The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

“Oh my gosh. This Agnès Varda box set, which has, I think, all of her films: The Complete Films of Agnès Varda. So one of my favorite of Agnès Varda’s films is the documentary The Gleaners and I. And it’s essentially about people, gleaners, who… they, like, collect food that’s not being sold. But it’s also about herself as a documentarian, as a filmmaker, how she gleans images and shows you things that maybe people would discard.”

“Thank God there’s Agnès Varda. Agnès Varda, I think I saw all her movies. One of them I loved was Lions Love. There’s something about this movie, about the peculiarity of human soul, human relationships, that I absolutely adore. And Cléo from 5 to 7 is a game changer. She portrayed those women as if it was normal to be free. If you want to discover cinema through the eyes of a visionary and a wide and free soul, I would definitely recommend Agnès Varda. Just because she’s a genius.”

“I am gonna cap off with my Agnès Varda box set. Cléo de 5 à 7.”

“I’m going to take Agnès Varda’s magnificent collection. I can’t believe that the Criterion Collection have gathered all of her work together in this beautiful edition, complete with essays and all the films and some of the photographs, all collected. She was an unbelievable photographer. What an image-maker. And I think as a… female working in films, the depiction of womanhood in all its stages, never losing interest, pursuing female identity as it changes.”

“We love her, right, Agnès Varda. I got to meet her. If you haven’t seen the documentary that JR did, that’s such a beautiful, beautiful film about her. And he got her, she got him. And they were soulmates in The Most Beautiful way. And I just love all her movies. I love Vagabond. She was just one of my faves, so… Take this one.”

“Agnès Varda is someone who, without really planning it, but during the editing stage of Pictures of Ghosts, Agnès Varda came to talk to me many times as an imaginary friend. Sometimes you're in trouble and you just think of someone and you begin to remember his or her films, and Varda in a way, she helped me get through the film and I love her.”

“I actually haven't dived in heavily to Agnès Varda. I changed the errors of my ways and I watched Cléo from 5 to 7. Oh my God, it's like every frame is a painting. Just such a beautiful, beautiful movie and then I watched Vagabond and Le Bonheur. I don't know if my French is any good but the movies are fantastic. I mean look at that, even that is so beautiful.”

“I will pick it will be the Box very heavy one of Agnès Varda. Two films of her which I was watching as a teenager in Warsaw made such an impact on me that I can say that it's also because of her that I became a filmmaker. One it was Cléo from 5 to 7, but second one was the revelation to me and till now I'm advising it to the young filmmakers and especially women filmmakers to watch... That is Le Bonheur. It's my favorite. I hope that I'm Following her path.”

“The box of Agnès is right here and I have the chance to be on it with Faces Places. But to be honest in there's everything. One that I love from 1975, Daguerréotypes. It's an incredible documentary about a Paris of a time that disappeared but about also love stories and I don't know it's just incredible so of course I have to get this one.”

“Varda is the one I'm here for. All my homages, I'm here for people whose cinema I just can't live without to help me make cinema and continue to make cinema. And this is the box set of Agnès Varda and I'll have everything of Varda. Varda has passed but her work remains alive here and it's in my bag.”

“The Varda set. She is my grand high priestess. I just absolutely love the way Agnès Varda sees the world and tells stories. I feel like she has such a singular voice that at once is constantly innovating and building upon new ways of filmmaking and seeing the world. I'll probably stop there because I could go on and on but I feel so lucky to really be in this little closet.”

“Another person I need to do my homework on—and my wife and I were just saying how and where do we find her films—is Agnès Varda, whose birthday is coming up. We've been talking about wanting to see these films and trying to find them and now I have them all.”

“Agnès... She was one of my mother's best friends she my mother adored her and rightfully so but they did a documentary called Jane B. By Agnès V. And that's of course the reference for my film called Jane by Charlotte. She was in our lives when I was an adolescent because she was doing this documentary about my mother and I was so annoyed with her because she was living in our house... Then I discovered her films I think the first one I discovered was Cléo from 5 to 7... I'll give this to my...”

“I'm definitely not leaving the Criterion closet without this box set of the filmography of Agnès Varda. She is a hero and a champion, and I've only really seen a handful of her works—Cléo, of course, Vagabond, and her later ones—but I really want to dig deeper into her body of work.”

“Alors voilà j'ai reçu un cadeau magnifique de mon ami Agnès Varda... Elle était merveilleuse... J'avais déjeuné chez elle quelques temps malheureusement avant qu'elle nous quitte... En tout cas c'est une merveilleuse femme et merveilleuse réalisatrice vraiment...”

“It's like talking about Varda. This is so good, there's so much good stuff. Daguerréotypes is my favorite of all the films in this collection. I find it very difficult to talk about film editing, but in this film, there's a sequence in one of the local cafes where a magician is putting on his act and she's showing you how she's making the associations while she's making them. It's very playful and it feels almost like a precursor to what John Wilson is doing now. It's some of the best editing.”

“You can’t talk about Jacques without talking about Ms. Varda. Yeah! One of the great film love stories. These two incredible artists. One thing I love about film is the dialog between artists, and not only between each other. Michel Legrand tying them together in so many ways.”

“I'm happy to take this Varda collection home. It'll take a lot of my time. That's wonderful. I remember going with Agnès to a museum. There was an artwork of a nun sitting on a chair and Agnès walked in there and they just seemed to go together and I took a wonderful photograph of Agnès standing next to the nun in the chair. It's one of my favorite photographs.”

“I really love her so much you know who she reminds me of there's that filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché who was like the first arguably the first fiction filmmaker of all time she was French but then she came over to the US and was living in Fort Lee New Jersey before Fort Lee moved out to be Hollywood and I feel like Agnès Varda really picked like lived in her shoes when she was alive interesting anecdote about Vagabond I watched when I watched movies...”

“Agnes Varda. I would call this a discovery pick for me. I'm taking this home to educate myself because I've seen Le Bonheur and I would say that movie inspired the song 'My Winter' on my new album. I love that movie and I'd like to see more of what she's done, so I'm going to take this home and find out.”

“And Agnès Varda's film. And I knew Agnès and her husband Jacques Demy a little bit. We did this, and the toughest thing I remember was speaking French with Catherine Deneuve. It just drove me crazy.”