Will Arnett

“Love this one. Didn’t know it was here. Stranger Than Paradise. Jim Jarmusch. This is a great movie. In fact, this tableau has played in my mind for so many years. And we ended up doing this kind of limited series for Netflix years ago called Flaked, that I wrote, and we tried to recapture this image in a photograph in this one moment in the show. I had a poster of this on my wall when I was about seventeen, maybe sixteen. I’ve always loved this movie, Stranger Than Paradise.”

“Oh my god. This movie freaked me out, and then I’ve watched it a number of times since. It freaked me out when I first saw it. I was much younger. The Tin Drum. This movie sometimes makes me so uncomfortable. There’s this whole thing with fish. Yeah, they get into, like, hypocrisy of adults and all this kind of stuff, and it’s super weird. If you want to get weird, watch this movie, Tin Drum. Really, really good. Very, very moving.”

“Kieślowski’s Dekalog. This is a ten-part limited series that he made for Polish television, based on the Ten Commandments. Kieślowski, one of my favorite filmmakers. I just find– I love Red, White, and Blue. Those are three of my favorite films. Double Life of Véronique, which is amazing, which... Is the same, it’s... What’s her name, from Red? Irène Jacob. C’est elle. Alors, elle est merveilleuse dans ce film, le film de Kieślowski. Sorry. I just think in French.”

“Les Blank: Always for Pleasure. “An uncompromisingly independent filmmaker, Les Blank made documentaries for nearly fifty years, elegantly disappearing with his camera into cultural spots rarely seen on-screen, mostly on the peripheries of the United States, but also occasionally abroad.” Do you know any of these films? You ready? God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance. Name of a film. Another called A Well Spent Life. Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers. Sprout Wings and Fly,...”

“Withnail and I. My number one film of all time. Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, first film. Richard E. Grant’s first film. Paul McGann, who plays the character of I. His actual character’s name is Marwood. About two out-of-work actors in... Living in Camden Town, North London, at the very end of the ’60s. And it’s about change in culture and society and people and these guys going through this time in their life. It’s brilliant. It’s hilarious. It’s profoundly poignant and sad.”

“John Cassavetes: Five Films. Classic, Cassavetes. Another thing that you hear a lot of people say, like, “Oh, I love the film…” And they say it for a reason, because he’s great. But Woman Under the Influence, amazing. I don’t think I’ve seen enough of– I don’t know enough about it. It’s one of those ones that I feel... I don’t know enough about Cassavetes, but I’m about to. And once I watch these, get ready for a discussion on film from me.”