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The Film Museum&#8217;s carefully curated film collection houses dozens of film debuts. The extensive Collection on Screen spring programme takes a look back at the past and presents some of the most famous debuts of the 20th century (Stroheim, Sternberg, Bu\u00f1uel, Vigo, Welles, Kurosawa, Chabrol, Godard, Wiseman, Cassavetes, Akerman, Lynch, Jarmusch, Kitano, von Trier, Panahi). 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