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“Oh wait, what about this one? To pick a David Cronenberg film for keeping things wild and if you're wanting to take risks, remind yourself to do it. He's the person to make yourself trust your gut.”

“Then we need to pick this one because we're Sisters. Oh yeah, and this is also one of my favorite films about identity, shared identity.”

“In a Lonely Place. If you're a fan of Humphrey Bogart, you will be surprised by this Performance. It is very tense, it's incredible, and it is something that is thrilling from start to finish and as well it's impeccably made.”

“Shampoo. I picked this right away. When Laura and I both went to Berkeley, there was one costume design class. One of our first assignments was to pick a Shakespeare play but then put it in a different context, and I remember that the idea that I had was to do it as if it was all characters in Shampoo, which was interesting because we did go on to do some costume design work with fashion designers. So I picked this movie.”

“The Double Life of Véronique. We have a great Criterion Collection story. When we had our first show in 2005, we called up Criterion and said, 'We're really inspired by Double Life of Véronique and we'd love to give out the DVD,' and they let us do that. I have a long history of connecting with this film. It's all about fractured identity. We actually really believe when we're giving this film out, this is the Homework assignment to our audience.”

“These two together: Multiple Maniacs and Polyester. I'm the person that has too many drinks and I sit down and say to someone, 'We need to talk about how John Waters is like one of the more important filmmakers of all time.' I have my diatribe about why I think he's just incredible.”

“These two together: Multiple Maniacs and Polyester. I'm the person that has too many drinks and I sit down and say to someone, 'We need to talk about how John Waters is like one of the more important filmmakers of all time.' I have my diatribe about why I think he's just incredible.”

“Well this is one that by all obvious points I should have seen this film. I know it's one of the great films ever made. I know that when we did Black Swan, this was—we were doing the tutus and stuff for that movie—it was one of the things that clearly we should have watched. My sister has seen it millions of times and for whatever reasons I haven't. This will probably be the first one that I watch. It is embarrassing that I haven't seen it.”

“We're gonna pick an obvious one: In the Mood for Love. Our obsession with Maggie Cheung led us to Hong Kong at one point. We got to spend five days with her and we made her sign all of our DVDs. Her films with Wong Kar-wai were probably the most important films that we've watched in our lives. I think that all of his films should be museums, they need to be the most celebrated films ever made.”