Sarita Choudhury

“Tokyo Story, classic. I just worked with a director, Kogonada, through the film After Yang, and he loves Ozu.”

“Yeah thank you Monica and L'eclisse is one of my favorite Antonioni.”

“I wasn't even thinking of Stephen Frears who I think is amazing and this is My Beautiful Laundrette, which was so important when it came out. Oh my god, it was like seeing every uncle and auntie I knew but you wouldn't dare put it on screen. It's like so loving and so violent. It made me fall in love with London. My Beautiful Laundrette, oh my god, I don't know why that makes me cry.”

“My father is Bengali and my Mother and him live in Kolkata now and this is one of Ray's movies, The Big City. His trilogy is what we all love and see, but I recently saw this and I've now become addicted to his newer films.”

“I think this is a brilliant movie, it's called Hero also by Ray and it's just about an actor who gets on a train and what's so great is he's so famous and as he is in the train and he goes to like the restaurant car or the bathroom he runs into different classes of people who tell him the truth. And it's kind of stunning to watch.”

“A Special Day, which I think is, for a while I don't know, this I think I consider to be my favorite film. There's something about Mastroianni and Scola as actors that they're so noble and yet they're breaking rules and it's so rare to see nobleness and pain and yet going forward. I don't know, it makes you miss that kind of structure and acting.”

“Two films, François Truffaut's Day for Night.”

“Oh my god, Working Girls. Lizzie Borden, very important.”

“Pier Paolo Pasolini Trilogy, which is a lot like, it's hard to watch one Pasolini without it taking over your week. This is also great cover, it's like the devil and a nun with blue tights. God bless Pasolini.”