Rebecca Miller

“Devi by Satyajit Ray is just so beautiful. It's one of the greatest films I've ever seen. I will tell you it's about the wife of a man who kind of becomes like a goddess and it destroys her life but it kind of puts you into a trance almost. It's like really one of the most powerful cinematic experiences I've ever had and she's just incredible in it.”

“The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov is just like a unabashedly poetic film that's ethnography, cinema, poetry, painterly, surreal but rooted really rooted I think in Armenian culture. Beautiful historical film, it's Mythic. I remember seeing it when I was on tour with The Cherry Orchard in Soviet Georgia and just being astonished by it. This was in 1986 or something.”

“A Short Film About Killing, I don't know how to describe it exactly but it puts you into the occasion of sin along with the person in the movie. It's like a pure film but very disturbing. It's one of the more disturbing films I've seen.”

“Loves of a Blonde by Milos Forman is an absolutely wonderful movie. Tonally it's just so wonderfully free and specific and very much about a female character which I loved and it's really about romance you know and it's classic New Wave Cinema as well but there is something about the middle European slightly depressive humor that I just find so appealing. It's like you can just feel the sadness in the humor.”

“Children of Paradise by Marcel Carné, Les Enfants du Paradis... Oh my God this is I think maybe my favorite movie ever. It's poetic realism but it's also so deeply human and the woman Arletty who plays the sort of who's loved by several different men is such a wonderfully sad knowing wise sexy liberated creature and yet you completely believe that you're in 18th century France. It's like funny and wistful and also the crowd scenes are incredible.”