Isabel Sandoval

“So of course I've seen The Before Trilogy and other films by Richard Linklater, but Dazed and Confused—oh my gosh, I'm in love with how cool the packaging is.”

“The Cranes Are Flying is in my Criterion top 10, and it's just one of the most swooningly romantic and expressionistic films I've seen. It's by Mikhail Kalatozov, who also did Soy Cuba, I Am Cuba.”

“And Mishima by Paul Schrader, of course. Great.”

“I'm getting a Blu-ray of Black Narcissus. We discussed this on one of our quarantine film club meetings. When lockdown started, I started a film club with a few of my friends and this was one of the movies that we talked about. Although some of us did not like it, I loved it though.”

“Is it silly if I do one where I just close my eyes and pick something random? Quadrophenia, a film by Franc Roddam. I've never heard of this filmmaker, I'll be honest, but I'm excited to watch this.”

“I remember watching The Devils at Lincoln Center when they did a retrospective of Ken Russell, but I never got to see Women in Love, which is considered, I think, his masterpiece or one of his masterpieces. So I'm going to grab a copy of this.”

“I'm getting a copy of The Age of Innocence. I've seen the film, of course, and love it. And I also think that the source material by Edith Wharton is one of the most perfect American novels ever written, and Michelle Pfeiffer is just gorgeous in it.”

“I also have this Cassavetes box set. And funnily enough, my film Lingua Franca is nominated for a John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. And A Woman Under the Influence is, of course, a very, very influential film; it's also formative for me as a filmmaker.”

“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.”