Rob Delaney

“The first I’m gonna pick is this one right here: Harlan County USA, which is an incredible documentary by Barbara Kopple. And I picked this one because, yeah, I love it. It’s terrifying and heart-expanding. And it is about the power of collective action and the importance of union membership. Two things that I believe in very much. We have a lot more power than we think. There are those who don’t want us to use that power, and they try to convince us that we’re powerless and they can do a pre...”

“The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy. I have seen this movie... I do not know how many times. But to be able to make a perfect 92-minute gem like this. Oh, I should also say it’s fully sung through. It is technically an opera. There is no speaking in this film. Catherine Deneuve. Look at her. Are you kidding me? If you like guys, it’s got Nino Castelnuovo in it, and he’s just as beautiful as she is. And this film is not cotton candy, although the pink in it is cotton-candy colored.”

“Not the whole Before Trilogy, but the final one. Sharon Horgan and I were writing the first season of the show Catastrophe, and my wife said, 'Let’s watch Before Midnight.' And so she puts it on and watching I’m like, 'Oh my God.' As soon as it was over, I called Sharon, I was like, 'Put down your quill. We have to retool everything because the ultimate work of art about a marriage has just been made, and if we think that we’re gonna play in that arena, then we got to study this playbook.'”

“This is three films that André Gregory and Wallace Shawn made together. But the only one I’m featuring right now is Vanya on 42nd Street, simply because it was a very important film for me. It just blew my mind because it was the filming of the rehearsal of a play. Then Louis Malle heard about it and was like, 'Why don’t I film you doing this?' And so he films them. And it’s just a beautiful, beautiful film that really taught me a lot about storytelling.”