Jeremy O. Harris

“I was talking about things like this, like Company, the Original Cast Album by Penny Baker, one of the best documentaries ever made. It's like completely ver. You see some of the richest, most dynamic performers of A Generation having full tilt mental breakdowns, like actual mental breakdowns, about the fact that they cannot articulate the beautiful thing they did on stage every night in a cast recording. And I'm so happy 'cause I've never owned it. I was only streaming it on Criterion Channe...”

“Lars von Trier and Dogme 95 were very, very important to me because I didn't know that someone could make rules around how to make a movie... Dogme 95 is a very important system he created and the first film that was the Dogme 95 approved film was The Celebration. Also they have the full Dogme 95 thing in here. This is like I could actually kind of cry, like this is actually crazy.”

“I'm getting the box set but I just had to shout this movie out anyway. Teorema, I realized this year with the amount of people who told me how much they love Saltburn that no one in my friend group had seen Teorema. Watch Teorema, just do yourself a favor. I'm not putting it in my bag because I'm getting a box set but because Pasolini is important again. There's a lot of required reading to be gay in my opinion and a lot of that reading is in movies.”

“Another important movie for me partially because I share a birthday with the Marquis de Sade who wrote the book that Salò is based on. This movie was so, so important to me... I decided to show them all this movie and I realized can't really do that in 2019. If you watch this movie it'll change your life. You'll see a lot of bad stuff, there's a lot of yuck in it but you'll get to a yum at the very end.”

“Lena Dunham, who is one of the people who changed my life the most with the work that she did both in Girls and in Tiny Furniture because she's one of those people that gave me permission much like Melvin Van Peebles to just tell my story how I wanted to tell it anyway. Tiny Furniture is really good.”

“There's another filmmaker here, a female filmmaker... I'm going to ask for some help, where could I find Claudia Weill's Girlfriends? So this is Girlfriends and it was an iconic movie from like, it was so well received when it came out and she was just forgotten. And I feel so lucky that two filmmakers that I love who happen to be women told me I needed to watch this movie so I'm going to now and now own it.”

“All That Jazz. Okay, this is the best movie. No, okay, there's all these lists like best movie musical, destroy them. All That Jazz, best movie musical. No one knows how to shoot dance anymore... Fosse knows what movement looks like on camera because he is movement incarnate. This film is so honest and beautiful and rich. It is everything a film should be. I love it. Watch it.”

“Fassbinder is so important and one of the things I love about Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is that it feels like something that people will be afraid to write now about the very present racism that lives inside of our bodies because of society and our families, etc., but how people have to navigate that through intimacies. It also is like just sexy and funny and weird.”

“I think I do just have to end it. I'm going to get Yi. I'm going to get Yi because we love Yi.”

“And this is another one, I was going to get this one anyway so I'm glad I saw it. Metropolitan. I used to tell people that I wanted to be like the black gay Whit Stillman. He's such a Dandy and a fop and writes about people that you don't see written about very often in this type of way.”

“I'm getting the Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films mainly because Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is in it but also Watermelon Man is in it which is a very important movie to me... Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was a movie that I used to use to woo boys in college... I got laid a lot in college because of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song so thank you Van Peebles. He also, people don't know this, but he's also a playwright.”