Maura Tierney

“Hedwig and the Angry Inch, because I saw this when it was just a play. The Westbeth Theatre. And then I actually got to see John Cameron Mitchell do it on Broadway. So I love this so much. And whenever I’m feeling sad, I watch it and sing along with all the songs and I love it.”

“Town Bloody Hall. Okay, so this is a documentary by D. A. Pennebaker that took place in 1972 or something. Norman Mailer, a famed misogynist, hosting a conversation about “women’s lib.” And I was quite taken by Germaine Greer, and just the level of conversation. And so I took this and I brought it to the Wooster Group, and then we made a play based on it. I love that movie. It’s a big thing in my life, Town Bloody Hall. We called the play The Town Hall Affair.”

“Oh, this. Shampoo, which is just such a moment in time. They’re all so… attractive. And it’s funny. And it also is a sort of… again, there is a weirdly feminist bent to this, in that, you know, even though he’s this Lothario, no one wants him in the end. And it’s Hal Ashby, so… That is something that’s part of my growing up in watching movies.”

“And this one. Do the Right Thing, ‘cause it is a masterpiece. And that’s… It just is.”

“The Ice Storm. The specifics of this movie, like when they… when she takes an ice tray out and she’s– 1970s, like, she has to crack that thing open, and the attention to detail of, like, what was going on at that time in suburbia. The cast is outstanding. It’s a very delicate and specific and also kind of heartbreaking movie.”

“I love Paper Moon. But can you imagine she was, like, ten? How old was she? It’s an unbelievable Performance, both of them. It must have been very hard for her, but, like, what an… Oh, Madeline Kahn, this movie’s just… And Peter Bogdanovich, I mean, come on.”