Find your muse and watch:

• The Searchers (dir. John Ford, 1956; USA)
  Ford & John Wayne

• Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958; USA)
  Hitchcock & James Stewart

• High and Low / Tengoku to jigoku (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1963; Japan)
  Kurosawa & Toshiro Mifune

• Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1966; Sweden)
  Bergman & Liv Ullman

• Aguirre, the Wrath of God / Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (dir. Werner Herzog, 1972; West Germany)
  Herzog & Klaus Kinski

• The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie / Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (dir. Luis Buñuel, 1972; France)
  Buñuel & Fernando Rey

• Love and Death (dir. Woody Allen, 1975; USA)
  Allen & Diane Keaton

• Seven Beauties / Pasqualino Settebellezze (dir. Lina Wertmuller, 1975; Italy)
  Wertmuller & Giancarlo Giannini

• The King of Comedy (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1982; USA)
  Scorsese & Robert De Niro

• Zelig (dir. Woody Allen, 1983; USA)
  Allen & Mia Farrow

• Ed Wood (dir. Tim Burton, 1994; USA)
  Burton & Johnny Depp

• Rushmore (dir. Wes Anderson, 1998; USA)
  Anderson & Bill Murray

• Punch-Drunk Love (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002; USA)
  Anderson & Philip Semour Hoffman

• A Mighty Wind (dir. Christopher Guest, 2003; USA)
  Guest & Fred Willard

• We Own the Night (dir. James Gray, 2007; USA)
  Gray & Joaquin Phoenix

• The Informant! (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2009; USA)
  Soderbergh & Matt Damon

• Silver Linings Playbook (dir. David O. Russell, 2012; USA)
  Russell & Jennifer Lawrence

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