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Echoes (11/19/18)

The Searchers (1956, d. John Ford):

They Live (1988, d. John Carpenter):

Echoes (5/5/17)

Radu Molasar rescues Eva Cuza in The Keep (1983, d. Michael Mann):

Echoes (11/6/15)

Return to Oz (1985, d. Walter Murch):

The Straight Story (1999, d. David Lynch):

Note that there are other Disney movies that begin with the company's name over a starfield (The Black Hole, Toy Story 2), but given Lynch's history of paying tribute to The Wizard of Oz, these two seemed less of a coincidence.

Echoes (2/20/15)

Closing shot of Spider-Man 2 (2004, d. Sam Raimi):

Closing shot of Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
(2014, d. Alejandro González Iñárritu):

Echoes (10/31/14)

Grease (1978, d. Randal Kleiser):

Christine (1983, d. John Carpenter):

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Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955, d. Henry King):

Boyhood (2014, d. Richard Linklater):

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Fearless (1993, d. Peter Weir):

The Dark Knight (2008, d. Christopher Nolan):

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Opening shot of Seconds (1966, d. John Frankenheimer):

Opening shot of The Fly (1986, d. David Cronenberg):

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Opening shot of The Night of the Hunter (1955, d. Charles Laughton):

Opening shot of Dune (1984, d. David Lynch):