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Film Theory: an Introduction through the Senses by Thomas Elsaesser: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1138824305/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687702&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=041580101X&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0HTX4Y3QBDWDPJNZZ4TV

Film Art: an Introduction by David Bordwell: http://www.amazon.com/Film-Art-Introduction-David-Bordwell/dp/0073535109

David Bordwell's Blog: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/

Catherine Grant's Blog: http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com

Sight & Sound Top 100 Films: http://imgur.com/BqmMO5z

What follows is a list of esteemed directors and some of their greatest films, some of which are very well known by the general public and some of which are lesser known. It is recommended that you do some research to find what interests you and work your way from there. Also, please feel free to push past the listed films into the rest of the director's filmography if you find that you enjoy his or her work. The list is far from comprehensive but it should, at the very least, put one on the right track.

Stanley Kubrick -
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    Eyes Wide Shut
    A Clockwork Orange

Alfred Hitchcock -
    Vertigo
    The Rear Window
    North by Northwest

John Ford -
    Stagecoach
    The Searchers
    The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Sergio Leone -
    The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
    Once Upon a Time in the West
    Once Upon a Time in America

Martin Scorsese -
    Goodfellas
    Taxi Driver
    Raging Bull

Francis Ford Coppola -
    The Godfather
    The Godfather Part II
    Apocalypse Now

Charlie Chaplin -
	City Lights
	Modern Times
	The Great Dictator

Buster Keaton -
	The General
	Steamboat Bill Jr.
	Sherlock Jr.

Wes Anderson -
    The Life Acquatic with Steve Zissou
    The Grand Budapest Hotel
    Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Coen Brothers -
	No Country for Old Men
	Fargo
	The Big Lebowski

Richard Linklater -
    Dazed and Confused
    Before Sunrise
    Before Sunset

Paul Thomas Anderson -
    There Will Be Blood
    Punch-Drunk Love
    The Master

Alejandro Jodorowsky -

Michael Haneke -

Alejandro Inarritu -

Alfonso Cuaron -

Dario Argento -

Nicholas Wending Refn -

Darren Aronofsky -

Robert Altman -
    Nashville
    The Long Goodbye
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Terrence Malick -
    Tree of Life
    Badlands
    Days of Heaven

David Fincher -
	Fight Club
	Se7en
	Zodiac

Fritz Lang -
	Metropolis
	M
	The Big Heat

Orson Welles -
	Citizen Kane
	F for Fake
	The Lady from Shanghai

Woody Allen -
	Annie Hall
	Manhattan
	Midnight in Paris

David Lynch -
	Eraserhead
	Mulholland Dr.
	Blue Velvet

Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger -
	Black Narcissus
	The Red Shoes
	A Matter of Life and Death

Federico Fellini -
    8 1/2
    La Dolce Vita
    Nights of Cabiria

Andrei Tarkovsky -
    Stalker
    Ivan's Childhood
    Andrei Rublev

Akira Kurosawa -
    Seven Samurai
    Rashomon
    Ikiru

Ingmar Bergman
    The Seventh Seal
    Persona
    Wild Strawberries

Jean Renoir -
    Grand Illusion
    The Rules of the Game
    The River

Jacques Demy -
    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
    Lola
    The Young Girls of Rochefort

Krzysztof Kieślowski -
	Three Colors: Blue
	The Decalogue
	The Double Life of Verinique

François Truffaut -
    The 400 Blows
    Jules and Jim
    Day for Night

Whit Stillman -
	Metropolitan
	Barcelona
	Damsels in Distress

Luis Bunuel -
	Belle de Jour
	Viridiana
	The Exterminating Angel

Louis Malle -
    Elevator to the Gallows
    The Fire Within
    The Lovers

Jean-Luc Godard
    Breathless
    Contempt
    Pierrot le Fou

Abbas Kiarostami
    Certified Copy
    Close-up
    Taste of Cherry

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
    Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
    World on a Wire
    The Marriage of Maria Braun

John Cassavetes -
	A Woman Under the Influence
	The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
	Shadows

Yasujirō Ozu -
	Tokyo Story
	Late Spring
	Floating Weeds

Edward Yang -
	Yi Yi
	Brighter Summer Day
	The Terrorizers

Frank Capra -
	It's a Wonderful Life
	Mr. Smith Goes to Washingto
	It Happened One Night

Michael Curtiz -
	Casablanca
	The Adventures of Robin Hood
	Mildred Pierce

William Wyler -
	Ben-Hur
	The Best Years of Our Lives
	Mrs. Miniver

Howard Hawks -
	The Big Sleep
	Rio Bravo
	Red River

Billy Wilder -
	Sunset Boulevard
	The Apartment
	Double Indemnity

William A. Wellman -
	Wings
	The Public Enemy
	The Ox-Bow Incident

George Cukor -
	A Star is Born
	The Philadelphia Story
	My Fair Lady

Erich Von Stroheim -
	Greed
	Foolish Wives
	Queen Kelly

Elia Kazan -
	On the Waterfront
	A Streetcar Named Desire
	A Face in the Crowd

John Huston -
	The Maltese Falcon
	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
	The African Queen

Sidney Lumet -
	12 Angry Men
	Dog Day Afternoon
	Network

F.W. Murnau -
	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
	Nosferatu
	Faust

Josef von Sternburg -
	The Blue Angel
	The Scarlet Empress
	Shanghai Express

Lindsay Anderson -
	If....
	O Lucky Man
	This Sporting Life

Samuel Fuller -
	Shock Corridor
	White Dog
	Pickup on South Street

Werner Herzog -
	Aguirre: The Wrath of God
	Fitzcarraldo
	Grizzly Man

Michelangelo Antonioni -
	Blow-Up
	L'Avventura
	L'Eclisse

Seijun Suzuki -
	Tokyo Drifter
	Branded to Kill
	Youth of the Beast

Carl Th. Dreyer -
	The Passion of Joan of Arc
	Vampyr
	Day of Wrath

Man Ray -
	Return to Reason

Pat O'Neil -
	Horizontal Boundaries