Holly Fisher, Bullets for Breakfast (1992)
Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing (1989)
Kevin Jerome Everson, Erie (2010)
Rob Nilsson, Northern Lights (1978)
Sean Baker, Anora (2024)
Jennifer Reeves, When It Was Blue (2008)
Bette Gordon, Variety (1983)
Eric Baudelaire, The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images (2011)
Ben Caldwell, I & I: An African Allegory (1979)
Morgan Fisher, Standard Gauge (1984)
C.W. Winter, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2020)
Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Barbara Kopple, Harlan County USA (1976)
J.P. Sniadecki, The Iron Ministry (2014)
Jerome Hiler, In the Stone House (2012)
Sara Driver, You Are Not I (1981)
Zeinabu Irene Davis, Compensation (1999)
Larry Clark, Passing Through (1977)
Don Hertzfeldt, It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Abigail Child, Surf and Turf (2008)
John Waters, Female Trouble (1974)
Larry Gottheim, Horizons (1973)
Hal Hartley, Henry Fool (1997)
Leslie Thornton, There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving (1988)
Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)
Pat O’Neill, The Decay of Fiction (2002)
Betzy Bromberg, A Darkness Swallowed (2006)
Mike Kuchar, Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965)
Billy Woodberry, Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
Allen Baron, Blast of Silence (1961)
Daniel Barnett, White Heart (1975)
Noel Burch, The Forgotten Space (2010)
Errol Morris, The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Echoes of Silence (1967)
David Gatten, The Extravagant Shadows (2012)
Steven Soderbergh, Che (2008)
Jem Cohen, Museum Hours (2012)
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life (2011)
Michael Mann, The Insider (1999)
Jon Jost, Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977)
John Gianvito, The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001)
Paul Schrader, Mishima (1985)
Spike Jonze, Adaptation (2002)
Ken Jacobs, Star Spangled to Death (2004)
David & Judith MacDougall, To Live with Herds (1972)
Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep (1977)
Larry Clark, Ken Park (2002)
James Benning, One Way Boogie Woogie (1977)
Nathaniel Dorsky, Hours for Jerome (1982)
James Gray, The Immigrant (2013)
Richard Lester, Petulia (1968)
Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Vincent Gallo, Buffalo ‘66 (1998)
Steve James, Hoop Dreams (1994)
Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy (1982)
Sharon Lockhart, Double Tide (2010)
Ernie Gehr, Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992)
Jim McBride, David Holzman’s Diary (1967)
Gus Van Sant, Last Days (2005)
Travis Wilkerson, An Injury to One (2002)
Lewis Klahr, The Pettifogger (2011)
Nina Menkes, The Bloody Child (1996)
David Fincher, Zodiac (2007)
Philip Kaufman, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Rob Tregenza, Talking to Strangers (1988)
Eugene Green, Le Pont des Arts (2004)
Alan Rudolph, Trouble in Mind (1985)
Woody Allen, Stardust Memories (1980)
P.T. Anderson, The Master (2012)
Craig Baldwin, Tribulation 99 (1992)
Terry Zwigoff, Crumb (1994)
Stephen & Timothy Quay, Institute Benjamenta (1995)
Robert Beavers, From the Notebook of… (1998)
Walter Hill, The Long Riders (1980)
Lodge Kerrigan, Clean, Shaven (1993)
Albert Brooks, Modern Romance (1981)
Harmony Korine, Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
Michael Almereyda, Paradise (2009)
Yvonne Rainer, Film About a Woman Who… (1974)
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Terry Gilliam, Brazil (1985)
Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
Deborah Stratman, O’er the Land (2009)
Brian De Palma, Carlito’s Way (1993)
Steve Fagin, The Machine that Killed Bad People (1990)
Bill Morrison, Decasia (2002)
Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man (1995)
John Carpenter, The Thing (1982)
Joel & Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (1998)
Francis Ford Coppola, The Conversation (1974)
Kelly Reichardt, Old Joy (2006)
James Ivory, Howards End (1992)
Todd Haynes, Safe (1995)
Abel Ferrara, New Rose Hotel (1998)
Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark (1987)
Jim Finn, Interkosmos (2006)
Mark Rappaport, Local Color (1977)
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Jerry Schatzberg, Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Larry Jordan, Sophie’s Place (1986)

Holly Fisher, Bullets for Breakfast (1992) 
Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing (1989) 
Kevin Jerome Everson, Erie (2010) 
Rob Nilsson, Northern Lights (1978) 
Sean Baker, Anora (2024) 
Jennifer Reeves, When It Was Blue (2008) 
Bette Gordon, Variety (1983) 
Eric Baudelaire, The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images (2011) 
Ben Caldwell, I &amp; I: An African Allegory (1979) 
Morgan Fisher, Standard Gauge (1984) 
C.W. Winter, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2020) 
Julie Dash, Daughters of the Dust (1991) 
Barbara Kopple, Harlan County USA (1976) 
J.P. Sniadecki, The Iron Ministry (2014) 
Jerome Hiler, In the Stone House (2012) 
Sara Driver, You Are Not I (1981) 
Zeinabu Irene Davis, Compensation (1999) 
Larry Clark, Passing Through (1977) 
Don Hertzfeldt, It&#8217;s Such a Beautiful Day (2012) 
Abigail Child, Surf and Turf (2008) 
John Waters, Female Trouble (1974) 
Larry Gottheim, Horizons (1973) 
Hal Hartley, Henry Fool (1997) 
Leslie Thornton, There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving (1988) 
Ben Russell, Let Each One Go Where He May (2009) 
Pat O&#8217;Neill, The Decay of Fiction (2002) 
Betzy Bromberg, A Darkness Swallowed (2006) 
Mike Kuchar, Sins of the Fleshapoids (1965) 
Billy Woodberry, Bless Their Little Hearts (1984) 
Allen Baron, Blast of Silence (1961) 
Daniel Barnett, White Heart (1975) 
Noel Burch, The Forgotten Space (2010) 
Errol Morris, The Thin Blue Line (1988) 
Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Echoes of Silence (1967) 
David Gatten, The Extravagant Shadows (2012) 
Steven Soderbergh, Che (2008) 
Jem Cohen, Museum Hours (2012) 
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life (2011) 
Michael Mann, The Insider (1999) 
Jon Jost, Last Chants for a Slow Dance (1977) 
John Gianvito, The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001) 
Paul Schrader, Mishima (1985) 
Spike Jonze, Adaptation (2002) 
Ken Jacobs, Star Spangled to Death (2004) 
David &amp; Judith MacDougall, To Live with Herds (1972) 
Charles Burnett, Killer of Sheep (1977) 
Larry Clark, Ken Park (2002) 
James Benning, One Way Boogie Woogie (1977) 
Nathaniel Dorsky, Hours for Jerome (1982) 
James Gray, The Immigrant (2013) 
Richard Lester, Petulia (1968) 
Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) 
Vincent Gallo, Buffalo &#8216;66 (1998) 
Steve James, Hoop Dreams (1994) 
Martin Scorsese, The King of Comedy (1982) 
Sharon Lockhart, Double Tide (2010) 
Ernie Gehr, Side/Walk/Shuttle (1992) 
Jim McBride, David Holzman&#8217;s Diary (1967) 
Gus Van Sant, Last Days (2005) 
Travis Wilkerson, An Injury to One (2002) 
Lewis Klahr, The Pettifogger (2011) 
Nina Menkes, The Bloody Child (1996) 
David Fincher, Zodiac (2007) 
Philip Kaufman, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) 
Rob Tregenza, Talking to Strangers (1988) 
Eugene Green, Le Pont des Arts (2004) 
Alan Rudolph, Trouble in Mind (1985) 
Woody Allen, Stardust Memories (1980) 
P.T. Anderson, The Master (2012) 
Craig Baldwin, Tribulation 99 (1992) 
Terry Zwigoff, Crumb (1994) 
Stephen &amp; Timothy Quay, Institute Benjamenta (1995) 
Robert Beavers, From the Notebook of… (1998) 
Walter Hill, The Long Riders (1980) 
Lodge Kerrigan, Clean, Shaven (1993) 
Albert Brooks, Modern Romance (1981) 
Harmony Korine, Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) 
Michael Almereyda, Paradise (2009) 
Yvonne Rainer, Film About a Woman Who… (1974) 
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds (2009) 
Elaine May, Mikey and Nicky (1976) 
Terry Gilliam, Brazil (1985) 
Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) 
Deborah Stratman, O&#8217;er the Land (2009) 
Brian De Palma, Carlito&#8217;s Way (1993) 
Steve Fagin, The Machine that Killed Bad People (1990) 
Bill Morrison, Decasia (2002) 
Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man (1995) 
John Carpenter, The Thing (1982) 
Joel &amp; Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (1998) 
Francis Ford Coppola, The Conversation (1974) 
Kelly Reichardt, Old Joy (2006) 
James Ivory, Howards End (1992) 
Todd Haynes, Safe (1995) 
Abel Ferrara, New Rose Hotel (1998) 
Kathryn Bigelow, Near Dark (1987) 
Jim Finn, Interkosmos (2006) 
Mark Rappaport, Local Color (1977) 
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) 
Jerry Schatzberg, Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970) 
Larry Jordan, Sophie&#8217;s Place (1986)

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