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Episode: 2023
“Burden of Dreams, absolutely incredible. Les Blank, Herzog. Film about madness, desire, nature, filmmaking process, all the good things. Going in here.”
“Faya dayi is a gorgeous film I've only seen it once but it really affected me deeply such a poetic film and I just got to share that the filmmaker I really admire her I've seen her give a lot of talks on the film and so this is one that I look forward to seeing again...”
“Jules and Jim. I first saw this in college and it blew my mind. The narration was unlike anything I ever heard and I loved the love triangle at the heart of the film which now very much inspired actually the love triangle in Fire of Love, my last film. In Jules and Jim, there's a running scene where the three main characters run across a bridge, they race each other, and in that scene there's such exhilaration and such heart and the sense of energy.”
“Let's say I'm obsessed with this film I watched this film over and over and over the first time I watched it just kind of watched over me and I knew there was tremendous depth there and I needed to watch it again to really unpack it but the story again I love triangle at its heart I just find so Exquisite there's moments that I feel like are like these marbles these little worlds that I want to dwell in there's a scene when one of the characters is swimming and in a swimming pool wit...”
“Me and You and Everyone We Know. I had the profound honor and joy of working with Miranda July on the narration for Fire of Love and that all started back with seeing Me and You and Everyone We Know in 2006. I remember I ordered a DVD in a little red envelope from Netflix back in the day. I watched it and was just, I hadn't seen anything like it before. I feel like Miranda crafted such a new cinematic language and a way for exploring relationships.”
“This is La Jetée/Sans Soleil, which is my favorite film of all time. It's taught me so much about writing and film and about imagery and collage and the themes of time and longing and loss and space. Yeah, it will forever be imprinted onto my mind and onto my heart. And this is what really introduced me to Criterion in the first place so the fact that I'm getting to pull this off of this wall and put it into this bag in this place, that makes me very happy.”
“The Varda set. She is my grand high priestess. I just absolutely love the way Agnès Varda sees the world and tells stories. I feel like she has such a singular voice that at once is constantly innovating and building upon new ways of filmmaking and seeing the world. I'll probably stop there because I could go on and on but I feel so lucky to really be in this little closet.”
