Greg Gonzalez

“I saw this and I'm so excited Criterion did this. La Bamba, pretty much one of my favorite music biopics. So great. The music is killer. It's got commentaries, so even more exciting. Great, La Bamba. Actually, the cool thing about this too is when I was a kid my dad worked in VHS distribution... It showed me a lot of films that I would have never seen had it not been for that closet.”

“When I was in high school they put out a VHS of this movie, The Last Picture Show, and this movie just blew me away. Just so beautiful. Takes place in Texas. A little dirty too. So this film is kind of one that I feel helped me mature and helped me appreciate different things. Peter Bogdanovich is like one of the best to listen to for commentaries, so I'm excited to hear him talk about this movie too.”

“We got to talk about this movie, talk about something newer. The Worst Person in the World. This is probably my favorite romance of the last five years. This movie is just so wonderful, feels really raw and honest. So I'm really glad Criterion did this. It's amazing.”

“Risky Business. The soundtrack is killer. Tom Cruise is killer. Rebecca De Mornay, unbelievable. And also has one of my favorite love scenes—the scene where the wind is blowing and there's a TV on and everything. It's really dreamlike and kind of noired out. So this is really exciting, Risky Business.”

“The last little story I have revolves around this movie, The Tales of Hoffmann. I've always wanted this one because this is the follow-up to The Red Shoes. The Tales of Hoffmann is pretty much just like, 'Hey, let's do The Red Shoes ballet but like a bunch of them.' And it's pretty wild. I've actually never had this, always wanted it. It was elusive, and so it feels like cosmic that I'm finally getting it now today at the actual Criterion closet.”

“Okay, let's keep going. Tales of Four Seasons. Tales of the Four Seasons by Eric Rohmer. Actually discovered Rohmer through Criterion., when I moved to New York, it was like about 10 years ago, it just felt like, okay, this feels really close to what I want to do musically. His films are just very simple like romances with like, you know, a group of people kind of just get entangled in their little romantic situations and they just take place in beautiful exotic locations. I thought that's th...”