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Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)  |  Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky ***

Damnation (1988)  |  Béla Tarr **

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)  |  Joel & Ethan Coen ***

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)  |  Jean-Marc Vallée ****

Noah (2014)  |  Darren Aronofsky **

First Comes Love (2013)  |  Nina Davenport ****

Beware of Mr. Baker (2012)  |  Jay Bulger ***

Gone Girl (2014)  |  David Fincher ***

The Night of the Hunter (1955)  |  Charles Laughton ***

Inside Out (2015)  |  Pete Docter & Ronaldo Del Carmen ***

All Things Must Pass (2015)  |   Colin Hanks **

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (2015)  |  Alex Gibney ***

I Want to Be a King (2015)  |   Mehdi Ganji ***

Capturing the Friedmans (2003)  |  Andrew Jarecki *****

Stories We Tell (2012)  |  Sarah Polley ***

The Overnighters (2014)  |  Jesse Moss ****

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)   |  Brett Morgen ***

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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)  |  Alex Gibney ****

Girls, Season 5 (2015) **

How to Change the World (2015)  |  Jerry Rothwell ***

The Cult of JT LeRoy (2014)   | Marjorie Sturm ***

Deprogrammed (2015)  |  Mia Donovan ***

Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2015)  |  Jeremy Coon & Tim Skousen ****

The Wolfpack (2015)  |  Crystal Moselle ***

Welcome to Leith (2015)  |  Michael Beach Nichols & Christopher K. Walker ****

Thought Crimes (2015)  |  Erin Lee Carr ***

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015)  |  Andrew Jarecki ****

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)  |  Alex Gibney *****

24 Exposures (2013)  |  Joe Swanberg **

Drinking Buddies (2013)  |  Joe Swanberg ****

Red Army (2014)  |  Gabe Polsky ***

The Wolf of Wallstreet (2013)  |  Martin Scorsese ****

Greenberg (2010)  |  Noah Baumbach **

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Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)  |  Joe Berlinger**

Somewhere (2010)  |  Sofia Coppola**

Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013)  |  Morgan Neville***

Bernie (2011)  |  Richard Linklater***

Boogie Nights (1997)  |  Paul Thomas Anderson***

Punch Drunk Love (2002)  |  Paul Thomas Anderson****

There Will Be Blood (2007)  |  Paul Thomas Anderson*****

The Master (2012)  |  Paul Thomas Anderson****

The One I Love (2014)  |  Charlie McDowell***

The Overnight (2015)  |  Patrick Brice**

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Best of Enemies (2015)  |  Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville***

Pervert Park (2014)  |  Frida Barkfors & Lasse Barkfors***

Finders Keepers (2015)  |  Bryan Carberry & J. Clay Tweel*****

The Nightmare (2015)  |  Kevin R. Hershberger****

Chuck Norris vs. Communism (2015)  |  Ilinca Calugareanu****

The Overnight (2015)  |  Patrick Brice**

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Interstellar (2014)  | Christopher Nolan****

The Limits of Control (2009)  | Jim Jarmusch***

Dirty Wars (2013)  |  Rick Rowley***

The Unkown Known (2013) :/  |  Errol Morris***** 

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Dr. Strangeloves or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)  | Stanley Kubrick*****

An Honest Liar (2014)  |  Justin Weinstein & Tyler Measom*****

Sons of Perdition (2010)  |  Tyler Measom & Jennilyn Merten****

20,000 Days on Earth (2014)  |  Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard*****

Pester (2014)  |  Eric Gerber***

Alive Inside (2014)  |  Michael Rossato-Bennett**

Psychopath (2014)  |  Manny Marquez***

1971 (2014)  |  Johanna Hamilton ****

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30 for 30 Shorts: Kid Danny (2014)  |  Andrew P Cohn ***

Calvary (2014)  |  John Michael McDonagh*

Five Easy Pieces (1970)  |  Rob Rafelson****

The Atomic States of America (2012)  |  Don Argott & Sheena M. Joyce***

Following (1998)  |   Christopher Nolan***

The Family Album (1988)  |  Alan Berliner**

Room 237 (2012)  |  Rodney Ascher**

Five Easy Pieces (1970) Dir: Bob Rafelson by Michael T Vollmann

This movie structure is one that I find worth studying for my first feature. More than the structure, the main character himself and the internal struggle he's fighing. He is a man, drifter, loner, caught between his family upbringing and his present circumstances/ His elite family and his working-class pregnant girlfriend. She represents pure innocence, and needy effervescent puppy-love. He is cynical neither identifying with his upper class background, as he finds them pretentious and void of the pureness and grit he finds himself attracted to in his girlfriend. But she is too simple for his cynical nature.

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Ida (2013)  |  Pawel Pawlikowski***

American Hustle (2013)  |  David O. Russell**

Under the Skin (2013)  |  Jonathan Glazer****

Louie: Season 4 (2014)*****

Mad Men: Season 7A (2014)****

Finding Vivian Maier (2013)  |  John Maloof & Charlie Siskel***

Don Jon (2013)  |  Joseph Gordon-Levitt***

Memphis (2013)  |  Tim Sutton**

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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)  |  Sergio Leone *****

Easy Rider (1969)  |  Dennis Hopper *

Dead Man (1995)  | Jim Jarmusch ***

Story of a Love Affair (1950)  |  Michelangelo Antonioni **

Girls: Season 3 ****

La chambre (1972)  |  Chantal Akerman **

Trainspotting (1996)  |  Danny Boyle ***

Cutie and the Boxer (2013)  |  Zachary Heinzerling ****

Nebraska (2013)  |  Alexander Payne ***

The Act of Killing (2012)  |  Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn & Anonymous ***

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Knuckleball! (2012)  |  Ricki Stern & Anne Sundberg ***

Girl Model (2011)  |  David Redmon & Ashley Sabin ****

Somm (2012)  |  Jason Wise ***

Blackfish (2013)  |  Gabriela Cowperthwaite *****

In a World (2013)  |  Lake Bell ***

Play it Again, Sam  (1972)  |  Herbert Ross ***

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Her (2013)  |  Spike Jonze *****

The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)  |  Derek Cianfrance ***

Apocalypse Now (1979)  |  Francis Ford Coppola ****

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)  |  James Foley ****

Frances Ha (2012)  |  Noah Baumbach ***

I'm watching Last Tango in Paris (1972)  |  Bernardo Bertolucci **