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hmm....
depends on what you want to do, really: what kind of analysis interests you. you have several types of films on the syllabus/list.
strange that the directors are almost all american. why is that? is this a requirement (hitchcock being the only exception...and he worked alot in the states---the guy who made koyaanisqatsi maybe another...)
if you have to stay with american directors, then:
orson welles: lady from shanghai
david lynch: eraserhead
harmony korine: gummo or julien donkeyboy
werner herzog lives in the states now so maybe he counts too?
grizzly man
aguirre wrath of god
even dwarves started small (an excellent, excellent, excellent, very very strange film)
you have some noir films on the list so there is great fun to be had using french noir films like:
wages of fear
le cercle rouge
quai des orfevres
you could bounce the french film "la haine" off "do the right thing" in interesting ways.
from "blade runner"--tarkovsky's "solaris" (NOT the idiot soderberg remake)
there are a riot of brilliant documentary filmmakers--i am not a fan of michael moore, really---for recent political film, check out "this divided state" (stylistically very straightforward, but kind of a freakshow content-wise);
anything by chris marker or jean rouch
ulrich seidl: animal love
lars von trier: five obstructions (though anything by him would be great fun to take apart--a really great director)
why is there no eisenstein on this syllabus anyway? no dziga vertov? no meliès?
geez...there is so much more stuff out there, so much cooler than the list gives you access to.
anyway, hope this helps.
if you give a bit more information about the kind of project you'd prefer to do, maybe more film titles can be generated.
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