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Barfly—Barbet Schroeder, 1987*
Blume in Love—Paul Mazursky, 1973
Dangerous Game—Abel Ferrara, 1993
Danny Collins—Dan Fogelman, 2015*
The Doors—Oliver Stone, 1991**
Four Rooms—Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, 1995*
Hangmen Also Die!—Fritz Lang, 1943
Hitler’s Madman—Douglas Sirk, 1943
Maps to the Stars—David Cronenberg, 2014**
The Mayor of Sunset Strip—George Hickenlooper, 2003***
Mondo Mod—Peter Perry Jr., 1967*
Myra Breckinridge—Michael Sarne, 1970
The Night Walker—William Castle, 1964
Rebel Without a Cause—Nicholas Ray, 1955***
Riot on Sunset Strip—Arthur Dreifuss, 1967*
Somewhere—Sofia Coppola, 2010
The Strip—László Kardos, 1951*
Summer Storm—Douglas Sirk, 1944
Wired—Larry Peerce, 1989
* = just a glimpse
** = one scene only
*** = background research