982)

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Mike Nichols(German-American)

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Catch 22 (1970), The Graduate (1967)

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Terrence Malick(American)

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Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978)

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder(German)

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Fox and His Friends (1975), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Gods of the Plague (1970)

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Bernardo Bertolucci(Italian)

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The Spider’s Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970)

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Djibril Diop Mambéty( Senegalese)

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Badou Boy (1970), Hyènes (1992), Touki Bouki (1973)

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Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski (American)

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The Matrix (1999)

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Zhang Yimou(Chinese)

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Raise the Red Lantern (1991), House of Flying Daggers (2004)

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David Lynch(American)

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Blue Velvet (1986), The Elephant Man (1980)

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David Cronenberg(Canadian)

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Videodrome (1983), Crash (1996)

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Shinya Tsukamoto(Japonese)

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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)

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Lars von Trier(Danish)

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The Five Obstructions (2003), Dogville (2003), Breaking the Waves (1996)

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Ridley Scott(English)

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Gladiator (2000), Blade Runner (1982)

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John Lasseter(American)

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Toy Story (1995)

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Quentin Tarantino(American)

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Pulp Fiction (1994), Reservoir Dogs (1992)

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Joel Coen and Ethan Coen(American)

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Miller’s Crossing (1990), The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Big Lebowski (1998)

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Gus Van Sant(American)

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My Own Private Idaho (1991), Elephant (2003), Gerry (2002), Last Days (2005), Psycho (1998)

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Paul Verhoeven(Dutch)

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RoboCop (1987), Starship Troopers (1997)

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Jane Campion(New Zealand)

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An Angel at My Table (1990), The Piano (1993)

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Baz Luhrmann(Australian)

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Romeo + Juliet (1996), Moulin Rouge! (2001)

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Park Chan-wook(South Korean)

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Oldboy (2003)

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Darren Aronofsky(American)

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Requiem for a Dream (2000)

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Alexander Sokurov(Russian)

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Russian Ark (2002), Mother and Son (1997)

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Michel Gondry(French)

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

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Christopher Nolan(British-American)

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Inception (2010)

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Steven Soderbergh(American)

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Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Solaris (2002), Erin Brockovich(2000)

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Abbas Kiarostami(Iranian)

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Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987), And Life Goes On (1991), Through the Olive Trees (1994)

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Errol Morris(American)

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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara(2003)

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Hayao Miyazaki(Japonese)

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Princess Mononoke(1997), My Neighbor Totoro(1988), Spirited Away(2001)

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Terence Davies(British)

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Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

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Wong Kar-wai(Chinese)

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2046(2004), Chungking Express(1994)

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Clint Eastwood(American)

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Million Dollar Baby(2004), Mystic River(2003), Letters from Iwo Jima(2006)

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Frank Capra(Sicilian American)

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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington(1939), Lost Horizon(1937), You Can’t Take It With You(1938

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Peter Jackson(New Zealend)

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LOTR, The Hobbit(2012)

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Elia Kazan(Greek-American)

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), East of Eden (1955

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Tim Burton(American)

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Edward Scissorhands(1990), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(2007), Planet of the Apes(2001)

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