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List creator: jwebb202 Created on: November 9, 2004 - 8:42 PM PST Description: some worthy first efforts

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	movie title	related list	average rating	MPAA rating	watch	rent	buy
	Nanook of the North (Criterion Collection) (1922)			Not Rated
Robert Flaherty
	Strike (1924)			Not Rated
Sergei Eisenstein
	The Blood of a Poet (Criterion Collection) (1930)
Jean Cocteau
	Citizen Kane (1941)
Orson Welles
	The Maltese Falcon (1941)			Not Rated
John Huston
	Eclipse Series 23 - The First Films of Akira Kurosawa: Sanshiro Sugata (1943)			Not Rated
Akira Kurosawa
	Ossessione (1943)
Luchino Visconti
	Variety Lights (Criterion Collection) (1951)			Not Rated
Federico Fellini
	The Night of the Hunter (Criterion) (1955)			Not Rated
Charles Laughton
	The Song of the Road [Pather Panchali] (1955)			Not Rated
Satyajit Ray
	12 Angry Men (Criterion) (1957)			Not Rated
Sidney Lumet
	The 400 Blows (Criterion Collection) (1959)
François Truffaut
	Shadows (Criterion Collection) (1959)
John Cassavetes
	Primary (1960)
Albert Maysles [his bro joined him later]
	Breathless (1960)			Not Rated
Jean-Luc Godard
	Accatone (1961)			Not Rated
Pier Paolo Pasolini
	Knife in the Water (Criterion Collection) (1962)
Roman Polanski
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Mike Nichols
	The Producers (1968)			Not Rated
Mel Brooks
	Night of the Living Dead (1968)			Not Rated
George A. Romero
	Targets (1968)
Peter Bogdanovich
	Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1968)
Martin Scorsese
	Badlands (Criterion) (1973)
Terrence Malick
	Eraserhead (1977)			Not Rated
David Lynch
	The Evil Dead (1983)			Not Rated
Sam Raimi
	The Killing Fields (1984)
Roland Joffé
	Blood Simple (1984)
Coen bros
	This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Rob Reiner
	As Tears Go By (1988)
Wong Kar-Wai
	Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
Steven Soderbergh
	Boyz N the Hood (1991)
John Singleton
	Slacker (Criterion Collection) (1991)
Richard Linklater
	Reservoir Dogs (Widescreen) (1992)
Quentin Tarantino
	Pi (1998)
Darren Aronofsky
	American Beauty (1999)
Sam Mendes
	The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Sofia Coppola
	Being John Malkovich (1999)
Spike Jonze
	The Fast Runner(Atanarjuat) (2001)
Zacharias Kunuk