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“I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see.”— Dziga Vertov (1896 - 1954)

Left to right, top to bottom:

Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Un Chien Andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1929)
Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren/Alexander Hammid, 1943)
The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1945)
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975)
Rubens (Roland Verhavert, 1977)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007) 

(via David Liu)