Nick Offerman

“Heart of a Dog. I wish everyone was required to listen to Laurie Anderson records and experience her artwork. This is such a beautiful film. It’s about her… her dog, Lolabelle, who passed away. It’s about love and death. A dream-based think piece. It’s full of poetry. And Laurie Anderson, my whole life, she just, more than anyone, gives me permission to be open to the world.”

“Rashomon, you got to have a Kurosawa. You got to have Toshiro Mifune, for God’s sake. Everyone should see Rashomon. We did it on stage in college. I didn’t get to be in it, but I got to learn all the fights. And you learn things like, Oh, we have different ideas based on our needs and wants and desires, and we should still try and get along despite those differences so that we don’t end up with a katana in our tummies.”

“Kes. It’s about a young boy in northern England, he finds his power, his magic, is in living with nature. And he goes through this sort of Highlander-esque becoming. The man, school and work and family, they’re like, “That’s not cool. We need you to fit into the organization.” It’s quite moving. It’s just a really powerful human story. And I just– I love that. I love work that makes us think about our place on this planet and how we relate to one another and to Mother Nature.”

“Dead Man thrills me. The films of Jim Jarmusch just really get my blood pumping. This one’s from 1995. It’s Johnny Depp as William Blake. But not that William Blake. His Sancho Panza, played by the great Indigenous actor Gary Farmer, he steals the show from one of the top movie stars of our day. To take in the filmmaking is just searingly good, it’s… it’s like reading The Brothers Karamazov, if Neil Young was standing next to you, like, ripping on his Old Black guitar.”

“All right, Room with a View. Now I’m going to get emotional. I grew up in a cultural vacuum in a small town in Illinois... When Room with a View showed up, I was 15 or 16, and so I was just discovering romance in my own life, and this was just, like, the—I’ve never had a finer bottle of red wine than this movie. Daniel Day-Lewis is so goddamn funny in this movie, in, like, a pince-nez sort of spectacles. It’s just absolutely gorgeous. It’s so elegiac and romantic and turned me into an absolut...”