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A machine-readable export of the complete Criterion Closet Picks database. Intended for use with LLMs and AI tools.
# Criterion Closet Picks - Complete Database
Generated: 2026-02-20 | 337 guests | 803 films | 2824 picks
## Adrian Utley (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqNSY5xz_r8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/648-adrian-utley-s-closet-picks)
- **Antichrist** (2009) - Lars von Trier - Spine #542 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27524-antichrist) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870984/)
> "I think this is an absolutely brilliant film but I cannot watch it because I've got two little children and I found the scene at the beginning with the boy falling and it would seem to be shot like Bill Viola or something really super slow motion and it's got a Handel aria or something which is so utterly moving. It's so I found it so manipulative and so I almost couldn't cope with it at all."
- **Ratcatcher** (1999) - Lynne Ramsay - Spine #162 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/716-ratcatcher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/)
> "I saw Lynne Ramsay's film Ratcatcher here. That's absolutely completely brilliant. That film when I first saw that I was amazing. I saw her short film, I can't remember what that's called, beforehand before that and then Morvern Callar after that. It's amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqNSY5xz_r8&t=38)
- **The Passion of Joan of Arc** (1928) - Carl Theodor Dreyer - Spine #62 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/228-the-passion-of-joan-of-arc) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019254/)
> "The Passion of Joan of Arc. I found this, well I've just written some music with my friend Will Gregory for this film. And this is the most amazing thing. A friend of mine showed me this because we were looking for a film to write music to and I looked at about 20 silent films with Will and this one just stuck right out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqNSY5xz_r8&t=54)
- **Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence** (1983) - Nagisa Ōshima - Spine #535 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27512-merry-christmas-mr-lawrence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085933/)
> "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. I'm really interested to see this again because I remember it really well on TV. Again, the BBC always showed really cool films and I found that so brutal, so absolutely vicious, and I'm intrigued to see it again. Yeah, it's amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqNSY5xz_r8&t=79)
- **The 39 Steps** (2008) - James Hawes - Spine #56 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/234-the-39-steps) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282016/)
> "The 39 Steps. Yeah, I love this. I love all versions of this story but I particularly like this one with Robert Donat. Amazing. It's just because I love Scotland as well and it's shot in Scotland and the story is so exciting. It's completely brilliant and it's a bit cheeky as well. It's typically Alfred Hitchcock trying to get his camera up as many women's skirts as he can do."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqNSY5xz_r8&t=99)
## Agnès B. (producer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBJbIzYI80) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/560-agnes-b-s-closet-picks)
- **Lost Highway** (1997) - David Lynch - Spine #1152 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31590-lost-highway) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922/)
> "J'ai eu Le Plaisir aussi de voir que quelqu'un était en train de rénover l'image ou le son ou nettoyer l'image de Lost Highway de mon cher ami David Lynch donc ça m'a fait très plaisir en arrivant de voir ça de voir cette personne sur l'écran..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBJbIzYI80&t=13)
- **The Asphalt Jungle** (1950) - John Huston - Spine #847 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28690-the-asphalt-jungle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042208/)
> "Asphalt Jungle parce que chaque fois que j'arrive à New York je pense à Asphalt Jungle... C'est un film que j'aime énormément parce que c'est à la fois un film inquiétant avec des gens inquiétants mais il y a une scène que j'ai jamais oubliée qui est extraordinaire c'est quand il y a une fille qui danse jukebox vers la fin du film et que le vieux... Se fait attraper parce qu'il est fasciné par cette jeune fille qui danse devant le jukebox."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBJbIzYI80&t=30)
- **Teorema** (1968) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #1013 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28660-teorema) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063678/)
> "Théorème de Pasolini qui est une tragédie une merveille une histoire d'amour des histoires d'amour des histoires de folie des histoires magiques avec des êtres magiques et bien sûr Terence Stamp finalement tous les toute la famille tombe amoureuse de lui toute la maison tomba amoureuse de lui et on comprend on comprend ça parfaitement moi aussi je suis tombée amoureuse de lui quand je l'ai vu."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBJbIzYI80&t=72)
- **Cul-de-sac** (2002) - Jimmy Luk Tin-Wah - Spine #577 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27658-cul-de-sac)
> "Donc j'ai choisi Cul-de-sac parce que il y a longtemps que j'ai pas vu mais c'est un film que j'aime beaucoup puis Françoise Dorléac tout ça la sœur de Catherine qui s'est tuée en voiture je sais pas ce film j'ai de la tendresse pour ce film et j'aime beaucoup l'esprit le cadrage l'histoire..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBJbIzYI80&t=104)
- **The Night of the Hunter** (1955) - Charles Laughton - Spine #541 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/)
> "Regardez-le la nuit du chasseur maintenant c'est un film qui m'a tellement marqué... C'est tellement magnifique qui concerne l'enfance et moi j'aime énormément l'enfance... C'est ce film qui a fait que j'ai osé écrire Je m'appelle Hmmm..., tourner le film que j'ai fait... évidemment tout est beau la musique quand il chante la nuit sur son cheval comme ça fait peur..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBJbIzYI80&t=123)
- **All About My Mother** (1999) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #1012 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29569-all-about-my-mother) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185125/)
> "Je voulais aussi parler bien sûr de mon cher Almodóvar Pedro vive Almodóvar qui n'a même pas eu de prix à Cannes c'est une honte voilà je vous conseille Tout sur ma mère c'est magnifique..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBJbIzYI80&t=160)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "Alors voilà j'ai reçu un cadeau magnifique de mon ami Agnès Varda... Elle était merveilleuse... J'avais déjeuné chez elle quelques temps malheureusement avant qu'elle nous quitte... En tout cas c'est une merveilleuse femme et merveilleuse réalisatrice vraiment..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnBJbIzYI80&t=182)
## Agnes Varda (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jx0Pjq_kQ) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/472-agnes-varda-s-closet-picks)
- **An Angel at My Table** (1990) - Jane Campion - Spine #301 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/742-an-angel-at-my-table) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099040/)
> "So this is An Angel at My Table. I love and Sweetie, the two of Jane Campion, the early films she made that I love so much. So sensible, so intelligent."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jx0Pjq_kQ&t=8)
- **Sweetie** (1989) - Jane Campion - Spine #356 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/749-sweetie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098725/)
> "I love and Sweetie, the two of Jane Campion, the early films she made that I love so much. So sensible, so intelligent."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jx0Pjq_kQ&t=12)
- **Taste of Cherry** (1997) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #45 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/242-taste-of-cherry) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120265/)
> "And then that one of my favorite film, Kiarostami, The Taste of Cherry. Because you know the thing about the desire to die and we know that we are dust we'll come back to dust but he made it in such a huge set of stone dust and the man trying to find his own way and the way he tried to be helped and then the strength of life and the life the Taste of Cherry wins over I love that film really..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jx0Pjq_kQ&t=20)
- **La promesse** (1996) - Jean-Pierre Dardenne - Spine #620 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28073-la-promesse) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117398/)
> "Then I picked La promesse, one of the first Dardenne feature fiction film. Beautiful. I remember when I discover it, I was impressed."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jx0Pjq_kQ&t=52)
- **Band of Outsiders** (1964) - Jean-Luc Godard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/291-band-of-outsiders) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057869/)
> "And my favorite Godard, one of my favorite Godard, Band of Outsiders. I love when they dance. I love I love Sami Frey and Anna Karina is so innocent too you know, I just pick those now."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jx0Pjq_kQ&t=64)
- **Tiny Furniture** (2010) - Lena Dunham - Spine #597 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28317-tiny-furniture) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570989/)
> "Tiny Furniture. Then I have to see it because I don't know. I know her series. I love Girls. I'm a fan of Girls but this I want to know what she did as a fiction before..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jx0Pjq_kQ&t=79)
- **The Marriage of Maria Braun** (1979) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Spine #204 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/592-the-marriage-of-maria-braun) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079095/)
> "And okay I pick also that one of my favorite Maria Braun, Fassbinder. Look, this is in 5 minutes what I pick..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Jx0Pjq_kQ&t=90)
## Agnieszka Holland (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-zkQTKtpQ) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/683-agnieszka-holland-s-closet-picks)
- **La notte** (1961) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #678 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28111-la-notte) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054130/)
> "Lot of Michelangelo Antonioni., it was one of my favorite of his film actually and I remember watching it on the screen on the big screen last time in '90s again in San Francisco Cinema Tech and he was visiting that, he was there and he was sitting in the back of the screening room and I was like passing next to him and he was watching his films and he was crying. So that image will stay with me. So La notte."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-zkQTKtpQ&t=74)
- **Parasite** (2019) - Bong Joon Ho - Spine #1054 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30619-parasite) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/)
> "Parasite, I think I don't have the video. Very revolutionary film. I think it tells about the modern world, about the contemporary world, something extremely disturbing and very, very true. So I would like that film to stay with me as also as a reminder who we are."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-zkQTKtpQ&t=117)
- **Perfect Days** (2023) - Wim Wenders - Spine #1226 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34274-perfect-days) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27503384/)
> "Very recent films, Perfect Days by Wim Wenders, which I have to say I missed in the theaters and I wanted to see it in the theater and I missed it, so I will screen it in my private theater."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-zkQTKtpQ&t=140)
- **Anatomy of a Fall** (2023) - Justine Triet - Spine #1218 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34134-anatomy-of-a-fall) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17009710/)
> "And Anatomy of a Fall, which was one of the most surprising movies and again the great example of women director's point of view. And we have more and more like powerful and very outspoken women directors and that is good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-zkQTKtpQ&t=153)
- **Diamonds of the Night** (1964) - Jan Němec - Spine #969 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29375-diamonds-of-the-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058001/)
> "My last pick will be about the film which I'm rewatching practically any time I'm preparing the film and especially I did it on the Green Border, and that is Diamonds of the Night by Jan Němec, one of the auteurs of the absolutely wonderful Czech New Wave... It is an absolute masterpiece but also it has incredibly long shot when two young men, two boys who escaped from the transportation to the concentration camp, they are running through the forest."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-zkQTKtpQ&t=188)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "I will pick it will be the Box very heavy one of Agnès Varda. Two films of her which I was watching as a teenager in Warsaw made such an impact on me that I can say that it's also because of her that I became a filmmaker. One it was Cléo from 5 to 7, but second one was the revelation to me and till now I'm advising it to the young filmmakers and especially women filmmakers to watch... That is Le Bonheur. It's my favorite. I hope that I'm Following her path."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU-zkQTKtpQ&t=25)
## Aimee Lou Wood (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGACubU99g) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/808-aimee-lou-wood-s-closet-picks)
- **Broadcast News** (1987) - James L. Brooks - Spine #552 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27535-broadcast-news) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092699/)
> "So I’m starting with my ultimate, which is Broadcast News. It’s the love of my life. This movie, to me, is perfect. Holly Hunter is the most exceptional, strange, exquisite creature. That line, when she screams, 'This is important to me!' is something that just runs through my head every single day. I’m so captivated by her in everything that she does. It basically made me want to be her and have her life and go and help my friend pick what tie he should wear."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGACubU99g&t=13)
- **Cold War** (2017) - J. Wilder Konschak - Spine #1005 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30104-cold-war) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537300/)
> "To go now full romance, Cold War. This film reverberated in me for months after I watched it. I think that she is also the most magnetic person and the dance, when she dances around that bar, I just fell in love."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGACubU99g&t=49)
- **Thelma & Louise** (1991) - Ridley Scott - Spine #1180 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29164-thelma-louise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/)
> "I saw two of my favorite movies next to each other. It was Thelma & Louise. Geena Davis. Aquarius queen. Like me. And I have had the comparison a few times, that I’m a bit Geena Davis. And I think that is partly because this had such an influence on me as a kid. It was, like, one of the first proper movies that I watched, and I loved, of course, the platonic love story. My friends are everything to me. Their outfits as well, to just be really shallow. It’s the best."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGACubU99g&t=70)
- **Petite maman** (2021) - Céline Sciamma - Spine #1181 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33467-petite-maman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13204490/)
> "And then next to it– There was something next to it. Petite maman. This is the sweetest, most haunting, beautiful film and it just tears me apart because it’s just… mums. Mums. Anything about mums just gets me right in the ticker. Because I love my mum. I’ve got her name tattooed on my arm. I also love Portrait of a Lady on Fire, so I love all of her movies and she’s just one of my faves."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGACubU99g&t=104)
- **The Big Chill** (1983) - Lawrence Kasdan - Spine #720 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28610-the-big-chill) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/)
> "The Big Chill… is one of my mum’s favorite films. And these are the kind of movies that we would watch when I was growing up. And I really miss this vibe of film. It’s actually very Chekhovian. It’s just people in a House and people loving each other and people falling out of love with each other and the history and the complicated, gnarly dynamics that a group of friends have when they’ve known each other that long. And it’s also just an incredible cast."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGACubU99g&t=133)
- **Moonstruck** (1987) - Norman Jewison - Spine #1056 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29154-moonstruck) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093565/)
> "Where’s Moonstruck? Right. Favorite film. Actually Broadcast News is. But equal top. Cher, what the hell? That Performance, the single tear in the opera. And she’s The Most Beautiful person that’s ever lived. And the kicking the can. It actually made me want to step up my acting game when I watched Cher in this. There’s a groundedness to her that I found just awe-inspiring."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGACubU99g&t=167)
- **Punch-Drunk Love** (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson - Spine #843 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27916-punch-drunk-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/)
> "Punch-Drunk Love, specifically for the phone call that Philip Seymour Hoffman makes. It blew my mind. He is my favorite actor of all time. It’s also got Shelley Duvall singing on the soundtrack, who I love and feel an affinity to. And Olive Oyl in Popeye, the 'He Needs Me' song, genius use of it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGACubU99g&t=197)
- **Funny Girl** (1968) - William Wyler - Spine #1240 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30246-funny-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062994/)
> "Funny Girl. Funny Girl! Babs. Love her. Love her. I remember watching it when I was younger and just relating hard to it all, of feeling like the funny one, but who wanted to be the pretty romantic lead, but felt like I was destined to be the weird, Funny Girl. But I love the weird, funny girls. Now I understand that’s the way to do it. It’s actually the best thing to be."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGACubU99g&t=254)
- **The Before Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1237-the-before-trilogy)
> "And I’ve also got this down because, when we were doing White Lotus, a lot of us rewatched these. So, I always related to the first one the most. And then it was quite a big moment when I realized I now relate to the second one more and I’ve grown up, and there’ll be a day that the third one will resonate with me more, and it just feels like it’s a trilogy that you grow with. So I’ll take The Before Trilogy with me home."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDGACubU99g&t=222)
## Alain Guiraudie (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVhzNXX1GIk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/792-alain-guiraudie-s-closet-picks)
- **Happiness** (1998) - Todd Solondz - Spine #1235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30465-happiness) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/)
> "Alors ça, Happiness. Alors ça c'est un film que j'aime beaucoup, pour moi c'est un chef-d'œuvre, ça fait partie de mes films préférés. Ce que j'aime bien chez Todd Solondz, on me dit que c'est quelqu'un qui n'aime pas les personnages qu'il filme. Moi je trouve qu'il y a une vraie cruauté quoi, mais il y a aussi quelque chose de très beau aussi dans la façon qu'il a de prendre en compte toutes nos perversions et tous nos côtés tordus d'êtres humains quoi."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVhzNXX1GIk&t=18)
- **WALL•E** (2008) - Andrew Stanton - Spine #1161 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33246-wall-e) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/)
> "Voilà, WALL-E. Alors WALL-E je l'ai pas vu et j'ai très envie de le voir parce que j'aime en général beaucoup ce que fait Pixar. Et puis c'est une copine qui m'en a beaucoup parlé, qui m'a dit que c'était très drôle et même très touchant quoi. Voilà, donc j'ai envie de voir comment un petit robot de science-fiction peut être touchant."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVhzNXX1GIk&t=48)
- **Mulholland Dr.** (2001) - David Lynch - Spine #779 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28050-mulholland-dr) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/)
> "Alors il y a après évidemment il y a mon film préféré, ouais si c'est parce que c'est le film que je continue à préférer dans le monde entier de l'histoire entière c'est Mulholland Drive. Alors ce que j'aime beaucoup mais c'est c'est un peu général sur David Lynch il y a ce côté rêve américain qui se transforme en cauchemar quoi et ça j'adore."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVhzNXX1GIk&t=118)
- **Pickpocket** (1959) - Robert Bresson - Spine #314 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/)
> "Ouais, Pickpocket. Allez, Pickpocket. Je sais pas, pour la gestuelle, je trouve que c'est un film dans lequel j'ai souvenir de... C'est toujours pareil, c'est, j'allais dire chorégraphique, mais c'est un peu la chorégraphie du cinéma quoi, de moments notamment quand ils volent les portefeuilles dans les trains quoi. Quelque chose de très chorégraphique. Ouais, ça reste un essentiel du cinéma français."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVhzNXX1GIk&t=142)
- **The Exterminating Angel** (1962) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #459 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1076-the-exterminating-angel) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056732/)
> "Ouais, et Buñuel, L'Ange exterminateur. Il me fallait... Non, Buñuel quand même, c'est avec Buñuel que j'ai commencé à aimer un cinéma différent de ce que j'avais l'habitude de voir. J'ai découvert ça au lycée quand j'avais 16 ou 17 ans. C'est mes premiers films un ciné-club où j'ai découvert tout un autre monde cinématographique qui s'est ouvert à moi quoi. Entre réalisme et surréalisme."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVhzNXX1GIk&t=172)
- **Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/689-roberto-rossellini-s-war-trilogy)
> "The War Trilogy by Roberto Rossellini. Moi je garde un très bon souvenir là, dans les trois en fait, même si je pense que je les aime tous les trois, de Paisan que je revois régulièrement. J'ai le DVD à la maison d'ailleurs et qui est vraiment pour moi un des plus beaux films aussi que j'ai vu. Et puis toujours empreint avec ce grand réalisme, et en plus il y a quand même quelque chose de l'ordre du conte à partir de choses vraies qui m'a toujours plu chez Rossellini."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVhzNXX1GIk&t=74)
## Alan Palomo (musician)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0TJ1IkZIo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/580-alan-palomo-s-closet-picks)
- **Sid & Nancy** (1986) - Alex Cox - Spine #20 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/535-sid-nancy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091954/)
> "Is Alex Cox's Sid Nancy this one's incredible and of course like you know Alex must have been a punk you know you watch Repo Man you see his influences throughout his career so this is my first one..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0TJ1IkZIo&t=21)
- **Maîtresse** (1976) - Barbet Schroeder - Spine #223 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/554-maitresse) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074883/)
> "My second is gonna be this one here Maîtresse which I think is a really incredible film by Barbet Schroeder. The best way to describe this film is kind of like what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object like you have this dominatrix that through some bizarre home invasion situation starts dating this giant ogre of a man and it just sort of becomes about despite the fact that he has this physical prowess that she has a psychological prowess."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0TJ1IkZIo&t=31)
- **Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas** (1998) - Terry Gilliam - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/215-fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/)
> "I mean you've got me stuck between whether I want the DVD version or the Blu-ray version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas because this I think was the first Criterion DVD that I got in high school and I remember because it has the little removable outer part of it which I thought was just an incredible way to kind of showcase Ralph Steadman's work without putting the print directly just over it but you know what I'll pick the Blu-ray you might as well live in the 2020s and embrace the formats."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0TJ1IkZIo&t=78)
- **Medium Cool** (1969) - Haskell Wexler - Spine #658 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28426-medium-cool) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064652/)
> "All right my next pick is going to be Medium Cool because I haven't seen it but I love Robert Forster. He was often overlooked it always felt like he was in a lot of B movies. Obviously you know Tarantino gave his career another surge with Jackie Brown but I've always seen clips of this and it looks pretty incredible so let's check it out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0TJ1IkZIo&t=112)
- **True Stories** (1986) - David Byrne - Spine #951 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29038-true-stories) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092117/)
> "My next film is David Byrne's True Stories. I grew up in Texas. True story there's very few films that really capture kind of the banality and the beauty of rural Texas especially in that time frame. It kind of strikes that same chord as something like when you watch King of the Hill and you're like well you kind of got to be there gotta be from there to get the joke and this film really does a phenomenal job of that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0TJ1IkZIo&t=130)
- **Mystery Train** (1989) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #521 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2057-mystery-train) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097940/)
> "Talk about a music movie, this is an all-time favorite, Jarmusch's Mystery Train. I don't know I have a strange connection to this film because I used to live in a college town that had a train that would kind of pass through it in the middle of the night and I was dating somebody at the time that was really obsessed with blues music so that would kind of be nodding off listening to Skip James or something I would just kind of hear that train roaring in the background and I feel like this fil..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0TJ1IkZIo&t=157)
- **Canoa: A Shameful Memory** (1976) - Felipe Cazals - Spine #862 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29050-canoa-a-shameful-memory) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131335/)
> "This is another all-time fave, this is a Felipe Casals film called Canoa: A Shameful Memory and it's interesting because I remember I first saw it in a Mexican horror film programming block and they included this despite the fact that it's not supernatural. It's actually based on a true story basically this town that was controlled by this priest who convinced everybody that these three backpacking students were actually subversives from the city that were there to protest and the three of th..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0TJ1IkZIo&t=203)
- **Wings of Desire** (1987) - Wim Wenders - Spine #490 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/200-wings-of-desire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/)
> "I think my last pick will be Wings of Desire. I remember I saw this movie in high school and my dad had this really beautiful comment about it where we were watching Peter Falk and that scene where he can't see the angel but he's talking to him and he's explaining how like you know it's like oh you don't know what it's like you know you have a nice you have a cup of coffee and you rub your hands for warmth see and you smoke a cigarette and he's like just basically explaining what it's like to..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0TJ1IkZIo&t=250)
## Alden Ehrenreich (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47Wpmx2dDI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/587-alden-ehrenreich-s-closet-picks)
- **Midnight Cowboy** (1969) - John Schlesinger - Spine #925 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29369-midnight-cowboy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/)
> "Midnight Cowboy to me is sort of like the Mona Lisa. It's The Most Beautiful movie from a cinematic standpoint. John Schlesinger, and it's somebody who's not from New York coming to the New York of 1968 or 69 and filming it in its most sort of absurd weird dirty version of itself. And then inside of it are these really extreme characters but filled completely with such great performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman who bring so much emotion and depth."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47Wpmx2dDI&t=55)
- **Destry Rides Again** (1939) - George Marshall - Spine #1024 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29002-destry-rides-again) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031225/)
> "Destry Rides Again, it's Jimmy Stewart who's like probably my favorite actor and Marlene Dietrich. And that alone, if you know what their energies are, is a weird enough combination that it just makes the whole movie so wild. And there's these great fight scenes with Marlene Dietrich. Jimmy Stewart's just The Most Beautiful person on screen. This is like a western that's an old Hollywood studio system Western but has just a weird other energy to it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47Wpmx2dDI&t=126)
- **His Girl Friday** (1940) - Howard Hawks - Spine #849 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27903-his-girl-friday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/)
> "His Girl Friday, Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Pre-Stanislavskian acting taking over movies, pre-Brando movie. One thing I think about with this movie is the power of having actors who are that good with really kind of stage acting in the sense that they're able to sustain takes for 10 minutes and stay on. And actors with that level of craft but who are still very real inside of that and have to do crazy technical things. It's just magnificent."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47Wpmx2dDI&t=172)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "Yi, Edward Yang. His eye for these little moments with children or families or turning points in people's lives. It's not just beautiful things, it's also the sad things that people go through. It's all shown in this really gorgeous way, almost a little like Wings of Desire where it feels almost like somebody is outside of life or there's like an angel or something watching life itself and all of its different colors."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47Wpmx2dDI&t=227)
- **The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp** (1943) - Michael Powell - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/359-the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036112/)
> "My final pick is Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. This movie is so beautiful and spans over this big period of time, almost related to Yi in the sense that you really feel the span of these people's lives over time. And there's something really beautiful about that effect because my favorite movies, which Yi and this and It's a Wonderful Life do, is that you walk out of the movie and you want to savor and appreciate life you have more deeply."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47Wpmx2dDI&t=327)
- **Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/752-eclipse-series-24-the-actuality-dramas-of-allan-king)
> "This is the Actuality Dramas of Allan King. The one I've seen is A Married Couple, which is one of the most stunning documentaries I've ever seen in my life. It's 1969 and you're watching a couple basically get divorced. From an acting standpoint, getting to watch these events happen with people in a documentary, it is the bar. A great Performance is a bar, but a higher bar is what do real people look like when everything's melting down around them?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47Wpmx2dDI&t=10)
- **The Before Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1237-the-before-trilogy)
> "I kind of want a bunch of movies that I just haven't seen which are not interesting to talk about like The Before Trilogy. I've never actually seen. That's where they walk and they talk and they like each other a lot, right?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47Wpmx2dDI&t=112)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "John Cassavetes. I was 15, I went to the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica and saw A Woman Under the Influence and then I kept coming back to it. There is a reason that he is sort of the load star for so many people now. There is an imperfection to it, there is a wildness to it, a sort of refusal to be anything other than himself at the edge of who he is, pushing the envelope of everything he had in him and putting it into all of these films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47Wpmx2dDI&t=265)
## Alec Baldwin (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRQ4DRUIJBc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/525-alec-baldwin-s-closet-picks)
- **3:10 to Yuma** (2007) - James Mangold - Spine #657 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27910-3-10-to-yuma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381849/)
> "I'm doing a play on Broadway right now with Ben Foster who was in the film 3:10 to Yuma but not this 3:10 to Yuma so I'm going to take a copy of this film for Ben."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRQ4DRUIJBc&t=6)
- **The Magician** (1926) - Rex Ingram - Spine #537 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27521-the-magician) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017103/)
> "I guess you can't go wrong with Bergman so I'll go with The Magician on Blu-ray then."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRQ4DRUIJBc&t=121)
- **Trilogy of Life** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/916-trilogy-of-life)
> "I'm going to take this and I'll tell you why. My friend Jimmy Toback and I made a film about ostensibly the Cannes Film Festival. The film we made, which is called Seduced and Abandoned, is in the Cannes Film Festival this year. While we were talking to Bertolucci, he talked on and on and on about his debt to Pasolini so I'm going to get this for Jimmy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRQ4DRUIJBc&t=40)
## Alessandro Borghi, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDK8bLi2PoA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/551-alessandro-borghi-felix-van-groeningen-and-charlotte-vandermeersch-s-closet-picks)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "It's an amazing movie, right? Oh really? Yeah, you don't know it? No, I didn't see that. I haven't seen it either. You haven't guys? Naked. That's why I picked it. Well, you should take it. It's a lot of nudity in it?, this is a good question. Emotional nudity. It's very raw. Very little nudity."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDK8bLi2PoA&t=46)
- **Y tu mamá también** (2001) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #723 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28005-y-tu-mama-tambien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/)
> "Because it's the only one [Alfonso Cuarón]'s movie that I didn't see. No? Yep. And it's Felix's favorite. Oh really? Yeah, it's a song about friendship."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDK8bLi2PoA&t=126)
- **The Piano** (1993) - Jane Campion - Spine #1110 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30424-the-piano) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/)
> "Have you guys ever seen The Piano? No? What? It's really special. I first saw it when I was 13 and it's full of desire and it's also exotic in some way, set in the 19th century I think in New Zealand. Holly Hunter's caught in this longing between the man that she's supposed to marry and then Harvey Keitel and then the music of Michael Nyman. I've played it for years on The Piano. There's so much erotic tension and desire underneath the surface."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDK8bLi2PoA&t=145)
- **The Fisher King** (1991) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #764 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28719-the-fisher-king) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/)
> "The Fisher King. I know you have it. Tell us. Like I think 12 or 13 years ago when I was studying acting, my professor asked me to make a scene of this movie that was so difficult. There is a very complicated scene with a phone call, very complicated, and I was so scared about doing that. I remember that feeling and right now thinking about that, maybe I would like to do that in my mind because it's related to the sensation that I have related to the acting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDK8bLi2PoA&t=229)
- **Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1329-dietrich-von-sternberg-in-hollywood)
> "I'm pretty intrigued by this Dietrich and von Sternberg in Hollywood. Six films restored. Only here you find this kind of thing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDK8bLi2PoA&t=68)
- **World of Wong Kar Wai** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4117-world-of-wong-kar-wai)
> "Where are the Wong Kar-wais? I saw Wong Kar-wai here, In the Mood for Love, and with the restored ones, wow, 4K. He worked very ferociously on the restoration and the color and I want to see some of these films again. I'm a huge fan meanwhile. Yeah, I'm gonna take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDK8bLi2PoA&t=77)
## Alexander Payne (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/478-alexander-payne-s-closet-picks)
- **Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom** (1976) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #17 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/532-salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/)
> "He's like have you re seen Salò since Trump has been president? I don't know. He goes you have to totally see Ricci Salò since Trump became president. So I will look at Salò again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=19)
- **Ace in the Hole** (1951) - Billy Wilder - Spine #396 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/829-ace-in-the-hole) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043338/)
> "I was at a presentation of Ace in the Hole on the Paramount lot about two years ago and they trotted out old Kirk Douglas for it and I got to shake Kirk Douglas's hand after seeing Ace in the Hole again but it's I don't have this take Ace in the Hole an obvious choice."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=31)
- **3 Women** (1977) - Robert Altman - Spine #230 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/712-3-women) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075612/)
> "I've never seen 3 Women."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=52)
- **L’avventura** (1960) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #98 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/209-l-avventura) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053619/)
> "Somebody actually had the guts to tell me the other day that L'avventura was dated I was like you're out of your mind it'll always be fresh plus the music doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=59)
- **Le Plaisir** (1952) - Max Ophüls - Spine #444 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/572-le-plaisir) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045034/)
> "Oh, look, Le Plaisir. You know, I've only seen I saw it once projected but it's been a nice one to study again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=71)
- **¡Alambrista!** (1977) - Robert M. Young - Spine #609 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28101--alambrista) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075654/)
> "Very underappreciated, under seen film. Robert Young, Erwan Young's brother. Erwan Young, who had DuArt. His brother was a documentarian and made some wonderful feature films. Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, which I think is being restored now. But Alambrista! Is one of the early outstanding movies about immigration."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=77)
- **The Breaking Point** (1961) - Lance Comfort - Spine #889 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28695-the-breaking-point) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173695/)
> "The Breaking Point is one that I have to take credit for bringing to the Criterion Collection's attention. I programmed it at Telluride in 2009 and in 1950 Michael Curtiz made three count him three films for Warner Brothers and producer Jerry Wald... And this is arguably well I won't argue I just think it's true the finest adaptation of Hemingway's To Have and Have Not."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=101)
- **Speedy** (1928) - Ted Wilde - Spine #788 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28497-speedy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019412/)
> "Speedy wonderful to see New York as interpreted by Nebraska's Harold Lloyd."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=142)
- **Red Beard** (1965) - Akira Kurosawa - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/713-red-beard) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058888/)
> "Red Beard incredible. I went for years my favorite Kurosawa was of course Seven Samurai but the one that sticks with me more as I age is Red Beard."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=152)
- **A Special Day** (1977) - Ettore Scola - Spine #778 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28659-a-special-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076085/)
> "No this is an extraordinary film Una giornata particolare. Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni at the height of their powers an extraordinary film I love the scene when they have they fight on the roof of the building with the sheets billowing and then he follows her downstairs."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=163)
- **The Executioner** (1963) - - Spine #840 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28980-the-executioner) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20077770/)
> "El Verdugo okay another film I am happy to take credit for bringing to the attention of the Criterion Collection. Berlanga so in Spain in the 50s and 60s they were doing really brutal comedies... It had that black humor that acid humor that Spain has anyway hilarious movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMypwNZ2JBI&t=185)
## Alfonso Cuaron And Pawel Pawlikowski (null)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvcB42YnM8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/526-alfonso-cuaron-and-pawel-pawlikowski-s-closet-picks)
- **Vivre sa vie** (1962) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #512 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/3060-vivre-sa-vie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056663/)
> "Vivre sa vie? You got two. There are two, yes, great. You want one? Yeah, here."
- **The Firemen's Ball** (1967) - Miloš Forman - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/688-the-firemen-s-ball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061781/)
> "The Firemen's Ball. Okay, there are two, otherwise you're going to end up without your copy here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvcB42YnM8&t=12)
- **To Be or Not to Be** (1942) - Ernst Lubitsch - Spine #670 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27690-to-be-or-not-to-be) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035446/)
> "And To Be or Not to Be, yes, nice, nice."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvcB42YnM8&t=31)
- **Masculin, féminin** (1966) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #308 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/508-masculin-feminin) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060675/)
> "Masculin féminin, yes, because it's one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvcB42YnM8&t=74)
- **The Virgin Spring** (1960) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #321 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/372-the-virgin-spring) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053976/)
> "The Virgin Spring, I should check it out. Yeah, you should check it out. You know what it is? Virgin Spring is Summer with Monika meets The Seventh Seal."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvcB42YnM8&t=78)
- **Two-Lane Blacktop** (null) - - Spine #414 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/847-two-lane-blacktop) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5232946/)
> "Which one is that? Two-Lane Blacktop. No, it's a great '70s indie film with James Taylor plays in it. Monte Hellman. It's great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvcB42YnM8&t=96)
- **This Sporting Life** (1963) - Lindsay Anderson - Spine #417 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/853-this-sporting-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057578/)
> "This Sporting Life, great film. Which one is that? Have you seen it? That's Lindsay Anderson's first. They only have one copy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvcB42YnM8&t=108)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "This is, you know this? Yeah, that's his best. I agree."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvcB42YnM8&t=126)
- **Lola Montès** (1955) - Max Ophüls - Spine #503 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/938-lola-montes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048308/)
> "Thanks, Lola Montès."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvcB42YnM8&t=7)
- **The Complete Jean Vigo** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/819-the-complete-jean-vigo)
- **Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/75-eclipse-series-11-larisa-shepitko)
> "Shepitko films? Oh, that's good, that could be a good discovery. You know her work? I know her work, she's great. Yes, absolutely. She died young, so she didn't make many. Sweet."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvcB42YnM8&t=62)
## Alicia Malone (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QT96iMk0Kw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/457-alicia-malone-s-closet-picks)
- **Breaker Morant** (1980) - Bruce Beresford - Spine #773 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27766-breaker-morant) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080310/)
> "The one that immediately got my eye and that I feel like I have to take is a good Australian classic, Breaker Morant. A Great War film, also a great courtroom drama, and this is one that I appreciated much more as I grew older because we used to watch it at school a lot and the first of ours is a boring war movie but the more that I watch it the more I get from it and particularly having such great Australian actors like Bryan Brown and Jack Thompson."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QT96iMk0Kw&t=9)
- **Eraserhead** (1977) - David Lynch - Spine #725 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/)
> "Oh we have here, I know that probably a million people talk about Eraserhead but this was my first experience of David Lynch and I was probably way too young to see it. Freaked me out, I couldn't quite wrap my head around what was going on but to me it was one of the gateways into this whole world of art House film. Just having that idea of there are other things besides Hollywood movies and the fact that movies don't always have to make you feel a certain way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QT96iMk0Kw&t=40)
- **Ikiru** (1952) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #221 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/353-ikiru) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/)
> "So this was actually the first-ever Criterion Collection DVD that I got in Australia... This is my favorite Kurosawa film. I think it's one of his most watchable. If you've never seen it, of course you guys all have, but the people who've never been introduced to him, I often cite this film because it's such a human story. It's also a good Christmas tale, almost like a Christmas Carol, and just such a beautiful way of looking at life and someone's impact on other people's lives after their de..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QT96iMk0Kw&t=84)
- **Lady Snowblood** (1973) - Toshiya Fujita - Spine #790 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28589-lady-snowblood) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158714/)
> "Lady Snowblood, yeah that's such a cool film. I remember seeing this on the big screen in Australia, in Canberra, when I was a teenager and walking out wanting to be an assassin with a sword. She is just awesome."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QT96iMk0Kw&t=130)
- **Weekend** (1967) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #622 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28441-weekend)
> "Weekend. Morbid, dark, really great satire and one of the best like long tracking shots I've seen in a film. Biggest car accident that I've seen in a film. Also has that very stylish feel of Jean-Luc Godard but post-apocalyptic movie that takes really unexpected turns. Loved Weekend."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QT96iMk0Kw&t=146)
- **Gilda** (1946) - Charles Vidor - Spine #795 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27909-gilda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038559/)
> "Gilda. Love Rita Hayworth and she's someone who the more that I read about her background and things that I never knew when I watched her films when I was younger and makes me kind of sad for her. And I think Gilda is one of those movies where she could obviously relate to the character because she is kind of portraying this goddess character, she's really insecure on the inside and so when I watch it now I see the real Rita beneath the Gilda."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QT96iMk0Kw&t=173)
- **His Girl Friday** (1940) - Howard Hawks - Spine #849 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27903-his-girl-friday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/)
> "His Girl Friday. Classic screwball comedy of course. This in particular I remember watching this when I was really young and this is one of the examples I always cite about representation's important because seeing Rosalind Russell as a reporter, I remember so distinctly watching it and thinking I could be like Hildy Johnson."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QT96iMk0Kw&t=207)
- **Walkabout** (1971) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #10 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/522-walkabout) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/)
> "One last Australian film from the 1970s, Walkabout. A very dark movie, one by Nicolas Roeg who was British but he really managed to capture the Australian outback perfectly."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QT96iMk0Kw&t=231)
## Alicia Silverstone (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb096RLBiZI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/868-alicia-silverstone-s-closet-picks)
- **Hedwig and the Angry Inch** (2001) - John Cameron Mitchell - Spine #982 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29018-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248845/)
> "Hedwig and the Angry Inch. John Cameron Mitchell is amazing. He’s so cool. This movie is amazing. I don’t know what else to say, other than I can’t wait to watch this again. Look at that cover."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb096RLBiZI&t=13)
- **Blow-Up** (1966) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #865 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28694-blow-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/)
> "Blow-Up. Okay. I saw this Antonioni film at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, and when I saw this film, there was an intermission and then it was going to be Zabriskie Point. And I met my husband there, my son’s daddy... Anyway, it’s a really interesting film and I feel like, I don’t know if this is really lame to say, I feel like Austin Powers was based on Blow-Up. Does that resonate for anyone? Am I insane?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb096RLBiZI&t=29)
- **Secrets & Lies** (1996) - Mike Leigh - Spine #1070 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29202-secrets-lies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117589/)
> "Secrets & Lies. Timothy Spall is an amazing actor. This is a Mike Leigh film. Timothy Spall’s an amazing actor that I worked with on Love’s Labor’s Lost, this Kenneth Branagh film. Is Brenda Blethyn… Yes, of course, Brenda Blethyn is in this, and she’s so fantastic, and I can’t wait to see this again. It’s been so long since I saw this, but I love this film. And Timmy’s my dear, dear friend still. I love him so much. He’s such a brilliant actor. Anyway, this is amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb096RLBiZI&t=68)
- **Smooth Talk** (1985) - Joyce Chopra - Spine #1068 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29655-smooth-talk) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090037/)
> "Smooth Talk. When I was a little person acting, I did a scene from Smooth Talk, which is kind of really disturbing in a way, because it’s, you know, very complex sexual content, I think. But I remember being so, so inspired by Laura in this film. She was so good. And I remember when I got to work on Hideaway with Jeff Goldblum, and that was his girlfriend, Laura Dern. And I just wanted to be around her and talk to her... So, yeah, this is a really, really cool film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb096RLBiZI&t=103)
- **It Happened One Night** (1954) - Henry Barakat - Spine #736 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27900-it-happened-one-night)
> "This movie, It Happened One Night. I love this movie. It’s so lovely. Benicio del Toro introduced me to this. We watched it on his little couch. Performances, the dialogue, everything about it. This is a wonderful film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb096RLBiZI&t=168)
- **Paper Moon** (1973) - Peter Bogdanovich - Spine #1241 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29964-paper-moon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510/)
> "Well, Paper Moon. Ryan O’Neal. I worked with Ryan O’Neal on Miss Match, a show we did together. He played my dad. And he is one cheeky, sweet, funny, feisty man that we lost, but what a legend. His work was so good and this movie is so good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb096RLBiZI&t=184)
- **All About Eve** (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Spine #1003 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29596-all-about-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/)
> "All About Eve. This is so good, too. There’s too many movies to see. Isn’t it overwhelming? I find it very overwhelming. I’ll never see all the movies in this lifetime. But, boy, is that good. Look at Bette Davis."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb096RLBiZI&t=209)
## Amelia Dimoldenberg (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvSlhjmbxc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/734-amelia-dimoldenberg-s-closet-picks)
- **Fish Tank** (2009) - Andrea Arnold - Spine #553 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27541-fish-tank) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232776/)
> "Fish Tank, Fish Tank! I've got to represent the Brits here. Andrea Arnold, wow, what an amazing director. I love so much of her work, and Fish Tank is such a brilliant film. I love the fact that the story behind the casting of this, that they just saw the lead actress just on the street or on a train station. I know that's a through line of Andrea Arnold's work, that a lot of her cast are street cast, so I'm excited to rewatch that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvSlhjmbxc&t=11)
- **A Hard Day’s Night** (1964) - Richard Lester - Spine #711 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28547-a-hard-day-s-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058182/)
> "The Beatles Hard Day's Night so how fun is it that like your favorite band then like make movies the thing I love about this film is like you kind of think maybe this is actually how they live in this like crazy Vortex of a world and you kind of you believe it even though it's totally obviously not true and the other reason I love this movie is it because I feel like it's the influence for one of my other favorite movies which is Spice World I think more pop stars and more bands should be ma..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvSlhjmbxc&t=46)
- **12 Angry Men** (1957) - Sidney Lumet - Spine #591 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27871-12-angry-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/)
> "12 Angry Men, one of the greatest movies of all time. So simple yet effective. The power of having a movie just basically in one room, and there's so much emotion and the heat of the room, and I feel like you really feel that energy. It's just such an interesting stylistic choice. So yes, 12 Angry Men."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvSlhjmbxc&t=90)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "All That Jazz. I thought that was where the song was from—it's not, that is Chicago, but to be honest that is what drew me in at first. I was like, 'Oh, I love that song All That Jazz.' I was really pleasantly surprised by this, if not a little shaken up by what happened. You can't really reveal anything in this as well, that's why it's kind of cool and I appreciate that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvSlhjmbxc&t=113)
- **The Worst Person in the World** (2021) - Joachim Trier - Spine #1132 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32661-the-worst-person-in-the-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10370710/)
> "The Worst Person in the World. When I watched it I felt like, ', this is what I've been yearning to watch,' that shows me something about love, about relationships, about what it means to be a woman falling in and out of love. To me, this felt like the rom-com I was looking for but yet is still not. I thought it was great. I love the ending, the ending is great. I loved it, great ending. I love how real this movie felt."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvSlhjmbxc&t=142)
- **Portrait of a Lady on Fire** (2019) - Céline Sciamma - Spine #1034 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30469-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8613070/)
> "Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The thing that really draws me into cinema is just the chemistry between actors. That's actually also what I'm trying to do with my own work on Chicken Shop Date—I'm all about the chemistry, creating chemistry. That's what I think people really connect to in my work and that's what I connect to in other people's work. I just really thought it was such a great idea for a story about a woman who did not want to get married and then found love in her own way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvSlhjmbxc&t=190)
- **Petite maman** (2021) - Céline Sciamma - Spine #1181 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33467-petite-maman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13204490/)
> "Then my sister actually told me to watch Petite maman and this is very interesting film and it uses magic realism really well in a very eerie yet beautiful way and I love that I love I love magic realism in a lot of movies and also I love watching French Cinema because it makes me feel like I'm smart so there you go this is this is going in there so..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvSlhjmbxc&t=226)
- **Girlfriends** (1978) - Claudia Weill - Spine #1055 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29635-girlfriends) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077613/)
> "I'm going in with another film I've never heard of before until my sister told me about Girlfriends. She was like, 'You need to watch Girlfriends because you love Frances Ha.' And I love Frances Ha, it's one of Noah Baumbach's, one of my favorite films ever. Love Greta Gerwig as just as much as a performer as I do as a director and apparently this film is one of the influencers of Frances Ha so I can't wait to watch this. Oh and it's got a female director, even better."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIvSlhjmbxc&t=251)
## Amir Naderi (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDgU4rZRnGs) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/512-amir-naderi-s-closet-picks)
- **A Brighter Summer Day** (1991) - Edward Yang - Spine #804 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28596-a-brighter-summer-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101985/)
> "Every time I see this, where people choose the thing, I said why don't they looking up? They're lazy. This is very important for him because anything you want to know about this country and anything you know about the young people, anything you want to know about Cinema, anything you want to know about The Silence and what movement and what feeling of the woman, young girls, everything in this film is a very important movie, a long movie which is great. I wish it would be longer. Edward Yang."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDgU4rZRnGs&t=18)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "Dekalog, in this film, ten stories. Of course, after the finish, give me some ideas. He shot it in 16 millimeter and there's a very not so much the camera work or this or that because you know what, they want to show it in TV. He don't want to show off distractive cinematics, but it's flowing and cinematically and very simple like Chekhov, you know, write that story without anything big but meaning of the life in it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDgU4rZRnGs&t=152)
- **Three Films by Luis Buñuel** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3900-three-films-by-luis-bunuel)
- **A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/89-a-film-trilogy-by-ingmar-bergman)
> "Look at these two. One of the reason I become director because I work in cinema from six years old. Nobody can do it like Bergman, nobody. He write the script but he see the film he's shooting but you see the editing as a result. Black and white in this film, something always black and white have some shadow, something make you crazy. And this three film, The Silence, one of the most modern fresh cinema, and I want to say Winter Light, one of the most important scene in the cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDgU4rZRnGs&t=67)
- **The Apu Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1145-the-apu-trilogy)
> "Let me tell you about this. Of course Kurosawa in Japan long time ago, one time I have a chance to talk with him. He says anytime you get tired about life or something, he watched one of them from Satyajit Ray. If you like the film about yourself, about your life, about the people you know, about your family, about your heart, about what you lose what you get, and no matter what which country, which language, where, go with this. This is it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDgU4rZRnGs&t=192)
## Amy Heckerling (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmRYmwB_HU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/465-amy-heckerling-s-closet-picks)
- **I vitelloni** (1953) - Federico Fellini - Spine #246 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/966-i-vitelloni) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046521/)
> "This is Mean Streets before Mean Streets,, and Scorsese will definitely tell you this was a big influence, but a bunch of snores that are of the age when they should grow up hanging around the neighborhood up to no good,, sadly lacking in 'Rett songs' but other than that it's awesome. That was a sick movie, but fun if you like pesticides to get high on."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmRYmwB_HU&t=1)
- **Naked Lunch** (1991) - David Cronenberg - Spine #220 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/634-naked-lunch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/)
> "But fun if you like pesticides to get high on."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmRYmwB_HU&t=30)
- **Tokyo Story** (1953) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #217 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/)
> "Tokyo Story, this is the most heartbreaking. And you know, if you're somebody that is obsessed with World War II and then wants to see what happened afterwards and what was life like and how do people get over such a devastating jolt and the beginning of a completely different world when youth and modernism are just kicking out all the old ways and the older people. And the daughter-in-law character who is the one nice person amongst all the children is just amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmRYmwB_HU&t=34)
- **M** (1931) - Alexander Korda - Spine #30 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/558-m) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022184/)
> "Oh, M. Peter Lorre, one of the best actors in the universe. When he is caught by the thieves and has his speech, like 'M, M,' and you just go, 'Oh my God,' you can understand the worst behavior because, you know, he makes you understand it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmRYmwB_HU&t=85)
- **Ace in the Hole** (1951) - Billy Wilder - Spine #396 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/829-ace-in-the-hole) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043338/)
> "Ace in the Hole, love that. This is one of those movies with an evil character that is so much fun. And Billy Wilder, another one of those people that had to leave Nazi Germany, come here, learn English, and learn to write in an entirely different language and be a director and be the best, most American director there ever was because he seemed to like it here. And Kirk Douglas, he makes such a great badass."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmRYmwB_HU&t=107)
- **City Lights** (1931) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #680 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/)
> "This is my friend Marty Brest's favorite movie. So amazing, the idea that people love you, they hate you, they love you, they hate you, and he made it so funny and it's so heartbreaking."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmRYmwB_HU&t=142)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "What can you say about this one that hasn't been said before? This is the ultimate explanation of creativity, where it comes from, how it makes you berserk, how wonderful it is, how ridiculous it is. It's somebody laying bare their soul and being more entertaining than anybody could ever be."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsmRYmwB_HU&t=157)
## Amy Irving (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNT0QRnkN3I) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/796-amy-irving-s-closet-picks)
- **The Great Escape** (1963) - John Sturges - Spine #1027 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29149-the-great-escape) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/)
> "My first choice today is the first film my family saw together, which was in the back of our car at a drive-in. The Great Escape, well, I had grown up in the theater. My parents were in the theater, so it was all plays. Shakespeare, Chekhov. And suddenly mom and dad took us to see a real entertaining movie. Not only did I experience World War II for the first time, really, at nine years old, but saw some of the greatest movie stars all in one spot. Steve McQueen’s escape on his motorcycle..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNT0QRnkN3I&t=23)
- **Blue Velvet** (1986) - David Lynch - Spine #977 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29144-blue-velvet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)
> "This is very important to me. Not only because we’re honoring David Lynch these days, but my Mother plays Kyle MacLachlan’s Mother in Blue Velvet. Mom’s 100 years old now and still going strong, and she and I do this kind of film sessions at her assisted-living facility, and Blue Velvet was one of them. So mom and I will be watching this together again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNT0QRnkN3I&t=79)
- **Cries and Whispers** (1972) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #101 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/237-cries-and-whispers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069467/)
> "Oh, Cries and Whispers, that was one I wanted to find. I grew up learning my craft watching my Mother on the stage. In film, I thought that Liv Ullmann was about the best actress I’d ever, ever seen in my life. And I’ve worshipped her forever. There isn’t ever a false moment in this woman’s acting. And she goes deep. She goes so deep. You can be true, I can be true, but I don’t think I’ve ever gone as deep as Liv Ullmann goes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNT0QRnkN3I&t=107)
- **Thief** (1981) - Michael Mann - Spine #691 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28024-thief) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083190/)
> "Very quickly, I haven’t seen this for a long time. I had visited the set of Thief because Willie Nelson is a great friend of mine, and we’ve just done an album, I’ve just done an album celebrating Willie. And Tuesday Weld is in this. I’ll never forget my first husband Steven Spielberg’s face when I brought Tuesday home for lunch. What man doesn’t want their wife to bring Tuesday Weld home for lunch? Anyway, so, Thief."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNT0QRnkN3I&t=144)
- **Days of Heaven** (1978) - Terrence Malick - Spine #409 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/213-days-of-heaven) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/)
> "Days of Heaven. Terrence Malick tested various couples to star in this film, and Brooke Adams and Richard Gere were one couple and John Travolta and I were the other couple. Brooke Adams has since become a very close friend of mine, and I’m really glad she did it because she was wonderful in it. What I learned, too, was how a filmmaker can make a film like this, “We’re taking all the dialog out of the script.” When I read the script, there was a lot of dialog."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNT0QRnkN3I&t=181)
- **Crossing Delancey** (1988) - Joan Micklin Silver - Spine #1250 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34764-crossing-delancey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094921/)
> "Criterion has just released a new Blu-ray of Crossing Delancey, so I have a bunch of pickles for my bag. This is the new Blu-ray of Crossing Delancey, which has this really wonderful new art representing Peter Riegert and myself for this really charming, beautiful, classic Joan Micklin Silver film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNT0QRnkN3I&t=12)
- **Le petit soldat** (1963) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #1010 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28093-le-petit-soldat) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054177/)
> "And Le petit soldat, The Little Soldier, by Jean-Luc Godard. I don’t know this film. Looking forward to it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNT0QRnkN3I&t=265)
- **La Règle du jeu** (1939) - Jean Renoir - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/295-the-rules-of-the-game) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/)
> "Oh God, Rules of The Game. I picked the best film in the whole world."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNT0QRnkN3I&t=260)
- **The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6702-the-ranown-westerns-five-films-directed-by-budd-boetticher)
> "This is The Ranown Westerns. Five films directed by Budd Boetticher, starring Randolph Scott. Now I’m told by my husband, Ken Bowser, who is quite a film historian, that these are some of the best westerns ever made. And he asked me to bring them home for him, so I am."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNT0QRnkN3I&t=223)
## André Bonzel (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0vs4ni4Tuo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/528-andre-bonzel-s-closet-picks)
- **The 400 Blows** (1959) - François Truffaut - Spine #5 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/151-the-400-blows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)
> "The 400 Blows, a film I've seen ever and ever but which I love. I wrote to Truffaut actually when I was young and he wrote back, he sent me a poster and sent me some stuff back and it was really nice."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0vs4ni4Tuo&t=1)
- **Stranger Than Paradise** (1983) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #400 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/252-stranger-than-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209182/)
> "Stranger Than Paradise, I love that. It's a long time I haven't seen it. I used to love it and I remember it being really simple. I believe it was shot with a film stock that Wenders gave him I think and it was like if I remember long shot or something and it was really simple but efficient and makes you feel that it's simple to make films, right? So I'd love to see it again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0vs4ni4Tuo&t=21)
- **The Scarlet Empress** (1934) - Josef von Sternberg - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/431-the-scarlet-empress) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025746/)
> "Scarlet Empress, that's that amazing scenery and the set decoration, it's incredible. And Josef von Sternberg was in love with Marlene who was magnificent in the film. Look at this photo. This is great. And I love silent movies because I discovered cinema watching silent movies with the father of a friend."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0vs4ni4Tuo&t=55)
- **Brazil** (1985) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #51 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/211-brazil) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/)
> "I saw Brazil which is amazing. Brazil, and each time I see it, you know, it's kind of different. The first time I saw it in theater when it was released and it was like total magic, it was really total magic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0vs4ni4Tuo&t=103)
- **House** (1977) - Sergio Citti - Spine #539 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27523-house) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075815/)
> "House I will get because I saw the poster and it looks really weird. And that's also the good thing, so many films I discovered on Criterion that I didn't know nothing about. It's like in a film Festival, you see films you don't know nothing, you haven't read anything, you just discover the film, you don't even know what it's about and it's great. So House I'll get."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0vs4ni4Tuo&t=121)
## Andre Gregory And Wallace Shawn (null)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMy2RSgBAo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/529-andre-gregory-and-wallace-shawn-s-closet-picks)
- **Weekend** (1967) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #622 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28441-weekend)
> "I saw a Weekend of Godard with my Mother and I was enraged by it and I said this is the most horrible thing that I've ever seen I hate it and over the course of maybe two days it sank in on me and I then decided that it was like my favorite movie that I'd ever seen in my life and it was prophetic. Yes, it was prophetic. It was a great, great film and it was a big shock to me that could happen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMy2RSgBAo&t=67)
- **Eclipse** (1962) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #278 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/928-l-eclisse) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056736/)
> "I had a very interesting experience with Antonioni which is slightly the opposite of what happened to you because I loved his movies when they came out because he seemed again like a prophet he was showing the shape of Things to Come and then about 25 years later I went back to see his movies and hated them because the world had already become what Antonioni was predicting and then about 10 years later I went back to them and again was just staggered by them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMy2RSgBAo&t=133)
- **Red Desert** (1949) - Ford Beebe - Spine #522 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1454-red-desert) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041789/)
> "There was a screening of Red Desert which is maybe my favorite of his films, a director's cut at MoMA, and somebody took us as a surprise. Antonioni is Cindy my wife's favorite filmmaker. I went and sat next to him and said this must be an amazing night for you and he said no I hate it tonight. I said why? He said there are 14 frames in the film that I can't stand and every time I see the film it breaks my heart but I can't do those over again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMy2RSgBAo&t=182)
- **Eating Raoul** (1982) - Paul Bartel - Spine #625 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27767-eating-raoul) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083869/)
> "This is the late and very adorable Paul Bartell, Eating Raoul. A wonderful film from the time of My Dinner with Andre by a wonderful filmmaker. Anybody who hasn't seen this—well I haven't, let me take a—I'm sure you did at the time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMy2RSgBAo&t=267)
- **The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp** (1943) - Michael Powell - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/359-the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036112/)
> "Oh look there's a box set this is one I can highly recommend. Oh Colonel Blimp yes this is one of the great films ever. I like all of their films but this was one of the very most thrilling. Yeah that one was wonderful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMy2RSgBAo&t=344)
- **André Gregory & Wallace Shawn: 3 Films** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1110-andre-gregory-wallace-shawn-3-films)
> "Well yeah there is one scene in our film Vanya on 42nd Street where I always leave my seat and go to the bathroom because I know there was another way of doing that scene."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMy2RSgBAo&t=251)
## André Holland (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsOm4L6yzMg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/745-andre-holland-s-closet-picks)
- **Pariah** (2011) - Dee Rees - Spine #1083 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31582-pariah) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233334/)
> "I see Pariah by my very good friend, Dee Rees. Starring Adepero, who is also a good friend of mine. We actually, Adepero and I, did our very first acting jobs together. We did a... Like, a corporate video in which we were a couple doing some awkward stuff. Anyway, we friends. Everything’s cool now. I’m going to bring you home with me, Dee."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsOm4L6yzMg&t=11)
- **To Sleep with Anger** (1990) - Charles Burnett - Spine #963 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29567-to-sleep-with-anger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100791/)
> "Charles Burnett, To Sleep with Anger. Love it. Also cannot wait for Criterion hopefully to release Killer of Sheep. We’ll see. Come on, Charlie, going home."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsOm4L6yzMg&t=58)
- **Medicine for Melancholy** (2009) - Barry Jenkins - Spine #1183 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29643-medicine-for-melancholy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133989/)
> "Ooh, Barry Jenkins. Medicine for Melancholy. That’s my guy. Working with him on Moonlight changed my entire life, my entire career. I remember seeing this film and just being blown away by how beautiful and how simple and elegant it was."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsOm4L6yzMg&t=72)
- **Claudine** (1974) - John Berry - Spine #1052 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29599-claudine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071334/)
> "Oh, Lord have mercy. Now, see... We got to talk about something. I see something right here that I definitely am going to take home, because I have watched this movie so many times and I love it. Claudine. See this man right here, James Earl Jones? That’s my hero. Amazing, amazing actor. And Diahann Carroll. I mean, come on. She just was everything. It’s such a beautiful film, so complex and so lovely and sexy. I was like, “Oh, my God. Who are these two?”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsOm4L6yzMg&t=86)
- **Matewan** (1987) - John Sayles - Spine #999 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29461-matewan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/)
> "And I’ve always heard that this is dope too, Matewan. I’ve never seen it, but this is also him. And, if it’s okay, maybe I’ll do these two."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsOm4L6yzMg&t=163)
- **A Raisin in the Sun** (1989) - Bill Duke - Spine #945 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28826-a-raisin-in-the-sun) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098166/)
> "Ooh. Raisin in the Sun., man. One of my really, really good friends, Imani Perry, wrote a book called Looking for Lorraine about Lorraine Hansberry, and so in talking about her book with her and, you know, after having read it, I went back and rewatched this movie a number of times, and it’s so, it’s so powerful. I mean, as a play, as a film. Lorraine, as a writer, as a thinker. And, of course, the great Sidney Poitier. This is the play... One of the plays that inspired me to be an actor."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsOm4L6yzMg&t=174)
- **Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-essential-films)
> "That’s my man, Melvin Van Peebles. This a box set. Don’t Play Us Cheap, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. Sorry for cussing, mama. Watermelon Man. The Story of a Three Day Pass. So dope."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsOm4L6yzMg&t=41)
## Andrew Garfield (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/730-andrew-garfield-s-closet-picks)
- **Brazil** (1985) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #51 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/211-brazil) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/)
> "The first thing that I come to is a man that I've worked with called Terry Gilliam and this is one of his all-time great films Brazil and I adore it. It's so inventive, it's 1984-esque, it's dystopian, it's anti-capitalist, it's anti-commercialism. It is a masterpiece of rebellion and of insanity and Jonathan Pryce has never been so incredible and Terry has never been so let off the leash. I'm going to start there."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg&t=29)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "Scorsese would be very upset with me if I don't grab one of his favorite films of all time, The Red Shoes, that he helped restore I believe and it was him that told me to see it for the first time and I did, so there's a story."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg&t=66)
- **Salesman** (1969) - David Maysles - Spine #122 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/663-salesman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064921/)
> "I'm going to grab a couple of documentaries... The first one is a Maysles' documentary called Salesman that I watched on the advice of Mike Nichols. We did a play called Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and this was one of the things that Mike said that we must watch just to develop our souls as well as prepare us to make that play. Again, the kind of the failure of capitalism that we're currently living at the end of, hopefully."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg&t=84)
- **Hoop Dreams** (1994) - Steve James - Spine #289 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/906-hoop-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110057/)
> "Hoop Dreams, another great documentary, one of the great documentaries of all time about one of the great sports. Basketball is more important to me than most things in my life and I think what this film does so purely is it gets in touch with our collective human longing to make something meaningful out of this life. It's a film about our essential needs as human beings to be a part of something bigger than ourselves, to try to follow the image of a dream."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg&t=137)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "My favorite Mike Leigh film, one of my favorite films of all time, Naked, with one of the great performances of all time by David Thewlis. Mike Leigh is someone who I just need to bow to quickly because he's defined British filmmaking for the last however many decades. I auditioned for him once and it was a three-hour audition, it was improvised where he just observed you creating a character and living that character. No one's doing it like Mike Leigh."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg&t=182)
- **Kes** (1970) - Ken Loach - Spine #561 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27560-kes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064541/)
> "Oh, Kes. Another one of our great British filmmakers, Ken Loach. It's a humanist story and it's tragic and it's beautiful and it's about someone who's been kind of deemed unworthy, unnecessary, useless and disposable finding out that he is anything but through his connection to nature, through his connection to a wild creature that accepts him as he is because he's a wild creature himself. It's an honoring of his own wildness and all of our wildness."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg&t=214)
- **The Game** (1997) - David Fincher - Spine #627 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28058-the-game) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/)
> "So, Fincher, goddamn. This is one of his early films, The Game, and it is so thrilling and it is so fun. You kind of go, 'This probably exists.' What Michael Douglas is being put through, like rich guys probably can access this kind of adventure and terror. And Sean Penn... I love this film, I'll watch it like once a year. The filmmaking is so good, it's so beautifully constructed. He was a master from the beginning."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg&t=259)
- **Happiness** (1998) - Todd Solondz - Spine #1235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30465-happiness) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/)
> "Happiness. I love Happiness so much. I'm like mouth agape. It's a heavy film and with the late great, one of the greatest actors that has ever existed, Philip Seymour Hoffman. I was like 19, 20 when I saw this film and I was like, 'Films like this can be made and they can be profound and they can have compassion for people that we deem as monsters.' I just thought it was so funny and so weird and so... You know what film can do."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg&t=289)
- **Original Cast Album: “Company”** (1970) - D. A. Pennebaker - Spine #1090 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30212-original-cast-album-company) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293475/)
> "Company the cast album one of the great documentaries one of the great films about the creative process The Agony and the Ecstasy it's so wild the access that you have you feel like you're there and it's it's all suggestive there's no real narrative you're just kind of with these artists these like Thor breed artists who are struggling to capture suim's impossibly incredible music da penaka who's on the on the operating the camera is Right In The Souls of these people it's one of my fa..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg&t=319)
- **Tampopo** (1985) - Jūzō Itami - Spine #868 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28880-tampopo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/)
> "And this is Tampopo, which is my father's favorite film of all time. When we were kids, he would say, 'So tonight are we going to watch Tampopo?' and me and my brother are like 9 and 12 and we're like, 'We don't want to watch a Japanese ramen comedy, Dad.' About 10 years ago, I finally bit the bullet and I watched Tampopo and I realized that my dad had incredible taste. One of my favorite scenes in cinema history of an egg yolk being passed back and forth between two lovers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg&t=355)
## Andrew Stanton (writer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lit_b1g7M6s) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/761-andrew-stanton-s-closet-picks)
- **Paper Moon** (1973) - Peter Bogdanovich - Spine #1241 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29964-paper-moon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510/)
> "Today is the release date of Paper Moon, so I am excited that I get to be one of the first people to talk about it. Paper Moon. Probably one of the strongest, most economical openings. In, I’d say 10 Seconds, you are interested in character. In about 30 Seconds, you are intrigued by the dilemma. And three minutes in, you’re rooting for the plot. And then ten minutes in, you are blindly allegiant to this relationship. This is just a great, great, great, great, great, great movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lit_b1g7M6s&t=26)
- **Brazil** (1985) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #51 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/211-brazil) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/)
> "Brazil, 1985. It’s kind of known in the lore that he had a cut of this that he wanted to release but Universal didn’t, and that he took the film hostage. I was already a Monty Python fan, already a Time Bandits fan, but this film has just... And I think you can see it in WALL•E, just the influence this had. I can’t say enough about this film. I love this film. Love, love, love, love, love, love."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lit_b1g7M6s&t=67)
- **Local Hero** (1983) - Bill Forsyth - Spine #994 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28709-local-hero) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/)
> "Okay, Local Hero. I come from a small fishing village and I just totally got it. Every line is quotable. It was probably, to me, one of the greatest things Burt Lancaster did near the end of his career as Felix Happer. But this, this movie is– just speaks to my heart. I mean, if I could ever be involved in a movie that had this feeling that Bill Forsyth captured, I’d finish. I’d be done."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lit_b1g7M6s&t=125)
- **The Worst Person in the World** (2021) - Joachim Trier - Spine #1132 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32661-the-worst-person-in-the-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10370710/)
> "Worst Person in the World. This is a more recent film, ’21. It’s a great movie on its own. But my favorite film in the world is Lawrence of Arabia. And people think it’s for the spectacle, the scope, the scale. But it’s because the theme of it is, “Who am I?” And this is very similar in that respect. And I just found this the most amazing internal journey of somebody just trying to figure out their place in the world."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lit_b1g7M6s&t=148)
- **Defending Your Life** (1991) - Albert Brooks - Spine #1071 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29634-defending-your-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/)
> "It’s staring right at me, so Defending Your Life. This is a perfect comedy. Came out in ’91. We were a year out from really getting serious writing Toy Story. I want to believe it’s why I fell in love with the concept of Albert Brooks being the voice of a fish. To have had the chance to be a front-row audience member for a one-man show in the recording studio with him for close to four to five years total was one of the biggest privileges of my career. But this movie is just flawless."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lit_b1g7M6s&t=203)
- **Matewan** (1987) - John Sayles - Spine #999 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29461-matewan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/)
> "Probably saving the best for last. Matewan. My senior year of film school, I remember seeing an ad for this in the LA Weekly... And just kind of being intrigued and took a chance. And I did this and was blown away. John Sayles has a way, I would say Richard Linklater has the same, just a way of doing multi-protagonist movies. He just loves to make the worlds sort of greater and richer than just the singular protagonist. If you only take one movie away from this whole pitch: Matewan."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lit_b1g7M6s&t=251)
## Anna Karina (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvRtwCQs44) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/451-anna-karina-s-closet-picks)
- **A Woman Is a Woman** (2025) - Min Kyu-dong - Spine #238 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/854-a-woman-is-a-woman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34509472/)
> "Hey, A Woman Is a Woman. Well, it's a film by Jean-Luc with Jean-Paul and me and it was great fun to do it because I think that he didn't think about me to begin with because he saw a lot of actresses before but then he saw me in a film called Tonight or Never made by Michel Deville and he said, 'Oh, I liked you so much playing comedy. So what you do? A Woman Is a Woman.' So we did it."
- **Made In USA** (1966) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #481 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2109-made-in-u-s-a) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060647/)
> "That's Made in U. S. A. But yeah, that's me. That's beautiful of course."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvRtwCQs44&t=38)
- **Pierrot le fou** (1965) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #421 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/149-pierrot-le-fou) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059592/)
> "And that was a very happy film too in a way. Even though the film is a little bit sad in the end, but we had great fun doing it. Jean-Luc, we went to this island called Porquerolles and we said, 'Well, we're going to get so bored, you know, on this island by ourselves,' but we never laughed as much as on this island."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvRtwCQs44&t=53)
- **The Kid** (2010) - Nick Moran - Spine #799 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27566-the-kid) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371160/)
> "The Kid. That's one of my favorite films. Charlie Chaplin. Oh, it's so good. So lovely."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvRtwCQs44&t=147)
- **Cléo from 5 to 7** (1962) - Agnès Varda - Spine #73 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/244-cleo-from-5-to-7) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055852/)
> "We did a little film, a little piece of film inside Cléo from 5 to 7. We did a little scene, you know, like a silent movie inside the film. Very funny. He was a kind of Buster Keaton type and I was, you know, with all blonde hair, little dress like this, little sweet. And yes, I know him since a long, long time. Agnès was doing the pictures for when we got married with Jean-Luc because she used to be a photographer before she became a director."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvRtwCQs44&t=96)
## Anna Kendrick (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuZo__82POU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/729-anna-kendrick-s-closet-picks)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "I just saw this a few years ago, All That Jazz. I had that feeling of like, why did no one tell me about this? You know when it's like a movie was like made for you and it feels like it's been in your bones your whole life and you're just like, I can't believe I've just been wandering the Earth and none of my friends are good enough friends to have told me to watch this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuZo__82POU&t=24)
- **Klute** (1971) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #987 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28708-klute) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067309/)
> "Klute is one of the coolest movies. I remember watching this, I think I had my laptop and like a little external disc drive on the set of one of the Twilight movies... Donald Sutherland is like rushing in to save Jane Fonda and I'd get called to set and I would be like irrationally unhinged, like on edge and just like wanting to get back to my trailer. Yeah, wanting to get back to your trailer makes you sound like a dick, but you know when you're halfway through Klute, I think that's a good e..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuZo__82POU&t=45)
- **Stalker** (1979) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #888 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28150-stalker) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/)
> "Stalker. Beautiful, stunning, hypnotizing, and really kind of deals with the nasty business of looking at oneself and how devastating that can be. And thematically, that's my shit."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuZo__82POU&t=88)
- **The Passion of Joan of Arc** (1928) - Carl Theodor Dreyer - Spine #62 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/228-the-passion-of-joan-of-arc) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019254/)
> "Passion of Joan of Arc. I will say I think that sometimes I fall Victim to that thing where certain scores for silent films take me out of it and I will say like one of the cooler cinematic going experiences I've had is they were showing a print of this at the silent movie theater on Fairfax and there were these two guys who did like a modern experimental score to this and I was weeping uncontrollably almost the entire time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuZo__82POU&t=104)
- **Saint Omer** (2022) - Alice Diop - Spine #1212 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34051-saint-omer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15376894/)
> "I also just saw Saint Omer. It's a French courtroom drama take on the Medea myth, but also can I say, between this and Anatomy of a Fall, what's going on in the French court system? This is not a joke. I would really love for like someone who knows the French legal system to hit me up on Twitter. It seems a lot more like a family therapy session than a legal structure in both films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuZo__82POU&t=141)
- **Ingmar Bergman's Cinema** (35 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema)
> "I feel incredibly special and I did not just pull this off of the shelf at random. This is a comprehensive Bergman collection. When I was maybe 18, somebody gifted me the Fanny and Alexander Box Set. It was something challenging that touched a part of me that was untouched or too sensitive to touch. He was incapable of telling lies to keep himself comfortable or you comfortable. It sent me down this journey and now he is one of if not my favorite directors."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuZo__82POU&t=176)
## Annie Baker and Lucian Johnston (producer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PbpLSLidBw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/662-annie-baker-and-lucian-johnston-s-closet-picks)
- **L’Enfance Nue** (1969) - Maurice Pialat - Spine #534 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2337-l-enfance-nue) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065695/)
> "We're going to start with L'enfance nue by the director and writer Maurice Pialat, one of my favorite writer-directors. This is from 1968, it's about a foster child being shuttled around France and moving from family to family. It's like one of the most unsentimental movies about childhood I've ever seen. I felt like it was the first movie I'd seen with a child lead who you didn't necessarily sympathize with for most of the movie, and then once you understand him it's totally devastating."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PbpLSLidBw&t=31)
- **L'argent** (1983) - Robert Bresson - Spine #886 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27588-l-argent) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085180/)
> "Okay, L'argent. Other than Pialat, the other filmmaker we talked about a lot when we were cutting Janet Planet was Bresson. I feel like Bresson was more of like an aesthetic reference for us too. I remember specifically about L'argent we were talking about depictions of offscreen violence. I always think of the end when at the farm, the old couple, when the husband slaps his wife, instead of seeing the slap he cuts away and you just see the teacup on the saucer and it just moves a little bit."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PbpLSLidBw&t=92)
- **A Matter of Life and Death** (1981) - Russ Mayberry - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28833-a-matter-of-life-and-death) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082724/)
> "A Matter of Life and Death. Initially in Janet Planet we were going to have a character disappear on screen and we were obsessed with how to do it. I kept watching the disappearances in this movie on the Criterion Channel and sending them to you and you would calculate how many frames the disappearance was. There's just something about the way that Powell and Pressburger films look. Their cinematographer Jack Cardiff was incredible. There's some scene where the fog lifts and it's so trippy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PbpLSLidBw&t=142)
- **Godland** (2022) - Hlynur Pálmason - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33485-godland) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19623228/)
> "I'll do Godland. This movie was one of my very top favorites of 2023 and maybe ever. The DP is our amazing DP Maria von Hausswolff and so much of watching this movie for me was like seeing the way Maria sees nature and the world through the way she shot this movie. I think in particular of a descending shot of a waterfall at one point. They actually made the journey themselves across Iceland. They shot with all natural light except for like two scenes that were just candlelight."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PbpLSLidBw&t=198)
- **Design for Living** (1933) - Ernst Lubitsch - Spine #592 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27872-design-for-living) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023940/)
> "Design for Living. I'm obsessed with this movie. I have a poster of this movie in my study. This is from 1933, this is immediately pre-code. It wouldn't even be made now because it's so ambiguous but also incredibly blatant. She's in love with two men, they're in love with her. This was based on a Noël Coward play. Fredric March and Gary Cooper are so incredible and beautiful and hilarious and Miriam Hopkins is such a specific person. There's something about the movie that I find so life affi..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PbpLSLidBw&t=305)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "It's like talking about Varda. This is so good, there's so much good stuff. Daguerréotypes is my favorite of all the films in this collection. I find it very difficult to talk about film editing, but in this film, there's a sequence in one of the local cafes where a magician is putting on his act and she's showing you how she's making the associations while she's making them. It's very playful and it feels almost like a precursor to what John Wilson is doing now. It's some of the best editing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PbpLSLidBw&t=364)
## ANOHNI (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty13anJtnV4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/870-anohni-s-closet-picks)
- **Jubilee** (2009) - Doug Rao - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/736-jubilee) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1515840/)
> "This first one is Derek Jarman, Jubilee. It’s a kind of dystopian, post-apocalyptic, punk landscape of England that’s very based in, like, the kind of Dreams of the English punks. Adam Ant was particularly cute in it. So I put that on the box set."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty13anJtnV4&t=12)
- **Day for Night** (null) - - Spine #769 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28698-day-for-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6257222/)
> "Then here’s a movie by Alain Resnais that I saw when I was quite young, called Night and Fog. It’s a meditation on Auschwitz, which sounds quite heavy going, but I think it’s a portrait. It’s very still. And I just remember it being a very powerful sort of entry point into… early entry point for me into ideas about animism and about the density of memory and the past that exists in materiality."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty13anJtnV4&t=31)
- **The Times of Harvey Milk** (1984) - Rob Epstein - Spine #557 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27549-the-times-of-harvey-milk) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088275/)
> "This is a film called The Times of Harvey Milk. I saw this also as a young person, and it really made a big impression on me. He’s such a beautiful creature, and he was good friends with Divine. It’s the early ’80s, or late ’70s into early ’80s, it, like, shows that American sadness of Dreams, and then just the perverse level to which corrupted intention can undermine goodness and wellness. And then community comes together and grieves."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty13anJtnV4&t=65)
- **Paris is Burning** (1991) - Jennie Livingston - Spine #1018 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29647-paris-is-burning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/)
> "Okay, here’s a really great film: Paris is Burning. It’s by Jennie Livingston. Of course, it’s a real classic, it’s just such a moving film, you can watch it a thousand times. I especially love the outtakes of this. There’s beautiful outtakes of Venus Xtravaganza, who I love so much, and Angie Xtravaganza. I mean, they’re just heartbreaking. And Venus talks about her relationship to God, and these very, very profound, meditations that are quite startling."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty13anJtnV4&t=131)
- **1984** (1984) - - Spine #984 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29140-1984)
> "This movie’s a film that had a big influence on me. It’s 1984. The Eurythmics did the soundtrack for it. It was one of the best Eurythmics records. It has this really beautiful song called “Julia.” It’s almost a sort of industrial-sounding soundtrack at times. These ideas in the book 1984 are really expressed visually in the film, about the dread of surveillance. And this film now to watch will probably confuse young people because the baseline of expectation of privacy has eroded."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty13anJtnV4&t=164)
- **Science is Fiction: 23 Films by Jean Painlevé** (1902) - - Spine #468 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1286-science-is-fiction-23-films-by-jean-painleve)
> "And then the final film that I chose is Jean Painlevé. This is such a great film, and it’s probably the one I’ve seen more than any one of these others. He did this early aquatic photography where he did these really beautiful, pastoral, kind of art nouveau portraits of underwater sea life, and they’re so spectral and so lush and so unfurling. He also has a really good sense of humor. It’s all in French, but it’s quite funny. I’m obsessed with Jean Painlevé’s films of the ocean."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty13anJtnV4&t=215)
- **3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/744-3-silent-classics-by-josef-von-sternberg)
> "These are a group of films I’ve not seen, Josef von Sternberg: Underworld, The Last Command, and The Docks of New York. I love Josef von Sternberg, and I love Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel. I don’t think she’s in any of these, but that German expressionist aesthetic, the way of the shadow, the early photography, it was just such an important benchmark in underground dreaming."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty13anJtnV4&t=92)
## Anton Corbijn (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTzyn4xNU9M) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/571-anton-corbijn-s-closet-picks)
- **Sweet Smell of Success** (1957) - Alexander Mackendrick - Spine #555 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/)
- **Midnight Cowboy** (1969) - John Schlesinger - Spine #925 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29369-midnight-cowboy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/)
> "Classic film that I never tired of, Midnight Cowboy. I love also the song that I connected with this film, 'Everybody's Talkin'. So I like how... There's space for you to..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTzyn4xNU9M&t=30)
- **The American Friend** (1977) - Wim Wenders - Spine #793 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28763-the-american-friend) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075675/)
> "One of the few films that play in Hamburg. It's very... I made 'A Most Wanted Man' there. This is really nice when you use a city that people actually don't know. It's not someone's... And Dennis Hopper's in it too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTzyn4xNU9M&t=68)
- **The Last Waltz** (1978) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1118 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/685-the-last-wave) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077838/)
> "Robbie Robertson, music and the musicians. The uniqueness of it all, I think, and Scorsese covers a lot cleaner the film is that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTzyn4xNU9M&t=130)
- **Cold War** (2017) - J. Wilder Konschak - Spine #1005 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30104-cold-war) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537300/)
> "Never made a film before... That's not your language. It's so nice to be on a set of a proper filmmaker."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTzyn4xNU9M&t=163)
## Ari Aster (director)
Episode: 2023 | [Visit 1 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y) | [Visit 2 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w)
- **Closely Watched Trains** (1966) - Jiří Menzel - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/212-closely-watched-trains) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060802/)
> "I chose this film, Closely Watched Trains, for this program I'm doing at Lincoln Center for Beau Is Afraid. This and Beau have in common that they are about a man who really needs to come."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=42)
- **Daisies** (2013) - Lauren Watson - Spine #1157 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27854-daisies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2899232/)
> "Daisies, one of the many, many incredible Czech films that came out in the '60s. Amazing ending. Makes you sick."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=199)
- **Cure** (1997) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Spine #1155 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27666-cure) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/)
> "There's an argument to be made that Cure by Kiyoshi Kurosawa is the greatest movie ever made."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=211)
- **Mr. Klein** (1976) - Joseph Losey - Spine #1123 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28112-mr-klein) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074916/)
> "Well, Mr. Klein by Joseph Losey is really brilliant. One of the great Holocaust films, and I think the film that gets the closest to Kafka. Just as a nightmare of persecution, it's really, like, untoppable."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=218)
- **The New World** (2016) - Shinsuke Sato - Spine #826 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28713-the-new-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5058340/)
> "The New World, I can't find the words, but this movie is, like, immense to me. And like I never use the word transcendent, but watching this film was a transcendent experience."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=237)
- **Secret Sunshine** (2007) - Lee Chang-dong - Spine #576 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27750-secret-sunshine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0817225/)
> "Secret Sunshine by Lee Chang-dong, who is I think one of the great filmmakers working now. I think Burning might be my favorite film of the last like decade. And this film is so special and strange. I did not know how to take it when I first watched it. It's about a woman who just cannot stop suffering. There's a scene near the middle of the film once she goes to visit her son's abductor in prison. And that is where the film becomes something so fascinating and so strange."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=254)
- **The Woman in the Dunes** (1964) - Hiroshi Teshigahara - Spine #394 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/826-woman-in-the-dunes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/)
> "Woman in the Dunes by Hiroshi Teshigahara. I revisited this during lockdown in 2020 and it really struck me as the perfect quarantine movie. And just one of the great films about men and women. He stopped making films to become like a florist."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=320)
- **Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters** (1985) - Paul Schrader - Spine #432 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/588-mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603/)
> "Speaking of unconventional biopics that don't fall into the typical traps, Mishima by Paul Schrader. It's, I mean, it's almost definitely the best film he ever made. Just, I mean, what he's doing with artifice here, what he's doing with structure, it's really brilliant. And when I first saw it, it was like shocking."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=392)
- **Bigger Than Life** (1956) - Nicholas Ray - Spine #507 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1929-bigger-than-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049010/)
> "Bigger Than Life, one of James Mason's best performances. It's very funny, it's very crazy. A great kind of alarmist pharmaceutical melodrama where by the end he's convinced that he's Abraham and he's going to kill his son. It's great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=415)
- **Walkabout** (1971) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #10 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/522-walkabout) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/)
> "Walkabout has the best opening like sequence, prologue, I don't know what it is. It's like this overture that leads to like, you know, a father attempting to murder his children. It's so, that, that is something I go back to over and over again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=496)
- **Winchester ’73** (1950) - Anthony Mann - Spine #1248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28997-winchester-73) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043137/)
> "Winchester ’73, the first film that Anthony Mann made with James Stewart. Maybe an unconscious adaptation of The Forged Coupon by Tolstoy, where you follow a coupon from one character to another. This has Rock Hudson as a Native American tribal leader, which some characters in Eddington would not appreciate."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=22)
- **The Parallax View** (1974) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #1064 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30204-the-parallax-view) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071970/)
> "Parallax View, one of the three Pakula masterpieces from the ’70s. One of my favorite conspiracy thrillers. This has one of the best sequences ever, which is the brainwashing, subliminal-messaging video. Just incredible editing, and funny and scary, and a great ending."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=45)
- **Lacombe Lucien** (1974) - Louis Malle - Spine #329 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/776-lacombe-lucien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071733/)
> "Lacombe, Lucien, one of the great films by the great Louis Malle, about a young man who wants to join the Resistance against the Nazis. But when the Resistance doesn’t take him, he decides to become a Nazi. And, I mean, Nazis are back in the mainstream. So, yeah, it’s worth a watch."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=69)
- **Revanche** (2008) - Götz Spielmann - Spine #502 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/85-revanche) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1173745/)
> "Revanche. Austrian film with a French title, by Götz Spielmann. I don’t hear it being talked about nearly enough. It’s one of The Most Beautiful films. The composition… Every shot is just gorgeous. And it’s a great film about isolated people and coincidence. And it’s beautiful. I love it. I really love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=89)
- **Stray Dog** (1971) - Sam Peckinpah - Spine #233 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/730-straw-dogs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/)
> "Peckinpah is a filmmaker that’s always on my mind, but especially with Eddington, and Straw Dogs is a perfect film, one of the great films about, you know, just how awful it is to be a person living with other people. And it’s also one of the tightest films ever made. It begins in a fraught place and just… it’s a snare that just tightens and tightens and tightens until the climax, which is just one of the greatest in all of movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=113)
- **Ace in the Hole** (1951) - Billy Wilder - Spine #396 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/829-ace-in-the-hole) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043338/)
> "Ace in the Hole by Billy Wilder, the first truly reviled movie that he ever released. And it’s a really misanthropic comedy that is genuinely upsetting, genuinely funny. Honest in its anger in a way that a lot of films made in America in the ’50s weren’t allowed to be. And it lands its point without compromising. It’s a great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=143)
- **A Face in the Crowd** (1957) - Elia Kazan - Spine #970 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28703-a-face-in-the-crowd) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/)
> "Here’s another reviled film, A Face in the Crowd. This is one of the great political satires, with one of the great villains, Lonesome Rhodes, played by Andy Griffith. If I could have cast Andy Griffith in Eddington, I would have. Also the way that he’s brought down in this movie is the same way that the Penguin is brought down in Batman Returns."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=169)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "Wanda by Barbara Loden. I know this movie has received its due reappraisal, but not enough people talk about how funny it is. The character of Mr. Dennis, played by Michael Higgins, is… is right up there with Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet. “No junk.” He’s talking about pickles. It also has one of the great final freeze-frames, which involves a hot dog."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=191)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee, one of the most seminal texts on race in America. Playful, funny, inventive, sad, scary. It’s a huge film. And for anybody who attempts to talk about race in America, this is always there."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=216)
- **Graduation** (2016) - Eiichiro Hasumi - Spine #924 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29414-graduation) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4641264/)
> "Graduation, one of the great films by the great Cristian Mungiu, about a middle-aged white guy living in a quasi-rural area who is trapped in a maze of crises of his own making."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=237)
- **The Grifters** (1990) - Stephen Frears - Spine #1246 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30526-the-grifters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099703/)
> "Just going to mention The Grifters, because you cannot make a crime film without thinking about Jim Thompson. This is a great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=253)
- **You Can Count on Me** (2000) - Kenneth Lonergan - Spine #1271 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30206-you-can-count-on-me) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203230/)
> "You Can Count on Me, Kenneth Lonergan, one of the great small-town movies, one of the great films about siblings. Nobody writes dialogue, nobody writes people as well as he does. And that includes his plays. Margaret should end up in here as well."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=266)
- **Le Salaire de la peur** (1953) - Henri-Georges Clouzot - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/370-the-wages-of-fear) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/)
> "The Wages of Fear, a great slow burn where the movie takes its time introducing you to its characters, setting up the environment, setting up the dynamics, so that when the action hits, it is very affecting and frightening and upsetting. Yeah, this is a masterpiece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=283)
- **Lone Star** (1996) - John Sayles - Spine #1202 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29021-lone-star) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116905/)
> "Lone Star by John Sayles. Great film about all these cultural identities having to cohabitate and live together, and about American history. It’s investigating American history. Just a really sensitive, smart American epic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=300)
- **The Last Picture Show** (1971) - Peter Bogdanovich - Spine #549 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27533-the-last-picture-show) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067328/)
> "Last Picture Show by Peter Bogdanovich, based on the great book by Larry McMurtry. Really specifically observed and very funny. And it’s a film that I come back to a lot. I find it very comforting. It also has such a… like, a wonderful texture. Bogdanovich made some great films, but this to me is the greatest."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=317)
- **Targets** (1968) - Peter Bogdanovich - Spine #1179 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29965-targets) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063671/)
> "But that brings me to another Bogdanovich film, Targets. Once you’ve seen Eddington, you will understand where these are connected. Maybe the best film made under Roger Corman. Bogdanovich also acts in the movie, and it’s not his best Performance. That would be The Sopranos."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=334)
- **Young Mr. Lincoln** (1939) - John Ford - Spine #320 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/766-young-mr-lincoln) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032155/)
> "Young Mr. Lincoln, My Darling Clementine, two of my favorite John Ford films, two of his most romantic films, films about the heroic myth of America, the dream of America. And it’s very sad that they’re… that they’re not true. Hopefully they will come to pass."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=353)
- **My Darling Clementine** (1946) - John Ford - Spine #732 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28570-my-darling-clementine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038762/)
> "Young Mr. Lincoln, My Darling Clementine, two of my favorite John Ford films, two of his most romantic films, films about the heroic myth of America, the dream of America. And it’s very sad that they’re… that they’re not true. Hopefully they will come to pass."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=355)
- **No Country for Old Men** (2007) - Joel Coen - Spine #1243 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29429-no-country-for-old-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/)
> "No Country for Old Men, Coen brothers. Anybody making a contemporary western has to contend with this one. We all know it’s perfect. I have nothing to add."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj6QawF-Q9w&t=372)
- **Che** (2008) - - Spine #496 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/20987-che)
> "Not enough people talk about Che, which is a masterpiece and I think Steven Soderbergh's best film. I don't know why it didn't get more attention because it really is, like, I mean just, I don't know how he made it. And I think it's why he kind of retired is I think he was so disappointed how little attention the film got. And I get it. If I made Che and nobody paid attention, I would just say fuck you and stop."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=346)
- **Michael Haneke: Trilogy** (null) - - Spine #1163 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6323-michael-haneke-trilogy)
> "Michael Haneke was very, very important to me growing up. His first films, they just call it the trilogy here, but I think he called it the emotional glaciation trilogy. You really see Bresson's influence in these films, which are very Bressonian. The Seventh Continent is one of the most perfect films ever made and very upsetting. Benny's Video is a great film about Nazi youth, and the 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance is a great kind of trial run for what he ended up doing with Code Unk..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=59)
- **The BRD Trilogy** (1977) - - Spine #203 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/138-the-brd-trilogy)
> "The Koker Trilogy is incredible. The second film here, And Life Goes On, is really, like, beyond the beyond. Just so beautiful and touching. He just takes children very seriously, especially in Where is the Friend's House? But also in And Life Goes On and Through the Olive Trees is a great movie about the social politics of, like, being on a movie set."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=158)
- **Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman: Invention for Destruction** (null) - - Spine #1016 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2880-three-fantastic-journeys-by-karel-zeman)
> "The films of Karel Zeman are amazing, and there's an animated sequence in Beau Is Afraid that nods to Invention for Destruction, which is, like, you know, astonishing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=216)
- **La Poison** (1951) - Sacha Guitry - Spine #891 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28637-la-poison) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043927/)
> "My friend Dan recommended this to me after his friend recommended it to him. La Poison by Sacha Guitry, which has the best opening credit sequence of all time. It's Sacha Guitry going up to every member of the cast and the crew and introducing them and telling them not only how much he loves them, but why he loves them. And it's great. It's really special."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=308)
- **Brand Upon the Brain!** (2007) - Guy Maddin - Spine #440 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/746-brand-upon-the-brain) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443455/)
> "Brand upon the Brain! By Guy Maddin. When I was in film school, I was just like ripping him off nonstop. His whole thing is that he makes these films that feel like these lost films from the silent era or like early sound days. This film I saw in theaters with a gang of foley artists and a live orchestra and different people narrating, and I saw it with Udo Kier narrating, and it was maybe the best experience I've ever had in a movie theater."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psV-DcsnU1Y&t=438)
## Asif Kapadia (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/462-asif-kapadia-s-closet-picks)
- **Simon of the Desert** (1965) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #460 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1077-simon-of-the-desert) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059719/)
> "Simon of the Desert by Buñuel, that is a brilliant movie. That is nuts. Have you ever seen it? Yeah, 45 minutes long, fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=2)
- **Blind Chance** (1981) - Krzysztof Kieślowski - Spine #772 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28555-blind-chance) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084549/)
> "I'm going to check out Blind Chance because it's one of the films that inspired my friend Amit, who's a filmmaker who likes to make stories with lots of different interpretations or different versions of events, a bit similar to Amores perros or something like that. And he was quite inspired by Blind Chance. I've never seen it, so okay."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=15)
- **Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom** (1976) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #17 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/532-salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/)
> "W Y warning explicit content..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=37)
- **Don't Look Now** (1973) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #745 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27928-don-t-look-now) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069995/)
> "Because I've already got this but I've not got the Criterion Don't Look Now is my wife's probably my wife's favorite film I tried to interview once Nick Roeg and just as we were about to walk on stage he said let's not talk about any old films so then we sat there on a stage like what do I talk about and then his conversation nothing went in a straight line he jumped forwards backwards in time you realize all of his films are exactly the way his brain operates..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=45)
- **The Vanishing** (1993) - George Sluizer - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/677-the-vanishing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108473/)
> "The Vanishing. Is that the Dutch film? Oh, it's a great movie. That is one of the most kind of darkest, most shocking movies. That's great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=73)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "I've already got Do the Right Thing, the Criterion, one of my favorite films. That's probably the film more than any that I would say kind of inspired me when I left school in 1988. It's probably the one movie that made me think I actually want to make films. It's still really powerful. The ending really hits you. You don't expect it to turn. It's been so funny and light and then suddenly when the violence kicks off you realize this film is still so relevant."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=87)
- **Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion** (1970) - Elio Petri - Spine #682 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27911-investigation-of-a-citizen-above-suspicion) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065889/)
> "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion. I don't know, I like interesting. No idea what it is, never heard of it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=125)
- **Code Unknown** (2000) - Michael Haneke - Spine #780 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28738-code-unknown) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216625/)
> "The scene on a subway train on Code Unknown is like one of the most powerful scenes, all in one shot. Juliette Binoche on a train. Have you seen it? It's unbelievable, the strength that he can create, the tension that he can create in a movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=130)
- **Three Outlaw Samurai** (1964) - Hideo Gosha - Spine #596 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27734-three-outlaw-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058652/)
> "Three Outlaw Samurai. Any idea what that is? It just sounds good, doesn't it? And it's got a great picture. No idea what it is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=147)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "I don't know if I've got that. Great movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=157)
- **Kes** (1970) - Ken Loach - Spine #561 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27560-kes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064541/)
> "Kes. Wow. Oh God, what age are you allowed to show Kes to your kids? Early Ken Loach films. First time I noticed I was watching a film by a filmmaker. It's really powerful, quite shocking, beautiful story."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=167)
- **Gomorrah** (2023) - Aaron J McIntyre - Spine #493 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1590-gomorrah)
> "Gomorrah., what a good one to end on. Amazing movie. Okay, I'll end it there. I'll end it with like the fact that everything around us is corrupt. It's a good place to stop."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=183)
- **Fa yeung nin wa** (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/198-in-the-mood-for-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/)
> "One of The Most Beautiful films ever made, In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=32)
- **The Samurai Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/40-the-samurai-trilogy)
> "Maybe I've got a bit too many Samurai but you can never have enough."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIj80K2AGnY&t=161)
## Atom Egoyan (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yY-bMTFq4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/780-atom-egoyan-s-closet-picks)
- **Wings of Desire** (1987) - Wim Wenders - Spine #490 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/200-wings-of-desire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/)
> "Wings of Desire. This film changed my life. Wim had won the Grand Prize at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma in Montreal in 1987. My film Family Viewing was an honorable mention. When he got up to the podium to actually accept his award, he had heard my film because it was announced before his prize, and he gave me his check for $5,000, and it was this huge, overwhelming, public event, and it changed my life. Suddenly it got all sorts of attention."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yY-bMTFq4&t=21)
- **Fat Girl** (2001) - Catherine Breillat - Spine #259 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/548-fat-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243255/)
> "So this is one of the most amazing movies, Fat Girl, and it’s also crazy for me because my wife, Arsinée Khanjian, is playing the Mother of the two Sisters in this. And for those of you who have seen this brilliant movie, the last half hour is so tense, but it became more tense for me because there’s this drive in a car, and I heard from Arsinée that there was no camera rig. Basically, she was driving the car with the cast in the car, and there was a camera mounted on the hood."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yY-bMTFq4&t=159)
- **Working Girls** (1987) - Lizzie Borden - Spine #1087 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31084-working-girls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092238/)
> "I have not seen Working Girls since it first came out. I remember this being a really powerful film for me. It was so unlike anything I had seen. So this is Lizzie Borden, and it had a big influence, I think, on Exotica, probably, just in terms of the tone of it, the coolness of it, I guess, the emotional coolness of it. I felt it was something you wouldn’t have been able to do if it was being made as a commercial film. So this was really, really important."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yY-bMTFq4&t=213)
- **The Night Porter** (1974) - Liliana Cavani - Spine #59 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/604-the-night-porter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071910/)
> "We were talking before about Catherine Breillat and danger in cinema and pushing things and this is certainly a film that really pushes things. This is by Liliana Cavani, The Night Porter, and an absolutely fearless Performance by Charlotte Rampling and Dirk Bogarde. Deeply problematic, probably, and once upon a time you could make these types of movies, and you got to make them because no one would be questioning your sincerity and they would be trusting you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yY-bMTFq4&t=298)
- **Walkabout** (1971) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #10 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/522-walkabout) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/)
> "This film by Nicolas Roeg, Walkabout. There’s just an incredible energy that this film summons. This is a film about the collision of those two value systems, and it creates an erotic energy. Erotic energy for me is also about this notion of a vacuum, where there’s an emptiness that needs to be filled, and that feeling of it being filled creates this energy, which is erotic tension, actually. It was a defining film when I was a kid."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yY-bMTFq4&t=340)
- **Michael Haneke: Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6323-michael-haneke-trilogy)
> "Michael Haneke. I got this fax sometime in the ’80s. This is from Michael Haneke. He’s asking me how I got the video effects in my second feature, Family Viewing, because he wanted to use that texture on Benny’s Video. So that’s kind of crazy. He’s asking me how I did it, he’s thinking that there’s some complicated process I was using, but actually all I was doing is, I had a cable in my VCR, and I was kind of pulling it in and out to get this grainy effect."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yY-bMTFq4&t=105)
- **Pasolini 101** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101)
> "This is one of my favorite films. This is Pasolini’s Teorema. This is probably the high point of this entire visit. So I’ve just been kindly offered to swap out my single version of Teorema with the box set. Now I get to have The Gospel According to Matthew, which is probably one of the most incredible fusion movies of all time, in terms of style, in terms of actually dealing with the notion of Christ’s energy and his compassion and openness. It’s an incredible movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yY-bMTFq4&t=245)
- **Ingmar Bergman's Cinema** (39 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema)
> "This is the complete Bergman. Wow. This is the filmmaker that, if you are interested in the interior landscape of our psyche and the fullest exploration of where that can take you in the cinema form, this is the crown jewel. This is the best. So here I am, I’m just gonna walk out with… I’m just gonna finish with these two things. Two box sets by… I’m kind of overwhelmed. Thank you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0yY-bMTFq4&t=424)
## Aubrey Plaza And Jeff Baena (null)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/474-aubrey-plaza-and-jeff-baena-s-closet-picks)
- **The Lady Eve** (1941) - Preston Sturges - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/639-the-lady-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033804/)
> "This is the most underrated movie ever. I love this movie so much. I think Barbara Stanwyck is the funniest woman that ever lived."
- **For All Mankind** (1989) - Al Reinert - Spine #54 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/599-for-all-mankind) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097372/)
> "The best score of any movie ever. Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Daniel Lanois."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=10)
- **Harold and Maude** (1971) - Hal Ashby - Spine #608 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27896-harold-and-maude) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067185/)
> "Do you have Harold and Maude? I just got it. You did? Yeah, I have it right."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=18)
- **Being There** (1979) - Hal Ashby - Spine #864 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29009-being-there) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/)
> "Being There? I got Being There. You're good. Wait, on Blu-ray? I think so."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=21)
- **Under the Volcano** (1984) - John Huston - Spine #410 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/837-under-the-volcano) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088322/)
> "Under the Volcano. Some of the best... Anton Yelchin watched this movie to learn how to play drunk on camera."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=27)
- **Scenes from a Marriage** (1974) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #229 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/710-scenes-from-a-marriage) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6725014/)
> "You have Scenes from a Marriage? My all-time favorite movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=43)
- **The Squid and the Whale** (2005) - Noah Baumbach - Spine #845 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28830-the-squid-and-the-whale) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367089/)
- **3 Women** (1977) - Robert Altman - Spine #230 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/712-3-women) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075612/)
> "Ooh, 3 Women. My all-time... I mean, so many of these movies are my all-time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=54)
- **Day for Night** (null) - - Spine #769 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28698-day-for-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6257222/)
> "Do you have Day for Night on Blu-ray? No, I have it on just regular."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=60)
- **City Lights** (1931) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #680 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/)
> "City Lights, I love so much. It's the best ending of a movie ever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=66)
- **A Taste of Honey** (1961) - Tony Richardson - Spine #829 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28734-a-taste-of-honey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055506/)
> "A Taste of Honey is so good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=70)
- **Rosemary’s Baby** (1968) - Roman Polanski - Spine #630 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27927-rosemary-s-baby) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/)
> "Where is Rosemary's Baby?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=74)
- **Ghost World** (2001) - Terry Zwigoff - Spine #872 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28687-ghost-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162346/)
> "I haven't seen this movie since college. Which one? Ghost World. I was in kind of a remake of this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=79)
- **The Big Chill** (1983) - Lawrence Kasdan - Spine #720 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28610-the-big-chill) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/)
> "Didn't realize there was a Blu-ray of that. So good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=90)
- **The Player** (1992) - Robert Altman - Spine #812 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28835-the-player) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/)
> "The Player? What's that? You never saw that? No. Are you serious? Yes. So good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=91)
- **I Married a Witch** (1942) - René Clair - Spine #676 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27771-i-married-a-witch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034881/)
> "I Married a Witch. What's that? Never heard of this. Veronica Lake cast a seductive spell as a charmingly vengeful sorceress in the supernatural screwball classic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=98)
- **Safe** (1995) - Todd Haynes - Spine #739 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28548-safe) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/)
> "Safe. I love Safe. Is Safe on Blu-ray? Do I have Blu-ray?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78bW2EoXeM&t=50)
- **America Lost and Found: The BBS Story** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/769-america-lost-and-found-the-bbs-story)
## Ayo Edebiri (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LvIlPvrjGk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/666-ayo-edebiri-s-closet-picks)
- **High and Low** (1963) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #24 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/543-high-and-low) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057565/)
> "I'm going to take High and Low. I've been seeing this popping off again on Letterboxd, which I think is good because this is just a truly masterful film to me and I think Kurosawa is like so amazing. I watched this, it felt like 50 times. It just all felt like a dance—like the camera is dancing but also like the actors are doing their own sort of choreography. I love the blocking of this movie and also Tsutomu Yamazaki, he has this moment of physicality at the end of the movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LvIlPvrjGk&t=24)
- **Charade** (1963) - Stanley Donen - Spine #57 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/603-charade) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056923/)
> "Charade, absolute fave. I love a heist and when I found out about this movie I was just like, oh perfect, literally perfect. Two hot people doing a heist but it's like very goofy and very silly and there's really fun set pieces and it's just got that like 60s wit."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LvIlPvrjGk&t=85)
- **Bottle Rocket** (1996) - Wes Anderson - Spine #450 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/594-bottle-rocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115734/)
> "I saw Rushmore and I really want to take Bottle Rocket. I love this movie because it is like the seeds of a director who you know is going to be great but also it's just like a movie made by pals and that to me is heaven. I love when guys be dudes, I love when friends make movies together and it's not as like polished yet as like Rushmore. Can we like get like Owen Wilson back on the keyboard?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LvIlPvrjGk&t=113)
- **Thief** (1981) - Michael Mann - Spine #691 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28024-thief) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083190/)
> "Pure sexiness, pure Chicago. Love a heist as I said and the movie is Thief."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LvIlPvrjGk&t=150)
- **The Funeral** (1984) - Jūzō Itami - Spine #1125 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28879-the-funeral) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089746/)
> "I'm taking The Funeral because I already have Tampopo. Juzo Itami is one of my favorite directors ever and I think of also all the male directors who are like 'my wife is my muse,' I'm like he's the best because he's not like torturing her. He's like you're gonna fix up a ramen shop or a supermarket or like take down the Yakuza. I think he's the absolute goat."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LvIlPvrjGk&t=161)
- **To Sleep with Anger** (1990) - Charles Burnett - Spine #963 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29567-to-sleep-with-anger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100791/)
> "I love To Sleep with Anger. I mean, really taps at the core of like African American surrealist imagery in a way that I love. I'm very, very glad that this has been restored and remastered because I think this movie is worth hundreds of watches. And also shout out to Abbott because Sheryl Lee Ralph is in this and it's just amazing in this. Everybody's amazing in this. I love this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LvIlPvrjGk&t=192)
- **Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)** (2021) - Chuko Esiri - Spine #1121 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32158-eyimofe-this-is-my-desire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10365870/)
> "Eyimofe is a movie by the Esiri brothers which I loved. They're two Nigerian brothers and filmmakers and they made a gorgeous, gorgeous movie about contemporary Nigeria and these intersecting stories. I saw it three times in theaters. My father was like 'I liked it' and that's a huge, huge review from an immigrant father. Eyimofe, also known as This Is My Desire in English. Amazing, amazing film, could not recommend highly enough."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LvIlPvrjGk&t=229)
## Azazel Jacobs (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBi5fCd6Usk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/785-azazel-jacobs-s-closet-picks)
- **The Exterminating Angel** (1962) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #459 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1076-the-exterminating-angel) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056732/)
> "I’m going to start with Exterminating Angel. I guess this is one of those films that is both, like, I can’t touch it, but I’m inspired by it. I’m not trying to ever make a film that’s this perfect, because it says everything so simply and so clearly. And perfectly. But a lot of my movies go into a place which can’t really happen, but hopefully speaks to something that’s very… even more truthful about the situation, and that’s Exterminating Angel for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBi5fCd6Usk&t=4)
- **Hobson’s Choice** (1954) - David Lean - Spine #461 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1078-hobson-s-choice) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047094/)
> "But Hobson’s Choice, starring Charles Laughton. Anything that Charles Laughton did, for the most part, I think is out of this world, and that’s why I’m getting this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBi5fCd6Usk&t=92)
- **La vie de bohème** (1992) - Aki Kaurismäki - Spine #693 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28086-la-vie-de-boheme) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105750/)
> "La vie de bohème. I love all Kaurismäki’s films. For me, for whatever reason, this is like everything comes together. It’s kind of miraculous. It has this fantasy. It’s completely grounded. It’s hilarious. It’s also very moving. And what he does with this train pulling out... He does it in the most magnificent way that makes me think every time, “I can’t afford that.” Then you think, “Oh, Aki figured out how to do it for basically 50 cents.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBi5fCd6Usk&t=101)
- **La ciénaga** (2001) - Lucrecia Martel - Spine #743 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28113-la-cienaga) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240419/)
> "Lucrecia Martel, La ciénaga. I watch her work and I go, “I cannot ever even try to do something like that because it’s… everything is flawless and perfect.” But I’m going to keep watching because it’s just the best of the best."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBi5fCd6Usk&t=131)
- **Girlfriends** (1978) - Claudia Weill - Spine #1055 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29635-girlfriends) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077613/)
> "Girlfriends. I think about– Like, another miracle of a film. Any time that I’m thinking, “How do I do this? I need this and I need that.” Then you see this movie and go, “Oh, I can just use what I have and make something.” If anything, it’ll be a home movie that I want to hold onto. Or it could turn out as amazing as this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBi5fCd6Usk&t=148)
- **Tótem** (2022) - Sander Burger - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33900-totem) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21620748/)
> "I saw this, Tótem. I thought this was brilliant. Written beautifully, directed, acting, shot so beautifully. Just a film that I love. I think I’m ready to dive in and see it again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBi5fCd6Usk&t=169)
- **Miracle in Milan** (1951) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #1119 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28176-miracle-in-milan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043809/)
> "Miracle in Milan, this is one of those movies that– My parents would always drive myself and my sister to films that they thought were films that they loved and also that could work for kids. There’s a moment at the end of this that I completely took as realistic at the time, but it kind of… defies gravity, and it blew my mind as a kid. And it was something I always held on to is thinking, “Films, if they feel real, will take you someplace completely unexpected.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBi5fCd6Usk&t=181)
- **The Breakfast Club** (1985) - John Hughes - Spine #905 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29272-the-breakfast-club) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/)
> "The Breakfast Club. I don’t know why it spoke so deeply to me growing up in New York City, my school was nothing like this, but, for whatever reason, stayed with me, watched it a bunch of times. Now that I’ve been making movies, I realize that not only did it influence my storytelling, but just to see, like, “Wow, there’s a lot of bold choices.” Then once you find out Dede Allen is the editor on it, you realize, “Oh, it’s… very, very purposeful and working in this whole other level.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBi5fCd6Usk&t=218)
- **Pandora’s Box** (1929) - G.W. Pabst - Spine #358 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/362-pandora-s-box) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018737/)
> "Pandora’s Box. Louise Brooks starring in it. I think she’s one of the best writers on film. Lulu in Hollywood, I would highly recommend that book because she can write about film like nobody else. This is a movie my father, Ken Jacobs, talks about all the time. And I have to be honest, I don’t believe I ever saw it. So I know this is probably the best way that I could ever possibly see it. And then I could no longer pretend that I’ve seen it with him. And I’m sure I’m going to find it as bril..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBi5fCd6Usk&t=248)
## Barbara Sukowa (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QVNb8HFTg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/627-barbara-sukowa-s-closet-picks)
- **3 Women** (1977) - Robert Altman - Spine #230 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/712-3-women) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075612/)
> "Here I see 3 Women from Altman and I remember I absolutely loved that film but the only thing I really remember was that there was the dress of the one woman I think of Shelley Duvall it was always caught in the door of the car and that is all that I remember about this woman so I take that definitely I haven't seen it in a very long time..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QVNb8HFTg&t=38)
- **Scenes from a Marriage** (1974) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #229 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/710-scenes-from-a-marriage) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6725014/)
> "Oh and right next to it is Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage fantastic film and I have to say Ingmar Bergman is my greatest professional regret because I met Ingmar Bergman in Munich. He saw me in the theater and he wanted to do a theater play with me and possibly a film and I turned him down. I don't know why to this day. I think I was influenced by the man I was living with at the time. But Liv Ullmann is just one of the greatest actresses ever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QVNb8HFTg&t=64)
- **The Leopard** (1963) - Luchino Visconti - Spine #235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/790-the-leopard) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057091/)
> "Oh here is The Leopard I was doing a film with Cimino, The Sicilian, and so that's why I watched The Leopard... I played an aristocrat and I socialized with the aristocrats in Sicily and so The Leopard was wonderful to watch for that yeah I take that and Visconti is of course visually everything is so beautiful..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QVNb8HFTg&t=107)
- **Husbands** (1970) - John Cassavetes - Spine #1029 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28827-husbands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065867/)
> "Oh Husbands I love that film it was for me a whole new kind of film when I saw that for the first time in fact I used to show that to my students... This was so new this improvising and a bit gritty and I really love that... I snuck myself into the theater and was sitting at the very end somewhere trying to hide and I watched the rehearsal... Cassavetes said hi Barbara and I thought what and they asked me if I wanted to have lunch with them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QVNb8HFTg&t=161)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "Mike Leigh, Naked, that was also an experience that was very new for me to see that kind of acting that kind of going really to the edge and I met him later because I was with him in the jury in Berlin... I heard and I was talking to him that he did these very long rehearsals which was the opposite of Fassbinder with whom I worked..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QVNb8HFTg&t=260)
- **Berlin Alexanderplatz** (1980) - Hans-Dieter Hartl - Spine #411 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/839-berlin-alexanderplatz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126409/)
> "I see that there's Berlin Alexanderplatz that is when I met Fassbinder for the first time and yeah he had this thing that he did only ever one take... We did the scene without him... Then the scene was done and he asked us so how was it and we said yeah and he said you want to have another take and we were what another take we never have the chance to do another take so we said yeah of course we did another take... It was a way of working that I loved."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QVNb8HFTg&t=292)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "La strada, Fassbinder told me to watch before we did Berlin Alexanderplatz and I think he wanted me to see Giulietta Masina... What I love is the simplicity of this film the simplicity of the story. You don't need any special effect you don't need any fancy cameras it's just to look into the eyes of this person and to see these people interact with each other. Giulietta Masina also one of the great ones."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0QVNb8HFTg&t=353)
## Barbie Ferreira (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/849-barbie-ferreira-s-closet-picks)
- **Videodrome** (1983) - David Cronenberg - Spine #248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)
> "So immediately I see Cronenberg, Videodrome. I did a movie, Faces of Death, and this was a big, big inspiration."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=32)
- **The Vanishing** (1993) - George Sluizer - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/677-the-vanishing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108473/)
> "The Vanishing, I also have this DVD. Incredible movie. It’s just… Wow. So scary. And has changed my life in many ways because that last scene, if you know what I’m talking about."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=47)
- **My Own Private Idaho** (1991) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #277 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/249-my-own-private-idaho) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102494/)
> "My Own Private Idaho. Gorgeous. Stunning. I’m taking this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=59)
- **Drugstore Cowboy** (1989) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #1251 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34208-drugstore-cowboy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097240/)
> "Drugstore Cowboy, I’ve never seen it. I would like to see it. I want to just… I’ve heard many good things and I’m excited. Gus Van Sant very… very cool guy. Very, very cool guy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=64)
- **Mildred Pierce** (1945) - Michael Curtiz - Spine #860 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29025-mildred-pierce) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037913/)
> "My best friend loves Mildred Pierce. He’s been watching it several times a week since I’ve been away. So I’m getting him the DVD. This is for you, Ben."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=80)
- **Betty Blue** (1986) - Jean-Jacques Beineix - Spine #1002 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29079-betty-blue) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090563/)
> "Oh, Betty Blue. My favorite soundtrack. Just beautiful. This is a very big inspiration."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=91)
- **Polyester** (1981) - John Waters - Spine #995 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28714-polyester) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082926/)
> "Polyester. I have a lot of John Waters DVDs. This is the one I’m Missing. Incredible. Also, this cover just… stunning. I love– Okay, so I love the camp of it. I always was really attracted to camp. I think that John Waters has this insane way of just showing the American filth of it all. And Divine is also like a… just incredible. RIP."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=112)
- **Red Desert** (1949) - Ford Beebe - Spine #522 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1454-red-desert) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041789/)
> "Red Desert, watched this at Metrograph. Hand acting, baby, hand acting. Inspo."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=164)
- **Safe** (1995) - Todd Haynes - Spine #739 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28548-safe) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/)
> "If I could plead to people to watch a movie, it’d be Safe. Julianne Moore. I mean, it is… It’s a tough watch. It’s… For those who are hypochondriacs, possibly a little bit too close to home. But, I mean, the performances are incredible. The film is amazing. I highly recommend. I’d be on the street, you know, just slinging them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=170)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "A Woman Under the Influence, which is… I know it’s here. I know it’s here. A Woman Under the Influence. Gena Rowlands, I mean, just everything. But I’m going to take the Cassavetes box set because Christmas came early."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=98)
- **Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7581-gregg-araki-s-teen-apocalypse-trilogy)
> "I watched a lot of Gregg Araki and… which was a big inspiration for me. Araki. Okay, Doom Generation, big inspiration for me season two of Euphoria. Rose McGowan, she’s everything. So this is going to be really fun. And there’s Nowhere on here too. So fun. I haven’t seen Totally F***ed Up, so this is going to be… it’s going to be a new watch for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpttR1gI91Q&t=127)
## Barry Jenkins (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7HLpe65fHY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/470-barry-jenkins-s-closet-picks)
- **Weekend** (2011) - Andrew Haigh - Spine #635 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27783-weekend) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714210/)
> "I saw this at the Berkeley film archives. I can't even describe how good this movie is. Love this movie, so glad it's in the collection and I'm going to take this. I can hopefully get Andrew to sign it for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7HLpe65fHY&t=7)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "I remember getting on eBay and ordering this because I felt like I had to see it. The fact that somebody had made something that was 10 hours, I was like, you can't make anything that's 10 hours. So when I was in film school this was the film, this was the thing you got together like on a Saturday afternoon, you drank a few beers and you just watch this thing over and over again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7HLpe65fHY&t=48)
- **La Haine** (1995) - Mathieu Kassovitz - Spine #381 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/216-la-haine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/)
- **Blood Simple** (1985) - Joel Coen - Spine #834 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28852-blood-simple) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/)
- **Fat Girl** (2001) - Catherine Breillat - Spine #259 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/548-fat-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243255/)
- **Monsoon Wedding** (2001) - Mira Nair - Spine #489 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2364-monsoon-wedding) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265343/)
- **La ciénaga** (2001) - Lucrecia Martel - Spine #743 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28113-la-cienaga) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240419/)
- **Ratcatcher** (1999) - Lynne Ramsay - Spine #162 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/716-ratcatcher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/)
> "Where's the Ratcatcher DVD by the way? The first Criterion Barry Jenkins ever owned was Ratcatcher. Blu-ray for this one please. And this movie, and there's an interview with Lynne where she talks about blending actors and non-actors. Especially in Moonlight, I still use some of the things Lynne talks about."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7HLpe65fHY&t=78)
- **George Washington** (2000) - David Gordon Green - Spine #152 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/691-george-washington) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262432/)
> "George Washington is the second Criterion I ever own, which pretty much is just because I was in film school making shorts about young black people and I remember not realizing David Gordon Green was a white dude when I first saw the film. In my first film Medicine for Melancholy, we actually replicated that scene where people sitting around in a circle."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7HLpe65fHY&t=104)
- **Rashomon** (1950) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #138 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/307-rashomon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/)
- **Breathless** (1960) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #408 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/268-breathless) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/)
> "I will take this because I don't own it and out of respect for the form. I've seen this too many times to recount but out of respect for the form I can never see it too many times so I must take this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7HLpe65fHY&t=147)
- **A Brighter Summer Day** (1991) - Edward Yang - Spine #804 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28596-a-brighter-summer-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101985/)
- **Three Colors: Red** (1994) - Krzysztof Kieślowski - Spine #590 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/844-three-colors) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111495/)
- **The Apu Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1145-the-apu-trilogy)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "Foundational. Talk about empathy, you know, both in the film but also just having empathy for the actors and what they're going through. Like, there's a film school in this box set. This is a bit overwhelming, there's just too much good here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7HLpe65fHY&t=27)
- **The Essential Jacques Demy** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1055-the-essential-jacques-demy)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
## Barry Levinson (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqr3e6m8DGY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/475-barry-levinson-s-closet-picks)
- **Jules and Jim** (1962) - François Truffaut - Spine #281 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055032/)
> "Jules and Jim. See, I didn't see a movie like this until much later in life because when I was a kid you just couldn't, you didn't see these films. It was almost impossible if we had a chance to see, especially some of the foreign films or movies that were made somewhere in the '40s, they'd have to be reissued. In Baltimore it was impossible to see, so I didn't see a lot of some of the really classic movies until much later in life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqr3e6m8DGY&t=13)
- **Spartacus** (1960) - Stanley Kubrick - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/449-spartacus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/)
> "Spartacus, it's so wonderful is that it's this big epic film that Kubrick does and yet it's got this personal story in it and then you connect to it that way rather than just the big spectacle of it. It's one of the first movies that I saw that I became aware of the score. There's a couple melodies in it, they're just extraordinary."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqr3e6m8DGY&t=58)
- **Don't Look Back** (2006) - Kim Young-nam - Spine #786 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28655-dont-look-back) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0835823/)
> "Pennebaker's Don't Look Back is pretty extraordinary when you think about when this was done and the nature of a documentary at that point in time. I haven't seen it in a long time, so I think I'm pull this out. Great work."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqr3e6m8DGY&t=41)
- **One-Eyed Jacks** (1961) - Marlon Brando - Spine #844 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28979-one-eyed-jacks) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055257/)
> "One-Eyed Jacks, Brando's only directing film. It has great stuff in this film. There's a line in it, I remember when Brando kills somebody in a bar and Karl Malden comes in and says, 'So what happened, kid?' and Brando says something like, 'He didn't give me no selection, Dad.' I thought that was such a great line. 'He didn't give me any selection,' so they killed him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqr3e6m8DGY&t=83)
- **Chimes at Midnight** (1965) - Orson Welles - Spine #830 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28756-chimes-at-midnight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059012/)
> "Chimes of Midnight. This is a Welles film, right? Welles in some ways is still untouched in terms of how he's able to handle certain things. He has a choreography of camera to actors that's—I don't know that it's ever been equaled because it's not just simply the camera move, it's how he's moving the actors. So he's moving the actors, he's moving the camera, he's doing both of those things. So you can see where he has his great sense of stagecraft."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqr3e6m8DGY&t=146)
- **Shadows** (2025) - Larry Yang - Spine #251 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/500-shadows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34610311/)
> "Shadows, 1959. My God, to think that he actually in 1959 decided to try to make a movie on his own without having any kind of studio. The fact is that a guy who was an actor decided he wanted to try to make movies and do it his own way. I mean, that's what makes Cassavetes so amazing, that he just said, 'Look, I want to do this, these are the people I want to work with, this is a story I want to tell.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqr3e6m8DGY&t=111)
## Barry Sonnenfeld (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2060BoCAk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/752-barry-sonnenfeld-s-closet-picks)
- **Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb** (1964) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #821 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28822-dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/)
> "My favorite movie ever made, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Now, here’s the interesting thing about Strangelove. You never want your actors to know they’re working on a comedy. In fact, you never want anyone to know you’re making a comedy. If the wardrobe person knows you’re making a comedy, the wardrobe will be too loud. If the composer knows you’re making a comedy, there’ll be slide whistles. No one, especially the actors, should ever know you’re work..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2060BoCAk&t=23)
- **Fail Safe** (2000) - Stephen Frears - Spine #1011 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28825-fail-safe) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235376/)
> "Now, weirdly, if I’m not mistaken, almost like the same week practically, Fail Safe came out. Henry Fonda was brilliant in it. I assume it... Am I right? Was it Henry Fonda? Was it Henry Fonda? I’m doing great. I love this movie. It makes me so depressed. So, two movies. Same plot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2060BoCAk&t=71)
- **Miller’s Crossing** (1990) - Joel Coen - Spine #1112 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29604-miller-s-crossing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150/)
> "I was the cinematographer on Miller’s Crossing. Trey Wilson... Miller’s Crossing was written for him in the lead. They found Albert Finney. Albert came in with less than two weeks and knew every single line of dialog. Miller’s Crossing, perhaps the best lit movie I’ve ever shot. And if you look at it carefully, you’ll see that I never motivated the light. You don’t have to motivate light to make something look beautiful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2060BoCAk&t=97)
- **Blood Simple** (1985) - Joel Coen - Spine #834 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28852-blood-simple) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/)
> "If you haven’t watched the Criterion Collection Blu-ray of Blood Simple’s added additional discussion between Joel, Ethan, and I, I asked Criterion and they found us a telestrator. So I literally can circle things as we’re talking. And what’s great about watching the supplemental, director-approved DVD special edition is Joel and Ethan spend the entire time making fun of me and I spend the entire time making fun of them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2060BoCAk&t=235)
- **The Thin Blue Line** (1966) - William Friedkin - Spine #753 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28355-the-thin-blue-line) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0860931/)
> "Thin Blue Line. Errol Morris. I shot part of one of his documentaries and what was interesting about his technique is, he sets up the camera... He just sits on it, never interrupts and just lets that silence live. And also, the other thing I love about this movie is, I love Philip Glass. I love his music. I love the tension of, 'When will he ever fucking resolve this chord?' I think he does resolve a chord within The Thin Blue Line. So check it out just for the tension of his soundtrack."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2060BoCAk&t=293)
## Ben Affleck (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/804-ben-affleck-s-closet-picks)
- **Miller’s Crossing** (1990) - Joel Coen - Spine #1112 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29604-miller-s-crossing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150/)
> "Let’s see, Miller’s Crossing. The Carter Burwell score is so haunting and evocative. The image of the hat drifting through the autumn woods and, you know, Turturro begging for his life. It brought style and also emotional realism, coupled in a way where it was sort of uniquely my– what I thought was the Coen brothers. It was part of the formative period of my life when I was watching movies and inspired to want to be a director."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=43)
- **Dazed and Confused** (1993) - Richard Linklater - Spine #336 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/314-dazed-and-confused) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/)
> "Dazed and Confused. Here’s a movie I’m in. This was a wonderful experience for me. It really taught me in doing it that… Because Rick Linklater, the director, kind of invited us to be authors and participate and write and improvise, he made every actor in it a partner and, as a director myself, I’ve really latched onto that lesson and tried to continue with that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=71)
- **Badlands** (1974) - Terrence Malick - Spine #651 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28406-badlands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069762/)
> "Badlands. Terry Malick made this movie. It’s one of his great films. Coupling sort of rebellion and youth and suburbia with this strange, kind of monstrous-feeling violence that seems inexplicable. And he really captured the sort of both the beauty and the pain of that place and time and that idea."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=106)
- **Trafic** (2000) - Aurora Martínez - Spine #439 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/381-traffic)
> ", God, Steven Soderbergh, Traffic. Just seminal. It’s about the drug trade and its many impacts and manifestations. This movie made a massive impression on me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=130)
- **Hollywood Shuffle** (1987) - Robert Townsend - Spine #1173 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29771-hollywood-shuffle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093200/)
> "Hollywood Shuffle. Robert Townsend made this movie. It’s about being a Black actor in Hollywood. I found it so fascinating, and I still remember that line at the end, “There’s always work at the post office.” It was the first time I saw somebody define the ability to choose or not choose what they did, take authorship over their life and their art. And it remains very meaningful to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=150)
- **Trainspotting** (1996) - Danny Boyle - Spine #1204 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29627-trainspotting) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/)
> "God, Trainspotting, Danny Boyle. This is an incredible film. Heroin addiction and Scotland. And, you know… “A country colonized by wankers.” It was just amazing. That’s a bad Scottish accent, but those are my ancestors, so I feel some bizarre affinity for the place. And, God, it was such a good movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=171)
- **Malcolm X** (1992) - Spike Lee - Spine #1160 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33245-malcolm-x) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/)
> "Spike Lee’s Malcolm X with Denzel Washington. There is not a Performance I can think of that’s better than this. I remember where I was when I watched the movie, and I remember when I walked out, I thought, “I want to be a better man.” It was the first time movies touched me in that kind of a profound way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=189)
- **Bull Durham** (1988) - Ron Shelton - Spine #936 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29143-bull-durham) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094812/)
> "Bull Durham, this is a… a great sports movie. It’s a genre that I really like. And one of the things I love about it is that it was about the sort of the dignity and courage and humanity of people who aspire to greatness and maybe, you know, not reached it, but found a place to kind of be at peace with that and who they are. I found it beautiful and heartbreaking."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=206)
- **Fast Times at Ridgemont High** (1982) - Amy Heckerling - Spine #1075 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30464-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/)
> "I mean, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, probably the best teen high school movie ever made. Big influence on Dazed and Confused. Incredible performances. I mean, chief among them, Sean Penn as Spicoli. You know, like, “Once I cruise history, I’m not coming to your side of the building.” “Mr. Hand.” Like… “Get out of here, Curtis, I don’t hear you unless you knock.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=231)
- **The Silence of the Lambs** (1991) - Jonathan Demme - Spine #13 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/528-the-silence-of-the-lambs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/)
> "Silence of the Lambs is probably the best classic serial killer, like… There’s stuff in this movie that’s been borrowed by a thousand other movies. I’ve tried to rip it off. It’s just an incredible film. Jonathan Demme did a spectacular job, of course. With Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill, and Jodie Foster kind of carrying it in this spectacular way as the protagonist."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=259)
- **Armageddon** (1998) - Michael Bay - Spine #40 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/578-armageddon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/)
> "So this disc, the Criterion… I was surprised when I heard Criterion was doing Armageddon. I didn’t think of it as that kind of movie when we did it. And in retrospect, now, I feel like maybe my best work in my career is the commentary on this disc. People approach me to talk about the commentary on this disc as much as they do movies that I’ve been in."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=293)
- **The Elephant Man** (1980) - David Lynch - Spine #1051 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29677-the-elephant-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080678/)
> "This movie, The Elephant Man, by David Lynch, is the first and only time I ever saw my father cry. Movie about what it means to be a human being. And it’s heartbreaking and beautiful and… and it’s tied to a very personal memory for me. You know, it’s… That’s probably a good note to end on."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=334)
- **La Règle du jeu** (1939) - Jean Renoir - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/295-the-rules-of-the-game) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/)
> "Start with Renoir, Rules of The Game. This has my favorite line from all of cinema, probably, in it, which is—sounds simple, but I find very resonant, which is, “Everyone has their reasons.” I stole it. It’s in Gone Baby Gone also. Astonishing. An extraordinary filmmaker and humanist. And kind of the ability to create empathy and understand other people, I feel like he almost introduced into cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TJ2BlReus0&t=9)
## Ben Gibbards (null)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRJyUUFJQA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/638-ben-gibbards-s-closet-picks)
- **The Exterminating Angel** (1962) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #459 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1076-the-exterminating-angel) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056732/)
> "The Exterminating Angel. I'm a huge Buñuel fan. I don't have this one. I love his films, especially these films that are the very kind of absurdist, kind of surrealist ones, because they feel as if you're kind of like watching a Dalí painting come to life. They're just totally wild."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRJyUUFJQA&t=28)
- **Old Joy** (2006) - Kelly Reichardt - Spine #1008 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29062-old-joy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468526/)
> "Old Joy. Kelly Reichardt is quite literally my favorite filmmaker working today. This film is such a beautiful depiction of male friendship, and there are just these wonderful moments of watching these two men who once were very connected try to reconnect. I've been wanting to work with her for years, so Kelly, if you're watching, hit me up. I want to work with you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRJyUUFJQA&t=69)
- **Take Out** (2021) - Manolo Marcenó - Spine #1149 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30084-take-out) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16302246/)
> "Take Out. This is a film that I came to be aware of rather recently, and this film follows a Chinese takeout bike delivery guy as he's trying to make up a bunch of money that some loan sharks have lent him. It's just a wonderful film. It's heartbreaking, but it's this very cinéma vérité, very handheld, DV-shot film that feels very real and very visceral. It's become one of my favorite films. I'm going to take this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRJyUUFJQA&t=98)
- **Brute Force** (1947) - Jules Dassin - Spine #383 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/820-brute-force) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039224/)
> "Brute Force. I love Jules Dassin. What I love about his films—Rififi being a perfect example—is using this almost Hollywood-style filmmaking but then interjecting this European, almost pre-New Wave kind of element into his films. This is an early example of that, and one I don't have, so I'm going to take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRJyUUFJQA&t=135)
- **Le Havre** (2011) - Aki Kaurismäki - Spine #619 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28352-le-havre) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1508675/)
> "This is Le Havre, probably not how you say it, but it's a film by Aki Kaurismäki. He tells these just very interesting, economical stories. They're always very heartfelt, very funny. This is a more recent film of his, which I do not own, so I'm going to take this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRJyUUFJQA&t=165)
- **Three Films by Luis Buñuel** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3900-three-films-by-luis-bunuel)
> "Recently Criterion had a 50% off sale and I took that opportunity to grab the three films package of his."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRJyUUFJQA&t=34)
- **The Complete Monterey Pop Festival** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/326-the-complete-monterey-pop-festival)
> "Monterey Pop, the complete Monterey Pop. Seeing the reaction of people at this show, these West Coast hippie types just losing their mind to Otis Redding, something that was really impactful to me when I first saw it. And so I got to take this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRJyUUFJQA&t=53)
- **Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/564-eclipse-series-12-aki-kaurismaki-s-proletariat-trilogy)
> "Another one of my favorite series that he did is this DVD down here called the Proletariat Trilogy. These three films have become three of my favorite movies in the last couple years. I have to give a shout out to my friend Melissa Messer for first showing me Shadows in Paradise, which has jumped into my top 10."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRJyUUFJQA&t=180)
- **Streetwise/Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4430-streetwise-tiny-the-life-of-erin-blackwell)
> "Streetwise. This one was shot in Seattle, where I live, in the early '80s, and it follows a number of homeless youth through the city. It's a really beautiful film, it's a really important film. This is kind of a subject that's near and dear to my heart because my sister has worked in youth homelessness for a long time. It's also a really interesting artifact of what my city was like in the early '80s."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRJyUUFJQA&t=205)
## Ben Sinclair (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydNJiJ8dCA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/424-ben-sinclair-s-closet-picks)
- **Short Cuts** (1993) - Robert Altman - Spine #265 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/376-short-cuts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108122/)
> "Short Cuts, I watched Short Cuts. I do love Altman, I do love it. I remember watching Short Cuts while I was trying to stay together with my first love and it was our last Weekend together. I remember more about Short Cuts than I do about why I love that person so I think I made the right choice then. This is essentially High Maintenance, it's just short stories connected by an earthquake I guess is what connects everybody in this film. Thank you Short Cuts."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydNJiJ8dCA&t=207)
- **Bad Timing** (1980) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #303 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/744-bad-timing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080408/)
> "Have you guys seen Bad Timing? Whoa. So here's the story, I moved into this apartment... One of the only friends I made there was this guy, he was a total cinephile who made me watch Bad Timing with him alone in his House and then when Art Garfunkel [ __ ] the corpse I'm like oh my god this is a lot. And then it turned out that we all moved out but it was because one of the roommates pretended to be the landlord. That was great timing on her part."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydNJiJ8dCA&t=79)
- **Close-Up** (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #519 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/)
> "We have Close-Up. So this movie, we use this chromatic aberration font for High Maintenance, I stole it from Close-Up. Also from Close-Up I stole a moment where there's a can rolling down a hill. It's just a moment where there's this can rolling down a hill and it's just like a little pause. I stole that moment directly from this film and put it in season 4 episode 6 of High Maintenance."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydNJiJ8dCA&t=26)
- **Punch-Drunk Love** (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson - Spine #843 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27916-punch-drunk-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/)
> "Somebody told me that Punch-Drunk Love, I heard a theory that it's actually the story of Superman."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydNJiJ8dCA&t=140)
- **Being John Malkovich** (1999) - Spike Jonze - Spine #611 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28055-being-john-malkovich) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/)
> "You know Being John Malkovich, I look like John Malkovich. It's true. This movie rocked my world when I first saw it. If you read the original screenplay for it, it's much more bananas than the film was. I think they reached a nice middle ground with this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydNJiJ8dCA&t=175)
- **Funny Games** (1997) - Michael Haneke - Spine #975 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28836-funny-games) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119167/)
> "Michael Haneke, huh? Really puts people through it. This, I would be interested in going on a road trip with this person and not letting him go to the bathroom and being like, 'What does it feel like, Michael? What does it feel like when somebody is making you feel constrained like this?'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydNJiJ8dCA&t=147)
- **Old Joy** (2006) - Kelly Reichardt - Spine #1008 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29062-old-joy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468526/)
> "Old Joy, Kelly Reichardt. If John Malkovich and I were on a road trip together and Michael Haneke was in the back, that's a lot of different energies. I would like to make maybe like an Old Joy, which is a road trip movie. We will all give each other massages and an outdoor bathroom somewhere in northwest. Kelly, you make a good film. I'll take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydNJiJ8dCA&t=270)
- **The Princess Bride** (1987) - Rob Reiner - Spine #948 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29368-the-princess-bride) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/)
> "I just want to copy The Princess Bride for myself just because look at that dude, look at this box. It's literally like a fairy book, this is incredible. Good work guys, whoever thought about this really was put in their thinking cap. I know it's not like the most esoteric choice, but I chose Close-Up so I get one for me, one for you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydNJiJ8dCA&t=56)
- **Midnight Cowboy** (1969) - John Schlesinger - Spine #925 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29369-midnight-cowboy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/)
> "Midnight Cowboy, I love this movie art. Look at that art, god damn it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dydNJiJ8dCA&t=19)
## Ben Wheatley (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/471-ben-wheatley-s-closet-picks)
- **The Horse's Mouth** (1958) - Ronald Neame - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/695-the-horse-s-mouth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051739/)
> "Oh, well, the first thing I see is this. Oh, it's only DVD, which is a Shame., a horse's mouth. Now, I saw this on TV in the UK and it's an incredible movie about an artist and I think it's John Bradby does all the drawings and the artwork in it and it's Alec Guinness and for me this is like a kind of a almost like a sidebyside piece to something like Lady Killers which I would have watched quite a lot when I was a kid but I remember taping this probably off it might have been..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=11)
- **Grey Gardens** (1976) - Ellen Giffard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/664-grey-gardens) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073076/)
> "This is one of my favorite films, Grey Gardens. But I have it so I'm not going to take it. But,, yeah, it's such a brilliant movie. And Laurie Rose, the DP that I've shot all my films with, and I will often watch Grey Gardens before making a movie, just to remind ourselves how to move the camera as if it's an inquiring eye."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=56)
- **Two-Lane Blacktop** (null) - - Spine #414 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/847-two-lane-blacktop) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5232946/)
> "Two-Lane Blacktop, Monty Hellman. This is possibly I mean, my hand is getting cold by holding this cuz this is probably the coolest film that's ever been made anywhere."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=79)
- **Things to Come** (2019) - Ken Jacobs - Spine #660 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27552-things-to-come)
> "Now, Things to Come was a film I saw when I was a kid and saw it on TV not knowing what it was and started watching it just thinking it was a normal war movie and then it slowly became a sci-fi film and then completely freaked me out... I thought that basically I'd slipped into an alternate reality where this might have happened and I haven't seen it since I was like 12 or something. So, I'm looking forward to getting back to that one of the most one of the original sci-fi movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=90)
- **Fishing with John** (2000) - David Burton Morris - Spine #42 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/580-fishing-with-john) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206750/)
> "Fishing with John, which is a particular favorite in our House, but we've only seen it on, you know, to my Shame on slightly crappy YouTube rips. So, we love this. If you haven't seen it, you should see it immediately. It's one of the funniest things."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=118)
- **Seven Samurai** (1954) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #2 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
> "Seven Samurai. It's one of the greatest action films ever made. And it's also Criterion Disc 2, which is going to be quite exciting for my collection at home."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=135)
- **Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1012-zatoichi-the-blind-swordsman)
> "Now, speaking of samurais, I'll go for the blind swordsman here. Now, this is one of two things that cartoonist Geof Darrow told me to pick up. And I was chatting to him in Chicago the other day and he's going, 'Have you seen this?' And I was like, ', damn it, Geof. I haven't seen it.' Oh, it's like embarrassing. He said, 'You should definitely see it.' So, now I can. Wow, that's a nice one. That's big."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=151)
- **Seconds** (1966) - John Frankenheimer - Spine #667 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/)
> "Seconds. This is a brilliant film. And again, I remember seeing this completely blind, not knowing what it was and being completely spun out by it. And like the kind of in just in the first 10 minutes of it that the plot is so twisty-turny and the use of wide-angle lenses is especially brilliant. Yeah, this is like meeting up with an old friend. Hello."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=174)
- **Sweet Smell of Success** (1957) - Alexander Mackendrick - Spine #555 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/)
> "This is one of my favorite films, Sweet Smell of Success. And I love it also because it's like a this is the actual proper sister film to The Lady Killers... That Mackendrick can go from making Lady Killers to go to making this. So the quintessential English film to the quintessential American film in one leap. And also Mackendrick wrote one of the greatest books on filmmaking and if you haven't read it you should read it immediately because it's the only book you need basically."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=200)
- **Crumb** (1994) - Terry Zwigoff - Spine #533 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2104-crumb) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109508/)
> "So, a slight change of pace, Crumb, which I remember seeing at the cinema at the time. I'm a huge fan of Crumb's work and this documentary is fantastic and kind of tragic as well and sad, but I could listen to Crumb's voice all day long and listen to he's got a brilliant taste in music as well."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=236)
- **Rumble Fish** (1983) - Francis Ford Coppola - Spine #869 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28993-rumble-fish) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086216/)
> "I saw Rumble Fish when I was a kid and I only had a black and white TV so the certain scenes of it were completely lost on me. And I remember going to school the next day and going, 'Yeah, Rumble Fish was brilliant.' And they go, 'Yeah, that bit with the goldfish, the rumblefish was amazing.' I'm like, 'No, I don't know. Was it?' Yeah. So now finally I'll be able to see it with that tiny bit of color in it. So that's exciting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=256)
- **Watership Down** (1978) - Martin Rosen - Spine #748 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28620-watership-down) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078480/)
> "When we got a video recorder in our House, the first rental I made was Watership Down and Death Race 2000., when there was no control over what you could get from video shops at that point at whatever age., Watership Down didn't work., but Death Race 2000 did work. And I think that's probably, sums up my whole career really. Thank you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vago4fXtJvw&t=280)
## Benjamin Millepied (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF970Ynyb3U) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/550-benjamin-millepied-s-closet-picks)
- **On the Waterfront** (1954) - Elia Kazan - Spine #647 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/)
> "One of them that was a great inspiration, I'll pick On the Waterfront by Kazan. This was quite fascinating because Kazan was the theater director in New York and the first couple of movies he really was just shooting as if it was theater... You see he evolves as he starts to make more movies that there's an enormous change and how he starts to master this relationship with camera and movement... The physicality of the actors is in the relationship to a camera that's never self-conscious."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF970Ynyb3U&t=32)
- **The Tree of Life** (2011) - Terrence Malick - Spine #942 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28576-the-tree-of-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478304/)
> "So now I'll pick Tree of Life by Terrence Malick. And so that's for different reasons it has to do with dance. Terry has a way to capture that magical moment I think better than anyone else and he does it by just his continuous shooting. I've been on set, the opportunity to watch him work on set, the camera keeps rolling and he sort of lets the actors walk in all kinds of directions... Catch these moments that are completely graceful and completely unexpected and take your breath away."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF970Ynyb3U&t=117)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "Interestingly, a totally different approach to movement here because obviously Fosse, choreographer, director... The movement isn't about how he moved the camera on in scenes... The dances are complex and they happen on stage and he would essentially capture all these different angles and the choreography for me happened in the editing room. The editing of Fosse is what's absolutely phenomenal. I also loved obviously Cabaret is a masterpiece and so is All That Jazz."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF970Ynyb3U&t=235)
- **L’avventura** (1960) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #98 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/209-l-avventura) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053619/)
> "I think it's also interesting to talk when you think of movement and also of the importance of stillness, to talk about Antonioni, which is a director that I love for the tension, the mystery in these films, the things that are unsaid. I think what I admire here is actually how so often he decides to not move the camera and also not necessarily see the character from the front, but experience the character from over the shoulder, the back... Antonioni is a really great director to watch."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF970Ynyb3U&t=286)
- **Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/743-eclipse-series-23-the-first-films-of-akira-kurosawa)
> "So of course when it comes to movement, it's really important to study Kurosawa because I would start with the first film which is Sanshiro Sugata, which is a martial art film. There's an incredible scene in this film which is this duel between the two lead actors... It's just an incredible scene. But throughout you see how bodies roll and fight and fall... And how there's such intelligent cutting and movement and yet he has the ability to take a camera and go from seamlessly."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF970Ynyb3U&t=182)
- **The Qatsi Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/934-the-qatsi-trilogy)
> "So last, I pick Koyaanisqatsi. I highly recommend it. The score is outstanding, I listen to it all the time. I think of Philip Glass a little bit as kind of a Beethoven. There's something about Beethoven, he always knew how to choose the right next note. These melodies are really simple and yet he creates these very complex variations with them... And these melodies continue to give me incredible pleasure. So Koyaanisqatsi, I recommend."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF970Ynyb3U&t=347)
## Benny Safdie (director)
Episode: 2017 | [Visit 1 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak) | [Visit 2 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEv64x4Fo)
- **The Princess Bride** (1987) - Rob Reiner - Spine #948 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29368-the-princess-bride) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/)
> "Oh, Princess Bride. Gotta take that. That’s an amazing– This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and it will be useful for the movie I’m about to make. So I’m going to take the 4K UHD of that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEv64x4Fo&t=12)
- **The War Room** (1993) - D. A. Pennebaker - Spine #602 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28029-the-war-room) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108515/)
> "A Blu-ray of this, The War Room. This is an unbelievable documentary. Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker. Maceo and I watched this religiously to understand how they filmed everything, the way it looked, the way the camera moved, the way the extras were blocking the camera, literally everything about this movie we studied. And it’s just incredible. And I cannot wait to have a Blu-ray version of it, because it’s also shot on 16mm and it was part of the reasons why I shot Smashing Machine on 16mm."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEv64x4Fo&t=25)
- **When We Were Kings** (1996) - Leon Gast - Spine #998 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30086-when-we-were-kings) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118147/)
> "When We Were Kings. This is a great one. This is another documentary that we watched, just in preparation. Such a beautiful portrait of a fighter getting ready. There’s nothing like seeing George Foreman hit the heavy bag and dent it the way that he does. Oh my God. And, oh, Kelefa, he writes the... He writes the essay. Kelefa’s the best."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEv64x4Fo&t=60)
- **Carnal Knowledge** (1971) - Mike Nichols - Spine #1270 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28109-carnal-knowledge) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066892/)
> "Oh, wait, you have Carnal Knowledge? No way. Yes. Done. I love– This is an incredible movie. Every single person’s Performance is completely unique and individual, and then seeing them all combine and combust, it’s just wild. And Art Garfunkel is unbelievable in this movie. And Jack Nicholson is... There’s just something really... I can’t even believe it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEv64x4Fo&t=124)
- **Flow** (2024) - - Spine #1278 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34685-flow)
> "Flow! Oh, yes. This is... Literally, this is one of the best movies I’ve seen in such a long time. I was watching it the other day with my kids and our cat who loved the movie because the actual sounds in the movie are real animals and they can tell. So, when you’re playing it on your screen, they watch too. So it’s a truly full-family affair, and so deserving of all of the accolades and awards. I love this thing. And I can’t wait to see what it looks like in 4K UHD."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEv64x4Fo&t=147)
- **Husbands** (1970) - John Cassavetes - Spine #1029 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28827-husbands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065867/)
> "Husbands. Done. I’m going to take this. So, yeah, this shot, specifically, this is very inspiring, just for a lot of things that I’ve done recently. Specifically how it kind of captures the actors free in the frame, long lens, is just, like, remarkable. And the performances here are just out of control. I remember actually, the first time I saw this movie, it was in 4:3, and then when I finally saw the widescreen version, it was the scene of him on the telephone."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEv64x4Fo&t=218)
- **The Great Escape** (1963) - John Sturges - Spine #1027 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29149-the-great-escape) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/)
> "Oh, Great Escape. Done. Sorry, last one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEv64x4Fo&t=272)
- **Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1186-wim-wenders-the-road-trilogy)
> "Oh, Wim Wenders, yes! Okay. This is incredible. Literally every single… I have not seen Wrong Move, so I’m excited to see that. But Kings of the Road and Alice in the Cities are two of the greatest movies ever made, and I like to think of Kings of the Road as the adult version of Alice in the Cities. Two of the greatest title shots, Alice in the Cities and Kings of the Road. The actual titles, when they come up, are unbelievable."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEv64x4Fo&t=82)
- **The Red Balloon and Other Stories: Five Films by Albert Lamorisse** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6993-the-red-balloon-and-other-stories-five-films-by-albert-lamorisse)
> "Oh, The Red Balloon, that’s… Oh, wait. Okay, what other stories? Because I’ve seen White Mane. I’ve not seen these other ones. This is an incredible, beautiful movie. It’s one of those movies as a kid that you kind of watch and you don’t even really remember if you saw it or if it was part of your own memory. And the same with White Mane. He’s just… They’re really special, so this is… I can’t wait to watch this with my kids."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3aEv64x4Fo&t=183)
- **Meantime** (1983) - Mike Leigh - Spine #890 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28805-meantime) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082727/)
> "Meantime, Benny talked about Meantime. There's a scene towards the end of the movie that was wildly, that remains a wild inspiration to us at all times. And Tim Roth actually at Venice, remember when we kind of accosted him and I said to him, I said, first I said, I said Made in Britain changed my life. He said, yeah, me too. And then Benny said, no, but Meantime is really it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=64)
- **A Man Escaped** (1956) - Robert Bresson - Spine #650 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27848-a-man-escaped) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049902/)
> "What a feat of a suspense film in which the movie gives away its ending. It's a spoiler alert in the title, yet it still... It tells you exactly what happens and yet the whole time you're like, oh my god, is he going to get away? It's like, yes, he escaped. A Man Escaped."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=91)
- **My Beautiful Laundrette** (1985) - Stephen Frears - Spine #767 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28044-my-beautiful-laundrette) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091578/)
> "These are two incredible queer cinema films. One of the great early performances, Daniel Day-Lewis. Stephen Frears, Stephen Frears is like one of these incredible kind of shapeshifters, the way his career kind of just ebbs and flows. And we saw this 35mm in Munich and it was a double billing with Hero."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=105)
- **Fox and His Friends** (1975) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Spine #851 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27957-fox-and-his-friends) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072976/)
> "And then Fox and His Friends is... Is that our favorite Fassbinder? It might be. If anything for that title, that title shot alone."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=132)
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
> "Bicycle Thieves, greatest movie. This is my number one movie of all time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=140)
- **Walkabout** (1971) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #10 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/522-walkabout) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067959/)
> "There is a sequence in Good Time that was very much inspired... Ronnie was just like, there's a sequence in Walkabout where, you know, there's a hyper-fast montage of scientists in the middle of the desert. And he was, when we wanted to do the police montage, he's like, we gotta, he showed me, he was like, we gotta do this, the way that this deals with the scientists at work."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=146)
- **The Moment of Truth** (1965) - Francesco Rosi - Spine #595 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27674-the-moment-of-truth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059459/)
> "Oh wait, is The Moment of Truth... Is it there? Incredible, incredible, incredible movie. This... I've never... I have very few experiences in a theater that... There was a visual, it was a visual gut punch. The very concept of treating Techniscope in a kind of verite way and just the hybrid element of Miguelin and his relationship with the bulls and his relationship with fame. This movie is so beautifully devastating. Everything about this movie has been inspiring in so many ways."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=164)
- **Blood Simple** (1985) - Joel Coen - Spine #834 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28852-blood-simple) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/)
> "Blood Simple is the... The restoration is incredible on Blood Simple."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=214)
- **The Player** (1992) - Robert Altman - Spine #812 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28835-the-player) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/)
> "Wait, did you have The Player? I don't have The Player. Perfect portrait of Hollywood. But Altman, he says the way he talks about making movies is incredible. He called it... I guess I didn't know it was the name of his company, but Sandcastle Films. He said everybody gets together, all you and all your friends for that moment, you get together and you build a castle, build a sandcastle, and then you step back and you look at it and you watch the waves come and just take it away out to sea."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=232)
- **Il Posto** (1961) - Ermanno Olmi - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/364-il-posto) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055320/)
> "Benny, this kind of changed your life a little bit. Oh my god, Il Posto. I was going to be a physicist. I dropped out of my school and then Josh told me to come to his class and they were showing all these neorealist films and this was one of the films that they were showing that day and I remember just being like, oh my god, you can make movies like this? And it was so shocking and then I left and I went to the same school."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=258)
- **L'argent** (1983) - Robert Bresson - Spine #886 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27588-l-argent) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085180/)
> "When did L'argent happen? I'm convinced this is a dark comedy because Bresson is funny in his own way. And if you think about the premise of this movie, it's about a joke gone horribly, horribly wrong and it's seen through to its very end. And it's... Yes, it's kind of crazy and dark, but the very base of it sounds like a joke. It's so insane."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=300)
- **Tess** (1979) - Roman Polanski - Spine #697 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28594-tess) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080009/)
> "So Benny, have you seen Tess? I have not seen Tess. When we were in Cannes, all of a sudden I looked over and like everyone in our immediate crew was just like literally some of them were on their knees praying to someone. And I was like, what is going on? And it was Nastassja Kinski."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSdxbBsShak&t=283)
## Bertrand Bonello (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZvA3lnvJE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/640-bertrand-bonello-s-closet-picks)
- **The Age of Innocence** (1993) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #913 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28834-the-age-of-innocence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/)
> "I'm going to start with The Age of Innocence by Martin Scorsese. The Beast is a film that has three periods in it and one is 1910 and I've done a film called House of Tolerance that took place in 1900 and every time I do a period film I rewatch this film because he made the past so contemporary. I really wanted to find a film in which the emotions are so strong and so hidden at the same time and the portrait of these three women played by Michelle Pfeiffer is so heartbreaking."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZvA3lnvJE&t=21)
- **Crash** (1996) - David Cronenberg - Spine #1059 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29014-crash) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/)
> "Another film very important to me is David Cronenberg's Crash. The way he mixes reality and Dreams, the way the body affects the spirit, and all these themes are very important to me. The mise-en-scène is so minimalistic and precise and the tone of the voice and the music of Howard Shore in this film is amazing. It's like a set of electric guitars, I mean something I've never heard before and that I copied in a way for some music I do."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZvA3lnvJE&t=76)
- **Clean, Shaven** (1995) - Lodge Kerrigan - Spine #354 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/551-clean-shaven) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106579/)
> "This one, Clean, Shaven by Lodge Kerrigan. Lodge is a director that's very, very strong, very precise. I picked up this film, it's not actually my favorite of him, but because I just miss Lodge's films. I know it's hard for him to make films, it's hard for everyone, but I think he's an amazing director and I'd like to see more of his work. Come on Lodge, if you see me, if you listen to me, go back to work."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZvA3lnvJE&t=113)
- **Close-Up** (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #519 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/)
> "Another director very important to me, Abbas Kiarostami, and my favorite of him is Close-Up. He saw in the paper a story that someone pretended to be Mohsen Makhmalbaf, another Iranian director, just to be able to talk to people. One of The Most Beautiful sentences that the guy says when he asks him 'why do you do that?' and he says 'because I was alone and but alone is not a pain.' This film is really fantastic and the last scene, Kiarostami goes and picks him up at the prison."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZvA3lnvJE&t=234)
- **Pasolini 101** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101)
> "This is one of the most important directors for me, Pier Paolo Pasolini. My first short movie was an adaptation of his book called Who I Am. It's not only the films, it's the whole man, the thought of a man, this mix of pure intelligence and poetry. I miss his thinking. This is like the '60s film, if I have to pick one up, it's difficult but I would say it's The Gospel According to Matthew. He says about the film, 'Look at the Faces I picked up, I never go wrong on a face.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciZvA3lnvJE&t=153)
## Betsey Johnson (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlsETid3hSw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/854-betsey-johnson-s-closet-picks)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "I would like to start with the movie that inspired me to want to become a Rockette, which unfortunately I didn’t get around to doing. But I loved Moira Shearer in this exotic, bizarre, artistically over-the-top, colorful, extreme, wonderful story, and it’s called The Red Shoes. It’s just a fantasy of raw…..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlsETid3hSw&t=13)
- **Moonstruck** (1987) - Norman Jewison - Spine #1056 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29154-moonstruck) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093565/)
> "This is my all-time cornball, but wonderfully… Well, mostly Nicolas Cage couldn’t look more hot and sexy when he’s down in the bakery ovens with his little guinea tee, and Cher, and I just love… I always enjoy watching Moonstruck, no matter what. It’s just a great little old movie for any time of day and night to watch with anyone and everyone, and it’s an upper."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlsETid3hSw&t=49)
- **The Silence of the Lambs** (1991) - Jonathan Demme - Spine #13 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/528-the-silence-of-the-lambs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/)
> "All righty, now let’s see something opposite. I can’t get this movie, I… I don’t like it when I can’t get a movie out of my head, but I can’t. It is Silence of the Lambs. Just chilling. To this day, Hannibal, to this day, the sniffing thing brings me right back to the movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlsETid3hSw&t=81)
- **Blue Velvet** (1986) - David Lynch - Spine #977 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29144-blue-velvet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)
> "Blue Velvet. This is Isabella Rossellini. She’s been on my runway, the loveliest lady ever. And, whoo, is she… a wicked, wild, mysteriously strange woman in this movie. Just… gorgeous. Frightening, but a different kind of frightening than Silence of the Lambs. This frightening I kind of like because it’s… it’s just so glamorous and beautifully visually done. You almost feel the Blue Velvet part of it. It’s just… It’s wonderful. I love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlsETid3hSw&t=112)
- **McCabe & Mrs. Miller** (1971) - Robert Altman - Spine #827 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28712-mccabe-mrs-miller) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/)
> "How did I ever happen to see McCabe & Mrs. Miller? Well, I’m a total, forever Julie Christie fan. So that started me off on the movie. Warren Beatty, okay. Early pioneer across America in the cold. Poor Julie Christie is running I think the little whorehouse with the ladies, so it’s very sexy, decadent, very kind of early Victoriana or… prairie dress cross, you know, hard life, cross country, snow, wet, rain, freezing cold. And of course she falls in love with Warren Beatty."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlsETid3hSw&t=162)
## Bi Gan (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CSq0Ct_dQ) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/905-bi-gan-s-closet-picks)
- **Youth of the Beast** (1963) - Seijun Suzuki - Spine #268 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/946-youth-of-the-beast) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057697/)
> "[Translated] Youth of the Beast. I saw this movie in the last two years. I was very surprised by the use of visual language. The editing is especially good. As soon as I saw it, I had to take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CSq0Ct_dQ&t=18)
- **Tampopo** (1985) - Jūzō Itami - Spine #868 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28880-tampopo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/)
> "[Translated] Today I'm very happy to pick this movie. This is one of my favorite movies. On the surface, it's about ramen, but it's actually about the warmest and most beautiful things in the human heart. This is one of my favorite movies. I rewatch it every few years. I once fantasized about making a movie like this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CSq0Ct_dQ&t=38)
- **Master of the House** (2023) - Dylan Maranda - Spine #706 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27804-master-of-the-house) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14286056/)
> "[Translated] Then I saw a Dreyer film. I've really liked this director lately. I've been rewatching his film Day of Wrath. Although the background is about a history of witch hunts, it touches on very deep, evil, and inexplicable things in humanity that can only be expressed through film. Day of Wrath gave me a lot of shock. It comes from something deeper, conveyed through his cinematic language. I remember a scene with embroidery; when things change, the pattern changes too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CSq0Ct_dQ&t=144)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "[Translated] Last time I came, I took a set of Jacques Tati's Blu-rays. This time I'm taking another set because I gave the last one to a friend. So this time I'll take the big one. He's a director I'll always like. I hope movies are full of humor. Although it's hard for audiences to see humor in my movies, I was deeply influenced by him, especially his use of scene blocking."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CSq0Ct_dQ&t=108)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "[Translated] This is one of my favorite movies. I rewatch it every few years. Like Tarkovsky, many of Fellini's movies have influenced the way I make films. His treatment of the subconscious and Dreams in this movie is very clever. I often dream of that scene where your leg is hanging in the air, and someone is pulling it. So I'll end with this movie and take this big bundle home. Thank you, CC."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92CSq0Ct_dQ&t=250)
## Bill and Turner Ross (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOVbQbpyO0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/667-bill-and-turner-ross-s-closet-picks)
- **Dead Man** (1995) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #919 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29064-dead-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817/)
> "That is where we found Jim Jarmusch. So let's get a Jarmusch film. Got to. All right, you want to talk about Dead Man? Go ahead. Our entire film Education initially came from the dollar bin at Dave's Video. The movies that people didn't watch, that included movies by Jim Jarmusch."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOVbQbpyO0&t=29)
- **Touki Bouki** (1973) - Djibril Diop Mambéty - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28412-touki-bouki) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070820/)
> "I would like to get the Touki Bouki one because I don't have that. This movie has inspired every movie we've ever made. Very much inspired Gasoline Rainbow and I wish that we were able to pull off the trick that Mambéty pulls off where the film just feels like it's floating and that's always an aspiration for us."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOVbQbpyO0&t=74)
- **Les Blank: Always for Pleasure** (1968) - - Spine #737 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28658-les-blank-always-for-pleasure)
> "You got like the Les Blank box set. Oh, I mean, I already got that, so you're right, I'm good. I wore the T-shirt to the show. I'm that guy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOVbQbpyO0&t=112)
- **Time** (2020) - Garrett Bradley - Spine #1109 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32170-time) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11416746/)
> "Our good buddies made this movie Time that totally fucked me up when I saw it. Lauren Domino who produced this... Time, this renewed my faith in cinema. Garrett and Lauren made something brilliant here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOVbQbpyO0&t=127)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "They got the Dekalog one. The Dekalog, oh fuck yeah. Talk about it. That's the whole idea. It's a reference point for everything that we've ever done and we've still never made anything like it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOVbQbpyO0&t=140)
- **The Cameraman** (1928) - Edward Sedgwick - Spine #1033 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29011-the-cameraman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018742/)
> "The Cameraman. I think more than any one specific film, Buster Keaton as an entity, as an experience. My daughter's most cutting critique of anything is, 'Well, it was good, but it's no Buster Keaton.' I'm going to take that for her."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOVbQbpyO0&t=171)
- **Close-Up** (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #519 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/)
> "And Close-Up, the greatest movie ever made. We'll end on that one. Have you seen this? Kiarostami. Godard even said it, he ended cinema by making this film. The understanding of what cinema is, we don't really need to keep going."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOVbQbpyO0&t=193)
- **Harlan County, USA** (1977) - Barbara Kopple - Spine #334 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/777-harlan-county-usa) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074605/)
> "Grand Finale: Harlan County USA. Barbara Kopple. When Turner and I were first starting out, I think she was like the first famous person I ever met. She made Harlan County USA, one of my favorite movies of all time. I literally went up to her and I said that and then I walked out of the room and burst into tears. Anyway, all-timer of a film here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOVbQbpyO0&t=219)
## Bill Hader (actor)
Episode: 2011 | [Visit 1 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348qOuXOAXo) | [Visit 2 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TK8IHWIcY)
- **Amarcord** (1973) - Federico Fellini - Spine #4 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/208-amarcord) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071129/)
> "Wow. Fellini. The man, the myth., I love this movie. This was the first movie I actually saw someone masturbating in, not in the theater, but like in the actual movie. Great movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348qOuXOAXo&t=9)
- **House** (1977) - Sergio Citti - Spine #539 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27523-house) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075815/)
> "Yes. This is a crazy fucking movie. And I saw this at the IFC theater the day I did an SNL episode and then the next day I went to IFC theater at Midnight and watched this movie. This is how much I love that movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348qOuXOAXo&t=23)
- **Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom** (1976) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #17 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/532-salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/)
> "Said that this movie was a good date movie solo my favorite part of this movie is when and then the guy he goes into a room and he finds his plate of it is not a good date movie just want to clear that up..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TK8IHWIcY&t=42)
- **Green for Danger** (1946) - Sidney Gilliat - Spine #375 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/815-green-for-danger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038577/)
> "I have never seen this and I'm getting it. Green for Danger. Seth Meyers, SNL, told me this was a phenomenal film. I've picked it up so many times and I've never... God, I'm going to just get it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348qOuXOAXo&t=57)
- **Loves of a Blonde** (1965) - Miloš Forman - Spine #144 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/246-loves-of-a-blonde) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059415/)
> "Loves of a Blonde. Getting it. Greg Mottola said that told me that this was the movie that really inspired his first movie, Daytrippers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348qOuXOAXo&t=124)
- **Antichrist** (2009) - Lars von Trier - Spine #542 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27524-antichrist) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870984/)
> "Another great date movie. Antichrist. So good. This movie puts me and my wife in the mood."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348qOuXOAXo&t=133)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "Yi, Edward Yang masterpiece. Crucial, crucial, crucial, crucial film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TK8IHWIcY&t=79)
- **Ikiru** (1952) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #221 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/353-ikiru) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/)
> "For my birthday last year my girlfriend surprised me and screened this movie for me because I said it's my favorite movie and she invited a bunch of my friends. It was a big surprise party for me and it was one of the nicest things anybody's ever done for me. But it was for this movie. It was funny because all my friends showed up and they didn't know what we were watching and then they were like, 'Oh it's a two and a half hour movie about a guy dying of cancer' and I was like, 'Hey that's my..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TK8IHWIcY&t=88)
- **Barry Lyndon** (1975) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #897 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29008-barry-lyndon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/)
> "This is one of the best discs I think Criterion ever put out, the Barry Lyndon one. It's like a film school. My favorite part is Douglas Milsome talking about the grid he had to put because he was assistant cameraman on that to keep focus in those scenes that were lit only by candles. Love this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TK8IHWIcY&t=113)
- **Roma** (2018) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #1014 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30124-roma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6155172/)
> "Roma. If you watch Andrei Rublev you can see maybe some of the Tarkovsky influence on this, but this is a great disc. This has an amazing documentary about the making of it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TK8IHWIcY&t=133)
- **Real Life** (1979) - Albert Brooks - Spine #1231 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30974-real-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079781/)
> "Real Life, Albert Brooks. When I was 17 I met Ben Stiller. We had a mutual friend and I went to have Thanksgiving at that friend's House and he told me about this movie because I was talking about how much I love Spinal Tap and he said, 'Well if you like Spinal Tap there's a great movie called Real Life.' And it's just hilarious."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TK8IHWIcY&t=146)
- **My Darling Clementine** (1946) - John Ford - Spine #732 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28570-my-darling-clementine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038762/)
> "John Ford, My Darling Clementine. One of my daughter's middle names is Clementine because of this film. I was such a fan of it and I love the ending of the actual shooting of the O. K. Corral because it's just no music and it's very kind of stark and feels very real. This is my favorite John Ford movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TK8IHWIcY&t=169)
- **Cold War** (2017) - J. Wilder Konschak - Spine #1005 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30104-cold-war) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537300/)
> "Oh my god, Cold War. I saw this three times in the theater. I thought it was so fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TK8IHWIcY&t=217)
- **Salvatore Giuliano** (1962) - Francesco Rosi - Spine #228 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/687-salvatore-giuliano) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055399/)
- **A Man Escaped** (1956) - Robert Bresson - Spine #650 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27848-a-man-escaped) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049902/)
- **Petite maman** (2021) - Céline Sciamma - Spine #1181 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33467-petite-maman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13204490/)
- **The Asphalt Jungle** (1950) - John Huston - Spine #847 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28690-the-asphalt-jungle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042208/)
- **Boat People** (1942) - Jacques Tourneur - Spine #1113 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28696-cat-people) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034587/)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "Fellini box set. When Criterion came out with this, it made my year. I was so happy. This is the first movie I actually saw someone masturbating and not in the theater but like in the actual movie. Great movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2TK8IHWIcY&t=188)
- **Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/752-eclipse-series-24-the-actuality-dramas-of-allan-king)
- **The Daytrippers** (1997) - Greg Mottola - Spine #1001 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29464-the-daytrippers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116041/)
> "Greg Mottola said that told me that this was the movie that really inspired his first movie, Daytrippers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=348qOuXOAXo&t=129)
## Bill Pope (cinematographer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56hwzq1Uog) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/663-bill-pope-s-closet-picks)
- **Bowling for Columbine** (2002) - Michael Moore - Spine #928 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28785-bowling-for-columbine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310793/)
> "Certain things that I think people should see if they haven't seen that are often forgotten, overlooked. Bowling for Columbine."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56hwzq1Uog&t=30)
- **Harlan County, USA** (1977) - Barbara Kopple - Spine #334 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/777-harlan-county-usa) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074605/)
> "Bowling for Columbine. Harlan County U. S. A. Which is awesome, awesome. Barbara Kopple is brilliant filmmaker."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56hwzq1Uog&t=32)
- **House** (1977) - Sergio Citti - Spine #539 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27523-house) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075815/)
> "House. This is not my pick, this is my granddaughter's pick. She said, she sent me a text, 'Grandpa, grab this.' A psychedelic ghost tale. I've never seen it, but based upon her taste, I'm going to see it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56hwzq1Uog&t=48)
- **Stagecoach** (1986) - Ted Post - Spine #516 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/980-stagecoach) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092003/)
> "Stagecoach meant a lot to me. There's the opening shot of the Ringo kid, Wayne's character, where you see him for the first time on the side road. The Stagecoach is pulling up and you push in on John Wayne. It's kind of obviously shot on a stage because I'm sure they got it wrong and he has to twirl his gun and appear perfectly. The depth of field is really small and they dollied forward toward him and he's out of focus and then he gets into his closeup and he's just popping in sharpness."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56hwzq1Uog&t=62)
- **Band of Outsiders** (1964) - Jean-Luc Godard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/291-band-of-outsiders) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057869/)
> "This is Band of Outsiders. These are the movies in my life that changed my life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56hwzq1Uog&t=128)
- **2 or 3 Things I Know About Her** (1967) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #482 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1333-2-or-3-things-i-know-about-her) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060304/)
> "Here's another Godard movie which is awesome: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her. His ability to break things down and to examine things and yet involve you and the people at the same time, that's a hat trick that not many people can accomplish."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56hwzq1Uog&t=136)
- **The Last Waltz** (1978) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1118 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/685-the-last-wave) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077838/)
> "I'm staring at The Last Waltz here. The feelings that Scorsese has about music, the love he has of it and how integral it is to his filmmaking, it's in here. People always forget he was the editor on Woodstock. But even his early movies, they all have that drive that the music gave to him. I've worked with a couple of similar filmmakers who use that as their superpower. Edgar Wright does the same thing. It's like without the music, it's just so perfectly tied."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l56hwzq1Uog&t=158)
## Billy Crudup (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxLQPHnuZA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/886-billy-crudup-s-closet-picks)
- **Kicking and Screaming** (1995) - Noah Baumbach - Spine #349 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/795-kicking-and-screaming) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113537/)
> "Well, I have to get Kicking and Screaming. I just did a movie with Noah, and they did a tribute to him at Telluride, and the opening scene of the tribute was with Josh Hamilton, who’s a very good friend of mine, and I’ve known him for a long time in New York, and I was quite jealous that he got the part, in fact. Noah, he made up some B. S. That I was up for it, but I don’t think I was ever up for it. Anyway, Josh was spectacular and I can’t wait to watch that one again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxLQPHnuZA&t=6)
- **My Darling Clementine** (1946) - John Ford - Spine #732 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28570-my-darling-clementine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038762/)
> "Okay, I need to find a great western now. I’ve gotten really into westerns. So, My Darling Clementine will be another of my western explorations. Henry Fonda is one of my favorite actors, but I was saying that I recently saw The Ox-Bow Incident, I think that’s what it’s called, this western, which is a fantastic movie, really about a lot of the things that are happening now, too, about right and wrong, how do we deal with… how do we set a moral ethic for a society that’s lawless?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxLQPHnuZA&t=34)
- **12 Angry Men** (1957) - Sidney Lumet - Spine #591 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27871-12-angry-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/)
> "12 Angry Men is one of my all-time favorites. Speaking of sort of opportunities to explore society and morality and the changing political climate that America tends to always go through. It does seem to be our most common attribute. This movie tells a really, really interesting story."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxLQPHnuZA&t=76)
- **Carnal Knowledge** (1971) - Mike Nichols - Spine #1270 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28109-carnal-knowledge) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066892/)
> "Okay, Carnal Knowledge. I know this is a great film. I’ve heard about it a million times and I’ve never seen it. And it seems like something I would love because Mike Nichols is one of my favorite filmmakers of all time. So now I’m going to get some knowledge."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxLQPHnuZA&t=136)
- **Mulholland Dr.** (2001) - David Lynch - Spine #779 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28050-mulholland-dr) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/)
> "Okay, well, I’ve got to take this one home. This is Mulholland Dr., and I know someone in this film. I remember seeing it when it came out here at the… It must have been a premiere in New York because Justin Theroux is a very good friend of mine and he said, “Come see my opening.” And we did, and what a spectacular film it was, and a great Performance by my future wife."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxLQPHnuZA&t=149)
- **No Country for Old Men** (2007) - Joel Coen - Spine #1243 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29429-no-country-for-old-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/)
> "So, yeah, No Country for Old Men, Coen brothers. Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorite authors and the Coen brothers are some of my favorite filmmakers, and I had worked with Frances McDormand before and, when this script came out and I was of the right age for it, when I auditioned, I don’t think there’s anything I’d ever wanted more. I gave it my all, and then when I saw it, I was like, “No, that was never my part. Josh Brolin owned that.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxLQPHnuZA&t=174)
- **Defending Your Life** (1991) - Albert Brooks - Spine #1071 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29634-defending-your-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/)
> "There’s Defending Your Life. It’s kind of a good example of the movies that I like there, and it’s so inventive, and you’ve got this unbelievable Performance by Rip Torn right in the middle, with the most fabulous way to understand and take on the existential Crisis."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxLQPHnuZA&t=213)
- **Matewan** (1987) - John Sayles - Spine #999 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29461-matewan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/)
> "So now I’ve got Matewan by John Sayles, and I am absurdly ignorant when it comes to the films of John Sayles, and he is somebody that all of the people that I admire look up to. So now I’ve got more than a starting-off point. I have seen some of his films, or at least one of his films, but this one, I am told, is a classic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxLQPHnuZA&t=241)
## Bong Joon Ho (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/530-bong-joon-ho-s-closet-picks)
- **Tess** (1979) - Roman Polanski - Spine #697 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28594-tess) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080009/)
> "Tess, Thomas Hardy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E&t=6)
- **Tokyo Story** (1953) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #217 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/)
> "Ozu, Tokyo Story."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E&t=33)
- **Throne of Blood** (2002) - Yoshinari Okamoto - Spine #190 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/735-throne-of-blood)
> "Throne of Blood, grandissimo Kurosawa."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E&t=39)
- **Picnic at Hanging Rock** (1975) - Peter Weir - Spine #29 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/565-picnic-at-hanging-rock) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/)
> "Picnic at Hanging Rock."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E&t=84)
- **Medium Cool** (1969) - Haskell Wexler - Spine #658 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28426-medium-cool) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064652/)
> "Medium Cool."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E&t=177)
- **Koyaanisqatsi** (1983) - Godfrey Reggio - Spine #640 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28034-koyaanisqatsi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085809/)
> "Koyaanisqatsi. Greatest movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E&t=98)
- **Black Orpheus** (1959) - Marcel Camus - Spine #48 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/)
> "Black Orpheus, special features."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E&t=46)
- **Repo Man** (1984) - Alex Cox - Spine #654 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28051-repo-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/)
> "Alex Cox, Repo Man. Alex Cox, Alex Cox."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E&t=194)
- **Le Salaire de la peur** (1953) - Henri-Georges Clouzot - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/370-the-wages-of-fear) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/)
> "The Wages of Fear."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E&t=60)
- **Cronos** (1993) - Guillermo del Toro - Spine #551 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27534-cronos) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104029/)
> "Cronos."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBgZQCkUp7E&t=147)
- **Eclipse Series 21: Oshima's Outlaw Sixties** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/720-eclipse-series-21-oshima-s-outlaw-sixties)
## Bowen Yang (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsXjptCScU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/799-bowen-yang-s-closet-picks)
- **Multiple Maniacs** (1970) - John Waters - Spine #863 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28954-multiple-maniacs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067454/)
> "One of my favorite movies ever, Female Trouble. But I’m going to go with Multiple Maniacs. I think it’s because John Waters, probably my favorite director ever, someone who really did bring, like, the abject into I would say, not a conceivable way, but in a way that was beautiful and elevated and filmic. Divine in this is amazing. David Lochary is hot. What Divine and Mink Stole do in the church, kind of the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsXjptCScU&t=79)
- **All About Eve** (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Spine #1003 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29596-all-about-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/)
> "All About Eve. I am a gay man after all. Bette Davis – of course, there’s, “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night,” but the line for me, for some reason, has always been... “As it happens, there are certain aspects of my life to which I want the sole and exclusive rights,” or something. And then Bill says, “For instance, what?” “For instance, you.” And it’s… indelible. It’s burned into my brain."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsXjptCScU&t=117)
- **Real Life** (1979) - Albert Brooks - Spine #1231 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30974-real-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079781/)
> "This is a very, very, very underrated Albert Brooks, Real Life. His first film, and… so still ahead of its time. So meta. He’s playing himself, this, like, blowhard Hollywood guy who goes into this town. The way it ends in spectacle. I won’t spoil the ending, but it’s just… it’s kind of a self-destructive moment that ends in artifice in a way that will always be relevant. It’s just really funny. Also he… is really hot in this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsXjptCScU&t=151)
- **The Last Days of Disco** (1998) - Whit Stillman - Spine #485 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2954-the-last-days-of-disco) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120728/)
> "I’m gonna do Last Days of Disco. I feel like we don’t talk about this movie enough, especially as it relates to a nightlife movie, which is so hard to pull off. Kate Beckinsale’s really good, so mean in this to a sweet, demure Chloë Sevigny, which I don’t think she gets to play that much, but it is nice to see Chloë Sevigny be shy. Can you imagine?... I realized that’s the point. They’re all yuppies. Whit Stillman, you legend. Come back, come back."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsXjptCScU&t=183)
- **Mystery Train** (1989) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #521 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2057-mystery-train) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097940/)
> "I’m going to go with Mystery Train. There’s a laugh that Screamin’ Jay Hawkins does at the front desk that I love. It’s just like a hearty… It’s really good. Steve Buscemi, excellent. You can just put this on any night as you’re, like, winding down, brushing your teeth, washing your face. Have this on in the background. There’s not that much action, but it is just like a mood. I don’t know too much Jarmusch, but I’ve always loved this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsXjptCScU&t=247)
- **Paris, Texas** (1984) - Wim Wenders - Spine #501 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1502-paris-texas) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087884/)
> "I mean, we’re gonna do Paris, Texas. Every shot is a painting. Invented the color red. Robby Müller, who also was the cinematographer for Mystery Train. I don’t know cinematographers and even I know Robby Müller, so just a beautiful, beautiful movie. Wim Wenders. Loves a quiet legend. Perfect Days, I’m talking about you. Yeah, this is a great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsXjptCScU&t=277)
- **Police Story / Police Story 2** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1554-police-story-police-story-2)
> "Okay, I’m gonna start off with Jackie Chan, Police Story and Police Story 2. Kind of the first movie star in our household, for obvious reasons, but, like, sort of your classic four-quadrant guy in the Yang household. And they don’t make movies like this anymore. I think superhero movies have, like, unseated these amazing martial-arts movies that could be hilarious. His body is a jack-knife.... He helped push forward the blooper reel at credits, which I always, always want."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsXjptCScU&t=27)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "I am gonna cap off with my Agnès Varda box set. Cléo de 5 à 7."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsXjptCScU&t=305)
- **Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2648-godzilla-the-showa-era-films-1954-1975)
> "And, of course, my Godzilla book."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsXjptCScU&t=314)
## Brady Corbet (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/779-brady-corbet-s-closet-picks)
- **The Leopard** (1963) - Luchino Visconti - Spine #235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/790-the-leopard) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057091/)
> "Well, I’ll start with The Leopard. Visconti, very important filmmaker for me and has had an extraordinary influence on all of my work, especially my first film, The Childhood of a Leader. Some of the most extraordinary sequences, I think, in the history of the medium. So, will take that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=25)
- **Death in Venice** (2008) - Willy Decker - Spine #962 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28699-death-in-venice) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12517736/)
> "Death in Venice, to continue with Visconti, I watch it every single year."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=47)
- **The Damned** (2025) - Thordur Palsson - Spine #1098 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31319-the-damned) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15010692/)
> "The Damned, going with more Visconti. It’s not a box set, but it is now."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=52)
- **Marketa Lazarová** (1967) - František Vláčil - Spine #661 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27876-marketa-lazarova) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063278/)
> "Marketa Lazarová. One of the great unsung masterpieces of Czech cinema. It’s funny, because I used to always say that the one period that I never wanted to work on was the medieval period, and yet many of my favorite films, The Virgin Spring, Andrei Rublev, and Marketa, are the exception to that rule."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=58)
- **Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom** (1976) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #17 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/532-salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/)
> "I’m going to do the same thing with Salò, one of my favorite films of all time. Funnily, Michael Haneke gave me Salò as a wrap gift on the set of Funny Games many years ago. And it was the first Criterion edition of this, a film that I already knew and loved, but it came with a beautiful note from Michael that sits on our little shelf of treasures in the House. I’m happy to see that Salò is not included in this box set, so I got this plus Salò. Like the work of the great Marquis de Sade, stil..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=96)
- **The Ascent** (2019) - Tom Paton - Spine #1063 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/561-the-ascent) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8439934/)
> "Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent. One of the greatest directors in the history of the medium. She was married to Elem Klimov and died too young. She’s someone that I think about often, reference, and I cherish all of her four pictures that she made before she passed away."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=131)
- **Bergman Island** (2021) - Mia Hansen-Løve - Spine #1170 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33380-bergman-island) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6910282/)
> "This I actually already have, so I’m not going to take it. I just want to call out Mia Hansen-Løve, one of my favorite directors, that I worked with years ago on a film called Eden. This is her film Bergman Island, and I encourage everyone to seek it out because I think she is one of our great contemporary treasures."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=152)
- **The Mother and the Whore** (1973) - Jean Eustache - Spine #1245 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33280-the-mother-and-the-whore) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070359/)
> "Oh! The Mother and the Whore. Oh, the absolute best. Just one of these films that, you know, it’s so hypnotic and, for some reason, at four hours long or whatever, you can rewatch it again and again and discover something new. It’s really just one of the greatest."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=171)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "And then we finally have the Dekalog, which is maybe the greatest achievement in the history of cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=218)
- **World of Wong Kar Wai** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4117-world-of-wong-kar-wai)
> "Finally, the World of Wong Kar Wai."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=191)
- **Pasolini 101** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101)
> "The work of Pasolini I’ve already mentioned, although I’m happy to see that Salò is not included in this box set, so I got this plus Salò. Like the work of the great Marquis de Sade, still has the ability to shock and move in a way that few dare to even to this day."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYw5P3tmba0&t=196)
## Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRDJYgoYd4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/611-brit-marling-and-zal-batmanglij-s-closet-picks)
- **Klute** (1971) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #987 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28708-klute) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067309/)
> "Klute, this is actually connected to the story we just finished telling. It's Jane Fonda's best Performance, she's so arresting in it. This was a really big inspiration in its lighting design for A Murder at the End of the World. I love Pakula so much because I feel like he's one of the few filmmakers that there's no ego. I admire him because I don't ever feel like his ego is involved in the filmmaking. He is using exactly the shots that need to be there to communicate the story correctly."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRDJYgoYd4&t=5)
- **Time Bandits** (1981) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #37 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/232-time-bandits) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/)
> "Time Bandits. I haven't seen this. This is an interesting film. When I was a kid, my grandmother had just died and my mom and dad were very sad. I was watching a TV in the hotel and this movie showed up and it was three-quarters of the way in and this movie blew my mind. The freedom in the story—it's not limited by anything and of course time travel."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRDJYgoYd4&t=52)
- **Blood Simple** (1985) - Joel Coen - Spine #834 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28852-blood-simple) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/)
> "Blood Simple. Oh my god, Frances McDormand. If you've not seen this movie, her Performance in this—how old was she when she did this? Also to see something that's not made for an enormous budget but feels big. One of the things that we always use this film as a reference for is there's a wall of photographs in Blood Simple and all the photographs are real 35mm prints. Whenever we make a movie these days we say we've got to take real 35mm photographs to make it feel this real."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRDJYgoYd4&t=98)
- **The Double Life of Véronique** (1991) - Krzysztof Kieślowski - Spine #359 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/214-the-double-life-of-veronique) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101765/)
> "The Double Life of Véronique. My parents showed me the Double Life maybe I was 13 and I was blown away. I was really drawn to a female lead, to the metaphysical aspects, but also the groundedness and the beauty. We would write something and call Irène Jacob and be like, 'Do you want to come play with us because we love Double Life of Véronique and Red so much?' And she did. This film works because the actress at the center of this has such a purity in their soul."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRDJYgoYd4&t=166)
- **After Life** (1999) - Hirokazu Kore-eda - Spine #1089 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29081-after-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165078/)
> "After Life. I actually think this is very relevant for our work, which is funny that we haven't talked about it because it's such an interesting way of talking about the metaphysical without any science fiction bells or whistles. Very grounded in the mundane but not in a quirky way. Using metaphor—sometimes I think maybe the afterlife really will be like a late 90s version of some building. I love discovering something that you can't believe you don't know."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRDJYgoYd4&t=245)
- **Drive My Car** (2021) - Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Spine #1136 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32441-drive-my-car) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14039582/)
> "Drive My Car. It left such an impression on me. I love stories of unexpected friendships that are not love affairs, but this relationship between this man and this girl who becomes his driver—they do something for each other that nobody else in their lives can do for them. Also this movie is an amazing meditation on storytelling and the art of storytelling because everyone in it is a storyteller. When there's that death 20 minutes in, for two days I couldn't stop thinking about it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRDJYgoYd4&t=313)
## Callum Turner (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/641-callum-turner-s-closet-picks)
- **Au Hasard Balthazar** (1966) - Robert Bresson - Spine #297 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/455-au-hasard-balthazar) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060138/)
> "Au Hasard Balthazar. I'm so sorry for anyone who speaks French and they had to listen to that, but this is about a donkey and it just follows this donkey and you really just fall in love with the journey and you and you want to look after the donkey. It's one of the most extraordinary movies I've ever seen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=58)
- **Five Easy Pieces** (1970) - Bob Rafelson - Spine #546 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27529-five-easy-pieces) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065724/)
> "Five Easy Pieces man this is my favorite film. I've got about five pictures of Jack Nicholson in my House. It's about a guy that he's on the run from himself and it's two completely different contrasting human beings when he goes home so you should watch that if you haven't watched that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=78)
- **Mean Streets** (1973) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1198 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29024-mean-streets) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/)
> "Mean Streets this is the movie that made me want to be an actor. I'm not even joking that improvised scene where he's like I went and bought this tie and Harvey Keitel is trying to get the money from De Niro. I watch that over and over. I still watch that and the music and the atmosphere and the energy and everything. This is pure."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=99)
- **The Kid with a Bike** (2011) - Luc Dardenne - Spine #646 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28405-the-kid-with-a-bike) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1827512/)
> "This one, if you haven't seen any Dardenne brothers movies, which I'm sure you have, The Kid with a Bike. I watched that in the cinema when it came out and I was doing my first ever professional job and I watched that in Manchester in England and I just thought wow that's what I want to do."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=126)
- **The Cranes Are Flying** (1957) - Mikheil Kalatozishvili - Spine #146 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/547-the-cranes-are-flying) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050634/)
> "The Cranes Are Flying. I'd seen I Am Cuba and Letter Never Sent and then my friend Mustafa the Poet recommended this to me. So this is going in for you and for me. It was part of my research too for Masters of the Air because I just watched all these war movies and Russian war movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=152)
- **Come and See** (1985) - Elem Klimov - Spine #1035 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28895-come-and-see) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/)
> "Oh and Come and See. Yeah, holy... This is something. This is probably the craziest movie I've ever seen in my life. A knockout."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=181)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "Naked, Mike Leigh's Naked. David Thewlis and I worked with him on my first film and obviously I was just like tell me all about Naked. He said he had that overcoat and was running around Soho for about eight months before they even started filming. But there's a speech about the universe and God and this mind-blowing and I think they did something like 57 takes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=201)
- **The Leopard** (1963) - Luchino Visconti - Spine #235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/790-the-leopard) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057091/)
> "The Leopard, probably the best movie I've ever seen in my life. And they dubbed everyone. I thought Burt Lancaster could speak Italian, I thought Alain Delon could speak Italian, they can't, they just dubbed them. I was so blown away by that. But just the pacing and the story, the surrender of the old guard for the new guard, it's really something else."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=240)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "La strada I want to take because I spoke to James Gray for like 3 hours on the phone not so long ago and I hadn't seen that movie and it's his favorite movie, La strada. So thank you James. I'm going to read, I'm going to, I'm going to read this. Apparently it's a good book."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=270)
- **Nothing but a Man** (1964) - Michael Roemer - Spine #1209 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31775-nothing-but-a-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058414/)
> "I would love to pick this one here because I've heard amazing things about Nothing but a Man and yeah I'd love to watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=290)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "I actually haven't dived in heavily to Agnès Varda. I changed the errors of my ways and I watched Cléo from 5 to 7. Oh my God, it's like every frame is a painting. Just such a beautiful, beautiful movie and then I watched Vagabond and Le Bonheur. I don't know if my French is any good but the movies are fantastic. I mean look at that, even that is so beautiful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es&t=17)
## Carl Franklin (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/552-carl-franklin-s-closet-picks)
- **The Killers** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/334-the-killers)
> "The Killers of course is one of the great film noirs of all time and of course I love film noir."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=12)
- **My Life as a Dog** (1985) - Lasse Hallström - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/727-my-life-as-a-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089606/)
> "My Life as a Dog I really like. I couldn't tell you anything about the making of it. It's just was I think one of the sweetest movies I've seen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=15)
- **Children of Paradise** (1945) - Marcel Carné - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/683-children-of-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037674/)
> "Les Enfants du paradis, Children of Paradise. When I did Devil in a Blue Dress, the street scenes in this film inspired me to do the street scenes and the way that I did them in Devil in a Blue Dress. And so I just, you know, thought it was very rich and I gotta have it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=24)
- **Tokyo Story** (1953) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #217 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/)
> "Tokyo Story, one of my favorites."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=42)
- **Late Spring** (1949) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #331 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/298-late-spring) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041154/)
> "And Late Spring, where is that? Ozu, one of my favorite directors. And what he does is so simple, you know, the camera's on sticks, it's about three feet off the ground and a 50 millimeter lens. And he just lets it stay and lets the characters work the frame. And what happens is that he focuses so much, here it is, he focuses on intimate relationships and by kind of the repetition of the routines of the characters you get to know them in a way that you would know someone in your own family."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=44)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "Interesting thing about Eight and a Half, I saw this movie a couple times. I was at the AFI at the time and it inspired me to write and to shoot a little project that I should have made into a full-length feature and maybe I will someday. That's about a fundamentalist minister. I have no idea why this movie inspired me to do that, maybe I'll discover them when I make the movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=113)
- **To Sleep with Anger** (1990) - Charles Burnett - Spine #963 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29567-to-sleep-with-anger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100791/)
> "To Sleep with Anger. Charles Burnett was a major influence in my life actually. His movie which I don't think we have yet is Killer of Sheep, the one that I saw at the time. He doesn't follow any kind of a conventional structure, you know, and what he does is so quirky and so brilliant that, you know, it defies your ability to replicate it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=136)
- **Death in Venice** (2008) - Willy Decker - Spine #962 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28699-death-in-venice) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12517736/)
> "Death in Venice, I want to see that. Visconti, The Leopard is another one of his I want to see."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=242)
- **The Damned** (2025) - Thordur Palsson - Spine #1098 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31319-the-damned) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15010692/)
> "And there's another one I'm trying to remember the name of it, The Damned, yeah. I'm just racking up here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=249)
- **‘Round Midnight** (1986) - Bertrand Tavernier - Spine #1122 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29031--round-midnight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090557/)
> "'Round Midnight, which I already have, is one of the great jazz movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=258)
- **Chimes at Midnight** (1965) - Orson Welles - Spine #830 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28756-chimes-at-midnight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059012/)
> "Oh, Chimes at Midnight, which is a compilation of the Falstaff stories, Falstaff from Shakespeare. Anything that Falstaff appeared in with Orson Welles. And that's actually a very interesting depiction of those times."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=324)
- **Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 3** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3506-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-3)
> "This is Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project, which has several films on it, several that I don't know, but the one that I do know and that the reason why I'm getting it because I don't know how to get it otherwise, it's Pixote. One of the sub themes of it is the kind of evolution of a criminal which I explored in my thesis film at the AFI and you know some of what I saw in the movie and what from my own experiences or actually what I what I you know kind of saw around me in the area that I..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYhi85VmVE&t=158)
## Carol Kane (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/676-carol-kane-s-closet-picks)
- **All About Eve** (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Spine #1003 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29596-all-about-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/)
> "Since I was a little girl and I had Insomnia and I used to watch Million Dollar Movie All Night Long in New York City... I fell in love with Bette Davis, the first real character actress star. She didn't care what she looked like... Now she happens to look gorgeous in All About Eve and she is so brilliant. Joseph Mankiewicz directed it, you got to see it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=25)
- **Local Hero** (1983) - Bill Forsyth - Spine #994 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28709-local-hero) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/)
> "I want to talk about Local Hero by a director named Bill Forsyth and my friend Peter Riegert and Burt Lancaster starring in it. It's the kind of movie I like because I like a little story about people. I don't so much like action, I guess I could get punished for saying that and I shouldn't say that because I'd like to be in an action movie so I could actually earn a living at what I do."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=112)
- **My Brilliant Career** (1979) - Gillian Armstrong - Spine #973 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29065-my-brilliant-career) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079596/)
> "A great director who's currently still making great films, early on in her career directed Judy Davis when she was extremely young and had more hair than anyone in the world and was brilliant. And this is My Brilliant Career by Gillian Armstrong."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=142)
- **The Princess Bride** (1987) - Rob Reiner - Spine #948 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29368-the-princess-bride) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/)
> "Because I don't want you to think that I'm just like plugging myself in The Princess Bride which is such a great movie even though I do happen to be in it but I'm in disguise so that's okay just so you don't think I'm just talking about me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=172)
- **Shampoo** (1975) - Hal Ashby - Spine #947 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28821-shampoo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073692/)
> "Let's talk about Shampoo which oh my God what baby are you kidding? Hal Ashby directed this, written by the great Robert Towne."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=188)
- **Hobson’s Choice** (1954) - David Lean - Spine #461 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1078-hobson-s-choice) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047094/)
> "Hobson's Choice is what I want to talk about. It's about people sort of like trying to do what's right for the other person and sacrificing for the other person while the other person is sacrificing for them. It's it's a gorgeous movie. Hobson's Choice. Charles Laughton. Henry VIII is another great Charles Laughton movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=202)
- **My Own Private Idaho** (1991) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #277 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/249-my-own-private-idaho) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102494/)
> "I'm going to say three movies fast: My Own Private Idaho, Gus Van Sant..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=231)
- **The Fisher King** (1991) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #764 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28719-the-fisher-king) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/)
> "And oh, Fisher King, my God that's such a great..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=235)
- **City Lights** (1931) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #680 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/)
> "And City Lights. Now I really have to shut up because I'm really out of time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=239)
- **The Ice Storm** (1997) - Ang Lee - Spine #426 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/336-the-ice-storm) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119349/)
> "But you got to see The Ice Storm, Ang Lee."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=243)
- **The Royal Tenenbaums** (2001) - Wes Anderson - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/230-the-royal-tenenbaums) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265666/)
> "You got to see The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson and my co-star in Between the Temples, Jason Schwartzman. I'm in love with Jason Schwartzman, you will be too. Bye."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=248)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "John Cassavetes' five movies. I had the great privilege to work with John and Gena in the theater and he made everybody that worked with him much better than we were because he believed in people so much. And so I was so lucky and Gena as we know is a queen and a goddess and you got to see Opening Night. Oh my God and they're so great together."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU3_n78jkc&t=76)
## Carrie Coon (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/790-carrie-coon-s-closet-picks)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "I just want to point out this movie, if you haven’t seen it, kids: Naked. Extraordinary Mike Leigh film. But all that’s to say we have all of these."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=10)
- **The Mother and the Whore** (1973) - Jean Eustache - Spine #1245 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33280-the-mother-and-the-whore) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070359/)
> "So I’m gonna start with this Eustache film, The Mother and the Whore. And this is new and it’s a 4K. We have a 4K player. So I’m gonna take this because, hey, who doesn’t want transgressive, intimate dialogue? It’s very White Lotus."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=25)
- **Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling** (1986) - Richard Pryor - Spine #1247 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30975-jo-jo-dancer-your-life-is-calling) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091295/)
> "So I’ve never seen Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, a Richard Pryor film. And so I’m definitely taking this because, obviously, what a gift of a man and a performer he was. And I can’t wait to see it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=38)
- **Crossing Delancey** (1988) - Joan Micklin Silver - Spine #1250 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34764-crossing-delancey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094921/)
> "Have you seen Crossing Delancey? This is one of the most underrated romantic comedies. It’s by Joan Micklin Silver... Crossing Delancey is special to me because I used to watch movies at my grandparents’ House and this film was one of my grandfather’s favorite movies. It’s a stunning film and really captures an era in New York that only can be captured in that time period in film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=51)
- **Godzilla vs. Biollante** (1989) - Kazuki Ōmori - Spine #1254 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33023-godzilla-vs-biollante) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097444/)
> "My son is obsessed with Godzilla and Universal horror... This is a 4K of Godzilla vs. Biollante, and I know he’s gonna wear out all the discs we already have, and so it’s always good to have a backup just in case. And since this is a new edition, we’re happy to add that to our collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=86)
- **Paris, Texas** (1984) - Wim Wenders - Spine #501 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1502-paris-texas) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087884/)
> "Paris, Texas. Wim Wenders. And this is a magnificent Harry Dean Stanton Performance. And Nastassja Kinski as well, but Harry Dean Stanton is just so... It’s just a marvelous, marvelous, marvelous Performance. We lost him, so it’s always good to revisit those greats. He was one of the greats, one of the great character actors. He gets a lot to do in this. So I highly recommend Paris, Texas."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=149)
- **Happiness** (1998) - Todd Solondz - Spine #1235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30465-happiness) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/)
> "Have you seen Happiness by Todd Solondz? I mean, come on. It’s iconic. Deeply uncomfortable. Dylan Baker actually shows up on The Gilded Age this year... We were all so star-struck because of this. If you haven’t seen it, you should. In fact, should take a copy home in case somebody comes over. Or if I need a hostess gift for a party."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=178)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "Oh my gosh, Wanda. This is… This Barbara Loden movie is extraordinary. And if you haven’t seen this and you haven’t seen this Performance, then you should stream it on the Criterion Channel right now. I’m gonna put it in my bag because this is another one I need to give away to actresses who come to my House."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=204)
- **The Cremator** (1969) - Nishon Shakya - Spine #1023 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27853-the-cremator)
> "Now, not for nothing. We’re living through some… interesting times, and this is about, apropos of nothing, the rise of authoritarianism in Czechoslovakia. Just might be worth a look: The Cremator. It’s on my list I made for Criterion during the pandemic. It’s one of the best uses of narration that I’ve ever experienced in film. And it’s a very deft Performance here. And a terrifying film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=225)
- **Mandabi** (1968) - Ousmane Sembène - Spine #1065 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29067-mandabi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063268/)
> "Oh, oh, Sembène! I don’t know this film, so I’m gonna put this in my bag. It’s Mandabi, The Money Order."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=260)
- **Six Moral Tales** (6 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/417-six-moral-tales)
> "Okay, so I’ve been hitting these Six Moral Tales by Rohmer. We just watched… What did we watch? Oh no, this is the other one! This is his other themed series of films. But we’ve actually been watching Tales of the Four Seasons... I think I need both of these because we’re actually watching one of his other themed collections."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=112)
- **Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons** (1 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7154-eric-rohmer-s-tales-of-the-four-seasons)
> "Okay, so I’ve been hitting these Six Moral Tales by Rohmer. We just watched… What did we watch? Oh no, this is the other one! This is his other themed series of films. But we’ve actually been watching Tales of the Four Seasons. So we just watched… Oh no, wait! Tracy. Tracy, I need you. Yeah, no, I mean… I think I need both of these because we’re actually watching one of his other themed collections. Who knew? Tracy knows. If he was here, he would be deeply ashamed of me, actually."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgaVmNJscms&t=112)
## Cate Blanchett and Todd Field (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/486-cate-blanchett-and-todd-field-s-closet-picks)
- **Dheepan** (2015) - Jacques Audiard - Spine #871 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29103-dheepan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4082068/)
> "Have you seen Dheepan? He's so great with kind of societal entrapment it's really great I've never seen it I'd love to see that..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=12)
- **In Cold Blood** (1967) - Richard Brooks - Spine #781 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28788-in-cold-blood) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061809/)
> "In Cold Blood well I remember reading that at school book Conrad Hall the photography is so incredible you've never seen this no because I've read it oh no I know I know people have said you know when you love a book so deeply I read it so many times at school I know you have to see it yeah okay well you have to take that then I'll take that..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=20)
- **Devil in a Blue Dress** (1995) - Carl Franklin - Spine #1135 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32355-devil-in-a-blue-dress) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112857/)
> "This is a great film this is Carl Franklin's film and this is I worked with Carl I did three times with him and this was his first sort of movie where he got to do what he wanted to do Devil in a Blue Dress this is Don Cheadle's first real kind of coming out as an actor..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=44)
- **Wooden Crosses** (1932) - Raymond Bernard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/880-wooden-crosses) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022787/)
> "Raymond Bernard... Have you ever seen it ever seen Wooden Crosses one of the greatest war movies ever made World War one I think Kubrick probably looked at it before he did Paths of Glory..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=59)
- **The Ascent** (2019) - Tom Paton - Spine #1063 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/561-the-ascent) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8439934/)
> "The Ascent that has to be owned by every single human in the world have you ever seen it Larisa Shepitko's one of my favorite no I've never seen it's so beautiful I mean it's unbelievable she's like literally inventing shots but what you know what it does between these two soldiers who are trying to escape the German forces the way it's shot the way you're left with what you're left with at the end it's it's absolutely heartbreaking you can't unsee that..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=73)
- **Tootsie** (1982) - Sydney Pollack - Spine #738 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28609-tootsie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084805/)
> "Oh my God Tootsie's here yeah..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=101)
- **The Cranes Are Flying** (1957) - Mikheil Kalatozishvili - Spine #146 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/547-the-cranes-are-flying) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050634/)
> "Are the cranes flying oh my goodness... Cranes are flying that you know I mean the famous stairway shot you know this shot right yes no it's just incredible cranes are flying..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=104)
- **My Winnipeg** (2008) - Guy Maddin - Spine #741 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27969-my-winnipeg) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093842/)
> "My Winnipeg where is that but have you seen My Winnipeg yes no I've never seen that I wanted to see that he shot that in black and white I think right it's it's a very dreamy imagery I remember seeing an article in American cinematographer docu Fantasia that's a really great way of describing it..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=107)
- **Letter Never Sent** (1960) - Mikheil Kalatozishvili - Spine #601 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27673-letter-never-sent) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053106/)
> "Have you seen that Letter Never Sent of course that how could you possibly do that without it's impossible it's impossible yeah..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=134)
- **Summer with Monika** (1953) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #614 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27638-summer-with-monika) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046345/)
> "Have you ever seen Summer with Monika yes this is what it's the greatest Close-Up the greatest Close-Up in film history is in this movie it's Harriet Andersson they come back from the island and now she's with these older men and Bergman has the camera and it's on her... And then all of a sudden she just turns and she looks in down the lens and just go oh wow there's a slight light and change it just oh it's like the most Monumental Close-Up..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=149)
- **Häxan** (1922) - Benjamin Christensen - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/352-haxan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013257/)
> "Grave robbing torture possess nuns and a sadistic Sabbath it's up right up my alley that's exactly possessed nuns..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=224)
- **A Man Escaped** (1956) - Robert Bresson - Spine #650 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27848-a-man-escaped) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049902/)
> "Have you seen A Man Escaped about the guy who tries to escape no who's getting out it's very little very little dialogue at all..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=236)
- **A Master Builder** (2014) - Jonathan Demme - Spine #762 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28646-a-master-builder) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2276069/)
> "They filmed A Master Builder I didn't know they did that... That's got the master builder in it..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=267)
- **My Dinner with André** (1981) - Louis Malle - Spine #479 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1093-my-dinner-with-andre) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/)
> "How about My Dinner with Andre oh that's great well then because I because I'm so slow as an actor I'm always interested you know when you've lived something on stage and you kind of you there's no membrane between you and the understanding of the world and then you find another way to do it's sort of I always feel it's it's a really great way to work..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=271)
- **Ingmar Bergman's Cinema** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema)
> "Which would you rather have this is not no I think the Bergman okay we can decide later..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_rAKw7q6RY&t=209)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
## Catherine Breillat (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXz316FCzyI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/664-catherine-breillat-s-closet-picks)
- **Viridiana** (1962) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #332 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/373-viridiana) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055601/)
> "Le deuxième film que j'ai vu c'est Viridiana j'avais 12 ans et curieusement autant Harriet Anderson c'est mon corps de fiction l'actrice de Viridiana c'est pas mon corps de fiction mais je dois faire un déni encore plus fort parce que tous mes souvenirs du film c'est toujours mon visage à moi que je vois c'est quand même très étrange oui enfin c'est absolument magnifique..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXz316FCzyI&t=30)
- **Eraserhead** (1977) - David Lynch - Spine #725 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/)
> "Ce que j'aime aussi énormément c'est David Lynch et son pouvoir de l'image tout jeune ça c'est un de ses premiers films et on voit bien il s'inspire du cinéma muet de la poésie du cinéma muet et comme ça avec une lumière fantasmagorique et moi je m'inspire beaucoup de ça aussi et je crois que je me suis inspiré pour un plan d'anatomie de l'enfer totalement de Eraserhead..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXz316FCzyI&t=62)
- **On the Waterfront** (1954) - Elia Kazan - Spine #647 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/)
> "Bon Elia Kazan là c'est Marlon Brando On the Waterfront... Moi je trouve que les grands génies les grandes œuvres vous tendent la main et vous aident à vivre à devenir vous-même un auteur à devenir vous-même quoi..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXz316FCzyI&t=111)
- **Vengeance Is Mine** (2021) - Hadi Hajaig - Spine #384 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/822-vengeance-is-mine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11650226/)
> "En réalité je ne connaisse pas Vengeance Is Mine mais bon Imamura c'est un immense maître cette manière de faire des Japonais moi je l'ai qui n'est pas du tout ce que la France aime... Moi ce que j'adore chez les japonais c'est que ça vient brutalement et c'est tellement mieux c'est tellement plus la vie pour moi enfin je trouve que c'est absolument sublime..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXz316FCzyI&t=161)
- **Black Orpheus** (1959) - Marcel Camus - Spine #48 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/)
> "Alors ça c'est mon enfance et on a toujours envie de revoir son enfance et surtout les mythes je sais que j'avais adoré le film et c'est drôle parce que on a besoin de revoir les choses qu'on a vu dans son enfance... Un film essentiel ça vous transporte dans une autre dimension où on se sent tellement bien..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXz316FCzyI&t=203)
- **Andrei Rublev** (1966) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #34 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/300-andrei-rublev) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060107/)
> "Andrei Rublev c'est évidemment le chef-dœuvre de Tarkovski et Tarkovski je l'ai rencontré je lui ai même fait la cuisine figurez-vous chez moi il était mais tellement modeste... Il était tellement beau il racontait ça tellement simplement tellement privé de liberté parfois d'accès à son œuvre et tout et c'est vrai que il était extrêmement émouvant et simple..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXz316FCzyI&t=254)
- **Ingmar Bergman's Cinema** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema)
> "Voilà j'ai l'intégral de Bergman dans les miens mais comme je lui dois intégralement finalement ma carrière puisque sans lui je serais jamais devenu cinéaste..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXz316FCzyI&t=312)
## Cauleen Smith (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/535-cauleen-smith-s-closet-picks)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. This is so hard because, like, you know, everybody wants like the whole closet to come home, but one must choose."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=7)
- **The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice** (1952) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #989 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28229-the-flavor-of-green-tea-over-rice) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044982/)
> "This is an Ozu film I haven't seen but I saw the title and it just washed over me, The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice. I'll let you know, I'll let you know what I think about that one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=26)
- **Stalker** (1979) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #888 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28150-stalker) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/)
> "I am really happy to have this: Stalker, Tarkovsky. It's like, you know, but Stalker is my jam, my jam."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=48)
- **Blow-Up** (1966) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #865 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28694-blow-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/)
> "Blow-Up. It has like a crazy energy and the mystery is like just hovering and there's just so much like tension and misunderstanding and it's like a film I watch, it's like a train wreck. I don't even know like what I'm waiting for sometimes. So I'm gonna take it home and watch it again and try and figure it out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=59)
- **The Color of Pomegranates** (1969) - Sergei Parajanov - Spine #918 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29219-the-color-of-pomegranates) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063555/)
> "This is a visual poem, this film. I randomly found it in a library, took it home, watched it, didn't know what I was watching. Definitely changed my understanding of how to make an image for a film frame. A few years ago I was in Rotterdam and they had his outtakes of stuff that's not in the film. It just took my breath away all over again. I'm really excited to revisit Parajanov, The Color of Pomegranates, because man, this film is like nothing I've ever seen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=80)
- **Black Girl** (1966) - Ousmane Sembène - Spine #852 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28849-black-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060758/)
> "Whenever someone asks me like which Sembène film to watch, there are many, but this one I think is just so close to my heart. I just thought maybe like the first film I ever saw that really focused on a Black Girl, period. And so I just absolutely love this film and its biting commentary."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=114)
- **To Sleep with Anger** (1990) - Charles Burnett - Spine #963 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29567-to-sleep-with-anger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100791/)
> "In that vein, I remember like the title sequence of To Sleep with Anger is ridiculously cool. It is just enthralling, exciting, and sets you up for this really intense, thoughtful family drama. The acting, the Performance, it was so exciting when it came out to see this, such a breath of fresh air. But for some reason, it's the title sequence that is just seared into my mind."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=134)
- **Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes** (null) - - Spine #360 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/751-symbiopsychotaxiplasm-two-takes-by-william-greaves)
> "This film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm. Is that, I'm a teacher and it is always my great pleasure to introduce my students to this film, to talk to them about 1968 and like a different time. And, their responses every year as I grow older and they grow younger change, the language gets like uncomfortable, people have to do trigger alerts and stuff. And I love this movie. I love the way people talk to each other. I love the mutiny. I love the crew struggling. I love Bill Greaves doing this thing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=162)
- **The Princess Bride** (1987) - Rob Reiner - Spine #948 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29368-the-princess-bride) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/)
> "Where's Princess Bride? So you know, like whenever someone starts quoting from this film, it's like you know you've met family, right? This is the bonding comedy. I've seen this film 25 times and I'm always sent into like total fits of giggles. I wish someone could explain it to me, like why it never stops being funny. But it just looks like it was fun to make, fun to be in. Look at this beautiful storybook cover."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=198)
- **La Jetée/Sans Soleil** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil)
> "I'm gonna go back to my school days and get a Chris Marker, La Jetée. This is important."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=20)
- **Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/855-eclipse-series-31-three-popular-films-by-jean-pierre-gorin)
> "I'm taking home Jean-Pierre Gorin because I worked with the guy at UC San Diego for several years and I'm quite fond of him and I think his films are like nothing else I've ever seen so I'm really happy to have them in my collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYvCHrvbWLs&t=36)
## Charles Burnett (editor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEjl2VUT8c) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/836-charles-burnett-s-closet-picks)
- **Killer of Sheep (1978)** (1977) - Charles Burnett - Spine #1262 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34233-killer-of-sheep) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076263/)
> "And I see my film here. And it’s the first time I’m seeing Killer of Sheep on Blu-ray. And I look forward to showing it to all my friends who hadn’t seen it. Be something to talk about."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEjl2VUT8c&t=33)
- **Dodes’ka-den** (1970) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #465 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1083-dodes-ka-den) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065649/)
> "Dodes’ka-den. It’s one of my favorite films. Every chance I… have, I would watch this film. It was such a wonderful film. It’s such a treat to watch and see. Dodes’ka-den. Yes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEjl2VUT8c&t=45)
- **A Day in the Country** (2008) - Karzan Kardozi - Spine #746 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28072-a-day-in-the-country) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29009402/)
> "A Day in the Country by Renoir. I like his... The way he arranged characters. And when he was living in California, he lived quite near UCLA at the time and I would sneak past his House hoping that I would see him out on the street or something like that, but never had an opportunity. Anyway, he was one of my favorite filmmakers. I like his acting and I like the way he presents a community and how he dramatizes it. Another good filmmaker. You can learn a great deal from him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEjl2VUT8c&t=60)
- **Il Posto** (1961) - Ermanno Olmi - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/364-il-posto) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055320/)
> "Il Posto. You got all the best films here. Ermanno Olmi. I remember I was at a… I used to work for Chasin-Park, which was an agency, a talent agency, and some Italian producers came in and I was really excited about– “Oh, some Italians are coming in, so we can talk about Ermanno Olmi,” but it was a… a real sort of… a disappointment because they were very commercial, and… Ermanno Olmi was making films that were really relevant, but not exactly commercial. So he wasn’t very popular among produc..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEjl2VUT8c&t=93)
- **Double Indemnity** (1944) - Billy Wilder - Spine #1126 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30460-double-indemnity) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/)
> "One of my favorite film noir pieces. Double Indemnity is this film. It’s really a suspenseful film. I met Fred MacMurray. Because I used to work for this agency that handled him. I had to take scripts over to him and people like that, have them sign it, and that was my job. I was like a messenger. And he was such a nice person. A very talented actor. Good stuff."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEjl2VUT8c&t=172)
- **I fidanzati** (1963) - Ermanno Olmi - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/739-i-fidanzati) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055981/)
- **Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-essential-films)
> "And here I have Melvin Van Peebles, who I met years ago after he did… The Story of a Three Day Pass, I forget– it’s been so long. And he inspired a lot of filmmakers, people of color, and I remember him coming to UCLA and speaking to the class, and it was such a treat. And… I’m glad you have this film. I’m glad I can take this away. The classic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEjl2VUT8c&t=7)
- **Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7304-three-revolutionary-films-by-ousmane-sembene)
> "Ousmane Sembène... Ousmane. And Emitaï is one of my favorite of his films. And… thinking about colonialism, and how they control all aspects of the people that they’ve colonized, and they’re forcing these Africans to go into brutal war for them and die for their cause. Fine film. Tragic, of course. But it’s still… it says a lot about humanity. It’s one of my favorite of Ousmane Sembène."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEjl2VUT8c&t=143)
- **Ingmar Bergman's Cinema** (35 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema)
> "Okay, do we have… Ingmar Bergman? This is too much. This is very great. This is… The Seventh Seal I liked. I remember that. The Magician… Virgin Spring. You can’t go wrong with this. All of them. Persona was a big hit. Look at the body of work that he did. I look forward to sitting at home watching that on a rainy night or whatever. Or a hot night. Whatever night. Be special."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEjl2VUT8c&t=198)
## Charles Melton (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/621-charles-melton-s-closet-picks)
- **Mikey and Nicky** (1976) - Elaine May - Spine #957 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27895-mikey-and-nicky) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074901/)
> "Mikey and Nicky, Elaine May, written and directed by her, John Cassavetes, incredible. I mean, you just have two childhood best friends and like Nicky's kind of like in this delusion, you know, he thinks he's going to get murdered and killed and you realize that it's true. I can watch this over and over every day. I'm really excited for this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=15)
- **After Life** (1999) - Hirokazu Kore-eda - Spine #1089 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29081-after-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165078/)
> "After Life, Kore-eda. I love this film. It's shot in this documentary style and I'm sure you guys have seen this film or maybe not, but it's very emotional, a slow burn, but just so perfect."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=43)
- **Memories of Murder** (2003) - Bong Joon Ho - Spine #1073 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31458-memories-of-murder) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353969/)
> "If there's one film I champion for people to see, it's Memories of Murder. Bong Joon-ho's, I think it was his second film. You'll never see as many running drop kicks in any movie than Memories of Murder. It's so good. You go on this journey between two of these police officers and it becomes more about their story, but as they're navigating this, you know, trying to find the serial killer, it's so incredible. It's so funny, but it's dark."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=59)
- **EO** (2022) - Kam Ka-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33481-eo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14113678/)
> "EO, love this film. It's kind of sad in a way. I kind of felt like I was the donkey. Yeah, it's for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=98)
- **Eyes Without a Face** (1960) - Georges Franju - Spine #260 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/950-eyes-without-a-face) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/)
> "Eyes Without a Face, this was recommended to me. Shout out to Patrick."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=109)
- **Le Samouraï** (1967) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #306 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/184-le-samourai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/)
> "Le Samouraï, I can't really say properly. Alain Delon, one of the best actors ever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=116)
- **La piscine** (1969) - Jacques Deray - Spine #1088 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30223-la-piscine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064816/)
> "You guys have swimming pools? La piscine, Alain Delon, incredible film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=122)
- **Cure** (1997) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Spine #1155 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27666-cure) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/)
> "Oh, Cure. Oh, I need to slow down. I need to slow down. This is a problem., we have so many movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=131)
- **Drive My Car** (2021) - Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Spine #1136 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32441-drive-my-car) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14039582/)
> "Do you guys have Drive My Car? Love this movie. Long movie, incredible movie, beautiful movie. One of those films that says so much with so little and there's so much happening, but it's so simple and subtle. It's one of those movies you have to just really breathe through."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=140)
- **Short Cuts** (1993) - Robert Altman - Spine #265 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/376-short-cuts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108122/)
> ", I love this movie. Robert Altman, Short Cuts. One of Julianne Moore's first films, I think, and I've heard great things. Going to see that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=166)
- **3 Women** (1977) - Robert Altman - Spine #230 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/712-3-women) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075612/)
> "I love 3 Women. 3 Women is here somewhere, right here. I was recommended this film from Todd Haynes. He had a list of films for us to watch before filming May December and it was funny because everyone on set was like passing around Todd Haynes's movie list."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=176)
- **Safe** (1995) - Todd Haynes - Spine #739 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28548-safe) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/)
> "Oh my gosh, one of my favorite movies, Safe by Todd Haynes. This movie is so—you feel so much. I mean, if you haven't seen this film, it is—it's so beautiful and we just sit in these masters and you're just feeling all these different things. And Julianne Moore, she's so, so, so incredible in this. I'm very happy. I'm going to get Todd to sign this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=216)
- **A Special Day** (1977) - Ettore Scola - Spine #778 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28659-a-special-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076085/)
> "So I asked a friend for a recommendation and she asked, 'What do you want to feel?' and I said, 'Sorrowful hope.' And she goes, 'A Special Day is a film you need to see.' And so I'm going to end on this. I'm so excited to see this film. I've heard great things from this person."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=249)
- **WALL•E** (2008) - Andrew Stanton - Spine #1161 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33246-wall-e) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/)
> "And I'm going to take WALL-E. I promise this is my last one. Great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Gfzsji4k&t=275)
## Charli XCX (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-93R-4Dqzd0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/924-charli-xcx-s-closet-picks)
- **Céline and Julie Go Boating** (1974) - Jacques Rivette - Spine #1069 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29639-celine-and-julie-go-boating) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071381/)
> "I have to start here. This is Céline and Julie Go Boating by Jacques Rivette. This was kind of the first… Actually, the second film that I saw that truly, truly blew my mind, kind of left me jaw on the floor. I just remember feeling like I had never seen anything quite like this. I had never seen anything that was so magical and so… I don’t know, just surreal and beautiful and playful all at once... It’s kind of beautiful and terrifying at the same time, so, yeah, I love this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-93R-4Dqzd0&t=13)
- **The Shrouds** (2025) - David Cronenberg - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34881-the-shrouds) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20212786/)
> "The Shrouds, Cronenberg. I’m a big Cronenberg stan. I was on tour when I saw this film. I kind of like to watch films to escape how repetitive life on the road is, and, I will say, when I first saw this film, I was left pretty confused and I didn’t really know what I thought of it. And then I realized... I kind of haven’t been able to stop thinking about this film. I think about GraveTech. I think about Honey, the AI assistant... I think the details in this movie are really quite something."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-93R-4Dqzd0&t=86)
- **La notte** (1961) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #678 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28111-la-notte) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054130/)
> "La notte. I actually only saw this film recently. I was in Italy. I got married there, and then I took a honeymoon around some islands in Sicily, and I was like, “Okay, we have to watch something Italian.” So we watched this. And I think the thing that struck me the most about this film was how unafraid of beauty it is. I think this film is so sumptuous and that is something that I feel people are a little bit afraid of these days, to really film something that is just so fucking gorgeous. I..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-93R-4Dqzd0&t=161)
- **Autumn Sonata** (1978) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #60 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/605-autumn-sonata) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077711/)
> "I spend a lot of time in Sweden and I feel like I have an affinity for a lot of Swedish things... Whether that be Bergman. I was in Sweden earlier on in the year... And then we watched Autumn Sonata. And I think this is my favorite Bergman, just because it is therapy, I suppose, and I think the performances in this film are just stunning... Ingrid Bergman’s Performance in this is… she’s just so fabulous and ridiculous... She’s diva. She is diva. Troubled diva, but, you know."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-93R-4Dqzd0&t=250)
## Charlie Day (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMK7yKCaUM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/548-charlie-day-s-closet-picks)
- **The 400 Blows** (1959) - François Truffaut - Spine #5 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/151-the-400-blows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)
> "I'm gonna begin with Mr. François Truffaut and The 400 Blows. The title sequence of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is us just riding around the city just shooting the city of Philadelphia with a very handheld loose camera and the opening sequence of 400 Blows you're just riding around Paris with just a very loose handheld camera. It doesn't seem overly thought out, it just seems very alive and almost matter of fact. We must have inadvertently taken that from the best."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMK7yKCaUM&t=22)
- **The Player** (1992) - Robert Altman - Spine #812 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28835-the-player) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/)
> "We're gonna talk with Robert Altman's The Player, which starts with that amazing wander through the film studio and works its way all the way into the building where we meet Tim Robbins. I highly recommend if you like movies about Hollywood, which I do."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMK7yKCaUM&t=64)
- **Being There** (1979) - Hal Ashby - Spine #864 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29009-being-there) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/)
> "I wanted to take a movie about the industry of making movies and combine it with satire and I borrowed and stole very obviously, not even subtly, from one of the greatest satires ever made, and that's Hal Ashby's Being There. This movie is edited and co-written by—although famously he did not get credit for the writing—Leslie Jones's father. Leslie Jones cut my film and cut some of the other films in this as well."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMK7yKCaUM&t=86)
- **Punch-Drunk Love** (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson - Spine #843 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27916-punch-drunk-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/)
> "Punch-Drunk Love being one I'm gonna grab soon. Punch-Drunk Love and who doesn't love Paul Thomas Anderson? I think one of our finest American filmmakers. A really sort of simple and sweet and poetic movie. One of the things that makes the movie so great is the score of this film, which was done by Jon Brion, who's a real artist. He also did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a brilliant composer. I also got to collaborate on with this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMK7yKCaUM&t=121)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "I gotta go and Do the Right Thing by Spike Lee. Just the use of color, the framing, the way he would frame subjects. I'm thinking of certain low shots where he had the camera way down and shooting up against this sort of Midnight blue sky. The way he took what to me at the time was a revolutionary and unique aesthetic and he mixed that with the social point of view that was educational. I really think this is one of our finest films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMK7yKCaUM&t=173)
- **Barry Lyndon** (1975) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #897 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29008-barry-lyndon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/)
> "Talk about how to light a movie and the different ways to do it: Barry Lyndon. Stanley Kubrick directs with patience. He is forcing you as the viewer to lean into the screen. It's not thrown in your face and sometimes there's long pauses between lines of dialogue. I was late to seeing Barry Lyndon and I actually saw this last year for the first time and it was the only Kubrick film I hadn't seen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMK7yKCaUM&t=212)
- **Tokyo Story** (1953) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #217 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/)
> "And then I think the finest film of all time, and if you hadn't seen it, you should see Tokyo Story. This is one that just sort of found its way directly into my soul and it's to me an important, important movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMK7yKCaUM&t=315)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "John Cassavetes, which I have shamefully only seen maybe one or two of his movies and they were all when I was starting out in acting and trying to get more serious about what good acting is. As the years of doing It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia have transitioned me more into loving the work behind the camera just as much as in front, I think I need to revisit and do my Homework on how this guy did that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMK7yKCaUM&t=260)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "Another person I need to do my Homework on—and my wife and I were just saying how and where do we find her films—is Agnès Varda, whose birthday is coming up. We've been talking about wanting to see these films and trying to find them and now I have them all."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQMK7yKCaUM&t=295)
## Charlotte Gainsbourg (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10-tjb5Y5w) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/482-charlotte-gainsbourg-s-closet-picks)
- **Green for Danger** (1946) - Sidney Gilliat - Spine #375 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/815-green-for-danger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038577/)
> "Green for Danger it's one of the rare films my grandmother is in so Judy Campbell, beautiful woman so this was sort of a family film that we saw many times just because of her I'm not sure the film is incredible but just for the memory it's wonderful..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10-tjb5Y5w&t=127)
- **Antichrist** (2009) - Lars von Trier - Spine #542 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27524-antichrist) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870984/)
> "Antichrist is not it's just for Lars he's a real artist. I always feel embarrassed when you say that directors are artists with a big A because it always seems very pretentious but he really is he puts so much of himself in of his craziness in his films and I was lucky enough to do three even four if Nymphomaniac was two films. Melancholia was one of the film I'm most proud of but I chose this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10-tjb5Y5w&t=154)
- **The Night of the Hunter** (1955) - Charles Laughton - Spine #541 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/)
> "This is my favorite film The Night of the Hunter I think I saw it my father showed it to me on his big screen and at the time it was quite incredible it was in 1980 to have a it was the starting point of videos and we just it was like having a movie theater at home so it was quite special and he loved Robert Mitchum and then it just never left me I just live with it the sound the songs also and him of course Mitchum okay so this is a keeper..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10-tjb5Y5w&t=11)
- **Belle de Jour** (1967) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #593 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27949-belle-de-jour) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061395/)
> "Belle de Jour is one of my favorite films this one is an inspiration for of course Gainsbourg but the whole atmosphere of the film The Beauty of the film The weirdness of it and the costumes I mean I even for a film I did that wasn't really a period film but I was very much looking into her character..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10-tjb5Y5w&t=58)
- **Being John Malkovich** (1999) - Spike Jonze - Spine #611 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28055-being-john-malkovich) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/)
> "Being John Malkovich both for Spike Jonze and for John Malkovich who I adore and I was lucky enough to do a small thing with him a long time ago but it's just a wonderful film also I'm always looking for films that I can show my 10-year-old and this one is it really works for a 10-year-old already it's quite magically funny and so original and crazy..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10-tjb5Y5w&t=91)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "Agnès... She was one of my Mother's best friends she my Mother adored her and rightfully so but they did a documentary called Jane B. By Agnès V. And that's of course the reference for my film called Jane by Charlotte. She was in our lives when I was an adolescent because she was doing this documentary about my Mother and I was so annoyed with her because she was living in our House... Then I discovered her films I think the first one I discovered was Cléo from 5 to 7... I'll give this to my..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y10-tjb5Y5w&t=201)
## Charlotte Rampling And Andrew Haigh (null)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/464-charlotte-rampling-and-andrew-haigh-s-closet-picks)
- **The Night Porter** (1974) - Liliana Cavani - Spine #59 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/604-the-night-porter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071910/)
> "I have to find where will I find The Night Porter? Oh, got it. This—oh, I like the cover. Yeah, it's a beautiful cover. A new one. So I think we have to start with that just because I don't have that on Blu-ray. When was the last time you watched The Night Porter? Very long time ago."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk&t=12)
- **A Room with a View** (2007) - Nicholas Renton - Spine #775 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28597-a-room-with-a-view) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1025103/)
> "Room with a View, which was one of the first—I worked for Merchant Ivory in my youth and it still holds up so amazingly well, that film. I saw it recently and Howard's End too. They're both really beautiful. They're much more kind of subversive than you end up thinking they are."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk&t=33)
- **Safety Last!** (1923) - Fred C. Newmeyer - Spine #662 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28446-safety-last) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014429/)
- **If....** (1968) - Lindsay Anderson - Spine #391 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/825-if) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063850/)
> "Oh, that's a good one. Oh, this is a whole—this is If.... Wonderful. Oh yeah, wonderful film. Oh, that's great. I loved that. Yeah. Do you want that? One of them, yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk&t=50)
- **Ivan’s Childhood** (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #397 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/830-ivan-s-childhood) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056111/)
> "I should probably not admit to not having seen this film, but I have never seen Ivan's Childhood. Trouble with Tarkovsky, I always fall asleep. I think that's all right to fall asleep in Tarkovsky. I mean, that's what I've been told. You wake up and it's still going on and you know it's still—you fall asleep and then you wake up and it like invades your Dreams."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk&t=67)
- **Ratcatcher** (1999) - Lynne Ramsay - Spine #162 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/716-ratcatcher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/)
> "Have you ever seen this film, Charlotte? Ratcatcher. Lynne Ramsay's British film. It's beautiful. Beautiful. She is great. When I was dreaming of being a filmmaker, I always used to watch Ratcatcher in the hope that I would be like Lynne Ramsay one day."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk&t=87)
- **Weekend** (2011) - Andrew Haigh - Spine #635 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27783-weekend) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714210/)
> "And you're not going to take Weekend? No, I got it. You gave it to me. You insisted I see it. This is a really good film. It's a lovely film. You should try and catch that one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk&t=103)
- **Watership Down** (1978) - Martin Rosen - Spine #748 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28620-watership-down) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078480/)
> "Watership Down, which I'm very pleased that Criterion released. Have you ever seen Watership Down? Oh yeah. Existential agony of life played by rabbits. Yeah, all right. Can't beat it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk&t=125)
- **Black Narcissus** (1947) - Emeric Pressburger - Spine #93 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/632-black-narcissus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039192/)
> "Black Narcissus. Definitely one of my all-time favorites. Have you seen Black Narcissus? Yes, I have. Incredible. They did it so well, didn't they? Just incredible. Yeah, so much like repression bursting from every frame."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk&t=136)
- **Bergman Island** (2006) - Marie Nyreröd - Spine #477 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/556-bergman-island) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469772/)
> "Bergman Island, which I have, but I went to Bergman's island. We showed 45 Years at a little tiny Festival on his island and it was incredible. You stay in this little kind of guest House attached to his House and you can walk around and you can see his desk and they show you like his scribbles on the wall and all kinds of things. It was just amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk&t=153)
- **Sunday Bloody Sunday** (1971) - John Schlesinger - Spine #629 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28025-sunday-bloody-sunday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067805/)
> "One of my favorite British films, Sunday Bloody Sunday. Very good film. That's a beautiful film. Beautiful film. And so crazily modern. It's almost like amazing. I'll take that again. That's an amazing, just incredible film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-hyGZuyqk&t=184)
- **3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/982-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman)
- **Trilogy of Life** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/916-trilogy-of-life)
## Charlotte Wells (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uIXEiSB87I) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/520-charlotte-wells-s-closet-picks)
- **Minding the Gap** (2018) - Bing Liu - Spine #1061 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30515-minding-the-gap) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7476236/)
> "This is Minding the Gap by Bing Liu. Bing was actually in my class of Sundance writing lab fellows and directing lab. We've got to know each other there and I saw his film there for the first time and I adored it. It feels like a really nice first pick. It's very cool that this is in the collection. It's the quickest I've ever made a decision in my life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uIXEiSB87I&t=9)
- **A Woman Under the Influence** (1974) - John Cassavetes - Spine #253 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/510-a-woman-under-the-influence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072417/)
> "I have the French poster to A Woman Under the Influence in my office. It's the image of Gena Rowlands with her hand held up. Gena Rowlands is in my mind the best actor that there has ever been. The sequence in this film where she is out on the street waiting for her children to arrive home is one of my favorite scenes in any film that there has ever been and so strikingly reminds me of my grandmother both in appearance and in mind. I'll take an individual copy of this because I adore it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uIXEiSB87I&t=71)
- **David Lean Directs Noël Coward** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/861-david-lean-directs-noel-coward)
> "This is David Lean Directs Noël Coward, which includes Brief Encounter. I actually haven't seen the other films in this collection, which is exactly the type of thing I wanted to take on today. Brief Encounter has one of my favorite strings of dialogue of all time. She says, 'I've fallen in love. I am an ordinary woman. I didn't know such violent things could happen to ordinary people,' which is devastating and that's generally how I like my cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uIXEiSB87I&t=31)
- **Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/691-eclipse-series-19-chantal-akerman-in-the-seventies)
> "This is Chantal Akerman in the Seventies, which is a part of the Eclipse Series. When I was invited to come in here, this was the first thing that I knew I wanted to grab. La Chambre, which is a short she made in New York in 1972, was the inspiration for the last shot of my film, which is kind of 360 degree. And there is a tracking shot down a hotel corridor, this is very directly inspired by Hotel Monterey. News from Home was definitely on my mind while I was making this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uIXEiSB87I&t=113)
## Chelsea Peretti (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/636-chelsea-peretti-s-closet-picks)
- **Girlfriends** (1978) - Claudia Weill - Spine #1055 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29635-girlfriends) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077613/)
> "I was looking for female directors and this looks interesting. I've never seen it. Girlfriends, not the TV show."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=26)
- **Me and You and Everyone We Know** (2005) - Miranda July - Spine #1026 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29112-me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415978/)
> "Miranda July actually went to my high school. Prior to seeing this film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, I had seen her perform live. I thought, wow, she figured out a way to capture her voice but translate it to film. I thought I'd never seen anything like this. The child actors in this were so interesting and human and strange. It was an incredible feat to get such an offbeat voice into a film so clearly."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=39)
- **Trainspotting** (1996) - Danny Boyle - Spine #1204 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29627-trainspotting) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/)
> "Trainspotting was like exciting filmmaking. It is so hard to give anything stakes when you're creating an imaginary world. This is stakes up the wazoo."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=93)
- **Grey Gardens** (1976) - Ellen Giffard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/664-grey-gardens) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073076/)
> "Grey Gardens, honestly truly an influence where you go, yes, like there's something amiss. However, should I wear underpants on my head? I've always been told I'm weird and I think I love anything where that's reflected and it's not me, you feel less alone."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=109)
- **Crumb** (1994) - Terry Zwigoff - Spine #533 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2104-crumb) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109508/)
> "That makes me think about Crumb. Did we find Crumb? So again in that same vein, Crumb, I kind of just love that this guy was obsessed with big butts. Also I just love people with compulsive passions, compulsive repeating passions that drive them. I remember feeling some relief in this kind of representation of a non-waif body type."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=136)
- **Hollywood Shuffle** (1987) - Robert Townsend - Spine #1173 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29771-hollywood-shuffle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093200/)
> "Hollywood Shuffle I've been thinking about a lot lately. I think I saw this long, long ago. I love satire and I love satire of Hollywood because it's a dark and broken world."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=163)
- **Wild Strawberries** (1957) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #139 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/175-wild-strawberries) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050986/)
> "Wild Strawberries, that sounds cool. I love strawberries. People are going to just shred me in the comments. A remarkable voyage of self-discovery, forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death. Thank you, we're all doing that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=187)
- **The 400 Blows** (1959) - François Truffaut - Spine #5 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/151-the-400-blows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)
> "Is it 400 or 500 Blows? I always forget. Natasha Lyonne had recommended The 400 Blows. I loved it so much. As a parent, as a mom, I felt so much empathy for what kids go through and just being socialized and how much it sucks and how much adults can kind of dampen your joie de vivre."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=267)
- **Mikey and Nicky** (1976) - Elaine May - Spine #957 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27895-mikey-and-nicky) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074901/)
> "I wanted to get something from Elaine May because I was listening to Nichols and May. I don't think this is a comedy, I think it's about gangsters but maybe has some funniness to it. I want to check it out. I love a female trailblazer."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=330)
- **The Blob** (1958) - Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. - Spine #91 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/630-the-blob) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/)
> "I'm curious about The Blob because I'm wondering, could I watch this with my child? Will it be too slow? We'll see."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=358)
- **The Red Balloon and Other Stories: Five Films by Albert Lamorisse** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6993-the-red-balloon-and-other-stories-five-films-by-albert-lamorisse)
> "I'm always looking for things to watch with my child who is six. Someone recommended this, The Red Balloon. It's short, which is unfortunate, I wish it was longer, but he loved it and so it was a moment of peace and respite from the direction that children's entertainment has gone, which is just greatly underestimating children in my opinion."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espgxLcU-Y8&t=214)
## Cheryl Dunye (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/653-cheryl-dunye-s-closet-picks)
- **I Married a Witch** (1942) - René Clair - Spine #676 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27771-i-married-a-witch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034881/)
> "René Clair's I Married a Witch. Now, I have married a witch, my wonder witch, which you know my wife Karina is my partner in my Jingle Town Films company and we just rock and roll together. But she definitely has that magical... In this film is Veronica Lake who I just adore and this film was a pre-Bewitched. If you haven't seen anything with old special effects and just a 1940s feel of sauciness and witchery and comedy, this is great stuff."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE&t=30)
- **Mudbound** (2017) - Dee Rees - Spine #1205 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33829-mudbound) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2396589/)
> "There's Mudbound here, my gosh. Shout out to the other queers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE&t=124)
- **The Cameraman** (1928) - Edward Sedgwick - Spine #1033 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29011-the-cameraman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018742/)
> "The Cameraman, look at this. Oh my gosh, early cinema, huh? Buster Keaton and comedy. You know what, I'm just going to add to the bag anyway."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE&t=129)
- **To Die For** (1997) - Roberta Torre - Spine #1213 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32358-to-die-for) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120277/)
> "One of the more recent adds to their collection is To Die For. All right, I mean, Gus Van Sant."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE&t=164)
- **The Watermelon Woman** (1997) - Cheryl Dunye - Spine #1184 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30705-the-watermelon-woman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118125/)
> "I'm just going to shout out to find myself in the collection. So look, The Watermelon Woman, and I guess I'm really into the collection as well here at Criterion because I love cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE&t=329)
- **A Hollis Frampton Odyssey** (1966) - Hollis Frampton - Spine #607 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27945-a-hollis-frampton-odyssey)
> "Another person whose work that I really loved was Hollis Frampton and they have his collection here of his shorter works from '66 to '79. He played with time and speed and just questioned cinema and the totality of it and what it means with representation. This is really something if you want to learn about form, which is very important to learn about how to learn about narrative. Frampton gives you a lot to see here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE&t=91)
- **Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7045-chantal-akerman-masterpieces-1968-1978)
> "Chantal Akerman. We know what it means, I know what it means. Jeanne Dielman, which you know is just the tip of the iceberg of what Akerman has done. I mean, I don't want to go through it all but you should, and I'm taking it with me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE&t=142)
- **The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs** (7 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4431-the-signifyin-works-of-marlon-riggs)
> "I was fortunate enough to meet and speak with and be encouraged by Marlon Riggs and they have the Marlon Riggs collection here. When he passed, he left a lot behind and he left most importantly,, his work behind for us and this is a collection of his work and it's always so hard to find. It really is always so hard to find streaming or anywhere and it's here in the collection so, I'm going to take that and I would say you should take that and find it here and add it to your coll..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE&t=203)
- **The BRD Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/138-the-brd-trilogy)
> "Oh my box sets, don't forget my box sets. My box set of the BRD, Fassbinder, who I mean he was a post-war German young filmmaker with radical ideas. This has Lola, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss in it. So this is a real great special collection of that work and it's a great introduction to German cinema from this time period."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE&t=244)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "Varda is the one I'm here for. All my homages, I'm here for people whose cinema I just can't live without to help me make cinema and continue to make cinema. And this is the box set of Agnès Varda and I'll have everything of Varda. Varda has passed but her work remains alive here and it's in my bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ZeFtAssNE&t=298)
## Chiara Mastroianni (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwDxyMc6G8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/772-chiara-mastroianni-s-closet-picks)
- **Rebecca** (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/680-rebecca) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/)
> "We have here something that really scared me as a child and, I guess, still does now. I love Joan Fontaine. This is Rebecca by Hitchcock. I started watching Hitchcock when I was a child, and I’ve always been really mesmerized by his psychology. It’s very, very strong, very erotic. And it’s actually weird as a kid that I was so into it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwDxyMc6G8&t=8)
- **To Be or Not to Be** (1942) - Ernst Lubitsch - Spine #670 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27690-to-be-or-not-to-be) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035446/)
> "This is fantastic. To Be or Not to Be, Lubitsch. A must-see, and re-see and re-see and re-see forever. It’s absolutely wonderful. I think what I like about these kind of movies is that... It’s one in a kind, so it’s not a kind of movie, but... Is the idea to bring something very politic, but, underneath, comedy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwDxyMc6G8&t=34)
- **Divorce Italian Style** (1961) - Pietro Germi - Spine #286 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/877-divorce-italian-style) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055913/)
> "Actually I saw something that goes in the direction of what I just said. Divorce Italian Style is a very different story from Lubitsch. But what made me think of it is that Divorce Italian Style is a comedy. It’s really, really funny. When I was a kid and I first saw it, to me, it was just a comedy. And then growing up and learning about Italian politics... Divorce Italian Style was a very political film disguised into a comedy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwDxyMc6G8&t=60)
- **Mean Streets** (1973) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1198 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29024-mean-streets) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/)
> "Back to basics. Mean Streets. Just... No comment, just perfect. I love Scorsese, any Scorsese I love. I love his films. I love the man."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwDxyMc6G8&t=126)
- **Cure** (1997) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Spine #1155 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27666-cure) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/)
> "Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Cure, I want to see it. Japanese horror, very good. I like horror movies. And when I was a child, once again, I saw many of them because my Mother was crazy about vampire stories and my stepmom had no knowledge of what kids should see or not see. So thanks to that ignorance, I was able to see so many horror movies. I don’t know what it is with horror. I guess it takes away my personal anxiety or something."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwDxyMc6G8&t=138)
- **The Night of the Hunter** (1955) - Charles Laughton - Spine #541 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/)
> "This is The Night of the Hunter. Charles Laughton. Charles Laughton, for those who don’t know him, was an actor, this is the only film he’s done. He was a big adult when he did it, I think over 50 years old. So this means that there is always hope in life to get something very, very good done once. I think when you’re a child and you get the luck of discovering very strong movies like this, it’s very difficult after that to escape from cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwDxyMc6G8&t=170)
- **A Special Day** (1977) - Ettore Scola - Spine #778 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28659-a-special-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076085/)
> "A Special Day is not a feel-good movie at all. It’s just a wonderful film. It’s by Ettore Scola, Sophia Loren, and my father. And it’s just two characters, one set... I think what’s interesting about... Because the idea of the male figure has always been something very macho, you know, virile. And suddenly you have this actor who comes in, my father, with a very delicate way of moving himself... He proposed a different version of a man."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwDxyMc6G8&t=221)
- **The Organizer** (2017) - Nick Taylor - Spine #610 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27612-the-organizer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6089594/)
> "There is another one that I completely forgot. To just give you indigestion talking about my father all the time. So The Organizer is a Monicelli movie that went very bad when it came out. Absolutely no success. It’s the story of a factory in the beginning of the 1900s... And this character that my dad plays is kind of an idealist guy who arrives in this factory. And little by little, he’s going to be able to help them be conscious."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwDxyMc6G8&t=303)
- **Things to Come** (2019) - Ken Jacobs - Spine #660 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27552-things-to-come)
> "For my last one, I’m going to close my eyes and put my finger somewhere and we’ll see what comes out. Let’s see. Things to Come, H. G. Wells. Oh my God, this I have not seen. But the title and the author and what we’re living right now, it’s a sign."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRwDxyMc6G8&t=368)
## Chris Eigeman (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubQAunfwdo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/452-chris-eigeman-s-closet-picks)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "Oh, got it. Yeah, this movie is so... I saw this movie when it came out and thought, 'Jesus, this is amazing.' And look at this, about show business and what a great world to be in and how unbelievably romantic it was. Even his death is incredibly sexy, Scheider's death. Now I happen to watch it recently and it's just terrifying to watch it as a middle-aged man. It's absolutely terrifying because nothing is romantic and the death, you feel like you're having a heart attack."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubQAunfwdo&t=1)
- **The Vanishing** (1993) - George Sluizer - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/677-the-vanishing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108473/)
> "This is a cool, oh wow, The Vanishing. I feel like I'm in this corner too much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubQAunfwdo&t=52)
- **Videodrome** (1983) - David Cronenberg - Spine #248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)
> "That's very funny. Whoever in art decided to do that deserves, you know, an award. That's really good for Videodrome."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubQAunfwdo&t=125)
- **The Friends of Eddie Coyle** (1973) - Peter Yates - Spine #475 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1426-the-friends-of-eddie-coyle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070077/)
> "Oh, this is such a fantastic movie, The Friends of Eddie Coyle. This is just one of these movies—Peter Yates directed it—but it's one of these films that you can sit and watch it, and if someone is watching it with you and they aren't completely paying attention, the movie will end and they will have no idea what the film's about. This, by the way, I know has an amazing commentary track. You can cook a fine, fine spaghetti sauce in the time it takes to listen to that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubQAunfwdo&t=136)
- **Pickup on South Street** (1953) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #224 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/446-pickup-on-south-street) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046187/)
> "Pickup on South Street is just a spectacular movie and you guys did—I have your version of it. It's found, it's just great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubQAunfwdo&t=168)
- **Night Train to Munich** (1940) - Carol Reed - Spine #523 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/25039-night-train-to-munich) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032842/)
> "Oh, Night Train to Munich. This is a Carol Reed film that I've, you know, I think it's on TCM apparently, but I keep Missing it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubQAunfwdo&t=175)
- **Contempt** (2019) - Cole Daniel Hills - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/239-contempt) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9659514/)
> "I had a request, my wife knew I was coming, of Contempt. She said, 'God, when you see that marriage falling apart and they don't even really talk about how it's falling apart, but you can just watch it falling apart.' And she really held forth on this. I was like, 'Is there something we need to talk... You really care about Contempt or is there something else we need to chat about?' She's like, 'No, I just care about Contempt.' Where is... Do you guys have that one? It's out of print."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubQAunfwdo&t=185)
## Christian Petzold (producer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnz4FmBO2RY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/570-christian-petzold-s-closet-picks)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "I saw when I came in Wanda by Barbara Loden here. It's one of my favorites and I must say is something I have discovered together with my friend Haroon Farocki. He used Wanda for one of his seminars. One scene, Wanda is coming into a bar, she's out of money... And this man who is not the bar keeper, he's a robber. From this moment on both are together, the robber and Wanda. People are together not because they are in love because they need each other. Love is something which is coming later."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnz4FmBO2RY&t=32)
- **The Lady Eve** (1941) - Preston Sturges - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/639-the-lady-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033804/)
> "I see the movie Lady Eve here. I have to take this too. Lady Eve I think I've seen together with Nina Hoss for Phoenix. There is something in this which is also in Phoenix: there is a man who doesn't recognize his wife. Both of them, the guilty dumb German and the innocent dumb American, are brothers when they are in front of the woman."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnz4FmBO2RY&t=97)
- **Trafic** (2000) - Aurora Martínez - Spine #439 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/381-traffic)
> "Traffic by Soderbergh. It's a fantastic movie. For me Soderbergh is jazz. It's a band. I have always the feeling that he's not an auteur like an artist of the 19th century, that he needs a band and they make jam sessions and the movie is the jam session. Ocean's 11 is like a band who has a concert in Amsterdam or concert in Rome, and Traffic, it's a concert in the middle of the American hearts."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnz4FmBO2RY&t=130)
- **People on Sunday** (2020) - Tulapop Saenjaroen - Spine #569 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27625-people-on-sunday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13151116/)
> "People on Sunday. I was in Vienna in a film museum, we saw all Edgar Ulmer movies and People on Sunday. I was astonished: Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Robert Siodmak, they have to make a movie at the Weekend because they work for magazines or for scripts. This movie invents a new cinema, a cinema of bodies who can dance, bodies from the working class, bodies without makeup, without costumes. It's a fantastic free atmosphere, a fresh air is inside of this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnz4FmBO2RY&t=161)
- **A Matter of Life and Death** (1981) - Russ Mayberry - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28833-a-matter-of-life-and-death) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082724/)
> "A Matter of Life and Death is also, oh my God, this is one of the best movies I ever saw in my life. It's a tale of love poetry, a story about the war like a romantic tale for lovers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnz4FmBO2RY&t=286)
- **Six Moral Tales** (6 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/417-six-moral-tales)
> "These are Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales. This, you can see them all, they are fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnz4FmBO2RY&t=204)
- **3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/982-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman)
> "Then this Rossellini starring Ingrid Bergman is a collaboration. You must think she made Casablanca, she was a star, and then she went to this communist Catholic communist Rossellini to Italy and they make six movies together. Stromboli, there is one scene when Ingrid Bergman wants to leave the island and she seduces a man who can bring her out. Some years later both make Journey to Italy. When something is dying you can feel for one moment all the enthusiasm of the start."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnz4FmBO2RY&t=209)
## Cillian Murphy (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ze7Yo9jgY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/874-cillian-murphy-s-closet-picks)
- **Rosetta** (1999) - Jean-Pierre Dardenne - Spine #621 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28056-rosetta) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200071/)
> "I actually watched this movie on Criterion Channel relatively recently. Rosetta by the Dardenne brothers. They’re these just tremendous Belgian brothers that make these beautiful, compassionate film about, I guess, Real Life. And this is a film about a young girl who’s living in, like, a caravan park, and her mom’s an alcoholic, and she’s just trying to hold everything together and she eventually gets a job working in a waffle stall... She’s magnificent in this, so much respect to her."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ze7Yo9jgY&t=40)
- **Code Unknown** (2000) - Michael Haneke - Spine #780 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28738-code-unknown) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216625/)
> "This is, again, another– These are quite formative films for me. This is a film that I watched when it came out in the cinema. A film by Michael Haneke... This is called Code Unknown. I didn’t quite know what I was watching at the time. Juliette Binoche is the main character in it. But it’s kind of fragmented storytelling. The opening sequence of this movie you will never forget. It’s this huge, long one take. It’s, like, there’s heavy themes in there, like race and immigration. But it’s magn..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ze7Yo9jgY&t=188)
- **La piscine** (1969) - Jacques Deray - Spine #1088 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30223-la-piscine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064816/)
> "So this movie, La piscine. This movie will make you want to move to France. Certainly at the beginning. The beautiful thing about this film is it’s all about what… kind of what isn’t said, and, like, all the subtext and all the energies that are happening between the characters. By the end of the movie, you will not want to move to France."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ze7Yo9jgY&t=14)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "Maybe everybody picks Cassavetes. Now, this is very special to me, because in, like, the early 2000s... I went out and I bought this collection and, over a Weekend, myself and my wife, we watched every single film on this. I mean, the standout movie for me is A Woman Under the Influence... I have two of these. So I don’t really need a third, but it had a huge influence then on me, once I discovered him, as it does on everybody who discovers Cassavetes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ze7Yo9jgY&t=111)
- **The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years** (10 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8208-the-wes-anderson-archive-ten-films-twenty-five-years)
> "So, look at this. This is absolutely a thing of beauty. So this is The Wes Anderson Archive. So it’s ten films over 25 years. I mean, it could not be more Wes Anderson. It’s absolutely a beautiful thing. During Covid, my kids were just getting into movies and we watched every single one of Wes Anderson’s movies. Can I have this? Yes! I don’t know if it’ll fit in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Ze7Yo9jgY&t=253)
## Claire Danes (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudBFPgWGGA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/890-claire-danes-s-closet-picks)
- **Some Like It Hot** (1959) - Billy Wilder - Spine #950 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29162-some-like-it-hot) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/)
> "Some Like It Hot I saw I think when I was five. I remember watching it in the bathtub. I watched it twice in a row in the bathtub, and it was very cold and I was very pruney by the end of it, but it was just, like, revelatory. It actually makes me really, really want to watch it with my own kids. I have so many kids now. And, I mean, the three of them together, it was just magic times a million. The best. So, Marilyn, it’s the three ‘M’s, I call it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudBFPgWGGA&t=23)
- **The Breakfast Club** (1985) - John Hughes - Spine #905 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29272-the-breakfast-club) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088847/)
> "And Molly. I mean, I was born in ’79. I’m a child of the ’80s. These John Hughes movies, holy moly, were they everything to me. But this movie is a masterpiece. And Anthony Michael Hall, oh my God, so vulnerable and so hilarious, and just a throbbing, beating heart, all of them. The Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudBFPgWGGA&t=60)
- **Defending Your Life** (1991) - Albert Brooks - Spine #1071 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29634-defending-your-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/)
> "And then Defending Your Life and… So, now, what a love story and what an imaginative way to, you know, contextualize a love story. So, okay, they go in there."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudBFPgWGGA&t=86)
- **Dogfight** (1991) - Nancy Savoca - Spine #1216 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33803-dogfight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101748/)
> "Okay, Dogfight, River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. And those actors are some of the finest actors that have ever lived, but certainly, like, of my generation. Handsome boy meets, you know, we’re not supposed to think very beautiful girl, but come on, who are we kidding? Star-crossed lovers and empathy and love where you least expect it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudBFPgWGGA&t=99)
- **A Woman Under the Influence** (1974) - John Cassavetes - Spine #253 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/510-a-woman-under-the-influence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072417/)
> "Yes, A Woman Under the Influence. Okay, this I talk about kind of in relationship to Streetwise because I watched it, like, for my work. I should have just seen it because it’s a classic, but when I was starting to think about Carrie Mathison, I’m pretty sure it’s never explicitly stated that she’s bipolar, and I was playing somebody with that condition as well, but it is so… authentic. She’s working so hard to make… to make full sense of what’s happening."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudBFPgWGGA&t=207)
- **The Grifters** (1990) - Stephen Frears - Spine #1246 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30526-the-grifters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099703/)
> "I’ll do The Grifters because I saw this much earlier than I should have seen it. It’s when I discovered Annette Bening, I think, and she was so dangerous and super raw and so hot. What a good cover, too, like the glasses, it says it all. But everybody’s brilliant in this. But I remember just thinking like, 'Ooh, that’s naughty.' So that would be, I guess, my final one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudBFPgWGGA&t=259)
- **Streetwise/Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4430-streetwise-tiny-the-life-of-erin-blackwell)
> "Streetwise. I discovered this movie not too long ago when I was shooting Fleishman Is in Trouble and one of our PAs, who was brilliant, this guy Eli, loved him, real cinephile, was wearing a T-shirt that kind of referenced this movie, which is about street kids... He had really a helpful insight... And said, 'It sounds like she’s like a runaway, like a teenage runaway, and there’s something kind of feral about her... Like the ground is falling out from under her.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nudBFPgWGGA&t=130)
## Claire Denis’ (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ANFzjSnLo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/428-claire-denis-closet-picks)
- **Ordet** (1955) - Carl Theodor Dreyer - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/441-ordet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048452/)
> "What immediately jumped to my face is the Dreyer box. I remember when I was working with Jacques Rivette, we went to see Gertrud together and we organized a screening of Ordet and we had long discussion about what was so important in Dreyer's work for so many filmmakers. Because this is in my hand and because it made so much effect on me, I think I put it in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ANFzjSnLo&t=20)
- **Day of Wrath** (1943) - Carl Theodor Dreyer - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/442-day-of-wrath) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036506/)
> "What immediately jumped to my face is the Dreyer box... Because this is in my hand and because it made so much effect on me, I think I put it in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ANFzjSnLo&t=20)
- **Gertrud** (1964) - Carl Theodor Dreyer - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/443-gertrud) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058138/)
> "I remember when I was working with Jacques Rivette, we went to see Gertrud together and we organized a screening of Ordet and we had long discussion about what was so important in Dreyer's work for so many filmmakers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ANFzjSnLo&t=30)
- **Gate of Flesh** (1964) - Seijun Suzuki - Spine #298 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/863-gate-of-flesh) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058409/)
> "What is Gate of Flesh? Yeah, it's Suzuki's film, Gate of Flesh. I knew it under another— come on, this is so great. Okay, what a beautiful title in English. Okay, Gate of Flesh. Okay, let's turn because this is too attractive."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ANFzjSnLo&t=88)
- **Tout va bien** (1972) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #275 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/929-tout-va-bien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069398/)
> "I remember have not seen Tout va bien for a long time. The film by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. Well, Tout va bien, it's great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ANFzjSnLo&t=72)
- **Summer with Monika** (1953) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #614 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27638-summer-with-monika) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046345/)
> "Summer with Monika, I've been dreaming of it. I've been dreaming of it. I've been dreaming of that pure splendid momentum of youth and of course each time I see it I am desperate as if through the film you know that this youth and this light of summer is not going to last."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ANFzjSnLo&t=183)
- **His Girl Friday** (1940) - Howard Hawks - Spine #849 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27903-his-girl-friday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/)
> "I think all of this film, His Girl Friday. Howard Hawks, very important and very—I'm very shy when I'm watching Hawks. I feel like I'm such a failure. Hawks is always giving a lesson of how bad I am somehow. He's magic, yes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ANFzjSnLo&t=123)
## Claude Lelouch (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mITzH5WIe84) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/809-claude-lelouch-s-closet-picks)
- **Swing Time** (1936) - George Stevens - Spine #979 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29037-swing-time) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028333/)
> "J'ai beaucoup aimé évidemment Fred Astaire et Ginger Rogers parce que c'est dans un cinéma où on passait un film de Fred Astaire et Ginger Rogers que mon père a rencontré ma mère. C'était en 1935 36. Et quelques années plus tard, c'est Fred Astaire et Ginger Rogers qui m'ont remis l'Oscar du meilleur film. Comme je suis un peu superstitieux, je crois qu'il y a un Fred Astaire ici qui est dans le coin. Voilà. Swing Time. Alors celui-là, je l'en mettre."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mITzH5WIe84&t=13)
- **The Circus** (2018) - Sharon Grimberg - Spine #996 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27563-the-circus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9694270/)
> "Le cirque. Je pense que c'est un des plus beaux films de Chaplin. Un chef-d'œuvre absolu, une merveille. Voilà. Mais tous les Chaplins sont formidables. Mais celui-là, allez."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mITzH5WIe84&t=149)
- **Il Sorpasso** (1962) - Dino Risi - Spine #707 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28429-il-sorpasso) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056512/)
> "Le Fanfaron, si vous l'aviez, j'adore. C'est grâce à ce film que j'ai engagé Jean-Louis Trintignant pour tourner dans Un homme et une femme. C'est après avoir vu ce film. Puis Trintignant, Gassman, ils sont tellement complémentaires. Non, puis le cinéma italien, j'adore l'Italie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mITzH5WIe84&t=168)
- **A Special Day** (1977) - Ettore Scola - Spine #778 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28659-a-special-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076085/)
> "Dans le cinéma italien évidemment il y a Ettore Scola, Une journée particulière. C'est une merveille. Mastroianni, Sophia Loren. J'aurais aimé les avoir dans Un homme et une femme. Ils auraient pu remplacer Anouk Aimée et Jean-Louis Trintignant. Voilà, c'est un film magnifique. Ça parle de politique, ça parle d'amour, ça parle de tout et puis qu'est-ce qu'ils sont beaux à regarder."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mITzH5WIe84&t=196)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "Alors si vous permettez, je prends tout Tati. Tout Tati parce que là il y a rien à jeter. C'est la perfection. C'est notre Chaplin à nous. J'ai eu la chance de le croiser, de parler un peu avec lui et c'est vrai que tous les personnages de mes films sont des gens que j'ai croisé dans la vie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mITzH5WIe84&t=48)
## Colin Quinn (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNwxjzS6a8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/426-colin-quinn-s-closet-picks)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "I know everyone's seen this one. I know you've all seen Naked. How incredible is this movie? I can't even tell you the plot. Like if you ask me, 'What's the plot?' I'm like, it's hard to explain, but it's just amazing. I mean, you want to kill the guy, but you love him, you know? I mean, it's nuts."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNwxjzS6a8&t=246)
- **Mona Lisa** (null) - Veselka Kuncheva - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/648-mona-lisa)
> "This is one of my favorite movies of all time. Mona Lisa. I'm not taking it because I've seen it too many times, but it's amazing. Bob Hoskins, The Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa. That Bob Hoskins was a beast then."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNwxjzS6a8&t=48)
- **My Life as a Dog** (1985) - Lasse Hallström - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/727-my-life-as-a-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089606/)
> "My Life as a Dog. You ever see this movie? This is one of the great movies of all time. If you haven't seen this movie, I promise you, I mean, it's amazing. There's no way to describe it. It's Swedish. The beginning is him with his family, his family dies, and he's trying to pick up a glass of milk at the family table. Even if you just watch the first five minutes, you're going to be glad you saw that movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNwxjzS6a8&t=82)
- **Roma** (1972) - Federico Fellini - Spine #848 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28039-roma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069191/)
> "Well, what I really want to talk about is Roma. Now, a lot of you people are saying, 'Roma, it was all over the place.' No one's denying that. But what a beautiful love story to the city of Rome. Even though a lot of people said it doesn't remind them of Rome, but if Fellini says it's like Rome, who are you to argue? Fellini said, 'This is my Rome.' I'd like to make my version of Roma New York, you understand?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNwxjzS6a8&t=170)
- **Le petit soldat** (1963) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #1010 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28093-le-petit-soldat) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054177/)
> "This, Le petit soldat. And I know you people are saying, 'Oh, look at him, he's being pretentious.' Le petit soldat. But anyway, I've always wanted to see this movie because I've heard amazing things about it. And I just watched the other movie about the Algerian... Day of the Jackal."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNwxjzS6a8&t=105)
- **Something Wild** (1961) - Jack Garfein - Spine #563 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28777-something-wild) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055464/)
> "So, Something Wild. This movie, Carroll Baker, she was in... Where her husband and her made this movie. But it's got all these shots of New York. And by the way, the most brutal... It's a movie ahead of its time. She gets raped, doesn't tell anybody, and has PTSD. It's really... It was ahead of its time. I watched it, I was like, nobody thought about this stuff until the 90s, really. What happened? This movie is like 1960 or 1959."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNwxjzS6a8&t=202)
- **Smithereens** (1982) - Susan Seidelman - Spine #941 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29044-smithereens) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084698/)
> "Here's the thing, when you're from New York and you're old like me, you love to see old New York. Like Smithereens. Who would have ever thought this was old New York? But when I watch it, I'm like, 'Oh my god, I miss New York,' you know, the way it was."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNwxjzS6a8&t=235)
- **Claudine** (1974) - John Berry - Spine #1052 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29599-claudine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071334/)
> "Claudine, by the way. Another amazing New York movie. It's like Edgecombe Avenue or something. It's the whole... All these shots of New York in like 1971 just bring back my little childhood. So that's why I always love it, you know. And that was another good one. James Earl Jones, the garbage man. Claudine's working, she's a cleaning lady, and they're kids, and it was really good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suNwxjzS6a8&t=265)
## Cristian Mungiu (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxFRWp4gVU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/461-cristian-mungiu-s-closet-picks)
- **Modern Times** (1936) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #543 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27526-modern-times) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027977/)
> "I would start with Modern Times which is one of the first films that I loved a lot and I could watch for very many times because it speaks to me on a lot of levels... I still like to watch this from time to time with my children, especially that moment when they bring this machine which is supposed to feed people while working. I find that to be a great moment especially because every five Seconds there is that thing that has to clear his mouth which I like a lot."
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "The other thing I wanted to talk about my childhood is this Dekalog. In the 80s they were not having enough money to keep on buying films so they started trading films with the other socialist countries... This became a cult film with us, the Dekalog, and when I got to the film school the decisive question was to comment a fragment from the Dekalog so it has a very special meaning to me. I still remember that moment because it brought me to the film school."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxFRWp4gVU&t=84)
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
> "A third film which I could watch back home when I started watching a little bit of older cinema was Bicycle Thieves. At some point they started having this Cinematheque in Romania... For me what was important was to discover the strength of this Italian Neorealism and later on in the film school I watched this film several times and I think that somehow it became part of my Education about and desire just making very realistic films in which most of the tension is coming from things."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxFRWp4gVU&t=131)
- **Blood Simple** (1985) - Joel Coen - Spine #834 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28852-blood-simple) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/)
> "And then two films that I like a lot. I don't remember when I've seen Blood Simple for the first time but I liked it a lot and I became a fan of these people and it was very funny for me to get that old that I met him later on in Cannes years after watching this film which I can still consider to be very, very strong and very good and I was even in a jury in Cannes when they were having a film which I thought is very funny in closing this kind of circle."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxFRWp4gVU&t=189)
- **Easy Rider** (2012) - James Benning - Spine #545 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27528-easy-rider) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2613256/)
> "Last but not least this is a film Easy Rider with a special kind of impact for me... Dennis Hopper wanted to meet me... I flew back to Romania and what was happening is that Dennis Hopper was shooting as an actor a film in Bucharest... I spent time with him rewriting that screenplay and I think the experience was better than the screenplay but it brought me closer not only to his films but to him as a character and he was a character."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gxFRWp4gVU&t=227)
## Dan Levy (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV0KTf55F0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/619-dan-levy-s-closet-picks)
- **Moonstruck** (1987) - Norman Jewison - Spine #1056 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29154-moonstruck) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093565/)
> "I'm starting with Moonstruck. I think it's my all-time favorite movie. I think it's one of the greatest screenplays ever written. I think every Performance in this movie is pitch-perfect and whenever I am in need of inspiration I put it on and anytime I meet someone new and they haven't seen it I will sit down with them and watch it and that I think is the joy of movie making and movie watching."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV0KTf55F0&t=12)
- **Tokyo Story** (1953) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #217 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/)
> "So we move on. Tokyo Story, if you have not watched it, watch it. I watched it when I was very young and didn't understand it and then the older I get the more I do understand it and the more I love it. Just a dream, one of the greatest movies ever made. I also want to say that in film school our film history class was at 9:00 a. M. On a Monday morning... So I'm still playing catch-up from all of those films that I unfortunately slept through."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV0KTf55F0&t=36)
- **The Piano Teacher** (2001) - Michael Haneke - Spine #894 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28739-the-piano-teacher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/)
> "The Piano Teacher. It's not a comedy. When I worked at a video store I would often recommend it to people because I thought it was like an impressive movie to recommend to someone as like a young person. Often times I'd recommend it to families, not quite knowing I hadn't seen it at the time. Then I saw it and was like oh no, not kid-friendly. It's as good as I hoped it would be. Unbelievable performances and it is, gosh, it packs a punch."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV0KTf55F0&t=83)
- **Election** (1999) - Alexander Payne - Spine #904 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29335-election) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126886/)
> "Election. This was one of those movies that made me realize that actors make very, very smart choices. Reese Witherspoon's choice to make this movie coming off of everything that she had been previously known for I thought was so great. It was such a smart move. She was so brilliant in it and it also showed a kind of like professional fearlessness which I think as actors you hope that you get the opportunity to express."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV0KTf55F0&t=146)
- **Love & Basketball** (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood - Spine #1097 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31500-love-basketball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199725/)
> "One of the great love stories ever told. I could watch this movie over and over and over again. I mean it goes without saying, Love & Basketball, always and forever. Watch it if you haven't."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV0KTf55F0&t=181)
- **Weekend** (2011) - Andrew Haigh - Spine #635 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27783-weekend) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714210/)
> "Weekend. This was probably one of the first films that I saw that really spoke to like gay storytelling in a way that didn't feel heavy-handed. It was the first time that I just saw people existing in a way that felt so real and owe a lot to Andrew and this is apparently director approved so Andrew thank you in advance for letting me take this home and for this beautiful, beautiful movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV0KTf55F0&t=195)
- **The Daytrippers** (1997) - Greg Mottola - Spine #1001 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29464-the-daytrippers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116041/)
> "Daytrippers. Parker Posey is someone who I mean I have tried in my life to watch every single one of her movies. One of the great actors of her time, our time, my time. Anyway, watch this movie, watch the entire Parker Posey catalog frankly. You can start here, it's a good place to start."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV0KTf55F0&t=228)
- **The Virgin Suicides** (2000) - Sofia Coppola - Spine #920 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29336-the-virgin-suicides) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159097/)
> "The Virgin Suicides has a very special place in my heart. I was taking a film production summer camp in Toronto and the field trip was to the set of a movie that at the time we didn't know what the movie was but it turned out to be The Virgin Suicides. I remember sitting with my film summer camp talking to Josh Hartnett... I never got to meet Sofia on the set of this movie but I remember thinking like what a generous thing to invite a film production camp to your set."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV0KTf55F0&t=253)
- **Kagemusha** (1980) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #267 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/948-kagemusha) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080979/)
> "And Kagemusha. Kurosawa. It's time. I have not seen it. It is time I watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EV0KTf55F0&t=400)
## Daniels’ (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNtp1bAI8o) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/522-daniels-closet-picks)
- **Tampopo** (1985) - Jūzō Itami - Spine #868 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28880-tampopo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/)
- **Malcolm X** (1992) - Spike Lee - Spine #1160 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33245-malcolm-x) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/)
- **Repo Man** (1984) - Alex Cox - Spine #654 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28051-repo-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/)
- **The Before Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1237-the-before-trilogy)
- **Police Story / Police Story 2** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1554-police-story-police-story-2)
- **Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2648-godzilla-the-showa-era-films-1954-1975)
## Danny Boyle (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1T9R6vy2s) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/850-danny-boyle-s-closet-picks)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "Bob Fosse, All That Jazz. So I just watched this again quite recently, actually. It’s a work of absolute genius, in my opinion. And if you want to look at where a lot of modern editing gets its ideas from, just look at the sequences of him taking the pills, which are spread throughout it. I think that’s a great movie. Great, great, great, great, great, great movie. So this is one I am taking home."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1T9R6vy2s&t=11)
- **Anora** (2024) - Sean Baker - Spine #1259 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34891-anora) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28607951/)
> "So they’ve got Anora, which… To my Shame, I hadn’t seen his other movies. And I went immediately after watching Anora, which I thought was just wonderful, and I went back to Florida Project, which is even more remarkable in a way. And I’d missed it the first time around. So apologies, Sean Baker, and chapeau."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1T9R6vy2s&t=35)
- **Prince of Broadway** (2010) - Sean Baker - Spine #1258 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30085-prince-of-broadway) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000769/)
> "They’ve got one of his other films here, which I am going to take, The Prince of Broadway, which I knew about, but I haven’t seen. So I’ll be taking both those, please, if I may."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1T9R6vy2s&t=60)
- **The Grifters** (1990) - Stephen Frears - Spine #1246 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30526-the-grifters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099703/)
> "I have to give a shout-out to a great and very, very underrated British director, Stephen Frears. Really one of our great craftsmen. And this is a film he made with John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, and Annette Bening: The Grifters. I think it’s based on a Jim Thompson novel or short story, and… who’s a great writer. Incredible. This, you’ve got to see this film for three sterling performances. You watch Annette Bening and you think, 'Oh my goodness me, what an actor.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1T9R6vy2s&t=70)
- **Fish Tank** (2009) - Andrea Arnold - Spine #553 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27541-fish-tank) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232776/)
> "I was looking for Fish Tank. And there it is. So this is a British filmmaker, Andrea Arnold. If you don’t know her, you should see her work. True independent. Brilliant filmmaker. This is a wonderful film that she made. Michael Fassbender’s in it, and it’s partly about Essex, which is an area of the UK. And it has the most extraordinary skies. They’re so beautiful and it’s shot by Robbie Ryan... The casting that she does, the way she finds actors… remarkable."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1T9R6vy2s&t=106)
- **Blood Simple** (1985) - Joel Coen - Spine #834 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28852-blood-simple) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086979/)
> "To say that the Coen brothers have never made a better movie than this is not an insult. It is an extraordinary… It just shows you the talent that’s there, and you can see them learning their craft as they make it. So if you want to watch where it all began, then this is the one to start with: Blood Simple."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1T9R6vy2s&t=180)
- **I Am Cuba** (1964) - Mikheil Kalatozishvili - Spine #1214 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33466-i-am-cuba) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/)
> "Two of the films that we saw while we were there was this: I Am Cuba, which is a staple and is recommended, and everybody should see it really."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1T9R6vy2s&t=224)
- **Memories of Underdevelopment** (1968) - Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Spine #943 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29220-memories-of-underdevelopment) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063291/)
> "This film is the film with the worst title, I think, probably imaginable. It’s called Memories of Underdevelopment, and it’s a film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. When I saw this film, we were working on Trainspotting... And I stole, frame by frame, the last shot of this film for the last shot of Trainspotting. And if you happen to watch this movie... You’ll see the last shot of this film as it was intended to do, as it reflected the last shot of this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1T9R6vy2s&t=231)
## David Byrne (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2jZ7epT6s) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/863-david-byrne-s-closet-picks)
- **The Color of Pomegranates** (1969) - Sergei Parajanov - Spine #918 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29219-the-color-of-pomegranates) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063555/)
> "This is a film by a Georgian filmmaker. His name’s Parajanov. And it’s called The Color of Pomegranates. It challenges your idea of what a film can be. Images and ritual and processions and costumes and everything. It’s fairly surreal, but if you’re okay just letting go and going with this thing and being… immersing yourself in another world, it’s pretty good that way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2jZ7epT6s&t=51)
- **Dead Man** (1995) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #919 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29064-dead-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817/)
> "This film is called Dead Man. It’s by Jim Jarmusch. I think it might be my favorite Jim Jarmusch film. It reminds me in some ways of a Cormac McCarthy story, in that this guy goes on a journey, he encounters people, he runs into a Native American community in the Northwest. Oh, the score is by Neil Young. Apparently, he did the score by going into a score-recording studio and just saying, “Play the movie and I’ll just improvise.” It’s a period movie, black and white."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2jZ7epT6s&t=84)
- **A Matter of Life and Death** (1981) - Russ Mayberry - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28833-a-matter-of-life-and-death) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082724/)
> "This is one of the films by a great duo of filmmakers, Powell and Pressburger. They’re English. And this one was also known as Stairway to Heaven. And it’s, again, fairly surreal, but in… as is their wont, it’s also very sentimental. It’s a World War Two pilot whose plane gets shot down. Unlike the Albert Brooks movie Defending Your Life, he says, “These are extenuating circumstances. I’ve fallen in love. You have to let me live.” I believe the earth is in color and heaven’s in black and white."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2jZ7epT6s&t=134)
- **The 39 Steps** (2008) - James Hawes - Spine #56 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/234-the-39-steps) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282016/)
> "This is a Hitchcock movie. Before he went to Hollywood, I believe. He did a lot of films in England. This one’s called The 39 Steps. It’s like some of his later ones, like North by Northwest and some of The Others, where an ordinary person suddenly falls down a rabbit hole and they’re wrapped up in this kind of conspiracy, and they don’t know why, but they know they have to– they have this thing that they have to do, which leads him on a kind of chase throughout Britain."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2jZ7epT6s&t=208)
- **True Stories** (1986) - David Byrne - Spine #951 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29038-true-stories) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092117/)
> "And look, here in the candy store, I found a film that I made in the mid-’80s, called True Stories. This is the star of the movie, John Goodman. Takes place in a small town in Texas. Influenced probably by many of those other films I’ve just talked about. But I’m going to put it back because I have this film. I have this copy at home."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2jZ7epT6s&t=247)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "This is a box of Jacques Tati movies, but maybe we’ll just talk about… talk about one. Let’s talk about PlayTime. He’d done these successful, I think, very successful comedies using… where he invented this character, Monsieur Hulot, played by him, a kind of very ordinary French man with a little hat and a pipe. It’s really droll. There’s no out-and-out jokes. Everything is, again, him observing the modern world, its kind of somewhat inhumanity and ridiculousness. Anyway, great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp2jZ7epT6s&t=7)
## David Cronenberg (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUM9Wrn2F3c) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/842-david-cronenberg-s-closet-picks)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "So one very particular and interesting film for me was this film: Federico Fellini’s La strada. And the reason that it had a special meaning for me was that in Toronto – we’re talking about the 1940s, 1950s – every Saturday there would be a… like a swarm of lemmings, there were children who would come to a particular cinema called the Pylon. And one day I came out of that cinema, having seen the traditional kind of what for us were kids’ movies, and across the street from the Pylon was a new..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUM9Wrn2F3c&t=25)
- **Odd Man Out** (1947) - Carol Reed - Spine #754 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28173-odd-man-out) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039677/)
> "English films were a big influence, too... And one in particular for me was this one: Odd Man Out, with an actor I absolutely adore, James Mason. I would have loved to work with him. He had the most wonderful voice and presence. Directed by Carol Reed. And it was an incredibly powerful, melancholy, surprising film that was… as I say, had a particular English feel that you would not find in the rest of Europe or certainly not in Hollywood also. Fantastic to have this film in my hand."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUM9Wrn2F3c&t=116)
- **Eraserhead** (1977) - David Lynch - Spine #725 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/)
> "David Lynch’s film Eraserhead. Very American and saying some really interesting kind of sublime things about American culture and the American ethos and zeitgeist that you wouldn’t see in a Hollywood film, but you also wouldn’t see it in a European film. This is a really special film that had a big impact on me. I can’t say that it was an influence because I had already been making films by this time, but it was… it was significant for me. And I met David and we got along very well."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUM9Wrn2F3c&t=169)
- **Ingmar Bergman's Cinema** (38 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema)
> "This immense collection. Quite fantastic and really heavy. And you could use it in your workout."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUM9Wrn2F3c&t=232)
## David Remnick (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtYGTtOQww) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/901-david-remnick-s-closet-picks)
- **A Man Escaped** (1956) - Robert Bresson - Spine #650 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27848-a-man-escaped) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049902/)
> "I’m going to start with what I think might be my favorite filmmaker: Robert Bresson, whose rhythms and stillness is a little bit like listening to Bach. And A Man Escaped is simply that. It’s somebody who’s in prison and who, bit by bit, using the materials of what’s in his jail cell, escapes from the prison. Think of it metaphorically, think of it in narrative terms, it’s one of The Most Beautiful films you’ll ever see. So in it goes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtYGTtOQww&t=8)
- **Citizen Kane** (1941) - Orson Welles - Spine #1104 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32250-citizen-kane) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/)
> "I think I’m going to surprise you by picking something that looks utterly predictable. Citizen Kane has a connection to The New Yorker. It’s written by Herman Mankiewicz, along with Orson Welles, of course, and there’s a famous book by Pauline Kael, who was the great New Yorker film critic, about the controversy about who gets the credit for Citizen Kane, which many people think is the best movie ever made, certainly in English, whether it was Herman Mankiewicz more or Orson Welles."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtYGTtOQww&t=37)
- **Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser** (1988) - Charlotte Zwerin - Spine #1265 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33809-thelonious-monk-straight-no-chaser) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098465/)
> "I watch a lot of music movies. Thelonious Monk was one of the great composers and players during the bebop period, and Charlotte Zwerin’s film, Straight, No Chaser, captures his stage presence and his quirkiness and humanity like no other film I’ve ever seen. So Straight, No Chaser."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtYGTtOQww&t=65)
- **Burden of Dreams** (1982) - Les Blank - Spine #287 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/546-burden-of-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083702/)
> "When I was a kid, just learning about films that were a little more than Daffy Duck, I started seeing Werner Herzog’s films, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, things like this... But along came a documentary about Werner Herzog. It’s called Burden of Dreams, and it’s revelatory about the filmmaker’s art, especially on the more lunatic end of the spectrum."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtYGTtOQww&t=85)
- **Shoot the Piano Player** (1960) - François Truffaut - Spine #315 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/764-shoot-the-piano-player) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054389/)
> "I love French New Wave films, Godard, Agnès Varda, François Truffaut, Rivette, all of them. And one of the ones that I saw earliest in my life, when I was a teenager, was Shoot The Piano Player. I think I learned about it from Bob Dylan’s liner notes in an early album. A great, simple melodrama, and Charles Aznavour is absolutely wonderful in the title role."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtYGTtOQww&t=114)
- **King Lear (1987)** (1987) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #1249 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28773-king-lear) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093349/)
> "Richard is of the belief that the great revolutionary filmmaker is Jean-Luc Godard. But he would not choose Breathless or Masculin féminin as his greatest film. He will choose and he will tell you that King Lear, starring Norman Mailer and Molly Ringwald and Godard himself, is the epitome of Godard’s art. I don’t agree, but you should give it a shot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtYGTtOQww&t=186)
- **The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun** (2021) - Wes Anderson - Spine #1282 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34339-the-french-dispatch-of-the-liberty-kansas-evening-sun) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8847712/)
> "I was really honored that he did a film that was kind of about The New Yorker called The French Dispatch... And if you have a sore back and can’t schlep around a big gift box: The French Dispatch, all by its Lonesome."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtYGTtOQww&t=236)
- **By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/722-by-brakhage-an-anthology-volumes-one-and-two)
> "Now I’m going to blow your mind, probably somebody you’ve never heard of: Stan Brakhage. I came to him because I took a film course by the late, great P. Adams Sitney... He put on a film called Window Water Baby Moving, which was the equivalent of seeing Jackson Pollock after a lifetime of seeing nothing but naturalism and realism. He is the godfather of experimental filmmaking... Be patient with this... It’s extraordinary in so many ways. Painterly is one of the words."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtYGTtOQww&t=138)
- **The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years** (10 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8208-the-wes-anderson-archive-ten-films-twenty-five-years)
> "Far be it for me to be selling gift sets, but you might as well. It’s the first 25 years of Wes Anderson’s art. You have to say he has a vision. Within two Seconds of seeing one of his films, you know who’s directing it. And I was really honored that he did a film that was kind of about The New Yorker called The French Dispatch, so Wes Anderson, the first 25 years."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmtYGTtOQww&t=223)
## Denis Villeneuve (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgucAPeqIs) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/771-denis-villeneuve-s-closet-picks)
- **Three Colors** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/844-three-colors)
> "It’s the trilogy made by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Three Colors. More specifically, Three Colors: Blue. That’s real director master shit. The balance between, and the precision between, the communication between the cinematographer, the director, the director, the cinematographer, and the composer. And I will say that it’s a movie that, when I watch it, it’s one of the rare movies that I... I’m still moved to tears by the cinematography. Voilà."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgucAPeqIs&t=8)
- **Seven Samurai** (1954) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #2 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
> "If not my best one, by far one of my favorite movies of all time, The Seven Samurai from Akira Kurosawa. The best use of slow motion."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgucAPeqIs&t=281)
- **Che** (2008) - - Spine #496 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/20987-che)
> "Steven Soderbergh, Che, with the great Benicio del Toro. And it’s– for me, it’s one of the, by far, one of the best movies about war, about what it is to be a leader of men. The research behind this movie is astonishing, and I absolutely adore the directing. I think it’s a movie that is underrated. Honestly, it’s a movie, it’s a... It’s a masterful work from Soderbergh. My favorite movie from Soderbergh. Part one, part two. Maybe there’s an influence there, I don’t know."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgucAPeqIs&t=103)
- **Le Salaire de la peur** (1953) - Henri-Georges Clouzot - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/370-the-wages-of-fear) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/)
> "The Wages of Fear from Henri-Georges Clouzot. A masterclass into screenwriting and how to express storytelling through pure images. It’s really one of my favorite films from Henri-Georges Clouzot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgucAPeqIs&t=136)
- **Fellini Satyricon** (1969) - Federico Fellini - Spine #747 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28038-fellini-satyricon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064940/)
> "Satyricon, Fellini. There’s something that happened in the beginning of the movie... This movie, there’s a specific scene that triggers a lot of horror. That shock, that happened at the beginning, really..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgucAPeqIs&t=223)
- **A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/89-a-film-trilogy-by-ingmar-bergman)
> "And I think that, if you step back in time, the man that... Preceded him was, of course, Bergman. And I will say that Through a Glass Darkly, this portrait of a father that is fascinated by how his daughter is... The sickness of his daughter and the guilt he has as an artist. You know, it’s an exploration of how artists sometimes can be vampires on their subject, and that really, I thought, was absolutely mesmerizing... Through a Glass Darkly."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgucAPeqIs&t=43)
- **Lars von Trier's Europe Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6344-lars-von-trier-s-europe-trilogy)
> "A filmmaker in the ’90s that... I keep saying that, without him, life will have been very boring. Lars von Trier. I love all his films, but specifically Europa, maybe was my introduction to Lars von Trier, it’s a... Hypnotic journey into postwar Germany. And it’s... So inventive, so creative, and so playful. There’s something about how Lars von Trier plays with the code of cinema, how he reinvents the codes of cinema. He has a tremendous sense of humor and is a very, very clever filmmaker."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgucAPeqIs&t=179)
## Derek Cianfrance (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzK__Z6jIwY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/897-derek-cianfrance-s-closet-picks)
- **Short Cuts** (1993) - Robert Altman - Spine #265 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/376-short-cuts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108122/)
> "First one I’ll take here is Short Cuts, Robert Altman. This isn’t streaming anywhere, so this is like some gold right now. When I think of this movie, the first thing that comes to mind is this scene at the end of the movie with Tom Waits and Lily Tomlin laughing as an earthquake is happening, and singing. Very special."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzK__Z6jIwY&t=7)
- **To Sleep with Anger** (1990) - Charles Burnett - Spine #963 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29567-to-sleep-with-anger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100791/)
> "Oh, okay. To Sleep with Anger. The opening of this movie has this Sister Rosetta Tharpe song as Paul Butler, his shoes start to catch on fire, and then the still life of the fruit starts to catch on fire. And Danny Glover’s pretty amazing, kind of playing the devil in this movie. Charles Burnett, to me, is just… I love his movies so much because he makes movies about family, and this is just one of his masterpieces."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzK__Z6jIwY&t=30)
- **Certified Copy** (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #612 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28353-certified-copy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020773/)
> "Okay, so I should do my close-my-eyes one? What I get here? Certified Copy. All right, great. Kiarostami. I’ll take that. I haven’t seen this one. Where Is the Friend’s House? Is one of my number-one movies, so I’m very excited to see this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzK__Z6jIwY&t=270)
- **Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6911-freaks-the-unknown-the-mystic-tod-browning-s-sideshow-shockers)
> "Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers: Freaks, The Unknown, and The Mystic. I haven’t seen The Unknown or The Mystic, but Freaks is a movie I try to watch maybe once a year. You hear about coming in the Closet and what do you do? You pick all the movies you’ve already seen before, but this is so exciting because I have two movies I haven’t seen here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzK__Z6jIwY&t=62)
- **Pasolini 101** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101)
> "Nine films of Pasolini, Pasolini 101. This has a couple of my favorite movies of his on here: Accattone and The Gospel According to Saint Matthew, especially The Gospel According to Saint Matthew. I grew up Catholic and going to church every Sunday and catechism once a week. But I never paid attention. I, like, daydreamed the whole time. Then when I was in my early 20s, they were playing The Gospel According to Saint Matthew at my… at a film program at my film school."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzK__Z6jIwY&t=85)
- **By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/722-by-brakhage-an-anthology-volumes-one-and-two)
> "Brakhage Anthology: Volumes One and Two. So I studied at the University of Colorado. Stan Brakhage was one of my professors. The first movie I saw of his was Mothlight, which… Well, you just have to see it, but it’s a collection of… he emptied out a bunch of light fixtures in the ’60s and pasted them onto clear strips of celluloid and had that developed, and so what you see is a flutter of shadow and light. He was trying to create what your eyes see in film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzK__Z6jIwY&t=202)
## Desiree Akhavan (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/435-desiree-akhavan-s-closet-picks)
- **Knife in the Water** (1962) - Roman Polanski - Spine #215 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/219-knife-in-the-water) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056291/)
> "I just want to like the first criterion DVDs I ever bought it was a Knife in the Water it was for a paper I wrote on Polanski I'm afraid to watch this I'm afraid about how offended I'll probably be but I worship this film and I worship the short that comes with it Two Men in a Wardrobe this is spectacular."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8&t=200)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "I mean this is just the like the fight sequence and Do the Right Thing is one of the best things that's ever been put on film it's flawless it's just a flawless sequence the opening sequence is great I think if there's anything that has been a mainstay in all the films it's like dancing and if you get those things right then you're fine."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8&t=246)
- **The Spirit of the Beehive** (1973) - Víctor Erice - Spine #351 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/367-the-spirit-of-the-beehive) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070040/)
> "This is spectacular it's yeah this Spirit of the Beehive I saw this for film school I don't remember what happens in it but I remember feeling so caught up in this girl's world I remember feeling like the film matched the world and that's really rare they're like the pace of the film and the unfolding of her narrative matched childhood in a way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8&t=221)
- **Ratcatcher** (1999) - Lynne Ramsay - Spine #162 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/716-ratcatcher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/)
> "Then you have a film like Ratcatcher and a filmmaker Lynne Ramsay and you're like yeah I'm here for what she has to say Ramsay as an artist paintings there's some dance gorgeous I'm really touched by everything she does... Which is how I feel about Ratcatcher as well."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8&t=182)
- **Love Streams** (1984) - John Cassavetes - Spine #721 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28032-love-streams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087644/)
> "So we've got Cassavetes... One of the filmmakers he showed was Cassavetes and when I look back Cassavetes it felt like whenever I was watching his stuff like he was making his own rules... You're not Following anything prescriptive... I actually think a lot of filmmaking is throwing the rules at the window and being like this is what turns me on like this is where my instincts are taking me in that's what it felt like with all of the Cassavetes I've seen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8&t=24)
- **Tiny Furniture** (2010) - Lena Dunham - Spine #597 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28317-tiny-furniture) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570989/)
> "I have to take Tiny Furniture because I've never seen creative nonfiction and I think that's part of this DVD right yeah and an interview between Lena and Nora Ephron so I'll start with that so Tiny Furniture it's where I'm gonna start."
- **Safe** (1995) - Todd Haynes - Spine #739 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28548-safe) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/)
> "Safe was a really huge influence on Cameron Post there are like several sequences and a shot that I like straight up lifted from this but I watched this when I was about to do my last pass of the script and it kind of just blew my mind open I was like oh this there's a whole nother element of institutionalization and group therapy here that I haven't addressed yet."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8&t=117)
- **I Knew Her Well** (1965) - Antonio Pietrangeli - Spine #801 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28600-i-knew-her-well) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060545/)
> "I just got a really good pitch I Knew Her Well which I'm taking 100% because of the cover."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8&t=114)
- **Day for Night** (null) - - Spine #769 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28698-day-for-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6257222/)
> "It's this is a really great cover for Day for Night."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8&t=142)
- **Life Is Sweet** (1990) - Mike Leigh - Spine #659 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27982-life-is-sweet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100024/)
> "This is Life Is Sweet I've never seen a more honest depiction on screen of bulimia but it's not about bulimia it's about this family it's Mike Leigh it's my favorite Mike Leigh film it's really good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8&t=99)
- **Faces** (1968) - John Cassavetes - Spine #252 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/915-faces) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062952/)
> "So we've got Cassavetes... One of the filmmakers he showed was Cassavetes and when I look back Cassavetes it felt like whenever I was watching his stuff like he was making his own rules... You're not Following anything prescriptive... I actually think a lot of filmmaking is throwing the rules at the window and being like this is what turns me on like this is where my instincts are taking me in that's what it felt like with all of the Cassavetes I've seen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQWo5_ZJct8&t=24)
## DEVO: Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-aQkQrZP24) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/660-devo-gerald-casale-and-mark-mothersbaugh-s-closet-picks)
- **Island of Lost Souls** (1974) - René Cardona - Spine #586 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27861-island-of-lost-souls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327966/)
> "Island of Lost Souls. That's the classic that inspired both the film and the song, the Jocko Homo song. I remember watching this movie at my girlfriend's family's House on a big old tubed giant old-fashioned television set and going, 'That's Akron, Ohio. I live there.' I saw it like 1967 maybe and never forgot it. Island of Lost Souls is only 70 minutes long. I just realized how much they packed into a short time span. This one is fantastic and mercifully short."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-aQkQrZP24&t=13)
- **Sweet Smell of Success** (1957) - Alexander Mackendrick - Spine #555 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/)
> "Sweet Smell of Success. Oh my God, I just love Tony Curtis in it for being the rat he was. He's a slimeball and he's always scurrying around, but Burt Lancaster is pulling the strings. He's J. J. Hunsecker, and he kind of represents a kind of Walter Winchell character, like a right-wing power monger that's evil. In the spirit of the '50s, they don't really succeed in the end, but in Real Life they would have, and they will, and they do today over and over."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-aQkQrZP24&t=165)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "Check this out. Besides having the best artwork of any of the films here, I've always been a fan of Fellini's and all of the music of Fellini. It's like Juliet of the Spirits. There was this other instrument called a Novachord and it's most beautifully used in Juliet of the Spirits. I just have this box set. I saw Satyricon and it blew my mind and it made me realize that the film scoring was just totally open because it was one of the most imaginative and a pioneer in creativity."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-aQkQrZP24&t=125)
- **Monsters and Madmen** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/434-monsters-and-madmen)
> "Monsters and Madmen. Yeah, four thrilling tales of inner torments and outer space. Somehow that sounds like DEVO right there."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-aQkQrZP24&t=265)
## Diane Kruger (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZAGd2IBaU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/875-diane-kruger-s-closet-picks)
- **Easy Rider** (2012) - James Benning - Spine #545 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27528-easy-rider) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2613256/)
> "So this one is Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper. My very first movie was with Dennis Hopper, he played my dad. I was still in drama school when we made this film. Not a very good film, but I was so incredibly impressed by him, and he really taught me all the basics of being an actress, like: if you don’t see the camera, the camera can’t see you, which seems pretty obvious, but it wasn’t so much to me. Obviously, I had seen this film before I met him, but I always like to watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZAGd2IBaU&t=78)
- **Fish Tank** (2009) - Andrea Arnold - Spine #553 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27541-fish-tank) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232776/)
> "Oh, yeah, this is cool. Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold, and I love her personally. She’s a really great lady and wonderfully out there and crazy and creative. And Fish Tank really touched me. Her voice and her… The way she looks at things and she observes things is so interesting, and she’s such a great female filmmaker, so Fish Tank is the shit."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZAGd2IBaU&t=128)
- **Crash** (1996) - David Cronenberg - Spine #1059 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29014-crash) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/)
> "And of course, Crash. I am the most unconditional David Cronenberg fan. The very first film that I had seen of his was The Fly. I was very little. It screwed me up for life. And then Crash is something that I discovered later. You know, it is very rare, I think, to have a director who builds a body of pictures that are so diverse, but yet have that very specific tone and you know exactly what movie you’re watching, what filmmaker made that film. And his movies are so layered."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZAGd2IBaU&t=187)
- **Fa yeung nin wa** (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/198-in-the-mood-for-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/)
> "So this is In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai. I just remember being completely transformed, not just by the beautiful images, but the beauty of storytelling through camera, the quietness of his camera. It taught me a lot about, inspired me a lot about what an actor can convey through nothing, through the eyes. And I’m just a huge fan of Wong Kar Wai and his films, so, yes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZAGd2IBaU&t=153)
- **Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1329-dietrich-von-sternberg-in-hollywood)
> "The first one that I loved was this one: Dietrich & Von Sternberg in Hollywood. So Marlene Dietrich I have a very special connection to, because I’m German, and when I grew up in Germany, I remember my grandfather being very upset when my grandmother would want to show me pictures– movies of Marlene Dietrich, like, “Don’t watch this. Don’t get The Kid to watch it.” And so, of course, I wanted to watch it even more and more and more and I fell in love with her."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZAGd2IBaU&t=12)
## Dick Cavett (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqyB5edf38) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/841-dick-cavett-s-closet-picks)
- **The Philadelphia Story** (1940) - George Cukor - Spine #901 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29029-the-philadelphia-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032904/)
> "I certainly don’t hate The Philadelphia Story. Katharine Hepburn I think would be annoyed that she’s only a small figure in this picture, but… And it never occurred to me that I would ever get her to do these shows. She called and she said, “You know you’ve made me a goddamn saint. Everywhere I go, if I go shopping, people suddenly adore me more than ever before.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqyB5edf38&t=31)
- **Every Man for Himself** (1980) - Cheung Sum - Spine #744 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28549-every-man-for-himself) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233465/)
> "Well, I’m lucky because Every Man for Himself is the title of… Right there. You can see it. I don’t know what that film is. So I’m glad I came."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqyB5edf38&t=75)
- **Only Angels Have Wings** (1939) - Howard Hawks - Spine #806 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28831-only-angels-have-wings) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031762/)
> "You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, but I’m not sure. Only Angels Have Wings. You can’t beat Cary Grant and Jean Arthur. And nor should you try. What a good thing to have."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqyB5edf38&t=87)
- **Stagecoach** (1986) - Ted Post - Spine #516 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/980-stagecoach) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092003/)
> "There seems to be a film called Stagecoach. And I’ve heard of it. I’ve probably seen it at least four times, possibly more. I don’t see how a movie would get any better. And this is the Blu-ray special edition. What a film. Wow."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqyB5edf38&t=99)
- **Odd Man Out** (1947) - Carol Reed - Spine #754 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28173-odd-man-out) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039677/)
> "And Odd Man ‘Oot’ or ‘Out.’ Carol Reed. One of the few movies with three words all the same number of letters. God, that must be thrilling for you to know. But it’s also a wonderful film. Yeah, I like it a lot. I wish I had Carol Reed here and I could tell him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqyB5edf38&t=145)
- **Husbands** (1970) - John Cassavetes - Spine #1029 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28827-husbands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065867/)
> "Oh, and this is, in fact, Husbands. That’s the movie that these three guys came on and made total asses of themselves. You can find it online as “The Worst Show Dick Cavett Ever Did.” They goofed around for the whole time and did very funny things, like taking your shoes off and smelling their feet. Afterwards, John Cassavetes himself chewed them out mercilessly and said, “You have just unsold most, if not all, of the tickets to this movie,” and they were like three kids."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqyB5edf38&t=166)
- **David Lean Directs Noël Coward** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/861-david-lean-directs-noel-coward)
> "Oh, you probably wonder why I’m saying that. David Lean Directs Noël Coward. Whose good idea was that? I hope they were well paid. And the films, if you’re wondering, are In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed. Beautiful. Blithe Spirit, of course, and Brief Encounter. I bet you’ve never made movies that good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqyB5edf38&t=119)
## Diego Calva (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/929-diego-calva-s-closet-picks)
- **Paris, Texas** (1984) - Wim Wenders - Spine #501 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1502-paris-texas) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087884/)
> "Paris, Texas. Okay. I think Paris, Texas is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, and I think there’s not a lot of movies that can portray loneliness as good as this one. And by the way, the colors."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=8)
- **City Lights** (1931) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #680 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/)
> "City Lights. Why? When I was doing Babylon, Damien Chazelle told me I had to study Chaplin’s eyes because he had the superpower of making the saddest expression and still have innocence as a kid. A classic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=23)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "8½. Well, movies about movies. Fellini and… I know I will never, but Marcello Mastroianni is kind of a role model for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=38)
- **After Hours** (1985) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1185 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29632-after-hours) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088680/)
> "After Hours. This is going to be a little weird, but I have an After Hours tattoo, because the first time I watched it, I got crazy. And it’s also my favorite Velvet Underground song. So After Hours is really important to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=49)
- **Japón** (2019) - Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo - Spine #968 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28770-japon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7858496/)
> "Japón. Well, first of all, the actor, who died, he was my father’s friend. And Reygadas is pretty controversial, but I think he’s one of the most interesting directors in Mexico right now. Carlos, you’re weird, man."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=62)
- **The Exterminating Angel** (1962) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #459 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1076-the-exterminating-angel) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056732/)
> "Well, I know Buñuel is from Spain, but for us in Mexico, he’s one of the greatest Mexican directors. The Exterminating Angel."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=76)
- **The Executioner** (1963) - - Spine #840 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28980-the-executioner) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20077770/)
> "Another great– I really like Welcome Mr. Marshall!, but The Executioner, Berlanga. I think Berlanga is one of the greatest from Spain, honestly. I don’t remember the name of the actor, this old guy… Berlanga’s, I think, cliché actor. He always worked with him. José Isbert. Wow, and this has an interview of Pedro Almodóvar talking about Berlanga’s movie. It’s going to be great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=85)
- **The 400 Blows** (1959) - François Truffaut - Spine #5 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/151-the-400-blows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)
> "One of the greatest rebel movies, in my opinion. This is the rebel dude right here. The 400 Blows by Truffaut. Amazing. Some nouvelle vague, why not?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=109)
- **Gummo** (1997) - Harmony Korine - Spine #1238 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29016-gummo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/)
> "Gummo. This was also one of my favorites. Before entering film school, I think this was one of the movies where I decided to dedicate myself to filmmaking."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=121)
- **Fish Tank** (2009) - Andrea Arnold - Spine #553 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27541-fish-tank) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232776/)
> "Fish Tank, okay. Andrea Arnold. This is another… I think I’m obsessed with everything that is related to teenage and coming of age, so I think Fish Tank is an amazing film from Andrea Arnold."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=132)
- **Slacker** (1991) - Richard Linklater - Spine #247 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/408-slacker) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102943/)
> "Slacker. Another great, great movie. Once again, my teenage obsession. And what a dialogue. There’s a… There’s a moment where a guy tried to sell pubic hair of Madonna, Madonna’s pubic hair. Amazing movie. Can I show another tattoo? Teenage kicks forever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=162)
- **Videodrome** (1983) - David Cronenberg - Spine #248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)
> "Well, of course. Videodrome. Cronenberg. Amazing. I like this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=183)
- **Crash** (1996) - David Cronenberg - Spine #1059 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29014-crash) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/)
> "And if you have Crash… This is probably gonna sound weird, but I think this is a sexy movie. Crash. Another sexy movie, why not?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=187)
- **Pink Flamingos** (1972) - John Waters - Spine #1131 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31320-pink-flamingos) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069089/)
> "From the king: Pink Flamingos. If you haven’t seen this, you should."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=198)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "Okay, and for the last one, I’m going to pick Do the Right Thing, a Spike Lee joint. Another amazing movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=203)
- **Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7581-gregg-araki-s-teen-apocalypse-trilogy)
> "And question: do you have any Gregg Araki? Teen Apocalypse Trilogy. Once again, my obsession with coming of age, weird coming of age. I think Doom Generation also changed my life. Amazing. But Mysterious Skin, Criterion, come on."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJF_asiGU3c&t=146)
## Diego Luna (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4yc-PgEpqo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/821-diego-luna-s-closet-picks)
- **Amarcord** (1973) - Federico Fellini - Spine #4 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/208-amarcord) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071129/)
> "Amarcord. At the very beginning, obviously. Had to be one of the first. Amarcord, those long shots, those characters, that plaza. Cinema when… when you have the feeling you’re witnessing reality, you’re witnessing a moment of truth, Amarcord is full of that. And Amarcord, it’s so rich. It’s so much about this ensemble thing where it’s about community. It’s about everyday life. Fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4yc-PgEpqo&t=9)
- **The 400 Blows** (1959) - François Truffaut - Spine #5 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/151-the-400-blows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)
> "Oh, The 400 Blows! These two, easy to take. And The 400 Blows breaks my heart."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4yc-PgEpqo&t=15)
- **Y tu mamá también** (2001) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #723 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28005-y-tu-mama-tambien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/)
> "Oh, crap! I wasn’t looking for this one. Y tu mamá también. Probably the most special project I’ve ever worked on. Before Y tu mamá también I was just doing projects in Mexico. My whole idea was just to stay there, do more theater than cinema. And then this film changed my perspective in many, many ways. I met one of the most interesting directors I’ve ever worked with, which is Alfonso. And the special community we made here, with everyone, everyone. It’s like this is family for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4yc-PgEpqo&t=131)
- **Carlos** (2010) - Olivier Assayas - Spine #582 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27818-carlos) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321865/)
> "I’m going to take Carlos. And Carlos, I think it’s one of the first beautiful examples of long-format storytelling that now we’re using so much with the miniseries. And I think it’s beautiful for actors. This long format allows you to go very deep into portraying a character, to bring many layers to your Performance. And I remember there was like, 'Oh, but he’s a film– It’s not a film.' And who cares? It’s a story. It takes, I guess, five or six hours. Whatever it has to take."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4yc-PgEpqo&t=188)
- **Tótem** (2022) - Sander Burger - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33900-totem) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21620748/)
> "This is a fantastic Mexican director. Young director. Tótem. Lila Avilés. Watch Tótem and watch La camarista. She has a little bit, what happens with Alfonso Cuarón, that you’re like, 'Really? Is that the same guy? That guy did that and that other film?' Well, with Lila Avilés, and Tótem and La camarista, I had that feeling. I was watching going like, 'Really? Is this the director of La camarista?' She’s an actress and started directing and does it beautifully."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4yc-PgEpqo&t=282)
- **Parasite** (2019) - Bong Joon Ho - Spine #1054 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30619-parasite) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/)
> "Parasite. I’m going to take Parasite before I leave."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4yc-PgEpqo&t=319)
- **La Jetée/Sans Soleil** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil)
> "I was in Japan, and there’s a bar in Golden Gai, in an area of tiny bars, one next to the other, and one bar is called La Jetée because of this film, because of the Chris Marker film. Well, Chris Marker’s work is amazing. Whatever you see with his name, get it, watch it, pay attention. But I love the idea that in Japan there’s a bar called La Jetée, that is someone from Japan in love with cinema, and a beautiful place to go and have a drink."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4yc-PgEpqo&t=65)
- **Three Colors** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/844-three-colors)
> "I was talking about Juliette Binoche last night, and I was saying that for a long time she was a referent. And I was talking about these films. I was talking about how important was Blue in my life, how important was Kieślowski. Not just for these, but the Dekalog, and just the integrity of someone, as a filmmaker. I mean, there’s obviously many, many great referents here, but this one came right… in the right moment in my life. I was 14, 15 years old, and Kieślowski was crucial for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4yc-PgEpqo&t=195)
## Dylan Baker (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZmkXn4wgHA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/721-dylan-baker-s-closet-picks)
- **Destry Rides Again** (1939) - George Marshall - Spine #1024 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29002-destry-rides-again) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031225/)
> "Destry Rides Again, I mean come on, Marlene Dietrich, Jimmy Stewart, nothing like it. I'll definitely take that one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZmkXn4wgHA&t=13)
- **Holiday** (2019) - Michiel Dhont - Spine #1009 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28829-holiday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10487410/)
> "Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Holiday. It's not Philadelphia Story, it's Holiday, and it's also just fantastic., who is the beautiful daughter in this? Doris Nolan. Philip Barry, one of the greatest playwrights. I got to take that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZmkXn4wgHA&t=22)
- **Quadrophenia** (1979) - Franc Roddam - Spine #624 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27775-quadrophenia) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079766/)
> "Quadrophenia, you know, I don't think I've ever seen this movie all the way through. It's The Who, and I'm a nut about Tommy, so I've got to, I've got to get that and watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZmkXn4wgHA&t=46)
- **It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World** (1963) - Stanley Kramer - Spine #692 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28579-it-s-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/)
> "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. One of the funniest films I've ever seen. It's, it's got, it's got everybody in it: Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters. It just goes on and on. But then it's also got Spencer Tracy. I mean, and it's hilarious. Stanley Kramer. Oh my God, gosh, it's just so freaking funny. Give yourself a treat."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZmkXn4wgHA&t=58)
- **Christ Stopped at Eboli** (1979) - Francesco Rosi - Spine #1043 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30717-christ-stopped-at-eboli) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079010/)
> "Christ Stopped at Eboli. I know nothing about it, but somebody told me I had to see it, so I'm going to take a look."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZmkXn4wgHA&t=93)
- **Local Hero** (1983) - Bill Forsyth - Spine #994 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28709-local-hero) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/)
> "Oh, Local Hero. I have not seen this since I saw it originally and it still lives with me every single day. Written and directed by Bill Forsyth and,, Peter Riegert is amazing in this film, and Burt Lancaster. That's right, Local Hero."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZmkXn4wgHA&t=102)
- **The Ascent** (2019) - Tom Paton - Spine #1063 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/561-the-ascent) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8439934/)
> "I know there was one that I saw Cate Blanchett say, 'Oh my gosh, this film is just so amazing.' I literally wrote it down because it was like, 'Well, I've got to see that.' The Ascent, there it is right there. Okay, so I know nothing about this film, The Ascent, but Cate Blanchett said it was really good, so I'm going to take a look. Thank you, Cate."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZmkXn4wgHA&t=124)
- **Ride with the Devil** (1999) - Ang Lee - Spine #514 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/17282-ride-with-the-devil) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134154/)
> "For my last pick, I'm just going to reach down here... Pick out something, let's see what it is. This is Ride with the Devil. Ang Lee, Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Jeffrey Wright, Simon Baker. Yeah, I need this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZmkXn4wgHA&t=155)
## Edgar Wright (director)
Episode: 2015 | [Visit 1 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M99gL8IBMZw) | [Visit 2 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bklvjQftk)
- **Black Narcissus** (1947) - Emeric Pressburger - Spine #93 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/632-black-narcissus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039192/)
> "Let’s go for Black Narcissus. This movie is, I think, one of the greatest color movies of all time. There’s one particular shot towards the end of the film with Kathleen Byron, which, in my head, that is probably minutes of film, when in reality the shot is only on screen for less than two Seconds. And it’s a shot of Kathleen Byron coming through a doorway, and it’s part of an incredible climax, which I won’t spoil if you’ve never seen the film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bklvjQftk&t=11)
- **Something Wild** (1986) - Jonathan Demme - Spine #850 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27603-something-wild) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091983/)
> "Let’s talk about this film, Something Wild. Jonathan Demme, in his career, excelled in many genres. I think this is a particularly striking film to me because, tonally, there’s something about this film that I think is really special, jarring, but also makes complete sense in terms of the story it’s telling. Also there’s just amazing things like even just the end credits of this film, with a live Performance over the end roller, is something that I find really inspirational."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bklvjQftk&t=82)
- **A Hard Day’s Night** (1964) - Richard Lester - Spine #711 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28547-a-hard-day-s-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058182/)
> "Let’s talk about A Hard Day’s Night. This is not my hot take on the Beatles being a great band. I think that what I’d like to say here is that Richard Lester is a vastly underrated director. Part of that British New Wave, post-French New Wave, people inspired by European cinema and just breaking all of the rules. And Richard Lester, in all his films, is very experimental and joyous in his use of music and comedy. And then this film is capturing lightning in a bottle, manages to get the Beatle..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bklvjQftk&t=133)
- **The Earrings of Madame de...** (1953) - Max Ophüls - Spine #445 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/571-the-earrings-of-madame-de) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046022/)
> "Let’s talk about The Earrings of Madame de... By Max Ophuls. Ravishingly made, and so sort of delicate and detailed in every aspect. And yet, even though there’s this kind of sort of Fabergé-egg feeling to Max Ophuls’s films, they’re also really funny and really playful. And this film in particular, I think, kind of breaks the... It doesn’t quite break the fourth wall, but does a lot of interesting sort of tricks throughout, one of which is that you never find out the Madame’s actual name."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bklvjQftk&t=263)
- **The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7974-the-three-musketeers-the-four-musketeers-two-films-by-richard-lester)
> "The Three and The Four Musketeers by Richard Lester. Highly, highly entertaining, and I’m definitely going to steal this at the end of this session."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bklvjQftk&t=184)
- **America Lost and Found: The BBS Story** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/769-america-lost-and-found-the-bbs-story)
> "I’m going to bring out this, The BBS Story: America Lost and Found. On this you have The Last Picture Show, you have Five Easy Pieces, you have Easy Rider. But the film that I’m sort of obsessed by is Bob Rafelson’s debut, the Monkees’ film Head. It’s a movie about four young men trying to escape from their Network contracts, but then there are incredible musical sequences throughout it. The Performance of “Circle Sky” on stage with the double exposures is just pure cinema to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bklvjQftk&t=194)
- **Police Story / Police Story 2** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1554-police-story-police-story-2)
> "I love that the Criterion Collection included the work of Jackie Chan. This is a box set of Police Story and Police Story 2. Oh, I’m on this. I completely forgot about this, actually. Yes, I’m actually on this DVD. But Police Story 1 is one of the greatest action movies of all time. And so he goes back to Hong Kong, he makes the first Police Story, and it really feels like Jackie’s Revenge. And the climax in the shopping mall is an incredible set piece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bklvjQftk&t=310)
- **Eyes Without a Face** (1960) - Georges Franju - Spine #260 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/950-eyes-without-a-face) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/)
- **Walker** (2025) - Lawrence Fajardo - Spine #423 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/526-walker) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35544996/)
- **Throne of Blood** (2002) - Yoshinari Okamoto - Spine #190 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/735-throne-of-blood)
- **Don't Look Now** (1973) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #745 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27928-don-t-look-now) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069995/)
## Edward Berger (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zlyJmf-2MM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/731-edward-berger-s-closet-picks)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "Let me start with Do the Right Thing. Spike Lee, such a great film. Reminds me of New York, of how I studied here. 1989, I came in 1991, so the movie just came out and it was like a revelation of a film. So that one I'm going to take. It says director approved, so Lee approved it. It's wonderful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zlyJmf-2MM&t=12)
- **Downhill Racer** (1969) - Michael Ritchie - Spine #494 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/20391-downhill-racer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064253/)
> "This is a movie I absolutely adore, Downhill Racer. Michael Ritchie, 1969. This one I've seen it many times. It's the best movie—I mean, if you love skiing watch it, or if you love sports, if you love Robert Redford watch it. But also, sound. Sound is incredible. I remember watching this and thinking the sound is so good, it's so crisp, it's so precise. You have these downhill racing scenes and you hear the skis fluttering on the ice and you hear his breath. This is the best sound design ever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zlyJmf-2MM&t=37)
- **Cold War** (2017) - J. Wilder Konschak - Spine #1005 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30104-cold-war) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537300/)
> "Cold War, I'm sure you know it. I adore it because it's so emotional while being so restrained. When you watch it you think, 'This is like Doctor Zhivago, this must be like three and a half hours.' It is 88 minutes. It is really short but it has the emotional impact of a massive epic. So this is a masterpiece that would stay forever in the canon of movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zlyJmf-2MM&t=169)
- **The Exterminating Angel** (1962) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #459 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1076-the-exterminating-angel) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056732/)
> "Exterminating Angel, great film. People are stuck in one building in one room, they don't leave. And all I remember from this movie—I saw it a long time ago—so there's one character who keeps saying like, 'And suddenly I lost all my hair.' And so for some reason I remember that. And it's very funny, so I think that's a great movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zlyJmf-2MM&t=199)
- **Fanny and Alexander** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/206-fanny-and-alexander)
> "Oh and here, last one, Fanny and Alexander. Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece. I'll take this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zlyJmf-2MM&t=223)
- **3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/982-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman)
> "So Roberto Rossellini, I think I have to take him. Look at this, there is Journey to Italy, Stromboli, Europa '51. Isabella was in my last film and I think to just to remember her and to honor her basically—I'll meet her later—I'll take this and remember her parents."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zlyJmf-2MM&t=98)
- **Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/689-roberto-rossellini-s-war-trilogy)
## Elegance Bratton (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/519-elegance-bratton-s-closet-picks)
- **Sid & Nancy** (1986) - Alex Cox - Spine #20 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/535-sid-nancy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091954/)
> "Sid and Nancy oh my God we love a tragic Romance shout out Amy Winehouse Blake Bobby and Whitney Sid and Nancy ooh..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=28)
- **Summertime** (2023) - Corentin Leconte - Spine #22 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/368-summertime)
> "Summertime well it's got Katharine Hepburn she's giving us this power lesbian energy and I'm here for this [ __ ] so I'm gonna see what it's about..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=42)
- **Ratcatcher** (1999) - Lynne Ramsay - Spine #162 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/716-ratcatcher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/)
> "Oh Ratcatcher yo Lynne Ramsay is a total Vibe if you don't know now you know watch this film you will never see curtains the same way again..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=52)
- **Written on the Wind** (1956) - Douglas Sirk - Spine #96 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/636-written-on-the-wind) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049966/)
> "The Douglas Sirk that's my dude I love Douglas Sirk because one of my favorite filmmakers ever I literally copy this man in my head all the time you know German weirdo sis we got Lauren Bacall we got we got Rock Hudson you know the original trade..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=63)
- **All That Heaven Allows** (1955) - Tai Paulo - Spine #95 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/635-all-that-heaven-allows)
> "All That Heaven Allows Jane Wyman is a whole mood in this movie like this movie is basically like How Stella Got Her Groove Back but with like white people in Connecticut..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=80)
- **Rashomon** (1950) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #138 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/307-rashomon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/)
> "Rashomon this movie Just does a lot for me I'm very much into the idea of like reconciliation and conflict resolution and also the kind of Rashomon effect right how people remember things from their own subjective points of view and I think this is a movie that really makes that come alive for me..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=90)
- **Paris is Burning** (1991) - Jennie Livingston - Spine #1018 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29647-paris-is-burning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/)
> "Paris is Burning the deluxe edition I'm thrilled Carmen Extravaganza we love you R. I. P to all the Pioneers icons Legends and statesmen Femme Queens Butch Queens who paved the way for all of us Butch Queens to have this moment so thank you so much..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=143)
- **Bamboozled** (2000) - Spike Lee - Spine #1019 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29007-bamboozled) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215545/)
> "Bamboozled you know the problem of the black the image of the black in the Western World... Blackface and Minstrelsy is a part of that agenda you know and I think Professor Spike Lee who's my professor at Tisch I think he really broke open a conversation and managed to help the whole world understand the damage those images did through this film and you know Damon Wayans Miss Jada Pinkett Smith Tommy Davidson..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=165)
- **The Battle of Algiers** (1966) - Gillo Pontecorvo - Spine #249 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/248-the-battle-of-algiers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/)
> "This is my favorite movie of all time I personally don't see a difference between documentary and fiction I think there are two paths to the same outcome of truth in film and this film proves it through Gillo Pontecorvo incidentally this film also premiered the New York Film Festival and now the inspection has closed in New York Film Festival so I have I've written about this film in schools many times and I love this film..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=234)
- **Some Like It Hot** (1959) - Billy Wilder - Spine #950 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29162-some-like-it-hot) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/)
> "Last but not least Marilyn Monroe and Some Like It Hot I think Marilyn Monroe is the greatest movie star that's ever lived I think she is the most famous person that has ever lived... She was a feminist she was the first I think she was the first woman to own a production company in Hollywood you know and it's people play her to be some sort of like strung out bimbo and you know you could be sexy and you could be smart..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=274)
- **Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-essential-films)
> "Melvin Van Peebles it's a box of his work Melvin is one of the architects of what can be called Black American Cinema we are all walking in his legacy Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is one of the most badass movies ever made and also one of the most profitable movies ever made people don't talk about that much but now I get to see everything else he's done I'm excited about that..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZDsZWqrBE&t=123)
## Elle Fanning (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/893-elle-fanning-s-closet-picks)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "I am picking first The Red Shoes. I kind of have a special story about this one because I was lucky enough– I worked with Francis Ford Coppola when I was... Gosh, I was young, maybe thirteen, and he knew that I did ballet. And we shot this film with him, it was called Twixt... He showed me The Red Shoes for the first time. And I was, like, engulfed in the film and loving it, and I heard something and I looked over and he was asleep. He was snoring. So this is for Uncle Francis."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg&t=13)
- **The Virgin Suicides** (2000) - Sofia Coppola - Spine #920 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29336-the-virgin-suicides) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159097/)
> "Okay, another– We’re going on a Coppola train. I’ve said this many times, and when I come to the Closet, I’ve always wanted to hold this one up, but The Virgin Suicides is... It’s my ride or die. And it was my first Instagram handle as well. I shouldn’t have gotten rid of that one, but, yeah, @virginsuicides was me all through high school."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg&t=65)
- **Daisies** (2013) - Lauren Watson - Spine #1157 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27854-daisies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2899232/)
> "I also... I really love Daisies. It’s so out there and just beautiful to look at, and I don’t know who first told me about this film, but it’s one of my favorites. I always go back, and it’s just so colorful and it’s a vibe."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg&t=85)
- **Bringing Up Baby** (1938) - Howard Hawks - Spine #1085 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29010-bringing-up-baby) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/)
> "This is good, Bringing Up Baby. I love Katharine Hepburn and I love that moment she... She walks away and her skirt is up and she has, like, a little underwear out and it’s, like, amazing physical comedy. Yeah, and amazing dialogue, very fast-paced. So this is a favorite of mine."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg&t=103)
- **To Die For** (1997) - Roberta Torre - Spine #1213 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32358-to-die-for) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120277/)
> "Nicole, my girl. To Die For is my favorite Nicole Kidman Performance. I’ve been trying to get my boyfriend and I to dress up as Nicole and Joaquin from this movie, so maybe this Halloween. Think it’s a good one, but I mean, it’s a perfect movie. I love it so much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg&t=123)
- **The Power of the Dog** (2021) - Jane Campion - Spine #1158 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33332-the-power-of-the-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10293406/)
> "Power of the Dog. Kirsten, another friend. I’m just picking all my friends. But, God, she’s so good in this movie. And Jane Campion is someone that I would love to work with. I have been lucky enough to meet her. So, Jane, if you’re watching this, I’m available for you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg&t=145)
- **The Worst Person in the World** (2021) - Joachim Trier - Spine #1132 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32661-the-worst-person-in-the-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10370710/)
> "The Worst Person in the World. That’s why I wanted to do Sentimental Value. This movie, I think, is really, truly one of the best movies of the last decade, a hundred percent, so... And I love this– Yeah, I love this image."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg&t=165)
- **Parasite** (2019) - Bong Joon Ho - Spine #1054 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30619-parasite) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/)
> "Parasite. Parasite is one... I was lucky enough to be... I guess, yeah, one of the first audiences to see it, because I was on the jury at Cannes that year and, yeah, it won the Palme d’Or that year. We watched it and we were like, 'Oh my God, I think that’s the winner here.' It was so, so good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg&t=181)
- **The Princess Bride** (1987) - Rob Reiner - Spine #948 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29368-the-princess-bride) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/)
> "The Princess Bride. I love that movie. I have seen that movie. Okay, that’s nuts that I picked that. I love this film. Another really good Halloween costume. Good couples costume."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg&t=213)
- **I Knew Her Well** (1965) - Antonio Pietrangeli - Spine #801 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28600-i-knew-her-well) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060545/)
> "I Knew Her Well. I do not know this movie. Oh, party girl in sixties Rome, is a revelation. Plays like an inversion of La dolce vita with a woman at its center, Following the gorgeous, seemingly liberated Adriana... As she dallies with a wide variety of men. Ooh, I have luck in the Closet, it seems."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7KuHCJMFg&t=234)
## Elvis Mitchell (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2QMmh_l1M) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/515-elvis-mitchell-s-closet-picks)
- **Husbands** (1970) - John Cassavetes - Spine #1029 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28827-husbands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065867/)
> "Why not Husbands? Why not? Because I can't think of anything more fun than the thing of the clash of acting styles that go on in this. Everybody is fighting for territory. You can almost, you listen closely, hear John Cassavetes' maniacal cackle watching these guys go nose to nose, tear duct to tear duct with each other."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2QMmh_l1M&t=10)
- **‘Round Midnight** (1986) - Bertrand Tavernier - Spine #1122 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29031--round-midnight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090557/)
> "How about Dexter Gordon in his film debut in this film, who was one of the most decent people you would ever meet, such a wonderful soul. Many dinners at festivals around the world with him. And tells a great story about Cassie Martin's Chris says he's in this film saying, you know, I said, you know, Marty, I want someone like you who is the solar decency but ruthless. And Marty goes, I can do that., so he's sort of an empress argue on this. But the Dexter Gordon Performance and Bertrand was..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2QMmh_l1M&t=85)
- **To Sleep with Anger** (1990) - Charles Burnett - Spine #963 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29567-to-sleep-with-anger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100791/)
> "To Sleep with Anger. Every Burnett film feels, has a sense of being lived in, but nothing feels staged. You can feel that intersection of American black life and Italian neorealism and also the Nouvelle Vague. I can't think of anyone who's more masterly about that kind of thing, about unobtrusive, generous filmmaking than Charles Burnett."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2QMmh_l1M&t=136)
- **Love Jones** (1997) - Theodore Witcher - Spine #1117 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31501-love-jones) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119572/)
> "Here's a film that finally exists on home video. You talk about a film that probably has impacted as many filmmakers of color as any movie the last 40 years, it would be this one. Just the chemistry between the two leads and the way music is used and maybe probably one of the first big budget films that really bring the sort of slam poetry as a kind of emotional evocation. The director should have surfaced again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2QMmh_l1M&t=158)
- **The Parallax View** (1974) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #1064 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30204-the-parallax-view) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071970/)
> "My hands are shaking because I think that spirit of anxiety passes along. You're holding up The Parallax View. I got the title in that time. It's the Pakula film that to me feels the least studied. You sort of feel a kind of control of the camera in a lot of his films and this one feels like he's really trying to bring the filmmaking of someone like Fred Wiseman or D. A. Pennebaker. You want us to feel the anxiety in each frame."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2QMmh_l1M&t=199)
- **Miller’s Crossing** (1990) - Joel Coen - Spine #1112 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29604-miller-s-crossing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150/)
> "Would you say Miller's Crossing? Wise, would there be a,, a Criterion closet without a Coen Brothers film in it? I have a specific love for this movie because as a comics person, I always thought it was kind of the version of Will Eisner, The Spirit, that if you did The Spirit, this would be it. People who burns are being punched in the head. He wears his head low, kind of his eyes. And at the end he turns out to be a little bit smarter than almost everybody else, except for Marcia Gay Harden..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2QMmh_l1M&t=227)
- **Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-essential-films)
> "The Essential Films of Melvin Van Peebles is a property of this. You're looking online to pick up one of these things that you should have it, but also what's really great about these movies is that they're really about the spirit of independent filmmaking that Melvin recognized. Rather than a blaxploitation film which means you'd be left in the margins, instead he made it about the selling of the film. Melvin was smart enough to realize the X rating wasn't copyrighted, so he just said 'Rated..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF2QMmh_l1M&t=30)
## Eric Bana (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-AnhGQek8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/747-eric-bana-s-closet-picks)
- **The Silence of the Lambs** (1991) - Jonathan Demme - Spine #13 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/528-the-silence-of-the-lambs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/)
> "I’ve found one already. Silence of the Lambs. So scary. I mean, the performances by Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins... Honestly, particularly Anthony Hopkins’s portrayal– I don’t know if there’s been a more frightening villain on film. And some of the choices he makes... And some of the best prison scenes, I think, of any film. So, Silence of the Lambs. In you go."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-AnhGQek8&t=19)
- **The Blob** (1958) - Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. - Spine #91 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/630-the-blob) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/)
> "The Blob. This makes me so happy. Oh my God. You know, I grew up in a time where these movies weren’t readily accessible... If it was a Saturday and The Blob came on, it was like, “Game on, we are sitting through The Blob.” I’ve probably seen this film ten times over the course of my life. Steve McQueen, of course, is in this film... One of the most ridiculous films of all time. Also like slightly scary, I think, when you’re a young kid. “Incredibly unique” is how I’d describe The Blob."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-AnhGQek8&t=54)
- **Badlands** (1974) - Terrence Malick - Spine #651 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28406-badlands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069762/)
> "Terrence Malick, Badlands. I love this movie so much. 1973. I think this may be my favorite Terrence Malick. Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. I mean, the beautiful performances in this... I think it’s one of the great road movies of all time. And one of the things that I most love about Badlands is I think it may be one of the best car chases in cinema ever... He doesn’t overpower it with stunt driving... It looks like these cars are about to break every second."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-AnhGQek8&t=108)
- **Breaker Morant** (1980) - Bruce Beresford - Spine #773 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27766-breaker-morant) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080310/)
> "One of my favorite Australian films. If you haven’t seen Breaker Morant, I thoroughly recommend it. Bruce Beresford directed this, and it has some really fantastic performances. Bryan Brown, one of our most famous Australian actors and living legend. It’s probably... If it’s not his greatest Performance, it’s right up there. But this is... This is a fantastic, fantastic film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-AnhGQek8&t=184)
- **The Great Escape** (1963) - John Sturges - Spine #1027 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29149-the-great-escape) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/)
> "The Great Escape. It epitomized so much about rugged performances. And the idea of someone needing to get out from where they are. Just a great, great film with some amazing performances. Great soundtrack. And the best motorcycle jump. You know, you can do all your crazy modern-day stuff, but sometimes just a good old visceral man without a helmet, bit of grass, bit of razor wire, it works. Like, it just always seemed real."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-AnhGQek8&t=219)
- **Night on Earth** (1991) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #401 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/227-night-on-earth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/)
> "I have found my last pick. Wow. Night on Earth. I saw this at a time when I had no idea I’d be an actor... And just being so blown away by this format, this idea that you could have multiple stories and... Perfectly executed. Night on Earth. Jim Jarmusch. Fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-AnhGQek8&t=256)
## Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/446-ethan-hawke-and-jonathan-marc-sherman-s-closet-picks)
- **Black Orpheus** (1959) - Marcel Camus - Spine #48 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/)
> "Just everything I'm like Orpheus..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=5)
- **The 400 Blows** (1959) - François Truffaut - Spine #5 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/151-the-400-blows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)
> "Yeah The 400 Blows I mean well you know though they've the whole Antoine Doinel collection here you see this..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=10)
- **Tootsie** (1982) - Sydney Pollack - Spine #738 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28609-tootsie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084805/)
> "First of all I'm in shock the criterion is Tootsie okay by the way I just re-watched and it's a phenomenal film it really is it so funny Bill Murray is a genius okay but I love that you guys have to see I'm not gonna take it because I've already watched it and I'm not gonna waste mine I am going today you are taking a good..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=25)
- **Breaker Morant** (1980) - Bruce Beresford - Spine #773 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27766-breaker-morant) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080310/)
> "Well I highly recommend Breaker Morant okay Wow okay my son has got to see this Bruce Beresford I worked with him..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=46)
- **Rumble Fish** (1983) - Francis Ford Coppola - Spine #869 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28993-rumble-fish) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086216/)
> "This is phenomenal greatest juvenile Performance of all time Matt Dillon Rumble Fish people like go nuts about DiCaprio and other greats I don't know salting them Matt Dillon and Rumble Fish Wow like can you tell me the greatest lyric and the song don't box me in from Rumble Fish know this blackboard lacks a piece of chalk ba don't box me in I love it..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=60)
- **Berlin Alexanderplatz** (1980) - Hans-Dieter Hartl - Spine #411 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/839-berlin-alexanderplatz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126409/)
> "Speaking of Fassbinder why don't you take Berlin Alexanderplatz let's do it stance I'm all-in..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=88)
- **Ace in the Hole** (1951) - Billy Wilder - Spine #396 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/829-ace-in-the-hole) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043338/)
> "Right across from Ace in the Hole my gosh come on Ace in the Hole was available..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=142)
- **Paris, Texas** (1984) - Wim Wenders - Spine #501 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1502-paris-texas) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087884/)
> "In honor Sam Shepard Oh little Paris Texas okay I just saw a new print of this that in Santa Fe and this movie is you think it's great you're like oh I know Paris Texas it's great it's so much better than that..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=150)
- **Sullivan's Travels** (1941) - Preston Sturges - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/657-sullivan-s-travels) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/)
> "I'm gonna take Sullivan's Travels just because the cover is so awesome. Oh gee, that's I don't remember that one. Oh, you probably have some copies in that, don't you? Come on. Yeah, I'm thinking of buying something. Maybe you might want to take that. Would you would you like to say something about the front of it and the back of it or both of those sounds? Do you have a favorite side of it? You know what, staggering genius works whatever way you show it. Oh, so even like even like here, than..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=168)
- **One-Eyed Jacks** (1961) - Marlon Brando - Spine #844 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28979-one-eyed-jacks) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055257/)
> "No I'm taking that first and only film like you know there's people have favorite first films or last films or whatever that's Marlon Brando directed one movie and it's staggeringly brilliant I mean you just can't even believe it I think it's a little cheap cuz he fired Kubrick right before it started so it was prepped by none other than Stanley..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=177)
- **Five Easy Pieces** (1970) - Bob Rafelson - Spine #546 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27529-five-easy-pieces) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065724/)
> "Also I was just talking about this room with a friend of mine Five Easy Pieces so I'm gonna take that..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=238)
- **House** (1977) - Sergio Citti - Spine #539 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27523-house) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075815/)
> "And have you ever seen House I have okay so you need to see this movie this is one of the greatest I will never go out of my top-five freakiest movies I have often described it this movie is like doing acid without having to do acid so you're okay when it's over it's amazing let me just say spoiler alert somebody turns from a dude into a pile of bananas wearing a hat in it and it makes logical sense..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=243)
- **The Before Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1237-the-before-trilogy)
- **The Essential Jacques Demy** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1055-the-essential-jacques-demy)
> "I'm going Jacques Demy and then I'm threatened myself that's it..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrJUaoa1Zc&t=283)
## Ethel Cain (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld19PMXUyqg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/878-ethel-cain-s-closet-picks)
- **Thelma & Louise** (1991) - Ridley Scott - Spine #1180 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29164-thelma-louise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/)
> "I guess we can probably start with my favorite film of all time, which is Thelma & Louise. I remember watching this for the first time when I was in the middle of finishing my first record, and it became such a North Star in terms of just that kind of epic, tragic American road trip. The soundtrack is incredible. Ridley Scott’s an amazing director. Definitely number one forever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld19PMXUyqg&t=8)
- **Crash** (1996) - David Cronenberg - Spine #1059 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29014-crash) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/)
> "David Cronenberg’s Crash. This film is incredible. James Spader, Holly Hunter. So good, so weird and perverted. I really love to just put this one on a weird rainy night and, you know, drink a glass of whiskey and really get into it. And I’ll have his others: Videodrome, everything. He’s so weird."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld19PMXUyqg&t=38)
- **Eraserhead** (1977) - David Lynch - Spine #725 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/)
> "Next is Eraserhead, which I love. I love Eraserhead, it’s my favorite Lynch. It was actually the only Lynch I’d ever seen for a very long time. So inspiring to me to this day, was super inspiring for the last album that I put out. It left such a mark on me. And yeah, I don’t know. I love, love, love, love Eraserhead. And hopefully someday I can… I aspire to create something even as half as good as Eraserhead. Love you Eraserhead baby."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld19PMXUyqg&t=57)
- **Picnic at Hanging Rock** (1975) - Peter Weir - Spine #29 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/565-picnic-at-hanging-rock) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/)
> "Picnic at Hanging Rock. Also, I have this on so many formats: VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, all of it. The scene, obviously, where the girls go up and get lost and their classmate is screaming and running down the rock, and the music, it’s so… And the colors in this film are just so rich. I’ve never seen a movie quite like this. It is a masterpiece. It is one of a kind. You know, 1970s does Edwardian is always kind of one of The Most Beautiful things I’ve ever seen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld19PMXUyqg&t=88)
- **Days of Heaven** (1978) - Terrence Malick - Spine #409 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/213-days-of-heaven) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/)
> "Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick. Incredible. I mean, any film buff that you talk to is going to tell you to watch this movie. It’s perfect. I mean, even the cover – this and The Reflecting Skin were a huge inspiration for the last song on my last record, just those fields of wheat, the “Amber Waves.” It’s a masterclass in cinematography. It really is just… Every time I sit and put it on, it’s one of those films that can’t help but drag you in and make you live in it for a moment."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld19PMXUyqg&t=122)
- **Grey Gardens** (1976) - Ellen Giffard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/664-grey-gardens) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073076/)
> "Grey Gardens. The atmosphere of this film, of just the skulking around this decrepit ruin of a once beautiful home, kind of forgotten by time, forgotten by peers, forgotten by family and love and the world, and still holding on to this shred of glamor and class when everything else around you has kind of left. And the story of Little Edie. It’s kooky and it’s peculiar, but it is also so heartbreaking, and it’s just such a… such a tale unlike any other."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld19PMXUyqg&t=162)
## Euzhan Palcy (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5P4n_sxkA0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/440-euzhan-palcy-s-closet-picks)
- **Black Orpheus** (1959) - Marcel Camus - Spine #48 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/)
> "Oh the movie who really confirm my desire and encourage me and make me say okay I am going to be a filmmaker. Black Orpheus. Marcel Camus. Oh gosh Marcel Camus he doesn't know what he did to me when I saw that film and I was a young girl in the Caribbean and that day the theater was packed and I would never forget it was so rare to have a movie with black characters and in positive roles. People were fighting to see that movie. I think that I saw that movie at least 50 times. Orfeu Negro. Oh..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5P4n_sxkA0&t=176)
- **The Lady Vanishes** (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock - Spine #3 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/358-the-lady-vanishes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030341/)
> "Yes Mr Hitchcock Alfred of course I learn a lot from him now when The Lady Vanishes yeah and I remember with my brothers when we were watching a Hitchcock movie like Psycho or others you know in fact we used to play a game. We will try to imagine who is the villain who did the crime what will happen next and of course we will fail because he was oh it's was impossible with Hitchcock he will take you all over the place."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5P4n_sxkA0&t=131)
- **Cronos** (1993) - Guillermo del Toro - Spine #551 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27534-cronos) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104029/)
> "Oh Del Toro he's a genius man everybody should see his movies he's great I love him."
- **The Naked Island** (1960) - Kaneto Shindō - Spine #811 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27774-the-naked-island) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056049/)
> "I'm happy because very few people you know that movie The Naked Island they call it L'Île nue in French has the same translation that movie has no dialogues and the way that filmmaker told the story with those two characters a man and his wife on a boat they live on an island and then they have they do the crossing to go to town to buy food water and all kind of things and no dialogue and it's a feature film and you just like you get into that movie and not one minute you feel bored."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5P4n_sxkA0&t=84)
- **The Devil’s Backbone** (2001) - Guillermo del Toro - Spine #666 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27914-the-devil-s-backbone) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/)
> "Oh Del Toro he's a genius man everybody should see his movies he's great I love him."
- **Pan’s Labyrinth** (2006) - Guillermo del Toro - Spine #838 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28948-pan-s-labyrinth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/)
> "Oh Del Toro he's a genius man everybody should see his movies he's great I love him."
- **A Dry White Season** (1989) - Euzhan Palcy - Spine #953 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29148-a-dry-white-season) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097243/)
- **The 400 Blows** (1959) - François Truffaut - Spine #5 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/151-the-400-blows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)
> "Okay then 400 Blows from Truffaut. I was very fortunate to meet Truffaut through his daughter Laura. I was a student in Paris and I was working on my first movie a screenplay Sugar Cane Alley and Truffaut read the script he gave me some advice and at the end he became my godfather. And when the movie got the Cesar for best first film Truffaut was there in that room because he was getting the Cesar for all his work. He was very sick and that was the last time they saw him in public."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5P4n_sxkA0&t=11)
- **Love Streams** (1984) - John Cassavetes - Spine #721 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28032-love-streams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087644/)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
- **A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/89-a-film-trilogy-by-ingmar-bergman)
## Five Comics’ (null)
Episode: Unknown | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/443-five-comics-closet-picks)
- **Good Morning** (1959) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #84 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/624-good-morning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053134/)
- **Yojimbo** (1961) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #52 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/597-yojimbo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055630/)
- **Frances Ha** (2013) - Noah Baumbach - Spine #681 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28560-frances-ha) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2347569/)
- **Beastie Boys Video Anthology** (2000) - David Perez Shadi - Spine #100 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/638-beastie-boys-video-anthology) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273456/)
- **Some Like It Hot** (1959) - Billy Wilder - Spine #950 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29162-some-like-it-hot) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/)
- **Rosemary’s Baby** (1968) - Roman Polanski - Spine #630 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27927-rosemary-s-baby) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/)
- **Night of the Living Dead** (1968) - George A. Romero - Spine #909 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29331-night-of-the-living-dead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/)
- **Sunday Bloody Sunday** (1971) - John Schlesinger - Spine #629 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28025-sunday-bloody-sunday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067805/)
- **Pan’s Labyrinth** (2006) - Guillermo del Toro - Spine #838 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28948-pan-s-labyrinth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/)
- **Crumb** (1994) - Terry Zwigoff - Spine #533 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2104-crumb) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109508/)
- **True Stories** (1986) - David Byrne - Spine #951 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29038-true-stories) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092117/)
- **24 Frames** (2018) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #956 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29399-24-frames) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6777170/)
- **Made In USA** (1966) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #481 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2109-made-in-u-s-a) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060647/)
- **Man Bites Dog** (1992) - Rémy Belvaux - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/718-man-bites-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/)
- **Sex, Lies, and Videotape** (1989) - Steven Soderbergh - Spine #938 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28832-sex-lies-and-videotape) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098724/)
- **Ikiru** (1952) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #221 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/353-ikiru) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/)
- **The Big Chill** (1983) - Lawrence Kasdan - Spine #720 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28610-the-big-chill) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/)
- **Shampoo** (1975) - Hal Ashby - Spine #947 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28821-shampoo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073692/)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
## Florence Welch (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4g1Tz4F8Vo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/914-florence-welch-s-closet-picks)
- **Picnic at Hanging Rock** (1975) - Peter Weir - Spine #29 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/565-picnic-at-hanging-rock) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/)
> "Picnic at Hanging Rock. Every shot looks like an impressionist painting. Me and Autumn de Wilde, who shot the album cover for "Dance Fever" and directed the videos, we looked at this for a reference for the video for "King," and this kind of idea of these girls learning to be ladies, but within the wild and then there is this kind of wild force, and no matter how proper and ladylike that you try and learn how to be, this idea that nature or this kind of force that is bigger than you will kind..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4g1Tz4F8Vo&t=6)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "The Red Shoes! I’ve been thinking about The Red Shoes for a long time. I was thinking about it on "Dance Fever" in terms of, like, it was a record almost about dancing yourself to death. But also as a performer, just a sense that you are in the search for perfection and for perfection in Performance, that you would do anything. The brutality of Performance, what you put your body through, the madness of it, the kind of tragedy of it, I feel like this film, it sort of encapsulates that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4g1Tz4F8Vo&t=95)
- **Pina** (2011) - Wim Wenders - Spine #644 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28404-pina) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440266/)
> "Another film that has been with me for a really, really long time is Pina by Wim Wenders, and it changed the way I saw dance. It changed the way I saw Performance. It kind of made me the performer I am today. So this was a really, really huge film for me. I think I discovered it when I was about twenty-four or twenty-five, and it kind of changed everything."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4g1Tz4F8Vo&t=130)
- **Valerie and Her Week of Wonders** (1970) - Jaromil Jireš - Spine #761 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27860-valerie-and-her-week-of-wonders) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066516/)
> "Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. This film as well has been a reference for me since my first album, "Lungs." Some of the images and the sort of... Medieval, vampire, witchcraft, this film has everything, and a lot of it is about young women coming of age and the hallucinatory experience of that, and I do think the sort of surrealist elements about girlhood... I think people are really drawing on that currently... It’s all coming back to this moment in cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4g1Tz4F8Vo&t=155)
- **I Married a Witch** (1942) - René Clair - Spine #676 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27771-i-married-a-witch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034881/)
> "I Married a Witch! I haven’t actually seen it, but I feel like I should. These are the ones I feel like I should see: Häxan, I Married a Witch."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4g1Tz4F8Vo&t=203)
- **Häxan** (1922) - Benjamin Christensen - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/352-haxan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013257/)
> "Häxan, I Married a Witch. These are the ones I feel like I should see."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4g1Tz4F8Vo&t=212)
- **This Is Spinal Tap** (1984) - Rob Reiner - Spine #12 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/317-this-is-spinal-tap) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/)
> "What they don’t tell you is that Spinal Tap, I know it’s supposed to be a spoof, but so much about being in a band is just completely true. Spinal Tap is supposed to be satire, but most of it you’re just like, "Yeah. Yeah, that’s real." This is the last of my film choices."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4g1Tz4F8Vo&t=218)
- **Withnail and I** (1987) - Bruce Robinson - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/658-withnail-and-i) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094336/)
> "Withnail and I is one of my favorite films in the entire world. When I was young, I was like, "This is going to be my blueprint for living." I’m sober now, so it didn’t go great. But when I first saw this film, I was like, "This is it." On "Dance Fever," I made a video called "Free"—for a song called "Free"—and Bill Nighy was in it playing my anxiety. There’s lots of theories about Withnail and I that Withnail doesn’t actually exist, he’s a kind of figment of I’s imagination."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4g1Tz4F8Vo&t=48)
## Floyd Norman (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuVyxoy6Hw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/527-floyd-norman-s-closet-picks)
- **The Thief of Bagdad** (1924) - Raoul Walsh - Spine #431 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/544-the-thief-of-bagdad) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015400/)
> "I would soon to see him in other films such as The Thief of Bagdad and a number of others. He even did a film I believe at the Walt Disney Studios in the 1960s, he appeared in the film for us."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuVyxoy6Hw&t=106)
- **The Hidden Fortress** (2002) - Yoshinari Okamoto - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/655-the-hidden-fortress) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18235568/)
> "The Hidden Fortress probably inspired another filmmaker, George Lucas, and Star Wars got a good deal of inspiration from this film, The Hidden Fortress by Kurosawa. Great motion picture."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuVyxoy6Hw&t=124)
- **Rebecca** (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/680-rebecca) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/)
> "I was really anxious to see Rebecca. I had seen all of Hitchcock's films in the 50s and 60s but this film came out a little earlier and I hadn't seen it. I found the most unusual way to watch Rebecca: a friend of mine, an animator, literally had a 35 millimeter projector in his apartment. He had a print of Rebecca and I was able to see this masterpiece in his home. Never thought I would view the film in that manner, but great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuVyxoy6Hw&t=142)
- **Malcolm X** (1992) - Spike Lee - Spine #1160 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33245-malcolm-x) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/)
> "Good pal, Spike Lee, great filmmaker. Spike made his first film She's Gotta Have It, they followed that with School Daze, and then by the time he got around to doing this particular film, Spike was at the top of his game and a great Performance by Denzel Washington."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuVyxoy6Hw&t=196)
- **My Man Godfrey** (1936) - Gregory La Cava - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/653-my-man-godfrey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028010/)
> "This one happens to be a favorite of my wife Adrian. I hadn't seen My Man Godfrey starring William Powell. Film that's a lot of fun but has a social message as well. What I would call such a tight film; it's not long at all, it tells its story, tells it well, and then the film ends, you know, as films should do when you've told your story, done."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuVyxoy6Hw&t=230)
- **Eclipse Series 30: Sabu!** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/847-eclipse-series-30-sabu)
> "The version [of The Jungle Book] by Alexander and Zoltan Korda, that film starred an actor named Sabu. And when I saw this film I had never even heard of this actor but I would soon to see him in other films... The Great Sabu, something you should check out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSuVyxoy6Hw&t=92)
## Flying Lotus (musician)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/438-flying-lotus-s-closet-picks)
- **Brazil** (1985) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #51 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/211-brazil) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/)
> "I don't know if I had Brazil on Criterion oh yeah Brazil yeah this is great I love this movie I'm stealing this..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c&t=4)
- **Rushmore** (1998) - Wes Anderson - Spine #65 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/333-rushmore) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128445/)
> "I've never watched Rushmore I know it's supposed to be the one... And Rushmore I never finish that supposed to be a hipster haven't seen every Wes Anderson movie..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c&t=39)
- **Naked Lunch** (1991) - David Cronenberg - Spine #220 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/634-naked-lunch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/)
> "Naked Lunch of course I want to get double for this yeah..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c&t=53)
- **Jellyfish Eyes** (2013) - Takashi Murakami - Spine #787 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28759-jellyfish-eyes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2006181/)
> "Oh you did Jellyfish Eyes oh yeah this is the one I didn't want to watch this one the Murakami movie yeah..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c&t=89)
- **Carnival of Souls** (1962) - Herk Harvey - Spine #63 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/607-carnival-of-souls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055830/)
> "Carnival souls take that..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c&t=44)
- **Dreams** (1955) - Ingmar Bergman - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28206-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048272/)
> "Boom Dreams yeah..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c&t=64)
- **Masculin, féminin** (1966) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #308 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/508-masculin-feminin) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060675/)
> "Masculine-feminine do I have this don't have the Blu-ray of it no way I need it I don't have it..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c&t=65)
- **A Touch of Zen** (1970) - King Hu - Spine #825 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28791-a-touch-of-zen) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064451/)
> "King Hu oh okay this looks like it's up my alley..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c&t=81)
- **Stalker** (1979) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #888 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28150-stalker) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/)
> "Stalker I didn't mean I don't try to find this where the hell wouldn't this come out yes I should where is that thank you I've not gotten through it I have to do that on an early one you know wake up and watch that he's like the NAP master makes me makes me dream you know..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c&t=95)
- **Fantastic Mr. Fox** (2009) - Wes Anderson - Spine #700 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28565-fantastic-mr-fox) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283/)
> "Ooh oh I've only seen this once it's good..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAysUV9xN6c&t=130)
## Francis Ford Coppola (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgWDtPVNQ7Y) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/763-francis-ford-coppola-s-closet-picks)
- **Rumble Fish** (1983) - Francis Ford Coppola - Spine #869 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28993-rumble-fish) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086216/)
> "I have a special affection for Rumble Fish because I thought of it as the antidote to the saccharine sweetness of The Outsiders. And my goal was to make Rumble Fish as an art film for kids... It turns out that Rumble Fish... Had a destiny that I didn’t even know about. A lot of young people from Latin America... Went to this one theater to see this weird movie called Rumble Fish... It inspired a whole generation to become filmmakers and novelists."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgWDtPVNQ7Y&t=92)
- **Dance, Girl, Dance** (1940) - Dorothy Arzner - Spine #1028 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29633-dance-girl-dance) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032376/)
> "Okay, well, here we go to Miss Arzner. And this particular film is Dance, Girl, Dance. And Miss Arzner was my directing teacher at UCLA. I learned so much from her, but one of the things that I repeated to my children, which is really important, she said that always sit in the same place next to the camera... Because you’re right there and you can not only see the cast very well but you can look up and you can see the camera operator... More important than anything, you sit there because the..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgWDtPVNQ7Y&t=186)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "I’m very attracted right here to The Complete Jacques Tati. Jacques Tati was a wonderful filmmaker who believed in a film he wanted to make and used his entire fortune... And it came out and it was a big flop, and he died sort of penniless, not realizing that this film he put everything up for, which was called PlayTime, was going to be considered today the masterpiece that we consider it. And more than a masterpiece because it’s a gift of a really good time, a really– lot of fun for everybody."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgWDtPVNQ7Y&t=8)
- **David Lean Directs Noël Coward** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/861-david-lean-directs-noel-coward)
> "Well, Noël Coward is a wonderful playwright and songwriter. And, when I did The Godfather, I sort of got to be so well known at a young age that they wanted me– They offered me many opportunities to direct operas or plays. So I did do a play, and it was a play by Noël Coward called Private Lives. And I did it with a sort of unusual twist to it. And I’m going to apply that same twist on this new material that I’m looking at."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgWDtPVNQ7Y&t=273)
## François Girard (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/838-francois-girard-s-closet-picks)
- **Rashomon** (1950) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #138 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/307-rashomon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/)
> "Rashomon, Kurosawa. One of our favorite Kurosawa. Kurosawa, I’ve seen everything. I love everything he’s done. Big influence on me. Ran might be my favorite film of all times. And I’ve also worked with his daughter. She designed the costumes of Silk."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac&t=13)
- **Short Cuts** (1993) - Robert Altman - Spine #265 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/376-short-cuts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108122/)
> "Short Cuts. A great film, but also a great memory because I saw it at the Venice Festival outside, in an outside screening, on a 70mm projection, and it was memorable for many different reasons."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac&t=28)
- **The Thin Red Line** (1998) - Terrence Malick - Spine #536 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27513-the-thin-red-line) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120863/)
> "One is The Thin Red Line. Thin Red Line is, like… Well, first of all, I’m a big Terrence Malick fan. And this is one of the best Malick, I think."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac&t=45)
- **Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence** (1983) - Nagisa Ōshima - Spine #535 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27512-merry-christmas-mr-lawrence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085933/)
> "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. Ryuichi Sakamoto, who I worked with, just died. This music is probably the most memorable music he left in the world. But he left so much. And I keep listening to Ryuichi’s music. And I’m picking it up out of love for Ryuichi."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac&t=55)
- **The Killer** (1956) - Hideo Sekigawa - Spine #8 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27751-the-killing)
> "The Killing. Like, okay. Kubrick. You know, who doesn’t love Kubrick, admire Kubrick? It’s not a matter of love, it’s a matter of admiration. And this is probably the only one I haven’t seen. So I should see it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac&t=76)
- **Macbeth** (1971) - Roman Polanski - Spine #726 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28020-macbeth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067372/)
> "Polanski’s Macbeth. I think so many filmmakers tried to adapt Shakespeare on screen and it doesn’t always work really well. And Polanski did it. Because he’s one of the greatest."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac&t=90)
- **Othello** (1951) - Orson Welles - Spine #870 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28621-othello) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045251/)
> "Othello, a film by Orson Welles. Othello has a particular place in my memory because I admire the film so much and the stories of the making of Othello is, like, beyond, like… Speak of determination and, like, will, force… a force of nature. This is where… It actually broke Orson Welles, this film. And I bored most of my friends telling all the stories of the making of Othello, until I discovered that Suzanne Cloutier, who plays Desdemona, is a Quebecer. Was a Quebecer."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac&t=117)
- **L'argent** (1983) - Robert Bresson - Spine #886 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27588-l-argent) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085180/)
> "L’argent by Bresson. L’argent by Bresson, like, whenever I’m trying to make the demonstration that all filmmakers are musicians and that all films are music, even if there’s no music in the film, L’argent is my best example."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac&t=167)
- **Exotica** (1994) - Atom Egoyan - Spine #1150 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29270-exotica) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109759/)
> "Exotica for two good reasons. Three. Like, first, it’s a great film. Second, it’s made by my dear, dear friend Atom Egoyan. And third, I was on the jury that gave it the Best Canadian Film at the Toronto Festival when it was released. And he won, yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac&t=182)
- **Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/275-eclipse-series-2-the-documentaries-of-louis-malle)
> "Louis Malle, a box set of Louis Malle. Hey, like… Vive Le Tour, Phantom India, Calcutta, God’s Country, …And the Pursuit of Happiness. I think this is very promising. I’m a big fan of Louis Malle."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frNkePt5Eac&t=104)
## Frederick Wiseman (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOpRVNqOZUA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/514-frederick-wiseman-s-closet-picks)
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
> "Bicycle Thief is a film that I saw oh very long time ago, 50 years ago or so. I was just so moved by the story and the opportunity, the feeling that I had that I was watching, even though it was staged, that I was watching real people and I was getting some sense of how they acted and how they felt."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOpRVNqOZUA&t=9)
- **Knife in the Water** (1962) - Roman Polanski - Spine #215 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/219-knife-in-the-water) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056291/)
> "Knife in the Water I saw when it first came out which must have been in the early 60s. Polanski's capacity to deal with both the literal aspects of a story and the abstract, I've thought about it many times over the years because making my own movies, the relationship between the literal and the abstract, how you take movies, a very literal medium, and how you take something specific, suggest more general ideas. Knife in the Water was a movie that helped me understand how to think in film terms."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOpRVNqOZUA&t=39)
- **Down by Law** (1986) - Jim Jarmusch - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/)
> "Down by Law I think it was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. I've seen it at least six times. Jarmusch is a master of straight-faced comedy and I'm a big fan of straight-faced comedy and it's something that I try to use in my own work."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOpRVNqOZUA&t=104)
- **Paths of Glory** (1957) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #538 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27522-paths-of-glory) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/)
> "I've always been a big fan of war movies and Paths of Glory. I think from my point of view Paths of Glory is the great Kubrick film because I felt that I was with the company in the trenches."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOpRVNqOZUA&t=87)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
## Gael Garcia Bernal (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJxXni9bo3g) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/616-gael-garcia-bernal-s-closet-picks)
- **Amores perros** (2000) - Alejandro González Iñárritu - Spine #1060 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30908-amores-perros) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/)
> "Amores perros and I love this poster. I am going to state the absolute obvious of why I think this film is the first one that came to my attention and that I choose because this is how films started for me and it was many of us our first experience, Alejandro's first experience. I think it was Rodrigo Prieto the cinematographer, it was like his third movie or something. The Producers, it was their first movie. It was many of us, it was our first movie. So Perros of course, absolutely."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJxXni9bo3g&t=21)
- **Memories of Underdevelopment** (1968) - Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Spine #943 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29220-memories-of-underdevelopment) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063291/)
> "Memories of Underdevelopment. This for me is the most important film in Latin America. It is an incredibly modern story that had many interpretations, a great introspection on the soul of the Cuban Revolution, on the people that left, on the people that stayed. It is an incredibly sophisticated, intelligent kind of take on humanity and also on our sort of belief system. It's a really great movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJxXni9bo3g&t=63)
- **Blow-Up** (1966) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #865 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28694-blow-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/)
> "Blow-Up. I love the films that have a character that is the worst person to solve a crime or solve a situation. This is a photographer that just discovers something and goes into a whole kind of an adventure that also is quite meaningless as well. I think nowadays if we look at it, we can see how much free time we had before we had telephones and Instagram and those kind of things. People would wonder and run into situations."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJxXni9bo3g&t=128)
- **Purple Noon** (1960) - René Clément - Spine #637 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27810-purple-noon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054189/)
> "Purple Noon. This film, it was perhaps the first time that I captured this wonderful essence that many thrillers from France have, that they don't explain too much the psychology or the psychoanalysis behind why the characters do what they do. I love that the French don't do that. Life doesn't work like that, also cinema doesn't, but life even less so. This film is fantastic, I recommend it a lot and Alain Delon is very beautiful in this one, very gorgeous."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJxXni9bo3g&t=168)
- **Y tu mamá también** (2001) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #723 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28005-y-tu-mama-tambien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/)
> "Y tu mamá también. I'm glad that they never change the title into English. I think I discovered cinema like properly, how to make cinema here with Alfonso Cuarón who included us in the making of this. The other thing that is very important is I want you to tell me which film has made you horny in the last years? There's not many. This one does. When you come out of the cinema watching this, you just want to live and have sex and enjoy and love people."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJxXni9bo3g&t=230)
- **Three Films by Luis Buñuel** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3900-three-films-by-luis-bunuel)
> "The Luis Buñuel collection. The stuff he threw out, the dramaturgy, the craziness, the concepts that he was talking about, it's so sophisticated and modern and yet with a lot of humor and a lot of intelligence. This collection has The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. I got to know really well Jean-Claude Carrière, the screenwriter of these films. He was such a mentor and such a wonderful person. Such a genius, this is how it ends with Luis Buñuel, the best director by far."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJxXni9bo3g&t=330)
## Garrett Bradley (musician)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/481-garrett-bradley-s-closet-picks)
- **Dressed to Kill** (1980) - Brian De Palma - Spine #770 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28686-dressed-to-kill) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080661/)
> "Dressed to Kill, this is wild. The split diopter shots in this movie are so out of control. There's like a scene, I think, where he's in the back of the taxi and it's, I don't know, it's deep. The whole movie's pretty deep."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=24)
- **The Battle of Algiers** (1966) - Gillo Pontecorvo - Spine #249 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/248-the-battle-of-algiers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/)
> "Battle of Algiers, dude. Oh, it's too greedy, I want to take two, but I'm just going to take one because someone else wanted to see it also."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=52)
- **Oliver Twist** (1919) - Márton Garas - Spine #32 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/567-oliver-twist) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242070/)
> "Oh, Oliver Twist, it's right here. Is it the David Lean one? I think I probably saw when I was like six or seven and like that image of the mom climbing up the mountain and like there's wind and rain and it's really graphic and she's about to give Birth and she goes up to these iron gates and I just remember really, really connecting with that imagery. Every moment of that opening of that film is like forever ingrained in my head."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=87)
- **Love & Basketball** (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood - Spine #1097 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31500-love-basketball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199725/)
> "Love & Basketball. Shout out to Gina."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=118)
- **Moonstruck** (1987) - Norman Jewison - Spine #1056 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29154-moonstruck) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093565/)
> "Also Moonstruck, like who doesn't want to watch Cher and Nicolas Cage together?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=126)
- **Betty Blue** (1986) - Jean-Jacques Beineix - Spine #1002 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29079-betty-blue) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090563/)
> "Betty Blue. Look at how pretty this is too, it's such a beautiful cover. 'When the easy-going would-be novelist Zorg meets the tempestuous Betty in a sun-baked French beach town.' Great, sounds awesome."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=132)
- **A Man Escaped** (1956) - Robert Bresson - Spine #650 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27848-a-man-escaped) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049902/)
> ", A Man Escaped. Another favorite film. Love this. It's such a great example of what you can do in one space. It's like the ultimate, you can just play and play and play in one room, one space. Really simple things that just make up the most incredible film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=147)
- **High and Low** (1963) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #24 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/543-high-and-low) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057565/)
- **Blue Is the Warmest Color** (2013) - Abdellatif Kechiche - Spine #695 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28603-blue-is-the-warmest-color) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278871/)
- **Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams** (1990) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #842 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28700-akira-kurosawa-s-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100998/)
> "Oh I watched this film over and over and over again when I was in college and there's this one scene where one of the guys is like falls asleep or like maybe he's dying and he Dreams I think and there is this woman in this snowstorm and it's one of The Most Beautiful things I've ever seen it's gorgeous..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=65)
- **Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1186-wim-wenders-the-road-trilogy)
> "The Road Trilogy. Yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=42)
- **Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-essential-films)
> "Rest in power, Mr. Van Peebles."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=47)
- **The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs** (7 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4431-the-signifyin-works-of-marlon-riggs)
> "Here's another one for y'all marlon riggs..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7QE6yAGyqc&t=124)
- **Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/382-rebel-samurai-sixties-swordplay-classics)
> "I'm just trying to read all this. 60s Swordplay Classics. Look at that box, look at that dude. You know it's good to get things you don't know, not just the things that you love."
## Gaspar Noe (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/432-gaspar-noe-s-closet-picks)
- **Seconds** (1966) - John Frankenheimer - Spine #667 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/)
> "Seconds. I love this movie. I even thought of making a remake one day of Seconds and I heard someone else is doing it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=15)
- **Master of the House** (2023) - Dylan Maranda - Spine #706 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27804-master-of-the-house) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14286056/)
> "Master of the House. I'm obsessed with Dreyer, obsessed with him. You know, some you have your favorite directors when you're 20, some you have your favorite directors when you're 30, and now I'm older than that, but I'm rewatching."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=27)
- **Safe** (1995) - Todd Haynes - Spine #739 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28548-safe) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/)
> "Safe. I've seen it twice or three times, but there's a short film of Todd Haynes that I don't know that is inside also. This is such a dark movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=43)
- **State of Siege** (1978) - Vincent Ward - Spine #760 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28048-state-of-siege) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0872337/)
> "Wow, I know, I was trying to find it. It's never been... State of Siege. I saw it as a kid. I saw it like 10 times in a row between the age of 10 and 12 because it was playing next to my House in Argentina and I could get in for free because I knew the guy. It's never been released in France, this DVD. Great movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=54)
- **Sundays and Cybèle** (1962) - Serge Bourguignon - Spine #728 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27912-sundays-and-cybele) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055910/)
> "You know that this movie, no one knows it in France. It just was re-edited lately. I know that Harmony Korine says that's his favorite French movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=78)
- **Jigoku** (1957) - Daisuke Itō - Spine #352 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/797-jigoku) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050563/)
> "Oh, this one. One of the most visual Japanese movies ever. I already have the DVD but it's more colorful and crazier than any Dario Argento movie or any Mario Bava movie. There's one masterpiece in Japanese horror cinema from the '60s, this is the one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=87)
- **Island of Lost Souls** (1974) - René Cardona - Spine #586 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27861-island-of-lost-souls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327966/)
> "I haven't seen it in a long time. Island of Lost Souls."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=110)
- **The Naked Prey** (1965) - Cornel Wilde - Spine #415 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/848-the-naked-prey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060736/)
> "And this is the first, the first cannibal movie that is really a masterpiece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=113)
- **Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom** (1976) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #17 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/532-salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/)
> "One of my very favorite movies ever. I have it on DVD but I don't have it on Blu-ray, so I'm sure there are extras that I've never seen. This movie is so good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=131)
- **Patriotism** (1918) - Raymond B. West - Spine #433 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/589-patriotism) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187394/)
> "It's Mishima's only movie as a director and it's about a seppuku that a guy makes and he fails and he commits suicide with a doing Harakiri and that's what he did in Real Life a few years later."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=144)
- **Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters** (1985) - Paul Schrader - Spine #432 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/588-mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603/)
> "This is the best. Whoever wants to buy two movies that make sense to watch together, buy this double bill: Mishima by Paul Schrader and Mishima's Patriotism. Very highly recommended to anyone."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=159)
- **Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/928-eclipse-series-37-when-horror-came-to-shochiku)
> "What are... There be horror movies from Japan? From which time? '60s and '70s? Are they scary?"
- **Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/613-pigs-pimps-prostitutes-3-films-by-shohei-imamura)
> "I'm going to get Imamura. I love Japanese cinema but I haven't seen his movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_2R7T4-78E&t=22)
## Gina Gershon (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6_8c617Ik) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/671-gina-gershon-s-closet-picks)
- **Don't Look Now** (1973) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #745 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27928-don-t-look-now) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069995/)
> "The last thing I watched on Criterion because Donald Sutherland he passed and he is such an amazing actor but this movie Don't Look Now it's such a great film because you know it's it seems like it turns into a horror film but really is a film about grief and about love I mean and Julie Christie could not be hotter Donald Sutherland's amazing this is how you do a love scene it's so moving and you really feel like the way he intercuts it with them just kind of getting ready you feel like they'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6_8c617Ik&t=17)
- **Bound** (1996) - Lilly Wachowski - Spine #1220 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33670-bound) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115736/)
> "Bound, this is the new 4K version and it's on Criterion. The Wachowskis, I knew they were great filmmakers the second I met them even though this was their first film. But I'm not choosing this because I'm going to get this later. I don't want to use up one of my things."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6_8c617Ik&t=60)
- **Brazil** (1985) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #51 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/211-brazil) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/)
> "Wait a second, Brazil is a must. God bless Terry Gilliam. Terry's imagination is so vast and of course this is like one of the many examples of oh it's a science fiction dystopic satire set in the future. You have to watch this because just the plastic surgery scene alone, Katherine Helmond is so fantastic and it's just so outrageous. This will be always one of my all-time favorite movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6_8c617Ik&t=82)
- **Lola Montès** (1955) - Max Ophüls - Spine #503 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/938-lola-montes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048308/)
> "Here's a movie that is not as well known. I read about her, I fell in love with her story. This is years ago and I thought oh I can play her, I want to play her. What an interesting woman. Lola Montès, this to me is a cautionary tale of what not to have happen. I don't want to end up in a cage. I don't want to give it away but I'm not going to lie I got really depressed after watching it but I love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6_8c617Ik&t=124)
- **The Seventh Seal** (1957) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #11 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/173-the-seventh-seal) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/)
> "This movie freaked me out when I saw it. I watched this movie in a Midnight screening on the way when I was in NYU. I had just come from seeing The Seventh Seal. You know the guy is coming from war and there's the Bubonic plague. Everything feels so grim and what's life about and it's kind of weirdly life affirming and of course you know all of a sudden he meets the artists, The Circus people and they're so full of life. I think it's a real statement of how artists are in the moment."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6_8c617Ik&t=190)
- **The Friends of Eddie Coyle** (1973) - Peter Yates - Spine #475 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1426-the-friends-of-eddie-coyle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070077/)
> "For my last film I'll like close my eyes and... Let's do the random thing. It's like picking a tarot card or something. Wow, I don't know it, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a Peter Yates film. It is starring Robert Mitchum, which is one of my favorite guys who I use as an influence going back to Bound. Peter Boyle is in it who was in my first real movie I did, Red Heat. It's 1970s, I love a '70s Hollywood sort of film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6_8c617Ik&t=245)
- **Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2648-godzilla-the-showa-era-films-1954-1975)
> "I saw this and I freaked out because I love Godzilla. I do. I'm just going to say it, I love Godzilla. Look at this, now these have all the originals right? This is one of the greatest scores of all time. I think it's one of my favorite scores. You know when I have to get going in the morning I listen to the theme of Godzilla and I love this. Thank you so much, this is a great graphic, whoever did this you're a genius."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz6_8c617Ik&t=155)
## Gina Prince-Bythewood (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/492-gina-prince-bythewood-s-closet-picks)
- **Love & Basketball** (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood - Spine #1097 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31500-love-basketball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199725/)
> "I'm not gonna pull my own because it's tacky and because Criterion gave me about 10 copies of it but this was a big moment for me in film school... Knowing what it represented, how much I learned from it and then to get that call that they wanted to do Love and Basketball was a pretty great day."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=9)
- **Black Orpheus** (1959) - Marcel Camus - Spine #48 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/)
> "Black Orpheus. I actually have this movie poster in my room. It's an incredible inspiration. It was really one of the few, may have been the only black love story that I had seen and really spurred me to I want to see more and so I come back to this movie actually a lot. So I'm glad this is the first one that I picked."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=34)
- **Broadcast News** (1987) - James L. Brooks - Spine #552 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27535-broadcast-news) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092699/)
> "Broadcast News. Anytime anybody asks what my top five is, this is the first movie that comes up. James L. Brooks, the way he's such a good writer, he just makes you feel and this movie absolutely an inspiration to me and working with actors and getting performances. I'm actually excited about the extras on this to keep learning from James L. Brooks."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=75)
- **A Dry White Season** (1989) - Euzhan Palcy - Spine #953 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29148-a-dry-white-season) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097243/)
> "A Dry White Season. It was Euzhan Palcy. There are three people that I looked up to as I was discovering my voice as a filmmaker: it was Euzhan Palcy, Kasi Lemmons... And then Kathryn Bigelow. Those are the three that were doing it, making movies and people I could look up to... So excited about this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=98)
- **Ratcatcher** (1999) - Lynne Ramsay - Spine #162 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/716-ratcatcher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/)
> "I have not seen Ratcatcher, but I've heard people I respect talk about this so go ahead and check that one out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=174)
- **Fish Tank** (2009) - Andrea Arnold - Spine #553 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27541-fish-tank) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232776/)
> "There's another, Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank. So yeah, I'm eager to see this, Ryan Coogler recommendation."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=185)
- **Devil in a Blue Dress** (1995) - Carl Franklin - Spine #1135 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32355-devil-in-a-blue-dress) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112857/)
> "Devil in a Blue Dress. Man, this film, it was so smart, it was so well shot. Carl Franklin killed this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=192)
- **Claudine** (1974) - John Berry - Spine #1052 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29599-claudine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071334/)
> "Claudine. I remember like it was at least 20 years ago that I saw this and I can remember like Faces and lines and emotions... So much of what I do as a filmmaker I hope is fighting to put black women on screen so that we can see ourselves and this was one of those movies. Seeing Diahann Carroll like changed me. I've never forgotten this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=200)
- **Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas** (1998) - Terry Gilliam - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/215-fear-and-loathing-in-las-vegas) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120669/)
> "For my last two I'm just gonna randomly pull two whatever I get and I'm gonna just watch. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=247)
- **An Actor’s Revenge** (1959) - Masahiro Makino - Spine #912 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28899-an-actor-s-revenge) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5884904/)
> "An Actor's Revenge. Is this a good one?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=263)
- **Fa yeung nin wa** (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/198-in-the-mood-for-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/)
> "In the Mood for Love is so beautifully shot. It's so heartbreaking. I love this type of story that gives you that ache."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=66)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "Come on, and the way that he works with actors, it's so inspiring. I guess my favorite thing of the filmmaking process is building characters with the actors. I've been so fortunate to work with some great actors who have chops and who love digging in and going deep... And this again is going to be film school for what I'm writing next."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42NzYofW5eM&t=133)
## Gints Zilbalodis (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgBhjAwvj4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/751-gints-zilbalodis-s-closet-picks)
- **Punch-Drunk Love** (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson - Spine #843 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27916-punch-drunk-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/)
> "Punch-Drunk Love. Probably my favorite film of all time. I watched it recently at home and I actually had to, like, pause it for a moment just to look at the sky for... For a while to relax. It was pretty intense. So yeah, it’s still working for me really strongly."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgBhjAwvj4&t=6)
- **Y tu mamá también** (2001) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #723 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28005-y-tu-mama-tambien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/)
> "Y tu mamá también. Another of my favorite filmmakers, I could pick any of his films. It also has this amazing needle drop at the end. I think it’s the perfect use of the Frank Zappa song."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgBhjAwvj4&t=24)
- **Being There** (1979) - Hal Ashby - Spine #864 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29009-being-there) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/)
> "That’s Being There. I watched it with my dad when I was growing up and we still quote it all the time. And the final shot is still one of the best shots of all time, I think."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgBhjAwvj4&t=38)
- **The Woman in the Dunes** (1964) - Hiroshi Teshigahara - Spine #394 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/826-woman-in-the-dunes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/)
> "Woman in the Dunes. I watched this pretty recently, but it really blew my mind. The way it kind of works on all these different levels, on the kind of more abstract, symbolic level but also kind of the more emotional level. But also the performances are really believable and kind of... How all these different elements are working together so organically and supporting each other, It’s like, I haven’t seen it done so well."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgBhjAwvj4&t=51)
- **After Hours** (1985) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1185 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29632-after-hours) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088680/)
> "After Hours. Probably one of my favorite Scorsese films, definitely in the top three. It’s so rewatchable and I love how he’s not taking himself really that seriously. He’s, like, having a lot of fun. And it’s so unpredictable as well. It’s, like, not really Following any, like, rules. And all these amazing shots are done and I just watch it all the time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgBhjAwvj4&t=81)
- **Fantastic Mr. Fox** (2009) - Wes Anderson - Spine #700 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28565-fantastic-mr-fox) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283/)
> "Fantastic Mr. Fox. It’s a comfort film for me and so funny and so fun and beautiful and amazing soundtrack. And yeah, it’s amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgBhjAwvj4&t=108)
- **High and Low** (1963) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #24 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/543-high-and-low) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057565/)
> "High and Low. I think this period for Kurosawa is my favorite. When he does the Cinemascope, wide-angle, like these amazing films with... The framing is incredible, like. I’m interested in not just, like, how camera is moving in films but in this case, like, the characters are moving. Incredible compositions done with, like, so much... It’s seemingly so effortless, but they must have been really hard to pull off. And yeah, it’s really one of my favorite Kurosawas."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgBhjAwvj4&t=140)
- **The Qatsi Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/934-the-qatsi-trilogy)
> "The Qatsi Trilogy. I’ve only seen Koyaanisqatsi, actually. But I’ve seen it I think three or four times. So I want to see the other ones as well, but... Like, it’s so strong and it’s not just beautiful, there’s so much meaning here, so... Yeah, I want to watch them again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgBhjAwvj4&t=121)
## Greg Gonzalez (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DvQjLLIFEE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/685-greg-gonzalez-s-closet-picks)
- **La Bamba** (1987) - Luis Valdez - Spine #1193 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33769-la-bamba) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093378/)
> "I saw this and I'm so excited Criterion did this. La Bamba, pretty much one of my favorite music biopics. So great. The music is killer. It's got commentaries, so even more exciting. Great, La Bamba. Actually, the cool thing about this too is when I was a kid my dad worked in VHS distribution... It showed me a lot of films that I would have never seen had it not been for that closet."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DvQjLLIFEE&t=14)
- **The Last Picture Show** (1971) - Peter Bogdanovich - Spine #549 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27533-the-last-picture-show) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067328/)
> "When I was in high school they put out a VHS of this movie, The Last Picture Show, and this movie just blew me away. Just so beautiful. Takes place in Texas. A little dirty too. So this film is kind of one that I feel helped me mature and helped me appreciate different things. Peter Bogdanovich is like one of the best to listen to for commentaries, so I'm excited to hear him talk about this movie too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DvQjLLIFEE&t=54)
- **The Worst Person in the World** (2021) - Joachim Trier - Spine #1132 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32661-the-worst-person-in-the-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10370710/)
> "We got to talk about this movie, talk about something newer. The Worst Person in the World. This is probably my favorite romance of the last five years. This movie is just so wonderful, feels really raw and honest. So I'm really glad Criterion did this. It's amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DvQjLLIFEE&t=116)
- **Risky Business** (1926) - Alan Hale - Spine #1227 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33808-risky-business) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017326/)
> "Risky Business. The soundtrack is killer. Tom Cruise is killer. Rebecca De Mornay, unbelievable. And also has one of my favorite love scenes—the scene where the wind is blowing and there's a TV on and everything. It's really dreamlike and kind of noired out. So this is really exciting, Risky Business."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DvQjLLIFEE&t=132)
- **The Tales of Hoffmann** (1951) - Michael Powell - Spine #317 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/748-the-tales-of-hoffmann) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044103/)
> "The last little story I have revolves around this movie, The Tales of Hoffmann. I've always wanted this one because this is the follow-up to The Red Shoes. The Tales of Hoffmann is pretty much just like, 'Hey, let's do The Red Shoes ballet but like a bunch of them.' And it's pretty wild. I've actually never had this, always wanted it. It was elusive, and so it feels like cosmic that I'm finally getting it now today at the actual Criterion closet."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DvQjLLIFEE&t=150)
- **Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons** (1 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7154-eric-rohmer-s-tales-of-the-four-seasons)
> "Okay, let's keep going. Tales of Four Seasons. Tales of the Four Seasons by Eric Rohmer. Actually discovered Rohmer through Criterion., when I moved to New York, it was like about 10 years ago, it just felt like, okay, this feels really close to what I want to do musically. His films are just very simple like romances with like, you know, a group of people kind of just get entangled in their little romantic situations and they just take place in beautiful exotic locations. I thought that's th..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DvQjLLIFEE&t=80)
## Gregg Araki (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_6j3NDZjw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/554-gregg-araki-s-closet-picks)
- **Bringing Up Baby** (1938) - Howard Hawks - Spine #1085 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29010-bringing-up-baby) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/)
> "I am going to start with this classic Bringing Up Baby by Howard Hawks, one of my all-time favorite movies. I used to write papers on this movie a lot when I was in film school and for people who've seen my films, particularly The Living End and Doom Generation... Living End is actually called an irresponsible movie by Gregg Araki because of this movie. There was some Robin Wood essay called The Lure of Irresponsibility that I read when I was in film school."
- **Something Wild** (1986) - Jonathan Demme - Spine #850 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27603-something-wild) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091983/)
> "Something Wild by Jonathan Demme. I'm actually screening this movie today at IFC Center. I picked it as an oldie but a classic. The reason I picked it is Jonathan Demme, he was sort of hitting his stride right as I was in film school and a big inspiration to me. He was very much influenced by New Wave music the way I was and also very much like a film school kind of director. Something Wild is like Living End and Doom Generation, very much related to Bringing Up Baby."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_6j3NDZjw&t=37)
- **Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me** (1992) - David Lynch - Spine #898 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29237-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105665/)
> "David Lynch, Fire Walk with Me, I think is his masterpiece. I know it was critically attacked when it came out and my story about it is we actually got the Showcase Theater on the Brea in Los Angeles for The Living End because Fire Walk with Me was such a commercial disaster. It opened and closed in L. A. In like a week, so we got a better theater in L. A. Because of the flop of Fire Walk with Me. But to me, just that amazing perfect movie, I love it so much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_6j3NDZjw&t=78)
- **Masculin, féminin** (1966) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #308 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/508-masculin-feminin) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060675/)
> "Masculin Féminin by Godard. I mean, Godard is a huge, huge idol of mine and I took a Godard class in my senior years in undergraduate and it was life-changing for me. And it's such a profound influence on my like voice as a filmmaker and what I wanted to do, when I started making my own movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_6j3NDZjw&t=121)
- **Pink Flamingos** (1972) - John Waters - Spine #1131 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31320-pink-flamingos) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069089/)
> "Pink Flamingos by John Waters. John Waters is the original godfather of everything to me. I just want to really pay tribute to him and this movie. I remember just being blown away by how intensely punk it was and how outrageous and shocking it was by 90s standards. This is for John. I mean, I just, you know, he is a national treasure and thank God for John Waters."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_6j3NDZjw&t=142)
- **Stranger Than Paradise** (1983) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #400 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/252-stranger-than-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209182/)
> "Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch, 1984. I was in film school like at the peak of who am I, what am I gonna do? I'm just this weird artsy Godard punk kid, this queer punk kid, like where's my place in the filmmaking world? And this movie came out and I just remember seeing it and being so stunned by it and so inspired. The idea that there was this indie cinema that could exist was for me as a young filmmaker life-changing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_6j3NDZjw&t=180)
## Griffin Dunne (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9qeR7aJ3E) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/795-griffin-dunne-s-closet-picks)
- **The Awful Truth** (1937) - Leo McCarey - Spine #917 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27904-the-awful-truth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028597/)
> "This is one of the great, one of the really great screwball comedies, The Awful Truth. Irene Dunne, Cary Grant. Irene Dunne spells her name the same way as mine, Griffin Dunne. And she was married to a guy named Dr. Griffin. Go figure. It’s about as great as it gets. Leo McCarey. I wish I was in it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9qeR7aJ3E&t=14)
- **Come and See** (1985) - Elem Klimov - Spine #1035 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28895-come-and-see) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/)
> "This is one of the most intense war movies, World War II. Come and See. Beautiful artwork, by the way, Criterion. You’re capturing just the horror that exists in this war, of the Germans just plowing through these peasant villages. It’s so intense and so brilliant. And again, great art."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9qeR7aJ3E&t=41)
- **McCabe & Mrs. Miller** (1971) - Robert Altman - Spine #827 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28712-mccabe-mrs-miller) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/)
> "McCabe & Mrs. Miller is my favorite Altman movie. This… Warren Beatty, Julie Christie. Opium dens, nineteenth-century prostitution, hard drinking, gunfights, and at the center a beautiful love story."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9qeR7aJ3E&t=69)
- **In a Lonely Place** (1950) - Nicholas Ray - Spine #810 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27908-in-a-lonely-place) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042593/)
> "All right, this is one of… It’s a very troubling movie called In a Lonely Place. Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame. Nicholas Ray directed it. It’s a very dark movie about Hollywood, about a screenwriter, about a man who has a malevolence about him in Bogie’s Performance. And it’s set in a… in an apartment complex that I happened to live in when I was working in Los Angeles four years ago."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9qeR7aJ3E&t=87)
- **Taste of Cherry** (1997) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #45 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/242-taste-of-cherry) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120265/)
> "Oh, yeah. Gotta get that. Okay, this is Taste of Cherry. You know, I’ve been seeing a… I’ve been seeing a woman, she’s one of the great cineastes of all time, for a couple of years now. And one of the very first conversations we had was, “What are your favorite movies?” This came up. And we’re still together. It’s about suicide, but it’s about life. It’s about the reaffirmation of life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9qeR7aJ3E&t=133)
- **La notte** (1961) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #678 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28111-la-notte) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054130/)
> "Antonioni’s La notte. This is all in one night, is just… even the actors don’t know what’s going to happen next. And rain pours out of the sky. And it’s just mood. Mood. And it’s set in Milan, and parties that are just sort of empty, and the relationship of this marriage at the core of it is empty, and it’s desperately sad, but also quite beautiful, and has an incredible ending that is very controversial and very true."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9qeR7aJ3E&t=172)
## Guillermo del Toro (director)
Episode: 2013 | [Visit 1 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Al7eYy6sg) | [Visit 2 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcscEY2KoS8)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "I want to talk about The Red Shoes. Black Narcissus and this, to me, are the pinnacles of color narrative. And Red Shoes is a parable of the passion of the arts destroying us all."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcscEY2KoS8&t=10)
- **Notorious** (1946) - Alfred Hitchcock - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/682-notorious) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038787/)
> "Now, Notorious. Why do I choose Notorious? That staircase sequence, you count the steps and he has to cut five or six times: points of view, tracking with them, wide, the Nazis arriving, coming out of the study. That is such a precise film. He was very, very concerned about rhythm. Final sequence. Watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcscEY2KoS8&t=47)
- **Black Narcissus** (1947) - Emeric Pressburger - Spine #93 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/632-black-narcissus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039192/)
> "Black Narcissus and this, to me, are the pinnacles of color narrative. Black Narcissus is maybe one of the five most beautiful movies ever made. Easily. And the fact this is all done artificially, meaning matte paintings, set extensions. Black Narcissus is a parable of desire. Well, Black Narcissus. You can not own it too many times. Never."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcscEY2KoS8&t=13)
- **Salesman** (1969) - David Maysles - Spine #122 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/663-salesman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064921/)
> "Salesman, one of the greatest documentaries of the working man and the patois of the period and all that. I suggest very wholeheartedly that you have a bottle of booze, some ice, and you do a double program of this and Glengarry Glen Ross."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcscEY2KoS8&t=79)
- **All That Heaven Allows** (1955) - Tai Paulo - Spine #95 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/635-all-that-heaven-allows)
> "All That Heaven Allows. Sirk, a master of staging. He uses mirrors, glass, reflections, and the actors moving in a way that creates one-minute, two-minute masters that are breathtaking. This movie is so beautiful. Sirk has the black-and-white values built in his color. And that’s how I did Nightmare Alley. Watch it in black and white, it works absolutely perfect. It’s not as expressive, it’s not as eloquent, it’s not as full of desire, but the image design is extremely powerful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcscEY2KoS8&t=94)
- **Roma** (1972) - Federico Fellini - Spine #848 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28039-roma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069191/)
> "Now, Fellini. I love Amarcord, I love all his neorealism period and all that. But this movie and Casanova are the ones I revisit the most. I remember one of my favorite scenes ever committed to film is the scene where they discover the frescoes in the subway. Oh, I found another Roma that I like. Alfonso had been talking about making this movie for about 20 years. I think that the last image of her going basically into the clouds is one of the most poetic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcscEY2KoS8&t=193)
- **The Age of Innocence** (1993) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #913 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28834-the-age-of-innocence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/)
> "And Age of Innocence. Another Scorsese people don’t revisit enough. I have, on and on and on and on and on, for Frankenstein, Crimson Peak, because he understands Edith Wharton, Henry James, all the pulsations of the era. Repression is part of narrative exercise. It’s not just what you let loose, but what you contain. And Scorsese is a master of playing with repression. He absolutely is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcscEY2KoS8&t=281)
- **Au revoir les enfants** (1987) - Louis Malle - Spine #330 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/549-au-revoir-les-enfants) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092593/)
> "Au revoir les enfants. Masterpiece. Oh my God, Louis Malle nails it. This is a movie I watched over and over again before attempting Devil’s Backbone."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcscEY2KoS8&t=326)
- **The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years** (10 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8208-the-wes-anderson-archive-ten-films-twenty-five-years)
> "I already have this. But, you know, it’s very funny when people say, 'Oh, you must love this filmmaker or that filmmaker.' They never guess Wes. But I have more– In my imagination, in my kinship, I have a lot more in common with him than with a lot of people, because we are ultimately both creating strange tableaus that can be very mannered but they try to approximate truth. The undercurrent of heartbreak, the loss, the pathos this guy has, that’s why his stuff works. And this box is fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcscEY2KoS8&t=153)
- **The 400 Blows** (1959) - François Truffaut - Spine #5 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/151-the-400-blows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)
- **Charade** (1963) - Stanley Donen - Spine #57 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/603-charade) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056923/)
- **Crumb** (1994) - Terry Zwigoff - Spine #533 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2104-crumb) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109508/)
- **The Thin Red Line** (1998) - Terrence Malick - Spine #536 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27513-the-thin-red-line) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120863/)
- **Repulsion** (1965) - Roman Polanski - Spine #483 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/404-repulsion) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059646/)
- **Paths of Glory** (1957) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #538 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27522-paths-of-glory) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/)
- **The Magician** (1926) - Rex Ingram - Spine #537 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27521-the-magician) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017103/)
## Guy Maddin (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowINv3Oq8E) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/598-guy-maddin-s-closet-picks)
- **L’avventura** (1960) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #98 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/209-l-avventura) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053619/)
> "I just have to take L'avventura. I don't have it. I love it so much. It's so gorgeous. Very, very."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowINv3Oq8E&t=30)
- **The Night Porter** (1974) - Liliana Cavani - Spine #59 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/604-the-night-porter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071910/)
> "The Night Porter. That's,, I can't believe I haven't revisited this since seeing just,, stills from it in Playboy Magazine as a teen., that's going into the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowINv3Oq8E&t=37)
- **Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Two Takes** (null) - - Spine #360 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/751-symbiopsychotaxiplasm-two-takes-by-william-greaves)
> "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowINv3Oq8E&t=53)
- **Mouchette** (1967) - Robert Bresson - Spine #363 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/456-mouchette) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061996/)
> "Mouchette, Bresson, bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowINv3Oq8E&t=57)
- **When a Woman Ascends the Stairs** (1960) - Mikio Naruse - Spine #377 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/816-when-a-woman-ascends-the-stairs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054144/)
> "When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowINv3Oq8E&t=60)
- **W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism** (1971) - Dušan Makavejev - Spine #389 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/824-wr-mysteries-of-the-organism) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067958/)
> ", Wilhelm Reich, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowINv3Oq8E&t=67)
- **Robinson Crusoe on Mars** (1964) - Byron Haskin - Spine #404 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/821-robinson-crusoe-on-mars) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058530/)
> "Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Byron Haskin, bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TowINv3Oq8E&t=77)
## Hari Nef (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFFk4V4YJs) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/594-hari-nef-s-closet-picks)
- **The Naked Kiss** (1964) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #18 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/533-the-naked-kiss) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058390/)
> "The Naked Kiss, Sam Fuller. Probably one of my favorite opening sequences of anything—a bald lady beating somebody up. That's camp, but also I think that David Lynch was really inspired and influenced by Sam Fuller and you can see that, you know, if you go back using this as a lens to watch something like Twin Peaks. Small town secrets, hypocrisy, not something to be missed."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFFk4V4YJs&t=11)
- **Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown** (1988) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #855 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29101-women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095675/)
> "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Almodóvar. Everything I want out of filmmaking is what Almodóvar does: color, melodrama, women, gender, sex, gay stuff. But this one's about the women and frequently I will just be teleported to this part where Peppa, played by Carmen Maura, is listing the ingredients to gazpacho. She's listing all the things she puts in this gazpacho, which I think she's drugged and given to these police officers and they're all passing out one by one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFFk4V4YJs&t=46)
- **Belle de Jour** (1967) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #593 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27949-belle-de-jour) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061395/)
> "Belle de Jour, Buñuel. Timeless story of what happens in your mind and in your body when you are a woman who has money and is bored. You want to disempower yourself when you have power in spades. Buñuel was looking at this decades before the current discourse around sex scenes and post-Me Too feminism. It's hard to watch, it's challenging, it's scandalizing. I love this film and I also love watching Catherine Deneuve just go so bravely into that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFFk4V4YJs&t=98)
- **Grey Gardens** (1976) - Ellen Giffard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/664-grey-gardens) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073076/)
> "Grey Gardens, Maysles Brothers. One word: staunch. Happy Pride."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFFk4V4YJs&t=167)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "Red Shoes is one of my favorite Technicolor films. It's one of like the weirder, darker films that I've seen captured on Technicolor. When I was shooting Barbie, Greta was shooting on a custom color cast which was on the slate called 'Techno Barbie,' which I loved. She wanted to recreate the look and feel of Classic Hollywood studio Technicolor and for Technicolor, I think this is as good as it gets."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFFk4V4YJs&t=177)
- **Black Narcissus** (1947) - Emeric Pressburger - Spine #93 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/632-black-narcissus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039192/)
> "Black Narcissus, my favorite Technicolor film. Sexually repressed nuns in a convent in India. Bad vibes, great visuals. I feel like Deborah Kerr never really got her due. She had kind of a more subdued, straightforward approach in an era where kind of the more theatrical performances of someone like Bette Davis or Joan Crawford were kind of like more Oscar bait. Deborah was just kind of holding it down."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFFk4V4YJs&t=206)
- **Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters** (1985) - Paul Schrader - Spine #432 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/588-mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603/)
> "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. We need to shout out to Eiko Ishioka who designed this film. She's completely one-of-a-kind visionary. Bright colors, skewed angles. Storytelling, acting, yes, yes, but like the visuals of this film are what keep coming back."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFFk4V4YJs&t=246)
- **Design for Living** (1933) - Ernst Lubitsch - Spine #592 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27872-design-for-living) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023940/)
> "Design for Living, Ernst Lubitsch. Pre-code romantic comedy farce, basically about a throuple. I don't know, this film just feels like home to me. This film just feels like Thursday. I saw somebody on Twitter recently talking about how the Hays Code and the censorship that emerged after this film in Hollywood in the '30s going to the '40s, how like that's kind of the root of culture getting messed up in America."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFFk4V4YJs&t=271)
- **The Last Days of Disco** (1998) - Whit Stillman - Spine #485 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2954-the-last-days-of-disco) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120728/)
> "Last Days of Disco with Whit Stillman. If you're under the age of 35 and living in Manhattan and like paying too much rent and you went to college, this movie is going to snatch you bald and make you feel like a silly little person. And that's why we watch movies. Thank you, goodbye. You're never getting these back."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFFk4V4YJs&t=312)
## Harris Dickinson (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrp1Czlkzk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/777-harris-dickinson-s-closet-picks)
- **Life Is Sweet** (1990) - Mike Leigh - Spine #659 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27982-life-is-sweet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100024/)
> "One of the OGs: Mike Leigh, Life Is Sweet. I got introduced to Mike Leigh very young with a lot of the, like, Plays of the Day. Alison Steadman, Abigail’s Party. Turning in these beautiful, human, funny films. And he’s been a big influence for me as a person in film. So I’m definitely going to take that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrp1Czlkzk&t=11)
- **The Life of Oharu** (1952) - Kenji Mizoguchi - Spine #664 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27705-the-life-of-oharu) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045112/)
> "Life of Oharu. I saw this in London. We’ve got a great cinema called Close-Up, and I saw this a couple of years ago... It’s such a beautiful film about sex work and Revenge and identity, and beautiful framing, really elegant and thoughtful. I haven’t actually watched much else from this filmmaker, so I’ll have to explore."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrp1Czlkzk&t=35)
- **Manila in the Claws of Light** (1975) - Lino Brocka - Spine #926 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29221-manila-in-the-claws-of-light) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073363/)
> "And of course, Manila in the Claws of Light on its own. Wonderful. What a Performance by the lead as well, I just want to say. There’s rarely real intimate close-ups, they come later on in the film and it’s so much more impactful. But he has such an amazing angelic face, and he’s going through such, like, tumultuous times in the film. You watch him and you’re just obsessed with staying with him and his world. So yeah, incredible film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrp1Czlkzk&t=105)
- **Gummo** (1997) - Harmony Korine - Spine #1238 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29016-gummo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/)
> ", Gummo. I always loved Harmony Korine. Gummo was one of those early films I watched that kind of… was disturbing, and it caused trouble for film in a way. It went against so much form, which I loved. And I met him recently and he was smoking a cigar and I thought, “That’s very Harmony Korine.” But I used to skateboard a lot as well, so I feel like skate culture and Harmony Korine kind of go hand in hand."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrp1Czlkzk&t=140)
- **To Die For** (1997) - Roberta Torre - Spine #1213 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32358-to-die-for) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120277/)
> "Oh, wow. To Die For. Gus Van Sant and Nicole Kidman. My favorite scene in this is when she’s videoing Joaquin and the other actors, and she’s saying, “Move your hips. Now let’s dance. Oh yeah. Come on, guys.” And she’s trying to get them to move. And Joaquin Phoenix’s character is just, like, doing this crazy, like, out-of-time jive. But yeah, Nicole’s incredible in this. I love this film. It’s disturbing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrp1Czlkzk&t=170)
- **The Long Good Friday** (1980) - John Mackenzie - Spine #26 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/559-the-long-good-friday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081070/)
> "John Mackenzie’s Long Good Friday. We actually studied this in school, that end Close-Up on Bob Hoskins, and obviously an incredible Helen Mirren in this film, but I remember that was kind of the first time watching gangster cinema that felt grounded and about the human relationships rather than the sort of glamorization of that lifestyle, you know, it was feeling deeply for Bob’s character, even at the end when he knows he’s kind of messed up, and he’s almost a bit pathetic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrp1Czlkzk&t=199)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "Yi. There’s some stills in this that are just incredible. If you look– well, watch it first of all. But if you look at it after on Film Grab or whatever, some of the framing is impeccable, and… a quiet film, but an incredibly nuanced film. Yang is a master."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrp1Czlkzk&t=245)
- **Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2** (1 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1258-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-2)
> "This is one that Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project… shone a light to it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrp1Czlkzk&t=65)
## Harris Savides (cinematographer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQFAPBbjsaI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/599-harris-savides-s-closet-picks)
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
- **The Night of the Hunter** (1955) - Charles Laughton - Spine #541 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/)
> "This Charles Laughton great movie scary movie and I was surprised that he was able to pull this off."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQFAPBbjsaI&t=61)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "A movie called Yi that you have that Edward Yang did, which was a movie about so much and yet about so little at the same time. Like after watching it for two hours, three hours, it was a movie about nothing and a movie about everything. And when I finished watching that movie, first thing I did was call home and tell everybody that I love them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQFAPBbjsaI&t=71)
- **Solaris** (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/553-solaris) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/)
- **L’avventura** (1960) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #98 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/209-l-avventura) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053619/)
> "Antonioni was big for me and stylistically I started getting into this when I was first a still photographer and liked Helmut Newton and I don't know why but they were cut from the same ilk and it just was stylish. This was one the time more than narratively I was into stylistic photography and these were the movies that I would there were a huge influence to me graphic industrial."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQFAPBbjsaI&t=10)
- **Three Colors** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/844-three-colors)
> "One of my favorite directors of all time is Kieślowski and blue, white, and red are amazing Trilogy. I love one of my favorite movies is the it has a perfect opening where the family drives around the periphery I think it's called Blue... So much was told without any dialogue I thought it was perfect setup for a movie you know it was very powerful and that kind of blew my mind about making movie. When I can I think about that Kieślowski movie and how they set that story up."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQFAPBbjsaI&t=114)
## Hideo Kojima (cinematographer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou0rghddc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/579-hideo-kojima-s-closet-picks)
- **High and Low** (1963) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #24 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/543-high-and-low) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057565/)
> "[Translated] I love High and Low the most. I was shocked when I first saw it, so I definitely want you to see it. I'm told I can take these home, so I'll take this one first."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou0rghddc&t=58)
- **Late Spring** (1949) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #331 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/298-late-spring) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041154/)
> "[Translated] Speaking of Akira Kurosawa, there's also Yasujiro Ozu. There's Tokyo Story and others, but I like Late Spring the best. Setsuko Hara is captured most beautifully in this one. The bicycle scene is great. Today is Setsuko Hara's birthday, so it's a coincidence, but I love this work."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou0rghddc&t=86)
- **Ugetsu** (1953) - Kenji Mizoguchi - Spine #309 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/369-ugetsu) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/)
> "[Translated] Next is Ugetsu by Kenji Mizoguchi. Martin Scorsese restored this, so there's a Blu-ray in Japan too, but Criterion has it here. I saw this as a child and it was scary. It's a bit of a ghost movie. It's in black and white, but it's a beautiful film, so I'd like you to see it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou0rghddc&t=135)
- **Kwaidan** (2022) - Claus Canddie - Spine #90 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/629-kwaidan)
> "[Translated], here it is. My favorite, Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. Another ghost story. I saw this as a child and it was very scary. It's an omnibus film with sets, a very artistic film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou0rghddc&t=161)
- **Harakiri** (1962) - Masaki Kobayashi - Spine #302 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/743-harakiri) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056058/)
> "[Translated] And another one, Harakiri. In Japan, the title is Seppuku. This is very interesting, please watch it. The latter half became the basis for things like Spaghetti Westerns. I like it very much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou0rghddc&t=179)
- **Jigoku** (1957) - Daisuke Itō - Spine #352 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/797-jigoku) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050563/)
> "[Translated] Yes, Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku. There's a movie called Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, an Oiwa-san movie. I saw it as a child and it traumatized me. When I saw it as an adult, it was a very artistic film. I became a fan of Nakagawa and Jigoku is about hell. The imagery is quite surreal, so I'd like you to see it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou0rghddc&t=206)
- **Onibaba** (1964) - Kaneto Shindō - Spine #226 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/665-onibaba) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058430/)
> "[Translated] And Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba. I saw this at night as a child and was surprised. Kaneto Shindo's wife, Nobuko Otowa, plays Onibaba. When I first met Guillermo del Toro, we talked about Onibaba. He loves it too. The Kaiju named Onibaba in Pacific Rim comes from this Onibaba. It's very rare, and not on Blu-ray in Japan, so please watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou0rghddc&t=244)
- **The Woman in the Dunes** (1964) - Hiroshi Teshigahara - Spine #394 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/826-woman-in-the-dunes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/)
> "[Translated] Next is Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes. I'm a fan of Kobo Abe and saw the movie after reading the novel. Teshigahara also filmed The Face of Another. This is a very interesting movie, please watch it. Kyoko Kishida is in it. This is also hard to find in Japan, so please watch the Criterion version."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou0rghddc&t=283)
- **Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/427-eclipse-series-3-late-ozu)
> "[Translated] I like many of Ozu's films, but there's another one that's not well known, Tokyo Twilight. I recommend this too. Ozu's films are usually bright, but this one is very dark, which I particularly like. I recommend this too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUou0rghddc&t=106)
## Hlynur Pálmason (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/612-hlynur-palmason-s-closet-picks)
- **The Spirit of the Beehive** (1973) - Víctor Erice - Spine #351 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/367-the-spirit-of-the-beehive) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070040/)
> "This one was called The Spirit of the Beehive by Victor Erice, Spanish filmmaker. He hasn't done a lot of films but I love all of them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI&t=13)
- **Cría cuervos** (1976) - Carlos Saura - Spine #403 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/519-cria-cuervos) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074360/)
> "And there's another one named Cría cuervos which is a beautiful film and I think her name is Ana Torrent who plays the actress in both films. She's amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI&t=23)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "I have to take Naked, one of my favorite films. It's a crazy beautiful physical film that I want to show my friends."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI&t=39)
- **Ratcatcher** (1999) - Lynne Ramsay - Spine #162 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/716-ratcatcher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/)
> "Ratcatcher by Lynne Ramsay. I'm a big fan and I think I saw it at the right time also. It's really beautiful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI&t=51)
- **The Passion of Joan of Arc** (1928) - Carl Theodor Dreyer - Spine #62 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/228-the-passion-of-joan-of-arc) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019254/)
> "I was thinking about, I'm making a short film now called Joan of Arc, so I think I'll pick this one, Dreyer's Joan of Arc. I haven't seen it, so I'll take that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI&t=64)
- **Mirror** (1975) - Jesús Franco - Spine #1084 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28894-mirror) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070396/)
> "I have to take a film by Tarkovsky because he's one of my favorites. This is Stalker... I kind of blend Tarkovsky together with all of his films, Stalker or Mirror. There's scenes in Mirror that I think are in Stalker, etc."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI&t=77)
- **L'argent** (1983) - Robert Bresson - Spine #886 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27588-l-argent) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085180/)
> "This is the first Bresson film I saw. L'argent. I don't even know if I say it the right way, I'm terrible in French, but, this one surprised me. The craft is, like no other."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI&t=96)
- **L’humanité** (1999) - Bruno Dumont - Spine #981 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28074-l-humanite) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0197569/)
> "And, Bruno Dumont, L'humanité. It really scared me. I remember when I saw it first., very inspiring, very beautiful, very sad."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI&t=114)
- **Blow-Up** (1966) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #865 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28694-blow-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/)
> "I'm going to take Blow-Up. I just saw actually Blow Out the other day, it was a lot of fun, it was very nice, but I really love this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI&t=124)
- **Barry Lyndon** (1975) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #897 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29008-barry-lyndon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/)
> "And I have to pick Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon. I would pick, you know, all of the Stanley Kubrick films, but yeah, this is one of my favorites, so I'll take this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gowVPl5YriI&t=137)
## Ira Sachs (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/600-ira-sachs-s-closet-picks)
- **Good Morning** (1959) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #84 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/624-good-morning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053134/)
> "I have to say this is the film that we remade with Little Men. This was in the '50s and in the '30s he made another film, I Was Born, But..., and they're both about kids who go on strike against their parents. So we took that plot and we wrote our own film, Little Men, and these are better."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8&t=22)
- **Salvatore Giuliano** (1962) - Francesco Rosi - Spine #228 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/687-salvatore-giuliano) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055399/)
> "Francesco Rosi, great, great, great filmmaker who should be in the list of Rossellini, Visconti, Fellini, but no one knows Rosi except thanks to the Walter Reade."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8&t=53)
- **Charulata** (1964) - Satyajit Ray - Spine #669 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28447-charulata) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057935/)
> "This film and The Soft Skin, which you also have somewhere, were both these love triangles that taught me everything I need to know about pain."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8&t=103)
- **Shoah** (1985) - Claude Lanzmann - Spine #663 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27968-shoah) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090015/)
> "I have not seen Shoah since I took a class from Shoshana Felman who wrote a whole book on my class in college. We studied only Shoah for a year and she wrote a paper, Psychoanalysis and Shoah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8&t=114)
- **Shock Corridor** (1963) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #19 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/534-shock-corridor) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057495/)
> "Do you know there used to be a time in New York when you could see a Samuel Fuller film any day of the week that you wanted? There was always showing a Samuel Fuller double feature. Now, who's seen Samuel Fuller anymore?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8&t=131)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "I'm working on a Montgomery Clift film and we keep going back and forth between Raging Bull and All That Jazz as both biopics. This film is obviously the manic version of an individual's life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8&t=151)
- **The Magic Flute** (1975) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #71 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/613-the-magic-flute) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073822/)
> "In this movie, The Magic Flute, Ingmar Bergman begins the film with a series of close-ups of the audience. I'd never seen the movie but I thought it was a really great idea. So on this set when we were in production, I stole from Ingmar Bergman never having seen the movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8&t=180)
- **The Moment of Truth** (1965) - Francesco Rosi - Spine #595 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27674-the-moment-of-truth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059459/)
> "Great, I'm going to complete my Rosi, my Rosi collection right here. Thank you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8&t=208)
- **Magnificent Obsession** (1954) - Douglas Sirk - Spine #457 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/973-magnificent-obsession) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047203/)
> "I do not have Sirk. This should be preserved. When I saw Imitation of Life for the first time, I was probably 12. Never having heard of melodrama, never heard of Sirk, but growing up in Memphis and knowing about racism, I wept. I should have known right then that my future was going to be told in a certain way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8&t=67)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "I wrote about PlayTime when I was in college because I couldn't get a print of The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, which is what I wanted to write about because the only copy was in Gena Rowlands' bathroom and she wouldn't send it to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4mnGD5Qi8&t=9)
## Isabel Sandoval (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySo5Sggpu0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/441-isabel-sandoval-s-closet-picks)
- **Dazed and Confused** (1993) - Richard Linklater - Spine #336 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/314-dazed-and-confused) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/)
> "So of course I've seen The Before Trilogy and other films by Richard Linklater, but Dazed and Confused—oh my gosh, I'm in love with how cool the packaging is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySo5Sggpu0&t=168)
- **The Cranes Are Flying** (1957) - Mikheil Kalatozishvili - Spine #146 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/547-the-cranes-are-flying) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050634/)
> "The Cranes Are Flying is in my Criterion top 10, and it's just one of the most swooningly romantic and expressionistic films I've seen. It's by Mikhail Kalatozov, who also did Soy Cuba, I Am Cuba."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySo5Sggpu0&t=48)
- **Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters** (1985) - Paul Schrader - Spine #432 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/588-mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603/)
> "And Mishima by Paul Schrader, of course. Great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySo5Sggpu0&t=180)
- **Black Narcissus** (1947) - Emeric Pressburger - Spine #93 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/632-black-narcissus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039192/)
> "I'm getting a Blu-ray of Black Narcissus. We discussed this on one of our quarantine film club meetings. When lockdown started, I started a film club with a few of my friends and this was one of the movies that we talked about. Although some of us did not like it, I loved it though."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySo5Sggpu0&t=91)
- **Quadrophenia** (1979) - Franc Roddam - Spine #624 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27775-quadrophenia) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079766/)
> "Is it silly if I do one where I just close my eyes and pick something random? Quadrophenia, a film by Franc Roddam. I've never heard of this filmmaker, I'll be honest, but I'm excited to watch this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySo5Sggpu0&t=139)
- **Women in Love** (1969) - Ken Russell - Spine #916 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28688-women-in-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066579/)
> "I remember watching The Devils at Lincoln Center when they did a retrospective of Ken Russell, but I never got to see Women in Love, which is considered, I think, his masterpiece or one of his masterpieces. So I'm going to grab a copy of this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySo5Sggpu0&t=33)
- **The Age of Innocence** (1993) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #913 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28834-the-age-of-innocence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/)
> "I'm getting a copy of The Age of Innocence. I've seen the film, of course, and love it. And I also think that the source material by Edith Wharton is one of the most perfect American novels ever written, and Michelle Pfeiffer is just gorgeous in it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySo5Sggpu0&t=13)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "I also have this Cassavetes box set. And funnily enough, my film Lingua Franca is nominated for a John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. And A Woman Under the Influence is, of course, a very, very influential film; it's also formative for me as a filmmaker."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySo5Sggpu0&t=68)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "I'm definitely not leaving the Criterion closet without this box set of the filmography of Agnès Varda. She is a hero and a champion, and I've only really seen a handful of her works—Cléo, of course, Vagabond, and her later ones—but I really want to dig deeper into her body of work."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NySo5Sggpu0&t=115)
## Isabelle Huppert (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSwBAo2FYo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/741-isabelle-huppert-s-closet-picks)
- **Juliet of the Spirits** (1965) - Federico Fellini - Spine #149 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/689-juliet-of-the-spirits) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059229/)
> "What about a little Fellini? Juliette des Esprits."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSwBAo2FYo&t=93)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "Here is Wanda. A good friend of mine. I like this woman. She’s great. Barbara Loden. I like the way she comes to the court with bigoudis."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSwBAo2FYo&t=11)
- **I Knew Her Well** (1965) - Antonio Pietrangeli - Spine #801 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28600-i-knew-her-well) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060545/)
> "Antonio Pietrangeli. I saw it a long time ago. But it’s a really– it’s a masterpiece. So I want to watch this one again. I Knew Her Well. Voilà."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSwBAo2FYo&t=78)
- **La cérémonie** (1995) - Claude Chabrol - Spine #1199 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27654-la-ceremonie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112769/)
> ", La cérémonie. Yes, okay. Yeah, it’s a great film. Nice cover. It’s really a masterpiece, I think. Well, I shouldn’t say that because I’m really involved in it, but... It’s so powerful. A real Marxist film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSwBAo2FYo&t=100)
- **2 or 3 Things I Know About Her** (1967) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #482 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1333-2-or-3-things-i-know-about-her) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060304/)
> "I think I cannot move out of this room without picking up a little Godard. Yeah, there it is. Yeah. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSwBAo2FYo&t=118)
- **Saint Omer** (2022) - Alice Diop - Spine #1212 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34051-saint-omer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15376894/)
> "St. Omer. I’m going to take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSwBAo2FYo&t=140)
- **Nothing but a Man** (1964) - Michael Roemer - Spine #1209 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31775-nothing-but-a-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058414/)
> "Oh, that’s crazy. Nothing but a Man, Michael Roemer. He’s so great. He was forgotten for so many years. He’s really a master."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSwBAo2FYo&t=142)
- **3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/982-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman)
> "Rossellini. Yeah, there’s the one. Stromboli. Europe ’51. Journey to Italy. I remember this line from Rossellini to Ingrid. Ingrid Bergman. She came to Italy, and she was coming from Hollywood, and she was expecting directions. 'What should I do?' And he looked at her and he said, 'Move, so I can film what’s around you.' Which is the perfect definition of moviemaking."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSwBAo2FYo&t=31)
- **Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/427-eclipse-series-3-late-ozu)
> "And an Ozu, too. Late Ozu."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwSwBAo2FYo&t=134)
## Jack Garfein (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/604-jack-garfein-s-closet-picks)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "John Cassavetes, well I had a very interesting experience with him because you know I discovered Ben Gazzara in The Strange One and John used him. John was very concerned because he wanted me to make another film. He loved my film. So I ran into him one day on Wilshire Boulevard and he said, 'Jack, why don't you make another film?' He calls me and he says, 'All my cameras, editing room, it's all available to you, Jack. Go ahead, start making your movie.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDI8R0Mskg&t=21)
- **Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/540-stage-and-spectacle-three-films-by-jean-renoir)
> "Jean Renoir, one of my favorites. I met him, I had dinner with him and we talked about acting. Renoir said to me that he learned the most important thing about film acting from Michel Simon and Louis Jouvet. He said that the actors mustn't start acting, they must discover the character. And they do that by talking and listening to each other and see what emerges. And these films I've never seen, so I'm looking forward to seeing that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDI8R0Mskg&t=73)
- **Carl Theodor Dreyer** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/254-carl-theodor-dreyer)
> "Carl Dreyer, one of the great influences on my life. When I saw The Passion of Joan of Arc, what an astonishing film. A silent movie. And then Day of Wrath, which I remember very well. Passion of Joan too and Day of Wrath, one of the great films ever made."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDI8R0Mskg&t=120)
- **David Lean Directs Noël Coward** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/861-david-lean-directs-noel-coward)
> "And I met David Lean because he directed for the same producer, Sam Spiegel, that did The Strange One. David Lean didn't like him very much. We met, we had dinner one night and we discussed the unhappiness with which Mr. Spiegel put both of us through. In my case, as he said, he would never let him interfere with his work as a director with the actors. But you know I was very young when I worked with Spiegel."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhDI8R0Mskg&t=142)
## Jacqueline Novak and John Early (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/449-jacqueline-novak-and-john-early-s-closet-picks)
- **Picnic at Hanging Rock** (1975) - Peter Weir - Spine #29 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/565-picnic-at-hanging-rock) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/)
> "Yeah, definitely get it. Honestly I haven't seen it in a very long time but it's the girls, it's the girls right? Now is it based on a real thing that like some kind of disturbed... I feel like there's a story that it is based on like some girls disappearing I think that like in this time period yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=14)
- **3 Women** (1977) - Robert Altman - Spine #230 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/712-3-women) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075612/)
> "Have you seen 3 Women? Oh no, that's okay. It's like Shelley Duvall as Millie, it's like as if you're watching Valerie Cherish, but you're watching The Comeback but like on shrooms. And for that reason it's top five."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=55)
- **The Uninvited** (2009) - Thomas Guard - Spine #677 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27964-the-uninvited) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815245/)
> "One of the siblings from London purchases, surprisingly affordable, that's how it always goes, a deal on a House. Lonely cliff top House in Cornwall. Yes, oh it's all ghosts! Yes, ghost film on here, I want, yes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=92)
- **Night of the Living Dead** (1968) - George A. Romero - Spine #909 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29331-night-of-the-living-dead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/)
> "I want Night of the Living Dead, Criterion. Oh my god, of course. I mean, I've never seen that but wow."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=111)
- **Fat Girl** (2001) - Catherine Breillat - Spine #259 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/548-fat-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243255/)
> "Fat Girl! Jacqueline, you have to see. I'd never seen any... Fat Girl is so special."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=116)
- **Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me** (1992) - David Lynch - Spine #898 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29237-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105665/)
> "I'm taking Fire Walk with Me. Oh my god, that's so great. We've never watched any Twin Peaks together? No, it's comedically pretty big for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=124)
- **Magnificent Obsession** (1954) - Douglas Sirk - Spine #457 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/973-magnificent-obsession) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047203/)
> "Magnificent Obsession. Jane Wyman's blind acting now is hugely influential to me. Comedically influential. And I love Jane Wyman as an actress. It's not that it's good or bad actually, it's that it's very noble. It's like the noble blind."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=138)
- **Island of Lost Souls** (1974) - René Cardona - Spine #586 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27861-island-of-lost-souls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327966/)
> "I'm getting Island of Lost Souls. A twisted treasure from Hollywood's pre-code days. Remember pre-code days? I've never seen it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=177)
- **White Material** (2010) - Claire Denis - Spine #560 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27559-white-material) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135952/)
> "White Material. The great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis, known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduced an unforgettably crazed character played by a ferocious Isabelle Huppert. Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=193)
- **Female Trouble** (1974) - John Waters - Spine #929 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28704-female-trouble) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072979/)
> "What about Female Trouble? Female Trouble, top five. Really truly top five. It's like Jerri Blank in the seventies. It's so special and moves so well. Glamour has never been more grotesque and Edith Massey is the funniest person ever to have ever lived. One of the most subversive things in Female Trouble is she with her character wants her nephew to be gay. She's like, 'The world of the heterosexual, it's a sick and boring world.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=222)
- **Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!** (1990) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #722 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28593-tie-me-up-tie-me-down) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101026/)
> "I've never seen Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! I'm thrilled. Me either."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c6EUVVWjU&t=292)
## Jacques Audiard (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkI4ZRJkvU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/764-jacques-audiard-s-closet-picks)
- **M** (1931) - Alexander Korda - Spine #30 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/558-m) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022184/)
> "On va commencer par Fritz Lang, c'est M le maudit. Alors pour moi Lang, il est totalement attaché au cinéma même s'il le dépasse considérablement et je considère que M c'est le premier grand film parlant. Il y a une utilisation de la musique et du son tout à fait particulière et comme toujours avec Fritz Lang une saturation de l'image absolument exceptionnelle. Fritz Lang c'est un peu notre maître à tous."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkI4ZRJkvU&t=19)
- **Notorious** (1946) - Alfred Hitchcock - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/682-notorious) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038787/)
> "Là je tombe sur Notorious. Notorious d'Hitchcock avec Bergman. Si vous avez la chance de ne pas l'avoir vu, quand vous découvrirez la scène sur le banc public entre Cary Grant et Bergman et puis quand vous découvrirez le baiser dans la chambre, c'est chouette, vous penserez à moi. Esthétiquement c'est purement et simplement une splendeur. Utilisation du décor exceptionnel, tout est fait en fond en transparence et ça c'est extraordinaire."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkI4ZRJkvU&t=52)
- **L’avventura** (1960) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #98 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/209-l-avventura) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053619/)
> "L'Avventura alors mais oui bien sûr. Antonioni c'est de la modernité à l'état pur. D'une certaine façon il invente la modernité pour le cinéma des années 60 comme probablement Godard le fera de son côté. Et il faut les revoir tous, faut voir L'Avventura, L'Eclipse, etc. Qui donnent envie de faire du cinéma."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkI4ZRJkvU&t=86)
- **Mirror** (1975) - Jesús Franco - Spine #1084 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28894-mirror) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070396/)
> "Tarkovski, alors moi je découvre Tarkovski je dois avoir 15 ans au cinéma avec ma maman. C'est un sens du paysage, un sens de la lumière, un sens du visage, un sens des visages aussi. Et Le Miroir c'est très beau, c'est de la couleur, c'est magnifique."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkI4ZRJkvU&t=110)
- **Short Cuts** (1993) - Robert Altman - Spine #265 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/376-short-cuts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108122/)
> "Je ne sais pas si on pense beaucoup encore en ce moment à Robert Altman. Alors là il a adapté les nouvelles de Carver d'une manière très adroite, très habile. Lui c'est vraiment la liberté du récit, c'est presque construit comme le cadavre exquis surréaliste. C'est très profond, il y a la profondeur de Carver et la légèreté de Carver aussi dedans, c'est très beau."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkI4ZRJkvU&t=130)
- **La ronde** (1950) - Max Ophüls - Spine #443 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/573-la-ronde) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042906/)
> "Max Ophüls bien sûr, réalisateur absolument incroyable. Il a fait La ronde, il a fait Lola Montès. C'est une espèce de génie de la douceur du mouvement, c'est un esprit viennois. Et La ronde c'est un film à sketchs. Soyez attentif par exemple au premier sketch qui est absolument remarquable."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkI4ZRJkvU&t=201)
- **Vampyr** (1932) - Carl Theodor Dreyer - Spine #437 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/661-vampyr) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023649/)
> "Alors là on rentre dans le dur, on retourne vers la période que j'aime beaucoup celle qui est à la frontière du muet, c'est Vampyr, c'est Dreyer et c'est exceptionnel. De Sjöström à Bergman, tout le cinéma nordique. Je partage le goût de Vampyr avec mon ami Gaspar Noé."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkI4ZRJkvU&t=255)
- **Classe tous risques** (1960) - Claude Sautet - Spine #434 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/591-classe-tous-risques) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052698/)
> "Alors j'aime beaucoup Claude Sautet, et Classe tous risques qui est un remarquable film. Dans la carrière de Claude ça a été un grand bide, un échec notoire, et il s'est remis pendant 4, 5, 6 ans à son métier d'origine qui était scénariste. Il disait qu'il faisait du ressemelage comme un cordonnier. Classe tous risques est un très beau film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkI4ZRJkvU&t=226)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "Alors ça c'est mon copain Federico. La strada c'est comme si ça venait du cinéma muet justement, c'est un film complètement expressionniste. I vitelloni ça raconte l'histoire de jeunes crétins bourgeois dans la province italienne et c'est assez autobiographique. Fellini c'est l'inverse, il y a une profondeur devant les personnages, c'est la profondeur de la vie même et c'est bouleversant."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgkI4ZRJkvU&t=149)
## Jafar Panahi (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqH9WnGf-ns) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/917-jafar-panahi-s-closet-picks)
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
> "الان گشتم و دزد دوچرخه رو اینجا دیدم و میخوام اینو بردارم. این تنها فیلم که تأثیر واقعاً زیادی روی سینماهای من گذاشت و وقتی من این فیلمو دیدم فهمیدم حالا دنبال چه نوع کاری هستم چه نوع سینمایی هستم و راهم رو به طرف سینمای اجتماعی باز کرد. در واقع توی فیلم دزد دوچرخه، دوچرخه ریچی رو میدزدن و اون حالا خودشو با آب آتیش میزنه با پسرش دنبالش میره و آخر سر میبینیم حالا میره دوچرخه یکی بدبختتر از خودش رو بخواد."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqH9WnGf-ns&t=41)
## James Acheson (other)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Q3AQ4W9Wk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/605-james-acheson-s-closet-picks)
- **Down by Law** (1986) - Jim Jarmusch - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/)
> "I want to take Down by Law because I didn't know who Roberto Benigni was but I saw this in an Italian version in Rome in about 1986 and I remember him being the funniest man I've ever seen. To a Roman audience he just had to walk into shot and they laugh but he never said anything... I have to have this movie."
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
> "I remember this film Bicycle Thieves and I remember it was made by an aristocrat and this aristocrat was making movies about poor people... I remember this beautiful film. I remember the emptiness of their lives and the central Performance of this actor... De Sica showed me something I've never seen before which was I guess in a post Second World War Italian poverty."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Q3AQ4W9Wk&t=44)
- **The Leopard** (1963) - Luchino Visconti - Spine #235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/790-the-leopard) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057091/)
> "This was a complete revelation to see this movie... Mid 19th century Sicily. I knew I was looking at something that was so special and the evocation of a period was so vivid... It introduced me to the work of Piero Tosi the costume designer... Most of the costume designers work is often jeopardized and sabotaged by the work of hair and makeup departments and so to see a man in control creating this world... When they're in this movie they inhabit the clothes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Q3AQ4W9Wk&t=115)
## James L. Brooks (producer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRr5Ivc40CI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/437-james-l-brooks-s-closet-picks)
- **The Importance of Being Earnest** (1952) - Anthony Asquith - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/355-the-importance-of-being-earnest) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044744/)
> "The Importance of Being Earnest. This has one of my favorite one-liners: 'If you are not too long, I shall wait for you the rest of my life.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRr5Ivc40CI&t=132)
- **The Lady Eve** (1941) - Preston Sturges - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/639-the-lady-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033804/)
> "Lady Eve. Okay, Lady Eve has one of the best love speeches ever written. His speech about, you know, when I look at you I see two children coming towards each other, they're eight years old and keeps on advancing it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRr5Ivc40CI&t=14)
- **Sullivan's Travels** (1941) - Preston Sturges - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/657-sullivan-s-travels) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/)
> "Some of these travels. Everything by Preston Sturges."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRr5Ivc40CI&t=9)
- **Shampoo** (1975) - Hal Ashby - Spine #947 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28821-shampoo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073692/)
> "Shampoo because everybody in the cast hit it out of the park."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRr5Ivc40CI&t=4)
- **Lost in America** (1985) - Albert Brooks - Spine #887 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29022-lost-in-america) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089504/)
> "Albert Brooks is one of the specifically original and great comedy talent. And Julie Hagerty was the perfect person for him to play with. And this has one of the most famous comedy monologues in film. Albert wrote, I think with Monica Johnson on this, wrote, directed, starred in. I think I was in this. He always said, 'Be in the film and I'll make it fun.' I always said yes, it was never fun. But this is the most valuable thing I got from the experience."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRr5Ivc40CI&t=143)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "Before I directed my first film, John Cassavetes and Elaine May were on the studio lot and they were improvising a play. It was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life. He was so generous and just hanging with him, you know, there'll never be a spirit of film like him. I'll make a case for him being one of the great men ever in film and started independent film. I mean, you can't be more important than him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRr5Ivc40CI&t=34)
## Jamie Lee Curtis (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/857-jamie-lee-curtis-s-closet-picks)
- **Uncut Gems** (2019) - Benny Safdie - Spine #1101 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31917-uncut-gems) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5727208/)
> "Uncut Gems just popped out. I am not someone who loves a lot of chaos. I’m a very controlled person. And yet I immersed myself in the chaos of this movie in a way that I was really not expecting to. And Adam is just a spectacular actor."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=81)
- **WALL•E** (2008) - Andrew Stanton - Spine #1161 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33246-wall-e) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/)
> "WALL·E. WALL·E was a prophecy of the future, and we all were like, “No, it’s not going to be like that. Oh, come on.” Do you know what I’m saying? This is a beautiful love story. Gorgeous, but really a cautionary tale."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=102)
- **The Princess Bride** (1987) - Rob Reiner - Spine #948 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29368-the-princess-bride) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/)
> "“Life is pain, Highness, and anyone who says differently is selling something” is going to be on my tombstone. William Goldman wrote a perfect screenplay. Wrote a perfect book and then a perfect screenplay. And my friend Rob Reiner made this movie. My husband’s in it. He plays the six-fingered man. One of the great movies of all time. I love this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=118)
- **Raging Bull** (1980) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1134 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29158-raging-bull) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/)
> "Raging Bull, I mean… Cinema. Moving pictures. Storytelling. Characters. Light. Lighting. Great, great actors. I mean, come on. Right? I mean, it’s just… Forget it. Forget it!"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=147)
- **Danton** (1983) - Andrzej Wajda - Spine #464 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/555-danton) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083789/)
> "Danton. So… Verisimilitude, time and place. Movies take you to another time, another world, another country, another language. Danton was one of those movies for me. It’s a harrowing time in history, and this put me there in a way that I still remember, the way that movies can put you in a place in time that you’ll never go, ever, in your life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=165)
- **Monsoon Wedding** (2001) - Mira Nair - Spine #489 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2364-monsoon-wedding) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265343/)
> "Monsoon Wedding. Okay. Talk about going into a world I’ve never been. Immersed me in a culture, time and place, people, color. Seeing it on the big screen was just breathtaking. Monsoon Wedding. So fabulous."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=194)
- **Downhill Racer** (1969) - Michael Ritchie - Spine #494 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/20391-downhill-racer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064253/)
> "What’s this one?, okay. Downhill Racer. Really exciting movie to watch. Robert Redford plays a ski racer. You would be surprised how it holds up. Back in the day, they were limited by what was available to them and yet filmmakers put you right in the heart of something. You feel his heartbeat this entire movie. It’s really exciting, Downhill Racer. I loved it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=213)
- **Paper Moon** (1973) - Peter Bogdanovich - Spine #1241 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29964-paper-moon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510/)
> "Paper Moon. Madeline Kahn, Madeline Kahn. Madeline Kahn, come on. Madeline Kahn, Madeline Kahn, Madeline Kahn. What a G."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=257)
- **Sweet Smell of Success** (1957) - Alexander Mackendrick - Spine #555 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/)
> "And I think The Sweet Smell of Success, another black-and-white… You can tell I’m going to lean toward beautiful cinematography, but this is a masterpiece. It’s a great part, Tony Curtis’s best part. When Tony Curtis died, his wife put a memorial thing together for the service and she put the quote from Sweet Smell on it, “The cat’s in the bag and the bag’s in The River.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=288)
- **The Manchurian Candidate** (1962) - John Frankenheimer - Spine #803 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28784-the-manchurian-candidate) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/)
> "So The Manchurian Candidate was a film – my Mother plays the girlfriend of Frank Sinatra. It’s a really quiet Performance. It’s a beautiful Performance. Very serious Performance. Very sexy. Whenever I see this movie, I think about that moment for this woman, an actress, Mother of two, who had been left by her husband. I think about that, and it’s fully an amazing Performance."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=332)
- **A Woman Under the Influence** (1974) - John Cassavetes - Spine #253 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/510-a-woman-under-the-influence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072417/)
> "And so many people have compared Donna with this movie. Now, there’s nothing like Gena Rowlands. There’s just nothing, and it makes me really proud to think that something that I did as an artist would be in the sphere of the work of Gena Rowlands, and it’s been a life-changing experience for me personally."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=408)
- **This Is Spinal Tap** (1984) - Rob Reiner - Spine #12 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/317-this-is-spinal-tap) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/)
> "The first movie I am picking is This Is Spinal Tap. This is the movie that changed my life because a) it’s hilair, and super, super funny and great. But it was Christopher promoting this movie which put them in Rolling Stone magazine, where I saw his picture and said to my girlfriend Debra Hill, “I’m gonna marry him.” So these two movies, very much in the Criterion world, changed my life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZlpLwWeKvA&t=9)
## Jane Schoenbrun (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iOBmGQKQ8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/658-jane-schoenbrun-s-closet-picks)
- **Bamboozled** (2000) - Spike Lee - Spine #1019 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29007-bamboozled) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215545/)
> "Bamboozled, probably the best movie about television ever made."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iOBmGQKQ8&t=81)
- **Malcolm X** (1992) - Spike Lee - Spine #1160 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33245-malcolm-x) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/)
> "Spike Lee double feature. Malcolm X, best biopic ever made."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iOBmGQKQ8&t=73)
- **El Sur** (1983) - Víctor Erice - Spine #927 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27745-el-sur) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084740/)
> "Victor Erice's El Sur. Second film, maybe not as well known as his first film which is equally beautiful, The Spirit of the Beehive. Honestly every film he's ever made is one of the best films in cinema history. This film is gorgeous. Along with Spirit of the Beehive, these two movies taught me how to film people watching, which is such a huge part of my own cinematic language."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iOBmGQKQ8&t=83)
- **Peeping Tom** (2008) - Yoshihiro Fukagawa - Spine #58 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/235-peeping-tom) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1047872/)
> "Peeping Tom. When I was working on I Saw the TV Glow, a lot of people told me that I was sort of operating against like a century of film history where the protagonist being a loner, not able to look you in the eye, weird guy. In my film that character acts this way, I'd say risking spoilers, because of queerness. And so revisiting these films and thinking about them through the lens of queerness is always something that I'm really interested in."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iOBmGQKQ8&t=108)
- **Werckmeister Harmonies** (2001) - Béla Tarr - Spine #1215 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33388-werckmeister-harmonies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249241/)
> "Werckmeister Harmonies. I watch Béla Tarr films when I have the flu because they make you feel bad in the way that having the flu makes you feel bad. And sometimes when you're feeling bad, turning on a movie that's going to just meet you right there is about all you can ask for."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iOBmGQKQ8&t=150)
- **Autumn Sonata** (1978) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #60 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/605-autumn-sonata) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077711/)
> "My dear friend Angel asked me to get them Autumn Sonata. Angel's my queer family. I spend most nights at Angel's House watching movies on their couch and I told them I was going to bring them home a Criterion that we could all watch and so here is Autumn Sonata for Angel."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iOBmGQKQ8&t=170)
- **The Grand Budapest Hotel** (2014) - Wes Anderson - Spine #1025 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29601-the-grand-budapest-hotel) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/)
> "The Grand Budapest Hotel, maybe becoming my favorite Wes Anderson movie. I was obsessed with Wes Anderson in high school. I don't think there are any American filmmakers out there who are building their own language and have been doing it for as long as he has and as beautifully as he has. I feel like this is the movie where his style starts becoming obsessed with nesting doll storytelling until the film itself is almost this hyper elaborate and beautiful nesting doll of a world."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iOBmGQKQ8&t=197)
- **Eraserhead** (1977) - David Lynch - Spine #725 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/)
> "I like thinking about David Lynch before he was David Lynch, when he was just some dude in a warehouse using all of his savings and essentially abandoning his family to make a movie that at the time I can't imagine that too many people understood. Filmmaking is an act of faith and I think it's beautiful to imagine someone like Lynch putting it all on the line to make something as insane as his first feature film, Eraserhead."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iOBmGQKQ8&t=258)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "Got to go for the box sets. I've wanted this forever. I love Jacques Tati and honestly, the more I make films, the more I am just in love with any film that feels like it was just sculpted as its own universe. I rewatched PlayTime recently and it's almost like a music video before music videos existed. It's so ambitious and so gorgeous. So I'm very happy to have now my complete Tati."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iOBmGQKQ8&t=40)
## Janelle Monáe (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpffnfc3AI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/733-janelle-monae-s-closet-picks)
- **The Blob** (1958) - Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. - Spine #91 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/630-the-blob) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/)
> "This one, The Blob. So this deals with like a whole town of teens that are trying to warn the community like this alien blob is taking over and it's basically going to consume all of us so beware. So super campy, all the actors and everybody involved, they were imagining this like it was them that sold it because The Blob itself wasn't that scary but it was how they reacted to The Blob that made it scary. It's one of the Godfathers of horror and then I love the opening music."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpffnfc3AI&t=27)
- **Eraserhead** (1977) - David Lynch - Spine #725 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/)
> "Eraserhead. This is David Lynch's debut but I remember watching this and getting to the end and being like I have no idea what this film is about but I love it. It's so bold, it's surreal, it's fantasy, it's you're in a dream state. It feels like you're probably on five different drugs at the same time. Like I don't know what David Lynch was thinking about when he wrote it. If your love of horror and you're looking for a new language, this is going to give you your new language."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpffnfc3AI&t=77)
- **1984** (1984) - - Spine #984 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29140-1984)
> "We are going to get into 1984. This film, 1984, along with Metropolis, Fritz Lang's German expressionist film, both of these films have absolutely inspired my work as a concept artist especially on the music side. When I think about 1984 and what it said then to what it says now, it is still relevant. It talks about surveillance culture, it talks about the totalitarian societies and what happens when power goes unchecked."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpffnfc3AI&t=121)
- **Brazil** (1985) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #51 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/211-brazil) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/)
> "Oh wow yeah we have to do this one. Brazil. Or look, you think it's all that but it's so much more. Oh my goodness, there's a connection between 1984 and this film but I think they use a different tone to talk about it like humor is used in this, how it's shot, the zoom-in shots, the color palette, everything about Brazil to me just represents creativity at its finest and it has something to say and you're rooting for the protagonist the whole time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpffnfc3AI&t=162)
- **Night of the Living Dead** (1968) - George A. Romero - Spine #909 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29331-night-of-the-living-dead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/)
> "When you think about ghouls, when you think about zombies, when you think about The Walking Dead, none of that would have existed if this had not come out in 1968: Night of the Living Dead. This is one of the most iconic horror films of its time and even now and it talks about our environment and how our environments—I think it has something deep to say about radiation and what that does to our people, what that does to communities."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpffnfc3AI&t=201)
## Jarvis Cocker (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-F7GT82izA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/748-jarvis-cocker-s-closet-picks)
- **The Incredible Shrinking Man** (1957) - Jack Arnold - Spine #1100 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28988-the-incredible-shrinking-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050539/)
> "But one of the films that I remember seeing on the TV when I was a kid was this one, The Incredible Shrinking Man. They made, like, a normal House seem very dangerous because he got– he gets attacked by the cat and stuff like that. It’s pretty good. I would recommend it to you. I’m going to put it in my bag actually, because I haven’t seen it for quite a long time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-F7GT82izA&t=39)
- **Blue Velvet** (1986) - David Lynch - Spine #977 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29144-blue-velvet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)
> "Blue Velvet. Well-known film by David Lynch. It gave a picture into a world that sometimes was familiar from watching TV. You’ve seen old white picket fences and a lot of America as, you know, portrayed through the films of the ’50s and the ’60s. But then you add this kind of violence and a sexuality in it which was really unusual, you know... I think I wrote an essay about this as part of the kind of entrance exam. It changed my view of films and it also changed my life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-F7GT82izA&t=65)
- **Meantime** (1983) - Mike Leigh - Spine #890 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28805-meantime) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082727/)
> "This is Meantime by Mike Leigh. Quite an important filmmaker for me because, whilst I was at college, it just so happened that Mike Leigh had been at film college with one of the tutors on the course, and so he was invited to come and show a film... He was trying to get at something real, and I actually... I think I’m on this DVD because I... I spoke to Mike Leigh about it when it was put on the Criterion Collection. So, yeah, Mike Leigh. Definitely going dans le sac, as we say."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-F7GT82izA&t=114)
- **Trainspotting** (1996) - Danny Boyle - Spine #1204 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29627-trainspotting) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/)
> "Trainspotting, which has actually got a Pulp song on the soundtrack of it. We were making the Different Class record and we’d recorded pretty much all the songs and then we got this message saying, 'There’s a guy making a film and could you write a song for it?'... As luck would have it, we had a song called 'Mile End' that we’d recorded but didn’t really fit on the album. And so we said, 'Could you use that?' That was a bit of kind of serendipity. So... This is going in the bag too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-F7GT82izA&t=182)
- **Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom** (1976) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #17 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/532-salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/)
> "This film. I’ve had... Not this particular DVD, but I’ve owned Salò, or Salò, by Pasolini, and then never found an appropriate time to watch it. I’ve spoken to people about what happens in it. Maybe now’s the time. I’m a big boy. I’m grown up. I could handle it. I’m ready for 120 Days of Sodom."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-F7GT82izA&t=256)
- **Fantastic Mr. Fox** (2009) - Wes Anderson - Spine #700 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28565-fantastic-mr-fox) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283/)
> "A modern filmmaker who I am pleased to know and to have worked with is Wes Anderson. Fantastic Mr. Fox. I do sing a song in that which Wes wrote the words for and I wrote the music for it. I am kind of represented by an animated... Creature in that film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-F7GT82izA&t=281)
- **The Grand Budapest Hotel** (2014) - Wes Anderson - Spine #1025 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29601-the-grand-budapest-hotel) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/)
> "And The Grand Budapest Hotel. You know, I think Wes is one of the people who is still trying to move cinema somewhere else. The way that he composes his shots, the way he tries to not edit too much within a scene but do it with camera movement. I don’t think he really gets that much credit for being, in a way, quite experimental in that way. So... That will calm me down after 120 Days of Sodom."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-F7GT82izA&t=309)
## Jason Schwartzman (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yxBp7tce4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/595-jason-schwartzman-s-closet-picks)
- **The Killer** (1956) - Hideo Sekigawa - Spine #8 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27751-the-killing)
> "Killers the version that I'm familiar with is the Don Siegel version... Wes had suggested I look at is Clu Gulager's Performance in this film. I watched it so many times and needed it so much as a reference that I ended up just filming my television... So that I had it on my phone at all times like he'll just do some stuff like this and then he'll just destroy something... He's just he's great in it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yxBp7tce4&t=19)
- **Under the Volcano** (1984) - John Huston - Spine #410 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/837-under-the-volcano) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088322/)
> "This is Under the Volcano... It's great to watch John Huston watching the actors seeing the shot the way he talks to the actors the way everyone is listening to each other the way he's responding... He can just like sit there and read a paper and I go that's because he knows if he's doing..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yxBp7tce4&t=103)
- **Stray Dog** (1971) - Sam Peckinpah - Spine #233 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/730-straw-dogs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/)
> "And this is Straw Dogs on top of Under the Volcano... The takeaways I take from watching this are silly but one that Dustin Hoffman you see him shaving with an electric razor in his trailer... Sam Peckinpah doesn't read the newspaper he has a knife that he is a pretty big knife and he throws it at this door that's like a broken door piece of wood leaning against his House until they're ready to shoot I've never been around a knife throwing director."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yxBp7tce4&t=109)
- **An Unmarried Woman** (1978) - Paul Mazursky - Spine #1032 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29597-an-unmarried-woman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078444/)
> "An Unmarried Woman Jill Clayburgh I think is just one of the greatest actors of all time. Wonderful beautiful Performance... My wife gave me this... It's a way to invite someone to know you in a way that you can't really articulate so I love this because of Jill Clayburgh and also just the special place that holds in my heart as I talk about my wife holding the movie An Unmarried Woman."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yxBp7tce4&t=215)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "So this movie right here is The Red Shoes. No movie reminds me of my life more than The Red Shoes and what I mean by that is this was my Mother's favorite movie ever made. It was the first time that I saw like that a movie could be nutritional value to someone... It was more than a movie what she got from it was I don't know what it was but as a little kid I remember thinking like that's not happening at a lot of other kids houses."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yxBp7tce4&t=295)
- **The Bad Sleep Well** (1960) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #319 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/765-the-bad-sleep-well) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054460/)
> "And The Bad Sleep Well I love the way information gets dispersed in this movie through people giving speeches but then other people walking like whispering things of people not wanting to disturb the event... This is for all the banquets we're gonna go."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yxBp7tce4&t=337)
- **Local Hero** (1983) - Bill Forsyth - Spine #994 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28709-local-hero) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/)
> "We got Local Hero..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yxBp7tce4&t=366)
- **Pasolini 101** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101)
> "And this is the Pasolini collection. I just think this is a beautiful look at this the care and work that goes into this is what this place is all about."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92yxBp7tce4&t=370)
## Jay Duplass (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyCofQNj-U) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/871-jay-duplass-s-closet-picks)
- **Slacker** (1991) - Richard Linklater - Spine #247 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/408-slacker) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102943/)
> "We are going to start with Slacker. I showed up in Austin, Texas, in 1991 when this movie was in the Midnight theater, and it is the first time that I realized that a normal person could make a movie, because I grew up in New Orleans and I just wanted to be a musician... So I saw this movie, and it cost $20,000. And then I was walking around and we went into a coffee shop and a friend of mine was like, 'That’s Rick Linklater.'... I was like, 'Oh, a normal person can make a movie.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyCofQNj-U&t=6)
- **No Country for Old Men** (2007) - Joel Coen - Spine #1243 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29429-no-country-for-old-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/)
> "Now we’re going to go to a Coen brothers movie, No Country for Old Men. It blew my mind in a million ways. But what I want to say really... When I saw Raising Arizona in 1987, it’s the first time that I thought to myself, 'Oh, people make movies.'... I wanted to be the Coen brothers. I went to film school at the University of Texas at Austin. I tried to make Coen brothers-type films. I failed at doing that. The Coen brothers are really, really good at being the Coen brothers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyCofQNj-U&t=55)
- **Husbands** (1970) - John Cassavetes - Spine #1029 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28827-husbands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065867/)
> "I started making movies about myself and my friends and the desperate stuff that we did, and that was heavily influenced by John Cassavetes. Husbands is one of his lesser-known movies and less celebrated movies. It happens to be my favorite. There’s a very simple operating principle with Husbands, which is: a group of guys, one of them dies, and those guys go nuts. They go on an adventure... And it’s a weirdly well-built driver of a movie. And they improvised the whole damn thing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyCofQNj-U&t=112)
- **Secrets & Lies** (1996) - Mike Leigh - Spine #1070 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29202-secrets-lies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117589/)
> "We’re just going to go across the pond to Secrets & Lies. I don’t do impressions, but I will do one briefly when she says, 'Sweetheart!' 'Sweetheart!' That’s what’s been said a lot in this film. And that phrase comes to mind a lot when I’m trying to wrangle my children. 'Sweetheart! Sweetheart, what’s wrong, sweetheart?'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyCofQNj-U&t=151)
- **Close-Up** (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #519 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/)
> "Let us go beyond across the pond to Iran. Close-Up. This is the story of a man in Iran who impersonated a filmmaker called Makhmalbaf... Abbas Kiarostami... Went and made a movie of this guy’s trial and hired this guy to play himself in the reenactment of the impersonation... It is a movie that works as a fictional narrative. It is a movie that works as a documentary. It is a movie that works as a social service... This movie, there’s no other movie like this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKyCofQNj-U&t=177)
## Jean Pierre And Luc Dardenne (null)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sTDUur1III) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/565-jean-pierre-and-luc-dardenne-s-closet-picks)
- **The Age of Innocence** (1993) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #913 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28834-the-age-of-innocence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/)
> "The Age of Innocence de Scorsese, pour moi une des plus belles fins, voilà, des plus belles fins de l'histoire du cinéma."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sTDUur1III&t=10)
- **An Angel at My Table** (1990) - Jane Campion - Spine #301 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/742-an-angel-at-my-table) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099040/)
> "Voyons par ici, An Angel at My Table de notre ami Jane Campion. Magnifique film, ça c'était une grande découverte. L'actrice aussi magnifique vraiment, et tout le début, très grand film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sTDUur1III&t=50)
- **4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days** (2007) - Cristian Mungiu - Spine #958 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28617-4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032846/)
> "J'avais repéré ceci, notre ami Mungiu. Magnifique pour nous, une grande rencontre ce film. Cristian est devenu un ami donc c'est bien de choisir le film d'un ami surtout quand le film de cet ami nous a bouleversé à ce point, qui est l'histoire d'amitié et grande histoire sur le système communiste en train qui est en pleine déliquescence, la catastrophe."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sTDUur1III&t=66)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "Le Décalogue de Kieślowski. On a vu à partir de 85 dans les années 80, voilà, ça a beaucoup influencé notre travail, on s'est beaucoup inspiré de lui, beaucoup, voilà."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sTDUur1III&t=101)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "Une grande découverte. Je ne suis pas sûr d'avoir rencontré une plus grande solitude aussi dans un film de cinéma. Elle veut changer de vie pendant tout le film, n'arrive pas à sortir de cette solitude qui est terrible et on a envie d'être avec elle à la fin du film et boire un verre avec elle, une cigarette absolue."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sTDUur1III&t=118)
- **Death of a Cyclist** (1955) - Juan Antonio Bardem - Spine #427 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/537-death-of-a-cyclist) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048394/)
> "Oui un autre film auquel on avait pensé, un film que nous avons vu tous les deux dans notre école, c'est un film de notre prime adolescence, Death of a Cyclist. Je n'ai jamais pu le revoir et je trouve ce sera formidable de pouvoir revoir ce film qu'on a plus vu depuis longtemps."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sTDUur1III&t=146)
- **3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/982-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman)
> "Restons un peu aussi en Italie d'une certaine manière parce que c'est Rossellini. J'ai vu tout à l'heure en passant qu'il y avait Rossellini Bergman que nous avons vu revu mon frère et moi beaucoup de fois... Et des trois celui que j'ai le moins vu finalement c'est Voyage en Italie. Ce sera donc une occasion de le revoir et c'est formidable parce que j'ai trois DVD en un."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sTDUur1III&t=19)
## Jenni Olson (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJt67JhZ1EI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/430-jenni-olson-s-closet-picks)
- **Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles** (1976) - Chantal Akerman - Spine #484 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/302-jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073198/)
> "Jeanne Dielman, which is way up here if you'll follow me. I remember seeing Jeanne Dielman in my intro to film studies class at the University of Minnesota in a crappy 16 millimeter print in the early 80s and just being devastated and it was revolutionary and it was one of the films that made me want to make movies and feel like I could make people have feelings by slowing things down."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJt67JhZ1EI&t=27)
- **Sweet Smell of Success** (1957) - Alexander Mackendrick - Spine #555 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/)
> "One of my favorite kind of Hollywood classics, Sweet Smell of Success. This is truly one of the greatest films ever made. The writing, the directing, the cinematography, the editing, the dialogue is incredible. It's written by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman and the dynamic—it's just relentless in its forward movement as a narrative and all the location shooting, New York City mid-50s. The performances, Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, this is an amazing film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJt67JhZ1EI&t=95)
- **Desert Hearts** (1985) - Donna Deitch - Spine #902 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29139-desert-hearts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089015/)
> "Donna Deitch's Desert Hearts, the director approved Blu-ray special edition. This is such an amazing film, this is so like the classic lesbian romance and I love this movie and I love all the extras on it and I can't wait to watch this Blu-ray."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJt67JhZ1EI&t=66)
- **Memories of Underdevelopment** (1968) - Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Spine #943 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29220-memories-of-underdevelopment) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063291/)
> "I just got back from Cuba where I asked people, 'What is the greatest Cuban movie of all time?' and well, this was the number one film that they mentioned. Pretty much like nine of the other 10 films were by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, but Memories of Underdevelopment seems to be everyone's named as everyone's favorite Cuban film or best Cuban film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJt67JhZ1EI&t=148)
- **Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/275-eclipse-series-2-the-documentaries-of-louis-malle)
> "So Louis Malle made this documentary called God's Country in 1985 or 86. I grew up in Minnesota actually and in 1985 or 86 I remember seeing Ross McElwee's Sherman's March... And then at the same time I saw Louis Malle's God's Country in which he goes and talks to farmers in Glencoe, Minnesota which was like an hour outside of the Twin Cities where I grew up. I saw them at the same time and I just remember feeling this sense of wanting to make work like that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJt67JhZ1EI&t=179)
## Jennifer Kent (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puN5ASOPGs) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/726-jennifer-kent-s-closet-picks)
- **Häxan** (1922) - Benjamin Christensen - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/352-haxan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013257/)
> "Have you seen this crazy film? This was actually Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages. It's a huge inspiration for The Babadook. It's about the devil and about witchcraft. It's also about women going nuts. Fantastic, so I'm going to have to take that with me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puN5ASOPGs&t=30)
- **The Last Waltz** (1978) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1118 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/685-the-last-wave) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077838/)
> "Love this one. Australian, from Peter Weir, it's The Last Wave. I didn't see it for a long time because I'm embarrassed to say I thought it was a film about surfing. It's not a film about surfing, it's a film about the end of the world perhaps, and it's one of his most sort of mystical and spiritual films. An amazing Performance by David Gulpilil. Love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puN5ASOPGs&t=46)
- **Kuroneko** (1968) - Kaneto Shindō - Spine #584 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27628-kuroneko) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122136/)
> "This is an amazing film, Kuroneko. Actually, I saw somewhere here Kaneto Shindo's other film Onibaba. It's very well known, but Kuroneko is maybe lesser known and it's the most haunting, sort of spine-chilling ghost story. I really can't explain it, but I think if you haven't seen it, you need to go and watch that. So I'll take both those."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puN5ASOPGs&t=81)
- **Onibaba** (1964) - Kaneto Shindō - Spine #226 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/665-onibaba) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058430/)
> "I saw somewhere here Kaneto Shindo's other film Onibaba. It's very well known, but Kuroneko is maybe lesser known and it's the most haunting, sort of spine-chilling ghost story... So I'll take both those."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puN5ASOPGs&t=86)
- **Mulholland Dr.** (2001) - David Lynch - Spine #779 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28050-mulholland-dr) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/)
> "Oh, Mulholland Drive. I mean, David Lynch is really up there with one of my absolute favorites. I've seen this film about, I don't know, 10 times. The first, first time I saw it, I was, I didn't really understand it. It made me really angry and I thought, 'I've wasted my time watching this stupid film about nothing,' which is embarrassing to say. But as I, the second time I watched it, I sort of fell asleep midway through and woke up, and then I started to understand it. The third time I watc..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puN5ASOPGs&t=108)
- **A Man Escaped** (1956) - Robert Bresson - Spine #650 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27848-a-man-escaped) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049902/)
> "I only discovered Robert Bresson recently. This is A Man Escaped. What a genius. I mean, he really invented a new form of cinema. One interesting thing about this is all that I learned on Criterion is that all of the sound was post-synced—everything: sound effects, dialogue. And I didn't even realize, but what it gives you is this kind of incredibly real but also slightly surreal world. Just a stunningly beautiful and tense film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puN5ASOPGs&t=145)
- **Tokyo Story** (1953) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #217 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/)
> "Tokyo Story. Absolutely beautiful. Ozu. I watched this sort of around the time my mom passed away and it's a really affecting and subtle and sad film about not appreciating your parents. I can't recommend that enough."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4puN5ASOPGs&t=176)
## Jeremy O. Harris (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/661-jeremy-o-harris-s-closet-picks)
- **Original Cast Album: “Company”** (1970) - D. A. Pennebaker - Spine #1090 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30212-original-cast-album-company) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293475/)
> "I was talking about things like this, like Company, the Original Cast Album by Penny Baker, one of the best documentaries ever made. It's like completely ver. You see some of the richest, most dynamic performers of A Generation having full tilt mental breakdowns, like actual mental breakdowns, about the fact that they cannot articulate the beautiful thing they did on stage every night in a cast recording. And I'm so happy 'cause I've never owned it. I was only streaming it on Criterion Channe..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=124)
- **The Celebration** (null) - Milad Tangshir - Spine #1108 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28059-the-celebration) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7574068/)
> "Lars von Trier and Dogme 95 were very, very important to me because I didn't know that someone could make rules around how to make a movie... Dogme 95 is a very important system he created and the first film that was the Dogme 95 approved film was The Celebration. Also they have the full Dogme 95 thing in here. This is like I could actually kind of cry, like this is actually crazy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=159)
- **Teorema** (1968) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #1013 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28660-teorema) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063678/)
> "I'm getting the box set but I just had to shout this movie out anyway. Teorema, I realized this year with the amount of people who told me how much they love Saltburn that no one in my friend group had seen Teorema. Watch Teorema, just do yourself a favor. I'm not putting it in my bag because I'm getting a box set but because Pasolini is important again. There's a lot of required reading to be gay in my opinion and a lot of that reading is in movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=198)
- **Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom** (1976) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #17 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/532-salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/)
> "Another important movie for me partially because I share a birthday with the Marquis de Sade who wrote the book that Salò is based on. This movie was so, so important to me... I decided to show them all this movie and I realized can't really do that in 2019. If you watch this movie it'll change your life. You'll see a lot of bad stuff, there's a lot of yuck in it but you'll get to a yum at the very end."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=231)
- **Tiny Furniture** (2010) - Lena Dunham - Spine #597 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28317-tiny-furniture) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570989/)
> "Lena Dunham, who is one of the people who changed my life the most with the work that she did both in Girls and in Tiny Furniture because she's one of those people that gave me permission much like Melvin Van Peebles to just tell my story how I wanted to tell it anyway. Tiny Furniture is really good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=294)
- **Girlfriends** (1978) - Claudia Weill - Spine #1055 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29635-girlfriends) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077613/)
> "There's another filmmaker here, a female filmmaker... I'm going to ask for some help, where could I find Claudia Weill's Girlfriends? So this is Girlfriends and it was an iconic movie from like, it was so well received when it came out and she was just forgotten. And I feel so lucky that two filmmakers that I love who happen to be women told me I needed to watch this movie so I'm going to now and now own it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=316)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "All That Jazz. Okay, this is the best movie. No, okay, there's all these lists like best movie musical, destroy them. All That Jazz, best movie musical. No one knows how to shoot dance anymore... Fosse knows what movement looks like on camera because he is movement incarnate. This film is so honest and beautiful and rich. It is everything a film should be. I love it. Watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=358)
- **Ali: Fear Eats the Soul** (1974) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/152-ali-fear-eats-the-soul) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071141/)
> "Fassbinder is so important and one of the things I love about Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is that it feels like something that people will be afraid to write now about the very present racism that lives inside of our bodies because of society and our families, etc., but how people have to navigate that through intimacies. It also is like just sexy and funny and weird."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=399)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "I think I do just have to end it. I'm going to get Yi. I'm going to get Yi because we love Yi."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=459)
- **Metropolitan** (1990) - Whit Stillman - Spine #326 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/774-metropolitan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100142/)
> "And this is another one, I was going to get this one anyway so I'm glad I saw it. Metropolitan. I used to tell people that I wanted to be like the black gay Whit Stillman. He's such a Dandy and a fop and writes about people that you don't see written about very often in this type of way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=463)
- **Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-essential-films)
> "I'm getting the Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films mainly because Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is in it but also Watermelon Man is in it which is a very important movie to me... Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was a movie that I used to use to woo boys in college... I got laid a lot in college because of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song so thank you Van Peebles. He also, people don't know this, but he's also a playwright."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c7TOz0YK8&t=38)
## Jeremy Pope (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRDkAdjp_e8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/736-jeremy-pope-s-closet-picks)
- **Devil in a Blue Dress** (1995) - Carl Franklin - Spine #1135 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32355-devil-in-a-blue-dress) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112857/)
> "Devil in a Blue Dress this film speaks to me because my first real job was this show called Hollywood that I shot with Ryan Murphy for Netflix and this film set in the I think it's like late 40s 50s felt very identical to the experience that my character Archie was about to go on so this became like such an inspiration and like a point of reference love the film love the way that it's shot the cinematography is incredible Denzel is incredible Carl Franklin's incredible."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRDkAdjp_e8&t=24)
- **Paris is Burning** (1991) - Jennie Livingston - Spine #1018 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29647-paris-is-burning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/)
> "This is a spiritual pick Paris is Burning this film is the foundation of so much of the love in the community and the people the ancestors the ones that have paved the way that have beat the face and have walked the walks and categories for us all the doors all the houses that makes me very excited that I now own Paris is Burning."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRDkAdjp_e8&t=61)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "This is a respect pick some things you pick just out of respect and I remember seeing Do the Right Thing years ago and really understanding and learning about who Spike was and the type of filmmaker that he is and he continues to be and it's bold and it's daring and it's provocative and it's funny finding the levity in sometimes very traumatic situations is so special and nice to feel so shout out to Do the Right Thing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRDkAdjp_e8&t=86)
- **One Night in Miami** (2020) - Regina King - Spine #1106 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32171-one-night-in-miami) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10612922/)
> "One Night in Miami this was the first I think this was my first like big Studio film and it was the first film that I didn't audition for and I got the part. Regina called, Regina my mom had met at my first Tony Awards here in New York City and they really hit it off so Regina just felt like family and she called me and wanted me to come on to do this project so you just don't say no to Regina King. So I did play Jackie Wilson. I'm there and she just walked up to me and she was l..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRDkAdjp_e8&t=112)
- **The Philadelphia Story** (1940) - George Cukor - Spine #901 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29029-the-philadelphia-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032904/)
> "The Philadelphia Story directed by George Cukor iconic classic shout out to old Hollywood this feels full circle this feels full circle for."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRDkAdjp_e8&t=252)
- **The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4431-the-signifyin-works-of-marlon-riggs)
> "Yes Marlon Riggs could get emotional thinking about it Tongues Untied that film changed me it changed me because his approach their approach to the filmmaking the film it's theatrical it's visceral it's evocative there's like this snap section that's super important but a film that challenges expression freedom of expression this film is important to me because I got to watch multifaceted black men express the nuance of being a black queer man and for it to be expressed in movement and dance."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRDkAdjp_e8&t=184)
## Jeremy Thomas (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFXCqtYmDM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/673-jeremy-thomas-s-closet-picks)
- **A Touch of Zen** (1970) - King Hu - Spine #825 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28791-a-touch-of-zen) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064451/)
> "A Touch of Zen it's really martial art movie making of Superior and poetic way I think this is the first film I'm going to see when I get a chance to look at the DVD cuz it'll Thrill Me..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFXCqtYmDM&t=9)
- **The Leopard** (1963) - Luchino Visconti - Spine #235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/790-the-leopard) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057091/)
> "Il Gattopardo, The Leopard, this magnifico, this is really a masterpiece..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFXCqtYmDM&t=25)
- **Beau travail** (2000) - Claire Denis - Spine #1042 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29646-beau-travail) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209933/)
> "Beau travail, Claire Denis, goddess. She got masculinity better than any man. Thank you Claire."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFXCqtYmDM&t=37)
- **The Last Waltz** (1978) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1118 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/685-the-last-wave) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077838/)
> "The Last Wave by the master Peter Weir. Peter Weir is a good friend of mine and we share a beach in Australia where I go and it's got David Gulpilil who was in my first film I produced Mad Dog. I'm looking forward to seeing this again. I remember all the water pouring out of the radio is magnificent shot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFXCqtYmDM&t=45)
- **La Règle du jeu** (1939) - Jean Renoir - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/295-the-rules-of-the-game) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/)
> "The Rules of The Game, La Règle du jeu. I'm choosing this film because I haven't seen it maybe for 50 years 60 years and it was one of Bertolucci's very favorite films. He loved this film, he was talking about it all the time. Anyway I'm happy to have this, I'm very happy to have a very beautiful film by Jean Renoir."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFXCqtYmDM&t=154)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "One last, I've just seen it. There you go, the beginning of it all. What can I tell you? It'd be wonderful. Fellini, Federico, my hats off."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFXCqtYmDM&t=193)
- **Three Films by Luis Buñuel** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3900-three-films-by-luis-bunuel)
> "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, in fact I like that, but I've got three films here on Phantom of Liberty and That Obscure Object of Desire. Now Serge Silberman, who was my inspiration as a producer when I was growing up as a young producer, I was looking at this man and then I met him and he gave me advice. He said to me, 'Jeremy, you can only do well by using your own taste in choosing your projects. Never let anybody else choose your projects for you.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFXCqtYmDM&t=68)
- **Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1186-wim-wenders-the-road-trilogy)
> "I couldn't have a bag without a bag of them. Kings of the Road. It's got the best poo in any film, all I can tell you. It's got an incredible recommended poo, it's the most poetic poo in cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pFXCqtYmDM&t=180)
## Jerry Schatzberg (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzWP5Pj2wM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/681-jerry-schatzberg-s-closet-picks)
- **Knife in the Water** (1962) - Roman Polanski - Spine #215 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/219-knife-in-the-water) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056291/)
- **On the Waterfront** (1954) - Elia Kazan - Spine #647 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/)
> "Here it is, On the Waterfront. Great film. And I loved his work. I think I worked a lot like him because he was honest, he was open, he wasn't playing games, he was just doing films and always told the truth. He was an honest director. That's the way I feel I am, I'm an honest director."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzWP5Pj2wM&t=43)
- **‘Round Midnight** (1986) - Bertrand Tavernier - Spine #1122 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29031--round-midnight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090557/)
> "One of my favorites, 'Round Midnight. First of all, it's a film full of jazz and the music is sensational. But it's also a story. You don't usually get a story with jazz, they usually are documentaries and you see the musician, wonderful music, but this is a really terrific story and I loved it. I always loved it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzWP5Pj2wM&t=72)
- **The Shooting** (1966) - Monte Hellman - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28580-the-shooting) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062262/)
> "The Shooting. Now this is a film that was written by Carol Eastman, but she took the name Adrien Joyce because it had more literary indications. It was a low-budget film and it's very well crafted by Monte Hellman, who I got to be friendly with because of Carol. And she was also friendly with Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty. I remember when Carol died, Nicholson did a speech talking about her and it was just beautiful. A great loss to us."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzWP5Pj2wM&t=96)
- **Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1329-dietrich-von-sternberg-in-hollywood)
> "Is this Shanghai Express here? Oh yeah, Shanghai Express. A wonderful film. She was so beautiful and I was a fashion photographer and I'd see her photograph and I'd see her come on the screen, she was so beautiful. And I think a lot of my photographs of women were copied from what I'd see, the photographs that were taken of her, Marlene Dietrich."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzWP5Pj2wM&t=21)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "I'm happy to take this Varda collection home. It'll take a lot of my time. That's wonderful. I remember going with Agnès to a museum. There was an artwork of a nun sitting on a chair and Agnès walked in there and they just seemed to go together and I took a wonderful photograph of Agnès standing next to the nun in the chair. It's one of my favorite photographs."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzWP5Pj2wM&t=149)
## Jerzy Skolimowski (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-4KKe3WGM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/513-jerzy-skolimowski-s-closet-picks)
- **Diamonds of the Night** (1964) - Jan Němec - Spine #969 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29375-diamonds-of-the-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058001/)
> "Here is one Czech guy, Jan Němec, who made Diamonds of the Night. I like that film very much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-4KKe3WGM&t=19)
- **Ashes and Diamonds** (1958) - Andrzej Wajda - Spine #285 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/342-ashes-and-diamonds) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052080/)
> "Oh here is another friend of mine, unfortunately also dead, Andrzej Wajda. Ashes and Diamonds."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-4KKe3WGM&t=36)
- **Come and See** (1985) - Elem Klimov - Spine #1035 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28895-come-and-see) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/)
> "With a movie, with the visionary, Come and See. It's not a proper translation I think, the proper one is 'Look and Realize what you just have seen,' but the film is great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-4KKe3WGM&t=49)
- **Ivan’s Childhood** (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #397 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/830-ivan-s-childhood) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056111/)
> "Ivan's Childhood, a film by Andrei Tarkovsky, his very first film. And I remember the last shot of this film, the tracking shot towards the tree, and then the camera comes closer and closer and closer and fulfilled the screen completely black. One of the best endings of the film I haven't seen, or maybe the best one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-4KKe3WGM&t=70)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "La strada is a, it's a very dear film to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-4KKe3WGM&t=106)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "Another Fellini. This is one of the dearest films for me. That was the enlightening, the opening of my eyes into the possibility of filmmaking. We met several times because when I was shooting one of my films in Cinecittà Studio, the main part was being played by Claudia Cardinale, and she was just after finishing the work on 8½, so she was very close friend of Federico. I was able to observe his mimics, his behavior, his joy. What a phenomenal filmmaker."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-4KKe3WGM&t=113)
- **Loves of a Blonde** (1965) - Miloš Forman - Spine #144 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/246-loves-of-a-blonde) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059415/)
> "Or here it is, Miloš Forman and Loves of a Blonde. We know each other as very young people, we were in the same school. Miloš was the boss of my dormitory being the oldest one. He treated us fair but in a rough manner sometimes. I met him after we made our first films, he made Black Peter and I brought my first film, Identification Marks: None. As a joke, when he had seen me, he put the pose of a boxer and said, 'Are you going now to give it back to me?'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-4KKe3WGM&t=194)
## Jia Zhangke (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6bQdKaRlsw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/807-jia-zhangke-s-closet-picks)
- **La notte** (1961) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #678 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28111-la-notte) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054130/)
> "[Translated] Michelangelo Antonioni's La notte. I remember a line in it: 'Acquaintances are more and more, friends are fewer and fewer.' It should be from this film. In the night, a woman's very complex emotions. I like this kind of wandering."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6bQdKaRlsw&t=35)
- **City Lights** (1931) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #680 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/)
> "[Translated] Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. We did a Charlie Chaplin retrospective at the Pingyao Film Festival. I think his films are rarely seen in contemporary cinema. That kind of pure, cinematic, and charming quality, like a street Performance, that can keep the essence of the street in the film. It's becoming rarer and rarer. Very precious, City Lights."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6bQdKaRlsw&t=59)
- **Good Morning** (1959) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #84 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/624-good-morning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053134/)
> "[Translated] Oh, Good Morning, Yasujirō Ozu. A very rare comedy. Wanting to buy a TV at home, the children's hope. Through two children, it shows the transition period of Japanese society."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6bQdKaRlsw&t=103)
- **Pickpocket** (1959) - Robert Bresson - Spine #314 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/)
> "[Translated] Bresson's Pickpocket. You could say this film is my teacher. My first film, Xiao Wu, is also about a Pickpocket. Two films about pickpockets. But the Pickpocket in my film is not as elegant as this one. He is very elegant."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6bQdKaRlsw&t=123)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "[Translated] Yi. No explanation needed. Put it in."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6bQdKaRlsw&t=151)
- **Roma** (2018) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #1014 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30124-roma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6155172/)
> "[Translated] Roma, Alfonso Cuarón. I like it. I think it's one of my favorite contemporary films. I'll never forget looking through the glass at the riotous streets below. Political violence is just a window away. I like it very much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6bQdKaRlsw&t=10)
## Joachim Trier (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/453-joachim-trier-s-closet-picks)
- **Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters** (1985) - Paul Schrader - Spine #432 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/588-mishima-a-life-in-four-chapters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089603/)
> "Mishima by Paul Schrader. That's one of my all-time favorites. It's made I think 30 years ago. It's about Yukio Mishima, the Japanese writer. And it's a strange blend of almost a documentation of a life blended with art. And I think it's structurally one of the most sophisticated films ever written and shot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=4)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "All That Jazz. Bob Fosse."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=31)
- **High and Low** (1963) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #24 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/543-high-and-low) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057565/)
> "High and Low by Kurosawa. High and Low by Kurosawa to me is like the perfect entertainment film. It's a great chase, three acts, a perfect script, a sense of a film being allowed to be different things yet very developing in its dramaturgy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=36)
- **The Phantom Carriage** (1958) - Arne Mattsson - Spine #579 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27630-the-phantom-carriage) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051836/)
> "Victor Sjöström's The Phantom Carriage. I know this for a fact was on Ingmar Bergman's top 10 list. Swedish silent classic. It's an experimental film again with structure. There's Dreams within Dreams and ghosts within reality and it's very imaginative and it's very ambitious about pushing the silent film into different corners to imagine what cinema could be."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=108)
- **House** (1977) - Sergio Citti - Spine #539 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27523-house) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075815/)
- **White Material** (2010) - Claire Denis - Spine #560 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27559-white-material) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135952/)
> "White Material. Claire Denis. Claire Denis is someone that meant a lot. I think Claire Denis has helped my generation of filmmakers develop a sense of mise-en-scène, her way of using handheld with her cinematographer Agnès Godard has been very inspiring to me and many people I know and this has the lovely Isabelle Huppert who I've been fortunate enough to work with myself in the lead."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=157)
- **Solaris** (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/553-solaris) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/)
> "The master, the master. Okay. I haven't pulled down a Tarkovsky yet, you know."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=185)
- **Heaven’s Gate** (1980) - Michael Cimino - Spine #636 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28036-heaven-s-gate) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080855/)
> "Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate. Goodness, film history is so cruel. I remember having the Guinness Book of World Records as a kid and reading this title Heaven's Gate is like the biggest flop of all time or something. And it's a great film. It's a really great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=195)
- **The Emigrants/The New Land** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1165-the-emigrants-the-new-land)
> "The Jan Troell's, The Emigrants, and The New Land. It's a great film that made me understand something fundamental about America as European."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=81)
- **La Jetée/Sans Soleil** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil)
> "This girl ran away with my copy of La Jetée and Sans Soleil a few years ago and I think I need another copy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=92)
- **The Essential Jacques Demy** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1055-the-essential-jacques-demy)
> "Jacques Demy. I want the box."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=141)
- **4 by Agnès Varda** (4 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8-4-by-agnes-varda)
> "Oh, the Agnès Varda box."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=148)
- **Six Moral Tales** (6 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/417-six-moral-tales)
> "Eric Rohmer box. Eric Rohmer. The fantastic thing about Eric Rohmer is he's so subtle. It's hard to kind of pitch him, which is often the quality of good cinema. It's hard to explain. You got to see it. There's something so seemingly subtle and everyday about his movies, yet they are always very precise in their depiction of humans and their strange endeavors."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3qYnnuGxI&t=215)
## Joanna Hogg (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1BCAKfsoDk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/419-joanna-hogg-s-closet-picks)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "I've been reading about Fellini's 8½ and I don't even know if there's a connection between what I'm doing and 8½ but I find there's something about and I did see 8½ there. That's an amazing edition of it. Just reading about the making of it and the design of it and that sometimes gives me a lot more ideas than actually watching the film itself. I really love that and I think yeah that's gonna have to be another one I take."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1BCAKfsoDk&t=79)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "La strada I haven't seen for a long time. I'd love to have another look at that. I think I'm going through a bit of a Fellini phase."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1BCAKfsoDk&t=122)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "I'm trying to get The Red Shoes out. The Red Shoes is, I don't know, maybe if I had to pick one film above all films, it would be The Red Shoes. This is reassuringly heavy so I think there must be a really good notebook in this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1BCAKfsoDk&t=233)
- **Bad Timing** (1980) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #303 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/744-bad-timing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080408/)
> "Bad Timing I had a look at maybe about a year ago. It's an incredible film talking about editing and rhythm. I think it's for me maybe his best film, if there's such a thing as a best film. I think it's one of his strongest films, more so for me than even Don't Look Now."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1BCAKfsoDk&t=132)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "First All That Jazz which is one of my all-time favorite films. It's wonderful in every way. I mean it's got an incredible sense of rhythm in the way that it's edited, but it's also the musical numbers, it's the fact that it's autobiographical. It's sort of very present in the way for Bob Fosse. I'm going to have to take that. It's just I love it and I don't own the DVD and one of the things that I adore about Criterion DVDs... I love the notebooks that come with the DVDs."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1BCAKfsoDk&t=3)
- **The Age of Innocence** (1993) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #913 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28834-the-age-of-innocence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/)
> "The Age of Innocence, that's another one I'm going to take. The Age of Innocence is The Most Beautiful of Scorsese's films. I mean I love all of Scorsese's films but I particularly like the two films that are not typical of his body of works: The Age of Innocence and also New York, New York, which is one of my favorite musicals."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1BCAKfsoDk&t=157)
## Jodie Foster (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/920-jodie-foster-s-closet-picks)
- **Portrait of a Lady on Fire** (2019) - Céline Sciamma - Spine #1034 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30469-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8613070/)
> "Céline Sciamma’s movie Portrait of a Lady on Fire. An absolutely, deliciously beautiful film. A period movie that couldn’t be more relevant and contemporary. Some people talk about it as being one of the first films to really illustrate what a female gaze would be and would look like. It’s emotional, it’s intelligent, it’s beautiful. A great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=23)
- **Petite maman** (2021) - Céline Sciamma - Spine #1181 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33467-petite-maman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13204490/)
> "She also did Petite maman, which is here. A beautiful film, completely different. Really trying to do very small things. It’s a gorgeous film. These two movies are going in my bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=48)
- **The Piano** (1993) - Jane Campion - Spine #1110 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30424-the-piano) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/)
> "Next: The Piano. One of my favorite movies of all time. Holly Hunter. The score is something that you’ll never forget, this beautiful, lonely piano score that Holly Hunter learned how to play piano to be able to play this incredibly difficult score. It’s a very quiet movie, about a woman who is mute, and so expresses herself and shows herself through her music. Gorgeous movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=64)
- **Visions of Eight** (1973) - Miloš Forman - Spine #1081 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29305-visions-of-eight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070884/)
> "Well, there’s this great movie that was a documentary about the Olympics called Visions of Eight. Mai Zetterling, a Swedish filmmaker, woman director, is in there, but also great filmmakers like Miloš Forman, John Schlesinger, the list goes on. Extraordinary. All looking at the Olympics from their point of view, but also with different categories of the Olympics. That’s definitely going in my box."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=94)
- **Parasite** (2019) - Bong Joon Ho - Spine #1054 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30619-parasite) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/)
> "We got Parasite by Bong Joon Ho, the one that he won the Oscar for and that everybody knows... What I love about his movies is that he manages to bring wry wit and a kind of quirkiness to dark themes... Oh, by the way, we were talking about Parasite. Guess what? There’s a black-and-white version that Bong Joon Ho included in here, which makes me nuts. I can’t wait to see it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=129)
- **La Haine** (1995) - Mathieu Kassovitz - Spine #381 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/216-la-haine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/)
> "La Haine, a movie that I love. I was involved in the film somehow. Honestly, I was not involved creatively in the movie at all. It is a beautiful film made by my friend Mathieu Kassovitz. I was working with him on developing another project with him, he’s also an actor, and he said, “You might want to see the movie that I just made, because, who knows, you might not like it and you might not want to work with me.” And I fell in love with the film. Great Performance by Vincent Cassel when he w..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=186)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "La strada."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=230)
- **The Woman in the Dunes** (1964) - Hiroshi Teshigahara - Spine #394 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/826-woman-in-the-dunes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/)
> "A Japanese movie that I loved called Woman in the Dunes. It is slow and it is absolutely, stunningly beautiful, in black and white. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s a true art film, and every film student should see this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=258)
- **Wings of Desire** (1987) - Wim Wenders - Spine #490 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/200-wings-of-desire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/)
> "We should go to Wings of Desire, Wim Wenders, the great master filmmaker, Bruno Ganz as the angel in his beautiful big, flowy coat on the Brandenburg Gate. An unforgettable film with also a beautiful soundtrack, really says something about... About Germany and about Dreams and love."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=274)
- **Berlin Alexanderplatz** (1980) - Hans-Dieter Hartl - Spine #411 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/839-berlin-alexanderplatz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126409/)
> "Including Berlin Alexanderplatz, which is the TV show that Fassbinder did. Oh, wow. Look, it just appeared in my hand. And look how gorgeous that cover is. I remember my mom and I watching the whole series together."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=309)
- **Three Films by Mai Zetterling** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6324-three-films-by-mai-zetterling)
> "Oh, yeah. And there’s some more movies of Mai Zetterling. We’re going to put those in the box, too, because you have to discover things."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=123)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "Oh, they’ve got a box set, the Essential Fellini. Look how pretty it is. Every movie is more beautiful than the next. Juliet of the Spirits, Satyricon, Roma. The Ship Sails On I love because there’s this gorgeous ship, it’s all painted and it’s just beautiful. This is going to be amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=238)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "You kind of have to get the full John Cassavetes. He really did something different than anybody else has ever done in cinema: create authenticity so that you have this feeling that you’re inside the experience... This box set is a pretty great one. It’s got Faces, it has A Woman Under the Influence, with Gena Rowlands. That was John Cassavetes’s partner, Gena Rowlands."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2fHMqAXO8&t=331)
## Joel Edgerton (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86Fqtb4LNk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/626-joel-edgerton-s-closet-picks)
- **My Life as a Dog** (1985) - Lasse Hallström - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/727-my-life-as-a-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089606/)
> "This film by Lasse Hallström, My Life as a Dog... I actually know the Swedish title of it I think it is Mitt liv som hund... Was very important to me when I was at drama school and as a sort of a coming-of-age story I fell in love with this film and it's really worth watching this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86Fqtb4LNk&t=23)
- **The Hero** (1966) - František Filip - Spine #911 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28449-the-hero) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059289/)
> "Hero by Satyajit Ray I am just taking because I haven't seen it yet and I really want to."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86Fqtb4LNk&t=48)
- **Le Salaire de la peur** (1953) - Henri-Georges Clouzot - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/370-the-wages-of-fear) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/)
> "Wages of Fear this is going in my bag this is one of the most uncomfortable tense films which is what I love I love films that make me feel would make other people feel uncomfortable."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86Fqtb4LNk&t=54)
- **Uncut Gems** (2019) - Benny Safdie - Spine #1101 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31917-uncut-gems) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5727208/)
> "Oh there's Uncut Gems the naughty Safdie Brothers this is just a fantastic movie and I have a copy of it so I'm not going to take it but I'm glad that they're in this very small and very excellent closet."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86Fqtb4LNk&t=103)
- **Man Bites Dog** (1992) - Rémy Belvaux - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/718-man-bites-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/)
> "Oh this I was very excited that I saw a post of this when I walked into the office it's Man Bites Dog deeply disturbing and dark but also very funny a faux documentary about a serial killer."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86Fqtb4LNk&t=120)
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
> "I had seen this film The Bicycle Thief many years ago and I loved it and it really kind of moved me and then recently I became a father and I watched this film again and I think it was specifically because now I am a father this film destroyed me. The little boy in it is one of the greatest child performances of all time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86Fqtb4LNk&t=158)
- **Police Story / Police Story 2** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1554-police-story-police-story-2)
> "Oh one of the great creators of all time Charlie Chaplin Buster Keaton and Jackie Chan."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86Fqtb4LNk&t=15)
- **Michael Haneke: Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6323-michael-haneke-trilogy)
> "One of the other things that I'm very interested to talk about is here Michael Haneke. Caché is one of my favorite Haneke films but it's one that people maybe know more about. There's a film in this Trilogy here, it's just a excellently perfect film in my mind, it's Benny's Video. And if you like being uncomfortable and disturbed I recommend that you seek that out or come to my House because now I have a copy of it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r86Fqtb4LNk&t=70)
## Joel Kim Booster (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GfwsmtLn8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/637-joel-kim-booster-s-closet-picks)
- **The Philadelphia Story** (1940) - George Cukor - Spine #901 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29029-the-philadelphia-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032904/)
> "This one holds a really special place in my heart. This is Philadelphia Story. I grew up, we were a Katharine Hepburn House down when I was growing up and this is one of my favorites. Philadelphia Story felt relevant to me at 9 years old and I think that's sort of the beautiful timelessness of this story and the performances specifically."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GfwsmtLn8&t=16)
- **The Big Chill** (1983) - Lawrence Kasdan - Spine #720 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28610-the-big-chill) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/)
> "The Big Chill, this is the kind of movie that I want to make. Big ensemble relationship drama, the reunion of it all and these characters and the history that they have and the story that it weaves through that history is so fun to watch unfold. If I ever make something that's even as close to this good, I would die a happy man for sure."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GfwsmtLn8&t=52)
- **The Others** (2001) - Alejandro Amenábar - Spine #1195 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33636-the-others) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230600/)
> "This one is I guess kind of newer to the Criterion closet. This is The Others, one of my all-time favorite horror movies. This holds a really special place in my heart because this was the movie that I first held a girl's hand during because she was scared, I was scared. Truly an incredible movie and like the coolest twist endings. Back when I was 13 it really blew my mind."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GfwsmtLn8&t=76)
- **Sound of Metal** (2020) - Darius Marder - Spine #1151 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32169-sound-of-metal) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5363618/)
> "Sound of Metal, such an incredible recent movie. I still feel like a lot of people missed this when it first was released. Such an incredible Performance from Riz Ahmed and he's so hot in this movie. I dyed my hair blonde and people thought it was because I was having a gay midlife Crisis but in fact it was because of the Sound of Metal."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GfwsmtLn8&t=123)
- **Hedwig and the Angry Inch** (2001) - John Cameron Mitchell - Spine #982 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29018-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248845/)
> "This is what I found: Hedwig and the Angry Inch. John Cameron Mitchell, one of my all-time favorite filmmakers and somebody that I definitely draw a huge amount of inspiration from. I had the honor of being his husband in the Hulu show Shrill, which was such a full circle moment for me. Seeing this in here makes me so happy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GfwsmtLn8&t=285)
- **Fa yeung nin wa** (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/198-in-the-mood-for-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/)
> "Couldn't stop in the closet without talking a little bit about Wong Kar-wai. In the Mood for Love is such a, one of his best. I will say this is kind of a placeholder for me for Happy Together. Seeing yourself reflected in that way when you're not used to it, it's a real paradigm-shifting moment. In the Mood for Love certainly, but if you have time check out Happy Together as well please."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GfwsmtLn8&t=203)
- **Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2648-godzilla-the-showa-era-films-1954-1975)
> "I don't even know if this is going to fit in my bag but this Godzilla sort of 15 Kaiju Classics. If you only have time for one I'm definitely going to say Mothra versus Godzilla is my favorite out of this crop. I grew up on these movies. Mothra was my favorite of these films. I think Mothra is, forgive me, gay coded and I think I sensed that as a little boy and I just I love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-GfwsmtLn8&t=155)
## Joel Potrykus (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asVS_TKy5ow) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/806-joel-potrykus-s-closet-picks)
- **Fast Times at Ridgemont High** (1982) - Amy Heckerling - Spine #1075 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30464-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/)
> "This one is just staring at me. Right when I walked in I saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and… I saw this way too young. And I’m probably going to push it on my son way too young. But this… Spicoli is as good as it gets, man."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asVS_TKy5ow&t=68)
- **Equinox** (1970) - Jack Woods - Spine #338 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/780-equinox) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067055/)
> "Equinox. This is another one that maybe I’ll show my son solo someday, because he’s talking about movies and how movies are made and we talk about magic a lot. And this is some homemade magic right here. Maybe his next birthday I’ll give it to him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asVS_TKy5ow&t=85)
- **Scorsese Shorts** (2020) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1030 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30616-scorsese-shorts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12431770/)
> "I see you have Scorsese Shorts here. Big Shave, amazing. You don’t really need a traditional narrative to send a message. Martin Scorsese learned that early on, and we’re all still trying to catch up and figure that out, too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asVS_TKy5ow&t=102)
- **Trainspotting** (1996) - Danny Boyle - Spine #1204 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29627-trainspotting) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/)
> "Trainspotting. It’s energy, that’s all it is. It’s just energy for an hour and a half or two hours. And Danny Boyle’s one of these great filmmakers who… I love filmmakers that have a style or a signature. But Danny Boyle kind of doesn’t do that. He’s like the Ween of filmmakers. He just explores different genres and different styles whenever he wants."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asVS_TKy5ow&t=118)
- **If....** (1968) - Lindsay Anderson - Spine #391 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/825-if) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063850/)
> "Okay. Last one, last one. This is a big one. If.... By Lindsay Anderson. I found this on VHS at Kirvan’s Video in Alpena, Michigan when I was 18. It was in the big bin where they don’t even line them up, they just throw them in a pile in, like, a garbage can, and it was the guy from A Clockwork Orange. It was Malcolm McDowell. And so I got it and it blew my mind because it was, like, angry but also kind of artsy in its own way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asVS_TKy5ow&t=176)
- **Three Films by Luis Buñuel** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3900-three-films-by-luis-bunuel)
> "This is amazing. Three Films by Luis Buñuel. For me, the reason that Buñuel’s films work so effectively is that they don’t look weird. They don’t have that kind of Lynchian, dreamlike cinematography. They look very straightforward, which makes it so much stranger when a family sits around on toilets, talking about politics and things like that, and when they go to the bathroom to eat their dinner. Phantom of Liberty and Discreet Charm, two of my absolute favorite movies ever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asVS_TKy5ow&t=139)
## John Darnielle (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xngHLBEXnE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/521-john-darnielle-s-closet-picks)
- **Original Cast Album: “Company”** (1970) - D. A. Pennebaker - Spine #1090 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30212-original-cast-album-company) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293475/)
> "Stephen Sondheim Company. It's kind of to me Sondheim is most challenging if you're not a person who's already drawn to show tunes. Some of these ones will absolutely make you run screaming if you're an anti-show tunes guy, but then you can sit with it, you'll be very happy you did."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xngHLBEXnE&t=92)
- **Salvatore Giuliano** (1962) - Francesco Rosi - Spine #228 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/687-salvatore-giuliano) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055399/)
> "Salvatore Giuliano, what is this? In July 5th 1950, Sicilian Bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet riddled corpse is found face down in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun rifle by his side. Friend, honestly, if you don't relate to that description immediately with a feeling of extreme desire, you and I are different people."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xngHLBEXnE&t=106)
- **Richard III** (1973) - György Fehér - Spine #213 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/366-richard-iii) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457117/)
> "This is Sir Laurence Olivier doing Richard III. I'm going to take the controversial position that Lawrence Olivier probably does a really good Richard III. I'm a big defender of Shakespeare. These players are astonishing. Olivier, come on now."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xngHLBEXnE&t=126)
- **Kagemusha** (1980) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #267 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/948-kagemusha) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080979/)
> "This is the Shadow Warrior, Kurosawa. He also is one of those great artists who is still trying to find new ways to do what he does in his old age and is embracing Grand themes. Speaking of Shakespeare, he's super Shakespearean, he's very into the big Shakespearean questions of life and how she'll be lived and how do we atone for past actions... I will absolutely watch Kagemusha and so should you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xngHLBEXnE&t=154)
- **Youth of the Beast** (1963) - Seijun Suzuki - Spine #268 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/946-youth-of-the-beast) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057697/)
> "Do I need Youth of the Beast? Oh man, come on, what are you trying to do to me here? When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival Yakuza gangs, Tokyo's Underworld explodes with violence. It's now in my bag, there is room for it, I'm putting it there."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xngHLBEXnE&t=240)
- **The Ballad of Narayama** (1983) - Shōhei Imamura - Spine #645 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28240-the-ballad-of-narayama) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084390/)
> "I'm going to put The Ballad of Narayama there and bid you a good day from the offices of the Criterion Collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xngHLBEXnE&t=252)
- **The Samurai Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/40-the-samurai-trilogy)
> "However on the other hand we have here a thing that says the Samurai Trilogy. Do I really have to explain to you that I'm taking home the Samurai Trilogy? This is Hiroshi Inagaki installing the inevitable Toshiro Mifune, one of the greatest actors of all time. Mifune is the other side of that where you can bring a face to the camera that the camera just naturally can't resist."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xngHLBEXnE&t=62)
- **The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs** (7 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4431-the-signifyin-works-of-marlon-riggs)
> "Let's see here, The Signifying Works of Marlon Riggs. There has never been a filmmaker like Marlon Riggs, unapologetic gay black man who defied a culture of silence and Shame to speak his truth. I'll absolutely be checking that out, that sounds great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xngHLBEXnE&t=185)
- **Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3205-bruce-lee-his-greatest-hits)
> "It's the Bruce Lee collection. I think about Bruce Lee a lot because when I was a child Bruce Lee was known by every kid on my block to be the coolest man alive. My children are Asian American and my younger son when he first saw Bruce Lee was extraordinarily excited to see this guy. You can just watch one of the greatest martial arts artists of all time wailing on dudes and that's what I like so I'm taking Bruce Lee collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xngHLBEXnE&t=201)
## John David Washington and Malcolm Washington (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/768-john-david-washington-and-malcolm-washington-s-closet-picks)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "Dekalog, Dekalog: Five. Maybe the greatest movie I’ve seen. Didn’t know you can make stuff like this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=11)
- **Mirror** (1975) - Jesús Franco - Spine #1084 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28894-mirror) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070396/)
> "And as well as this one. Shout out to Mirror. Tarkovsky, my GOAT."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=17)
- **Menace II Society** (1993) - Albert Hughes - Spine #1105 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31502-menace-ii-society) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107554/)
> "Definitely going with Menace II Society here. Actually, I learned a lot from Allen Hughes. The influence and the importance of sound and music and how it... How it can really change the mood or the scene in a way that I never stopped to think about it before. The drive-thru scene? “A double burger with fries.” Man, had to get it. Me and my cousin, we quote this movie all the time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=23)
- **Drylongso** (1999) - Cauleen Smith - Spine #1190 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31648-drylongso) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181517/)
> "Shout out to Cauleen Smith. I’ve never seen this. So I really wanted to come pick this up, Drylongso."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=55)
- **Irma Vep** (1996) - Olivier Assayas - Spine #1074 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29197-irma-vep) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116650/)
- **Rosetta** (1999) - Jean-Pierre Dardenne - Spine #621 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28056-rosetta) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200071/)
> "But Rosetta. I want to shout out the Dardenne brothers. So, so influential. Kid with a Bike. I think it’s also in this collection. I just bought that as well, so I can’t take it today, but go see this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=66)
- **Black Orpheus** (1959) - Marcel Camus - Spine #48 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/)
> "Have you seen Black Orpheus? No, I haven’t seen it. Okay, you got to watch Black Orpheus. It’s spiritual, it’s so moving. And just really, really, really beautiful imagery. You gotta see Black Orpheus."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=78)
- **The Underground Railroad** (2021) - Sanjit Majumdar - Spine #1223 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34073-the-underground-railroad) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1521758/)
> "Barry cooked with this one. He did his big one with this one. Shout out Onnalee Blank. The sound? Crazy. Shout out Nick Britell. All these guys. They went wild with this one. Underground, if you haven’t seen it, watch it. This is newer to the Collection. But somebody go buy this, support them, because this was incredible, incredible, incredible work."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=92)
- **Faces** (1968) - John Cassavetes - Spine #252 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/915-faces) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062952/)
> "Oh, here we go to... This one I was looking for. So just, I mean, shout out to Cassavetes. Faces. This and Opening Night are just ones I really... I really connect to. Just from how he captured performances, you know. It’s very inspiring to know, like, you could be that naturalistic and it could be useful. The way they edit together– I’m thinking about continuity. Like, it must have been a nightmare to edit together. But they did it. This one of my faves."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=111)
- **Malcolm X** (1992) - Spike Lee - Spine #1160 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33245-malcolm-x) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/)
> "Right here, talking about this right here. Yeah. I feel like I own every format of this. We need more Spike in the catalog. Malcolm X is the greatest achievement in American filmmaking I’ve ever seen. So many incredible artists putting incredible work up. Big Zel, of course. He killed it. Angela Bassett, Ernest Dickerson, Terence Blanchard with one of the greatest scores. That brass and that... And Spike. Spike, Spike, Spike, Spike is forever on the pantheon."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=204)
- **Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai** (1999) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #1057 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31032-ghost-dog-the-way-of-the-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/)
> "I see Ghost Dog. It’s right here. Ghost Dog, Jim Jarmusch. Appreciate it, appreciate it. Yeah, the braids. Popping. “What is it? The braids?”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=278)
- **The Essential Jacques Demy** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1055-the-essential-jacques-demy)
> "I’m showing love to Jacques Demy. You can’t talk about Jacques without talking about Ms. Varda. Yeah! One of the great film love stories. These two incredible artists. One thing I love about film is the dialog between artists, and not only between each other. Michel Legrand tying them together in so many ways. But if you look at Umbrellas of Cherbourg and you look at Do the Right Thing, you see artists in dialog. So, French New Wave is coming in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=142)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "You can’t talk about Jacques without talking about Ms. Varda. Yeah! One of the great film love stories. These two incredible artists. One thing I love about film is the dialog between artists, and not only between each other. Michel Legrand tying them together in so many ways."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=146)
- **Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6970-jackie-chan-emergence-of-a-superstar)
> "Jackie Chan box set, you know what I’m saying? Because he also has a language of physicality. First film I ever saw was Rumble in the Bronx. In fact, my dad took me. And I remember my father... He was making all kinds of noises in the movie theater, he was going crazy. And I knew I was seeing something different. The way he opened up that fridge and beat people up with a fridge, refrigerator. Just... Stunt extraordinaire. And I think underrated performer, actually, an actor. Period."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tc0JZz6hFM&t=174)
## John Dwyer (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sFEPf61_g) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/433-john-dwyer-s-closet-picks)
- **Naked Lunch** (1991) - David Cronenberg - Spine #220 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/634-naked-lunch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/)
> "This obviously fantastic Naked Lunch howard shore or ornette coleman soundtrack david cronenberg burroughs this is a full package..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sFEPf61_g&t=6)
- **Grey Gardens** (1976) - Ellen Giffard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/664-grey-gardens) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073076/)
> "Okay Grey Gardens this is a perfect example of kind of where I grew up like these ladies remind me of women in my family not just with like the sort of new england northeast quality but also the family versus family and slight lovable insanity..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sFEPf61_g&t=16)
- **Repo Man** (1984) - Alex Cox - Spine #654 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28051-repo-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/)
> "Oh and then of course one of my favorite films of all time and I'm so glad I actually looked online to make sure you guys had done this before I came here because Repo Man harry dean stanton amphetamines emilio estevez punk rock this is a great flick..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sFEPf61_g&t=39)
- **Odd Man Out** (1947) - Carol Reed - Spine #754 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28173-odd-man-out) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039677/)
> "Is this graham greene Odd Man Out carol reed's fantastic really like anybody that would put orson welles in a movie and have him do the orson welles rule where you talk about the bad guy for the whole movie and then meet him in the last like 30 minutes of the movie it's like a real payoff kind of thing but they're like you know so I felt like carol reed always came from the same school of cinema as orson welles and they worked really well together and this is a great flick too..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sFEPf61_g&t=56)
- **The Manchurian Candidate** (1962) - John Frankenheimer - Spine #803 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28784-the-manchurian-candidate) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/)
> "This movie is upsettingly good I make my girlfriend watch movies with me constantly... But this was one of the movies that I think made it all worth it... She was like that's a great movie... Every now and then I'm like to get her to watch a movie I'd be like it's frankenheimer... This made me dig into all of sinatra's other films as well... This was his finest work like frankenheimer really got a great Performance out of him and I already own this but this movie is perfect..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sFEPf61_g&t=92)
- **True Stories** (1986) - David Byrne - Spine #951 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29038-true-stories) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092117/)
> "Fantastic david byrne True Stories great music great movie I just the talking heads sort of started in my hometown I'm from providence rhode island... Now I love the talking heads and I have a little point of pride so I've been buying all this stuff and I bought this is fantastic and you know I've just saw david byrne play recently and he was great and I can't say enough good stuff..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sFEPf61_g&t=221)
- **Night of the Living Dead** (1968) - George A. Romero - Spine #909 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29331-night-of-the-living-dead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/)
> "This is one of the ones that I actually came in totally in love with this flick when I was a kid this was probably one of the first black and white movies I saw I'm a huge horror fan and it kind of blew my mind that somebody Night of the Living Dead... This movie was the first black and white film I saw that actually kind of like kicked open the door... I just love everything George A. Romero does... It's a statement about civil rights and war and also happens to just be a zombie flick..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_sFEPf61_g&t=133)
## John Lithgow (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1zBg40eJ4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/773-john-lithgow-s-closet-picks)
- **Sullivan's Travels** (1941) - Preston Sturges - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/657-sullivan-s-travels) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/)
> "This is Sullivan’s Travels by Preston Sturges. He was a kind of preppy Yale man who became this genius at making people laugh. But there was always something more than just laughter in it. Joel McCrea was one of his favorite leading men. He is Preston Sturges’s alter ego, a man who wants to make great films, great, great, stirring films about great humanity and torment and trials and tribulations and triumph. But he, ultimately, because he subjects himself to trials and tribulations, he disco..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1zBg40eJ4&t=16)
- **This Sporting Life** (1963) - Lindsay Anderson - Spine #417 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/853-this-sporting-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057578/)
> "This Sporting Life is a great example of the ‘kitchen sink’ school of gritty, kind of groundbreaking movie-making in the ’60s in England. The grittiest of all is This Sporting Life with Richard Harris, probably his greatest Performance, as a rugby player. The reason I picked it is it’s a huge part of my life. I played a role in it when its American premiere took place on Broadway, The Changing Room, when I was 27 years old. It was my Broadway debut. I won a Tony Award for it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1zBg40eJ4&t=58)
- **The Spy Who Came in from the Cold** (1965) - Martin Ritt - Spine #452 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/860-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059749/)
> "This is this kind of overlooked and great, great film, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, based on one of John le Carré’s earlier George Smiley detective novels. Smiley is actually a very small part in the film. The big part is played by Richard Burton. Absolutely heartbreaking. It’s so moving. And brilliantly played by Burton. I think one of his best film performances, especially when he pretends to be a drunkard. Watch for that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1zBg40eJ4&t=118)
- **Blow Out** (1986) - Don Hoffman - Spine #562 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27561-blow-out)
> "I had to include at least something that I was actually in. And this was the second of three films I did with the great master of the macabre, Brian De Palma. John Travolta and Nancy Allen and me in Blow Out. It’s all about a sound man who finds a little scrap of sound that he’s recorded that unwinds this very elaborate sort of Secret Service undercover crime. And I am the criminal in this case. It’s really a masterful, wonderful film that makes you think differently about movie sound."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1zBg40eJ4&t=154)
- **The Lady Vanishes** (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock - Spine #3 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/358-the-lady-vanishes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030341/)
> "Alfred Hitchcock. Of course I need to include Alfred Hitchcock. With my last pick, I would add Lady Vanishes. I don’t think he ever topped the skill, and the... Just the sheer joy of making people hold their breath through suspense. The Lady Vanishes. And this is the gentleman vanishes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1zBg40eJ4&t=276)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "Here’s an entire anthology of the complete films of Jacques Tati. He’s one of my great comedy heroes, mainly because he and I are both ridiculously tall. A good deal of 3rd Rock from the Sun was stolen straight from either John Cleese or Jacques Tati. Of this group, the great classic to me is Mon Oncle. He just takes his time setting up a comedy sequence. It can take five minutes to build to this astounding payoff. And it’s a lesson in comedy. So that belongs here too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on1zBg40eJ4&t=220)
## John Sayles (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4SrBi2bYiM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/429-john-sayles-s-closet-picks)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "This was a kind of mind-blowing movie when I first saw it. Anthony Quinn was a film actor from much more mainstream movies than I had ever seen, so it was interesting to see him. There's this really kind of stark story, very human, that Fellini made. There were a whole bunch of directors who I started tracking down their stuff—Mario Monicelli being one of them, and Ermanno Olmi, and certainly De Sica and Zavattini's movies were ones that I started tracking down."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4SrBi2bYiM&t=33)
- **The Organizer** (2017) - Nick Taylor - Spine #610 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27612-the-organizer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6089594/)
> "This is a Mario Monicelli movie called The Organizer with Marcello Mastroianni. It's one of his greatest performances. It's set in the industrial north of Italy when unions were a pretty new idea up there. A wonderful cast... He was very good at what I eventually figured out was Italian regional humor, so there's usually some Roman who's full of himself dealing with some Neapolitan or some Sicilian and making wisecracks based on how awful each other's region is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4SrBi2bYiM&t=86)
- **His Girl Friday** (1940) - Howard Hawks - Spine #849 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27903-his-girl-friday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/)
> "This is a movie, His Girl Friday, that I had not seen many of these except on TV. These kind of fast-talking comedies... This is based on a play that Ben Hecht was one of the writers for. This is one of those dialogue-driven movies where the dialogue is so good that you forget the filmmaking's actually pretty good too. This is Howard Hawks and he was one of the first American directors to really capture that people often talked at the same time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4SrBi2bYiM&t=204)
- **State of Siege** (1978) - Vincent Ward - Spine #760 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28048-state-of-siege) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0872337/)
> "This is State of Siege. You know, I saw this, I had seen Z first. This is a movie in a very, very political time. You could actually, if you weren't an American, get away with making a very political movie. This was a filmmaker who had really a lot of political analysis about what was going on in the country but managed to make these thrillers. When we shot our movie Men with Guns, we didn't shoot in Guatemala... So we shot it in Mexico across the border."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4SrBi2bYiM&t=131)
## John Waters’ (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=std013XVxSk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/422-john-waters-closet-picks)
- **The Blob** (1958) - Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. - Spine #91 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/630-the-blob) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/)
- **Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me** (1992) - David Lynch - Spine #898 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29237-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105665/)
- **The Honeymoon Killers** (1970) - Leonard Kastle - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/582-the-honeymoon-killers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064437/)
- **Beyond the Valley of the Dolls** (1970) - Russ Meyer - Spine #836 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28120-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466/)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
## Johnnie To (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZvmngLfBI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/746-johnnie-to-s-closet-picks)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "[Translated] Wow, this is a classic. For filmmakers, especially those studying film in university, if you haven't seen Dekalog, I think it's a big loss. I learned a lot from it. This is a great director, Krzysztof Kieślowski."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZvmngLfBI&t=101)
- **Harakiri** (1962) - Masaki Kobayashi - Spine #302 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/743-harakiri) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056058/)
> "[Translated] This is even better. This is also a black and white film, I remember. It's called Harakiri. Among Japanese films, besides Akira Kurosawa, my favorite is director Masaki Kobayashi. This film is truly chilling. After watching it, you feel a chill. Those who haven't seen it must watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZvmngLfBI&t=153)
- **Stray Dog** (1971) - Sam Peckinpah - Spine #233 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/730-straw-dogs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/)
> "[Translated] This is great. I don't need to say what this is. This is powerful. This is a Sam Peckinpah film. This film is a classic of classics. I think when I saw it in the 70s, it made me start to like films and start to have a pursuit in films because of this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZvmngLfBI&t=221)
- **Raging Bull** (1980) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1134 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29158-raging-bull) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/)
> "[Translated] Raging Bull, Raging Bull. I'll take this too. I've chosen mostly black and white films. Why did I choose so many black and white films? I'll make a black and white film one day."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZvmngLfBI&t=319)
- **Scorsese Shorts** (2020) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1030 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30616-scorsese-shorts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12431770/)
> "[Translated] Martin Scorsese. And the Martin Scorsese... I haven't seen this one, I've never seen this one. I must watch this when I go back. This is my favorite director. He's God. He's my teacher, my teacher."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZvmngLfBI&t=336)
- **Three Colors** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/844-three-colors)
> "[Translated] This is very famous. It was a big surprise for me at the time. Three Colors: Red, White, Blue. I highly recommend this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZvmngLfBI&t=131)
- **Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/952-eclipse-series-38-masaki-kobayashi-against-the-system)
- **Roma** (2018) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #1014 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30124-roma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6155172/)
> "[Translated] I saw this film, Roma. I don't know why I suddenly went to the theater to see it, but I felt so happy. After watching it, I felt the emotions between people, you never know when you'll pay the highest price. This film is in black and white, it's very good. I'll take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGZvmngLfBI&t=31)
## Joseph Kosinski (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6bjKyJYDc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/859-joseph-kosinski-s-closet-picks)
- **L’avventura** (1960) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #98 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/209-l-avventura) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053619/)
> "L’avventura. Michelangelo Antonioni. You know, I think he shoots spaces and architecture in a very unique way. You definitely have to be in a mood to watch an Antonioni movie. But if you are, it can be hypnotic. This has a banger of a score by Fusco, I think his name is. It’s one of those tracks that, once you get it in your head, it’s hard to get out, so that will be pick number one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6bjKyJYDc&t=8)
- **Breathless** (1960) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #408 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/268-breathless) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/)
> "Breathless. I’m sure it’s chosen a lot in this closet. The reason I’m choosing it is because there’s a section in this film that makes me a little homesick. Jean Seberg is from my hometown of Marshalltown, Iowa. So when she says “New York Herald Tribune” in this film, I think one of the few English lines in it, she says it with that very flat Midwest accent that I recognize because we’re from the same town. So, I’m going to put that one in my bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6bjKyJYDc&t=41)
- **Le Samouraï** (1967) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #306 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/184-le-samourai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/)
> "Next one: Le Samouraï. Alain Delon, one of the coolest guys ever on film. This is probably the one I’ve seen most recently at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, who run it every few years. Took my 15-year-old son to see it, and I’m happy to report that he enjoyed it as well. You’re never sure about that when you’re showing your kids something that you love, but incredible film. If you don’t know it, worth checking out. And huge influence, I think, on any director that’s making a thriller."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6bjKyJYDc&t=77)
- **The Parallax View** (1974) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #1064 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30204-the-parallax-view) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071970/)
> "Okay, one of my all-time favorite directors, Alan J. Pakula, The Parallax View. This film was made in 1974, the year I was born. Alan J. Pakula had three incredible films in a row: Klute, this, and one of my top ten of all time, All the President’s Men. All shot with Gordon Willis. And just incredible compositions, incredible lighting. I have no notes. This is a great paranoid thriller and one of my favorites."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6bjKyJYDc&t=111)
- **The Game** (1997) - David Fincher - Spine #627 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28058-the-game) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/)
> "The Game by David Fincher. You know, I owe him a lot. He gave me my first kind of big job in Hollywood. When Zodiac was greenlit, he was unable to do a commercial that he had booked for a game called Gears of War. And he handed that job off to me. And it was my first big commercial and helped me kind of kick off my career. So I owe David a lot for that. And interestingly enough, the gaffer on this movie was one Claudio Miranda, who I’ve now made six films with."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6bjKyJYDc&t=147)
- **Elevator to the Gallows** (1958) - Louis Malle - Spine #335 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/778-elevator-to-the-gallows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051378/)
> "I’m going to pick Elevator to the Gallows. The soundtrack for this was done live to picture by Miles Davis. I’m a huge jazz fan and the soundtrack to this is glorious, so that’s going to be my final pick."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-6bjKyJYDc&t=184)
## Josh Brolin (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdeJX23RHw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/869-josh-brolin-s-closet-picks)
- **Mikey and Nicky** (1976) - Elaine May - Spine #957 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27895-mikey-and-nicky) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074901/)
> "Cassavetes and Peter Falk. This is Mikey and Nicky. This is a film by Elaine May. It’s a film that I love. I’ve seen many times. And there’s something about Cassavetes’s Performance. Cassavetes as a great filmmaker. A Woman Under the Influence, and all his other films, Shadows, Faces, Gloria, I’m a big fan of. And Peter Falk is just flawless."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdeJX23RHw&t=15)
- **Trafic** (2000) - Aurora Martínez - Spine #439 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/381-traffic)
> "Traffic. My dad’s in Traffic. My dad has one scene in Traffic and my dad was complaining that he only had one scene in a movie. And I saw this movie, and I called him and I said, “Do you know how lucky you are to be in Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic?” A non-linear style, I don’t know, there’s something about the anecdotes of looking back and connecting different points in your life and seeing where they intersect, and creating a whole narrative out of that. And Traffic is brilliantly done."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdeJX23RHw&t=48)
- **Lost Highway** (1997) - David Lynch - Spine #1152 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31590-lost-highway) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922/)
> "Lost Highway. Now it’s getting fun. I mean, all kind of strange, absurd movies, but David Lynch’s Lost Highway. Patricia Arquette, who, when I saw True Romance for the first time, I was so blown away by what she did and how raw she was. Lost Highway’s another movie that turned me on to David Lynch and where I ultimately saw The Elephant Man, which I think is close to, at least for me, the perfect film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdeJX23RHw&t=80)
- **Repo Man** (1984) - Alex Cox - Spine #654 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28051-repo-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/)
> "Repo Man. I mean, Alex Cox. With… God, who’s in it? Was it Emilio Estevez? Harry Dean Stanton? Yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdeJX23RHw&t=111)
- **Sid & Nancy** (1986) - Alex Cox - Spine #20 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/535-sid-nancy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091954/)
> "Another film by Alex Cox, which is Sid & Nancy. Both performances were incredible, but this is Roger Deakins, who I ended up working with five times and has become a close friend, and this was the beginning for him. And I remember there was a great sequence of the trash falling down in this alleyway, this slow-motion sequence, and it’s never left me since the first time I saw it. And I saw it fairly early on. I might have even seen it when it came out. I don’t know, what year was it? I was 18..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdeJX23RHw&t=124)
- **Drugstore Cowboy** (1989) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #1251 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34208-drugstore-cowboy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097240/)
> "Drugstore Cowboy, Gus Van Sant, who I ended up doing Milk with. But Drugstore Cowboy, Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch. Again, just pared down something that, when you’re this idea of a writer or a poet, or you want to perceive yourself as that, you see movies like this because you’re like, “This is visual poetry. This is the poetry of filmmaking that I want to be associated with.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdeJX23RHw&t=171)
- **No Country for Old Men** (2007) - Joel Coen - Spine #1243 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29429-no-country-for-old-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/)
> "I did see a movie down here that I haven’t watched for a while, but I think is a very solid film, and that’s the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. It was one of the greatest experiences of my life, because we had fun. I don’t know if Javier had fun. I had fun. And I made Javier have fun. And it started my friendships with both Joel and Ethan Coen... And that’s what No Country for Old Men did for me, as a film lover."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdeJX23RHw&t=198)
## JR (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5R5ydQZEPA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/725-jr-s-closet-picks)
- **Amores perros** (2000) - Alejandro González Iñárritu - Spine #1060 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30908-amores-perros) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/)
> "Cassavetes, Amores perros, Iñárritu."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5R5ydQZEPA&t=75)
- **WALL•E** (2008) - Andrew Stanton - Spine #1161 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33246-wall-e) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/)
> "WALL·E. Magic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5R5ydQZEPA&t=84)
- **Mean Streets** (1973) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1198 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29024-mean-streets) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/)
> "Mean Streets is also my neighborhood where I live in New York since 14 years. Later on I started working with Robert De Niro and walking those streets with him and understanding where I live of a neighborhood that I have only known since it's already hype and not what it used to be. Seeing it through his eyes, it's something that really moved me and I never look at the neighborhood the same way. So that's something I have to take."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5R5ydQZEPA&t=85)
- **La Haine** (1995) - Mathieu Kassovitz - Spine #381 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/216-la-haine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/)
> "Mathieu Kassovitz. Because I didn't grew up learning about movies much. I think I was just, you know, watching TV and knowing about, you know, just classic blockbusters. And so I saw that on television one day when I was 14 or 13. And it really like moved me because it was the world I knew, but at the same time it was in an approach black and white. And there was an artistic approach that hit me. And at the same time I had never thought of being an artist. And you know..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5R5ydQZEPA&t=154)
- **The Innocents** (2008) - Bill Viola - Spine #727 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33649-the-innocent)
> "Louis Garrel, my best friend but also one of amazing actor and director and this movie The Innocent is incredible, maybe his best. He got also a lot of success for it so he doesn't need me to say it but it's really like if you haven't seen it, so I have to take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5R5ydQZEPA&t=208)
- **EO** (2022) - Kam Ka-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33481-eo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14113678/)
> "And this one also a incredible film that really when you think you've seen everything or you know how to could be told, this one of the point of view of a donkey will really blow your mind."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5R5ydQZEPA&t=231)
- **Roma** (2018) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #1014 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30124-roma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6155172/)
> "Roma from Alfonso Cuarón. Roma is a masterpiece. It's just, I don't know what to say, it's just every frame is such a beauty. The story, the depth, all of it. It's just one of my favorite movie ever. Director approved, so have to take this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5R5ydQZEPA&t=246)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "The box of Agnès is right here and I have the chance to be on it with Faces Places. But to be honest in there's everything. One that I love from 1975, Daguerréotypes. It's an incredible documentary about a Paris of a time that disappeared but about also love stories and I don't know it's just incredible so of course I have to get this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5R5ydQZEPA&t=26)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "Cassavetes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5R5ydQZEPA&t=75)
## Judd Apatow (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/865-judd-apatow-s-closet-picks)
- **George Washington** (2000) - David Gordon Green - Spine #152 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/691-george-washington) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262432/)
> "George Washington. The great David Gordon Green, who directed Pineapple Express. I remember watching this. We were trying to decide if he would be a good director for Pineapple Express, and then he crushed it. I love this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=18)
- **Fast Times at Ridgemont High** (1982) - Amy Heckerling - Spine #1075 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30464-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/)
> "Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Cameron Crowe, Amy Heckerling. I feel like everything I’ve ever done is deeply influenced by this movie, because it was really funny and very real and stands the test of time. Judge Reinhold forever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=61)
- **Defending Your Life** (1991) - Albert Brooks - Spine #1071 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29634-defending-your-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/)
> "Defending Your Life, director-approved edition. Albert Brooks. Is there a comedy better than this? I don’t think so. This is as good as you can get. Hey, Albert, I plugged it for you. Just… notice. I plugged it. I got you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=82)
- **Original Cast Album: “Company”** (1970) - D. A. Pennebaker - Spine #1090 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30212-original-cast-album-company) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293475/)
> "Company. Them recording the soundtrack to Company. What is more fun than that? Elaine Stritch getting pissed off because she can’t sing it well enough. Then she comes back the next day and she crushes it. Dean Jones, “Being Alive.” Can’t go wrong here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=101)
- **Tootsie** (1982) - Sydney Pollack - Spine #738 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28609-tootsie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084805/)
> "This is a great one: Tootsie. Come on, Sydney Pollack. And... Who wrote it? Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal. And I guess they all fought a lot about the script. And there’s an incredible commentary track on here that years ago I only had on LaserDisc, and now it’s back, where they explain exactly how they wrote it. So if you’re a screenwriter, this is, like, the good one to learn how to do it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=118)
- **The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou** (2004) - Wes Anderson - Spine #300 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/741-the-life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362270/)
> "Wes Anderson. The Life Aquatic. I have a soft place in my heart for this movie. I cried when you saw the fish. Fully cried. That was one of my biggest movie cries. The big fish reveal."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=146)
- **The Age of Innocence** (1993) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #913 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28834-the-age-of-innocence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/)
> "Another blind… The Age of Innocence, Martin Scorsese. Very romantic, very subtle. Just, like, a touch of a pinkie against a pinkie is, like, the hottest part of it. It shows restraint. I don’t know how to show restraint. I know how to show people pee with a boner. I don’t know how to be this subtle. But maybe this is what I’m going to learn from this: subtlety."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=177)
- **Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio** (2022) - Mark Gustafson - Spine #1201 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33828-guillermo-del-toro-s-pinocchio) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1488589/)
> "Oh, man. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. Have you seen this? If you haven’t, you need to. This movie is gorgeous and amazing. And now he’s doing Frankenstein. How come I don’t do any of the monsters? No one’s ever offered me a monster. I think people don’t think I can do stuff like that, but I might surprise you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=200)
- **Fa yeung nin wa** (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/198-in-the-mood-for-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/)
> "This is a movie I need to see. And then you’re going to see my next movie and you’re going to go, “Man, he certainly got influenced by In the Mood for Love. It has a real taste of it.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=164)
- **Kameradschaft** (1931) - G.W. Pabst - Spine #908 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28184-kameradschaft) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022017/)
> "Kamer... Kameradschaft. Yeah, “When a coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France and traps a team of French miners, workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.” That’s good. This is going to help me learn how to direct action."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=233)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "John Cassavetes: Five Films. And it also has this, like, insanely long documentary in it. It’s, like, three or four hours. And I used to watch this all the time as a way to gird myself for notes on scripts from entities that didn’t understand it. And I would think, “John Cassavetes would fight that note.” And then they’d yell at me and I’d give in."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnzdSo4vkck&t=35)
## Jude Law (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVdefw0skK0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/684-jude-law-s-closet-picks)
- **Stalker** (1979) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #888 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28150-stalker) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/)
> "I was hoping I would find a Tarkovsky so Stalker, I think Stalker was my introduction to Andrei Tarkovsky. It was my discovery of stillness in film, and Andrei Rublev of course, but that's a real favorite of mine and I haven't seen it in years so I'm happy to have found it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVdefw0skK0&t=31)
- **Purple Noon** (1960) - René Clément - Spine #637 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27810-purple-noon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054189/)
> "This holds a very special place in my heart, Purple Noon or Plein Soleil, which was the first realization of The Talented Mr. Ripley. I was recommended this by Anthony Minghella. It's very different to the Talented Mr. Ripley that I made with Minghella. If anything, to choose Delon to play Ripley himself, and they don't change it from the book that he's a painter in the film, what I did we made him a musician. It's got lots of twists and turns, the same color blue in the sea as our one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVdefw0skK0&t=54)
- **Le Salaire de la peur** (1953) - Henri-Georges Clouzot - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/370-the-wages-of-fear) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/)
> "This is a wonderful film. I was turned onto this by another filmmaker who wanted me to see it as inspiration for a film I made with him, The Wages of Fear. This film is about men in desperate, desperate situations who will do anything for money, anything to survive, and they go on the darkest, most dangerous journey and it's just brilliant. It's moving and incredibly, shamefully I don't know any of these other films but this one is brilliant."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVdefw0skK0&t=104)
- **Local Hero** (1983) - Bill Forsyth - Spine #994 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28709-local-hero) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/)
> "Oh this is an interesting film. I remember seeing this in the '80s, my mom showed me this, Local Hero. It was an interesting time, this and My Beautiful Laundrette were two films I remember seeing. This felt very much on my doorstep, it felt like a Britain that I knew, set in Scotland. And then this incredible Performance at the end by Burt Lancaster who shows up like a knight in shining armor. That's a wonderful film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVdefw0skK0&t=150)
- **Mona Lisa** (null) - Veselka Kuncheva - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/648-mona-lisa)
> "This was a film that introduced me to Bob Hoskins who I luckily got to work with, Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa, which again at a very formative time in my life showed a side of London that I sort of saw and felt around me but hadn't necessarily seen on film. Bob Hoskins demonstrating his brilliant ability to be incredibly tough and yet with this incredible heart of gold. Kathy Tyson gives a great Performance and there's a great supporting role by Michael Caine."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVdefw0skK0&t=194)
- **The Night of the Hunter** (1955) - Charles Laughton - Spine #541 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/)
> "One of my favorite films. This film really has stuck with me since being shown it by my mom when I was gosh, very young, maybe 12 or 13, The Night of the Hunter. It's a fable, it's a terrifying nursery rhyme that literally by the end halfway through sort of dips into the fantasy of a child. The most incredible Performance of Robert Mitchum. One image that always sticks to my mind is him going into a strip joint, puts his hand in his pocket and his flick knife appears through his trousers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVdefw0skK0&t=240)
## Julia Fox (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuxEu2EoFI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/788-julia-fox-s-closet-picks)
- **All About My Mother** (1999) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #1012 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29569-all-about-my-mother) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185125/)
> "! All About My Mother. Okay, so I had an advisor in high school. She lent me a box set of all his movies. Why am I crying over Pedro Almodóvar? I love Pedro Almodóvar. But I had never seen unconventional beauty, or beauty that was not the norm, be so propped up and made to be so beautiful, like the large noses and the interesting Faces, and it just really, like, changed my life. Definitely gonna take that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuxEu2EoFI&t=182)
- **The Virgin Suicides** (2000) - Sofia Coppola - Spine #920 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29336-the-virgin-suicides) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159097/)
> "Oh my gosh. This film, The Virgin Suicides. I actually grew up above a video store, and, when this film came out, I was probably like 11 years old and I rented it, and then I went on to rent it, like, once a week for the entire year, to the point where my dad was like, 'Are you okay?' You know, being a girl is hard, and sometimes it’s hard to even explain why. And this film did that. It’s going in the briefcase."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuxEu2EoFI&t=13)
- **Grey Gardens** (1976) - Ellen Giffard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/664-grey-gardens) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073076/)
> "Oh my gosh, Grey Gardens. I feel like she is such a fashion reference for me. I love the head wrappings and the jewelry, the fur coats. I love how she was still so glamorous. Even though she lived in squalor, she still was able to find little unique things to still make herself feel beautiful and glamorous. And I feel like she’s just a great example of the resilience of women. I feel like little Edie was definitely that. Also my aunt and my grandma were very much giving this vibe."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuxEu2EoFI&t=72)
- **Ugetsu** (1953) - Kenji Mizoguchi - Spine #309 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/369-ugetsu) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/)
> "Ugetsu. Oh, a Japanese ghost story."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuxEu2EoFI&t=296)
- **Tiny Furniture** (2010) - Lena Dunham - Spine #597 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28317-tiny-furniture) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570989/)
> "Tiny Furniture. This was Lena Dunham’s first film that put her on the map. This was really a big deal for the New York girls. I feel like she really captured that feeling of you go to college, have all these Dreams, think you’re going to get this job, and then really nothing happens. And you feel like you come home and everyone’s moved on without you. And she really captured that millennial trauma of like, 'Wait, I was promised all this stuff. I did everything right.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuxEu2EoFI&t=117)
- **A Face in the Crowd** (1957) - Elia Kazan - Spine #970 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28703-a-face-in-the-crowd) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/)
> "Oh, A Face in the Crowd. Yeah, Elia Kazan directed it. He’s an amazing director. But I love this. The woman who discovers this man, and then he turns out to be… She gives him fame, she opens these doors for him, and then he turns out to be not such a great guy. And that’s a tough position to be in. But definitely such an interesting story. I absolutely love this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbuxEu2EoFI&t=47)
## Julia Garner (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB1e2aV4Vo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/786-julia-garner-s-closet-picks)
- **All About Eve** (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Spine #1003 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29596-all-about-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/)
> "So the first film that I’m gonna pick is my favorite film, All About Eve. Bette Davis is incredible. Anne Baxter, who plays Eve Harrington, is incredible. I watch this movie at least once a year, sometimes multiple times a year. I just think this is a perfect film, and I think everybody should watch this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB1e2aV4Vo&t=6)
- **Shampoo** (1975) - Hal Ashby - Spine #947 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28821-shampoo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073692/)
> "Shampoo. I love this movie. Again, also has to do with the business, I guess. But LA really hasn’t changed. Like, at all. Los Angeles has not changed. Hollywood hasn’t changed. I mean, you have this and this, and you see how times change, but people don’t change. And I feel like this movie really represents that. And the three of them are just… their chemistry’s incredible. So, Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, and Julie Christie’s amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB1e2aV4Vo&t=37)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee. I’m from New York, and I feel like this really captures New York and the grit of New York, but also how beautiful it is and just the people. This movie always makes me emotional. I just love this film so much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB1e2aV4Vo&t=68)
- **Parasite** (2019) - Bong Joon Ho - Spine #1054 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30619-parasite) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/)
> "Parasite. I love the twists and turns. I love that it has to do with family dynamics. There’s a lot of layers to this, and I did not expect it to go the way that it did. So I love, love, love this film. It’s one of my favorite films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB1e2aV4Vo&t=87)
- **The Princess Bride** (1987) - Rob Reiner - Spine #948 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29368-the-princess-bride) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/)
> "Also I couldn’t forget The Princess Bride. I love this movie. Also this is a very cool DVD case. So I’m very excited to bring this home."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB1e2aV4Vo&t=160)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "We turned the camera back on because I love Wanda. This is a great film. I’m gonna take this too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB1e2aV4Vo&t=168)
- **Lars von Trier's Europe Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6344-lars-von-trier-s-europe-trilogy)
> "I’m a huge Lars von Trier fan. Super dark. And I’m just… Yeah, these are his earlier films. This is the Europe Trilogy, which I’m really excited about."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB1e2aV4Vo&t=105)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "This has to end with Cassavetes. I feel like... All About Eve and Cassavetes films were the main reason why I wanted to become an actor in the first place. Woman Under the Influence is one of my favorite films. Opening Night as well. And he was a great actor as well. I love Husbands. And, to me, he was a pioneer of independent– American independent cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsB1e2aV4Vo&t=120)
## Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/765-juliette-binoche-and-ralph-fiennes-s-closet-picks)
- **Down by Law** (1986) - Jim Jarmusch - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/)
> "Jim Jarmusch. I don’t have that. I don’t know it. It’s great. I love his work. Down by Law. I know of it. I’ve never seen it. Oh, this is great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=23)
- **The Magnificent Ambersons** (1942) - Orson Welles - Spine #952 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28711-the-magnificent-ambersons) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035015/)
> "This I’ve never seen. I’ve seen Citizen Kane. I’ve never seen Magnificent Ambersons, to my Shame. It’s... In the bag. In the bag, yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=33)
- **Amores perros** (2000) - Alejandro González Iñárritu - Spine #1060 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30908-amores-perros) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/)
> "Have you seen Amores perros? Can I put it in your bag? Oh, yeah! With the dogs. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I’ve seen it, but I’m happy to have it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=42)
- **The Furies** (2019) - Tony D'Aquino - Spine #435 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/596-the-furies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228172/)
> "Anthony Mann. I wanted to see some of his films because he inspired Wim Wenders’s films. Are you interested? The Furies. I want to see landscape, large... Spaces."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=139)
- **Au Hasard Balthazar** (1966) - Robert Bresson - Spine #297 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/455-au-hasard-balthazar) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060138/)
> "Michael Haneke’s... Favorite film of his, named... Au Hasard Balthazar. Do you want it? Okay. Yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=201)
- **Mirror** (1975) - Jesús Franco - Spine #1084 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28894-mirror) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070396/)
> "I see I’ve got all the Tarkovskys. Mirror is somewhere here. Mirror., oui. Well, actually, I know from Andrei Konchalovsky who wrote Andrei Rublev with him. He said to me that Andrei spoke to him and said, 'You know what? I found a new way to edit films and to put the end at the beginning. The beginning and... And that’s my new way of making films. What we call the beginning is often the end. It’s... With Mirror– The end is where we start from.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=212)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "There’s some big box sets, Juliette, at the end. Look, I’ve already earmarked... This. Oh, wow. That’s amazing. There’s only one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=58)
- **Pasolini 101** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101)
> "Pasolini, I would love to have it. Would you think it greedy of me if I took this? No. Go ahead, go ahead, have it. Thank you. I’m now taking... It’s your Christmas-birthday... Christmas present for myself."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=69)
- **Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/743-eclipse-series-23-the-first-films-of-akira-kurosawa)
> "Oh, you have all the Akira Kurosawa films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=82)
- **Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/427-eclipse-series-3-late-ozu)
> "Late Ozu. Oh, Late Ozu. Have you got that?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=87)
- **Eclipse Series 5: The First Films of Samuel Fuller** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/499-eclipse-series-5-the-first-films-of-samuel-fuller)
> "And Fuller, Samuel Fuller."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=91)
- **Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/275-eclipse-series-2-the-documentaries-of-louis-malle)
> "I want to see The Documentaries of Louis Malle. I don’t know them. Are you interested? I’d rather choose... I mean, I’m interested, but I know Louis because I worked with him, so I want to go to places I’ve never been. Well, I haven’t worked with him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=95)
- **Eclipse Series 26: Silent Naruse** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/789-eclipse-series-26-silent-naruse)
> "Silent Naruse, I don’t know what it is. He is a Japanese director. Have you heard of him? No. Does that interest you? Is it good? Yeah, yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=114)
- **Eclipse Series 25: Basil Dearden's London Underground** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/776-eclipse-series-25-basil-dearden-s-london-underground)
> "I’ve seen Victim with Dirk Bogarde. It’s one of the early films dealing with homosexuality. Okay. It’s very strong– Basil Dearden’s a great British director, postwar."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K15A83bYrKo&t=128)
## Julio Torres (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTc11bMkDs) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/632-julio-torres-s-closet-picks)
- **WALL•E** (2008) - Andrew Stanton - Spine #1161 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33246-wall-e) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/)
> "The protagonist of Where Is the Friend's House? Might be one of my top five most relatable protagonists in movies up right next with WALL·E..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTc11bMkDs&t=54)
- **Amores perros** (2000) - Alejandro González Iñárritu - Spine #1060 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30908-amores-perros) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/)
> "Way higher stakes in Amores perros trigger warning I cannot attest as to the human society's involvement in this movie maybe they were I don't know maybe they were all puppets I don't know sad things happen and they often involve dogs you feel in the movie like you're constantly shuffling behind the protagonist and you're like okay what's Happening Here what's Happening Here what's happening there and you feel like a ghost in their world and like that you want to help..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTc11bMkDs&t=108)
- **After Hours** (1985) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1185 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29632-after-hours) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088680/)
> "After Hours beautifully shot again sort of like Where Is the Friend's House? Just a person on a mission it's one of those movies that you're watching that I'm living in New York I'm watching on my couch and I'm like I should just be out there living life and I should just be out there like when was the last time I was up all night looking for someone in SoHo..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTc11bMkDs&t=146)
- **Y tu mamá también** (2001) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #723 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28005-y-tu-mama-tambien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/)
> "Y tu mamá también is a movie that I discovered when I overheard controversy when I overheard that parents were up in arms I knew it was probably good and sexy but they were also up in arms about The Simpsons which is good and it's sometimes sexy but not like Y tu mamá también just like a quintessential scene of queer Awakening the Diego Luna not to give away any spoilers is just one of those where you're like oh didn't know movies could do this and it's so like easy and careless..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTc11bMkDs&t=176)
- **House** (1977) - Sergio Citti - Spine #539 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27523-house) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075815/)
> "House I'm very allergic for when you see something and you feel like the outline and you feel like it's going somewhere because it's supposed to House doesn't do that House is this free flowing completely art for the sake of Art and I'm seeing here it's only 88 minutes which feels mindblowing because it really feels like a whole world onto its own..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTc11bMkDs&t=248)
- **The Virgin Suicides** (2000) - Sofia Coppola - Spine #920 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29336-the-virgin-suicides) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159097/)
> "The last one I want to do is Virgin Suicides actually I think that Virgin Suicides was the first DVD that I ever bought that DVD came and went lost in a move probably but now I get to have it again it cemented what is in me a lifelong allegiance to Sofia Coppola I will watch anything she makes she was definitely one of those directors who was in my adolescence the Gateway into this world her eye and her ear are so powerful..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTc11bMkDs&t=273)
- **Pierre Etaix** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/947-pierre-etaix)
> "I am specifically attracted to Yoyo which has a lot of what we in the comedy industry refer to as gags specifically one scene where the protagonist walks a dog while seated inside his car and the dog just sort of marches next to the car if you haven't seen it watch it and I will rewatch it..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTc11bMkDs&t=15)
- **The Koker Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2363-the-koker-trilogy)
> "So the Koker Trilogy the protagonist of Where Is the Friend's House? Might be one of my top five most relatable protagonists in movies up right next with WALL·E the protagonist is this little boy who accidentally took his friend's notebook so the whole movie is he's deeply worried that the friend doesn't have the notebook to do his Homework so he has to go find where is the friend's House and the way that for him the stakes are so high but to the entire Village is so heartbreaking..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elTc11bMkDs&t=40)
## June Squibb (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb9ECXdGE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/882-june-squibb-s-closet-picks)
- **Seven Samurai** (1954) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #2 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
> "I’m going to start off with my very favorite, Seven Samurai. Kurosawa is… Oh, I love his work. Everything."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb9ECXdGE&t=7)
- **Diabolique** (1996) - Jeremiah S. Chechik - Spine #35 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/575-diabolique) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116095/)
> "One of my favorites was Simone Signoret, and this is Diabolique, one of her famous films. The way she looked, for one thing, my God, she always looked absolutely gorgeous. And in some of her early films, she had her hair up and it was just great. She was a fine actress, too. She, Jean Gabin, Yves Montand, I loved all of them. I saw all their films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb9ECXdGE&t=44)
- **Children of Paradise** (1945) - Marcel Carné - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/683-children-of-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037674/)
> "And Children of Paradise is one of the first films I ever saw in an art-House in Chicago in the late ’40s, I think it was, and I loved it. I just thought this was just the most marvelous film in the world. And it’s still showing places, so that’s great. It’s still alive."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb9ECXdGE&t=69)
- **Shaft** (2000) - John Singleton - Spine #1130 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30643-shaft) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162650/)
> "Now, I chose Shaft because a film… the film I did just before this last film I’m doing now, Richard Roundtree was my co-worker on the thing, on Thelma, and I rode around on a scooter with him behind me and I kept thinking, “Oh my God, that’s Shaft behind me.” So I wanted the memento for him, really."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb9ECXdGE&t=91)
- **Buena Vista Social Club** (1999) - Wim Wenders - Spine #866 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28792-buena-vista-social-club) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186508/)
> "And Buena Vista Social Club and Paris is Burning. Both of them are like lives and cultures that I knew nothing about, and I was absolutely fascinated by both of them. And this, the music is wonderful. They’ve just made a Broadway show of it, in fact."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb9ECXdGE&t=115)
- **Paris is Burning** (1991) - Jennie Livingston - Spine #1018 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29647-paris-is-burning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/)
> "And Paris is Burning. Both of them are like lives and cultures that I knew nothing about, and I was absolutely fascinated by both of them. And this, I was just… I mean, my mouth was open the whole time, I think, and it was so great just to learn about these cultures that were alive and kicking and that I knew nothing about."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb9ECXdGE&t=117)
- **The Age of Innocence** (1993) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #913 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28834-the-age-of-innocence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106226/)
> "The Age of Innocence is a film I did. It was the third feature film I did when I started film work. I started in my sixties doing film. And Martin Scorsese was wonderful. Martin Scorsese was there and directed me, and it was just me in this little role and everything, and I was so impressed with that, that he took the time and it was so important to him to be there. And so thank you, Martin Scorsese. And this is a beautiful film, and it was great shooting it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb9ECXdGE&t=149)
- **Yojimbo / Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/590-yojimbo-sanjuro-two-samurai-films-by-akira-kurosawa)
> "I’ve got another one here, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, and everything that he’s ever made, though. And the man who became my second husband said to me, “You’ve never seen a Kurosawa film?” And proceeded to take me to a retrospective at the Fifth Avenue Cinema, which was near my apartment, and I saw every Kurosawa film that I think he’s ever made. And then my son became a Kurosawa fan, so he got a wooden samurai sword."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb9ECXdGE&t=15)
- **Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2648-godzilla-the-showa-era-films-1954-1975)
> "Godzilla! Now, this is in honor of my son who became a great monster-film person. And we saw every monster film there ever was, either on TV or in the theaters. And so I saw all of these with him. This is my last one. Yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0nb9ECXdGE&t=200)
## Justine Triet (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPwpoe746g) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/623-justine-triet-s-closet-picks)
- **An Unmarried Woman** (1978) - Paul Mazursky - Spine #1032 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29597-an-unmarried-woman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078444/)
> "I like so much that movie, An Unmarried Woman, is so crazy. I like so much the actress, she's fantastic. I like so much the scene with the therapist inside. It's really, I like this, this movie is so perfect."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPwpoe746g&t=19)
- **La vérité** (1960) - Henri-Georges Clouzot - Spine #960 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27913-la-verite) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054452/)
> "La vérité, The Truth, from Clouzot. For me it's a very feminist, very feminist movie in a way. Also all the what he invents with the shot, with the movement of camera, everything, it's so beautiful and it's very, yes, very modern in a sense."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPwpoe746g&t=33)
- **Petite maman** (2021) - Céline Sciamma - Spine #1181 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33467-petite-maman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13204490/)
> "And Petite maman, so oh wow, it's so beautiful what you did for the poster. It's beautiful, Petite maman by Sciamma. And my daughter is totally obsessed by that movie, she loved it so much, so yes, so I took it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPwpoe746g&t=138)
- **Sex, Lies, and Videotape** (1989) - Steven Soderbergh - Spine #938 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28832-sex-lies-and-videotape) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098724/)
> "Sex, Lies, and Videotape, you must see that. And I like so much the way he talks really with the language of movies, you know? All the movie is a mise en abyme of everything. And the way he used the video in the movies was really, really so modern, so contemporary when he did it. I'm still really impressed by this movie. It's really simple, just a love story, a heartbreak, and I like so much the way James Spader has many problems to have sex with women and he resolves everything with the camera."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPwpoe746g&t=158)
- **La notte** (1961) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #678 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28111-la-notte) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054130/)
> "Okay, La notte is the best thing to see when you want to break up with somebody, to split. And the last letter that he read to her is so—I don't want to spoil—but he succeeded to summarize exactly the feeling when it's over with somebody."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPwpoe746g&t=213)
- **Eclipse Series 22: Presenting Sacha Guitry** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/736-eclipse-series-22-presenting-sacha-guitry)
> "I think Guitry is very important for me. I discovered him very late in a way. When I'm lost, I think I have to watch or Désiré. So modern, so intelligent. He blew me away each time. And in a way it's very interesting because it's very not expensive movie, you know? With nothing he's doing a masterpiece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPwpoe746g&t=54)
- **Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/752-eclipse-series-24-the-actuality-dramas-of-allan-king)
> "Oh, Allan King, oh so important for me when I was a student in art school in Paris and I discovered Warrendale. The way he's doing that movie, I don't understand how we can do this when we get inside that place. Very special because it's like an arena, and the children don't want to wake up. The idea just of the first scene is so incredible. I watched Warrendale just before doing Anatomy and I showed some scenes to the child who is playing in my movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaPwpoe746g&t=85)
## Kahlil Joseph (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPw7sJJkQFY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/891-kahlil-joseph-s-closet-picks)
- **Days of Heaven** (1978) - Terrence Malick - Spine #409 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/213-days-of-heaven) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/)
> "Days of Heaven, ladies and gentlemen. Days of Heaven. Days of Heaven might be the unanimous… one of the most unanimous films that all filmmakers love, enjoy, and respect and admire. Terrence Malick is also one of my mentors, I’m deeply honored to say.... Days of Heaven, because I’ve seen this movie about a thousand times."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPw7sJJkQFY&t=9)
- **The Color of Pomegranates** (1969) - Sergei Parajanov - Spine #918 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29219-the-color-of-pomegranates) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063555/)
> "Color of Pomegranates. So, this… Onye Anyanwu, who’s my wife and producer, master producer, she’s requesting this. This… was a formative film for her and I when we first started dating. I’ll never forget, she turned to me one night and said… I was half asleep, and she said, 'I need a movie with great cinematography, great visuals,' and I, half-asleep, said, 'Color of Pomegranates.' She had never heard of it, and she watched it and she instantly fell in love with me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPw7sJJkQFY&t=56)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "Yi. A One and a Two. This movie also was formative in my… my film Education. It’s a very slow– Edward Yang’s work in general is… it’s not very flashy. It’s very understated, but somehow so powerful, and Yi in particular. I would love to make a movie like this one day. His magic is invisible, though, so it takes a long time to understand what he’s doing, and, again, special features hopefully can help us unlock some of that magic. Yi, Edward Yang."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPw7sJJkQFY&t=93)
- **Tampopo** (1985) - Jūzō Itami - Spine #868 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28880-tampopo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/)
> "Tampopo is one of the movies that… well, for me shared the gift of cinema, in terms of what movies can do, what they can be. It’s a food comedy, drama, love story, entrepreneurial journey. But this will make people fall in love who kind of don’t know what cinema– or, you know, they might wonder what cinema is: is it stuffy, something stuffy? This is not stuffy. This is very exciting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPw7sJJkQFY&t=130)
- **Tokyo Olympiad** (1965) - Kon Ichikawa - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/709-tokyo-olympiad) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059817/)
> "Oh, Tokyo Olympiad. Holy cow. Yeah. I didn’t realize you guys reissued this. Oh, yeah, and Blu-ray, let’s go. It’s a feat of cinematography. I can’t imagine how much footage they shot. Jesus. It’s a slow burn. It’s not, obviously– They make drama out of athletes throwing pole vaults in slow motion, amongst other things. There’s an incredible sequence in here of a young African runner... I’ve referenced that shot in my head a lot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPw7sJJkQFY&t=163)
## Karina Longworth (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/455-karina-longworth-s-closet-picks)
- **Loves of a Blonde** (1965) - Miloš Forman - Spine #144 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/246-loves-of-a-blonde) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059415/)
> "I haven't seen Loves of a Blonde in a long time. Oh, I'll take that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4&t=15)
- **Mamma Roma** (1962) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #236 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/375-mamma-roma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056215/)
> "Mamma Roma. I saw this on 35mm a few years ago for the first time and I loved it so much. And my husband and I will, whenever there's anybody speaking Italian around us, will just say, 'Mamma! Mamma!' So that's silly."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4&t=35)
- **The Scarlet Empress** (1934) - Josef von Sternberg - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/431-the-scarlet-empress) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025746/)
> "I totally would take The Scarlet Empress, but I just bought the Dietrich and von Sternberg box sets and now I have them all. But this is one of my favorites, one of The Most Beautiful movies ever made."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4&t=62)
- **I Am Curious (Yellow)** (1967) - Vilgot Sjöman - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/728-i-am-curious-yellow) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061834/)
> "I've never seen I Am Curious—Yellow. I first heard of it because I was really into reruns of the TV show Moonlighting, and the episode where Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd first have sex on the show is called 'I Am Curious, Maddie.' So, TV trivia for you guys."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4&t=17)
- **Border Radio** (1987) - Allison Anders - Spine #362 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/802-border-radio) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090766/)
> "Border Radio. I love this movie and I've gotten to know Allison Anders a little bit just from the internet over the past few years. She's so cool."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4&t=6)
- **People on Sunday** (2020) - Tulapop Saenjaroen - Spine #569 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27625-people-on-sunday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13151116/)
> "I'm gonna get this for my husband because I'm not sure if he's ever seen it. I saw it at Telluride a few years ago with a live score performed, and it was super great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4&t=74)
- **Chronicle of a Summer** (1961) - Jean Rouch - Spine #648 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28394-chronicle-of-a-summer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054745/)
> "I love Chronicle of a Summer. And of the genre, cinéma vérité documentaries, this movie is like, when I first saw it 20 years ago, it just like changed my idea of what a documentary could be."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4&t=98)
- **Desert Hearts** (1985) - Donna Deitch - Spine #902 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29139-desert-hearts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089015/)
> "I'll definitely take that. I love Desert Hearts. I just saw this for the first time like a year ago. I can't believe I hadn't seen it before."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4&t=53)
- **Personal Shopper** (2016) - Olivier Assayas - Spine #899 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29252-personal-shopper) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4714782/)
> "I was just talking about this in a meeting because somebody was asking me if I was gonna go to the Assayas retrospective and I was like, 'I would love to.' I've been excited about her work ever since I saw it in Personal Shopper."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4&t=83)
- **The Marseille Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1264-the-marseille-trilogy)
> "Oh my god, I love these so much. We have them, but yeah, The Marseille Trilogy. I like, again, this is something I saw at Telluride and I mean, I like skipped a screening of like La Land or something to go see it and nobody would go with me. But the one person that did go with me appreciated it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHUyj4kFmF4&t=109)
## Karyn Kusama (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOziRIYQZo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/789-karyn-kusama-s-closet-picks)
- **The Damned** (2025) - Thordur Palsson - Spine #1098 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31319-the-damned) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15010692/)
> "I really wanted Visconti’s The Damned because I wanted to see his approach to notions of decadence, ambition. I love a lot of his movies, and I’ve heard this is a beautiful edition. So I’m going to take this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOziRIYQZo&t=32)
- **Not a Pretty Picture** (1976) - Martha Coolidge - Spine #1230 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33619-not-a-pretty-picture) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073467/)
> "The other thing I want to do is address some of my favorite women who make movies, and I was really excited to see that Martha Coolidge’s drama, docu-drama Not a Pretty Picture is in the Collection now. She’s a real hero of mine. She made a movie called Valley Girl that is probably a desert island top five for me. And I’m really excited to see that this is her first foray into filmmaking and to personal filmmaking, and I can’t wait to see what she did with it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOziRIYQZo&t=53)
- **Chilly Scenes of Winter** (1979) - Joan Micklin Silver - Spine #1176 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29145-chilly-scenes-of-winter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079278/)
> "And on that note, I’m also going to take Chilly Scenes of Winter, Joan Micklin Silver. I just think she was one of the names when I was a kid that I heard as a filmmaker, and hearing her name, hearing Martha Coolidge’s name, it gave me permission to imagine that I could do this too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOziRIYQZo&t=93)
- **No Country for Old Men** (2007) - Joel Coen - Spine #1243 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29429-no-country-for-old-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/)
> "I really am excited for the new edition of No Country for Old Men. This film is I think kind of revolutionary for a bunch of reasons, and the way that it took a sense of genre filmmaking and kind of mashed it up – crime thriller, horror almost, psychological drama – and then really brought it to mainstream audiences. I’m very excited for this edition and imagine it looks really beautiful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOziRIYQZo&t=143)
- **Dogfight** (1991) - Nancy Savoca - Spine #1216 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33803-dogfight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101748/)
> "I was really excited to see that Criterion released Nancy Savoca’s Dogfight. And there was something about the idea of this movie that feels so relevant today, this idea of casual misogyny needing to be interrogated by men themselves, that, in this case, it’s not Lili Taylor’s character who has to do the work of explaining herself to him, it’s this kid played by River Phoenix who has to do the work of recognizing something in himself."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOziRIYQZo&t=177)
- **Three Films by Luis Buñuel** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3900-three-films-by-luis-bunuel)
> "Back to that notion of power, I feel like somebody who’s really always poked fun at it and done a great job of exploring it with humor and surrealism is Luis Buñuel, and there’s a Buñuel set of three films: Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire, all in one set. I’m going to get that and have my mind blown again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOziRIYQZo&t=112)
- **Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/427-eclipse-series-3-late-ozu)
> "I also was curious about some of the Eclipse series. One of them that I had my eye on was the Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu, and it’s got Early Spring, Tokyo Twilight, Equinox Flower, Late Autumn, and The End of Summer. I’ve seen some of these recently on the big screen, restored, as part of a retrospective at the Academy Museum in LA, and the color work is so shockingly beautiful, so to have these in my collection is going to be really meaningful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOziRIYQZo&t=216)
- **The Qatsi Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/934-the-qatsi-trilogy)
> "And finally the last thing I am really excited to bring home is The Qatsi Trilogy. I have such powerful memories as a young person seeing Koyaanisqatsi in the theater, like it was a regular movie at the multiplex. And then Powaqqatsi, I have such a powerful memory of it. And I never got to see the third film. So I’m excited for The Qatsi Trilogy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLOziRIYQZo&t=251)
## Kathryn Bigelow (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDO1X8yQyA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/894-kathryn-bigelow-s-closet-picks)
- **Detour** (2009) - Sylvain Guy - Spine #966 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29614-detour) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320343/)
> "I think I’ll start with Detour, which is probably a fairly lesser-known title, done in 1945, and I know they spent only $60,000 on it, and I do bring this movie up a lot when people complain about their budget. I say, “Well, you can do a movie for $60,000.” And it’s fabulous. Very noir, very dark, very sordid. I mean, when you want the car to go in two different directions, you just flip the negative, so there’s an answer to everything."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDO1X8yQyA&t=11)
- **The Battle of Algiers** (1966) - Gillo Pontecorvo - Spine #249 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/248-the-battle-of-algiers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/)
> "I’m looking for Battle of Algiers. Okay, probably my favorite movie of all time. It’s incredible how the story is told, how it’s shot, the sort of tension, the metronome of tension in this is almost insufferable. But I say that as a compliment."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDO1X8yQyA&t=45)
- **Stray Dog** (1971) - Sam Peckinpah - Spine #233 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/730-straw-dogs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/)
> "All right, now for the great Sam Peckinpah. And you have Straw Dogs, which is unrelenting and a great lesson in tension, ratcheting up tension, and credibility. It is so realistic and terrifying. This is a must-watch for sure."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDO1X8yQyA&t=72)
- **Army of Shadows** (1969) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #385 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/153-army-of-shadows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064040/)
> "Also one of the great, great, great movies of all time: Jean-Pierre Melville, Army of Shadows. Extraordinary movie about the French Resistance during the Second World War. I was knocked out by it, how it tells the story. It’s just very clear, clean, descriptive. This is beyond a must-watch. And I’m putting it in my bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDO1X8yQyA&t=101)
- **The Confession** (2026) - Will Canon - Spine #759 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27873-the-confession) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35838700/)
> "Love Costa-Gavras. Where is Z?... I met him and I talked to him about Z. I said, “You know, you invented the political thriller.”... Because of my conversation with Costa-Gavras, I’m going to take home The Confession, which I’m sure will be as exciting and perfect as Z, which is one of the all-time greats."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDO1X8yQyA&t=127)
- **Hiroshima Mon Amour** (1959) - Alain Resnais - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/217-hiroshima-mon-amour) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052893/)
> "All right, Hiroshima Mon Amour. When I was at film school, we must have looked at this many, many times. It’s a very meditative movie about the Second World War and postwar Hiroshima, which, of course, was an inconceivable experience. It’s really amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDO1X8yQyA&t=174)
- **Notorious** (1946) - Alfred Hitchcock - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/682-notorious) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038787/)
> "And then, okay, there’s Notorious. My teacher at film school, one of them, was Andrew Sarris, one of the great critics of all time, and we spent six months on this movie. Every single week we would look at a little bit more of it, a little bit more, and really tried to break down and understand Hitchcock’s process and system, which is truly brilliant. He was a master."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDO1X8yQyA&t=209)
- **The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog** (1927) - Alfred Hitchcock - Spine #885 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28001-the-lodger-a-story-of-the-london-fog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017075/)
> "But you know what needs to be... And you probably have them here, are his silent movies. They’re as good as the ones that we all know and love and are more in rotation. But his silent movies were extraordinary. Okay, The Lodger, if you want a real treat. It’s flawless. Absolutely flawless, so I recommend highly this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXDO1X8yQyA&t=240)
## Katya Zamolodchikova (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKxAojIGeg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/822-katya-zamolodchikova-s-closet-picks)
- **Mirror** (1975) - Jesús Franco - Spine #1084 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28894-mirror) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070396/)
> "So let’s start off with something very artsy-fartsy and kind of hard to watch. We’ve got The Mirror or Zerkalo by Tarkovsky. This is great. There are, like, tableaus and vignettes in this movie that are so gorgeous. There’s this scene where she’s washing her hair and then the whole crumbling apartment just– You gotta watch it. It’s really beautiful. Tarkovsky really knows what the fuck he’s doing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKxAojIGeg&t=11)
- **All of Us Strangers** (2023) - Andrew Haigh - Spine #1234 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34514-all-of-us-strangers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21192142/)
> "I’m gay! So here’s the thing about being gay, sometimes it gets sad. And I watched All of Us Strangers probably not at the best time. I think the dopamine level in my brain was, like, subzero. And I did one of those things where you cry so much it gets gross-slash-“Should I go to the ER?” I’m on the Paul Mescal bandwagon. And Andrew Scott is devastating. It’s a really beautiful, poignant kind of ghost story. Doesn’t really make a lot of sense. Doesn’t matter."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKxAojIGeg&t=43)
- **Belle de Jour** (1967) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #593 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27949-belle-de-jour) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061395/)
> "Belle de Jour’s a fabulous movie. I love one of Luis Buñuel’s other movies: Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie or The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. But this is great. So, Catherine Deneuve, so hot, she plays a bored housewife who becomes a hooker. So many little things from this movie stick out, like there’s a guy at the brothel who tries to pay with, like, coupons or something. And I’ll never forget, the madam is like, “Non, ça ne marche pas ici. De l’argent!” And I always just say tha..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKxAojIGeg&t=98)
- **Pina** (2011) - Wim Wenders - Spine #644 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28404-pina) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440266/)
> "Pina. The thing about Pina Bausch is that her dance theater troupe was kind of like... Kind of like a cult, but in a good way. It’s a group of people that were so intensely committed to a singular vision from her, who was revolutionary. She’s really, really, really changed the whole game in terms of dance and dance theater. I got to see two of her pieces in Brooklyn Academy of Music before she passed away, so I’m really glad about that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKxAojIGeg&t=142)
- **Tootsie** (1982) - Sydney Pollack - Spine #738 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28609-tootsie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084805/)
> "Now, anybody who loves film knows that if there’s a really, really difficult problem that you have to solve or an obstacle that you have to get through, cross-dressing is the number one most effective way to do that. I’ve found that in my life to be true and so has Dustin Hoffman in this classic, Tootsie. Dustin Hoffman plays a struggling actor who can’t get a gig, so he tries to get a gig on a soap opera playing this woman. He goes in drag and of course he gets it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKxAojIGeg&t=176)
- **Happiness** (1998) - Todd Solondz - Spine #1235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30465-happiness) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/)
> "Happiness, Todd Solondz. This is probably the most fucked-up movie you’ll ever see in your life. I’m so happy that Criterion has it because I couldn’t find it anywhere. It’s not just a black comedy. This is like a rotten black comedy. It’s people at their worst, at their dazzlingly worst. And it’s just like an accumulation of human shit piling up on top… It’s just so fabulous."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKxAojIGeg&t=222)
- **Polyester** (1981) - John Waters - Spine #995 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28714-polyester) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082926/)
> "Polyester, John Waters. Oh my God, look at that. Look at that cover. Romance. Francine Fishpaw. Tab Hunter. (Gay.) And then… It’s got a whole bunch of stuff. I think this was the one where the daughter gets in trouble for dancing at school. The mom says, “You don’t dance at school, do you?” She’s like, “For a quarter I will!” And it’s just so funny. It’s just so great. Fucking A. So Polyester. The classic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKxAojIGeg&t=246)
- **Querelle** (1982) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Spine #1221 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27974-querelle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084565/)
> "And I’m going to boost this one because, like I said before, I do happen to be extremely gay. Viciously so here in New York. Querelle. Or “Querally.” What a pleasure."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKxAojIGeg&t=281)
## Kemp Powers (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2v6g61FgQU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/421-kemp-powers-s-closet-picks)
- **Cronos** (1993) - Guillermo del Toro - Spine #551 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27534-cronos) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104029/)
> "One of the first films that I saw was Cronos from Guillermo del Toro. Didn't know anything about the movie. I gradually discovered that it was a horror vampire film. I found it really, really fascinating. I mean, Ron Perlman speaking Spanish, which I've seen the actor before but didn't know he spoke Spanish, and it was really a great twist on The Vampire mythos."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2v6g61FgQU&t=175)
- **12 Angry Men** (1957) - Sidney Lumet - Spine #591 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27871-12-angry-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/)
> "I'll start with one of the basics for me, which is 12 Angry Men. One of my favorite films of all time. I guess I always describe this film as an action movie of words. In many ways, the reason why I thought that I could write the play version of One Night in Miami was because of seeing 12 Angry Men and saying that there was more excitement in this battle of ideas in this room than anything I'd ever seen. Very, very inspirational film for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2v6g61FgQU&t=18)
- **Watership Down** (1978) - Martin Rosen - Spine #748 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28620-watership-down) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078480/)
> "One of my favorite animated films of all time, Watership Down. I first saw Watership Down it aired on television when I was a little kid and it kind of terrified me when I first saw the film and I loved that about it. I never saw animation as something for kids. I always just thought of animation as an incredible medium for a certain kind of storytelling. It's a lot of that philosophy that brought me to Pixar and was something that we always kept in mind when we were making the movie Soul."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2v6g61FgQU&t=52)
- **Matewan** (1987) - John Sayles - Spine #999 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29461-matewan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/)
> "Matewan. It's about union organizing in West Virginia coal mines. If you look up the Matewan massacre to see how the coal mining companies did their union busting. There's a great speech that Chris Cooper makes in this film when James Earl Jones' character shows up about how the corporations often separate people along racial lines or ethnic lines and that's how they keep people from power. I think that's a lesson that we could learn a lot from today."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2v6g61FgQU&t=200)
- **Deep Cover** (1992) - Bill Duke - Spine #1086 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31499-deep-cover) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104073/)
> "Bill Duke's Deep Cover. Love this movie. Most people know that this film is most known because it was the first appearance of a song featuring Snoop Dogg. The Deep Cover soundtrack is really famous, but I just love this film. Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum. Laurence Fishburne is a cop who goes undercover and Jeff Goldblum as a lawyer slash sleazy drug dealer. This was just a really great crime noir film that I'm super excited to see added to the collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2v6g61FgQU&t=111)
- **One Night in Miami** (2020) - Regina King - Spine #1106 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32171-one-night-in-miami) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10612922/)
> "This is my first time getting my hands on the Criterion Collection copy of One Night in Miami that I'm the writer of, based on my play, directed by the incredible Regina King. We're so proud of this movie. Talk about like a labor of love. I cannot wait for everyone to see all the additional materials that both Regina and I and a lot of other folks involved in the film recorded for the Criterion release. So yeah, One Night in Miami, make sure you check it out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2v6g61FgQU&t=250)
## Ken Burns (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTUZ7bX0SE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/775-ken-burns-s-closet-picks)
- **Odd Man Out** (1947) - Carol Reed - Spine #754 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28173-odd-man-out) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039677/)
> "When he showed me one night Sir Carol Reed’s Odd Man Out and my dad cried. And I thought nothing in his life had provided him a safe haven for emotional expression except film. So, I am going to take this film by Sir Carol Reed and be the first film, in honor of my dad, who’s also, like my mom, been long gone, but filmmaking and art is often born out of tragedy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTUZ7bX0SE&t=46)
- **Seven Samurai** (1954) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #2 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
> "But my most favorite film of all time, if somebody held a gun to my head and said you had to pick one, which is, of course, an impossible task out of the thousands, I think that I would pick The Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa. I’ve seen it many times. It’s the fastest three plus hours that I’ve ever experienced in my life. And I’m going to climb up on this stool and I’m going to get it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTUZ7bX0SE&t=72)
- **To Be or Not to Be** (1942) - Ernst Lubitsch - Spine #670 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27690-to-be-or-not-to-be) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035446/)
> "Now, having said that, I want to move to a comedy. One of my favorite comedies of all times is Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not to Be. And it was made in the middle of the Second World War, and yet it has this enduring idea that art, and particularly comedy, the hitting the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ at the same time, can help to mitigate and reconcile and transcend this particular horror. And so I pick Jack Benny and Carole Lombard and Robert Stack... And Ernst Lubitsch, To Be or Not to Be."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTUZ7bX0SE&t=96)
- **Rebecca** (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/680-rebecca) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/)
> "I wanted to be Alfred Hitchcock, and Vertigo is a really favorite film, and I’ve seen probably every single one of his films... And I recently had an opportunity to see Rebecca and I think Joan Fontaine, there with Laurence Olivier, should be completely overshadowed, and she holds a kind of sensitivity and fragility in her Performance. I’m really going with Rebecca as a really wonderful Hitchcock film, and obviously one of the great masters."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTUZ7bX0SE&t=140)
- **Hunger** (2008) - Steve McQueen - Spine #504 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/477-hunger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986233/)
> "Of a contemporary master, I can think of no one who’s better at cinema than Steve McQueen. I was at the Telluride Film Festival and saw the, I think, North American premiere of Hunger, and I cannot adequately describe the effect that it had on me, the long shots, sometimes lasting ten or fifteen minutes, just the visual things of swabbing down the urine in the corridors outside the cells as the Hunger strike is going on. So Hunger, Steve McQueen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTUZ7bX0SE&t=176)
- **Pina** (2011) - Wim Wenders - Spine #644 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28404-pina) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440266/)
> "Oh, oh, I forgot I have one more film. I like Wim Wenders’s Pina. I still can remember seeing it, once again at the Telluride Film Festival in a world premiere or in a North American premiere, and just feeling as I did as a kid running out of the theater and running down the street in joy. Somebody had just put a second stage on my rocket. And that’s what we look for. Pina by Wim Wenders. Wim, who I also know, we love you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTUZ7bX0SE&t=267)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "I made a film on the history of country music, and we interviewed Kris Kristofferson and he told me the inspiration for 'Me and Bobby McGee' was, in many ways, La strada. Everything that Fellini touched I want to be part of and I understand that there may be a collection and it might be possible not just to pick out a single La strada but to have… the essential Federico Fellini, one of the great, great masters of all time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCTUZ7bX0SE&t=226)
## Kerry Condon (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/644-kerry-condon-s-closet-picks)
- **The Night of the Hunter** (1955) - Charles Laughton - Spine #541 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/)
> "There's one up here... Night of the Hunter. It's this very famous movie and Martin McDonagh and I first met him was like Night of the Hunter this, Night of the Hunter that. I remember watching it and having a big effect on me and I remember didn't he have tattoos and his hands that really stuck out to me so I'm going to take this one. Maybe I'll give it to Martin for a present or maybe I'll keep it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=9)
- **Fish Tank** (2009) - Andrea Arnold - Spine #553 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27541-fish-tank) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232776/)
> "Oh Fish Tank and Andrea Arnold, that's a great one and Michael Fassbender's character's a real bollocks in it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=50)
- **Kes** (1970) - Ken Loach - Spine #561 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27560-kes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064541/)
> "And Kes, Ken Loach is another one I love."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=58)
- **George Washington** (2000) - David Gordon Green - Spine #152 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/691-george-washington) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262432/)
> "George Washington, that was brill and that was your man's first film, that guy David Gordon Green. It captures youth and childhood and it makes you remember like when you were a kid and what that was like. Acting with children and directing children is really hard, you have to be really delicate... I remember that movie being brill."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=60)
- **The Tin Drum** (1979) - Volker Schlöndorff - Spine #234 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/789-the-tin-drum) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078875/)
> "The Tin Drum, I remember seeing this... I saw it when I was in my early 20s and I'm not going to lie like I was kind of stoned so I vaguely remember them. I'll take The Tin Drum because I saw it when I was very young and maybe it'll all come flooding back to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=95)
- **Secrets & Lies** (1996) - Mike Leigh - Spine #1070 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29202-secrets-lies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117589/)
> "Secrets and Lies. I won't take this because I've seen it loads but when I was young and I wanted to be an actress, Brenda Blethyn and this was so inspiring. Mike Leigh, his style of... Actually I'll take it actually because I want to work with Mike Leigh and I don't want to screw myself out of a job so I love Mike Leigh and I loved Secrets and Lies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=142)
- **McCabe & Mrs. Miller** (1971) - Robert Altman - Spine #827 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28712-mccabe-mrs-miller) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/)
> "McCabe and Mrs. Miller... The reason I'm not taking it because I have it is because an ex-boyfriend gave it to me and I started watching it and I was like, do you know what, turn it off. So there you go, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, I'm sure it's great but he did a bit of a number on me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=174)
- **Valley of the Dolls** (1967) - Mark Robson - Spine #835 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28577-valley-of-the-dolls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062430/)
> "Valley of the Dolls. Valley of the Dolls is brill, that's one you'd kind of watch all the time, it's so entertaining."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=199)
- **Dogfight** (1991) - Nancy Savoca - Spine #1216 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33803-dogfight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101748/)
> "Dogfight. Oh my god, Dogfight. Lily Taylor in this movie completely affected how I thought about acting. The movie is basically about these bunch of young lads are heading off to fight in Vietnam... River Phoenix, oh he's so brilliant in it. There's a scene where she's playing The Piano and she's singing a song and he's watching her and there's no dialogue... It is so beautiful because it affected me as an actress but also about love."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=225)
- **All About My Mother** (1999) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #1012 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29569-all-about-my-mother) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185125/)
> "Oh this is tricky, could it be All About My Mother? Amazing. But then it's between All About My Mother or The Prince of Tides... Jesus lads, it's a tough call here, we got Pedro or we got Nick and so I have to take both of them and I love them both."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=358)
- **The Prince of Tides** (1991) - Barbra Streisand - Spine #1022 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29571-the-prince-of-tides) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102713/)
> "The Prince of Tides which is super romantic and I worked with Nick Nolte and he was like one of my favorite people to work with, he really influenced me and he was just wild and amazing to be around and to work with. Jesus lads, it's a tough call here, we got Pedro or we got Nick and so I have to take both of them and I love them both."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kII05HTS6c&t=364)
## Kevin Bacon (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNrdRkZwxw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/794-kevin-bacon-s-closet-picks)
- **Seven Samurai** (1954) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #2 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
> "The first thing that I found is up here, Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa. And the reason that I picked this movie, I’m embarrassed to say, is that I’ve never seen it. I mean, every single person that considers themself to be a lover of cinema always talks about this movie. So I’m starting out with a confession. And this is going right in the bag, and I’m going to look at this ASAP."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNrdRkZwxw&t=6)
- **The Blob** (1958) - Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. - Spine #91 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/630-the-blob) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/)
> "What we got here? Oh. I picked The Blob. I’m from Philly. My brother has a House in a town nearby called Phoenixville. And in Phoenixville there’s a theater, which is a great local movie House which I’m big supporters of. And they show The Blob every year, because The Blob was filmed in this theater... They have a Festival where everybody goes and watches The Blob. And when The Blob comes into the movie theater, everyone stands up and runs out in the street."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNrdRkZwxw&t=36)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "Oh. Do the Right Thing. The performances are just so great. So many actors who I admire. Spike, and then Turturro, Danny Aiello, and Giancarlo Esposito. People that I’ve crossed paths with or worked with through the years, a very solidly New York group. And a great movie. What an innovative and interesting filmmaker."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNrdRkZwxw&t=87)
- **Gimme Shelter** (1970) - Albert Maysles - Spine #99 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/637-gimme-shelter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065780/)
> "Gimme Shelter. Okay, well, I was a giant Rolling Stones fan, and it is one of the most chilling and interesting and disturbing documentaries about the flip side of crowds and of fandom and of rock and roll, and certainly so emblematic of a turn from the ’60s love-child generation to where we kind of went, for a while, in the direction of the ’70s towards the ’80s, and it’s just like breathtaking, breathtaking movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNrdRkZwxw&t=114)
- **Sullivan's Travels** (1941) - Preston Sturges - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/657-sullivan-s-travels) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/)
> "Oh, yeah. Sullivan’s Travels. So I was never, like, an old movie fan when I was a kid. My film-loving… perspective really came from The Godfather and Dog Day Afternoon, Panic in Needle Park. You know, those screwy ’70s… The French Connection. Those are the kind of movies that I cut my teeth on. Not as an actor, but as a filmgoer. But then, probably deep into my 20s, I started looking at old movies and discovered the movies of Preston Sturges, who I think is such an interesting director."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNrdRkZwxw&t=150)
- **The Fugitive Kind** (1960) - Sidney Lumet - Spine #515 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/17998-the-fugitive-kind) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052832/)
> "Okay, yeah, so this is The Fugitive Kind. Directed by Sidney Lumet, who’s one of my favorite directors, and written by... I don’t know if Tennessee Williams wrote the screenplay or it was based on Tennessee Williams’s play, which was called Orpheus Descending. This is the first Marlon Brando movie that I saw... I was so struck with the turn in acting and this kind of acting, this kind of like super naturalistic, edgy, dangerous kind of thing. And he just was a master of that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNrdRkZwxw&t=216)
- **Jules and Jim** (1962) - François Truffaut - Spine #281 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055032/)
> "For my last pick, I am going to close my eyes and do a random pick. Here we go. Jules and Jim. Jules et Jim. Now... This is funny. There’s two little animals that come around our House every summer, and I’ve named them Jules and Jim."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMNrdRkZwxw&t=277)
## Kevin Smith (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCxfZKIG90) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/760-kevin-smith-s-closet-picks)
- **His Girl Friday** (1940) - Howard Hawks - Spine #849 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27903-his-girl-friday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/)
> "His Girl Friday. Come on, man. This is like Hawks at his absolute best. Very influential film for me, even though it features old-timey people and stuff. Generally, I’m not a fan of old-timey, but this movie *censored* slaps, as the kids probably don’t even say anymore."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCxfZKIG90&t=24)
- **Citizen Kane** (1941) - Orson Welles - Spine #1104 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32250-citizen-kane) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/)
> "In terms of old black-and-white movies, it’s right up there with Citizen Kane. Well, here’s that’s... Look. I got 18 copies, not of this version of Citizen Kane, but of Citizen Kane. There’s room for one more because Citizen Kane... My– one of my favorite films, if not my absolute favorite film. Probably the film I’ve watched the most in life. Isn’t that weird?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCxfZKIG90&t=42)
- **Hollywood Shuffle** (1987) - Robert Townsend - Spine #1173 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29771-hollywood-shuffle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093200/)
> "Hollywood Shuffle, movie made by Robert Townsend, man. This movie made me build my boat because I remember, like– Number one, this is a legit *censored* brilliant, funny movie, with fantastic acting in it and stuff. And he talked about using credit cards to pay for the movie, partially the budget. And I remember listening to that interview– And this was long before I ever thought about filmmaking, but that information stayed with me because I was like, 'You could do that?'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCxfZKIG90&t=75)
- **Bull Durham** (1988) - Ron Shelton - Spine #936 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29143-bull-durham) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094812/)
> "They got to Bull Durham, kids. One of my favorite flicks. Susan Sarandon is magical in this, as is Kevin Costner. I hate *censored* baseball. Like, the American pastime is not for me. It’s *censored* boring, but I love baseball movies. Bad News Bears being the number one. This, I think, is my number two. 'The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.' William Blake. Susan Sarandon says that in the movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCxfZKIG90&t=145)
- **The Prince of Tides** (1991) - Barbra Streisand - Spine #1022 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29571-the-prince-of-tides) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102713/)
> "Prince of Tides! That earns a drop into the bag. George Carlin is in this. He is right? 100%. Yeah, she treated him– Barbra Streisand treated George like a real live actor and stuff. Barbra Streisand did a director commentary on this? If Barbra Streisand had sang her director’s commentary, my Mother would have climaxed. She loves Babs. So the fact that she talks, it... I’ll have to tell my Mother, 'She talks.' My mom likes when Babs talks."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCxfZKIG90&t=174)
- **Deep Cover** (1992) - Bill Duke - Spine #1086 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31499-deep-cover) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104073/)
> "Is that Deep Cover? This is– I paid to see this in a movie theater by myself. And I had such a good ass time, man. Like, come on, who directed this? Bill Duke, right? Yes. Actors make great directors, kids. You know why? Because they sit behind *censored* a zillion directors over the course of a career. So when it becomes their time to step up to the plate, oh, they can knock it out the park. Bill Duke did that with Deep Cover."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCxfZKIG90&t=202)
- **Slacker** (1991) - Richard Linklater - Spine #247 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/408-slacker) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102943/)
> "This is the most powerful document for change I’ve ever encountered in my life. I went to see a movie up here in Manhattan, man, at the Angelika Film Center on August 2nd, 1991, and it was this movie. I’ve talked about viewing Slacker with a mixture of awe and arrogance. Awe because I’d never seen anything like it before. And arrogance because, when I finished watching this, one of the first thoughts I had was, 'If that counts as a movie, I think I could make a movie.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCxfZKIG90&t=232)
## Kim Cattrall (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/431-kim-cattrall-s-closet-picks)
- **Heaven Can Wait** (1978) - Warren Beatty - Spine #291 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/878-heaven-can-wait) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077663/)
> "Heaven Can Wait. Anything by Lubitsch, just brilliant. But it was kind of a time for me to be with my mom and for her movies. She was an usherette in a theater in Liverpool. I always thought that she wore this little uniform and she had her hair, she had a little beret and she would sell ice creams at intermission. She was always going up to the balcony and they couldn't find her and that was her escape. Books and movies were her escape so they kind of became my escape too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=15)
- **Fanny and Alexander** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/206-fanny-and-alexander)
> "Fanny and Alexander. This was an extraordinary experience, just the evolution of a family and the way change and loss of a parent affects everybody."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=55)
- **Boat People** (1942) - Jacques Tourneur - Spine #1113 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28696-cat-people) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034587/)
> "Cat People."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=74)
- **Limelight** (1952) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #756 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27557-limelight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044837/)
> "Limelight, just because it's Charlie Chaplin."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=75)
- **A Taste of Honey** (1961) - Tony Richardson - Spine #829 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28734-a-taste-of-honey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055506/)
> "Oh, childhood favorite, A Taste of Honey. Great film. I fell in love with Rita Tushingham... Tony Richardson."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=86)
- **Nashville** (1975) - Robert Altman - Spine #683 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28427-nashville) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073440/)
> "I was kind of channeling Nashville on this last project that I did. It was just Ronee Blakley in that last scene and Geraldine Chaplin. Great, great American film. The narrative was so different. I remember seeing it in Calgary in a little tiny town and it just blew me away, how political it was. I know there was a lot of criticism from the country and western people when it came out because they said that's not what it's like. I think he really put his finger on something."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=100)
- **Jules and Jim** (1962) - François Truffaut - Spine #281 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055032/)
> "Jules and Jim, my first three-way. I haven't even looked back here. I can't take all what this is like. How do you choose?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=140)
- **Repulsion** (1965) - Roman Polanski - Spine #483 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/404-repulsion) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059646/)
> "Repulsion, okay."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=151)
- **Sullivan's Travels** (1941) - Preston Sturges - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/657-sullivan-s-travels) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/)
> "This I've recommended Preston Sturges Sullivan's Travels just I really hope you people get to experience Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake in this movie it's just so joyous and it's so speaks of you know the human experience of wanting to be important and be counted forgetting the fact that you might also want to entertain..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=154)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "Wanda. I really have to thank Criterion for this because I didn't know about this film. To have it, to bring it back was such a treat. I didn't know that Barbara Loden—I know her as an actress but I didn't know that she was a director and this was such a labor of love. She came out with a masterpiece. It's about a woman who was invisible and she made her more than visible, viable. You really care about her and feel for this woman who was a pawn to men's schemes. Barbara Loden gives her voice."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=173)
- **Tom Jones** (1963) - Tony Richardson - Spine #910 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28736-tom-jones) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057590/)
> "Tony Richardson."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Lj-2N2EPQ&t=97)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
## Kleber Mendonça Filho (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJN9gRtjtk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/624-kleber-mendonca-filho-s-closet-picks)
- **After Hours** (1985) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1185 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29632-after-hours) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088680/)
> "One of my favorite films by Mr. Martin Scorsese, After Hours. This film taught me a lot about editing and camera setups."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJN9gRtjtk&t=32)
- **The Spirit of the Beehive** (1973) - Víctor Erice - Spine #351 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/367-the-spirit-of-the-beehive) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070040/)
> "Spirit of the Beehive is something special. The interesting thing about this film for me is that I have never owned a copy of it. It has only existed in my head, very much like it used to be in the past before home video. You could not keep a film, you could only keep a film in your head, the memory of it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJN9gRtjtk&t=46)
- **Barry Lyndon** (1975) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #897 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29008-barry-lyndon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/)
> "I'll just make sure I get Barry Lyndon because my two kids, they are getting to the age I think I can show them Barry Lyndon and they will, I'm sure, feel something because this is such an amazing film. I love the way it takes its time and the way the music comes in and the way you're completely floored by the images in the film. I know maybe so many people have reacted to this film the way I have, but that probably explains why it's a classic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJN9gRtjtk&t=126)
- **Lost in America** (1985) - Albert Brooks - Spine #887 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29022-lost-in-america) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089504/)
> "Lost in America is a film that takes me back to 1985 when I saw it on VHS, which somehow disappeared. I'm not sure exactly how and why, but it happens to some films, some very good films actually. Because for every Barry Lyndon which has never gone out of fashion or style, maybe except for the time it was released, but Lost in America is a film that made many friends but somehow it disappeared and I've always liked this film and I haven't seen it in more than 30 years."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJN9gRtjtk&t=158)
- **A Brighter Summer Day** (1991) - Edward Yang - Spine #804 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28596-a-brighter-summer-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101985/)
> "A Brighter Summer Day, I don't know, it's such a special film that I'm not even sure what to say about this film because I might get emotional. And this now will be part of my collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJN9gRtjtk&t=230)
- **Don't Look Now** (1973) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #745 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27928-don-t-look-now) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069995/)
> "Last one is this. It's probably many people's favorite pick also, Don't Look Now. And it's 50 years old now, which is hard to believe. It is, this is 50 years old and it looks more modern than the latest film out in the multiplex these days. I don't want to sound like a nostalgic, but I'm beginning to sound like a nostalgic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJN9gRtjtk&t=287)
- **The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs** (7 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4431-the-signifyin-works-of-marlon-riggs)
> "Last year we did a retrospect, a full retrospective of Marlon Riggs at The Institute Moreira Salles in Brazil where I am a programmer, and it was kind of sad when we sent back the files and I'm happy that I now can invite some friends over and showed them some of his films and videos."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJN9gRtjtk&t=97)
- **Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 3** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3506-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-3)
> "This is a special box with Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project and one of the films is Pixote, which happens to be one of the great Brazilian films. It's an incredibly emotional film about the world I think and life in society. Pixote also makes me think of Nick Cave. Nick Cave is a big fan of Pixote's film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJN9gRtjtk&t=202)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "Agnès Varda is someone who, without really planning it, but during the editing stage of Pictures of Ghosts, Agnès Varda came to talk to me many times as an imaginary friend. Sometimes you're in trouble and you just think of someone and you begin to remember his or her films, and Varda in a way, she helped me get through the film and I love her."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkJN9gRtjtk&t=251)
## Koji Yakusho (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qabOrVV3DQ) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/668-koji-yakusho-s-closet-picks)
- **Red Beard** (1965) - Akira Kurosawa - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/713-red-beard) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058888/)
> "[Translated] This is Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard. It's a long film, over three hours, but it's truly a beautiful film. It's a wonderful story about a doctor who helps the poor, and a young doctor who admires him and grows as a doctor. It's a wonderful film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qabOrVV3DQ&t=33)
- **Ikiru** (1952) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #221 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/353-ikiru) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/)
> "[Translated] This is also Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru. When I was a child, my older brother came home from seeing this movie and told me the whole story while we were in bed. When I grew up and went to see it, the story unfolded exactly as my brother had told it. I was impressed by how well he remembered it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qabOrVV3DQ&t=78)
- **Harakiri** (1962) - Masaki Kobayashi - Spine #302 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/743-harakiri) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056058/)
> "[Translated] This is Harakiri, the Japanese title is Seppuku. It's a film by Masaki Kobayashi. The lead actor, Tatsuya Nakadai, was my teacher when I became an actor. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be here today."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qabOrVV3DQ&t=123)
- **The Funeral** (1984) - Jūzō Itami - Spine #1125 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28879-the-funeral) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089746/)
> "[Translated] The Japanese title is Ososhiki. It's the directorial debut of the late Juzo Itami. It was a wonderful film. It depicts a funeral, something every Japanese person has experienced, with such humor. It's truly a masterpiece. A wonderful film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qabOrVV3DQ&t=151)
- **Cure** (1997) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Spine #1155 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27666-cure) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/)
> "[Translated] A masterpiece of Japanese cinema, Cure. I'm in this one. It's scary. It taps into human psychology in a way that makes your skin crawl. You can hear this strange noise throughout, which is really frightening. It's a scary story about how a person without stress can become a monster. I highly recommend it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qabOrVV3DQ&t=178)
- **City Lights** (1931) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #680 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/)
> "[Translated] You all love this one, right? In Japanese, it's called Machi no Hi. Words have power in films, of course, but the power of visual storytelling without words is unique to cinema. No matter how many times I watch it, it's a wonderful film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qabOrVV3DQ&t=223)
- **Paris, Texas** (1984) - Wim Wenders - Spine #501 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1502-paris-texas) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087884/)
> "[Translated] I recently worked with this director on a film called Perfect Days. The first time I learned about him was through this film, Paris, Texas. It was so cool. Ry Cooder's music... And come to think of it, the protagonist hardly speaks at all. I didn't speak much in Perfect Days either. It's a truly beautiful film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qabOrVV3DQ&t=253)
## Kristin Scott Thomas (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/864-kristin-scott-thomas-s-closet-picks)
- **The Night Porter** (1974) - Liliana Cavani - Spine #59 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/604-the-night-porter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071910/)
> "The Night Porter. Charlotte Rampling is a great hero of mine. I’ve always meant to see this, but it was one of those things that never happened."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg&t=11)
- **Casque d’or** (1952) - Jacques Becker - Spine #270 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/942-casque-d-or) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043386/)
> "Oh, Casque d’or! That’s brilliant. Simone Signoret. These actresses are just extraordinary. Simone Signoret, she was just so beautiful and so… sort of different looking. And it’s very kind of… I like Jacques Becker anyway, but the photography and the style of the whole thing, and the danger within it, I really love that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg&t=24)
- **The Awful Truth** (1937) - Leo McCarey - Spine #917 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27904-the-awful-truth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028597/)
> "This is my favorite film in the entire world. Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Leo McCarey. The Awful Truth. The funniest film. And it’s got this amazing sort of almost improvised quality to it. And it’s just… She’s just a genius of comic timing and freedom. They feel so free. And so often in these films at this period, everything feels a bit tight and stifled and posed, but this feels completely kind of wild. So I really, really, really enjoy that. I’m going to have that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg&t=48)
- **Women in Love** (1969) - Ken Russell - Spine #916 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28688-women-in-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066579/)
> "Women in Love. Is that the… That’s the Ken Russell film with… Oh, it’s the D. H. Lawrence thing. Now, of course, one should know this because one’s English, but I’ve never seen it. If it’s one of the best movies in here, I’m having it in my bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg&t=82)
- **Elevator to the Gallows** (1958) - Louis Malle - Spine #335 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/778-elevator-to-the-gallows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051378/)
> "This is wonderful. This is Louis Malle’s first film. I can’t imagine that it’s his first film, it’s just so brilliant. Elevator to the Gallows, with Jeanne Moreau, who I adored and is just so, so, so brilliant. And Maurice Ronet. Anyway, that’s definitely going in."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg&t=100)
- **Purple Noon** (1960) - René Clément - Spine #637 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27810-purple-noon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054189/)
> "Purple Noon is one of my favorite films in the world and it’s always a sort of reference of mine. Again, Maurice Ronet. And Alain Delon, who was just amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg&t=119)
- **You Can Count on Me** (2000) - Kenneth Lonergan - Spine #1271 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30206-you-can-count-on-me) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203230/)
> "Oh, I’ve never seen this. I really want to see this, You Can Count on Me. Yep, I’ve got to watch this. I love Laura Linney. And Mark Ruffalo. All these are really exciting things to watch because it’s just such a… such a development in filmmaking, I suppose."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg&t=154)
- **La piscine** (1969) - Jacques Deray - Spine #1088 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30223-la-piscine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064816/)
> "When I was a very young au pair girl, I was on duty one evening and I watched La piscine, with Jane Birkin, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet again! And Alain Delon. And it was just one of the most extraordinary, tense, really frightening films because it was so… everything was so beautiful, and yet there was this awful lurking tension. One of the sort of bricks in my film Education, I guess."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg&t=169)
- **Ivan’s Childhood** (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #397 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/830-ivan-s-childhood) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056111/)
> "Did I get Ivan’s Childhood? I happen to know this is Tarkovsky’s first film. It’s amazing. And I watched it when I was starting to think about how to make memories in my film. And so I watched this because I thought he’d know how to do it. And, yeah, the dream sequences of when he’s going back into his… to happier times with his parents and his aunt. It’s all so beautiful. And the horror of everything else and the way he’s being manipulated, it’s really quite a chilling– a very chilling film,..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg&t=207)
- **Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7045-chantal-akerman-masterpieces-1968-1978)
> "Chantal Akerman. I just feel this is an enormous piece Missing out of… out of everything I should have seen in my life. These amazing Faces. You just want to watch them. And they’re sort of transparent and you can see thoughts sort of passing through these Faces, which I find… which is something I really yearn for when I’m watching something or when I’m even performing with someone or filming someone, as I’ve had the privilege to do."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWVa02RsBbg&t=252)
## Kyle MacLachlan (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdBFeaNFSA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/487-kyle-maclachlan-s-closet-picks)
- **Sex, Lies, and Videotape** (1989) - Steven Soderbergh - Spine #938 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28832-sex-lies-and-videotape) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098724/)
> "The first one I'm going to pick is sex lies and videotape steven soderbergh I was going to be in this actually but it didn't end up happening for the Spader role I thought it's made it was great he's wonderful and he's perfect and I love steven he also has a he has an investment in an alcohol singani which is a grape brandy I think coming out of bolivia so I also make wine and so we get together for cocktails sometimes and talk about what it's like to distribute..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdBFeaNFSA&t=9)
- **Le cercle rouge** (1970) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #218 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/628-le-cercle-rouge) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065531/)
> "So this is the Le cercle Rouge starring Alain Delon, Yves Montand and I was like until I got into the noir I was sort of like who's this Alain Delon what's the big deal about Alain Delon and I watch him and it's like the guy first of all he's incredibly handsome but he's so tough you just don't expect him to be as tough as he is looking that way gave me hope..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdBFeaNFSA&t=56)
- **The Manchurian Candidate** (1962) - John Frankenheimer - Spine #803 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28784-the-manchurian-candidate) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/)
> "Oh okay so this is oh I'm still I can still reach it Manchurian Candidate this is a film I don't I've seen I thought a long time ago but I don't remember but it was directed by the late John Frankenheimer and John was a character oh my lord he had some you know he had a great career and then he had some personal difficulties and then he got through those and then he was coming back directing and on his on what I call the comeback trail for John..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdBFeaNFSA&t=82)
- **Being There** (1979) - Hal Ashby - Spine #864 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29009-being-there) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/)
> "Being There oh my god this is great Peter Sellers Peter Sellers Performance was again I borrowed you know just or was inspired by let's say his character for again for the Dougie character in Twin Peaks: The Return I just the childlike quality that he had in his eyes and just the wonder and the way he looked at the world it was very helpful to me..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdBFeaNFSA&t=161)
- **Roma** (2018) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #1014 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30124-roma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6155172/)
> "And this one is great I just caught my Roma wow that's heavy Alfonso such a beautiful movie such a delicate movie so I worked with Alfonso on a series called Believe a number of years ago and it was such a pleasure I had been working I kind of had a lull in my career I guess and have been working and but I hadn't really worked with anyone of this caliber of Alfonso's caliber and I just had a couple days on the series but something washed over me like a kiss..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdBFeaNFSA&t=191)
- **The Elephant Man** (1980) - David Lynch - Spine #1051 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29677-the-elephant-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080678/)
> "The Elephant Man is beautiful film and I know that he felt a great affinity with that character and John Hurt did an extraordinary job Anthony Hopkins I work with Anthony later on we did a movie called The Trial together and we spent three nights in Kutná Hora in Czechoslovakia at that time filming in this cold church and we basically do impersonations of actors... And then we would do David Lynch together so we'd be doing dueling Davids because he worked on this one..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdBFeaNFSA&t=283)
- **Blue Velvet** (1986) - David Lynch - Spine #977 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29144-blue-velvet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)
> "Now this one Blue Velvet was kind of the kind of a rebirth for me because we done Dune together in 83 and Dune didn't really turn out that well in fact I was kind of after that it was sort of I felt like I was a Pariah in the business no work no nothing but David bless his heart he'd given me the script to Blue Velvet when we were filming while we were filming Dune in Mexico City and I read it and I was like whoa this is this is very intense and I really liked it..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdBFeaNFSA&t=331)
## Laura Albert & Jeff Feuerzeig (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sDoDOWAflY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/479-laura-albert-jeff-feuerzeig-s-closet-picks)
- **Rushmore** (1998) - Wes Anderson - Spine #65 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/333-rushmore) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128445/)
- **Repo Man** (1984) - Alex Cox - Spine #654 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28051-repo-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/)
> "Great film. This should be wallpaper. I think this is one of the few films that truly got punk rock. But I also loved... My dad actually loved this film because the repossession of cars. My dad worked for the Hertz Corporation and cars were a big thing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sDoDOWAflY&t=19)
- **Kiss Me Deadly** (1955) - Robert Aldrich - Spine #568 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27620-kiss-me-deadly) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048261/)
> "You know, I never saw Kiss Me Deadly. 'Kiss Me Deadly tonight,' which of course was a great Generation X song. When two punks choose Kiss Me Deadly tonight."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sDoDOWAflY&t=40)
- **My Own Private Idaho** (1991) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #277 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/249-my-own-private-idaho) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102494/)
> "This is a great movie. Unfortunately, there is a narration by the great Gus Van Sant, the director, and this JT LeRoy, that a disembodied spirit is narrating this film. Now how could somebody who goes in and out of different people's bodies, how did Criterion get them here? This JT LeRoy on... Is this DVD or Blu-ray? It's like Edison inventing the capacity, the equipment to talk to The Dead."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sDoDOWAflY&t=76)
- **On the Waterfront** (1954) - Elia Kazan - Spine #647 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/)
> "It's tough not to love. That's the pigeons and the pigeon coop. I used to live in Hoboken and would recognize pretty much every street that this was filmed on. It meant so much to me. I just love Kazan."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sDoDOWAflY&t=114)
- **The Rose** (1979) - Mark Rydell - Spine #757 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28572-the-rose) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079826/)
> "This movie, The Rose, Bette Midler. I don't know what year it came out... 1979. So I was like 13 and I really absorbed it. I was so bullied and I always had this idea that if I could prove I was enough somehow by being famous that then it would make them sorry. And my Mother always told me 'you can't shine.' How she goes back and tries to fix her pain and you can't do it. You can only move forward and be with the people who are of your family and your tribe."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sDoDOWAflY&t=134)
- **Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/613-pigs-pimps-prostitutes-3-films-by-shohei-imamura)
> "I have to say this title completely intrigues me. I mean, this is like so up my alley. Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes. It's not quite lot lizards and truck stops, but it's kind of in the same genre."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sDoDOWAflY&t=58)
## Laura Dern (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/928-laura-dern-s-closet-picks)
- **3 Women** (1977) - Robert Altman - Spine #230 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/712-3-women) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075612/)
> "We have to talk about Robert Altman if we’re going to talk about acting. He is the gift to actors: to find truth in everyday circumstance. I had the privilege of working with him. And 3 Women is such an influence on me. These performances are so incredible. Just staring at Sissy Spacek’s face makes me want to cry."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=32)
- **McCabe & Mrs. Miller** (1971) - Robert Altman - Spine #827 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28712-mccabe-mrs-miller) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/)
> "Also, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Warren Beatty and Julie Christie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=55)
- **Tanner ‘88** (1988) - - Spine #258 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/952-tanner-88)
> "But also, while we’re at it, Tanner ’88. I was just thinking how many series and limited series watched this to discover the intimacy of storytelling, by being on the road with a political candidate, in the way he did his hand-held work, and the performances are incredible, like everything he gave us."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=60)
- **Persona** (1966) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #701 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28491-persona) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060827/)
> "And therefore you have to talk about Persona, two of the greatest female performances of all time. I talk about these performances, I think and dream on them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=108)
- **Diabolique** (1996) - Jeremiah S. Chechik - Spine #35 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/575-diabolique) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116095/)
> "And a great hero of mine and a deep hero of my Mother’s is Simone Signoret, and you have Diabolique. Please see this film, see all her work. Every cell is true."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=120)
- **The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy box)** (1964) - Jacques Demy - Spine #716 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27933-the-umbrellas-of-cherbourg) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058450/)
> "But let’s talk about her masterful performances, like in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which has influenced, obviously, so many films. The vulnerability of her, all while in song, is just extraordinary."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=146)
- **Belle de Jour** (1967) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #593 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27949-belle-de-jour) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061395/)
> "Belle de Jour. Oh my God, this film. She brings innocence to brokenness and she brings innocence to sexuality in a way I had never seen, and was such an influence on me as an actor."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=161)
- **The Philadelphia Story** (1940) - George Cukor - Spine #901 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29029-the-philadelphia-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032904/)
> "But in Philadelphia Story, the greatest screenplay. I don’t even understand this writing, it’s so brilliant. It’s insane. Every Performance is perfect, and it’s so radical, slightly mean-spirited. Everybody’s a mess. Frankly, a total shit show. Jimmy Stewart is raw and sassy and amoral at moments and yet we fall madly in love with him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=194)
- **David Lynch: The Art Life** (2017) - Jon Nguyen - Spine #895 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29285-david-lynch-the-art-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1691152/)
> "David Lynch, The Art Life, which I’m staring at right here, which I started to watch and had to stop because I wasn’t quite ready, but I cannot wait for."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=239)
- **Inland Empire** (2006) - David Lynch - Spine #1175 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30077-inland-empire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460829/)
> "And Inland Empire, which speaks to his radical reinvention of cinema. He wanted to use the crudest camera possible, so he grabbed a Sony camcorder and a couple hundred thousand dollars, and for three years we made this movie, at times just The Two of Us, with a camcorder, in Poland and France and LA, and it was one of the great gifts of my life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=251)
- **Smooth Talk** (1985) - Joyce Chopra - Spine #1068 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29655-smooth-talk) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090037/)
> "You guys have Smooth Talk on Blu-ray, and I made this movie when I was 15 years old, directed by Joyce Chopra, an amazing filmmaker, with Treat Williams, who’s so brilliant in this movie, and I think a fascinating movie. I’m really, really lucky to be part of it. It was, I think, my first lead in a film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=301)
- **Real Life** (1979) - Albert Brooks - Spine #1231 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30974-real-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079781/)
> "Real Life, the mockumentary, which… I mean, honestly, I want to do lines from it. Nothing is a greater gift."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=339)
- **Defending Your Life** (1991) - Albert Brooks - Spine #1071 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29634-defending-your-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/)
> "Except top-five favorite movies of my life: Defending Your Life. When I told Meryl Streep this may be my favorite Performance of hers because she’s so perfect and he’s so perfect, and it’s the most romantic film. It makes us reconsider our lives, and it’s the funniest idea of what happens to us when we go."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=351)
- **Scorsese Shorts** (2020) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1030 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30616-scorsese-shorts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12431770/)
> "I asked when I came in if you had Scorsese Shorts. The Big Shave is such a brilliant and radical short in his political subversion and all that he has always said with his films. And of course, the performances mean everything."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=422)
- **The Awful Truth** (1937) - Leo McCarey - Spine #917 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27904-the-awful-truth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028597/)
> "Irene Dunne, my grandmother loved Irene Dunne, and I chose The Awful Truth with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, and screwball comedies have meant everything to me, as you heard. Amazing that I got to choose this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=468)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "And I got a Spike Lee movie and this makes me so happy. This, we all know, is a masterpiece, a masterpiece in acting, a masterpiece in filmmaking. Spike Lee, I think, is the comparable master of creating the world of truth in space like no other filmmaker. He is such a genius."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=484)
- **The Night of the Hunter** (1955) - Charles Laughton - Spine #541 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/)
> "Night of the Hunter. It is absurdist, it’s incredible, and my godmother, Shelley Winters, is so incredible in this movie, as she is in every Performance. You must see this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=519)
- **The Last Picture Show** (1971) - Peter Bogdanovich - Spine #549 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27533-the-last-picture-show) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067328/)
> "If you have not seen all of Bogdanovich’s work, you better. And you better read everything he gave us on film and about other filmmakers, including John Ford. The greatest teacher about film, and The Last Picture Show is one of my favorite movies of all time. Such incredible performances."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=532)
- **Fanny and Alexander** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/206-fanny-and-alexander)
> "The first movie I saw in the theater with my grandmother, of Bergman, she took me to see Fanny and Alexander, and I will never forget being such a little girl and saying to my grandma, “I’ve seen the color red for the first time.” Everything was so vibrant and so powerful and taught me about life and grief and love."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=86)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "If I’m talking about actresses, I have to talk about Giulietta Masina. And I see this… extraordinary gift of Fellini, but within Fellini’s work with his amazing wife and muse, we have La strada, one of the most important female performances of all time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=376)
- **America Lost and Found: The BBS Story** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/769-america-lost-and-found-the-bbs-story)
> "Last of the bonus round. Okay, first of all, it has The King of Marvin Gardens. I love this movie so much. My dad, Bruce Dern, his best buddy, Jack Nicholson. The acting is incredible. Thank you, Bob Rafelson, for this incredible movie... But also, didn’t know, Drive, He Said, directed by Jack Nicholson, starring Bruce Dern. Two friends making a movie together, and it’s so raw and beautiful... This is an incredible series. I can’t believe this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2IZf_NRJKs&t=551)
## Laurie Anderson (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9_lqHmNsg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/463-laurie-anderson-s-closet-picks)
- **The Magician** (1926) - Rex Ingram - Spine #537 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27521-the-magician) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017103/)
> "Oh, The Magician. You know, I was going to make music for this thing. Somebody had asked me to do that for some weird version of it. So, taking The Magician."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9_lqHmNsg&t=6)
- **My Winnipeg** (2008) - Guy Maddin - Spine #741 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27969-my-winnipeg) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093842/)
> "My Winnipeg is—I'm not going to take this because I have it in many forms, but he's one of my favorite filmmakers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9_lqHmNsg&t=29)
- **Design for Living** (1933) - Ernst Lubitsch - Spine #592 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27872-design-for-living) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023940/)
> "Design for Living. What is that? Oh, of course. Funny."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9_lqHmNsg&t=39)
- **White Dog** (1982) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #455 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/861-white-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084899/)
> "Samuel Fuller. Best first scene of any movie. She's waking up, alarm clock rings, and she's really late. I think of her often because she runs to the tap, puts some hot water into a cup of coffee, and puts instant coffee into the hot water in the tap. And that's the beginning of a day that goes from there, from that place to much worse, a day that just falls apart."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9_lqHmNsg&t=51)
- **Sunday Bloody Sunday** (1971) - John Schlesinger - Spine #629 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28025-sunday-bloody-sunday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067805/)
- **I Married a Witch** (1942) - René Clair - Spine #676 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27771-i-married-a-witch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034881/)
> "I Married a Witch, René Clair. Okay, just for fun, do you know this one?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9_lqHmNsg&t=101)
- **Tout va bien** (1972) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #275 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/929-tout-va-bien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069398/)
> "Tout va bien is the last just because I had it but then I lost it so I just want to see it again..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9_lqHmNsg&t=113)
- **André Gregory & Wallace Shawn: 3 Films** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1110-andre-gregory-wallace-shawn-3-films)
> "I think I have to do this because of Wally Shawn and he helped me so much on a project that I just finished called Habeas Corpus."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9_lqHmNsg&t=17)
- **Trilogy of Life** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/916-trilogy-of-life)
> "Trilogy of Life. Great Italian poet. Okay, I can't resist."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc9_lqHmNsg&t=87)
## Lav Diaz (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/916-lav-diaz-s-closet-picks)
- **Lost Highway** (1997) - David Lynch - Spine #1152 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31590-lost-highway) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922/)
> "So I’m starting here with Lost Highway by David Lynch. Lynch, a very influential filmmaker. I love him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=11)
- **The Leopard** (1963) - Luchino Visconti - Spine #235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/790-the-leopard) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057091/)
> "The Leopard, one the best socialist films, by Visconti, of course."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=33)
- **Le Samouraï** (1967) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #306 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/184-le-samourai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/)
> "Le Samouraï. What a great film. What a great film. That’s all I can say. The bird in the film is something. The silences, the spaces in the film, they’re great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=40)
- **Persona** (1966) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #701 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28491-persona) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060827/)
> "I have the Bergman collection, but Persona, for all who want to understand, again, the psyche, the issue of turmoil in an individual, this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=100)
- **I Am Cuba** (1964) - Mikheil Kalatozishvili - Spine #1214 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33466-i-am-cuba) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/)
> "I Am Cuba. Beautiful film from the Cuban Revolution."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=77)
- **Werckmeister Harmonies** (2001) - Béla Tarr - Spine #1215 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33388-werckmeister-harmonies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249241/)
> "Béla Tarr is a good friend. I love his works."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=83)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "Naked, Mike Leigh. Wow. This is something. The drama, the… the acting, and Mike Leigh, how he understands The Human Condition. Fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=87)
- **Ugetsu** (1953) - Kenji Mizoguchi - Spine #309 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/369-ugetsu) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/)
> "Ugetsu… Wow. Kenji Mizoguchi, one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers. Again, he dissects The Human Condition in a very, very clinical way. You watch him and you understand humanity."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=114)
- **The Apu Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1145-the-apu-trilogy)
> "Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray. It’s a whole universe about poverty, about struggle, about oppression. All those things."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=21)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "There’s a box set here by Fellini. Oh my God, Fellini. How can you miss Fellini? Once in your lifetime, you should watch at least one Fellini and there’s cinema already."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=51)
- **Ingmar Bergman's Cinema** (38 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema)
> "Bergman. Bergman. Come on, come on. It’s all about humanity’s condition. It’s all about being in a psychiatric ward."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=64)
- **Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/704-letters-from-fontainhas-three-films-by-pedro-costa)
> "Pedro is a very dear friend. We have the same birthday, the same year, everything, but, besides that, he’s a really, really true, great filmmaker. Pedro Costa."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuWY9CPr2hI&t=133)
## Lee Daniels (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/682-lee-daniels-s-closet-picks)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "I already see the first film that I like, Fellini's 8½. And guess what? They said in case I'm interested, I'm taking this one home. Fellini is my God, my hero. Fellini made it possible for me to think that I was a filmmaker because none of this stuff makes sense really at the end of the day, but it does make sense. And I don't make sense. I love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNtp1bAI8o&t=5)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "When I think of my work, you know, I think it's like Do the Right Thing. I think of myself as a—I don't know, I feel like I'm definitely influenced by European directors, by Spike Lee, black directors, by gay filmmakers. Little Euro, little ghetto, a little homo."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNtp1bAI8o&t=38)
- **Querelle** (1982) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Spine #1221 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27974-querelle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084565/)
> "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Querelle, baby doll. Querelle, man, insane. Brad Davis was a god. I think Jeanne Moreau's in it too. Yeah, Jeanne Moreau is a beast. This was exciting, this is an exciting film for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNtp1bAI8o&t=64)
- **Female Trouble** (1974) - John Waters - Spine #929 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28704-female-trouble) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072979/)
> "I've got lots of trouble, Female Trouble. So I took my Mother to see John Waters and my aunt to see John Waters's film. I think that was another turning point. I think I was 19 in Philadelphia and I took my Mother and my aunt to see this. And at the end of it, my aunt, little old black lady, slapped me in the face and I knew at that moment that I wanted to be a director because I wanted to make people feel the way she felt."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNtp1bAI8o&t=83)
- **Pickup on South Street** (1953) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #224 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/446-pickup-on-south-street) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046187/)
> "Pickup on South Street. Yo, this is another one that just threw me into a loop. The rhythm is off the chain. Fuller, Sam Fuller. Let me tell you something, yo, this cat right here, they had the lead guy punch a woman in the stomach in the subway, which I've never seen anything like it before. Again, risk-taking that you just don't see. Yeah, don't get no better than this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNtp1bAI8o&t=125)
- **The Piano** (1993) - Jane Campion - Spine #1110 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30424-the-piano) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/)
> "Jane, Jane's The Piano. You know, taught me to be quiet and Jane does that. She sits with people where Cassavetes is moving it all around, you know, Jane is still and has taught me to be still with the camera."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNtp1bAI8o&t=151)
- **Claudine** (1974) - John Berry - Spine #1052 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29599-claudine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071334/)
> "Oh my God, so Claudine. Claudine reminds me of my mom. My mom was elegant, is elegant. She raised five kids on her own. My mom took us to see this in Philadelphia, West Philly at the Locust Theater. I couldn't believe I was seeing my life on screen. I saw my Mother smile after my dad's death and I wanted to make her smile. So I think that this is very dear to my heart. And the Gladys Knight & the Pips soundtrack, Curtis Mayfield soundtrack on this is just a beast."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNtp1bAI8o&t=172)
- **Spartacus** (1960) - Stanley Kubrick - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/449-spartacus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/)
> "Spartacus. Oh man, it's funny, you know, you get in here and you realize you're influenced by so many filmmakers and they sort of they're etched in your head and you're trying to—you are this, I am this bag, you know? I bring all of this to the table when I'm directing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNtp1bAI8o&t=237)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
## Lee Unkrich (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnO5_ZfUDoM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/477-lee-unkrich-s-closet-picks)
- **Three Colors: Red** (1994) - Krzysztof Kieślowski - Spine #590 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/844-three-colors) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111495/)
> "Something that I have never seen that I feel very guilty about which is the three colours trilogy my friend Andrew Stanton loves these films and he's been trying to get me to watch them for years and I have it so I'm gonna fix that now..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnO5_ZfUDoM&t=11)
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
- **Loves of a Blonde** (1965) - Miloš Forman - Spine #144 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/246-loves-of-a-blonde) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059415/)
> "Milos Forman, Loves of a Blonde. This is amazing. This is a simple, heartbreaking film, very, very lovely, well worth the see. Not a film a lot of people know about."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnO5_ZfUDoM&t=42)
- **The Graduate** (1967) - Mike Nichols - Spine #800 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28578-the-graduate) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/)
> "The Graduate, another amazing film, Mike Nichols. I started out as an editor when I went to film school... And there were a number of films that kind of blew my head open having to do with editing and the power of editing, and The Graduate was one of them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnO5_ZfUDoM&t=57)
- **Punch-Drunk Love** (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson - Spine #843 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27916-punch-drunk-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/)
> "Punch-Drunk Love, Paul Thomas Anderson. This is, I think it's in my top 5 movies of all time. I'm friends with Gary Rydstrom who was the sound designer on this... I love hearing things like that where the filmmakers are kind of thinking about ideas and expressing ideas that are kind of outside the bounds of the film itself."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnO5_ZfUDoM&t=91)
- **An Angel at My Table** (1990) - Jane Campion - Spine #301 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/742-an-angel-at-my-table) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099040/)
> "Angel at My Table, I believe is originally made as a TV movie in Australia... It's a beautiful film. This is probably the most quoted movie in my household... I got to meet Jane Campion... It was maybe the most nervous I've ever been meeting a filmmaker because I just adore her so much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnO5_ZfUDoM&t=147)
- **Seconds** (1966) - John Frankenheimer - Spine #667 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/)
> "Seconds, John Frankenheimer. This is an awesome film. I first saw this in film school... Rock Hudson, beautiful black-and-white photography by James Wong Howe and a lot of really innovative camerawork... It's essentially a feature-length Twilight Zone episode but shot really, really beautifully."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnO5_ZfUDoM&t=192)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "Another one of my probably top 5 favorite films, All That Jazz, Bob Fosse. This is an amazing film, also very 70s... This was one of the first films that really showed me the power of editing... To see the command that he had over filmmaking and editing and using it rhythmically the way he used dance and movement was really remarkable."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnO5_ZfUDoM&t=256)
## Lena Dunham (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpRsEF6Gn8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/843-lena-dunham-s-closet-picks)
- **Town Bloody Hall** (1979) - Chris Hegedus - Spine #1039 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30213-town-bloody-hall) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217853/)
> "Town Bloody Hall. I love nothing more than when misogynists and feminists have a fight at a large event space. That’s what this is about. I can watch it for hours and then put it on again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpRsEF6Gn8&t=62)
- **Love & Basketball** (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood - Spine #1097 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31500-love-basketball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199725/)
> "Love & Basketball. This couple, this romance makes me want to play sports. Everything you want a movie to be, and it’s a true comfort film for me and a classic example of a romantic comedy that is not bogged down by the genre. I love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpRsEF6Gn8&t=79)
- **Streetwise** (1984) - Martin Bell - Spine #1079 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29631-streetwise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088196/)
> "Streetwise/Tiny. These documentaries by the brilliant Mary Ellen Mark tell the story of runaways who are making it on the Mean Streets of the Pacific Northwest in the ’70s and ’80s. These kids’ speaking is better than anything adults could ever write, and Mary Ellen has the most tender, sensitive gaze on their lives. You will laugh. You will cry. These movies are unbelievably special."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpRsEF6Gn8&t=95)
- **My Brilliant Career** (1979) - Gillian Armstrong - Spine #973 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29065-my-brilliant-career) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079596/)
> "My Brilliant Career, I mean, this film by Gillian Armstrong, it is touching, it is powerful, it is feminist. Judy Davis’s hair, she’s going to the Met Gala, guys. It’s going in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpRsEF6Gn8&t=136)
- **The Daytrippers** (1997) - Greg Mottola - Spine #1001 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29464-the-daytrippers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116041/)
> "Okay, Daytrippers. I love this because when I used to go to Tower Video when I was a kid... Greg Mottola introduced me to so many of my indie film icons. I mean: Stanley Tucci, Hope Davis, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber, Anne Meara. Look at all of that virtuosity in one place. That’s like a lot of indie-film inspiration for one little girl. With a big dose of kind of… like, kind of gay panic. It’s perfect."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpRsEF6Gn8&t=154)
- **Okja** (2017) - Bong Joon Ho - Spine #1133 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32600-okja) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3967856/)
> "This is a newer favorite for me. This is Okja. I love this for so many reasons, but I am a pig parent and I think that this talks about the beauty of the interspecial bond and the kind of tenuousness of the mycelium Network of animal and human interconnections in a way that so few movies do."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpRsEF6Gn8&t=193)
- **Night on Earth** (1991) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #401 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/227-night-on-earth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/)
> "Night on Earth. How can I be a New Yorker and have never watched Night on Earth, you may ask. This is something I told a lot of men that I’d seen so that we could make out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpRsEF6Gn8&t=231)
- **Defending Your Life** (1991) - Albert Brooks - Spine #1071 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29634-defending-your-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/)
> "Defending Your Life. I love, love, love when Meryl goes LOL. We know no one wipes the floor with the drama better, but when Meryl Streep blesses us with a comedy, just like when Albert Brooks blesses us with an emotional scene. So, Defending Your Life: one of the craziest premises, one of the most remarkable films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpRsEF6Gn8&t=242)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
## Leslie Harris (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk53DeosP00) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/454-leslie-harris-s-closet-picks)
- **La Règle du jeu** (1939) - Jean Renoir - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/295-the-rules-of-the-game) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/)
> "I have to take this. This is like the if you want to learn how to make a movie about Rules of The Game. Renoir really has, you know, his father was a painter and he has a great sense of mise-en-scène and where to put the characters within the frame and it's a phenomenal—if you're talking about blocking and staging, this is a phenomenal film. It's the blocking reflects the emotions of the characters which is something that I think everyone kind of can appreciate and enjoy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk53DeosP00&t=12)
- **Scenes from a Marriage** (1974) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #229 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/710-scenes-from-a-marriage) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6725014/)
> "Scenes from a Marriage. I did a talk at Brooklyn Academy of Music and I introduced John Singleton's... Baby Boy. I mentioned this with Bergman because sometimes John Singleton was looking for the truth of character... You see that in this too. Sometimes black directors get pigeonholed and we think the violence is just about our culture but this shows that their marriage is just as tenuous and sometimes just as violent and emotionally violent."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk53DeosP00&t=113)
- **Divorce Italian Style** (1961) - Pietro Germi - Spine #286 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/877-divorce-italian-style) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055913/)
> "If you want to laugh, Divorce Italian Style."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk53DeosP00&t=111)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "Oh big Fellini fan and for this film it just it the opening when you see the opening when he's in the car is a phenomenal opening and it taught me that an open the first scene and the opening of the film should set the tone for the whole film and that's what this [does]."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk53DeosP00&t=196)
- **4 by Agnès Varda** (4 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/8-4-by-agnes-varda)
> "This is Agnès Varda, she's one of my favorite directors. Her really great film Cléo from 5 to 7 is wonderful. I also love Vagabond... It actually inspired me to do my movie because it showed a woman who was a complex character. She wasn't just a good girl or a bad girl, she was really complex in this movie and it was a realistic portrait of a woman going through homelessness and despair but still having a sense of who she is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk53DeosP00&t=52)
## Lila Avilés (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PMTo4SK__s) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/620-lila-aviles-s-closet-picks)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "Yi, Edward Yang has this thing with people, no with characters, have this thing that even he has amazing locations he will never lose his characters. I love him so much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PMTo4SK__s&t=11)
- **Onibaba** (1964) - Kaneto Shindō - Spine #226 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/665-onibaba) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058430/)
> "Onibaba, this film I recommend a lot. It's so beautiful. It's a horror film but it's erotic and super simple with nothing. And I have been all my life in love of Kabuki, no, Noh theater. So this is for my bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PMTo4SK__s&t=35)
- **Boat People** (1942) - Jacques Tourneur - Spine #1113 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28696-cat-people) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034587/)
> "Boat People from the beautiful Hong Kong director Ann Hui. She's amazing. She has this thing that you don't know if it's documentary or it's a film. Love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PMTo4SK__s&t=91)
- **The Prince of Tides** (1991) - Barbra Streisand - Spine #1022 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29571-the-prince-of-tides) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102713/)
> "This film, The Prince of Tides, it's wonderful, beautiful. It's that amazing acting and also it's for my mom that she's a huge fan of Barbra Streisand. Mom, I'm here because of you, so this is for you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PMTo4SK__s&t=109)
- **In the Realm of the Senses** (1976) - Nagisa Ōshima - Spine #466 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1287-in-the-realm-of-the-senses) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074102/)
> "It's getting hot. In the Realm of the Senses, a film by Nagisa Oshima. Craziness. I remember when I watched this film, and beautiful shots now with all the purple and all the clothing, but super erotical. I need to watch it again. To my bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PMTo4SK__s&t=132)
- **Burden of Dreams** (1982) - Les Blank - Spine #287 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/546-burden-of-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083702/)
> "I need to recommend this film, Burden of Dreams. This amazing man, Herzog, not only a filmmaker but a warrior, traveler. And it's about the Fitzcarraldo journey because it's not only about films but it's also about the journeys. So I want this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PMTo4SK__s&t=166)
- **Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/564-eclipse-series-12-aki-kaurismaki-s-proletariat-trilogy)
## Lily Gladstone & Erica Tremblay (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/674-lily-gladstone-erica-tremblay-s-closet-picks)
- **Local Hero** (1983) - Bill Forsyth - Spine #994 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28709-local-hero) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/)
> "First movie that I ever watched with my parents, I think one of the first things that gave me a taste in film, it's Local Hero. Oh my God, I haven't seen the artwork for it yet. I didn't know this was in here, this was a real surprise."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA&t=11)
- **Quadrophenia** (1979) - Franc Roddam - Spine #624 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27775-quadrophenia) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079766/)
> "Oh, Quadrophenia by Frank Roddam. Frank Roddam directed a film called War Party which shot on my reservation when I was 2 years old. My dad was in the rigging department of it and that was kind of like, I think my dad working on a film being one of my earliest childhood memories. Frank Roddam is like a pretty important director in my life, so this one's for my dad and for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA&t=25)
- **After Life** (1999) - Hirokazu Kore-eda - Spine #1089 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29081-after-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165078/)
> "After Life. I got to jury with Kore-eda at Cannes this year and he very quickly became one of my favorite people in the world. Watched Monster immediately, one of my favorite films, so I'm creating my Kore-eda collection with this. Love you, Kore-eda."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA&t=58)
- **Old Joy** (2006) - Kelly Reichardt - Spine #1008 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29062-old-joy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468526/)
> "I am so happy I got to see this one, Old Joy. So the same year that Certain Women premiered at Sundance, Old Joy's remaster also screened and I got to see it. That's the only time I've seen it and I've wanted to watch it over and over and over since then, so it's definitely going in."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA&t=87)
- **Certain Women** (2016) - Kelly Reichardt - Spine #893 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29212-certain-women) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4468634/)
> "This obviously has to be my first pick, this is what Erica saw me in first, Certain Women. I remember as a native woman watching this film and then seeing this face come across the screen totally—I just wasn't ready to see like a native person in a movie just living their life. I love Kelly Reichardt so much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA&t=148)
- **Down by Law** (1986) - Jim Jarmusch - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/)
> "And I found Down by Law. I love this movie, this Jim Jarmusch. Anything Tom Waits does I'm going to watch, it's so good. And John Lurie's in this. Yes, this one too, here right here. Great one for you, one for you and one for me, our little besties Down by Law Blu-rays."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA&t=195)
- **Frances Ha** (2013) - Noah Baumbach - Spine #681 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28560-frances-ha) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2347569/)
> "The film I'm picking for Erica is actually her nickname because I was called this... If you watch this and spend any time with her you will see it. We love you Greta, we love you so much. I'm going to happily take this, I love this film and I love her Performance."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA&t=224)
- **The Adventures of Baron Munchausen** (1988) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #1166 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29570-the-adventures-of-baron-munchausen) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096764/)
> "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. This film is beautiful and wacky and wonderful and so imaginative and so if you haven't seen it, I love all of those things. I think you're going to like this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA&t=254)
- **Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese** (2019) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1062 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31036-rolling-thunder-revue-a-bob-dylan-story-by-martin-scorsese) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9577852/)
> "Rolling Thunder Revue, I've got to take one of these. When I was filming Killers of the Flower Moon actually I had this just on all the time, it was always playing in the background because I wanted Marty, I wanted to just like, you know, be immersed in Marty but I didn't want to be influenced by other narratives."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA&t=270)
- **Scorsese Shorts** (2020) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1030 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30616-scorsese-shorts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12431770/)
> "I got to get Scorsese Shorts. Talking about directors that have influenced my life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI7Nje89peA&t=100)
## Lina Rodriguez (other)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zexLRuhoVY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/625-lina-rodriguez-s-closet-picks)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "Wanda I mean obviously not just because it's about a woman trying to find her place but also like I guess I'm always attracted to women who subvert their fate but also Wanderers so Wanda will be in my yes pile for sure."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zexLRuhoVY&t=33)
- **Leave Her to Heaven** (1945) - John M. Stahl - Spine #1020 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29602-leave-her-to-heaven) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037865/)
> "I mean I think Gene Tierney and Leave Her to Heaven is such a magnetic tragic but also moving character to watch. Movies where women are struggling with their monstrous sides is something that I find really inspiring so we have Wanda and Gene Tierney hanging out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zexLRuhoVY&t=51)
- **Portrait of a Lady on Fire** (2019) - Céline Sciamma - Spine #1034 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30469-portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8613070/)
> "Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire. I mean not only the performances on this film but just the visual grammar. I don't know that many people who have used shot reverse shot in a way that it's like sure it's spatial and maybe it's geographical... But in the context of the desire and connection and bond between these two women looking at how a woman looks at another woman... The women singing around the fire as like witches."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zexLRuhoVY&t=73)
- **Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day** (2017) - Juliane Lorenz - Spine #946 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29400-eight-hours-don-t-make-a-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6738228/)
> "So I mean I love all of Fassbinder's films and we have a bunch of them, but, Eight Hours Don't Make a Day kind of like marks his melodrama, but he was like a soap opera and he has like this softness,, that is a little bit different from some of his other films, yet it has this, I don't know, like critical and very awake perspective on, on German society as a whole. It's a tender film, but I think in like, in tenderness actually,, in English that word tender means when you've been hurt..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zexLRuhoVY&t=162)
- **Flowers of Shanghai** (1998) - Hou Hsiao-hsien - Spine #1077 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30521-flowers-of-shanghai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156587/)
> "Oh, Flowers of Shanghai. Just Hou Hsiao-hsien's, just like the glow and the sort of like lingering sort of like delirious camera work but just how he gets us close to these two characters and this sort of like impossible love."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zexLRuhoVY&t=216)
- **Exotica** (1994) - Atom Egoyan - Spine #1150 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29270-exotica) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109759/)
> "And I did see Exotica and I don't want to leave Adam Egoyan. Speaking of impossible love, just Adam's Exotica. I mean Adam is a filmmaker who both in his cinema but in his personality is someone who I find just really inspiring and just I think his interest in damaged souls, something that I found really inspiring. This is a beautiful artwork for this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zexLRuhoVY&t=222)
- **Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema** (1 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6737-bo-widerberg-s-new-swedish-cinema)
> "Yes,, Bo Widerberg, I'm probably mispronouncing it, it's a Swedish filmmaker. The only film here that I've seen is Raven's End, and it's about this man who's trying to be a writer and he lives in a working class setting, so I'm looking forward to the other films that he made because I think there is harshness but a softness, like there's a sort of like a humanist approach and a way to look at things poetically but also looking at things sort of straight up, like directly."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zexLRuhoVY&t=123)
## Louis Garrel (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Xf_iXTjXg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/537-louis-garrel-s-closet-picks)
- **Summer with Monika** (1953) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #614 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27638-summer-with-monika) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046345/)
> "Obviously I know Monika and I think I have a quite strong relation to that movie like everyone. Not Bergman, but Ingmar and also Wild Strawberries and but I don't know I don't know him yet. I know him through Woody strangely because if you watch the last time I was watching Scenes from a Marriage but it was too tough for me because it's too hard you know and I said okay I need a Bergman but lighter tonight and I put Hannah and Her Sisters and it's the same, it's a Bergman but a sense of humor."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Xf_iXTjXg&t=41)
- **Loves of a Blonde** (1965) - Miloš Forman - Spine #144 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/246-loves-of-a-blonde) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059415/)
> "Lovers that's the most one of the most wonderful movies in the world. Loves of a Blonde, this is a very good movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Xf_iXTjXg&t=107)
- **Sólo con tu pareja** (1992) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #353 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/798-solo-con-tu-pareja) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102958/)
- **Jules and Jim** (1962) - François Truffaut - Spine #281 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055032/)
> "I want to take Jules and Jim. The matrix of so many French movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Xf_iXTjXg&t=132)
- **Amarcord** (1973) - Federico Fellini - Spine #4 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/208-amarcord) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071129/)
> "Amarcord. Amarcord, that's fantastic. No, it's very fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Xf_iXTjXg&t=141)
- **Europa** (1991) - Lars von Trier - Spine #454 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/768-europa) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101829/)
- **Pierre Etaix** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/947-pierre-etaix)
> "Pierre Etaix, movies of Pierre Etaix because of Jean-Claude Carrière is a friend of mine and I'm going to give it, he is going to be very happy because he works on it on the all the movies of Pierre because they are very friends."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Xf_iXTjXg&t=9)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "Somebody told me you know I want to there is if there is one movie on Earth it's a Jacques Tati movie and this is a Blu-ray collection and I have a projector on my apartment and it's and with the Blu-ray it's going to be fantastic. Complete Jacques Tati, fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Xf_iXTjXg&t=23)
- **Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/855-eclipse-series-31-three-popular-films-by-jean-pierre-gorin)
> "I'm going to take three popular films by Jean-Pierre Gorin because I've never seen them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Xf_iXTjXg&t=82)
- **3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/982-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman)
- **Persona** (1966) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #701 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28491-persona) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060827/)
## Luca Guadagnino (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fodK93XWLwg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/877-luca-guadagnino-s-closet-picks)
- **The Naked Kiss** (1964) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #18 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/533-the-naked-kiss) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058390/)
> "Then, more movies to recommend. Naked Kiss. I’m crazy, and when I was a kid, like, 20, I wrote a Naked Kiss script, a remake, which should stay unpublished and undone and unseen. But the level of influence that the work of Sam Fuller had on my work, on my mind, on my imaginary, is total. Naked Kiss, Sam Fuller, one of the greatest directors who ever lived."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fodK93XWLwg&t=77)
- **Fat Girl** (2001) - Catherine Breillat - Spine #259 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/548-fat-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243255/)
> "This is one of my favorite movies ever: Fat Girl. By the sublime Catherine Breillat. This movie is devastating in every way you can think of because it brings you inside of the visceral relationship between growing up and not knowing what you’re going to become and the power of the impulses of sexuality over the body and the mind of a young girl and a few young girls. It also lands in a place of apocalyptic fury in depicting somehow the invisible hand of violence over women."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fodK93XWLwg&t=105)
- **The Last Temptation of Christ** (1988) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #70 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/612-the-last-temptation-of-christ) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095497/)
> "The last recommendation before I basically bring everything home here, it’s, for me, probably with The Age of Innocence, my favorite movie by Martin Scorsese: The Last Temptation of Christ, from the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis. It shows the dream of Christ, of Jesus Christ, of being human, and the impossibility of being so. And the way in which Scorsese portrays the miracles in this movie, it’s so powerful because basically he works with his tools, which is filming and editing. Masterpiece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fodK93XWLwg&t=154)
- **Cairo Station** (1958) - Youssef Chahine - Spine #1273 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32722-cairo-station) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051390/)
> "Now, let’s go and grab stuff. I mean, Cairo Station, Youssef Chahine. My Mother is Algerian, I grew up in Ethiopia, and, for the… let’s say, Maghreb, and for all that part of sub-Saharan world of Africa, Chahine was like a legend and it was engraved in the imagery. But also he was one of the great auteurs, and this movie is just sublime."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fodK93XWLwg&t=212)
- **Sorcerer** (1977) - William Friedkin - Spine #1267 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34370-sorcerer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076740/)
> "And this is one of the best titles of the Criterion Collection: Sorcerer by Bill Friedkin. This is the movie that almost stopped his career after the triumphs of The French Connection and The Exorcist... Went completely opposite direction, counterintuitive, and made the movie that is obsessive as much as the characters in the movie are obsessive... In order to create one of the most hallucinating representations of slow time, let’s say. Sorcerer, Bill Friedkin."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fodK93XWLwg&t=243)
- **Night Moves** (1975) - Arthur Penn - Spine #1255 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29466-night-moves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073453/)
> "And let’s pick out a last one, because I feel embarrassed to grab so many things. Because this is the year in which the great Gene Hackman left us, I think I end here with Arthur Penn, Night Moves. The kernel of cinema that I grew up with, that I think of all the time, that I take the inspiration for, and that I try to think in the way they thought, comes from the period of time where this movie comes from. So, this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fodK93XWLwg&t=295)
- **World of Wong Kar Wai** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4117-world-of-wong-kar-wai)
> "The first thing is a classic, a modern classic. We never make a mistake in recommending the box set of Wong Kar Wai. In the Mood for Love is a transformative movie... In its beautiful directness the movie has so many secrets. The final scene, when finally the lover releases himself and tells his truth in the rocks in Cambodia, it’s one of the great moments of cinema, of modern cinema... That influenced me all the time, that not only influenced me as a filmmaker, but as a person."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fodK93XWLwg&t=35)
## Lucrecia Martel (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/439-lucrecia-martel-s-closet-picks)
- **Love Streams** (1984) - John Cassavetes - Spine #721 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28032-love-streams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087644/)
> "Porque es estúpido esta película me sirve todo el tiempo la vuelvo a ver es mil veces..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=151)
- **Time Bandits** (1981) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #37 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/232-time-bandits) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/)
> "Time Bandits lo mejor que le puede pasar a la infancia de un niño esto hace si miras yo quisiera que mi vida fuera así..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=78)
- **Eyes Without a Face** (1960) - Georges Franju - Spine #260 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/950-eyes-without-a-face) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/)
> "Su rostro los ojos sin rostro..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=97)
- **Boat People** (1942) - Jacques Tourneur - Spine #1113 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28696-cat-people) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034587/)
> "Catpeople este cine es el cine que se dejó de hacer como el terror en televisión..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=100)
- **Naked Lunch** (1991) - David Cronenberg - Spine #220 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/634-naked-lunch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/)
> "Naked Lunch mi favorita del tono de los diálogos me encanta esta película... él encarna la enfermedad de los 80 el sida del miedo interior me encanta y me parece que es menos efectista que por ejemplo david lynch pero llega a otras profundidades..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=109)
- **Carnival of Souls** (1962) - Herk Harvey - Spine #63 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/607-carnival-of-souls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055830/)
> "Carnival of Souls genialidad esto es lo que todas las personas que hacemos cine tenemos que recordar que con hacer una sola película así es suficiente tiene todas las cosas de terror que más miedo me dan en la vida..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=163)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "The Red Shoes para mi mamá es su película favorita..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=182)
- **The Lady Vanishes** (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock - Spine #3 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/358-the-lady-vanishes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030341/)
> "La dama desaparece..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=33)
- **Seven Samurai** (1954) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #2 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
> "Los siete samuráis..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=37)
- **Amarcord** (1973) - Federico Fellini - Spine #4 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/208-amarcord) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071129/)
> "Por ejemplo es que no me Amarcord porque sí..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=40)
- **La belle et la bête** (1946) - Jean Cocteau - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/177-beauty-and-the-beast) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038348/)
> "La bella y la bestia..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwhenYVvCVE&t=44)
## Lucy Liu (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnldiqFIStY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/910-lucy-liu-s-closet-picks)
- **Roma** (2018) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #1014 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30124-roma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6155172/)
> "I also have to say that Roma, Alfonso Cuarón, what does he not do that’s incredible and intimate, beautifully written, acted. I mean, everything about it was stunning, and I was completely blown away. So this movie reminds me of just being absolutely stunned. And this is cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnldiqFIStY&t=51)
- **On the Waterfront** (1954) - Elia Kazan - Spine #647 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/)
> "So, Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront. When I first started acting, I watched this movie and I really understood what authenticity was from this movie. It reminds me of when I first started acting, over 30 years ago. So I’m putting this in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnldiqFIStY&t=113)
- **The Grifters** (1990) - Stephen Frears - Spine #1246 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30526-the-grifters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099703/)
> "The Grifters is… I can’t even speak. It was so fantastic. Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, John Cusack. Seeing them from the side, seeing them from the front, seeing them from the back, it was… for me, as an artist, it just punched a bunch of holes in my body. And also to make characters like that so delicious and delightful and watchable. So thank you, Grifters."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnldiqFIStY&t=136)
- **Fa yeung nin wa** (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/198-in-the-mood-for-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/)
> "Wow, In the Mood for Love. Okay, how sexy is this movie? It’s beautifully shot, beautifully acted. The direction. This is a movie that people always use as a reference for any deck that they’ll send you in a movie, any mood board, even for a… like, a cover shoot. So he created something that has become what people use as their template. So thank you, spirit, for having me grab this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnldiqFIStY&t=187)
- **Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6970-jackie-chan-emergence-of-a-superstar)
> "So the first thing that I saw earlier and I can’t miss is Jackie Chan, because I grew up watching Jackie Chan, and then I got to do a movie with him, which threw me into a tizzy. And I asked him to teach me a bunch of stunts, but he would not let me. He said that he shouldn’t teach me stunts because he broke every bone in his body. So then I sneakily asked his team to teach me some stuff... Jackie is iconic, and he’s still going."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnldiqFIStY&t=6)
- **Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3205-bruce-lee-his-greatest-hits)
> "You know what? I’m sorry, but I’m going to go for Bruce Lee because Bruce Lee is somebody that had started Hollywood, in a way, for Asian Americans, and he is somebody that became so iconic because of his talent, and he was able to commercialize it. And he had such a sad demise, so quickly, and I’m so glad that his family is carrying on his tradition and his skills and talent. Yes to Bruce Lee."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnldiqFIStY&t=78)
## Luis Guzmán (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBjtyBHnY4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/585--luis-guzman-s-closet-picks)
- **12 Angry Men** (1957) - Sidney Lumet - Spine #591 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27871-12-angry-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/)
> "12 Angry Men directed by one of my mentors Sidney Lumet. It's incredible, the editing, the performances, wo, To Die For."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBjtyBHnY4&t=23)
- **Cooley High** (1975) - Michael Schultz - Spine #1165 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31689-cooley-high) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072820/)
> "Boom, Cooley High. It's like a little bit of like my old school kind of flavor. Chicago 1964. It wasn't shot in 1964 just so you know, don't be confused, but catches that era. Cooley High."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBjtyBHnY4&t=47)
- **Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb** (1964) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #821 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28822-dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/)
> "Moving on, Dr. Strangelove. Stanley Kubrick. Okay, the first time I heard about Stanley Kubrick, I want to tell you people, was a movie called Spartans. Can you believe that Stanley Kubrick came in four weeks before for shooting that movie and he shot that movie and he didn't want any credit for it and it was one of the most amazing movies. But this movie right here, Peter Sellers, wow, George C. Scott, what you know, James Earl Jones, I mean all these guys when they were they were young, the..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBjtyBHnY4&t=72)
- **The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez** (1983) - Robert M. Young - Spine #940 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29142-the-ballad-of-gregorio-cortez) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083613/)
> "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez with someone who I highly look up to in my industry, Edward James Olmos. Great movie, a must-watch. I don't think it got all the recognition that it should have gotten, but I'm giving it the recognition by Luis Guzmán. Edward James Olmos, thank you for this, love you Papa."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBjtyBHnY4&t=121)
- **Punch-Drunk Love** (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson - Spine #843 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27916-punch-drunk-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/)
> "Punch-Drunk Love. Paul Thomas Anderson, thank you brother for putting me in some of the most genuine, beautiful movies that you have done. The thing about Punch-Drunk Love, it was the first time that I met Adam Sandler. After five minutes you forget that it's Adam Sandler because you get into this guy Barry and his like six Sisters and you just feel for him. We became brothers. What a great movie, what great performances. Philip Seymour Hoffman, thank you brother."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBjtyBHnY4&t=174)
- **On the Waterfront** (1954) - Elia Kazan - Spine #647 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/)
> "My favorite all-time film, On the Waterfront. The first time I saw this movie, oh my God, I'm almost going to cry. I was a kid and I watched the Performance that Marlon Brando gave. Listen, the overall cast in this movie was incredible, the story, the directing, but man, Marlon Brando, oh man, this is beyond a must-see. You got to run a IV and just hook this movie, this is unreal. On the Waterfront, people, thank you guys for having me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aBjtyBHnY4&t=243)
## M.I.A. and Stephen Loveridge (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08UA7zgLanc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/423-m-i-a-and-stephen-loveridge-s-closet-picks)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "This is the first Mike Leigh film I ever saw in my life and it just that came out or we were at college didn't it? 93, yes. This kind of defined our time during film degree is British filmmaking but it's just so great. It's such an amazing film. If you're in a council flat that it just kind of it gave you some sort of I don't know it just made you feel good because it's so clever and then you were like wow our poor people down and out like begging in the street can also be smart."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08UA7zgLanc&t=61)
- **Kes** (1970) - Ken Loach - Spine #561 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27560-kes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064541/)
> "I am gonna pick Kes just because I've just moved to Sheffield in the England. Barry Hines who wrote this and Ken Loach who directed it. This film is probably the best thing that they did together and it's just incredible like every one of our age in the UK has seen this film it's just such a iconic bit of British culture and its really like captures the heartbeat of the north and yeah it's just amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08UA7zgLanc&t=126)
- **Missing** (1982) - Costa-Gavras - Spine #449 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/769-missing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084335/)
> "Since I'm called Missing in action I'm gonna choose Missing by Costa-Gavras. This kind of resonates for what's going on in Sri Lanka right now. The reason why I'm called M. I. A. So this is like the first film that connected with that though it's based on a situation in South America. You should watch it. It's incredible the cinematography and like it's kind of like real but it's very the aesthetic is very Born Free like if you've seen the Born Free video."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08UA7zgLanc&t=213)
- **Bottle Rocket** (1996) - Wes Anderson - Spine #450 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/594-bottle-rocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115734/)
- **Dheepan** (2015) - Jacques Audiard - Spine #871 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29103-dheepan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4082068/)
> "I want to choose Dheepan. Jacques Audiard actually sent the script to me before he made it to cast me as the girl and then I got fired off the job because they said I was too good-looking. But I am the actual Sri Lankan refugee. He was the first director to bring it into the serious film space a cinematic space so I just respect him enough that and he's a great director. A Prophet was one of my favorite films ever so I just found it extremely flattering and amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08UA7zgLanc&t=263)
- **Badlands** (1974) - Terrence Malick - Spine #651 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28406-badlands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069762/)
> "I saw Badlands and now I can't see it. It's my favorite film by the way. This is what Terrence Malick is a genius. I just find it really dreamy. Remember seeing it the first time and then forgetting what it was and what it was called but remembering like a shot of a piano on fire and then that xylophone tune that's all the way through it and just individual images like dreamlike that's an absolutely beautiful film. This is real filmmaking."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08UA7zgLanc&t=329)
## Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvtSPjBvyU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/651-manuel-garcia-rulfo-s-closet-picks)
- **The Cremator** (1969) - Nishon Shakya - Spine #1023 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27853-the-cremator)
> "I'm gonna take The Cremator. I love this film because it's very disturbing and kind of sick but funny at the same time and when I find myself laughing at things that are pretty disturbing I you know I think the directors you know they did what they wanted spot on."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvtSPjBvyU&t=9)
- **Onibaba** (1964) - Kaneto Shindō - Spine #226 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/665-onibaba) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058430/)
> "I'm going to drop a name now by Benicio introduced me Kaneto Shindo. He did the commentary on Naked Island and he gave me that movie as a present and I loved it. I loved it because of the simplicity of it and the visuals of it are insane you know about this family going taking water and food to the island and all that so I love it so I haven't seen this one but you know I want to explore more of Shindo."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvtSPjBvyU&t=30)
- **Amores perros** (2000) - Alejandro González Iñárritu - Spine #1060 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30908-amores-perros) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/)
> "Oh my God this is Amores perros by the master Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu the script by Arriaga and him and cinematography by Rodrigo Prieto which is amazing and I just work with him in a film and watching him work the detail the obsession in detail with the light and everything you know it makes it more special and I think for every Mexican this film is really big I mean when he came out to see you know and all these great actors in this story and it was it's so visceral y..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvtSPjBvyU&t=63)
- **Canoa: A Shameful Memory** (1976) - Felipe Cazals - Spine #862 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29050-canoa-a-shameful-memory) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131335/)
> "Another Mexican film Canoa by Cazals. This is such a good movie as well and I think is one of the greatest if not the greatest you know my favorite Mexican film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvtSPjBvyU&t=124)
- **The New World** (2016) - Shinsuke Sato - Spine #826 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28713-the-new-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5058340/)
> "I love Terrence Malick I think he's the poet of cinema and I love this film The New World when he matches with the cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki I think they do pure magic. They capture moments that I wish I could be there to see how they do it because you know it feels like very instinctual the way they use a camera and they grab the moments of the best moments of the actor with the best light natural light and it feels like they're improvising."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvtSPjBvyU&t=138)
- **Cold War** (2017) - J. Wilder Konschak - Spine #1005 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30104-cold-war) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5537300/)
> "My favorite film of the last years Cold War. It's just beautiful the everything about it I love is it made me cry he's a master I love this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PvtSPjBvyU&t=172)
## Marc Maron (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/509-marc-maron-s-closet-picks)
- **Gimme Shelter** (1970) - Albert Maysles - Spine #99 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/637-gimme-shelter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065780/)
> "Give me shelter because of the Stones and because of the Maysles brothers and because I read a book about Altamont that really told me what was up and the entire disaster can be hung squarely on Mick Jagger. Yeah, read the Joel Selvin book."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=21)
- **Burden of Dreams** (1982) - Les Blank - Spine #287 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/546-burden-of-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083702/)
> "Burden of Dreams because Herzog and you want to see his ridiculous process and to see what he will put himself through just to make a movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=38)
- **Being There** (1979) - Hal Ashby - Spine #864 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29009-being-there) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/)
> "Being There, Hal Ashby, Peter Sellers, brilliant genius, so funny. I feel like I could watch it over and over again, which is one of the reasons."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=47)
- **Female Trouble** (1974) - John Waters - Spine #929 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28704-female-trouble) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072979/)
> "Female Trouble because I think that this entire what this represents and who John Waters is and who Divine was and everything about this movie is one of the only weapons against fascism we have."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=65)
- **McCabe & Mrs. Miller** (1971) - Robert Altman - Spine #827 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28712-mccabe-mrs-miller) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/)
> "So this one, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, this is an Altman movie and this is really probably my favorite movie. I can't even tell you why—because of the layers, because of the color, because of the mumbling, because of the deconstructed Western business, because of Julie Christie, because of opium, because of horrors and religion and just in the street. Come on, man. America on its way up. Doesn't end well for McCabe."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=79)
- **The American Friend** (1977) - Wim Wenders - Spine #793 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28763-the-american-friend) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075675/)
> "American Friend. Now this movie is one of my favorite movies because I really don't understand it and I keep going back to it because it's so compelling."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=109)
- **My Darling Clementine** (1946) - John Ford - Spine #732 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28570-my-darling-clementine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038762/)
> "My Darling Clementine, John Ford Western. Henry Fonda looks early. I've never seen it but I thought if I'm in here I should have a western. I should grab a western. Is it Henry Fonda good guy or Henry Fonda scary guy? Oh, good guy. All right, he can do either of them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=119)
- **Burroughs: The Movie** (1984) - Howard Brookner - Spine #789 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28657-burroughs-the-movie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3581384/)
> "This one's kind of hard to find. I'm a big William Burroughs fan and this is a lot of Burroughs. It's a lot of him being candid and hanging out and performing and some history about him. He's a very unique guy and a big inspiration on me for reasons I can't even quite understand, but I've always been someone fascinated with him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=135)
- **Ace in the Hole** (1951) - Billy Wilder - Spine #396 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/829-ace-in-the-hole) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043338/)
> "These are great movies about media and show business... There's a great examination of what eventually sort of became not even tabloid, just the complete exploitative nature of journalism in a way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=160)
- **A Face in the Crowd** (1957) - Elia Kazan - Spine #970 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28703-a-face-in-the-crowd) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/)
> "These are great movies about media and show business. This is A Face in the Crowd that I'm talking about now with a very evil Andy Griffith, who plays Lonesome Rhodes, the drunk that Patricia Neal makes a monster by making him a star. It gets political, it gets kind of weird, and then he gets caught off-mic saying horrible things. It's a great examination of megalomania in media."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=160)
- **Shame** (2011) - Steve McQueen - Spine #961 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28877-shame) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723811/)
> "Was this Shame? I'm familiar with that. There we go, we're done. More than enough."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giq9THI1RSU&t=207)
## Marco Bellocchio (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJ0c1haJfc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/445-marco-bellocchio-s-closet-picks)
- **Barry Lyndon** (1975) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #897 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29008-barry-lyndon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/)
> "Barry Lyndon, un film che vidi in Italia doppiato, vorrei veramente rivederlo nella versione originale."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJ0c1haJfc&t=20)
- **Pickpocket** (1959) - Robert Bresson - Spine #314 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/)
> "Pickpocket è stato un mio amore di gioventù, sempre molto ammirato Bresson e in particolare questo film, un film di breve durata però un capolavoro assoluto."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJ0c1haJfc&t=36)
- **Othello** (1951) - Orson Welles - Spine #870 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28621-othello) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045251/)
> "L'Otello mi ha colpito perché mi insegna sempre... Non solo la grandezza nella genialità di Welles ma anche la sua capacità di montare I film. In più perché questo film ha avuto tanti problemi, ha dovuto interrompere o riprenderlo, mancavano sempre I soldi e mi hanno detto che aveva anche cambiato Desdemona nel film, ci sono almeno due o tre Desdemone. Questa capacità di questa anche resistenza, volontà di Welles di arrivare nonostante tutto a questo film mi ha sempre molto affascinato."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJ0c1haJfc&t=54)
- **Throne of Blood** (2002) - Yoshinari Okamoto - Spine #190 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/735-throne-of-blood)
> "Il Trono di Sangue perché Kurosawa è un grande e poi perché la tragedia di Macbeth è qualcosa che mi ha sempre molto colpito, io l'ho anche rappresentato a teatro e questa rappresentazione giapponese di Macbeth è veramente geniale."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJ0c1haJfc&t=105)
- **Umberto D.** (1952) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #201 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/371-umberto-d) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045274/)
> "Infine Umberto D., altro capolavoro. Come non sempre ma alcune volte accade, un film molto tragico, certamente non allegro, che non è stato molto amato dal pubblico, ma come sempre per certi capolavori resiste al tempo e credo che forse non sarà eterno però durerà ancora, non so se molti secoli ma sicuramente alcuni decenni."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJ0c1haJfc&t=129)
## Margaret Qualley (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddh6FBvHFi0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/860-margaret-qualley-s-closet-picks)
- **Beau travail** (2000) - Claire Denis - Spine #1042 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29646-beau-travail) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209933/)
> "I’ll start with Beau travail, which is a Claire Denis film. And I love my girl Claire. And I specifically love this one ’cause of a last dance sequence, which has– I don’t know if I ever say his name right, but Denis Lavant, who I’m, like, obsessed with. Anyway, Beau travail."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddh6FBvHFi0&t=9)
- **To Die For** (1997) - Roberta Torre - Spine #1213 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32358-to-die-for) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120277/)
> "To Die For. I just think Nicole Kidman in this movie is so outstanding and I love it when she’ll do anything to get the job and she… I think the line is, it’s like, “Bringing the world into our homes and our homes into the world, it has always been my dream to be such a messenger. I look to you, gentlemen, to make that dream a reality.” And she says it with such conviction and… perfectly psychotic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddh6FBvHFi0&t=33)
- **Punch-Drunk Love** (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson - Spine #843 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27916-punch-drunk-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/)
> "There’s a certain group of movies that I’ve watched, like, a hundred times. And Punch-Drunk Love is on that list. And I would name Happy Gilmore or Big Daddy if they were in this closet. Anyway… Punch-Drunk Love. We’ve got Adam Sandler, Philip Seymour Hoffman. I could quote this one too actually. “I’ve so much… I’ve so much strength inside me, you have no idea. I have a love in my life that makes me stronger than anything you could ever know. I would say that’s that, Mr. Mattress Man.” Classic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddh6FBvHFi0&t=66)
- **All About Eve** (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Spine #1003 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29596-all-about-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/)
> "All About Eve. Gorgeous. Perfect. I’m all about it. I’m All About Eve."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddh6FBvHFi0&t=110)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "Do you guys have All That Jazz? This is actually my favorite movie of all time. Bob Fosse. I think this is the greatest movie ever made. People always ask, “If you could have dinner with somebody, who would it be?” Bob Fosse, except I wouldn’t want to go to dinner. I’d just want to dance."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddh6FBvHFi0&t=115)
- **Thelma & Louise** (1991) - Ridley Scott - Spine #1180 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29164-thelma-louise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/)
> "I’ll finish it off with Thelma & Louise. I just love, like, a girl story, a girl road-trip story. I’d love to make a movie like this. And it’s good old Sir Ridley Scott."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddh6FBvHFi0&t=132)
## Marianne Jean-Baptiste & Mike Leigh (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/749-marianne-jean-baptiste-mike-leigh-s-closet-picks)
- **Night on Earth** (1991) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #401 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/227-night-on-earth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/)
> "Okay, I found one Night on Earth. Which I’m going to have."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=31)
- **Secrets & Lies** (1996) - Mike Leigh - Spine #1070 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29202-secrets-lies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117589/)
> "But here’s a film you’re really going to like. It’s called Secrets & Lies. And it’s about a character played by you. But let’s not be so self-indulgent. No, no. Do you know what? I actually don’t have it. All right, well then you should have it. Yeah. I’ve got a big old fat VHS. There you go. Well, good. Cool. I’m having this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=60)
- **To Sleep with Anger** (1990) - Charles Burnett - Spine #963 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29567-to-sleep-with-anger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100791/)
> "Oh, Charles Burnett somewhere. I’ve got to find him. There we go. To Sleep with Anger. Nice. Let’s have a look. Are you going to have it? Yes, I am. Well, then, I’m going to have it too. Do you want mine? Yeah, have one. I think you’d love these other ones. Say no more. I like his stuff but I’ve never seen this one. Great. Cool. Charles Burnett. To Sleep with Anger."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=86)
- **Loves of a Blonde** (1965) - Miloš Forman - Spine #144 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/246-loves-of-a-blonde) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059415/)
> "Are you familiar– I’m sure you are– with this wonderful film, Loves of a Blonde? No, I’m not actually. Is it a goodie? Oh, yeah. You’ll love it. Can you get it down from there? Miloš Forman. Oh, well, I’m having it. It’s a great film, it really is. You will love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=111)
- **Kes** (1970) - Ken Loach - Spine #561 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27560-kes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064541/)
> "Oh, Kes. Remember Kes? I haven’t got Kes. You should have it in your collection. I should. I’ve got all of Ken Loach’s stuff, I have to say. He and I get accosted in the street by people, and they say to me, 'I love your film about the boy with a bird.' You know, 'Are you, are you Ken Loach?' And I say, 'No.' And then they ask Ken, 'Are you Mike Leigh?' And he says, 'No, he’s not.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=133)
- **White Material** (2010) - Claire Denis - Spine #560 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27559-white-material) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135952/)
> "Oh, gosh, White Material. Claire Denis, man."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=162)
- **Hunger** (2008) - Steve McQueen - Spine #504 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/477-hunger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986233/)
> "Gotta take Hunger. Yeah. It’s a great film. Okay, then. Great film. Yes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=167)
- **The Life of Oharu** (1952) - Kenji Mizoguchi - Spine #664 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27705-the-life-of-oharu) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045112/)
> "This is nice. I’ve never– I haven’t got it. Have you not? The Life of Oharu. You know, these Japanese films, Ozu, Mizoguchi, and the early Kurosawa, are really... They’re great. They do a lot for me. I’m going to have this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=172)
- **Ashes and Diamonds** (1958) - Andrzej Wajda - Spine #285 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/342-ashes-and-diamonds) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052080/)
> "And then I’m going to have Ashes and Diamonds, a film haven’t seen for a thousand years. I loved it, and I... Never thought to have it. It’s great. Wajda, Andrzej Wajda."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=203)
- **EO** (2022) - Kam Ka-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33481-eo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14113678/)
> "Have you seen this one? EO? No. Is that... What’s that like? What is that? I liked it. It’s all from the perspective of a donkey. Oh... Oh, I remember it now. Skolimowski. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s very good, very good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=214)
- **Claudine** (1974) - John Berry - Spine #1052 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29599-claudine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071334/)
> "Oh, I’ve got to have Claudine. Diahann Carroll. Oh, yeah, there you go. James Earl Jones, man."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=236)
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
- **Vivre sa vie** (1962) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #512 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/3060-vivre-sa-vie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056663/)
- **A Hard Day’s Night** (1964) - Richard Lester - Spine #711 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28547-a-hard-day-s-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058182/)
- **Late Spring** (1949) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #331 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/298-late-spring) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041154/)
- **Judex** (1916) - Louis Feuillade - Spine #710 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28047-judex) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006886/)
- **The Firemen's Ball** (1967) - Miloš Forman - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/688-the-firemen-s-ball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061781/)
- **Berlin Alexanderplatz** (1980) - Hans-Dieter Hartl - Spine #411 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/839-berlin-alexanderplatz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126409/)
- **Jules and Jim** (1962) - François Truffaut - Spine #281 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055032/)
- **Divorce Italian Style** (1961) - Pietro Germi - Spine #286 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/877-divorce-italian-style) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055913/)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "And I spy Cassavetes. Where’s Cassavetes? Oh, right. There you go. Now I’ve got that. I got that the last time. Shadows. I’m sure it’s here. I’ve got it. It was a great influence in the sense that it made me start thinking about improvisation and stuff. Although when you look at it now, it’s not his greatest film at all. It’s interesting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=36)
- **Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/743-eclipse-series-23-the-first-films-of-akira-kurosawa)
> "Because I saw an early Kurosawa set. Yeah. The First Films of Akira Kurosawa. Ha. Nice. I don’t think I’ve got this, actually. There’s two of them there, darling. Yeah. Okay, cool. That’s me, then."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=188)
- **The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6702-the-ranown-westerns-five-films-directed-by-budd-boetticher)
> "The Ranown Westerns. Yeah. When I was growing up in Manchester, I went to the movies all the time. I never saw a film that wasn’t in English. All I saw was Hollywood and British movies. And of course we saw loads and loads of westerns. I’m going to take this. Bit of nostalgia. Yeah, yeah. And they’re probably pretty good films. They must be if they’re in the Criterion Collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=247)
- **A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/369-a-story-of-floating-weeds-floating-weeds-two-films-by-yasujiro-ozu)
> "This is Story of Floating Weeds. Now it’s not because I... I identify with the weeds. It’s a lovely cover. I’m going to have that. It’s going to be my first one. All right. To add to my Ozu collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1RJNZak2Dw&t=19)
## Marion Cotillard (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPP5CuNVNU8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/873-marion-cotillard-s-closet-picks)
- **Fanfan la Tulipe** (1952) - Christian-Jaque - Spine #451 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/750-fanfan-la-tulipe) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044602/)
> "Okay, so this movie, Fanfan la Tulipe, by Christian-Jaque. I don’t even know how many times I saw this movie with my two brothers. It was… It’s really, like, the movie of my childhood. You know, it’s adventure. It’s this very strong woman that I admired so much when I was a kid, played by Gina Lollobrigida. And Gérard Philipe, who is obviously… I fell in love with him when I was a kid."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPP5CuNVNU8&t=10)
- **The Great Dictator** (1940) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #565 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27605-the-great-dictator) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/)
> "Definitely my favorite movie, that would be The Great Dictator. This is the most human movie of them all. This is the smartest, connected-to-the-heart movie that I’ve ever seen. And each time I see it, I’m moved the same way, even if I know the story by heart, even if I know the dialogue by heart. I think the last sentence of this movie is, 'Listen.' Each time it brings me to tears just talking about it. This is a masterpiece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPP5CuNVNU8&t=44)
- **Hedwig and the Angry Inch** (2001) - John Cameron Mitchell - Spine #982 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29018-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248845/)
> "Hedwig and the Angry Inch. John Cameron Mitchell. I was in Deauville Film Festival many years ago. I was in the jury and we saw this movie, and I got obsessed right away. I was so obsessed with him that, few years later, I was asked who I wanted to work with, so I asked for John Cameron Mitchell. He became one of my dear friends. And I love him forever and ever. This is still one of my favorite movies. And the songs I listen to almost once a month, and I sing them, and, yeah, this is major."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPP5CuNVNU8&t=92)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "Thank God there’s Agnès Varda. Agnès Varda, I think I saw all her movies. One of them I loved was Lions Love. There’s something about this movie, about the peculiarity of human soul, human relationships, that I absolutely adore. And Cléo from 5 to 7 is a game changer. She portrayed those women as if it was normal to be free. If you want to discover cinema through the eyes of a visionary and a wide and free soul, I would definitely recommend Agnès Varda. Just because she’s a genius."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPP5CuNVNU8&t=159)
## Mark Bridges (other)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/592-mark-bridges-s-closet-picks)
- **Heaven’s Gate** (1980) - Michael Cimino - Spine #636 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28036-heaven-s-gate) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080855/)
> "Heaven's Gate, I'm fascinated by it. It has a lot of baggage with it, but I've never really sat down and seen it. The parts that I have seen, though, are a lot of texture of clothing. It looks so period. I think Isabelle Huppert is in it. I'm dying to see it. I'm really dying to sit down, get the popcorn, and watch the whole thing. I can't wait."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ&t=13)
- **The Damned** (2025) - Thordur Palsson - Spine #1098 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31319-the-damned) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15010692/)
> "The Damned. The costumes are by Piero Tosi, unbelievable designer. I try to emulate him, but I will never reach the level of Piero Tosi if I live to be 100. So one can try."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ&t=44)
- **Barry Lyndon** (1975) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #897 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29008-barry-lyndon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/)
> "Here's another one: Barry Lyndon. Milena Canonero, another genius, designed it, and I use it often for inspiration."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ&t=60)
- **The Leopard** (1963) - Luchino Visconti - Spine #235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/790-the-leopard) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057091/)
> "Aha, The Leopard, from my buddy Piero Tosi. I've seen some of these clothes up close—the shapes, the fabric, the details. There's a thing with some of these films too that you get a sense of when the film was made, but you also are just in love with how period it all looks and how exquisite it all looks. That's the kind of thing that whets my appetite to watch and to enjoy and to just luxuriate in the beautiful artistry of a designer."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ&t=72)
- **The Naked City** (1948) - Jules Dassin - Spine #380 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/818-the-naked-city) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040636/)
> "Jules Dassin's Naked City. I use it for research because Bill Daniels drove around New York and photographed real-life people from like a window in a bread truck. You really get a sense of the day-to-day with the citizens of New York. I think I used it to research a film I designed called The Master because of what real people would be like in 1948. You see that not everybody wears hats; it's only the older ladies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ&t=115)
- **La belle et la bête** (1946) - Jean Cocteau - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/177-beauty-and-the-beast) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038348/)
> "Let's see, what's this?, La belle et la bête. Just beautiful, surreal, shot right at the end of World War II in France. Everybody was cold, everybody was hungry. Jean Cocteau came down with impetigo during the filming of it but managed to have the most amazing, beautiful fantasy film. It's beautiful to this day. I love to watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ&t=161)
- **Sunday Bloody Sunday** (1971) - John Schlesinger - Spine #629 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28025-sunday-bloody-sunday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067805/)
> "Sunday Bloody Sunday. Someone mentioned this to me last night. I currently have a film out, Maestro, and there's part of it in 1971. Someone asked me, 'Oh, were you influenced by Sunday Bloody Sunday?' I said no, but I'd love to look at the movie, and here we are today getting a copy. I can't wait to look at it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ&t=193)
- **My Beautiful Laundrette** (1985) - Stephen Frears - Spine #767 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28044-my-beautiful-laundrette) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091578/)
> "Wait a minute, My Beautiful Laundrette. One of the first films I worked on in Hollywood, I was assistant costume designer to Richard Hornung on The Grifters, and it was directed by Stephen Frears, who directed this film also. I've done a couple of films, Phantom Thread and There Will Be Blood, with Daniel Day-Lewis, and I have to say the whole time I was working with Daniel on There Will Be Blood, I never once related that was the same actor that played this part."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ&t=222)
- **Marriage Story** (2019) - Noah Baumbach - Spine #1038 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30554-marriage-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7653254/)
> "Marriage Story. Beautiful, beautiful movie. Oh, who did the costumes? Oh, I did. But it's a beautiful movie and directed by my friend Noah Baumbach, who I've done another film for him too, and it's always a joy. He lets you do what you do and supports you all the way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ&t=276)
- **Punch-Drunk Love** (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson - Spine #843 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27916-punch-drunk-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/)
> "Oh, you have another one of my movies. Wow, Punch-Drunk Love. It was our beautiful musical—not musical—beautiful love story. We were kind of influenced a little tiny bit by Godard films in making this, and it's just sweet. I highly recommend you see this if you get a chance."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picqoIogsxQ&t=300)
## Mark Duplass (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BP4x9kxi7s) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/872-mark-duplass-s-closet-picks)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "This is really cool because, for anyone who follows me on social media, you’ll know that I’m a huge Criterion Channel fan. But Dekalog, Kieślowski, is not on the Criterion Channel, one of the few things that isn’t streaming. I was lucky enough to get introduced to this in 1995 at the University of Texas in Austin. We had a library that had really curated old VHS, and so I sat down and watched these really scratchy four-by-three VHS copies. And so now I’m going to get to see them cleaned up."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BP4x9kxi7s&t=109)
- **Lone Star** (1996) - John Sayles - Spine #1202 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29021-lone-star) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116905/)
> "This is Lone Star by John Sayles, a period piece set on the border, and they do this incredible thing where, rather than do actual camera cuts as they go back and forth in time, they’ll set dress a whole restaurant. One half of the restaurant is set in modern day, the other half is set in the past. And, live, they’ll pan the camera over, do a lighting shift, and then you’ll pick up on the story line back there. Also, no spoilers, but incredible ending."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BP4x9kxi7s&t=153)
- **Flow** (2024) - - Spine #1278 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34685-flow)
> "Flow. For me, it’s everything that I want democratized technology to do. When I look at a movie like Flow, and I see someone who’s a complete outlier in this industry and use the technology to make something on their computer, just with their sweat, hearts, and smarts at the center of it, and then it goes out and wins the Oscar, a very slow-paced, quiet, Sweet Movie about a feline journey. I just fucking love this movie. It was so sweet and it got me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BP4x9kxi7s&t=249)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "I have a feeling Jay picked this. Somebody’s laughing behind the camera right now, and I think that person was here when it happened, but I have to pick it. And what you need to know is that John Cassavetes is a hero of ours. He’s the model of everything I wanted to be, which was: act in Hollywood movies, take that money, blow it on your independent films that you make with your family and friends. So, John, you’re coming with us."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BP4x9kxi7s&t=15)
- **The Before Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1237-the-before-trilogy)
> "This is going to be a box-set kind of day for me. I have to do this. This is probably going to be a little obvious for you who have seen a lot of my small, intimate films, but this is The Before Trilogy by Richard Linklater. Why this is so special for me in particular is, when I was 18 years old, I had seen Slacker, I had been to all the Midnight screenings of Dazed and Confused, and this movie came out. I’ve been obsessed with these movies ever since."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BP4x9kxi7s&t=49)
- **Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7045-chantal-akerman-masterpieces-1968-1978)
> "Chantal Akerman. I first saw Jeanne Dielman when I was in film school, and I couldn’t believe how riveted I was by a three-hour movie that was just about the tiniest things, and it opened up the seed in my brain that the epically small could be what I do in film. It’s kind of at the cornerstone of what I do. And I think Chantal did that really well. In particular, those early movies, raw, expressive. Je Tu Il Elle is the early one that I really, really, really loved."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BP4x9kxi7s&t=190)
## Mark Rylance (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/797-mark-rylance-s-closet-picks)
- **The Hidden Fortress** (2002) - Yoshinari Okamoto - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/655-the-hidden-fortress) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18235568/)
> "And I’m starting with a film I’ve seen called Hidden Fortress by Kurosawa, because I’m about to direct my first film. Yeah, believe it or not. And I keep thinking of the opening shot of this, and I want to really look at his framing of things."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8&t=8)
- **Ikiru** (1952) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #221 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/353-ikiru) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/)
> "Ikiru. Perhaps my favorite film. It just reminds me of something essential about life. What goodness is. And it has a very, very bold narrative structure of jumping forward at one moment and completely changing the way that the story is being told. Plus, just one of the great, great performances by an actor. Shimura in this is… just superlative."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8&t=27)
- **Miracle in Milan** (1951) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #1119 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28176-miracle-in-milan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043809/)
> "Oh, Miracle in Milan. This is a wonderful film by De Sica. So inventive and beautiful. Yeah, I might slip that one in."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8&t=63)
- **The Tree of Wooden Clogs** (1978) - Ermanno Olmi - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28599-the-tree-of-wooden-clogs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077138/)
> "The Tree of Wooden Clogs. Yeah, I watched this on Holiday with my wife. What an immersive film. One of these films, you really wonder how did he make it that you feel completely inside that… those families working for a landowner? I’m not surprised Mike Leigh does the introduction here. It has that kind of veritas to it, doesn’t it?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8&t=79)
- **High Sierra** (1941) - Raoul Walsh - Spine #1099 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29019-high-sierra) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033717/)
> "High Sierra. I remember Steven Spielberg referring to this film and asking me to study a particular laugh that one of the characters does. It’s a moment… He wanted me to copy that laugh."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8&t=121)
- **Dodes’ka-den** (1970) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #465 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1083-dodes-ka-den) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065649/)
> "Oh, Dodes’ka-den is a wonderful film. I mean, I just think, if you love film, you should see everything that Kurosawa’s done. His first color film. I might take that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8&t=139)
- **The Friends of Eddie Coyle** (1973) - Peter Yates - Spine #475 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1426-the-friends-of-eddie-coyle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070077/)
> "But I see my friend… Robert Mitchum. A Peter Yates film. I’d forgotten that. The Friends of Eddie Coyle. He’s just one of my favorite actors. Why? He’s just… His effort is so minimal. His effort is so minimal, he doesn’t seem to really care about it. I believe he did care enormously about it, but, you know, it’s very attractive when someone doesn’t care. There’s space for you. It draws you in. But he’s so still and his voice is remarkably beautiful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8&t=152)
- **The Woman in the Dunes** (1964) - Hiroshi Teshigahara - Spine #394 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/826-woman-in-the-dunes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058625/)
> "Woman in the Dunes. Woman in the Dunes. I saw that as a teenager. Oh, what an amazing film. I must see that again. What an incredible love story."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8&t=192)
- **After Life** (1999) - Hirokazu Kore-eda - Spine #1089 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29081-after-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165078/)
> "What’s After Life? I feel like I’ve seen that. Oh, that sounds a good one to see, even if I have seen it before. 1998."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8&t=211)
- **Small Axe** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6517-small-axe)
> "This Small Axe. This is an extraordinary piece of work by Steve McQueen. I moved to London from Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the late ’70s, and he really brought back what London was like in the ’80s. Down in Brixton."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwcnZjmh0a8&t=103)
## Mary Bronstein (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Zt1CAprPo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/925-mary-bronstein-s-closet-picks)
- **Dance, Girl, Dance** (1940) - Dorothy Arzner - Spine #1028 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29633-dance-girl-dance) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032376/)
> "Dance, Girl, Dance. Dorothy Arzner, she was one of the… or maybe the only female filmmaker making movies in the studio system in the ’30s and ’40s. And also this movie has a scene-stealing Lucille Ball."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Zt1CAprPo&t=10)
- **Merrily We Go to Hell** (1932) - Dorothy Arzner - Spine #1076 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30456-merrily-we-go-to-hell) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023213/)
> "And I’m going to also get her other one, Merrily We Go to Hell. And this is just… She’s working in pre-Code, and does some very radical feminist storytelling, in both of these films. I would recommend them highly."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Zt1CAprPo&t=31)
- **Frownland** (2008) - Ronald Bronstein - Spine #1137 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29434-frownland) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970935/)
> "I gotta give a little shout-out here to Frownland. My husband, Ronald Bronstein, this is his first movie, and this is the movie that I met Ronnie on. My whole life is due to this movie. This movie was also my film school."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Zt1CAprPo&t=50)
- **Inland Empire** (2006) - David Lynch - Spine #1175 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30077-inland-empire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460829/)
> "One of my other idols of all time: David Lynch. My favorite of his is a little movie called Inland Empire. David Lynch is one of those directors who spent his career really focusing on one idea and trying to get at the heart of an idea, and I think he does it in this movie. And then also, at the end of the movie, which I won’t spoil, it’s a celebration of his whole body of work. It’s beautiful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Zt1CAprPo&t=97)
- **This Is Spinal Tap** (1984) - Rob Reiner - Spine #12 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/317-this-is-spinal-tap) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/)
> "So this movie, Spinal Tap, is so seminal to me as far as… as far as a comedy without jokes. What I mean by comedy without jokes is every single line that is said, every single vision that is shown, is for comedic effect, but it is real. They are playing this as if it is the highest drama that has ever been made, and that is why it succeeds so heavily as a comedy. And I recommend it to anybody."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Zt1CAprPo&t=126)
- **It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World** (1963) - Stanley Kramer - Spine #692 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28579-it-s-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/)
> "And now I’m going to get a little silly. I grew up in the Tri-State area, PIX Channel 11. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, always on television when I was a child, always loved it... You got Ethel Merman, you got everybody. You got the Three Stooges... It’s Sid Caesar, it’s Mickey Rooney, it’s Spencer Tracy, it’s Jonathan Winters. It’s everybody that– Young people don’t know who they are. But it’s insanity in film form."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Zt1CAprPo&t=206)
- **Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7045-chantal-akerman-masterpieces-1968-1978)
> "One of my idols of all idols: Chantal Akerman. I love that this is called Masterpieces. We have everything in here. Hanging Out Yonkers. Oh my God, I’m so… The film-school tests. I’m so excited. I’m so excited about this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Zt1CAprPo&t=80)
- **Six Moral Tales** (6 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/417-six-moral-tales)
> "One of my favorite things as a set, as a piece, is Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales. I would say Love in the Afternoon is my favorite of the Tales, but they’re all stories about women and men and the different dynamics that… really complicated dynamics that can come from women and men encountering each other in different ways. And again, I love a guy who sets out to make a set of movies that are all of a piece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Zt1CAprPo&t=166)
## Mary Harron (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4sA7UOBC_c) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/569-mary-harron-s-closet-picks)
- **The Naked City** (1948) - Jules Dassin - Spine #380 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/818-the-naked-city) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040636/)
> "Naked City. It sort of relates to stuff that I love like Sam Fuller and kind of really great B-movie stuff of the you know 40s, 50s and 60s."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4sA7UOBC_c&t=15)
- **The Killing of a Chinese Bookie** (1976) - John Cassavetes - Spine #254 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/958-the-killing-of-a-chinese-bookie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074749/)
> "My favorite John Cassavetes film is Killing of a Chinese Bookie. I look at it over and over for the way he filmed this. It's so present and real and there's an amazing scene in a back room of a restaurant where something bad is about to happen and the way it's filmed is incredible."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4sA7UOBC_c&t=38)
- **Sid & Nancy** (1986) - Alex Cox - Spine #20 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/535-sid-nancy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091954/)
> "Oh, great. Sid and Nancy. I knew Nancy not well, but I knew her a little bit, and I knew Alex Cox because we were at college together., this is a great movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4sA7UOBC_c&t=69)
- **Mala Noche** (1987) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #407 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/253-mala-noche) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089537/)
> "Mala Noche. I think Gus Van Sant's work in the 80s had a big effect on me. I think this and then seeing Drugstore Cowboy just told me that there was a different way to make films outside of Hollywood and outside of the classic films that I loved. This was happening now and it was really unsentimental and quite harsh and it was a different way of making a movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4sA7UOBC_c&t=81)
- **Lost Highway** (1997) - David Lynch - Spine #1152 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31590-lost-highway) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116922/)
> "This is a really underrated movie, Lost Highway. It's got a lot of sort of 40s Noir femme fatale mythology in it, but it also has this crazy metal soundtrack. I really like the way David Lynch captures the world of Dreams, the complete disorientation of suddenly you're in one place and then the other. People minded the way it jumped around and people changed identity, but you know, that's the life that you have every night in Dreams."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4sA7UOBC_c&t=127)
- **My Man Godfrey** (1936) - Gregory La Cava - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/653-my-man-godfrey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028010/)
> "This is My Man Godfrey. It's the wonderful Carole Lombard and it's set in the Depression. There's just a lot of fantastic rapid-fire 30s comedy. A lot of the time when I'm trying to direct people, the main piece of direction I give usually is 'do it faster.' Sometimes I say 'do it like 30s comedy, just rapid fire,' because comedy is pace and they knew that. I just love that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4sA7UOBC_c&t=212)
## Matías Piñeiro (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZB0eT4ayzY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/473-matias-pineiro-s-closet-picks)
- **La ciénaga** (2001) - Lucrecia Martel - Spine #743 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28113-la-cienaga) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240419/)
> "Oh I have La ciénaga. This is a great Argentine film that you of course know very well and that I think that I'm taking home."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZB0eT4ayzY&t=56)
- **A Day in the Country** (2008) - Karzan Kardozi - Spine #746 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28072-a-day-in-the-country) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29009402/)
> "Another Renoir, let's have a criteria here. A Day in the Country. This that they have on, it's I don't know if it's crazy to say that it's as good as the film, but you have all the shots, all the takes that they've done with the clap. You see how they wait till the clouds leave the sun and so they start with the shot and it's all edited as the film is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZB0eT4ayzY&t=82)
- **To Be or Not to Be** (1942) - Ernst Lubitsch - Spine #670 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27690-to-be-or-not-to-be) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035446/)
> "Here there's one that I have to take too that is To Be or Not to Be. I remember there was a student of mine in Buenos Aires, a big fan of Lubitsch. I remember the experience of watching To Be or Not to Be and I thought that the movie was just like beginning and it ended and it was amazing how the flow... I do films around Shakespeare... I call this sort of genre the Shakespeare-ates. To Be or Not to Be, it's not an adaptation, it's a masterpiece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZB0eT4ayzY&t=121)
- **Les Blank: Always for Pleasure** (1968) - - Spine #737 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28658-les-blank-always-for-pleasure)
- **Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/540-stage-and-spectacle-three-films-by-jean-renoir)
> "I think that I have to pick this because it's hard not to. It's hard to avoid The Golden Coach and French Cancan and Elena and Her Men, and I especially like The Golden Coach. If you've seen it and you've been through that ending, it's pretty chilling. And I'm guessing that this is not going to be the only Renoir I will be putting here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZB0eT4ayzY&t=29)
- **3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/982-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman)
> "Yes, the Rossellini Bergman are going home too. I could cry here just by remembering 'I love you' from Journey to Italy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZB0eT4ayzY&t=68)
- **Six Moral Tales** (6 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/417-six-moral-tales)
> "I have to take the Rohmer Six Moral Tales. Something about how he talks about words, how he has written about words and people talking, and how he's not afraid of doing films with people talking so much and he's showing that words are photogenic in a way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZB0eT4ayzY&t=191)
- **The Complete Jean Vigo** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/819-the-complete-jean-vigo)
> "Here, Vigo. Yeah, I'm even putting only the L'Atalante music in order to cheer my day up, so I think that this will make my day."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZB0eT4ayzY&t=256)
## Matt Dillon (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztz_rQrOGM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/862-matt-dillon-s-closet-picks)
- **Touki Bouki** (1973) - Djibril Diop Mambéty - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28412-touki-bouki) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070820/)
> "Touki Bouki, which I just saw recently, which is really an amazing film. I just shot a film with Claire Denis in… in Senegal, and this was a film made in Senegal, and very modern, really interesting. You kind of get the feeling that they’re kind of discovering the film as they’re going along, and that’s really special. And so I’m going to watch this one again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztz_rQrOGM&t=9)
- **White Material** (2010) - Claire Denis - Spine #560 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27559-white-material) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135952/)
> "That brings me to Claire. This is one of my favorites of Claire’s: White Material. And it stars Isabelle Huppert, among others. And it’s interesting because the film that I did with Claire recently was a play by a really, really interesting playwright named Bernard-Marie Koltès, who was originally slated to write this film. But that didn’t happen. But this is a really interesting, really interesting film shot in Cameroon."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztz_rQrOGM&t=39)
- **Memories of Underdevelopment** (1968) - Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Spine #943 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29220-memories-of-underdevelopment) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063291/)
> "This is a film that’s really a must. And it’s… It’s Memories of Underdevelopment, and it’s a Cuban film. And I saw this film actually before I took my first trip to Havana, back in the very early ’90s. And if you want to see what was happening post-revolution, this is really great, and it’s sort of a mix of… It’s a narrative, but also with elements of vérité, archival footage. It’s very powerful, and it’s one of my favorites."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztz_rQrOGM&t=108)
- **Pickup on South Street** (1953) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #224 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/446-pickup-on-south-street) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046187/)
> "Okay, Thelma Ritter, Pickup on South Street. Classic by Sam Fuller. Sam Fuller’s a hero to me. And this is a great. Pickup on South Street."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztz_rQrOGM&t=152)
- **Drugstore Cowboy** (1989) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #1251 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34208-drugstore-cowboy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097240/)
> "That’s great. I didn’t know that Drugstore Cowboy, that they had put it on DVD at the Criterion Collection. This was really great. I’m happy to see that. I really like that poster. I think Gus would like that, too, because he’s really into the hats. “No hats on beds.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztz_rQrOGM&t=167)
- **Le Salaire de la peur** (1953) - Henri-Georges Clouzot - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/370-the-wages-of-fear) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/)
> "So, Wages of Fear is really a favorite of mine. It’s a film where the characters and the atmosphere are really powerful. And they later remade the film. William Friedkin remade the film into Sorcerer, which is also really good. It made me think of something that he said when I was talking to him about it. He said, “The greatest location is the human face,” which, I have to say, I couldn’t argue with that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztz_rQrOGM&t=73)
- **Pasolini 101** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101)
> "Okay, this is fantastic. Now, going back to Friedkin’s “the greatest location is the human face,” this is something that Pasolini understood. Accattone is a masterpiece. I mean, I think it’s as good as any Italian film I’ve seen from the ’60s, and that’s saying quite a bit because there’s so much great cinema from the ’50s, ’60s, and, yeah, this is…..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dztz_rQrOGM&t=188)
## Matteo Garrone (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqzFc4YC50) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/633-matteo-garrone-s-closet-picks)
- **The Cameraman** (1928) - Edward Sedgwick - Spine #1033 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29011-the-cameraman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018742/)
> "Qui ci sta uno dei miei grandi miti che è Buster Keaton, The Cameraman. È sicuramente uno dei registi che amo di più per il suo coraggio, per la sua visionarietà, per il suo essere istintivo e è puro. È puro questo, non riuscivo a trovarlo da nessuna parte e l'ho trovato."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqzFc4YC50&t=29)
- **Andrei Rublev** (1966) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #34 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/300-andrei-rublev) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060107/)
> "Andrei Rublev che mi sa che sta da questa parte qua. Tarkowski è un altro dei miei registi più amati e sicuramente questo è un film che è stato molto importante nella mia carriera... è proprio su una riflessione profonda sul Senso dell'arte sul Senso dell'artista quindi diciamo che è un film che consiglio soprattutto a tutti in ogni momento ma anche nei momenti difficili soprattutto lo consiglio e mettiamo anche questo capolavoro dentro la borsetta."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqzFc4YC50&t=65)
- **A Story from Chikamatsu** (1954) - Kenji Mizoguchi - Spine #949 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28160-a-story-from-chikamatsu) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046851/)
> "Qua ci sta Mizoguchi. Mizoguchi è un altro regista che ho amato tantissimo... Però qui intanto vedo due film che non conosco suoi e che quindi con l'occasione metto nella borsa... Mizoguchi è un altro di quei registi che ho amato sin dagli inizi e per la sua poesia, la sua capacità di entrare nell'animo umano trovando sempre un'idea originale figurativa visiva."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqzFc4YC50&t=120)
- **The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum** (1939) - Kenji Mizoguchi - Spine #832 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27729-the-story-of-the-last-chrysanthemum) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032156/)
> "Qua ci sta Mizoguchi. Mizoguchi è un altro regista che ho amato tantissimo... Però qui intanto vedo due film che non conosco suoi e che quindi con l'occasione metto nella borsa... Mizoguchi è un altro di quei registi che ho amato sin dagli inizi e per la sua poesia, la sua capacità di entrare nell'animo umano trovando sempre un'idea originale figurativa visiva."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqzFc4YC50&t=120)
- **Mulholland Dr.** (2001) - David Lynch - Spine #779 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28050-mulholland-dr) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/)
> "Potremmo andare a vedere se c'è qualcosa di Lynch. Guarda che meraviglia questo è uno dei miei film preferiti perché qui entriamo proprio dentro un tipo di cinema che va dritto all'inconscio... Un cinema fatto che punta ad arrivare all'esperienza del a far vivere l'esperienza al pubblico un'esperienza emotiva emozionale non tanto legata a un racconto lineare."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqzFc4YC50&t=165)
- **Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/689-roberto-rossellini-s-war-trilogy)
> "Rossellini è stato per me di grande importanza la mia formazione e lo è tutt'ora... Rossellini sicuramente è un regista fondamentale nella mia formazione a cui devo molto e è sicuramente il tentativo nostro di registi italiani... Proprio quello di cercare di fare dei film che in qualche modo facciano da ponte con I grandi maestri del passato quindi son felice di mettere anche il mio grande Rossellini nella borsa."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EqzFc4YC50&t=234)
## Matthew Broderick (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkSirbDU2E) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/847-matthew-broderick-s-closet-picks)
- **The Lady Eve** (1941) - Preston Sturges - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/639-the-lady-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033804/)
> "I’m first pulling out The Lady Eve. It’s hilarious and also really touching. I love… love this movie, I love Preston Sturges, as did John Hughes love Preston Sturges and Mike Nichols, who I worked with, said, “You gotta watch Preston Sturges movies,” and that’s how I first started watching those."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkSirbDU2E&t=15)
- **The 39 Steps** (2008) - James Hawes - Spine #56 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/234-the-39-steps) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1282016/)
> "The 39 Steps I saw recently. Black-and-white, you know, British, more British-y Alfred Hitchcock and, like all his movies, there is something absolutely special and magnificent about it. It’s just a great plot that just… Surprises keep coming to poor Robert Donat. There’s a helicopter in it, and one of the worst special effects I’ve ever seen is the helicopter flying overhead. And that’s another Hitchcock trademark, in my opinion, is to have some very fake-looking shot somewhere."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkSirbDU2E&t=34)
- **My Man Godfrey** (1936) - Gregory La Cava - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/653-my-man-godfrey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028010/)
> "My Man Godfrey. You know, Carole Lombard, the most… God, the most gorgeous… You can’t not fall in love with her. And William Powell, too. The two of them are magnificent. And I don’t know the other actors’ names so well, but… that guy with the big… you know, the scratchy voice is in it who’s fantastic. There’s a guy who does an impression of a monkey in it. And it’s a very funny and also very great, clever plot about the need for help after the Depression."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkSirbDU2E&t=74)
- **Now, Voyager** (1942) - Irving Rapper - Spine #1004 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29026-now-voyager) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035140/)
> "Now I’m picking Now, Voyager. It’s Paul Henreid and Bette Davis. It’s the one where Paul Henreid puts two cigarettes in his mouth and lights them both and gives– “Shall we have a cigarette on it?” And I’m leaving out Claude Rains, who may be one of my very favorite actors ever. Great character actor. A little taller, he would’ve been a leading man, but he got better parts because he’s a little on the short side. In this he plays her psychiatrist, and he is so touching and warm with her."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkSirbDU2E&t=172)
- **Double Indemnity** (1944) - Billy Wilder - Spine #1126 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30460-double-indemnity) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/)
> "So I have a noir: Double Indemnity. This movie is… Everybody talks this very clipped, short, stylish noir way that… there’s no other film quite like it. It’s perfect. And Barbara Stanwyck, no collection is complete without Barbara Stanwyck. One of the best film actors ever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkSirbDU2E&t=209)
- **The Cameraman** (1928) - Edward Sedgwick - Spine #1033 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29011-the-cameraman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018742/)
> "And this is The Cameraman, which is Buster Keaton. And I think this is one of his best ones, one of his most… It’s not like episodes of stunts. It’s like a real good story and a good character, and… I saw it at a movie theater with a live band and the audience was dying laughing. It’s funny to watch these movies in… with other people and realize that they’re still funny, which after a hundred years or ninety years is kind of amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkSirbDU2E&t=234)
- **David Lean Directs Noël Coward** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/861-david-lean-directs-noel-coward)
> "This is David Lean and Noël Coward, both of whom… nobody better. Brief Encounter is very famous. There’s no more heartbreaking, yearning, regret-filled movie, but ends with a certain amount of Happiness and peace somehow. In Which We Serve you might not have seen, but is magnificent. Noël Coward is in it. This Happy Breed I have not seen. Blithe Spirit, Rex Harrison. I haven’t seen that in a long time, but I can’t wait to see it again. Can’t believe David Lean directed those."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEkSirbDU2E&t=110)
## Matthew Modine (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gugp7YzVuC4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/436-matthew-modine-s-closet-picks)
- **High and Low** (1963) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #24 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/543-high-and-low) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057565/)
> "This is an amazing movie stanley kubrick told me that when I was this age I should do a remake of this movie it's an Akira Kurosawa movie called High and Low with Toshiro Mifune and it's a story about a man who worked his way up from shoe factory making shoes to becoming an executive at the shoe company and then his child is kidnapped or so he thinks the kidnapper took the wrong child they kidnapped his butler his servant the person that works in his House they kidnapped the wrong child..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gugp7YzVuC4&t=251)
- **Tanner ‘88** (1988) - - Spine #258 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/952-tanner-88)
> "Where's tanner robert altman who I had the pleasure working with three times... This is amazing this Tanner '88 because what Robert Altman did was follow an Election that was taking place and the brilliant Michael Murphy he pretended to be a politician that was running for office I think it sometimes he actually felt that he really was running for office..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gugp7YzVuC4&t=20)
- **The Black Stallion** (1979) - Carroll Ballard - Spine #765 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28685-the-black-stallion) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078872/)
> "This is amazing this is black stallion this is directed by Carroll Ballard Carroll Ballard I had the pleasure of working on a movie that Francis Ford Coppola he produced this Francis Ford Coppola and he produced the movie that I made with him called Wind and Wind is about the America's Cup and I had the pleasure of working with the most amazing sailors in the world and it's a beautiful Carroll Ballard this is a beautiful movie black stallion and Carroll Ballard is the best filmmaker..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gugp7YzVuC4&t=152)
- **Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb** (1964) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #821 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28822-dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/)
> "Here's another film by my friend stanley kubrick who I worked with on Full Metal Jacket Dr. Strangelove or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb stanley said that he told me that he wanted to make a movie that was a serious movie about the doomsday machine and about nuclear proliferation and nuclear warfare and the terrifying aspects of it but the more he did research the more he realized how stupid the entire thing was and that you couldn't make a serious movie about this..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gugp7YzVuC4&t=202)
- **Night of the Living Dead** (1968) - George A. Romero - Spine #909 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29331-night-of-the-living-dead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/)
> "Night of the Living Dead my father was a drive-in theater manager and I watched this movie in the projection booth of the drive-in it was called the Highland in Salt Lake City, Utah and I was much too young to have seen this film and it damaged my at least 10 years of my childhood of just being scared to death that these zombies were going to come out and start consuming my flesh..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gugp7YzVuC4&t=99)
- **Midnight Cowboy** (1969) - John Schlesinger - Spine #925 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29369-midnight-cowboy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/)
> "Midnight Cowboy this played at my father's drive-in this is directed by John Schlesinger and Midnight Cowboy when it came out it was rated x and it played at my dad's driving so I told you we were living in utah and this movie the Mormons threw my dad and our family out of utah basically because of this movie..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gugp7YzVuC4&t=128)
- **The Player** (1992) - Robert Altman - Spine #812 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28835-the-player) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/)
> "Here's another robert altman title The Player that tim robbins was in with Greta Scacchi and an unbelievable cast of actors from show business that robert everybody wanted to work with robert altman because he was so cool and working on his sets that the freedom that he allowed actors to have the experience was just like not working on anybody else's movie..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gugp7YzVuC4&t=71)
## Maura Delpero (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPPlAVrvhGY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/759-maura-delpero-s-closet-picks)
- **Il Posto** (1961) - Ermanno Olmi - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/364-il-posto) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055320/)
> "It’s I fidanzati, Il Posto. Two of his first films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPPlAVrvhGY&t=17)
- **The Tree of Wooden Clogs** (1978) - Ermanno Olmi - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28599-the-tree-of-wooden-clogs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077138/)
> "So, of course, I love, I love, I love L’Albero degli Zoccoli. That was here. The Tree of the Wooden Clogs. It’s a masterpiece. Three Ermanno Olmi with me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPPlAVrvhGY&t=23)
- **The Piano Teacher** (2001) - Michael Haneke - Spine #894 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28739-the-piano-teacher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/)
> "One of my favorite contemporary director ever. He is called Michael Haneke. I love so many films by him. But now I found The Piano Teacher. He doesn’t need so many plans. He just tells with very few shots what really will kill your heart and your mind and your belly all at once."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPPlAVrvhGY&t=83)
- **The Piano** (1993) - Jane Campion - Spine #1110 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30424-the-piano) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/)
> "And this is a film everybody loves and that makes everybody cry. It’s The Piano. Talking with friends, I realized that, of course, there are some very emotional moments. The one in which she falls down with the finger. But there is a moment in this film that really gives me one of the most strong emotion ever. I don’t know why, but the moment in which she goes back to the beach and she’s allowed to play again her piano, and she smiles like this woman that expresses herself through a piano."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPPlAVrvhGY&t=118)
- **Fish Tank** (2009) - Andrea Arnold - Spine #553 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27541-fish-tank) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232776/)
> "I think there was one more. Okay, this is very contemporary. Not many years ago. But I love this, Fish Tank. Andrea Arnold. I think it was a great casting. This girl is great, and I... Yes. I love this film, really. It’s... One of the best."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPPlAVrvhGY&t=172)
- **I fidanzati** (1963) - Ermanno Olmi - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/739-i-fidanzati) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055981/)
> "The first thing my eyes saw is two films I love by Ermanno Olmi. It’s I fidanzati, Il Posto. Two of his first films. But these two films that are not so known, I love them. The poetry inside. So, yeah. Three Ermanno Olmi with me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPPlAVrvhGY&t=6)
- **The Koker Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2363-the-koker-trilogy)
> "It’s Abbas Kiarostami. Here’s the trilogy. So... I just thought about one, but I’m happy there’s a trilogy here. I was thinking about Where Is the Friend’s House? My Friend’s House? But here I also find Through the Olive Trees. So I’m very happy. And Life Goes On. This moment with the flower... It’s cool, in Where Is the Friend’s House?, is really beautiful. And it’s kind of simplicity lesson."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPPlAVrvhGY&t=48)
## Maura Tierney (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mCdWe4X-0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/776-maura-tierney-s-closet-picks)
- **Hedwig and the Angry Inch** (2001) - John Cameron Mitchell - Spine #982 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29018-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248845/)
> "Hedwig and the Angry Inch, because I saw this when it was just a play. The Westbeth Theatre. And then I actually got to see John Cameron Mitchell do it on Broadway. So I love this so much. And whenever I’m feeling sad, I watch it and sing along with all the songs and I love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mCdWe4X-0&t=13)
- **Town Bloody Hall** (1979) - Chris Hegedus - Spine #1039 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30213-town-bloody-hall) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217853/)
> "Town Bloody Hall. Okay, so this is a documentary by D. A. Pennebaker that took place in 1972 or something. Norman Mailer, a famed misogynist, hosting a conversation about “women’s lib.” And I was quite taken by Germaine Greer, and just the level of conversation. And so I took this and I brought it to the Wooster Group, and then we made a play based on it. I love that movie. It’s a big thing in my life, Town Bloody Hall. We called the play The Town Hall Affair."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mCdWe4X-0&t=36)
- **Shampoo** (1975) - Hal Ashby - Spine #947 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28821-shampoo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073692/)
> "Oh, this. Shampoo, which is just such a moment in time. They’re all so… attractive. And it’s funny. And it also is a sort of… again, there is a weirdly feminist bent to this, in that, you know, even though he’s this Lothario, no one wants him in the end. And it’s Hal Ashby, so… That is something that’s part of my growing up in watching movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mCdWe4X-0&t=87)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "And this one. Do the Right Thing, ‘cause it is a masterpiece. And that’s… It just is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mCdWe4X-0&t=118)
- **The Ice Storm** (1997) - Ang Lee - Spine #426 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/336-the-ice-storm) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119349/)
> "The Ice Storm. The specifics of this movie, like when they… when she takes an ice tray out and she’s– 1970s, like, she has to crack that thing open, and the attention to detail of, like, what was going on at that time in suburbia. The cast is outstanding. It’s a very delicate and specific and also kind of heartbreaking movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mCdWe4X-0&t=129)
- **Paper Moon** (1973) - Peter Bogdanovich - Spine #1241 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29964-paper-moon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510/)
> "I love Paper Moon. But can you imagine she was, like, ten? How old was she? It’s an unbelievable Performance, both of them. It must have been very hard for her, but, like, what an… Oh, Madeline Kahn, this movie’s just… And Peter Bogdanovich, I mean, come on."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mCdWe4X-0&t=175)
- **House** (1977) - Sergio Citti - Spine #539 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27523-house) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075815/)
## Maya and Ethan Hawke (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/647-maya-and-ethan-hawke-s-closet-picks)
- **War and Peace** (1966) - Sergey Bondarchuk - Spine #983 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28891-war-and-peace) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061162/)
> "I have been wanting to show you this my whole life in fact I've brought this on 19 vacations and you guys never wanted to watch it's so good oh watch this War and Peace amazing I mean and it's animated no it's not animated just joking the cover War and Peace yeah you can get confused here at Criterion cuz the posters are so beautiful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=19)
- **Frances Ha** (2013) - Noah Baumbach - Spine #681 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28560-frances-ha) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2347569/)
> "Frances Ha favorite Greta Gerwig Performance oh amazing though I also really liked the romantic comedy that you guys did together oh thank you're welcome you somehow I bet that's not watched it on a plane and it really got me through a long flight."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=41)
- **Children of Paradise** (1945) - Marcel Carné - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/683-children-of-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037674/)
> "When I picked up Stranger Than Paradise I thought it was going to be Children of Paradise you got to show everybody Children of Paradise I constantly recommend it to people... You can't go wrong Children of Paradise but I highly recommend being patient like Sunday morning like cup of coffee just chill out sit down enjoy the ride."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=61)
- **3 Women** (1977) - Robert Altman - Spine #230 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/712-3-women) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075612/)
> "Have you seen this movie? 3 Women oh right cuz when I fell in love with Nashville so hard I like checked this movie out it is a confounding movie I love it is so profoundly strange."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=90)
- **Husbands** (1970) - John Cassavetes - Spine #1029 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28827-husbands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065867/)
> "Anything with Cassavetes is a winner as far as I'm concerned it took your Mother to see this movie on our first dates yeah Husbands Cassavetes cool so I think she liked it she did she didn't like the chairs at the Film Forum she complained about the chairs but I think she liked the movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=104)
- **The Magnificent Ambersons** (1942) - Orson Welles - Spine #952 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28711-the-magnificent-ambersons) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035015/)
> "The Magnificent Ambersons I've actually never seen like people who say Orson Welles was a one hit wonder then there's The Others who say have you seen Magnificent Ambersons and I'm like no I actually haven't and they're like you're not really a film fanatic if you haven't seen that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=126)
- **Pina** (2011) - Wim Wenders - Spine #644 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28404-pina) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440266/)
> "This movie has inspired me to no end Pina I don't know this really put it in your bag okay Wenders documentary on Pina Bausch oh the incredible choreographer it sounds like it's going to be a dance documentary but it's like it I don't know it's so moving."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=142)
- **An Angel at My Table** (1990) - Jane Campion - Spine #301 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/742-an-angel-at-my-table) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099040/)
> "I'm looking for some of the movies on our list... I'm having a hard time finding Angel at My Table... There it is... Angel at My Table is it's yeah it's a biopic but it's a great film you don't need to know who Janet Frame is... Jane Campion knocking it out of the park again and it's so patient... Every raised eyebrow is the happening of the scene and it's just I don't know like changed my brain this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=190)
- **Tess** (1979) - Roman Polanski - Spine #697 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28594-tess) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080009/)
> "Oh Tess I learned a little bit about how it was made and that they like shot every scene at Golden hour and they would just like prepare and rehearse all day and then go shoot at Golden hour and then be done for the day I was like can we bring that back I know like is anyone still doing that cuz I'd like to volunteer as tribute to be in that movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=232)
- **Days of Heaven** (1978) - Terrence Malick - Spine #409 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/213-days-of-heaven) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/)
> "It feels like when we watch Days of Heaven together I felt like that movie must have been done that way too they probably shot at you know 5:00 a. M. And 6:00 p. M. It's so beautiful where is Days of Heaven... Beautiful Days of Heaven it's a classic worth revisiting it needs to be done."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=252)
- **Picnic at Hanging Rock** (1975) - Peter Weir - Spine #29 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/565-picnic-at-hanging-rock) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/)
> "Speaking of Terrence Malick and beauty this is Peter Weir... Picnic at Hanging Rock we all owe a lot to this movie this movie is one of those weird movies where you watch it and you're like oh people have been ripping this movie off for generations."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=283)
- **Kicking and Screaming** (1995) - Noah Baumbach - Spine #349 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/795-kicking-and-screaming) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113537/)
> "I also haven't seen Kicking and Screaming ever and I would really like to... The reason why you're seduced is Josh Hamilton is in this movie... And the reason why it is my favorite Noah Baumbach film is because it stars Josh Hamilton."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxzCSz-4CIw&t=308)
## Michael Cera (actor)
Episode: 2015 | [Visit 1 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CODR5TU8RM) | [Visit 2 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXifiwHR-k)
- **Good Morning** (1959) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #84 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/624-good-morning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053134/)
> "I'll start with Good Morning because this one kind of made a big impression on me and it was I think the first Ozu movie I have ever seen... There's a lot of fart humor in this movie actually which was unexpected... It's a pretty simple story of the kids want a television set to watch sumo wrestling and stuff... Postwar Japan and the parents are against it... The kids take a vow of silence against them to get their ways and they win and it's just a beautiful film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CODR5TU8RM&t=12)
- **Close-Up** (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #519 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/)
> "The other movie that's really special to me that I wanted to mention is Close-Up and I guess probably it's a it's a very widely appreciated film but I think some people don't know it and I actually got some friends of mine to watch it one night some friends of mine asked me for a film recommendation I said watch Close-Up like there's no way you won't have a great time and they were like no we did kind of like was in the right vibe but anyway it's an incredible film and it's like t..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CODR5TU8RM&t=117)
- **Tootsie** (1982) - Sydney Pollack - Spine #738 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28609-tootsie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084805/)
> "I also kind of wanted to just mention Tootsie since I saw it in here and didn't realize that it was coming out on Criterion and that's a great film... This incredible powerful director Sydney Pollack making this kind of seemingly light comedy but doing it in this really intelligent way... A friend of mine told me a Sydney Pollack quote that is a film, a good film should be two sides of a good argument and I think this movie is a good example of that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CODR5TU8RM&t=287)
- **Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/752-eclipse-series-24-the-actuality-dramas-of-allan-king)
> "This Allan King collection... I'm Canadian so I thought I should put a Canadian in there... This whole collection is incredible... The one that really got me is A Married Couple which is so funny and so heartbreaking at the same time... You're watching this real thing which is this marriage disintegrating in front of a camera... It sort of like a Real Life Scenes from a Marriage in a way... You're watching them try and fail at putting the pieces back together."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CODR5TU8RM&t=202)
- **WALL•E** (2008) - Andrew Stanton - Spine #1161 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33246-wall-e) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/)
> "And then I was also gonna take WALL·E. Also quite, you know, silent, kind of a modern silent film almost, but very, very visual. So I think even my little baby boy might like this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXifiwHR-k&t=59)
- **Hobson’s Choice** (1954) - David Lean - Spine #461 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1078-hobson-s-choice) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047094/)
> "I would like to talk about Hobson’s Choice a little bit... I did watch this sometime in the last year and I had such an amazing, magical viewing experience... It’s like a Disney movie almost. It’s, like, wall-to-wall orchestral music, flourishing every physical gesture, and Charles Laughton’s so incredible, but, oh, so are Brenda De Banzie, who’s his daughter, and John Mills. Oh my God. Those three are all so perfect in this perfect little movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXifiwHR-k&t=71)
- **The Mother and the Whore** (1973) - Jean Eustache - Spine #1245 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33280-the-mother-and-the-whore) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070359/)
> "Take The Mother and the Whore. It is, like, a long movie, so you make an afternoon of it. You make, like, a rainy afternoon of it with a friend. It’s so wonderful. The conversations and the dialogue. It’s just very voyeuristic and fun to get lost watching this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXifiwHR-k&t=153)
- **The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)** (1999) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #1261 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30369-the-wind-will-carry-us) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209463/)
> "My very, very, very favorite guy: Abbas Kiarostami, The Wind Will Carry Us. What an amazing movie. I’m so happy that Criterion is putting this out because it’s been hard to get a good version of and hard to find in general, and one of his most special. I mean, every Kiarostami movie is just a complete beautiful poem. But this is so, so amazing. For the longest time this has been, and it still is and will remain, my, like, desktop image on my laptop."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXifiwHR-k&t=169)
- **Anora** (2024) - Sean Baker - Spine #1259 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34891-anora) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28607951/)
> "I will– yeah, I’ll just end with these two Sean Baker. 4K and the Blu-ray of Anora. I have not seen this movie, and I was– I’m just so ashamed of that. So that’s exciting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXifiwHR-k&t=212)
- **Prince of Broadway** (2010) - Sean Baker - Spine #1258 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30085-prince-of-broadway) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000769/)
> "And then while I’m there, down here in the Sean Baker corner, I’m gonna take Prince of Broadway by Sean Baker as well because I’ve also not seen this, and… Very important guy doing very, very, very special work in a very exciting and unusual way, finding his way through the trappings and the restrictions of making movies now... He’s just got it figured out, so love him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXifiwHR-k&t=224)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "So I was gonna take this Jacques Tati Complete, which is amazing. My son is three and a half... And I did start showing him some Charlie Chaplin stuff and he really liked it. And it’s great, I mean, if you have kids. There’s hardly any language, so there’s not a language barrier... But this is great because it’s like a cartoon almost. I was gonna show him Mr. Bean as well, so this’ll be a good… this will segue us into Mr. Bean."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXifiwHR-k&t=26)
- **Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7581-gregg-araki-s-teen-apocalypse-trilogy)
> "Okay, we’ll do the Gregg Araki. Teen Apocalypse Trilogy. Love Gregg Araki. Wish he would hire me. I have to admit I have not seen Totally Fucked Up. I’m assuming that the stars… that ‘f***ed,’ I’m assuming that’s the word ‘fucked.’ But Nowhere is incredible. Anyway, Gregg Araki’s Apocalypse Trilogy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXifiwHR-k&t=120)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "Oh, right. I was gonna take 8½ too. I’ll pay for it. I’ll take the 4K / Blu-ray of 8½ because I love it. It was a great friend of mine’s favorite movie, who I love. And I’m gonna take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXifiwHR-k&t=264)
## Michael K Williams (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJiL6ps8hZQ) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/602-michael-k-williams-s-closet-picks)
- **Gomorrah** (2023) - Aaron J McIntyre - Spine #493 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1590-gomorrah)
> "Gomorrah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJiL6ps8hZQ&t=10)
- **The Fugitive Kind** (1960) - Sidney Lumet - Spine #515 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/17998-the-fugitive-kind) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052832/)
> "Look at Marlon Brando, boy was he soft on the eyes right there man, that's the dude you feel me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJiL6ps8hZQ&t=13)
- **Hunger** (2008) - Steve McQueen - Spine #504 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/477-hunger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986233/)
> "Hunger. I heard this dude Steve McQueen is an amazing director. I haven't seen it yet but I've been hearing about it, got to check this out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJiL6ps8hZQ&t=19)
- **The Night of the Hunter** (1955) - Charles Laughton - Spine #541 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/)
> "Oh man, this is a classic. The Night of the Hunter. This is one, this is a staple in your video library. Got to have this, this is a must-have."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJiL6ps8hZQ&t=31)
- **Dazed and Confused** (1993) - Richard Linklater - Spine #336 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/314-dazed-and-confused) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/)
- **Modern Times** (1936) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #543 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27526-modern-times) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027977/)
## Michael Shannon (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewx-oog2kmQ) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/556-michael-shannon-s-closet-picks)
- **Down by Law** (1986) - Jim Jarmusch - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/)
> "It says Jarmusch film Down by Law. I just really love the photography in this, it's black and white and I just think this is one of my favorite trios of actors put together in a film with Roberto Benigni and obviously Tom Waits and John Lurie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewx-oog2kmQ&t=22)
- **Being John Malkovich** (1999) - Spike Jonze - Spine #611 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28055-being-john-malkovich) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/)
> "Being John Malkovich, no way! I was just watching that. When I was in Chicago starting out acting, he was the man, Malkovich, Steppenwolf and all that. So when they made a movie called Being John Malkovich, it made perfect sense to all of us. It's such a fun movie, it's such a bizarre movie, so imaginative, and Catherine Keener, I mean, come on."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewx-oog2kmQ&t=48)
- **Seconds** (1966) - John Frankenheimer - Spine #667 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/)
> "I've heard a lot about this movie, Seconds. Frankenheimer film, I believe. Anyway, I've always wanted to see this movie. I haven't seen it, I can't say anything about it, but I'm glad to take it off your hands."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewx-oog2kmQ&t=92)
- **The Elephant Man** (1980) - David Lynch - Spine #1051 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29677-the-elephant-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080678/)
> "Oh wow, Elephant Man. Again, I don't mean to sound like I think film is all about acting, because I know it's not, but John Hurt in this movie—WTF, like how the hell do you do that with all of that on his face? I mean, that's just literally like somebody's soul. Like when they say every time you get your picture took it takes some of your soul, like this is the proof."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewx-oog2kmQ&t=106)
- **Being There** (1979) - Hal Ashby - Spine #864 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29009-being-there) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/)
> "This is the one right here, Being There. Oh, I love Hal Ashby, I love this movie so much. Peter Sellers, this Performance is pure joy. God bless God for making Peter Sellers. If you're ever down and feeling like I can't go on, just put this on, it'll cheer you right up."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewx-oog2kmQ&t=144)
- **Five Easy Pieces** (1970) - Bob Rafelson - Spine #546 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27529-five-easy-pieces) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065724/)
> "Bob Rafelson, Five Easy Pieces. There you go. Bob Rafelson and Hal Ashby, they just don't make them like that anymore. They really don't. I mean, just so rich and complex and easy. It almost feels like it's just happening, you know, but not in like a slow way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewx-oog2kmQ&t=176)
- **America Lost and Found: The BBS Story** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/769-america-lost-and-found-the-bbs-story)
> "I wonder if you have King of Marvin Gardens because I like that one too. What? Oh my god, well there you go. That kind of takes a lot of boxes. I've never seen Head, Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, Drive, He Said, A Safe Place, The Last Picture Show, and The King of Marvin Gardens. Yeah, this makes up for all the Christmases where I didn't get much of anything."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewx-oog2kmQ&t=205)
## Michelle Zauner (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmeWU8oqy-A) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/831-michelle-zauner-s-closet-picks)
- **A Brighter Summer Day** (1991) - Edward Yang - Spine #804 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28596-a-brighter-summer-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101985/)
> "I haven’t seen A Brighter Summer Day, but I’m a huge fan of Yi. And I love Edward Yang’s work. I think that he has maybe the greatest eye for composition of any director ever. I just love the stillness of his movies and just the way that the shots are composed and they're so kind of melancholic and profound and quiet ways. And yeah, I was told by many people that I needed to also watch A Brighter Summer Day. So I’m very, very excited to watch this probably as soon as I get home."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmeWU8oqy-A&t=81)
- **Still Walking** (2008) - Hirokazu Kore-eda - Spine #554 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27540-still-walking) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1087578/)
> "Still Walking. I’m a huge fan of Kore-eda. The tone of his films and the pacing and the performances are always so incredible. And there’s just this real, tactile, kind of naturalistic feeling in all of his movies that I find to be very haunting and stick with you for a really long time. So I’m a big fan of his, and he’s one of those directors—I want to see every movie that he’s ever made. One of my favorite directors. Very, very excited to check out this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmeWU8oqy-A&t=120)
- **The Spirit of the Beehive** (1973) - Víctor Erice - Spine #351 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/367-the-spirit-of-the-beehive) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070040/)
> "This is my final pick. It’s The Spirit of the Beehive, which is both a great band and film. This young, six-year-old actress, that, yeah, has these eyes that looks like it’s seen maybe 40 different lifetimes. They just have such great depth. And her Performance is stunning. It’s a beautiful, haunting film, and I can’t wait to revisit it because I remember loving it so much. And yeah, I’m excited to add it to my collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmeWU8oqy-A&t=224)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "I do want to start, actually, with this incredible Fellini box set. I came in here wanting to get I vitelloni because I saw that film for the first time a couple years ago at a Fellini retrospective in Eugene, Oregon. It felt like a really special moment because it’s kind of about a band of slackers that are stuck in a small town, and I feel like that was very much who we were as teenagers. And this is an incredible box set that looks like it’s filled with records, but is filled with films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmeWU8oqy-A&t=11)
- **Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 1** (7 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1021-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-1)
> "And it’s a part of this Martin Scorsese World Cinema Project box set, which seems to have a bunch of really fantastic films that I’m sure are all really great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmeWU8oqy-A&t=209)
## Mikey Madison (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUc5BfebCM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/762-mikey-madison-s-closet-picks)
- **Five Easy Pieces** (1970) - Bob Rafelson - Spine #546 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27529-five-easy-pieces) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065724/)
> "Down here, Five Easy Pieces. Such a classic. And I really think it’s my favorite Nicholson Performance. There’s just something about how he approaches this character, such a morally gray character, yet you’re rooting for him. And I feel like those are often characters that I am drawn to as an actor. You know, nobody’s just, like, good or bad. It’s... That sort of weird space in between that’s really interesting to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUc5BfebCM&t=17)
- **Easy Rider** (2012) - James Benning - Spine #545 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27528-easy-rider) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2613256/)
> "And then, you know, Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider. I actually have this... An art book of all the photos that Dennis Hopper took while making this film, and it is so beautiful. I have it on my coffee table, and it inspires me to want to try to take more photos while I’m making movies to... Capture something special."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUc5BfebCM&t=47)
- **Take Out** (2021) - Manolo Marcenó - Spine #1149 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30084-take-out) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16302246/)
> "Oh, okay. Take Out. I mean, this is, obviously, one of Sean Baker’s first films. And as I was getting to know him, he sent me a link to it before it was on Criterion. And it’s fun to see sort of his... One of his first interpretations of New York City, so... Definitely going to take this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUc5BfebCM&t=70)
- **The Piano Teacher** (2001) - Michael Haneke - Spine #894 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28739-the-piano-teacher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/)
> "The Piano Teacher. Isabelle Huppert. Man. Has to be– not just in my eyes, but... Worldwide, like, one of the most incredible performances by an actress in, like, the history of cinema. She is so intense and vulnerable, and the scene where she, like, stabs herself in the shoulder with the piece of glass, I think it is, there’s a sound that comes out of her throat. It’s so, like, guttural. I remember watching this and I was like, “I have to... Just, like, go back and see this one more time.""
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUc5BfebCM&t=95)
- **Gilda** (1946) - Charles Vidor - Spine #795 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27909-gilda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038559/)
> "I was attracted to the pink spine. But Gilda, this is a classic film that I haven’t seen, but I’ve seen so many photographs of, and... I mean, Rita Hayworth, obviously one of the most iconic, sexy, talented actresses of that time, and... Yeah, I mean this– I need to see this. It’s kind of unbelievable that I haven’t yet."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUc5BfebCM&t=152)
- **Eyes Without a Face** (1960) - Georges Franju - Spine #260 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/950-eyes-without-a-face) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/)
> "Oh, Eyes Without a– Okay, I was– I was again attracted to the pink spine. But Eyes Without a Face. I haven’t seen this film in forever, but I think it has one of The Most Beautiful artistic movie posters of all time. Amazing. I need to one day do a Halloween costume that is dedicated to this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUc5BfebCM&t=181)
- **The Kid** (2010) - Nick Moran - Spine #799 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27566-the-kid) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371160/)
> "Okay, The Kid. Charlie Chaplin. You fall in love with this little boy, and he gives such a beautiful Performance, obviously without speaking. And the chemistry that they have together is amazing, really. And I think, if I remember correctly... Yeah, Jackie Coogan. A little bit sad, but that’s why the Coogan Account was created... I mean, it’s due in part to his story, so."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUc5BfebCM&t=204)
- **Heaven’s Gate** (1980) - Michael Cimino - Spine #636 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28036-heaven-s-gate) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080855/)
> "Heaven’s Gate. Okay. Wyoming, federal marshal and Isabelle Huppert and Christopher Walken’s in this. Okay. I think I’m gonna like this. I love, love Westerns."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AUc5BfebCM&t=277)
## Minnie Driver (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-7snPxjLQ8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/539-minnie-driver-s-closet-picks)
- **All About Eve** (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Spine #1003 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29596-all-about-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/)
> "Well look, I'm an actress, okay, so All About Eve is required watching because, you know, probably at any given time you're either like Bette Davis or you're Anne Baxter. I mean, I don't really love seeing women pitted against each other type movies, if there is one movie where I will watch it, it is this one because it is clever and sharp and clearly of a time when women gave as good as they got."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-7snPxjLQ8&t=16)
- **Betty Blue** (1986) - Jean-Jacques Beineix - Spine #1002 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29079-betty-blue) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090563/)
> "I was 15 when I watched Betty Blue. Béatrice Dalle was like somebody drew her and she came to life, like this embodiment of everything that I wanted to be as a woman. Something about French movies when you're a teenager as well, they kind of let me down when I grew up when I realized that life wasn't like that. I really did think that it was that beautifully lit, it was that hot, there was that much sex and that much power."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-7snPxjLQ8&t=53)
- **An Angel at My Table** (1990) - Jane Campion - Spine #301 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/742-an-angel-at-my-table) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099040/)
> "An Angel at My Table by Jane Campion. It is about New Zealand's probably most famous author called Janet Frame and her apparent madness even though she wasn't really mad, and the landscape of New Zealand, this power and grace and beauty of this place and the experience of this brilliant artist who was just treated so appallingly. Kerry Fox who stars in An Angel at My Table was in it and she is a rare, deep, beautiful actress."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-7snPxjLQ8&t=99)
- **Uncut Gems** (2019) - Benny Safdie - Spine #1101 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31917-uncut-gems) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5727208/)
> "Uncut Gems. I do not understand why Adam Sandler was not nominated for an Academy Award and why he did not win. What I found so arresting about this film apart from Adam Sandler's Performance and the direction and the horrifying music is that the female characters are so fully drawn, they are so full of blood and life, and it makes this very kind of dirty male tale so centered and so rife with life. I love this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-7snPxjLQ8&t=137)
- **Down by Law** (1986) - Jim Jarmusch - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/)
> "This film, along with Withnail and I, Down by Law and Withnail and I are probably the two movies that I would watch when I was a teenager and it was exactly what I dreamed being an adult would be like. This slightly surreal, you can do anything but you may well end up in prison. That maybe I could fall in love with someone as cool as John Lurie or Tom Waits or indeed Roberto Benigni. I mean, 'ice cream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-7snPxjLQ8&t=193)
- **La Cage aux Folles** (1985) - Georges Lautner - Spine #671 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28045-la-cage-aux-folles) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088873/)
> "So La Cage aux Folles. I mean, who didn't love—I love The Birdcage, I love the remake of this film, but this is the one to watch really. Like in 1978 to be telling a story of a gay couple and like this big caper, it's like a gay caper movie. It makes you laugh at the absolute kind of mortification of the way in which people behave, at the deep love that is at the center of it. It's a really brilliant film. It was one of my father's favorite movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-7snPxjLQ8&t=272)
## Molly Ringwald (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/639-molly-ringwald-s-closet-picks)
- **A Face in the Crowd** (1957) - Elia Kazan - Spine #970 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28703-a-face-in-the-crowd) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/)
> "This one, A Face in the Crowd. This is a movie by Elia Kazan and I have always thought that this would make a really incredible remake except for the fact that we're living it. And Patricia Neal is incredible in that and I believe it was Lee Remick's first movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=38)
- **Céline and Julie Go Boating** (1974) - Jacques Rivette - Spine #1069 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29639-celine-and-julie-go-boating) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071381/)
> ", this is a good one, Céline and Julie Go Boating. It has this very Alice Through the Looking Glass feeling, but it's also two women who are friendly with each other, as opposed to a lot of movies where there's so much friction between the women. These are like, this is a real I think women's women kind of movie. So I'm going to put that in there because I like to watch it when I need a little boost."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=64)
- **Band of Outsiders** (1964) - Jean-Luc Godard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/291-band-of-outsiders) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057869/)
> "I love Band of Outsiders."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=184)
- **Love Streams** (1984) - John Cassavetes - Spine #721 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28032-love-streams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087644/)
> "And then also I see that Love Streams, which is not in the collection but I'd like to have that as well. This was his last movie that he did before he died."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=308)
- **Umberto D.** (1952) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #201 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/371-umberto-d) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045274/)
> "Umberto D., a film by Vittorio De Sica. I have not seen this one. It's a neorealist masterpiece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=341)
- **La vie de Jésus** (1997) - Bruno Dumont - Spine #980 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28075-la-vie-de-jesus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120448/)
> "This is the first movie by Bruno Dumont called La vie de Jésus. I remember seeing this in the movie theater actually in France and being very struck by it. He didn't really use any actors, I think these are all pretty much nonprofessional. And then I met him later at the French film Festival in Sarasota because I really wanted to work with him but he told me at the time that he could never actually see himself working with an actor."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=191)
- **Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1329-dietrich-von-sternberg-in-hollywood)
> "The first thing I think I'd like to get is the Dietrich and Von Sternberg and I have seen some of these but I have not seen all of them so I think I'm going to go for that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=12)
- **Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons** (1 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7154-eric-rohmer-s-tales-of-the-four-seasons)
> "Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons these are movies that I've seen a bunch of times it really is like my comfort viewing whenever I'm feeling a little bit down and I feel like March is definitely one of those months where you think in New York you're like is this ever going to end it's so cold it's so dreary I also love Rohmer because he is for me he's one of the most bookish filmmakers that there is you know there's tons of dialogue the camera angles are no..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=103)
- **Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/517-eclipse-series-8-lubitsch-musicals)
> "Lubitsch Musicals. Lubitsch combined his love for European operettas and his mastery of film to create these elegant, bawdy pre-code delights. Yeah, fun. I love watching pre-code, like what they got away with."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=148)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "One of my favorite movies is The Nights of Cabiria which is in this set which is the Essential Fellini set. I actually got to meet Fellini when I was 13 years old when I did my first movie which was Paul Mazursky's Tempest with John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. We filmed a month at Cinecittà and this guy came in and kissed me on the top of my head and I was like 'who's that?' It was Fellini."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=236)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "The John Cassavetes: Five Films. I'd really love to take this because I love John Cassavetes. I mean what he says is all of his movies are pretty much about love, how people love, why they love. He's like 'I just basically keep making the same movie again and again because that's what obsesses him.' Excited about that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_ZBeZ_C0v8&t=275)
## Natasha Lyonne (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/820-natasha-lyonne-s-closet-picks)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "Naked. Okay. This is one of my favorites. This is David Thewlis at his best. Mike Leigh. I see there’s two editions. I guess I’ll just take both. Such a crush on him from this movie. And Katrin Cartlidge, who’s so amazing, who passed away. But, yeah, don’t watch that, like, if you pick up a skater in Tompkins Square Park... You bring them home. Then the morning after, you think, 'I think this guy’s really gonna get it. They’re gonna love Naked.' You put it on... They don’t have the attention..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=8)
- **Hoop Dreams** (1994) - Steve James - Spine #289 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/906-hoop-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110057/)
> "Hoop Dreams. This is a hell of a picture."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=50)
- **Heaven Can Wait** (1978) - Warren Beatty - Spine #291 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/878-heaven-can-wait) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077663/)
> "That’s fun. Heaven Can Wait. I really always thought that showbiz was going to be more like this. They had a good time in these."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=52)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "Oh, La strada, of course."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=60)
- **Naked Lunch** (1991) - David Cronenberg - Spine #220 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/634-naked-lunch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/)
> "Naked Lunch, that’s a hit. This is good, especially if, you know, you’re trying to figure out if you’re in a good or bad relationship. Remember, it’s not quite so bad that there’s a… Is it an apple placed on the eye and a gunshot? That never ends well for Judy Davis."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=61)
- **Umberto D.** (1952) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #201 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/371-umberto-d) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045274/)
> "Umberto D., okay, there we go. You need to have some classics in the mix."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=75)
- **Uncut Gems** (2019) - Benny Safdie - Spine #1101 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31917-uncut-gems) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5727208/)
> "Oh, I’m in this one, Uncut Gems. I’m a voice or something. Safdie tried to get me. And I had a real part in this. Said I’m a voice on the telephone."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=80)
- **Devil in a Blue Dress** (1995) - Carl Franklin - Spine #1135 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32355-devil-in-a-blue-dress) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112857/)
> "Devil in a Blue Dress. It’s a hot film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=88)
- **Raging Bull** (1980) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1134 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29158-raging-bull) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/)
> "By Raging Bull. Okay."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=91)
- **Town Bloody Hall** (1979) - Chris Hegedus - Spine #1039 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30213-town-bloody-hall) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217853/)
> "Town Bloody Hall. And this one is really great. I had the opportunity to direct the brilliant Jacqueline Novak’s comedy special, Get on Your Knees, at Town Hall. And I had the opportunity to hang out with Chris Hegedus, who was D. A. Pennebaker’s wife and collaborator frequently, and we based a lot of the aesthetic on this, you know, Norman Mailer getting grilled by Germaine Greer and so on. The lo-fi nature of it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=93)
- **Pickpocket** (1959) - Robert Bresson - Spine #314 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/)
> "Pickpocket. Is this Bresson? Let’s see. Yes., she gets it again. When I tell you the amount of brain damage on this thing, it really is something, but the movies, I guess, I got in the bones as a youth, so they stuck there."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=121)
- **Sunday Bloody Sunday** (1971) - John Schlesinger - Spine #629 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28025-sunday-bloody-sunday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067805/)
> "And this is one of my favorite movies of all time: Sunday Bloody Sunday. This Schlesinger movie, who also, I guess, is Midnight Cowboy, right? But this movie is so fucking good. Peter Finch. Oh God, he’s good in this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=140)
- **City Lights** (1931) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #680 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/)
> "City Lights, Pandora’s Box."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=164)
- **Pandora’s Box** (1929) - G.W. Pabst - Spine #358 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/362-pandora-s-box) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018737/)
> "City Lights, Pandora’s Box."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=164)
- **Sweet Smell of Success** (1957) - Alexander Mackendrick - Spine #555 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/)
> "Sweet Smell of Success. She’s going back down. ‘Cause James Wong Howe is the cinematographer of that and he’s my favorite cinematographer. So I’m going back. Come on, James, quick. I found it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=191)
- **Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling** (1986) - Richard Pryor - Spine #1247 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30975-jo-jo-dancer-your-life-is-calling) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091295/)
> "Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling, written and directed by Richard Pryor. If you’re looking for a double feature, I’d strongly suggest pairing it with the Bob Fosse movie All That Jazz. These are two sides of my favorite coins, my favorite genre... Now, I wouldn’t say that this is a perfect film. But it is. It is a perfect film. I’m not sure if you know about the incident that the brilliant Richard Pryor went through, but, well, he made a Fosse-esque extravaganza of it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=215)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "Pairing it with the Bob Fosse movie All That Jazz. These are two sides of my favorite coins, my favorite genre. They’re movies that, you know, they start in a hospital bed. And of course, our friend Gideon, he’s in that bed in that middle space and Jessica Lange is upstairs in the rafters, and 'It’s showtime,' the movie begins. But it takes you back through his complicated life... I’m really indebted to these two films for everything I’ve thought of since."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=223)
- **Trilogy of Life** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/916-trilogy-of-life)
> "I’ll definitely do Pasolini, Trilogy of Life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=137)
- **3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/982-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman)
> "What’s this? It’s a Rossellini/Bergman box set. I see. That’s sexy to have. Okay, Stromboli."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=156)
- **Six Moral Tales** (6 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/417-six-moral-tales)
> "Eric Rohmer. Also a fight I’ve had with Aza Jacobs. When I say fight, I just mean that they talk about it and I sort of ignore those texts. So I’m gonna give it a chance, because I bet you they’re right and I’m wrong. That’s what they call aging. I think I’m about to have tits out, but let’s see what this adventure is about."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNUAkiIoTFk&t=172)
## Nathalie Emmanuel (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPxucCV4dU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/738-nathalie-emmanuel-s-closet-picks)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "I have selected first The Red Shoes. I have such fond memories of this film. I have a dance background, ballet background, and the metaphor in the movie, the passion for the craft and the art, and how it can drive you insane or like to, you know, desperate, desperate lengths, and so... I won’t talk about The Red Shoes for the whole thing, but we have to move on."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPxucCV4dU&t=32)
- **Love & Basketball** (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood - Spine #1097 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31500-love-basketball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199725/)
> "Love & Basketball by Gina Prince-Bythewood. This film. Okay, so I probably saw this film... Height of puberty. Suddenly you’re interested in, you know, I was, you know, like, “Oh, look, that boy’s kind of cute.” And I’m– you know, that’s just peak teenage angst. And... It’s so good. The chemistry. Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan. Just beautiful. Just such great performances. And Gina... I feel like I just rinsed this DVD so much that I broke it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPxucCV4dU&t=142)
- **Paris is Burning** (1991) - Jennie Livingston - Spine #1018 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29647-paris-is-burning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/)
> "Paris is Burning. I remember seeing this movie and just being like... I just didn’t know this existed. And this is what’s so powerful about movies, is that you can get pulled into worlds that you didn’t know about, and you see how cultures that start in these small ways, and then it just becomes really normal. Everybody knew what voguing was because of Willi Ninja and, like, the way that we do our makeup now is influenced by the amazing people that are represented in this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPxucCV4dU&t=190)
- **The Worst Person in the World** (2021) - Joachim Trier - Spine #1132 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32661-the-worst-person-in-the-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10370710/)
> "Worst Person in the World. I absolutely loved this film. I think women are often just taught such a limited... We’re socialized to have such a limited view of what we can be or what our lives can be. And I just love this woman who’s got so much agency and so much, like... She makes choices for herself. Like, whether they’re right or wrong, she has the courage to just make them, and... You know, she deals with the consequences of them, but... There’s a real courage that I really loved."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPxucCV4dU&t=229)
- **Small Axe** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6517-small-axe)
> "This box set of Small Axe by Steve McQueen. This one has a very... Significant and important connection for me because it’s about, you know, Windrush Britain, the Caribbean community coming to the UK after the world war to rebuild the motherland, or whatever. And the experiences of those people that came. And I am a direct descendant of those people who came, and it was really important that somebody told these stories. And Steve McQueen has an amazing, clear mission to tell stories..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPxucCV4dU&t=66)
## Nathan Lane (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/427-nathan-lane-s-closet-picks)
- **Rififi** (1955) - Jules Dassin - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/654-rififi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048021/)
> "This is Rififi. It's a jewel heist my husband loves any movie about a heist. Rififi—it sounds like it could be a great movie or the name of our next-door neighbor's poodle. Rififi, here, here, Rafi! Oh, don't, Rafi, don't!"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=24)
- **Heaven Can Wait** (1978) - Warren Beatty - Spine #291 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/878-heaven-can-wait) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077663/)
> "This is one I love. I always—this is another one, if I see it, I have to watch it to the end. And it's directed by the great Ernst Lubitsch.... Heaven Can Wait, is that the other Heaven Can Wait? Oh, it's so confusing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=220)
- **The Night of the Hunter** (1955) - Charles Laughton - Spine #541 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/)
> "You should all see Night of the Hunter. And sadly, the reviews were very mixed and he never made another film again. He felt so defeated by the reviews—that's why you shouldn't read reviews. But Charles Laughton, one of our greatest actors, and based on this, could have been one of our greatest directors. I'm just sort of going with the classics, but I love this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=86)
- **Sweet Smell of Success** (1957) - Alexander Mackendrick - Spine #555 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/)
> "Sweet Smell of Success has some of the greatest dialogue ever. Burt Lancaster is fantastic as this sort of horrible Walter Winchell columnist. 'I love this dirty town.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=114)
- **The Kid** (2010) - Nick Moran - Spine #799 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27566-the-kid) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1371160/)
> "The Kid. Well, there should be one Chaplin."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=20)
- **Bitter Rice** (1949) - Giuseppe De Santis - Spine #792 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27805-bitter-rice) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040737/)
> "Bitter Rice. A neo-realism with a heaping dose of pulp, and we're not talking orange juice."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=45)
- **Mikey and Nicky** (1976) - Elaine May - Spine #957 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27895-mikey-and-nicky) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074901/)
> "Oh look, this—I don't think I've ever seen this all the way through. This is written and directed by the woman who wrote The Birdcage, the genius known as Elaine May. One of the first of three women directors in the Director's Guild. It was Ida Lupino, Elaine May, and some other woman who I'm sure was wonderful. But Elaine—and now we realize how brilliant she was. This is Peter Falk and John Cassavetes as small-time hoods."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=168)
- **Here Comes Mr. Jordan** (1941) - Alexander Hall - Spine #819 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27902-here-comes-mr-jordan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033712/)
> "Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Yeah, that's that. Here Comes Mr. Jordan was the movie that—Heaven Can Wait, is that the other Heaven Can Wait? Oh, it's so confusing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=228)
- **Odd Man Out** (1947) - Carol Reed - Spine #754 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28173-odd-man-out) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039677/)
> "Odd Man Out, directed by Carol Reed. I'm gonna give this a shot, I don't think I've ever seen this. James Mason, one of my favorite actors."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=155)
- **Valley of the Dolls** (1967) - Mark Robson - Spine #835 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28577-valley-of-the-dolls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062430/)
> "Valley of the Dolls. I was in a TV remake of Valley of the Dolls that starred Jean Simmons in the Susan Hayward role, and I played the stage manager at the Academy Awards. Look, my career could change if I was this tall. I could be a leading man."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=129)
- **The In-Laws** (2003) - Andrew Fleming - Spine #823 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28707-the-in-laws) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314786/)
> "The In-Laws. Yeah, it still holds up. It's still one of the funniest movies ever made."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=214)
- **Being There** (1979) - Hal Ashby - Spine #864 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29009-being-there) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/)
> "I went through a period where I thought if I was going to do a musical, I would like to do a musical of Being There because it would be an interesting challenge. I asked Sondheim if he would be interested in doing it and he said, 'But the central character is a cipher, he doesn't sing.' I said, 'I know, but it forces other people to sing at him.' That's an interesting dynamic, don't you think? Watch Being There. Peter Sellers, perhaps his greatest Performance."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=260)
- **I Am Curious** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/338-i-am-curious)
> "Seized by customs upon entry into the United States, subject of a heated court battle, banned in cities around the world. I'm sold. Vilgot Sjöman's I Am Curious—Yellow is one of the most—why do you need the dash? It's one of the most controversial films of all time. This landmark document of Swedish society during the sexual revolution has been declared both obscene and revolutionary. In the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQfYMeRjR1g&t=56)
## Neal Brennan (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/628-neal-brennan-s-closet-picks)
- **Barry Lyndon** (1975) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #897 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29008-barry-lyndon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/)
> "Barry Lyndon,, if you can stay awake through this entire movie, you have a sleep disorder."
- **Shampoo** (1975) - Hal Ashby - Spine #947 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28821-shampoo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073692/)
> "Shampoo. As a single guy, I can relate to this movie a lot. In the book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, there's a story about how Warren and Jack Nicholson were gonna send a kid to med school to be their own private doctor. It's one of my favorite anecdotes about Hollywood access and like a legit good idea."
- **Me and You and Everyone We Know** (2005) - Miranda July - Spine #1026 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29112-me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415978/)
> "You, Me and Everyone We Know, it captures the loneliness of childhood. Truly like no other book, video, television show, just a masterpiece."
- **A Face in the Crowd** (1957) - Elia Kazan - Spine #970 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28703-a-face-in-the-crowd) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050371/)
> "A Face in the Crowd. Andy Griffith. Yeah, Andy Griffith, Matlock. He's so goddamn good in this movie, and apparently he yelled at the director at the end that he'd made him lose his mind."
- **Paris is Burning** (1991) - Jennie Livingston - Spine #1018 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29647-paris-is-burning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/)
> "Paris is Burning. The Comedian John Mullaney can do entire monologues from this movie in their entirety. He will sometimes text them to me 'cause I said, 'it's giving businessman' or something. And then he does the entire... Paris is Burning, a true masterpiece and a really well-made documentary."
- **Bamboozled** (2000) - Spike Lee - Spine #1019 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29007-bamboozled) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215545/)
> "Spike Lee, Bamboozled. Spike Lee, one of my personal heroes... He's the reason I went to film school because he was doing press for Do the Right Thing in 1989. And he mentioned film school... I created Chappelle's Show with Dave and Spike did a sketch one time... He has a thing on his set. If a cell phone goes off, you pay the director 20 bucks. I paid him 20 bucks 'cause he's Spike Lee, but he is great."
- **Bringing Up Baby** (1938) - Howard Hawks - Spine #1085 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29010-bringing-up-baby) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029947/)
> "Bringing Up Baby. A great illustration of how men interact with women. Baby is a leopard that she brings with her everywhere she goes... And The Leopard represents femininity. And Cary Grant is just trying to figure out, how am I gonna deal with this woman? It's like a triple metaphor, basically. It's like a metaphor thrice removed. It's fucking insane that 86 years ago, they made a movie where a woman brings a tiger everywhere she goes."
- **Menace II Society** (1993) - Albert Hughes - Spine #1105 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31502-menace-ii-society) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107554/)
> "Menace II Society. Allen and Albert Hughes. I now am buddies with Allen. He told me an anecdote about this movie one time that at one point it was so bad, he had a rag in his car to wipe tears with. It was, he would just go to editing. It sucked. And he would drive home and cry the entire way... And it's actually a good, like, lesson in filmmaking... Just the parts of the movie that were good were like spread, like manifest destiny of quality."
## Nia DaCosta (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/898-nia-dacosta-s-closet-picks)
- **Love & Basketball** (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood - Spine #1097 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31500-love-basketball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199725/)
> "Okay, I love that this is the first thing I’m finding, actually: Love & Basketball. Amazing film, but also I remember growing up and realizing that Gina Prince-Bythewood made a movie and I was like, “Oh, I can make movies. Great.” And this was in my dorm when I was in middle school and we just watched it over and over and over again. But I’ve never owned it and I’ve never had it, so I’m glad to get the Criterion edition of this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10&t=9)
- **Come and See** (1985) - Elem Klimov - Spine #1035 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28895-come-and-see) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/)
> "Come and See. This one– this movie is devastating. Very different from Love & Basketball. And it’s one of those films that for me talks about the actual human impact of war. It’s not bombastic, it’s not patriotic, it’s not jingoistic. It’s literally about what happens to the soul, to the heart, to the mind."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10&t=32)
- **The Cranes Are Flying** (1957) - Mikheil Kalatozishvili - Spine #146 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/547-the-cranes-are-flying) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050634/)
> "And it reminds me of another film that I really want to find, which is Cranes Are Flying. Again, about World War Two and the human impact of the war on the Soviet psyche, but also on anyone. So these two movies, I think, are an excellent but also devastating double bill that I will be doing very soon."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10&t=55)
- **Barry Lyndon** (1975) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #897 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29008-barry-lyndon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/)
> "I mean, Barry Lyndon. This movie, I realized recently how much of an impact it’s had on my filmmaking, on my feelings about Ryan O’Neal. It’s so good. The score, the way he… I mean, it’s Kubrick, so I don’t have to say much, but I love this and it made me read the book, The Luck of Barry Lyndon, which is phenomenal and it actually really made me love this even more, because it’s an amazing work of adaptation. You have to watch it. You have to watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10&t=79)
- **Summer Hours** (2008) - Olivier Assayas - Spine #513 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/473-summer-hours) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0836700/)
> "This is one of my favorite films ever made. It’s Summer Hours by Olivier Assayas, and it’s such a simple story. It’s about this family whose– the matriarch passes away, the Mother of these three kids, two of whom live, I think, out of France and one who lives in France, and they have to figure out what to do with her House and all their… I think, her uncle’s things. He was an artist. And it’s just a beautiful story about family and about legacy, and it’s beautifully shot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10&t=110)
- **The Power of the Dog** (2021) - Jane Campion - Spine #1158 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33332-the-power-of-the-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10293406/)
> "Power of the Dog. Let me tell you something. When that young man walked to look at birds and everyone was cussing him out and throwing homophobic slurs at him and he said not a word, he didn’t care, he didn’t look at them, and then they were just silent when he walked back, I was like, “Oh, that’s power. That is power.” And it really changed something in me when I saw that scene. This whole movie, I think, is immaculate. And Jane Campion is, obviously, the woman, the myth, the legend."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10&t=149)
- **Phoenix** (2023) - Daniel Zirilli - Spine #809 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28851-phoenix) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28362655/)
> "Phoenix, this is one of the first Nina Hoss films that I watched. It’s an amazing story. Again, post-World War Two. I’m obsessed. And it’s about a woman who is presumed to have died during the Holocaust and reappears, but has to pretend to be the woman that she was, if that makes sense. And it’s Nina Hoss being, I mean, one of the most stunning actors of her generation. I’ve just worked with her on my current film that’s coming out, Hedda, and… began my Nina Hoss Love Affair."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10&t=216)
- **Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me** (1992) - David Lynch - Spine #898 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29237-twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105665/)
> "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, so that was excellent. My soul really knows what I need and want. I don’t know who doesn’t love Twin Peaks. I think every iteration of it, every… The movies, the new show, the original, I… I love this man and I love this work. So this is really… I feel really lucky to have found this one, because I don’t know if I would have seen it otherwise. And it’s director-approved."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10&t=255)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "Oh my gosh. This Agnès Varda box set, which has, I think, all of her films: The Complete Films of Agnès Varda. So one of my favorite of Agnès Varda’s films is the documentary The Gleaners and I. And it’s essentially about people, gleaners, who… they, like, collect food that’s not being sold. But it’s also about herself as a documentarian, as a filmmaker, how she gleans images and shows you things that maybe people would discard."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAYw4GYFh10&t=177)
## Nicholas Britell (musician)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1o_OE3-Ic) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/923-nicholas-britell-s-closet-picks)
- **The Underground Railroad** (2021) - Sanjit Majumdar - Spine #1223 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34073-the-underground-railroad) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1521758/)
> "I am going to start with a personal project. I’m going to start with The Underground Railroad. Every single state on the journey of this film, we traded in the score like it was almost a different planet at times. It was like working on multiple movies. But one of the more profound experiences I’ve ever had, and shout out to Barry Jenkins, Colson Whitehead. Yeah, very special experience."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1o_OE3-Ic&t=10)
- **Citizen Kane** (1941) - Orson Welles - Spine #1104 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32250-citizen-kane) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/)
> "One of my all-time favorites, Citizen Kane. Masterpiece. Interesting footnote on this is that this was actually Bernard Herrmann’s first film score. Bernard Herrmann, one of the greatest of all time, and one of the things that I love about this, in particular in Herrmann’s work, is you first hear his angular, chromatic sound of how he moves. There’s a kind of brooding nature to his music in this. He also wrote the opera excerpt that is in the movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1o_OE3-Ic&t=42)
- **The Double Life of Véronique** (1991) - Krzysztof Kieślowski - Spine #359 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/214-the-double-life-of-veronique) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101765/)
> "This might be my favorite movie of all time, The Double Life of Véronique by Kieślowski. I saw this… I was probably, like, 13 or 14, and I remember watching the movie and just saying to myself, 'I didn’t know that was possible. I didn’t know you could make a movie like that.' And the score is one of my favorite scores of all time. It’s by the Polish composer Zbigniew Preisner, and just a total masterpiece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1o_OE3-Ic&t=92)
- **Tokyo Olympiad** (1965) - Kon Ichikawa - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/709-tokyo-olympiad) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059817/)
> "Tokyo Olympiad. This is another one of those movies, actually, that the first time I saw it, I remember just sort of… It was like a revelation to me. Not just the film itself. It seems like it has its own almost philosophy of filmmaking. There’s something so grand and beautifully composed about the filmmaking, but it also has a beautiful philosophy of humanity and life in it. A very optimistic take and a very special moment in time, I feel, the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1o_OE3-Ic&t=165)
- **Malcolm X** (1992) - Spike Lee - Spine #1160 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33245-malcolm-x) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/)
> "I’m gonna grab one more here just because this is too many, but I’m taking Malcolm X. Incredible film. Not only on a film level, and also Terence Blanchard’s score, the opening with the flag and incredible trumpet overture. All-timer. Amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1o_OE3-Ic&t=290)
- **La Jetée/Sans Soleil** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil)
> "La Jetée. What I love about La Jetée is it’s got so many different elements that are in and of themselves very unconventional for a film. So it’s half an hour long, approximately. It’s a short film. Still photography, voice-over narration, science fiction, time-travel elements. It’s hard to put into words what it is, but it makes you really think about the possibilities of filmmaking and how the forms of filmmaking are up to us. La Jetée, very, very impactful for me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1o_OE3-Ic&t=217)
## Nicholas Hoult (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5UDJT7zbk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/770-nicholas-hoult-s-closet-picks)
- **Shallow Grave** (1988) - Kenneth Bowser - Spine #616 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27981-shallow-grave) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095364/)
> "Oh, Shallow Grave. Danny Boyle directed this. This movie I haven’t seen, probably, since I was a kid. I shouldn’t have been seeing it as a kid. There’s a scene in this, I’m fairly sure, where someone, like, power-drills into someone’s forehead, and it’s seared into my memory. It’s, like, one of the most traumatic things I’ve ever seen on film. But I want this copy to watch it again because it’s one of the scariest films I feel I’ve ever seen, so truly, like, psychologically tormenting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5UDJT7zbk&t=25)
- **Fantastic Mr. Fox** (2009) - Wes Anderson - Spine #700 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28565-fantastic-mr-fox) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432283/)
> "Fantastic Mr. Fox. I just think it’s so well done. Wes Anderson killed it with this. And this is a film that my kids haven’t gotten into yet, but I keep putting on because I know one day they will and I’m going to enjoy watching it with them when they do. So, this one’s for the boys."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5UDJT7zbk&t=86)
- **Citizen Kane** (1941) - Orson Welles - Spine #1104 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32250-citizen-kane) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/)
> "Obviously, Citizen Kane. Some of the greatest filmmaking of all time and character work and acting. This film, the thing that I enjoyed about seeing it for the first time was how advanced the filmmaking techniques were, how they were cutting and editing between shots and between scenes. Yep, all-time Performance, all-time filmmaking. It inspires, I mean, I think everyone. So, that one’s going in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5UDJT7zbk&t=101)
- **No Country for Old Men** (2007) - Joel Coen - Spine #1243 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29429-no-country-for-old-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/)
> "No Country for Old Men. This movie– I was very lucky I got to watch this movie... Christien, who did my makeup on Renfield, worked on this movie, and he had the script and the storyboards still, and he knew I was a massive fan of this movie, so he brought them in for me. And I got to watch this movie whilst reading the script and looking at the storyboards, which, as a little film geek, that was exciting because I got to see exactly what the Coen brothers were imagining."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5UDJT7zbk&t=127)
- **Being There** (1979) - Hal Ashby - Spine #864 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29009-being-there) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/)
> "Being There. The thing about this movie that I absolutely love is the outtakes. Him corpsing and not being able to stop giggling when they’re trying to shoot the scene with him lying on the bed... Peter Sellers is one of the best and look at him, he’s like giggling and losing it. Also, just because the whole setup of the story and the way it explores what it is to be human and thoughtful and living sentient beings and also what intelligence is in terms of how we approach life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5UDJT7zbk&t=168)
- **12 Angry Men** (1957) - Sidney Lumet - Spine #591 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27871-12-angry-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/)
> "12 Angry Men. Obviously, this movie is just, I mean, classic cinema. Sidney Lumet is one of the all-time great directors. And this movie, going in to shoot Juror #2, was a movie that I watched quite a few times because I was just inspired by it, love it. And also I know that Clint knew Sidney and spent time with him, so I feel like there was kind of an element of him being part of that process through Clint and just cinema history, I guess."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5UDJT7zbk&t=211)
- **Fa yeung nin wa** (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/198-in-the-mood-for-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/)
> "In the Mood for Love. Probably one of The Most Beautiful movies ever. This movie I... I watched because Tom Ford recommended it to me because he got a lot of inspiration from this for the soundtrack of A Single Man. Great film. It’s going in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5UDJT7zbk&t=8)
- **Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3205-bruce-lee-his-greatest-hits)
> "The Bruce Lee collection. This is also going back to my childhood. I have an older brother who’s 12 years older than me. I would sneak into his room and watch his VHSs, and he had a lot of the Bruce Lee movies, Enter the Dragon, Fist of Fury. I don’t know, I’m just excited to watch these again. So they’re going in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5UDJT7zbk&t=59)
## Nick Lowe (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1HdrVMr1k) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/778-nick-lowe-s-closet-picks)
- **Great Expectations** (2012) - Mike Newell - Spine #31 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/566-great-expectations) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836808/)
> "This is… Great Expectations, directed by the great David Lean. Exquisitely done, absolutely cracking movie. I’m going to stick that in the bag of tricks here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1HdrVMr1k&t=14)
- **Repo Man** (1984) - Alex Cox - Spine #654 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28051-repo-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/)
> ", there’s a good one, Repo Man. We used to have this on our tour bus. When I was touring with Elvis Costello, we used to have this on sort of permanently. Yeah, nice to see that one again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1HdrVMr1k&t=29)
- **One-Eyed Jacks** (1961) - Marlon Brando - Spine #844 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28979-one-eyed-jacks) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055257/)
> "Another one of my favorites, One-Eyed Jacks. It’s directed by Marlon Brando, who is the star along with his old mate, Karl Malden. Fabulous actor. This is from sometime in the early ’60s. ’61 or ’62, I think it came out. It was directed by Brando and, apparently, it went massively over budget. But it’s such a great story. And the acting, of course, is… is brilliant, with the two of them. It’s also got Slim Pickens in it, who’s one of my favorites, in his familiar role as a sort of redneck bully."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1HdrVMr1k&t=45)
- **The Flight of the Phoenix** (2004) - John Moore - Spine #1116 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28566-the-flight-of-the-phoenix) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377062/)
> "This is a good one for a Sunday afternoon with your feet up, recovering from something. The Flight of the Phoenix. Fantastic movie. This tells the story of a rickety old transport plane which crashes in the Libyan desert. And the transport plane is carrying a bunch of oil rig workers. Nobody knows they’ve crashed or where they are. There seems to be no chance of them being rescued, but they have this plan to build another plane out of the wreckage under the direction of Hardy Krüger."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1HdrVMr1k&t=87)
## Nick Offerman (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-nujcoKnk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/884-nick-offerman-s-closet-picks)
- **Heart of a Dog** (2015) - Laurie Anderson - Spine #846 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28909-heart-of-a-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4935446/)
> "Heart of a Dog. I wish everyone was required to listen to Laurie Anderson records and experience her artwork. This is such a beautiful film. It’s about her… her dog, Lolabelle, who passed away. It’s about love and death. A dream-based think piece. It’s full of poetry. And Laurie Anderson, my whole life, she just, more than anyone, gives me permission to be open to the world."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-nujcoKnk&t=22)
- **Rashomon** (1950) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #138 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/307-rashomon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/)
> "Rashomon, you got to have a Kurosawa. You got to have Toshiro Mifune, for God’s sake. Everyone should see Rashomon. We did it on stage in college. I didn’t get to be in it, but I got to learn all the fights. And you learn things like, Oh, we have different ideas based on our needs and wants and desires, and we should still try and get along despite those differences so that we don’t end up with a katana in our tummies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-nujcoKnk&t=55)
- **Kes** (1970) - Ken Loach - Spine #561 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27560-kes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064541/)
> "Kes. It’s about a young boy in northern England, he finds his power, his magic, is in living with nature. And he goes through this sort of Highlander-esque becoming. The man, school and work and family, they’re like, “That’s not cool. We need you to fit into the organization.” It’s quite moving. It’s just a really powerful human story. And I just– I love that. I love work that makes us think about our place on this planet and how we relate to one another and to Mother Nature."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-nujcoKnk&t=85)
- **Dead Man** (1995) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #919 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29064-dead-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817/)
> "Dead Man thrills me. The films of Jim Jarmusch just really get my blood pumping. This one’s from 1995. It’s Johnny Depp as William Blake. But not that William Blake. His Sancho Panza, played by the great Indigenous actor Gary Farmer, he steals the show from one of the top movie stars of our day. To take in the filmmaking is just searingly good, it’s… it’s like reading The Brothers Karamazov, if Neil Young was standing next to you, like, ripping on his Old Black guitar."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-nujcoKnk&t=126)
- **A Room with a View** (2007) - Nicholas Renton - Spine #775 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28597-a-room-with-a-view) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1025103/)
> "All right, Room with a View. Now I’m going to get emotional. I grew up in a cultural vacuum in a small town in Illinois... When Room with a View showed up, I was 15 or 16, and so I was just discovering romance in my own life, and this was just, like, the—I’ve never had a finer bottle of red wine than this movie. Daniel Day-Lewis is so goddamn funny in this movie, in, like, a pince-nez sort of spectacles. It’s just absolutely gorgeous. It’s so elegiac and romantic and turned me into an absolut..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-nujcoKnk&t=173)
## Nicolas Winding Refn (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfI1AVAF_8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/541-nicolas-winding-refn-s-closet-picks)
- **Ivan’s Childhood** (1962) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #397 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/830-ivan-s-childhood) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056111/)
> "Tarkovsky, this is not my favorite Tarkovsky. I would say Stalker, what you call that in English, Stalker, is my favorite Tarkovsky movie, but he is a master. I've stolen many things from him, we all have."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfI1AVAF_8&t=7)
- **Quadrophenia** (1979) - Franc Roddam - Spine #624 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27775-quadrophenia) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079766/)
> "Quadrophenia, this is the best, this is rock and roll and it's a great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfI1AVAF_8&t=32)
- **Bigger Than Life** (1956) - Nicholas Ray - Spine #507 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1929-bigger-than-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049010/)
> "And this is also great, I have this, but I just want to make a point that this is some absolute masterpiece by Nicholas Ray."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfI1AVAF_8&t=40)
- **Insignificance** (1985) - Nicolas Roeg - Spine #566 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27618-insignificance) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089343/)
> "Insignificance, Nick Roeg. I'm actually going to have lunch with Nick Roeg in London in a couple of weeks."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfI1AVAF_8&t=61)
- **Repo Man** (1984) - Alex Cox - Spine #654 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28051-repo-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/)
> "This Alex Cox, come back, we all miss you. Please make more movies. We miss you, Alex Cox."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfI1AVAF_8&t=69)
- **Things to Come** (2019) - Ken Jacobs - Spine #660 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27552-things-to-come)
> "Oh this one, this is worth the whole day now, you have made my day. See this, Things to Come, William Cameron Menzies, master."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfI1AVAF_8&t=85)
- **On the Waterfront** (1954) - Elia Kazan - Spine #647 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/)
> "On the Waterfront. What's unique about... I had dinner with Elia Kazan when I was 24 and had just done my first movie. I asked Elia Kazan, 'So what advice would you give a young filmmaker?' and he said, 'My advice to you is do it your way.' Which of course had a specific meaning when I was 24, but I also understood that it would have the same meaning but a different way the older I got. It's been the only thing I can ever give myself because I realized that he was saying do it your way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfI1AVAF_8&t=108)
## Norman Reedus (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAcaHKcqZY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/758-norman-reedus-s-closet-picks)
- **Blue Velvet** (1986) - David Lynch - Spine #977 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29144-blue-velvet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)
> "The candy-coated sandman, Blue Velvet. This is one of my favorite movies. There’s certain directors that... They’re the star of the movie. Where you watch a movie and you’re like, 'Who’s the dude that made this movie?' And this is one of those movies that, when I saw it, I was like, 'Who’s that guy?' And I have a crazy connection to this movie because I had a friend of mine... She had the ear in a jar on her desk. She worked at the Picture Factory, David Lynch’s company, in L. A. At the time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAcaHKcqZY&t=16)
- **The Color of Pomegranates** (1969) - Sergei Parajanov - Spine #918 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29219-the-color-of-pomegranates) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063555/)
> "This movie, The Color of Pomegranates. 'Wow' to this movie. And this one, like the music and the artwork and the colors is just, like, another level right here. How I got introduced to this movie. Tarsem was directing the R. E. M. Music video. 'Losing My Religion,' right? That whole music video is from this movie. So if, if you’re an artsy-fartsy dude like I am, this is a definite watch."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAcaHKcqZY&t=93)
- **Videodrome** (1983) - David Cronenberg - Spine #248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)
> "Oh, Videodrome. This movie is another one. This is like one of those movies that you watch and you’re like, 'Who’s the dude that came up with this?' Yeah, and James Woods is... James Woods has this thing about him... I just want to punch him in the face. But also I think he’s amazing all at the same time. He’s so, so good in this. And also, like, what a crazy movie. I did a movie with Debbie Harry... One of the first things I asked her about was this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAcaHKcqZY&t=133)
- **My Own Private Idaho** (1991) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #277 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/249-my-own-private-idaho) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102494/)
> "And then My Own Private Idaho. This movie, the Gus Van Sant movie, it’s so honest... This is one of the movies that was coming out when I was trying to become an actor and I was, like, incredibly influenced by River Phoenix. I thought he was just, like, the thing. I remember the scene when they’re sitting around the campfire and he’s trying to tell him that he loves him... It was, like, one of the most heart-moving scenes. And I was like, 'God, how fucking punk rock is River Phoenix?'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAcaHKcqZY&t=194)
## Nuri Bilge Ceylan (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIOWv_3CeM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/630-nuri-bilge-ceylan-s-closet-picks)
- **Stranger Than Paradise** (1983) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #400 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/252-stranger-than-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209182/)
> "This movie Stranger Than Paradise also very important for me. It seems quite simple but there is a whole life in it. I think all kind of emotions in life is involved in this film somehow and for me it never ages."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIOWv_3CeM&t=88)
- **Andrei Rublev** (1966) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #34 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/300-andrei-rublev) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060107/)
> "Oh, I see Andrei Rublev here. Its style is incredible because you know the Tarkovsky's first movie is a good film but you can't talk about the style a lot but in his second movie such a change. How did he reach that style in just in the second movie? It's incredible also in content. It's very impressive I think."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIOWv_3CeM&t=113)
- **Knife in the Water** (1962) - Roman Polanski - Spine #215 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/219-knife-in-the-water) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056291/)
> "Knife in the Water. When I start cinema, I come across with this movie and it influenced me a lot. You know, just in a boat, three person, a camera, a great movie. You don't need luxury in cinema to make a good movie. I think and sometimes luxury even be a burden."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIOWv_3CeM&t=170)
- **Ingmar Bergman's Cinema** (1 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema)
> "The Bergman here. I come across with Bergman at a very young age at 16 years old. Like I saw his *Silence* in cinematic in his stumble. It was just a surprise because like the films I saw before this *Silence*, the cinema just like an entertainment for me. But with this movie I understood that the cinema is something else. You can put all your problems, all your sicknesses, everything in a movie. And after that, I watched all Bergman movies one by one. I searched for them. But in those days,..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIOWv_3CeM&t=5)
- **Six Moral Tales** (6 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/417-six-moral-tales)
> "Six Moral Tales, I think this is a very good box, it's very valuable. Rohmer, I think one of the most important filmmakers in the world for me. As if there is nothing happens but everything happens there, that's the kind of movie I like most."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIOWv_3CeM&t=65)
- **The Apu Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1145-the-apu-trilogy)
> "I put trilogy from Satyajit Ray. I can understand it maybe better because my childhood was not so far from this childhood. Great art."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIOWv_3CeM&t=153)
- **The Koker Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2363-the-koker-trilogy)
> "Kiarostami. I first saw in Istanbul Film Festival his movie Where Is the Friend's House? And I didn't know Kiarostami at that time and I liked the movie a lot and it was incredible to me and next years when I come across Through the Olive Trees it was a huge shock for me. It didn't look like any film I saw before. It was completely a different type of cinema, but I liked it a lot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dIOWv_3CeM&t=195)
## Owen Kline (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrllJjiEYg8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/485-owen-kline-s-closet-picks)
- **Written on the Wind** (1956) - Douglas Sirk - Spine #96 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/636-written-on-the-wind) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049966/)
> "Never seen Written on the Wind, which is which is shameful. I'm excited to add this to my collection. It's the original Criterion logo. I like I like having the old little line, little text. Criterion."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrllJjiEYg8&t=13)
- **The Horse's Mouth** (1958) - Ronald Neame - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/695-the-horse-s-mouth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051739/)
> "The Horse's Mouth. This is my dad's favorite movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrllJjiEYg8&t=45)
- **The Naked Kiss** (1964) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #18 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/533-the-naked-kiss) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058390/)
> "Great little moment where Shock Corridor is on a marquee. Goodbye."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrllJjiEYg8&t=152)
- **Paths of Glory** (1957) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #538 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27522-paths-of-glory) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/)
> "Timothy Carey made a movie who's he's one of the guys that killed in the end of the movie. He was the only actor that Kubrick allowed to improvise and he made a crazy movie that I love that I don't think has ever been on DVD called The World's Greatest Sinner that everyone should try to see. Great opening scene. Great last shot, too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrllJjiEYg8&t=128)
- **Pickpocket** (1959) - Robert Bresson - Spine #314 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/)
> "I guess I'm going to have to take Pickpocket because I bought this when it came out and I watched it so many times that it's all scratched up now and there's a great thing of Paul Schrader talking about the movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrllJjiEYg8&t=49)
- **Crumb** (1994) - Terry Zwigoff - Spine #533 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2104-crumb) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109508/)
> "This is probably my favorite documentary and this is the movie I've seen probably the most times of any movie. I've probably seen this over a hundred times."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrllJjiEYg8&t=27)
- **The Golden Age of Television** (2009) - - Spine #495 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/3560-the-golden-age-of-television) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063408/)
> "Oh, this is something I've always been curious about. The Golden Age of Television because it has the original version of Marty."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrllJjiEYg8&t=119)
- **The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1073-the-shooting-ride-in-the-whirlwind)
> "The Shooting. This is this I love this movie. Monty Helman. I stayed with him in his beautiful bed and breakfast."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrllJjiEYg8&t=36)
- **Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/887-eclipse-series-33-up-all-night-with-robert-downey-sr)
> "I have this already, but this is my one of my favorite things that ever came out. Criterion. This beautiful box of Robert Downey senior movies. I went to a screening of Chafed Elbows years ago at Anthology and I found this thing on eBay. It's this photograph of him directing Up the Academy... I showed it to Downey Senior and he looked at it and goes, 'Sorry about that one.' I said, 'Oh, I actually really like up the academy.' And he was like, he just looked at me with disgust."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrllJjiEYg8&t=72)
## Pablo Larrain (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnnuEqbio8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/766-pablo-larrain-s-closet-picks)
- **Y tu mamá también** (2001) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #723 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28005-y-tu-mama-tambien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/)
> "Well, this movie, Y tu mamá también, by Alfonso Cuarón, it’s a movie that helped me discover these wonderful actors. One of them is Gael García Bernal, who I worked in three movies, is a wonderful actor and a great friend. And I really, really love this movie. When I saw it for the first time in 2001, it changed my head. It made me think and dream big. Because the movie made in Spanish that is so universal. And I keep it in my heart. I’m very happy to take it home in a Blu-ray."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnnuEqbio8&t=5)
- **Berlin Alexanderplatz** (1980) - Hans-Dieter Hartl - Spine #411 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/839-berlin-alexanderplatz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126409/)
> "The one and only Fassbinder. Berlin Alexanderplatz. Fassbinder is someone that had no affiliation. He did not respond to anything or to anyone. He only wanted to make the movie that he wanted. This movie is from 1980. It’s just like a master class on a city, on a relationship with a square. And the characters, and the way that the movie is shot, really just blew my mind. There’s nothing like this. And this edition is just wonderful and beautiful. Look at this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnnuEqbio8&t=116)
- **Boyhood** (2014) - Richard Linklater - Spine #839 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28820-boyhood) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065073/)
> "Something that strikes me as a filmmaker is the chance of use of time. I think cinema might be the only and The Most Beautiful time machine that humans have ever created. And this movie is a very good proof of it. This is Boyhood from Richard Linklater. This movie is very important to me. It lives in my heart, and I admire everyone that did this film. It really, really hit me. And when I grow up, I would like to make a movie as good as this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnnuEqbio8&t=149)
- **All About My Mother** (1999) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #1012 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29569-all-about-my-mother) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185125/)
> "Looking for great movies in our language, in Spanish, this movie by Señor Pedro Almodóvar. Todo Sobre Mi Madre, All About My Mother. Beautiful, beautiful film. And I think your Mother, anyone’s Mother, but your own Mother can always be a source of material for yourself. I have worked around the ideas and my experience with my own Mother in many movies, my Mother’s very important in my cinema, so I completely share Pedro’s necessity to make a movie that’s called All About My Mother."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnnuEqbio8&t=186)
- **Certified Copy** (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #612 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28353-certified-copy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020773/)
> "This movie, Certified Copy, by Abbas Kiarostami. It’s a very particular and small story, but shows all of his power and all of his poetry. I had the chance to meet Mr. Kiarostami when he was doing this film, and it was very moving to see how he was expressing about this idea of certain things that can be copied and other things that should never be copied because they can be copied. If you have not seen this movie, have a look."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnnuEqbio8&t=227)
- **Pasolini 101** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101)
> "The master, Pier Paolo Pasolini. This is a beautiful collection of nine movies. The last one of this collection is Medea. I just made a movie about Maria Callas called Maria, and Maria Callas actually plays Medea in this movie. Pasolini was a wonderful writer, a filmmaker, and a poet. Teorema, which is also here, is one of my favorite movies. And it’s such a poetic, poetic film that ends with the most poetic ending ever, ever in filmmaking."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnnuEqbio8&t=41)
- **Three Colors** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/844-three-colors)
> "Krzysztof Kieślowski. The trilogy of the Three Colors. He did Blue, White, and Red. And specifically Blue, I think the use of music in this film has really changed me and educated me as a filmmaker. Music is very important in my world, in the movies that I do. And I think there’s something here, hearing in this film that I truly, truly value. If you have the chance to see it, look."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdnnuEqbio8&t=87)
## Pamela Anderson (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/757-pamela-anderson-s-closet-picks)
- **Blue Velvet** (1986) - David Lynch - Spine #977 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29144-blue-velvet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)
> "I’m going to take Blue Velvet, even though she wasn’t on my list because we love David Lynch."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=17)
- **Breathless** (1960) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #408 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/268-breathless) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/)
> "These French films. Godard, I know I want to get Breathless and then... Jean Seberg. This is the reason I cut my hair into a pixie cut was Jean Seberg. So I’ve got Breathless because she inspired the haircut. Thought would grow out in a few months. It took me a good couple years to get my hair back after I decided to do that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=28)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "I mean, some Fellini. La strada is one of my actual... I just watched that not too long ago too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=46)
- **Elevator to the Gallows** (1958) - Louis Malle - Spine #335 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/778-elevator-to-the-gallows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051378/)
> "Elevator to the Gallows. Okay. Jeanne Moreau. That one scene of her walking down the street to Miles Davis, where she’s speaking to herself, is one of my favorite movie scenes ever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=90)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "Well, this is my favorite film right now. Wanda. And Barbara Loden is a huge inspiration to me. And I just watched the documentary I Am Wanda, which I’m obsessed with. I just watched it a couple days ago. But she is a remarkable actress, woman. This is one of my dearest, favorite films. I’m so happy I get to have that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=102)
- **Summertime** (2023) - Corentin Leconte - Spine #22 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/368-summertime)
> "Okay, I got to get Summertime because, you know what? Summertime. I mean... I would love to remake this. This would be something I would love to remake. I don’t know if anyone would ever think of me for that, but David Lean is an amazing director and I just love her, Katharine Hepburn. You know, this is the style of acting that I love. The passion and the importance of the craft."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=158)
- **Fists in the Pocket** (1965) - Marco Bellocchio - Spine #333 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/348-fists-in-the-pocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059619/)
> "Oh, you know what? Fists in the Pocket. Can I get this? Efthimis who– he wrote the film with... That I just finished with Karim Aïnouz. And it was based on this film. I mean, this was, like, the inspiration of it, so I’m not quite sure. I don’t think it has anything to do with this, but I would love to watch this because I didn’t watch it before I filmed the movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=216)
- **La piscine** (1969) - Jacques Deray - Spine #1088 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30223-la-piscine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064816/)
> "La piscine, obviously. This is one of my favorite films. Romy Schneider."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=12)
- **La vérité** (1960) - Henri-Georges Clouzot - Spine #960 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27913-la-verite) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054452/)
> "La vérité. Brigitte Bardot. Well, we love this. We love Brigitte Bardot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=22)
- **The Koker Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2363-the-koker-trilogy)
> "The Koker Trilogy, hello? Kiarostami, I don’t want to say his name wrong, was the, you know, original gangster when it came to those kind of beautiful films that are so poetic and... Just the boy with– you know, running back and forth with the... He had the Homework and just, it’s just so... I know he didn’t use a lot of real actors, so it was just nice to see the... Those films you can just watch on repeat over and over again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=129)
- **Ingmar Bergman's Cinema** (38 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema)
> "But I want to make sure I get the Bergman set because also he is a huge inspiration to me and all the women in his films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyo_tJuhw8U&t=197)
## Park Chan-wook (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/575-park-chan-wook-s-closet-picks)
- **The Magician** (1926) - Rex Ingram - Spine #537 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27521-the-magician) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017103/)
> "Agnes Varda, Bergman? I've always been a fan of Bergman. I especially love Cries and Whispers and was greatly influenced by it. Hour of the Wolf, though, is a Bergman film I haven't seen. So, I'll pick this one first."
- **Red Desert** (1949) - Ford Beebe - Spine #522 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1454-red-desert) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041789/)
> "Red Desert is one of my all-time favorites. And I can't leave this out. It's my favorite movie."
- **Stagecoach** (1986) - Ted Post - Spine #516 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/980-stagecoach) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092003/)
> "As someone who really wants to make a Western, Stagecoach is essential material."
- **The Makioka Sisters** (1983) - Kon Ichikawa - Spine #567 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27619-the-makioka-sisters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086242/)
> "This movie, The Makioka Sisters. This film evokes complex emotions in Koreans. It captures the essence of Japanese aesthetics, but at the same time... As a Korean who has experienced colonial rule... There's a very instinctive rejection of that aesthetic. So, I feel both love and hate for it at the same time. The original novel is also a masterpiece. The depiction of World War II in it is a bit uncomfortable. So, I re-watch it with these complex emotions."
- **Blow Out** (1986) - Don Hoffman - Spine #562 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27561-blow-out)
> "I haven't seen this on Blu-ray. Blow Out is a masterpiece by Brian De Palma, a director I deeply respect. Is Sisters his best work? It's hard to decide which one is better."
- **Les Cousins** (1959) - Claude Chabrol - Spine #581 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27816-les-cousins) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052708/)
> "Les Cousins by Chabrol. I feel a sense of kinship with Chabrol. He was fixated on the thriller and crime genres and created many works over a long period. I respected Hitchcock, and I also respected Georges Simenon. So, he's a representative of that."
- **Life Is Sweet** (1990) - Mike Leigh - Spine #659 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27982-life-is-sweet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100024/)
> "I like Mike Leigh's films, but I haven't seen this one. I need to learn about how Mike Leigh casts actors, rehearses, and directs. Someday, I want to learn that and try to imitate it."
- **La notte** (1961) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #678 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28111-la-notte) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054130/)
> "Another sudden one by Antonioni. It's the kind of movie I definitely want to make someday."
- **Riot in Cell Block 11** (1954) - Don Siegel - Spine #704 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28551-riot-in-cell-block-11) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047417/)
> "Don Siegel is a director who, in my opinion, hasn't been fully appreciated for his abilities. I've even written three lines about Don Siegel's great films, he's a director I really respect. I hope you definitely read his collected writings."
- **Le silence de la mer** (1949) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #755 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27979-le-silence-de-la-mer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039822/)
> "Le silence de la mer, another director I deeply respect. It's Jean-Pierre Melville's collected writings."
- **Brief Encounter** (1945) - David Lean - Spine #76 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/345-brief-encounter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037558/)
> "Finally, it's here. Before I wrote Decision to Leave... I recommended that my co-writer, Jeong Seo-kyeong, watch this once. It's a film that really influenced me when I was young."
- **Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975** (15 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2648-godzilla-the-showa-era-films-1954-1975)
> "There's another world I don't know. I don't know much about the world of Japanese monster movies. But I know how many cult fans it has. And I've heard a lot about Honda Ishiro. I'll try to get into it this time."
## Patrick Brice (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1r8aWfOXcI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/603-patrick-brice-s-closet-picks)
- **Mystery Train** (1989) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #521 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2057-mystery-train) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097940/)
- **Wings of Desire** (1987) - Wim Wenders - Spine #490 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/200-wings-of-desire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/)
> "I have a Blu-ray in my hand. I love this movie also, Wings of Desire. This was the movie that made me want to make movies seeing this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1r8aWfOXcI&t=12)
- **Thief** (1981) - Michael Mann - Spine #691 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28024-thief) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083190/)
> "Thief. I think this might be the only Michael Mann movie... I haven't seen the Keep but this I haven't seen either and I love Tangerine Dream they did the score for this right? Yes, yeah. And I love Manhunter and I love James Caan so I'm sure I'll love this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1r8aWfOXcI&t=61)
- **Paris, Texas** (1984) - Wim Wenders - Spine #501 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1502-paris-texas) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087884/)
- **Bottle Rocket** (1996) - Wes Anderson - Spine #450 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/594-bottle-rocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115734/)
> "This is just one of The Most Beautiful movies ever made. I got to give respect to the man. I love all of his movies but this is still my favorite Wes Anderson. This was another movie that came to me at a really crucial point in my life. There was just something about the characters and the way they were interacting with each other and the sort of casual like lived in feel of the relationships and the humor that just resonated with me so much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1r8aWfOXcI&t=137)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "This is a film that I for some reason I always avoided this and I think it was just because I thought it was like a dance movie and for some reason even the title All That Jazz, it was something that always... I finally saw this maybe two months ago and I was like just a mess by the end of the movie just like in tears. I think it's one of the best movies ever about being an artist and it's definitely one of the best movies ever about time management and its effect on the human body."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1r8aWfOXcI&t=85)
- **Y tu mamá también** (2001) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #723 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28005-y-tu-mama-tambien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/)
> ", this,, I love this movie because it's just not afraid to sort of be almost genre-less, you know, it's funny, it's also a Coming of Age movie, it's also just, just a great honest portrayal of sex., I just made a sex movie and this was one of the films that we watched, in preparation for."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1r8aWfOXcI&t=31)
## Patton Oswalt (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2lRZJMmSA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/576-patton-oswalt-s-closet-picks)
- **Forty Guns** (1957) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #954 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28567-forty-guns) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050407/)
> "With some Sam Fuller, this is an amazing film, Forty Guns. Barbara Stanwyck with a whip, basically leading Gene Barry around by his nose. Fantastic Western. I got to see this back in the day with Sam Fuller and got to see Gene Barry talk about Sam Fuller giving him acting tips which was just, 'Be louder, grab him.' So boom, I'm in."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2lRZJMmSA&t=23)
- **Detour** (2009) - Sylvain Guy - Spine #966 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29614-detour) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320343/)
> "Detour, Edgar G. Ulmer. Look, if I had my way I would just be grabbing every '40s film noir that they had here in the closet, but this, it's 69 minutes long. It is the darkest, bleakest film noir. This, if you want to learn how to do efficiency in storytelling and characterization. Tom Neal, who's perfectly cast because basically his life was paralleling the life of the doomed protagonist in this movie. And then Ann Savage is Vera, maybe one of the scariest film noir femme fatales."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2lRZJMmSA&t=48)
- **Female Trouble** (1974) - John Waters - Spine #929 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28704-female-trouble) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072979/)
> "John Waters, Female Trouble. I love so many John Waters films, but this is far and above his best. It's still weirdly timely. It is a saga about punk rock and true crime and evil celebrity, and it has the funniest opening 10 minutes of any film I have ever seen. Oh my God, John Waters, forever in our hearts, and you're still alive."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2lRZJMmSA&t=94)
- **The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice** (1952) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #989 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28229-the-flavor-of-green-tea-over-rice) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044982/)
> "I gotta grab an Ozu, and I'm grabbing The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice because this movie actually has a shot where the camera pans in, which for Ozu is like a Michael Bay action sequence. The fact that the camera actually moved forward, it's like, 'Whoa, fuck me up, Ozu.' So strap yourselves in for Ozu going crazy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2lRZJMmSA&t=120)
- **Le Samouraï** (1967) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #306 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/184-le-samourai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/)
> "Le Samouraï, yeah. Jean-Pierre Melville used to walk around—he built his own studio in Paris which then I think eventually burned down—but he apparently used to walk around it during the day listening to the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack to get inspiration for his movies. This is how a French hitman would be. Just, you know, 'I'm ready to die. I'll die before my own victims.' That's how existential I am."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2lRZJMmSA&t=145)
- **Frownland** (2008) - Ronald Bronstein - Spine #1137 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29434-frownland) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970935/)
> "Frownland. I love this—well no, I don't love this movie, I'm fascinated by it. I'm not taking it home with me, but I have seen it twice, which says something about me. And I don't know if it's good, but wow, if you want to know what Henry from Eraserhead would have been like in Modern Times, our times, check out Frownland. Don't see it on a date."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2lRZJMmSA&t=178)
- **Pale Flower** (1964) - Masahiro Shinoda - Spine #564 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27604-pale-flower) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056327/)
> "Pale Flower. I've seen this thing so many times. Amazing Japanese crime film about an ex-gangster who is trying to save a young girl from heroin addiction and he jolts her out of heroin addiction in maybe the most disturbing way possible. I won't spoil it, but the soundtrack of this was incredible with the little clinking chips. He's a gambler and it deals with the gambling houses and this movie is gorgeous, gorgeous. Pale Flower, go find it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2lRZJMmSA&t=211)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "Yeah, I'm grabbing the Dekalog box set. Yeah, I am. I saw this years ago over a couple of nights. Like all great art, when you're done watching it, it makes you look at and react to the world differently, and I love that. I love when they can do that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2lRZJMmSA&t=242)
- **One False Move** (1991) - Carl Franklin - Spine #1187 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31627-one-false-move) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102592/)
> "One False Move. This, look, the '90s was an amazing time for films. This is my favorite film from the '90s, directed by Carl Franklin. An amazing Bill Paxton should have gotten an Academy Award nomination just for the scene where he is talking to the two cops after he has overheard them making fun of him and he has to put on this brave face. This is one of the best crime films ever made."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH2lRZJMmSA&t=258)
## Paul B. Preciado (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqDpc-bnT_U) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/588-paul-b-preciado-s-closet-picks)
- **Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown** (1988) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #855 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29101-women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095675/)
> "One that is here that is obvious, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Almodóvar of course. This is like an all-time classic, this is super important and influential to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqDpc-bnT_U&t=33)
- **Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom** (1976) - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Spine #17 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/532-salo-or-the-120-days-of-sodom) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/)
> "My favorite Pasolini, I mean I think the one that I like the most is Salò, by the way, let's take it here. This is the one that I like the most even though it's the most difficult to watch. Making a film as a political project and at the same time like in taking care of each of the details in terms of Performance and the visual language, I think it's an absolute Masterpiece, even though I have to say it's a film that I have barely seen fully from the beginning to the end, but it's always when..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqDpc-bnT_U&t=91)
- **Red Desert** (1949) - Ford Beebe - Spine #522 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1454-red-desert) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041789/)
> "Another one that I want to take is Antonioni's Deserto Rosso. I saw the full retrospective of Antonioni when I was 20 and that completely changed my way of seeing things. Especially I have to say because Antonioni has this very kind of heterosexual binary way of looking at things, but when the question is how to look at a space, how to look at architecture, that is really amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqDpc-bnT_U&t=185)
- **Cría cuervos** (1976) - Carlos Saura - Spine #403 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/519-cria-cuervos) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074360/)
> "Another thing that became super important for me when I was a teenager and I saw it for the first time is Cría cuervos from Carlos Saura. I think when you were like a child and you grew up in Spain under Francoism, I think you really identified fully with the way of looking at things of this child in the film. And if you haven't seen it, you really have to, it's amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqDpc-bnT_U&t=48)
- **Pasolini 101** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101)
> "Pasolini became super important when thinking about people that have adapted crazy things, crazy stories like taking the challenge of adapting Greek theater or The Decameron, things like that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqDpc-bnT_U&t=75)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "Something else that I have always loved and that I think it came back a little bit with the kind of playfulness and childish way of looking at the world that you can see in Orlando is Tati. So yes, I think this is almost like a visual therapy for the mind, yes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqDpc-bnT_U&t=130)
- **La Jetée/Sans Soleil** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil)
> "Also when making Orlando, I was thinking about authors that have made films like letters that are being written to someone, and so Chris Marker, that was for me like a fundamental. It belongs for me to the films that are made by what I would call philosophers in a sense. So he really finds a completely new form for saying what he wants to say and it's full of poetry."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqDpc-bnT_U&t=150)
## Paul Dano (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWuslij1o8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/447-paul-dano-s-closet-picks)
- **One-Eyed Jacks** (1961) - Marlon Brando - Spine #844 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28979-one-eyed-jacks) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055257/)
- **Good Morning** (1959) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #84 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/624-good-morning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053134/)
> "One filmmaker that really kind of changed how I thought about film is Ozu and I just don't think I knew you could make films like he does that you could just put the camera somewhere, rely on the composition and the rhythm of it. His storytelling ends up transcending itself... He's one of like the great artists of the 20th century."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWuslij1o8&t=43)
- **Make Way for Tomorrow** (1937) - Leo McCarey - Spine #505 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2350-make-way-for-tomorrow) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029192/)
> "God I love this film, Make Way for Tomorrow. Such a beautiful American melodrama and the film that inspired Tokyo Story, I believe."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWuslij1o8&t=102)
- **This Sporting Life** (1963) - Lindsay Anderson - Spine #417 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/853-this-sporting-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057578/)
> "This Sporting Life, this is just an incredible Performance. I saw it a long time ago and I feel like when you get to see acting like that's really just sort of so wrong and it feels unstudied. I've got to see This Sporting Life again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWuslij1o8&t=113)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "This filmmaker is super important to me, Edward Yang, and he is an incredible filmmaker and really one of my favorite films ever made is A Brighter Summer Day which is in here somewhere."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWuslij1o8&t=140)
- **My Own Private Idaho** (1991) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #277 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/249-my-own-private-idaho) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102494/)
> "I just wanted to give a shout out to My Own Private Idaho. We saw this film projected about a month ago and I had never seen River Phoenix on the big screen. There was just like the scene by the fire when they're on the road and he kind of confesses to Keanu's character that he feels something for him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWuslij1o8&t=169)
- **A Brighter Summer Day** (1991) - Edward Yang - Spine #804 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28596-a-brighter-summer-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101985/)
> "This filmmaker is super important to me, Edward Yang... One of my favorite films ever made is A Brighter Summer Day which is in here somewhere and so much so that I reached out to Criterion and asked for a poster of A Brighter Summer Day so I can put it on my home. It's the only movie poster up in our apartment."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWuslij1o8&t=140)
- **The Essential Jacques Demy** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1055-the-essential-jacques-demy)
> "I want this, I've never seen this. I'm just gonna read what the special features are here. I just feel like this needs to be seen. I'm gonna take this Jacques Demy box set. I think this would be nice to share with my daughter."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dWuslij1o8&t=13)
## Paul Giamatti (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxxsFUojco) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/631-paul-giamatti-s-closet-picks)
- **Carnival of Souls** (1962) - Herk Harvey - Spine #63 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/607-carnival-of-souls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055830/)
> "I see right off the bat is something that I love very much which is the movie Carnival of Souls. I love this movie. It's the first movie I ever remember seeing when I was 4 years old... It scared the crap out of me and I think I didn't sleep for maybe a year. It's probably only a few days but it felt like a year and my parents never hired that babysitter again but it was an amazing experience and it's an amazing movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxxsFUojco&t=20)
- **The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp** (1943) - Michael Powell - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/359-the-life-and-death-of-colonel-blimp) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036112/)
> "I see another wonderful movie here that I love very much, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. It has a wonderful actor in it that I love very much named Anton Walbrook... This has an incredible sequence in the middle of it that I love very much where this British soldier is challenged to a duel by a German soldier and this is great sequence that builds up to this wonderful duel. It's a very funny movie, it's a very moving movie, it's a big expansive sort of epic movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxxsFUojco&t=72)
- **Rashomon** (1950) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #138 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/307-rashomon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/)
> "Rashomon, it's the only movie that makes me cry when I see it. It's hard to make me cry, it's like blood from a stone with me, but this movie for some reason at the end the very sort of poetic ending comes out of Nowhere and it's a really beautiful movie and at the end of it always gets me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxxsFUojco&t=115)
- **Solaris** (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/553-solaris) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/)
> "Solaris. I'm a great admirer of the guy who wrote the book it's based on, Stanislaw Lem, Polish science fiction writer... I revisited it and came to love it very much. Love all of his movies but I like this one in particular and this fantastic sort of production design of kind of a crappy spaceship that they all live on. I often wonder how I feel about the very final shot of this movie which I won't give away but I sometimes feel like maybe it wasn't necessary."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxxsFUojco&t=141)
- **Boat People** (1942) - Jacques Tourneur - Spine #1113 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28696-cat-people) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034587/)
> "I love these movies. I'm a big fan of these Val Lewton horror movies. Cat People. There was a sequel to it, he was a producer, this guy Val Lewton made this series of movies... I love these movies because they're very low-budget and they're this amazing example of doing all this extraordinary stuff with absolutely nothing and creating these incredibly scary effects in them... They're strange too, it all feels very sort of unreal and dreamlike."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxxsFUojco&t=210)
- **Seconds** (1966) - John Frankenheimer - Spine #667 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/)
> "This is also one of my favorite movies. I'm a big fan of Frankenheimer's movies... One of the things I really love about this movie is it's one of the greatest examples of what a terrific actor can do in a small tiny supporting part. There's an actor named Murray Hamilton in it who played the mayor in Jaws and he appears in the end of this movie for two minutes maybe not even and he barely speaks and it's one of my favorite performances in any movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxxsFUojco&t=266)
- **Blue Velvet** (1986) - David Lynch - Spine #977 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29144-blue-velvet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)
> "This is the movie that I think for better or worse kind of really pushed me over the edge and made me go I want to be an actor... It has this kind of very great simple kind of noir story to it... I get so caught up in all the wonderful detail and the wonderful acting in it and it's got probably my favorite Performance in any movie, I would say Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in this movie. He achieved something just off the charts amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxxsFUojco&t=328)
- **Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/75-eclipse-series-11-larisa-shepitko)
> "This woman Larisa Shepitko. I've only seen this movie Wings, but Wings is an amazing movie. It's beautiful movie and this fantastic actress in it plays a kind of Soviet hero of the Soviet Air Force... There's incredible sort of poetry in it, there's all this great way she uses the flying in it and stuff to talk about this woman's interior life and it's really a beautiful movie but I've never seen the other movie she made so I guess now's my time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANxxsFUojco&t=411)
## Paul Scheer (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzhNKMIoq3E) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/672-paul-scheer-s-closet-picks)
- **Walker** (2025) - Lawrence Fajardo - Spine #423 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/526-walker) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35544996/)
> "Walker. Everyone knows Repo Man, Repo Man is great, but Alex Cox made this really subversive biopic—not biopic—really about like what America does when they come in and try to take over. It is brilliant, it is meta, it is funny, it is weird, and it just shows how history repeats itself. I didn't know it was in the Criterion closet and I'm going to take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzhNKMIoq3E&t=15)
- **Mikey and Nicky** (1976) - Elaine May - Spine #957 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27895-mikey-and-nicky) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074901/)
> "Another one of my favorite Criterions that I let people borrow all the time: Mikey and Nicky. Elaine May. And I think for people who just know Peter Falk as like Columbo, it will give you a completely different version of him. And of course John Cassavetes. This is a masterful film. And the real thing about this that I love is some of the special features on this are really top-notch. There's a making-of here that I watch all the time just to show you how The Process is going around."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzhNKMIoq3E&t=41)
- **Two-Lane Blacktop** (null) - - Spine #414 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/847-two-lane-blacktop) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5232946/)
> "All right, let's talk about Two-Lane Blacktop. It is about two characters, the driver and the mechanic, that's all we know about them, and they go around the country racing people for pink slips. What's so interesting about this movie is what it doesn't say. It's one of those movies that once you see it, you'll be thinking about it for a very long time just because it leaves you with this uneasy feeling. It's like looking at a painting. You can watch this and really make your own interpretation."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzhNKMIoq3E&t=74)
- **Hopscotch** (1980) - Ronald Neame - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/717-hopscotch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080889/)
> "If you're looking for a companion piece, may I recommend Hopscotch? Walter Matthau, like when we're in like sexy Walter Matthau phase or like just cool Walter Matthau. This is a very funny movie. Every now and then I get so excited with Criterion because they kind of elevate things that you don't expect all the time. This is one of those movies like, 'Oh, they have a Criterion of that?' Yes, they do. And why? Because it's worthy of watching. Hopscotch, a successor to The In-Laws in a way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzhNKMIoq3E&t=133)
- **Make Way for Tomorrow** (1937) - Leo McCarey - Spine #505 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2350-make-way-for-tomorrow) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029192/)
> "Make Way for Tomorrow. Leo McCarey is known for directing everyone from WC Fields to the Marx Brothers. He actually won the Academy Award for best film—I can't remember what film it was—but just trust me that when he won it he said, 'Oh, you actually gave it to me for the wrong film. This is the film you should have given it to me for.' This is a story about A Man and a Woman who have no money, no place to go, and bad decisions are made. It is one that I agree with him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzhNKMIoq3E&t=164)
- **Klute** (1971) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #987 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28708-klute) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067309/)
> "All right, my final pick. Sometimes I'm surprised at the films that I don't know. Right here, right where I'm standing, I see one of those films. I'm going to admit it to you right now and I'm going to take it: Klute. I haven't seen it. I am lucky to say I am friends with Jane Fonda and I've not seen Klute. How could I not do this? But I've only heard amazing things about Klute, and so this I'm just taking on full blind faith that this is going to be amazing. I got it, I got to do it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzhNKMIoq3E&t=210)
## Paul W. Downs (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7hCDVR1o-U) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/845-paul-w-downs-s-closet-picks)
- **Election** (1999) - Alexander Payne - Spine #904 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29335-election) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126886/)
> "Election is one of my all-time favorites. I think Alexander Payne is brilliant. The tone is so specific and so good. And of course, Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon are so great in it, but the supporting actors in this movie are incredible. Chris Klein is so well cast for the part. And then one of my favorite scenes is his younger sister also campaigns to be class president and has an amazing speech. That speech in the auditorium I could watch again and again and again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7hCDVR1o-U&t=10)
- **Being John Malkovich** (1999) - Spike Jonze - Spine #611 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28055-being-john-malkovich) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120601/)
> "Being John Malkovich. Also one of my favorite movies. I don’t know, it’s just so creative. I’m also– I’m from New Jersey, so anything that has the Jersey Turnpike in it, you know, I’m gonna love. The melancholy of this movie is just really special. And I think it also really informed my sense of storytelling because it was so out there. It was one that I watched many, many times. And still could. Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. And Charlie Kaufman, I mean, we have to give props."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7hCDVR1o-U&t=51)
- **Vanya on 42nd Street** (1994) - Louis Malle - Spine #599 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28022-vanya-on-42nd-street) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111590/)
> "So this is Vanya on 42nd Street. This movie is really remarkable because, if you haven’t seen it, basically they shoot it in a dilapidated theater and it is, I think, one of the best portrayals of Chekhov’s work because, as a realist, it wasn’t all about theatrics and melodrama, and this movie is so interesting because it’s really intimate and the camera follows these actors around the space. Julianne Moore is in it, who can do no wrong. And Brooke Smith is really brilliant in this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7hCDVR1o-U&t=82)
- **Tootsie** (1982) - Sydney Pollack - Spine #738 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28609-tootsie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084805/)
> "Tootsie is... Okay, first of all, Teri Garr in this movie – there’s a moment where she’s at the table and Dustin Hoffman admits what’s been going on and she stands up and she goes, 'What are you doing to me?!' It’s so funny. It’s one that I love also because, even though obviously the premise of it seems insane: this actor dresses as a woman to get a role, but at the same time, it’s all played in such a grounded way that it just really... I think it’s emotional and it’s funny."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7hCDVR1o-U&t=147)
- **Trafic** (2000) - Aurora Martínez - Spine #439 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/381-traffic)
> "I’m going to grab Traffic because Steven Soderbergh is one of my favorite directors. I think that he is so incredible. And you know what? His style seems to me to change based on the story he’s telling. It’s not like he has one particular style, one particular look. It feels so inconspicuous to me, even though something like this is interesting because, in Traffic, it’s the story of drugs and politics and sex, and we’re seeing different storylines that are differently color-graded."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7hCDVR1o-U&t=186)
## Pauline Chalamet (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWBBWZpd4Q) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/536-pauline-chalamet-s-closet-picks)
- **Fat Girl** (2001) - Catherine Breillat - Spine #259 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/548-fat-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243255/)
> "Fat Girl I have never seen a film think it's one thing like tell you it's one thing and then in the end reveal itself to be something else the performances are amazing Catherine Breillat is a queen all of her movies are just unreal..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWBBWZpd4Q&t=23)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "Wanda Barbara Loden she made This brilliant film she left the world way too early this movie is such a study of Womanhood there's no glory in it's just the life of a woman who has reached the end of her rope I could watch this movie over and over and over again..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWBBWZpd4Q&t=44)
- **Girlfriends** (1978) - Claudia Weill - Spine #1055 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29635-girlfriends) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077613/)
> "Girlfriends Claudia Weill this movie is incredible it actually reminds me a lot of Frances Ha of Noah Baumbach's that he wrote with Greta Gerwig that she stars in the relationship between the friends is super similar I love Girlfriends it's like a true New York City story the Dynamics are amazing there's you know a little bit of inappropriate behavior by people who have more power than others and friends who get pregnant versus friends who don't..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWBBWZpd4Q&t=63)
- **À nos amours** (1983) - Maurice Pialat - Spine #337 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/779-a-nos-amours) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086650/)
> "À nos amours I think that movie is beautiful but I also think it's really important in 2022 to be able to contextualize it right so then when I was like 14 or 15 years old there's like full frontal nudity it's important conversations to have and I watched Vagabond right after that also has something for that and I remember just in my head they're kind of linked where I was like oh she went from like that character is in Maurice Pialat's world..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWBBWZpd4Q&t=158)
- **Day for Night** (null) - - Spine #769 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28698-day-for-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6257222/)
> "This movie for me is perfect Truffaut made a movie that is so generous in spirit he divulged all of his Secrets he let you in on what The Process was there's a huge Montage in the middle of the film where they're setting up the day I think and the cranes are going up and the and the extras are getting into plays and this and the score is unbelievable it's also hard to find I'm like this I might frame it I'll take the DVD out but then I'll frame the Box..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWBBWZpd4Q&t=198)
- **The Other Side of Hope** (2017) - Aki Kaurismäki - Spine #922 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29253-the-other-side-of-hope) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5222918/)
> "I'm just gonna pick one more and I'm gonna pick it at random I'm just gonna close my eyes and my eyes are closed and I'm just going to turn around once The Other Side of Hope couldn't have picked a better film so thank you..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWBBWZpd4Q&t=235)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "Oh well this is a good place to start I just remember I mean A Woman Under the Influence amazing Shadows Faces but Opening Night for me was just there are scenes that sometimes I wake up in the morning and I think of them like when they're on stage and I just I love that movie..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWBBWZpd4Q&t=7)
- **Six Moral Tales** (6 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/417-six-moral-tales)
> "I would be remiss if I didn't talk about Rohmer because I was kind of named after one of his movies there's a softness to the way he tells stories that you know the French filmmakers of the new wave are just so increment here it's like I could be holding them up together..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWBBWZpd4Q&t=108)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "I really love her so much you know who she reminds me of there's that filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché who was like the first arguably the first fiction filmmaker of all time she was French but then she came over to the US and was living in Fort Lee New Jersey before Fort Lee moved out to be Hollywood and I feel like Agnès Varda really picked like lived in her shoes when she was alive interesting anecdote about Vagabond I watched when I watched movies..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muWBBWZpd4Q&t=132)
## Payal Kapadia (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKnRQkPXdg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/737-payal-kapadia-s-closet-picks)
- **Loves of a Blonde** (1965) - Miloš Forman - Spine #144 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/246-loves-of-a-blonde) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059415/)
> "One of my favorite films is Miloš Forman’s Loves of a Blonde. It’s a remarkable film, which is also funny, and I think everybody should watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKnRQkPXdg&t=6)
- **Charulata** (1964) - Satyajit Ray - Spine #669 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28447-charulata) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057935/)
> "So one should have Ray in one’s collection of films. And Charulata is a film that taught me a lot about cinema and scene construction and... It’s just a really good film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKnRQkPXdg&t=38)
- **Paris is Burning** (1991) - Jennie Livingston - Spine #1018 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29647-paris-is-burning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/)
> "Paris is Burning is a film by Jennie Livingston which is, I think, one of the greatest nonfiction films ever made. It’s a film that I can go back to at different points in my life, and it’s just a film about accepting and community, and it’s such a wonderful, wonderful film and it’s shot so well. I watched this for the first time when we did, like, a film Festival in my film school, when we were protesting and it was shown in one of the protest screenings."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKnRQkPXdg&t=116)
- **La Jetée/Sans Soleil** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil)
> "Sans Soleil is a film that I really love very much, of Chris Marker. It’s a film that liberated me a lot from what is fiction and what is nonfiction, and it’s a film that you can keep watching and gain something from every time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKnRQkPXdg&t=17)
- **Trilogy of Life** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/916-trilogy-of-life)
> "This is a box set of Pasolini, and... All of them are really good, and I love very much Arabian Nights. It was a Pasolini film that I watched when I was a student, and it’s a gift that keeps giving."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKnRQkPXdg&t=51)
- **Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/275-eclipse-series-2-the-documentaries-of-louis-malle)
> "Louis Malle’s boxset also. Phantom India is a film that I... I discovered when I had gone for my admission at the film school. They showed us this film and they told us to, like, comment on it. It’s so contemporary, even though it’s so... From such a long time ago. I think it’s a must-watch for everyone."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKnRQkPXdg&t=89)
- **Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2** (1 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1258-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-2)
> "Okay, so this is the Martin Scorsese World Cinema Project. Two films that I absolutely love. One is Mysterious Object at Noon. I... When I was a student, I did, like, a thesis project and I studied this film to every minor frame. And it’s really a... It’s really a fantastic film. And also Taipei Story of Edward Yang, which is a city film that I really love a lot. So I’m really happy to have this collection of films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzKnRQkPXdg&t=156)
- **Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki's Leningrad Cowboys** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/835-eclipse-series-29-aki-kaurismaki-s-leningrad-cowboys)
## Peter Sarsgaard (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YxJY2W4b4U) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/434-peter-sarsgaard-s-closet-picks)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "La strada I first saw this movie in my after school class with Father Gerarelli in my all-boys Catholic High School. I'm gonna take this actually."
- **The Night Porter** (1974) - Liliana Cavani - Spine #59 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/604-the-night-porter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071910/)
> "Number 59, Night Porter. This movie, I can't tell you how big an effect it had on me. I'd never seen a movie with the content that this movie had in it. Father Gerarelli was the name of the priest and he took me through Italian Neorealism but he also threw all of it, I mean anything Italian he was showing me. Night Porter was just a special last movie that I got to say with him but it blew me away. I did a thing Dirk Bogarde does in the movie, a head swing, that meant I really liked it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YxJY2W4b4U&t=11)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "So Wanda I'd never seen but I saw Wanda on the Criterion Channel when it was on there and my wife Maggie was doing The Deuce and we watched it. I think it was something that it really inspired me, this kind of like really wild troubling vision of this woman who's just like right on the edge of what it means to be alive. I mean it is terrifying and how the potential for violence in it and stuff, it's really intense. I know it really inspired Maggie when she was doing The Deuce."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YxJY2W4b4U&t=64)
- **True Stories** (1986) - David Byrne - Spine #951 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29038-true-stories) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092117/)
> "This movie because I got to work with the director and I was such a massive fan but this is also a kind of music movie unlike any I think at that point that I'd ever seen. I think it actually was my gateway to becoming obsessed with him. I was already into David Byrne. And I mean when I dance this is what I look to do."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YxJY2W4b4U&t=109)
- **Eating Raoul** (1982) - Paul Bartel - Spine #625 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27767-eating-raoul) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083869/)
> "Eating Raoul, okay if you haven't seen this movie go see this movie. It's made with such glee and the humor is so messed up. This movie was made with glee and spontaneity and just going for it. I mean there's no other movie they've made like it before it was made. I want to be in a remake of this movie, I'm just putting out there right now. I'll be Raoul, I don't care."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YxJY2W4b4U&t=147)
- **Safe** (1995) - Todd Haynes - Spine #739 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28548-safe) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/)
> "This movie Safe is the best movie about this particular topic and she gives such an amazing Performance. This idea that our environment is killing us—I have so many friends who think they have this or that, the mycoplasma or the Epstein-Barr, the Gulf War Syndrome. The movie I made with Michael Tyburski is about sound killing him basically. There's some scenes in this that will haunt you for the rest of your movie going life. This is a horror movie and a great one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YxJY2W4b4U&t=191)
- **Breaking the Waves** (1996) - Lars von Trier - Spine #705 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28350-breaking-the-waves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115751/)
> "I think that this movie Breaking the Waves, I don't think he's made a movie like that with as much compassion and heart and forgiveness for his characters but still has that strangling anxiety in it that he's so awesome at. I really love the God stuff in it that's so Catholic. When she prays to me, that's what it feels like to pray, you know."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YxJY2W4b4U&t=242)
## Peter Wolf (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rib1VHrBTdk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/855-peter-wolf-s-closet-picks)
- **Chimes at Midnight** (1965) - Orson Welles - Spine #830 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28756-chimes-at-midnight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059012/)
> "This one is an Orson Welles film, Chimes at Midnight, and it’s Henry the Fourth, Parts One and Two, where Orson Welles plays Falstaff. It’s very interesting, he made it on a shoestring in Spain through many, many years, and some of the actors, you’ll see only their backs because they were unavailable during The Shooting, and the dialogue was put in later. So this is a great tour de force. And it starts off where Orson is talking to a friend... 'We have all heard the Chimes at Midnight ringing.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rib1VHrBTdk&t=8)
- **I Know Where I’m Going!** (1945) - Michael Powell - Spine #94 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/633-i-know-where-i-m-going) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037800/)
> "This great film here, which is done by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. They are known basically for Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes. But this is a film that many people don’t know about that I highly recommend: I Know Where I’m Going! Great love story. It’s beautifully shot, beautifully acted, and gets a five-star rating from the Woofa Goofa Mamma Toofa. So I will put that in the bag of treats."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rib1VHrBTdk&t=49)
- **Elevator to the Gallows** (1958) - Louis Malle - Spine #335 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/778-elevator-to-the-gallows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051378/)
> "Elevator to the Gallows. This is beautiful. You will be sitting on the edge of the seat as you watch this because it has so many twists and turns in it. And it’s Louis Malle’s first film. And I got to meet Louis Malle, briefly, and he was as intriguing as his films. And this is a movie that, if you’re looking for entertainment, besides it being beautifully shot, it’s… you just cannot predict what’s going to happen. So this is a definite one for gathering the crowd together."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rib1VHrBTdk&t=77)
- **The Earrings of Madame de...** (1953) - Max Ophüls - Spine #445 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/571-the-earrings-of-madame-de) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046022/)
> "The Earrings of Madame de... By Max Ophuls. This is a beautiful love story, with intrigue and deception on many parts. The actress, I will tell you… I fell in love with Vivien Leigh, I fell in love with so many different actresses. This is one on top of the list that I would Take Out on a long date that I hope would last for years. And the story is so intriguing that it will entertain the entire family."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rib1VHrBTdk&t=115)
- **Band of Outsiders** (1964) - Jean-Luc Godard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/291-band-of-outsiders) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057869/)
> "Band of Outsiders. This is a film by Godard, who most people know of his great classic, Breathless, which I adore and love, but many people don’t know Band of Outsiders. And there’s a scene in this that is just incredible. And it’s a group, the outsiders, and they’re doing a dance called the Madison, and there’s a scene where they’re all… and… it’s just unbelievable, worth the price of admission alone. Band of Outsiders. Another must in this great treasure chest."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rib1VHrBTdk&t=151)
- **Seven Samurai** (1954) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #2 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
> "If I was to take one movie to say, which is on the top of the mountain, I would have to say it’s Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. The fight scenes, the battle scenes, the love scenes, they’re all beautifully done. This is a movie that… it takes time. But it deserves all the length that it is. This is, to me, a great, great masterpiece. Well, they’re all masterpieces, but this one is truly a masterpiece. And I’d like to end my visit by hopefully being able to take this home because it’s time to watch..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rib1VHrBTdk&t=194)
## Phil Rosenthal (writer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkS1CpXhv9c) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/469-phil-rosenthal-s-closet-picks)
- **Babette’s Feast** (1987) - Gabriel Axel - Spine #665 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27894-babette-s-feast) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092603/)
> "I'm a big food guy I don't know if you've heard but this might be the ultimate movie about a meal..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkS1CpXhv9c&t=9)
- **Stagecoach** (1986) - Ted Post - Spine #516 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/980-stagecoach) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092003/)
> "Stagecoach I recommend to you it's the Star Wars of its day..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkS1CpXhv9c&t=14)
- **Foreign Correspondent** (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock - Spine #696 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27692-foreign-correspondent) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032484/)
> "Hitchcock this is a great movie Foreign Correspondent incredible indelible set pieces brilliant scenes in this movie so much fun there's never been a movie like this..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkS1CpXhv9c&t=20)
- **Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb** (1964) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #821 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28822-dr-strangelove-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/)
> "Dr. Strangelove I'd play this game if there was a day and all your favorite filmmakers we're opening a movie on that day which filmmakers movie would you see first that tells you something right for me it's this guy..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkS1CpXhv9c&t=37)
- **Overlord** (1975) - Stuart Cooper - Spine #382 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/550-overlord) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073502/)
> "What's Overlord shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer John Alcott see if you don't pick it up and read it you don't know what you got here now I have that who doesn't want to see that now..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkS1CpXhv9c&t=62)
- **Make Way for Tomorrow** (1937) - Leo McCarey - Spine #505 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2350-make-way-for-tomorrow) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029192/)
> "What's Make Way for Tomorrow the saddest movie you'll ever see no thank you I have enough life is hard enough some things you know yes I know would it be good for me to see the sad movie yes probably but today I don't feel like it..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkS1CpXhv9c&t=71)
- **Sullivan's Travels** (1941) - Preston Sturges - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/657-sullivan-s-travels) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034240/)
> "This is easily one of the best most influential comedies of all time and it you know it's a about it's about comedy if you can see any Preston Sturges movies I think Criterion makes The Lady Eve also that's fantastic all of his movies were tremendously funny with rapid fire dialogue and just brilliant he used some of the same character actors in all the movies so he had like this little company of players and you love seeing them recur in the other movies..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkS1CpXhv9c&t=83)
- **On the Waterfront** (1954) - Elia Kazan - Spine #647 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/)
> "Here's On the Waterfront and the cool thing about this one is all three aspect ratios that the movie was released in are in here in 1.66 you see the gun on Rod Steiger's lap in the in the taxi scene but if it's cut in 1.85 you don't see the gun in his lap or when Brando is rolling the cue ball in the in the in the pool room scene you don't see him doing it you don't see the ball you just see from here his arm going like this you don't know what he's doing..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkS1CpXhv9c&t=130)
- **The Innocents** (2008) - Bill Viola - Spine #727 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33649-the-innocent)
> "Never saw this everyone says this is a great scary movie and I've never seen it..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkS1CpXhv9c&t=124)
## Philip Kaufman (writer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFHvBEvKI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/606-philip-kaufman-s-closet-picks)
- **Amarcord** (1973) - Federico Fellini - Spine #4 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/208-amarcord) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071129/)
> "Amarcord, one of my favorite movies of all time. Just atmosphere, Fellini, coming of age, fascism, wonderful. It's one of my favorite films of all time, so glad to have it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFHvBEvKI&t=21)
- **Crumb** (1994) - Terry Zwigoff - Spine #533 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2104-crumb) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109508/)
> "But Crumb, Terry Zwigoff's Crumb. I've seen this many times, it's one of the films I can see over and over and over again. It just, it's a great film, it's about San Francisco, it's about art and it's about lunacy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFHvBEvKI&t=71)
- **Fanny and Alexander** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/206-fanny-and-alexander)
> "Just look at the, what a great still. The children, you know, the seeing, I mean the eye, that is a marvelous still. Isn't that the way that Fanny and Alexander are looking around? Just also has the best fart scene I've ever seen in a film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFHvBEvKI&t=98)
- **The Battle of Algiers** (1966) - Gillo Pontecorvo - Spine #249 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/248-the-battle-of-algiers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/)
> "Battle of Algiers, well you know I use the music from this often as a temp track. And you know, but the vitality of Pontecorvo's film, I mean it's a unique film, it's a unique political film. But vitality is extraordinary. I can remember being in little theaters in Los Angeles and I saw it a number of times and there'd be revolutionaries photographing off the screen how to create a revolution literally because these were revolutionary times. This was the primer for a lot of people."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFHvBEvKI&t=117)
- **Le Salaire de la peur** (1953) - Henri-Georges Clouzot - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/370-the-wages-of-fear) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046268/)
> "Wages of Fear, what can you say? One of, you know, not only the cinema of France, Yves Montand, some of the most tense nerve-wracking scenes I've ever seen, but really captures the post-war existentialist... It's an existentialist epic adventure."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFHvBEvKI&t=42)
- **Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/540-stage-and-spectacle-three-films-by-jean-renoir)
> "Once at a screening down in Los Angeles, I came late and I walked into the screening room and I stepped on somebody's toe and I sat down next to him and just as the film was beginning somebody came in front of us and the man next to me said 'Hello Fritz' and Fritz Lang turned around and said 'Hello Jean' and I was sitting next to Jean Renoir with Fritz Lang sitting in front of me. They're great films, inspire me and all of us to get started."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMFHvBEvKI&t=166)
## Questlove (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFuN-Qi-FW4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/819-questlove-s-closet-picks)
- **Beastie Boys Video Anthology** (2000) - David Perez Shadi - Spine #100 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/638-beastie-boys-video-anthology) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273456/)
> "When the Beastie Boys got their own Criterion Collection. All their videos were brilliant short films directed by Spike Jonze and sometimes ‘Nathanial Hörnblowér.’ This one alone, man. I was just like, “Wow… I want a Criterion Collection.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFuN-Qi-FW4&t=21)
- **Black Orpheus** (1959) - Marcel Camus - Spine #48 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/)
> "I gotta tell this story. So there’s a period in which Prince and I became cool... He says it’s one of his all-time favorite films called Black Orpheus. And he had about ten copies of Black Orpheus, which he would constantly have on loop. And eventually I got this. And of course I now know why he loves this. This won the Palme d’Or in 1959, I believe. And it’s probably one of the most beautifully shot films. Black Orpheus."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFuN-Qi-FW4&t=41)
- **Gimme Shelter** (1970) - Albert Maysles - Spine #99 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/637-gimme-shelter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065780/)
> "Gimme Shelter. Which is kind of the opposite of The Monterey Pop Festival. Part reality show, part… Dogme 95 almost. You don’t know what’s going to happen. You just gotta go with the moment. And be present, be a fly on the wall. And this is probably the greatest example. A concert’s thrown and… a murder occurs during the Rolling Stones’ Performance and it’s so chilling to watch the Stones watch the footage of the murder."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFuN-Qi-FW4&t=186)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "Do the Right Thing. When Spike Lee got the Criterion treatment, oh my God. And all the extras in it. Spike’s preserved the storyboards, the audition tapes, the day that everyone first meets, them building the sets, the pizzeria, them building it by hand. So you get to see, soup to nuts. It’s as if Spike knew that some ten years later, some twenty years later, that they would contextualize this and he kept everything."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFuN-Qi-FW4&t=235)
- **Bamboozled** (2000) - Spike Lee - Spine #1019 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29007-bamboozled) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215545/)
> "Now, speaking of Spike Lee, imagine my surprise when a film that I’m in, Bamboozled, made Criterion status. Words will never describe the entire experience of us shooting this. Spike Lee explained to me the premise of Bamboozled. Now, mind you, it’s 1999, and this is one of the cases in which a satire is so over the top, exaggerated. And now that it’s 25 years later, everything in this movie has happened. Spike was so ahead of time that time eventually caught up to him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFuN-Qi-FW4&t=314)
- **The Complete Monterey Pop Festival** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/326-the-complete-monterey-pop-festival)
> "The Monterey Pop Festival is probably one of the most brilliant, brilliant captures of concert footage. The most legendary story, of course, is the Jimi Hendrix Experience Performance where Hendrix famously does “Wild Thing” and then he puts his guitar on the floor and he destroys it and he sets it on fire. Also another Performance that really doesn’t get talked about is Otis Redding’s Performance."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFuN-Qi-FW4&t=114)
## Rachel Sennott (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3ZVJRQYYY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/895-rachel-sennott-s-closet-picks)
- **Tiny Furniture** (2010) - Lena Dunham - Spine #597 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28317-tiny-furniture) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1570989/)
> "We’re starting with Tiny Furniture. Obviously, Lena Dunham, huge inspiration to me. I watched Girls, it made me want to move to New York. And then I sort of did the deep dive into her work and then I discovered Tiny Furniture. When me and my friend Emma Seligman were writing Bottoms and Emma was writing Shiva Baby, we would always be like, “Tiny Furniture to Girls, Tiny Furniture to Girls.” Basically saying, like, you start your work and you establish it. She’s the inspo. Love her."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3ZVJRQYYY&t=8)
- **Happiness** (1998) - Todd Solondz - Spine #1235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30465-happiness) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0147612/)
> "Here’s a good one: Happiness by Todd Solondz. Great movie. Makes me really uncomfortable, but also makes me laugh. And I like that kind of uncomfortable humor. Obviously."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3ZVJRQYYY&t=53)
- **Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown** (1988) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #855 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29101-women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095675/)
> "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. There’s, like, surrealist elements to it, but at the same time, I just related to the Crash out, of feeling so insane. And I love when she lights her bed on fire. Just something I’ve wanted to do in my life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3ZVJRQYYY&t=67)
- **Punch-Drunk Love** (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson - Spine #843 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27916-punch-drunk-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/)
> "Punch-Drunk Love. It was one of the movies– so I actually didn’t get to watch a lot of movies in high school and middle school because my parents were really strict. So then I went to NYU and every film boy ever showed me a bunch of movies. Thank you to them. But someone showed me this movie. I was already a fan of Adam Sandler and how funny he is. In this movie he’s, like, tortured by his Sisters. I just love Adam Sandler and I think he’s so incredible in it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3ZVJRQYYY&t=88)
- **To Die For** (1997) - Roberta Torre - Spine #1213 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32358-to-die-for) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120277/)
> "To Die For, a Gus Van Sant film starring the one and only Nicole Kidman. I love this movie. I love Nicole. One of the best actresses ever. Period. Down. She is so good in this movie. I thought it was, like, hilarious, but also, like, she’s someone who, when she’s funny, she’s still giving an Oscar-winning Performance. And I just loved this character that she played, of, like, ambitious, maybe a little unstable woman. I love the outfits she wears. Fabulous film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3ZVJRQYYY&t=128)
## RaMell Ross (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/756-ramell-ross-s-closet-picks)
- **The Tin Drum** (1979) - Volker Schlöndorff - Spine #234 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/789-the-tin-drum) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078875/)
> "Oh, The Tin Drum. Stop it. This is one of the films that I just found in the library. And, honestly, I just remember it being incredibly moving."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=32)
- **Mirror** (1975) - Jesús Franco - Spine #1084 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28894-mirror) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070396/)
> "Oh, The Mirror. Let’s see, what to say about the film? I teach it in my class. Kind of defies language, but kind of resides in the remembering of the film itself, that’s kind of where it exists. Almost in the Godfrey Reggio, you know, ‘the viewer completes the film’ type of way. Maybe The Mirror is completed when you remember it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=92)
- **Stalker** (1979) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #888 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28150-stalker) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/)
> "I’ll take anything that he’s done. I don’t have a copy of Stalker. I’ve seen it a couple of times but I kind of want it. Yeah. Just the psychological horror that is not a horror at all. It’s kind of just like an electricity that exists outside of human consciousness or perception or something. Something that science is way behind."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=115)
- **Cameraperson** (2016) - Kirsten Johnson - Spine #853 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29003-cameraperson) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5375040/)
> "Cameraperson, shout out KJ. I mean, this is the first film I show in every class, every film class I teach. And I’ll take it because I may be able to gift it to someone and they may also fall in love with the film. Edited by Nels Bangerter, one of the best editors out there. If you don’t know them, look them up."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=140)
- **To Sleep with Anger** (1990) - Charles Burnett - Spine #963 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29567-to-sleep-with-anger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100791/)
> "Sleep with Anger because Danny Glover’s amazing and obviously Charles Burnett is, I guess we’d call him a hero of cinema or something, kind of changing our understanding of community, art, aesthetics."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=171)
- **Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai** (1999) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #1057 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31032-ghost-dog-the-way-of-the-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/)
> "Ooh, Ghost Dog. I’ve always wondered why... Where the films about Black culture’s relationship to the Eastern intellectual tradition, when those are going to start emerging? This was the first one that reminded me that, like, Wu-Tang Clan was just, like, all kung fu."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=187)
- **Jubal** (1956) - Delmer Daves - Spine #656 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28492-jubal) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048233/)
> "Jubal? Is this a western? This is directed by Delmer Daves. I never in the history of my knowing myself would grab this or watch this if I saw it online. And now I will. And this is kind of what it’s about. I say, unexpected knowledge encounters. Boom."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=242)
- **World of Wong Kar Wai** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4117-world-of-wong-kar-wai)
> "That makes me want Wong Kar Wai things because I don’t know if I’ve... Like, I know his work but I haven’t digested it. I think people should digest or not encounter it. You need to bring it in. You need to eat it. Whoa! Speak and it shall... Woah... This... I could leave now, but I won’t, obviously."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=43)
- **La Jetée/Sans Soleil** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil)
> "Wait, I saw Sans Soleil too because Chris Marker. There’s many GOATs, right? The GOAT is the greatest of all time. There’s many GOATs and... He’s one of the GOATs. He has this line in La Jetée, 'Nothing tells memory from ordinary moments. Only afterwards do they claim remembrance on account of their scars.' Which was really great for Nickel Boys. Oh, yeah, Sans Soleil, Sans Soleil. Come on."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=65)
- **The Qatsi Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/934-the-qatsi-trilogy)
> "And I do see over there The Qatsi Trilogy. Shout out to Godfrey Reggio. He’s vital for understanding the world, I believe, the visual world."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=161)
- **Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3205-bruce-lee-his-greatest-hits)
> "And boy, was it cool to, like, watch Bruce Lee movies with my dad. No! The greatest hits, too? I mean, my dad loves me, but I think maybe more now, you know?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVfkV5F4XL0&t=204)
## Raúl Castillo (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FurjMTpCV9s) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/561-raul-castillo-s-closet-picks)
- **Le Samouraï** (1967) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #306 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/184-le-samourai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/)
> "That's the thing there's a samurai I love that movie..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FurjMTpCV9s&t=15)
- **Trafic** (2000) - Aurora Martínez - Spine #439 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/381-traffic)
> "Traffic. Amazing film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FurjMTpCV9s&t=18)
- **F for Fake** (1973) - Orson Welles - Spine #288 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/908-f-for-fake) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072962/)
> "I love Orson Welles. He could do it all. He could direct and he was so young when he started out and he did it throughout his life. This was a little bit later in his career in 1975. He's someone who I think reinvented himself quite often but he was a renaissance man so F for Fake yeah that sounds good that's going in the back."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FurjMTpCV9s&t=23)
- **Blow-Up** (1966) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #865 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28694-blow-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/)
> "Blow-Up. Antonioni. Yeah this movie I watched I was doing a short film years ago and I was playing a photographer and the filmmaker had me watch Blow-Up and it's such a good one it's a classic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FurjMTpCV9s&t=49)
- **Night of the Living Dead** (1968) - George A. Romero - Spine #909 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29331-night-of-the-living-dead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/)
> "Night of the Living Dead is arguably the reason I'm an actor period. When I was a kid I was obsessed with horror films particularly zombie films and Night of the Living Dead both the original and the remake with Tony Todd were a huge influence on me. It wasn't lost on me that it was a guy named George Romero. As a kid you didn't even see a lot of Spanish sounding names so it was exciting. I love zombies so this is going in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FurjMTpCV9s&t=62)
- **My Own Private Idaho** (1991) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #277 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/249-my-own-private-idaho) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102494/)
> "My Own Private Idaho. Talk about movies that made me want to be an actor this is one of them. I mean you know River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, Gus Van Sant, Flea's in this movie they made it look so cool. I remember seeing My Own Private Idaho and it wasn't the typical kind of film that we got down there. I think it was a rental that me and my friends rented. They just made it look so cool I love this movie such an influence on me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FurjMTpCV9s&t=109)
## Raven Jackson (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/590-raven-jackson-s-closet-picks)
- **Eve’s Bayou** (1997) - Kasi Lemmons - Spine #1154 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32658-eve-s-bayou) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119080/)
> "Eve's Bayou. I watched this so many years ago and plenty of time since. Such a, sensual, very textured film. I adore this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8&t=9)
- **Ratcatcher** (1999) - Lynne Ramsay - Spine #162 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/716-ratcatcher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/)
> "Ratcatcher. I'm pulling this one primarily for Small Deaths on the DVD. That short gave me permission to explore form in my own work., I really adore that short film. Also, there's this one shot of a cow's eye in that short that it's just amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8&t=23)
- **The Piano Teacher** (2001) - Michael Haneke - Spine #894 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28739-the-piano-teacher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/)
> "The Piano Teacher. I remember the first time I watched this, I was just really struck by the viscerality. I'm really drawn to films that bring me into my body, and this film really does that in a deep way. And again, it was a film that after I watched, I was like, 'Oh, you can do that in cinema too,' you know? And I'm so—this is one I'm really grateful for."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8&t=50)
- **Amores perros** (2000) - Alejandro González Iñárritu - Spine #1060 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30908-amores-perros) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/)
> "Amores perros., similar to Small Deaths, how this film plays with structure opened the doorway for me. And this is one of the ones pre me knowing I wanted to be a filmmaker, but it really surprised me in the best ways."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8&t=73)
- **Medicine for Melancholy** (2009) - Barry Jenkins - Spine #1183 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29643-medicine-for-melancholy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133989/)
> "Medicine for Melancholy. Got to shout out the legend that is Barry Jenkins. You know, it's only right to own a copy of this beautiful film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8&t=93)
- **Fat Girl** (2001) - Catherine Breillat - Spine #259 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/548-fat-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243255/)
> "Fat Girl. Talk about this girl."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8&t=101)
- **Weekend** (2011) - Andrew Haigh - Spine #635 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27783-weekend) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714210/)
> "Weekend. Such a beautiful, slow unwinding of a love story., so many of these films that I'm pulling are ones that stay with me after watching and that even years later I continue to think about. And I, I just really love this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8&t=108)
- **Faya dayi** (2021) - Jessica Beshir - Spine #1141 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32189-faya-dayi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13648216/)
> "Faya dayi by Jessica Beshir. I'm such a fan of her work and I haven't seen this one yet, so I'm pulling it to watch."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8&t=128)
- **La ciénaga** (2001) - Lucrecia Martel - Spine #743 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28113-la-cienaga) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240419/)
> "La ciénaga. So tactile, visceral. The blocking—oh, it's just, it's in your body. Love this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8&t=140)
- **The Devil’s Backbone** (2001) - Guillermo del Toro - Spine #666 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27914-the-devil-s-backbone) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/)
> "The Devil's Backbone. I watched this film, a few years ago. There are some images as I'm holding it that are sitting in my mind right now, and I it's really one that I want to revisit."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDr2Ptl1ce8&t=153)
## Rebecca Miller (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcyNcbgapbE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/582-rebecca-miller-s-closet-picks)
- **Devi** (1999) - Kodi Ramakrishna - Spine #1102 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27906-devi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313965/)
> "Devi by Satyajit Ray is just so beautiful. It's one of the greatest films I've ever seen. I will tell you it's about the wife of a man who kind of becomes like a goddess and it destroys her life but it kind of puts you into a trance almost. It's like really one of the most powerful cinematic experiences I've ever had and she's just incredible in it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcyNcbgapbE&t=11)
- **The Color of Pomegranates** (1969) - Sergei Parajanov - Spine #918 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29219-the-color-of-pomegranates) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063555/)
> "The Color of Pomegranates by Sergei Parajanov is just like a unabashedly poetic film that's ethnography, cinema, poetry, painterly, surreal but rooted really rooted I think in Armenian culture. Beautiful historical film, it's Mythic. I remember seeing it when I was on tour with The Cherry Orchard in Soviet Georgia and just being astonished by it. This was in 1986 or something."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcyNcbgapbE&t=45)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "A Short Film About Killing, I don't know how to describe it exactly but it puts you into the occasion of sin along with the person in the movie. It's like a pure film but very disturbing. It's one of the more disturbing films I've seen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcyNcbgapbE&t=92)
- **Loves of a Blonde** (1965) - Miloš Forman - Spine #144 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/246-loves-of-a-blonde) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059415/)
> "Loves of a Blonde by Milos Forman is an absolutely wonderful movie. Tonally it's just so wonderfully free and specific and very much about a female character which I loved and it's really about romance you know and it's classic New Wave Cinema as well but there is something about the middle European slightly depressive humor that I just find so appealing. It's like you can just feel the sadness in the humor."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcyNcbgapbE&t=152)
- **Children of Paradise** (1945) - Marcel Carné - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/683-children-of-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037674/)
> "Children of Paradise by Marcel Carné, Les Enfants du Paradis... Oh my God this is I think maybe my favorite movie ever. It's poetic realism but it's also so deeply human and the woman Arletty who plays the sort of who's loved by several different men is such a wonderfully sad knowing wise sexy liberated creature and yet you completely believe that you're in 18th century France. It's like funny and wistful and also the crowd scenes are incredible."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcyNcbgapbE&t=189)
## Reginald Hudlin (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTo60eXjcs) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/921-reginald-hudlin-s-closet-picks)
- **Black Orpheus** (1959) - Marcel Camus - Spine #48 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/)
> "Black Orpheus, exquisite in every possible way. I like to watch it periodically and go, “Oh, yeah, this is what I’m in the business, to make a movie– to aspire to make a movie as good as this one day.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTo60eXjcs&t=33)
- **Killer of Sheep (1978)** (1977) - Charles Burnett - Spine #1262 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34233-killer-of-sheep) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076263/)
> "The other greatest Black film ever made: Killer of Sheep, Charles Burnett. When I was in college, I would put together little film festivals at school, and I brought Charles there, and I showed the movie and everybody in the film program was blown away. This movie was made– He’d worked all week, saved enough money to buy a roll of film, shoot that roll of film, go back to work. And thank God for Charles Burnett for making a true masterpiece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTo60eXjcs&t=45)
- **Menace II Society** (1993) - Albert Hughes - Spine #1105 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31502-menace-ii-society) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107554/)
> "Menace II Society by the Hughes brothers. Early in our careers, people would mix up the Hudlin brothers and the Hughes brothers. We laughed about it all the time because they would compliment me over Menace II Society, they would compliment them for House Party, and we decided we would claim each other’s body of work. So, if you see one of us, we’ll just say yes, and, you know, we’re all brothers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTo60eXjcs&t=74)
- **Risky Business** (1926) - Alan Hale - Spine #1227 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33808-risky-business) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017326/)
> "Risky Business. There’s a couple of movies that really inspired House Party. Animal House was one of them. Risky Business was the other. You just go, “Wow, I can make a movie like that, about my life experiences.” I don’t know if we succeeded or not, but Risky Business is the business."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTo60eXjcs&t=101)
- **Rouge** (2021) - Farid Bentoumi - Spine #1129 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30738-rouge) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12444642/)
> "Rouge, great movie from Hong Kong in the ’80s, mixing all kinds of genres. It’s romantic, it’s scary, it’s all the feelings, it’s this extraordinarily beautiful, touching film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTo60eXjcs&t=121)
- **Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-essential-films)
> "Melvin Van Peebles, the father of modern Black cinema. Sweet Sweetback, legendary film. What most people don’t know – and they’ll put it on and go, “Oh, wait, what’s this?” – it’s a completely experimental film. This movie is, wow, this is free jazz. And the irony of me saying that is the score is by this unknown group, which later figured out, “Oh, we should call ourselves Earth, Wind & Fire.” But Melvin Van Peebles acted, directed, produced, did every doggone thing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTo60eXjcs&t=135)
- **Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3205-bruce-lee-his-greatest-hits)
> "Bruce Lee, what a great action actor. In one of the great fight scenes in Enter the Dragon, where he’s fighting O'Hara, the guy who killed his sister at the beginning of the film, he fights the guy, the guy crosses the line and he takes him down and he stomps him out. Now, here’s what you see in that film that you’ve never seen in other movies like this. There’s a Close-Up on his face in slow motion where you see him go through this whole range of emotion."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTo60eXjcs&t=179)
- **Essential Fellini** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini)
> "One of my absolute favorite filmmakers, Fellini. Fellini, postwar Italy somehow really resonates with me for working-class Black America. Something about, okay, we’re rebuilding our life out of the ruins and we’ve got so much flavor and we embrace the surrealism of our lives, and it’s comedic and it’s tragic and it’s heroic. It’s all the things at once. He’s always been a giant hero to me. When I was in film school, I remember writing a paper on 8½."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvTo60eXjcs&t=229)
## Renate Reinsve (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhUrrvwWPQ) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/484-renate-reinsve-s-closet-picks)
- **Mirror** (1975) - Jesús Franco - Spine #1084 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28894-mirror) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070396/)
> "My all-time favorite director is Andrei Tarkovsky and this is a newly restored edition of Mirror. I come from a place where you don't really see films and it's a very small place... And I wasn't exposed to films and art until very late."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhUrrvwWPQ&t=12)
- **Mulholland Dr.** (2001) - David Lynch - Spine #779 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28050-mulholland-dr) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/)
> "This you can imagine Mulholland Drive David Lynch when I was young and I was in shock and I saw it maybe like 20 times and I read all about it and I read like people try have tried to understand it and actually going crazy trying to understand it I just love him..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhUrrvwWPQ&t=35)
- **White Material** (2010) - Claire Denis - Spine #560 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27559-white-material) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135952/)
> "This is White Material. I just love the sensibility and the sensuality of Claire Denis and the way she elevates kind of everyday moments to be very sensible and very like I'm always almost there you know I can smell stuff I can feel stuff when I see her films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhUrrvwWPQ&t=64)
- **The Piano Teacher** (2001) - Michael Haneke - Spine #894 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28739-the-piano-teacher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/)
> "The Piano Teacher, by the way, this is like the best acting. It's her of course, her presence and her detail in thought and her detail in what she's going through. She's very free but she's also really controlled so she can go anywhere with the scene or with the moment."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhUrrvwWPQ&t=90)
- **Pickpocket** (1959) - Robert Bresson - Spine #314 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/)
> "I just saw Pickpocket and Bresson. Bresson is really interesting because he's very progressive in his acting because there will always be acting ways of acting that are more fashionable for the time you live in. He believed that all our actions are mechanical and you don't really choose what you do. His actors are really special, they're very open because they are not doing very much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhUrrvwWPQ&t=136)
- **Certified Copy** (2010) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #612 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28353-certified-copy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020773/)
> "I'll take a Kiarostami, Certified Copy. On the road, like you said."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhUrrvwWPQ&t=187)
- **A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/89-a-film-trilogy-by-ingmar-bergman)
> "And I just this I this trilogy by Ingmar Bergman."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhUrrvwWPQ&t=204)
- **Stage and Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/540-stage-and-spectacle-three-films-by-jean-renoir)
> "Renoir, I'll take that one too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAhUrrvwWPQ&t=210)
- **Pierre Etaix** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/947-pierre-etaix)
## Rian Johnson (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2plMSuOgrI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/902-rian-johnson-s-closet-picks)
- **Girlfight** (2000) - Karyn Kusama - Spine #1219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33189-girlfight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210075/)
> "I’m going to start with one of my dearest friends, Karyn Kusama, and her brilliant movie Girlfight. One of my favorite directors. I do fundamentally believe that a movie ends up reflecting, almost unintentionally, the spirit of the director. And I believe that with Karyn’s work absolutely. And you watch Girlfight and it feels punk rock and it feels, at the same time, deeply, deeply human. Karyn is also one of the best cooks that I know... She served this one up. Girlfight."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2plMSuOgrI&t=7)
- **Love & Basketball** (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood - Spine #1097 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31500-love-basketball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199725/)
> "I want to talk about one other friend. I want to talk about Gina, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Love & Basketball. She’s always a little bit kind of sitting back and a little bit quiet sometimes. But then you get to know her and you realize she’s got an athlete’s confidence. And this first movie is a fantastic romantic exploration of that. It makes all the sense to me that she’s now making some of the most human, kick-ass, huge action movies... Gina, I love you. And I Love & Basketball."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2plMSuOgrI&t=78)
- **Topsy-Turvy** (1969) - Masaharu Segawa - Spine #558 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27550-topsy-turvy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204358/)
> "So we can talk about Mike Leigh all day long. I think my favorite Mike Leigh movie is actually Topsy-Turvy. Period piece about Gilbert and Sullivan who created these wonderful little operetta soufflés. This is about the making of The Mikado. It’s about the creative process and it’s about us doing what we do, making these things, even when the thing itself is this Topsy-Turvy, beautiful little confection. Just the blood, sweat, and tears that go into it. Jim Broadbent is absolutely fabulous."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2plMSuOgrI&t=157)
- **Hell’s Angels** (1930) - Howard Hughes - Spine #1288 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28987-hell-s-angels) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020960/)
> "Hell’s Angels. Okay, so I’m actually picking this– Really my wife, Karina Longworth, is the one who should be here right now talking about this movie. I’m picking it because I want to reacquaint myself with it. I want to rewatch it. And also how amazing is the artwork? Anyway, my wife, Karina, wrote a book about Howard Hughes, which was called Seduction, and this was a movie that Howard Hughes made and famously spent so long making it, spent so much money, remade it. I believe they started ma..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2plMSuOgrI&t=236)
## Richard Ayoade (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWUQWSFeQ8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/540-richard-ayoade-s-closet-picks)
- **Zazie dans le Métro** (1960) - Louis Malle - Spine #570 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27626-zazie-dans-le-metro) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054494/)
> "I say Zazie dans le Métro was as maybe with Persona my favorite film. This is like I watch this probably every month this film embarrassingly., and so,, it's just consistently, it's just everything in it has just so many ideas and just you see the same extras in the background recur and the music's beautiful and she is so good and charming and it's so I don't know, it's just so light on its feet and it's just such a pleasurable world to be in that this was a big influence I guess on Submar..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWUQWSFeQ8&t=51)
- **Les Cousins** (1959) - Claude Chabrol - Spine #581 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27816-les-cousins) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052708/)
> "And in a way The Cousins I guess was on The Double just the idea of you know these two characters and in that you know one's this meek field mouse and the other's the kind of city rats."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWUQWSFeQ8&t=100)
- **Le Havre** (2011) - Aki Kaurismäki - Spine #619 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28352-le-havre) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1508675/)
> "Aki Kaurismäki I love he was a I guess a big influence on The Double that's just come out..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWUQWSFeQ8&t=92)
- **Sisters** (1973) - Brian De Palma - Spine #89 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/377-sisters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070698/)
> "Sisters was one of the first ones I remember having... Yeah, maybe might have been Sisters."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWUQWSFeQ8&t=18)
- **The Magic Flute** (1975) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #71 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/613-the-magic-flute) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073822/)
> "And The Magic Flute I really love."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWUQWSFeQ8&t=20)
- **Safety Last!** (1923) - Fred C. Newmeyer - Spine #662 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28446-safety-last) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014429/)
> "I had Jesse watch some Buster Keaton which he found incredibly unhelpful and it probably in retrospect wasn't that helpful but it was more the sense of someone acknowledging that everything bad that happens to them shouldn't come as a surprise."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWUQWSFeQ8&t=117)
## Richard E. Grant (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/425-richard-e-grant-s-closet-picks)
- **City Lights** (1931) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #680 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/)
> "Bang, City Lights, Chaplin, yeah."
- **Nashville** (1975) - Robert Altman - Spine #683 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28427-nashville) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073440/)
> "Have you got Nashville? Yeah, it's right here. As if on cue, there it is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4&t=11)
- **Hamlet** (1996) - Kenneth Branagh - Spine #82 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/621-hamlet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/)
> "Isn't that serendipitous? Olivier's Hamlet. They all have to—English actor, you have to do that. It's this talisman of Shakespeare film performances."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4&t=18)
- **Cries and Whispers** (1972) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #101 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/237-cries-and-whispers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069467/)
> "Cries and Whispers, suffering away here. I love that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4&t=28)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "Oh La strada masterpiece Fellini I'm on a Fellini thing here okay..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4&t=39)
- **The Tin Drum** (1979) - Volker Schlöndorff - Spine #234 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/789-the-tin-drum) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078875/)
> "Tin Drum, absolute masterpiece. I was so shocked by that when I saw that when I was a student."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4&t=44)
- **The Graduate** (1967) - Mike Nichols - Spine #800 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28578-the-graduate) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061722/)
> "The Graduate. I saw this on a re-release print last year and it is when Dustin Hoffman makes that panic sound when he's being seduced or being pursued by Bancroft, who was only eight years older than him at the time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4&t=52)
- **Day for Night** (null) - - Spine #769 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28698-day-for-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6257222/)
> "Day for Night. François Truffaut, yes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4&t=77)
- **The French Lieutenant's Woman** (1981) - Karel Reisz - Spine #768 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28037-the-french-lieutenant-s-woman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082416/)
> "First time I'd seen Meryl Streep but then got to work with on Iron Lady and that was a huge moment because she was somebody that I had admired and for so long."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4&t=85)
- **Jules and Jim** (1962) - François Truffaut - Spine #281 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055032/)
> "Jules and Jim, loved that. I met Jeanne Moreau shortly before she died in Paris. She was just smoking, and I went up and I knelt in front of her and I said, 'Jeanne, I'm a huge admirer,' and she said, 'Oh darling, I enjoy you.' I was thrilled to meet her and I think that she was so used to people saying that she would have said 'Hello my darling' to absolutely anybody."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4&t=96)
- **Some Like It Hot** (1959) - Billy Wilder - Spine #950 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29162-some-like-it-hot) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/)
> "Some Like It Hot. Okay, Some Like It Hot. Well, nobody's perfect. I couldn't end on a better note than Billy Wilder's comic timeless masterpiece."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuQ4-CCct4&t=131)
## Rickie Lee Jones (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_7YGRLoG8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/564-rickie-lee-jones-s-closet-picks)
- **My Man Godfrey** (1936) - Gregory La Cava - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/653-my-man-godfrey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028010/)
> "There was one here that's a staple of mine I watch often called My Man Godfrey. I love William Powell. For a long time I thought that's a guy I'd like to marry, just a quiet, well-mannered, neat man who drinks himself to sleep."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_7YGRLoG8&t=19)
- **Hedwig and the Angry Inch** (2001) - John Cameron Mitchell - Spine #982 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29018-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248845/)
> "Hedwig. Now John Cameron Mitchell and I are friends, we live just down the street from each other in New Orleans, and he had given me this, his film, not too long after he made it... When I saw it, I think I've seen one of the most important performances of the new century. He is so good, and I like his wig."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_7YGRLoG8&t=41)
- **The Blob** (1958) - Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. - Spine #91 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/630-the-blob) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/)
> "The Blob. My big sister and her boyfriend would see this at the drive-in Phoenix, 1960 maybe, and I was in the front or back seat and I was scarred forever by the music, which was a Burt Bacharach song... Look, The Blob, kind of rock and roll thing, but I haven't seen it since. In my little kid mind, 'careful of The Blob,' but they figured out how to stop it... It is way too scary for those kids."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_7YGRLoG8&t=107)
- **A Taste of Honey** (1961) - Tony Richardson - Spine #829 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28734-a-taste-of-honey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055506/)
> "A Taste of Honey. It's a story of a teenage girl whose Mother is kind of a teenager as well. She meets a gay boy who moves in with her and he's going to take care of her, be her friend, and he makes her horrible room beautiful... She's an outsider, truly, in the world that he lives in, and then that horrible Mother comes back... They sing this song, 'all the good ships sail on the olly o'... What it really means is you don't have a chance."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_7YGRLoG8&t=162)
- **Devil in a Blue Dress** (1995) - Carl Franklin - Spine #1135 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32355-devil-in-a-blue-dress) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112857/)
> "I'd like to get a Denzel because he's one of, if not my favorite actor. So this is Devil in a Blue Dress, based on the Walter Mosley character Easy Rawlins. Very good book, great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_7YGRLoG8&t=231)
- **The Complete Monterey Pop Festival** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/326-the-complete-monterey-pop-festival)
> "This is The Complete Monterey Pop Festival, where Janis wearing her little mules—I'm going like that—she is so cool though. So I imitated everything she did from her clothes to her high heels. This is worth listening to the performances and remembering who we were."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_7YGRLoG8&t=71)
## Rob Delaney (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbF3XIDKM8Y) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/835-rob-delaney-s-closet-picks)
- **Harlan County, USA** (1977) - Barbara Kopple - Spine #334 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/777-harlan-county-usa) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074605/)
> "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..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbF3XIDKM8Y&t=11)
- **The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy box)** (1964) - Jacques Demy - Spine #716 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27933-the-umbrellas-of-cherbourg) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058450/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbF3XIDKM8Y&t=58)
- **The Before Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1237-the-before-trilogy)
> "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.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbF3XIDKM8Y&t=125)
- **André Gregory & Wallace Shawn: 3 Films** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1110-andre-gregory-wallace-shawn-3-films)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbF3XIDKM8Y&t=199)
## Robert Downey Sr (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBVH6ut2k8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/489-robert-downey-sr-s-closet-picks)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "This one eight and a half I mean I think it became the film that every filmmaker who or want to be filmmaker said that shows you that you can make a film without knowing what it's about you know and try and find out while you make it that's what he was trying to do and then in the middle of the film somebody says about the guy Mastroianni guy again he has nothing to say it was shocking I was said wait a minute I'm believing every second of this what are you talking about..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBVH6ut2k8&t=43)
- **Two-Lane Blacktop** (null) - - Spine #414 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/847-two-lane-blacktop) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5232946/)
> "Another friend of mine who was a friend of Hal wrote this film and I said to him how' you come up with all that automobile nomenclature he said I made it up I don't know sh anything about it I thought that was great in fact I spoke to him yesterday his name is Rudy Wurlitzer..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBVH6ut2k8&t=87)
- **America Lost and Found: The BBS Story** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/769-america-lost-and-found-the-bbs-story)
> "I knew Jack when he was just starting because one of my films came out when Easy Rider came out and we were on the same circuit and I knew him as a writer too and I mentioned his writing he went I'm an actor..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBVH6ut2k8&t=73)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "And you know about this guy right he was a friend of mine he was one of the sweetest characters ever and he was always interested in other filmmakers Cassavetes he's always wanted to know how you were doing and also Hal Ashby was the same way another friend and both these guys would be in heaven in this room they wouldn't want to leave you know..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHBVH6ut2k8&t=131)
## Robert Eggers (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLH8TfnsY9Y) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/769-robert-eggers-s-closet-picks)
- **The Color of Pomegranates** (1969) - Sergei Parajanov - Spine #918 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29219-the-color-of-pomegranates) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063555/)
> "Color of Pomegranates, by Parajanov. Parajanov is a really fascinating filmmaker who is really into recreating folk culture with a lot of detail. And he, you know, does these beautiful tableaus that are interpretations of the art from the world that he’s trying to articulate and bring us into. And it’s really spectacular."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLH8TfnsY9Y&t=9)
- **Death in Venice** (2008) - Willy Decker - Spine #962 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28699-death-in-venice) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12517736/)
> "Death in Venice, also costume designed by Piero Tosi. I don’t know, maybe my favorite Visconti movie? You know, obviously, like, Visconti and his collaborators’ attention to detail in creating the period world is something that I, shockingly, really love... I love Dirk Bogarde. His Performance is incredible. It was also so brilliant to, you know, to make the lead character a composer instead of a writer. It just makes it much more cinematic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLH8TfnsY9Y&t=96)
- **An Actor’s Revenge** (1959) - Masahiro Makino - Spine #912 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28899-an-actor-s-revenge) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5884904/)
> "This is An Actor’s Revenge by Ichikawa, which I’ve only seen once. Kazuo Hasegawa was, like, a really illustrious kabuki actor, and he plays male and female roles, is, like, really powerful and really cool. And just the gender dynamics? Fascinating, you know, and... Anyway, I’ve only seen it once. I’m really looking forward to checking this out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLH8TfnsY9Y&t=163)
- **Demon Pond** (2005) - Takashi Miike - Spine #1237 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33384-demon-pond) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213576/)
> "Related-ish is Demon Pond, which I actually have never seen, but I have seen clips of this, like, crazy Parade of creatures. I just have to see this movie. I’m, like, desperate to see what’s going on here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLH8TfnsY9Y&t=190)
- **The Innocents** (2008) - Bill Viola - Spine #727 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33649-the-innocent)
> "The Innocents is by Jack Clayton. This is one of my favorite films. I watch it, like, twice a year, probably. I love Freddie Francis, the cinematographer... His work with Jack Clayton is, I think, his best work. I feel like they really pushed each other to have the most sophisticated and elegant staging... Awesome movie if you haven’t seen it. Your imagination is on fire with the disturbing shit that you don’t see. It’s awesome."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLH8TfnsY9Y&t=248)
- **Pasolini 101** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6588-pasolini-101)
> "This is a heavy Pasolini box set, which is very exciting. I wanted to talk about Medea, but also happy to talk about Oedipus too. The worlds that Pasolini creates with Piero Tosi, the costume designer, and Dante Ferretti, the production designer... It’s amazing to see what Dante Ferretti does when he doesn’t have any money... But one of the things about Medea is the music. Pasolini is taking music from all over the place... It’s really evocative to see what he does with it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLH8TfnsY9Y&t=34)
- **Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6911-freaks-the-unknown-the-mystic-tod-browning-s-sideshow-shockers)
> "So this Tod Browning box set... This is just a recommendation. I own it. It’s awesome. Freaks is obviously, like, a major classic that a lot of people know. But The Mystic and The Unknown are movies that people know a lot less. I actually saw The Unknown, like, on TV when I was a teenager. And it’s this, like, amazing, transformative Performance by Lon Chaney... Definitely, definitely check this out if you’re a Tod Browning fan."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLH8TfnsY9Y&t=205)
## Rodarte (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-drTe77WU8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/420-rodarte-s-closet-picks)
- **Videodrome** (1983) - David Cronenberg - Spine #248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-drTe77WU8&t=12)
- **Sisters** (1973) - Brian De Palma - Spine #89 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/377-sisters) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070698/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-drTe77WU8&t=29)
- **In a Lonely Place** (1950) - Nicholas Ray - Spine #810 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27908-in-a-lonely-place) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042593/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-drTe77WU8&t=38)
- **Shampoo** (1975) - Hal Ashby - Spine #947 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28821-shampoo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073692/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-drTe77WU8&t=66)
- **The Double Life of Véronique** (1991) - Krzysztof Kieślowski - Spine #359 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/214-the-double-life-of-veronique) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101765/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-drTe77WU8&t=110)
- **Polyester** (1981) - John Waters - Spine #995 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28714-polyester) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082926/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-drTe77WU8&t=185)
- **Multiple Maniacs** (1970) - John Waters - Spine #863 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28954-multiple-maniacs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067454/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-drTe77WU8&t=185)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-drTe77WU8&t=239)
- **Fa yeung nin wa** (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/198-in-the-mood-for-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-drTe77WU8&t=203)
## Rodrigo Prieto (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ8h7cyDr1Q) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/516-rodrigo-prieto-s-closet-picks)
- **Kwaidan** (2022) - Claus Canddie - Spine #90 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/629-kwaidan)
> "Kwaidan. This movie I pick because I'm about to embark on a new chapter of my career. I'm going to direct the movie, an adaptation of Pedro Páramo which is this very famous Mexican novel. My daughter Maria recommended this film because it's an anthology of I think it's four or five ghost stories. It's very tactile, you see the artificiality of it and I think this movie for me is a reminder that anything goes in cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ8h7cyDr1Q&t=96)
- **Amores perros** (2000) - Alejandro González Iñárritu - Spine #1060 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30908-amores-perros) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/)
> "I'm going to start with the film that actually I shot and the reason is that we recently did this remastering of the movie, so it's a new color grading. The original video color timing was done without our supervision. Alejandro González and myself, Amores perros, we use the film print to make this version of it, so it's much closer to the way people experienced it on a cinema. So I'm excited about that and I'm taking it home to have this version."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ8h7cyDr1Q&t=10)
- **Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown** (1988) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #855 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29101-women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095675/)
> "I'll take Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. I remember being so struck by the color and the cinematography of it. Years later I got the chance to work with Almodóvar in a movie called Broken Embraces in which we actually emulated this film in one of the sequences and I used a specific film emulsion that was Ektachrome because the colors were especially saturated on that film stock. In honor of that moment I'll take Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ8h7cyDr1Q&t=41)
- **Raging Bull** (1980) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1134 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29158-raging-bull) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/)
> "Raging Bull, my favorite film. Also just stylistically it's amazing. For me it was a huge discovery of sound for example, the sound design this movie is really incredible because you feel the world around them, the tenements where Scorsese grew up. I've been working with Mr. Martin Scorsese for a while, I've been doing a few movies. It all started with The Wolf of Wall Street."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ8h7cyDr1Q&t=148)
- **Rumble Fish** (1983) - Francis Ford Coppola - Spine #869 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28993-rumble-fish) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086216/)
> "Yes, Rumble Fish. Okay, an oldie but goodie for me. And the sound, again, the sound was amazing. The main character, Motorcycle Boy, he if I remember correctly couldn't hear well so the sound is very much like it would be, the sound is somehow muffled. It's artificial but it's subjective and I found that really interesting. That connection between image and sound is essential in cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ8h7cyDr1Q&t=204)
- **After Life** (1999) - Hirokazu Kore-eda - Spine #1089 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29081-after-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165078/)
> "Yes, After Life. This film is so beautiful and the whole premise is that people die, go to this building and they're interviewed by these people who are actually working the place and they have to say a moment in their lives that they'd be willing to live to eternity. These people just saying these very simple moments that they remember as the most cherished moment of their lives is truly wonderful. Life-changing movie, I highly recommend."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ8h7cyDr1Q&t=276)
## Roger & James Deakins (other)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/566-roger-james-deakins-s-closet-picks)
- **Kameradschaft** (1931) - G.W. Pabst - Spine #908 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28184-kameradschaft) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022017/)
> "I think I ever saw was this Kameradschaft by G. W. Pabst."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=6)
- **Come and See** (1985) - Elem Klimov - Spine #1035 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28895-come-and-see) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/)
> "Come and See, one of our favorites. We had the pleasure of talking with the cinematographer for the podcast and it was amazing how they made the movie. It's an interesting film because some points the main character, this kid, is looking straight at the lens and other times it feels like a documentary filming the horrors of the Nazi regime."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=14)
- **Tokyo Olympiad** (1965) - Kon Ichikawa - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/709-tokyo-olympiad) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059817/)
> "Tokyo Olympiad, right, which was directed by Kon Ichikawa and the famous Japanese cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa. He was overseeing the photography of it. It's one of the best documentaries about sport ever made."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=45)
- **Fires on the Plain** (1959) - Kon Ichikawa - Spine #378 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/347-fires-on-the-plain) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053121/)
> "He did two of my favorite movies: Fires on the Plain and he did another film called Burmese Harp, both set in the World War II. It's so interesting that he made those two films and then he made Tokyo Olympiad which is one of the best documentaries about sport ever made."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=62)
- **The Burmese Harp** (1956) - Kon Ichikawa - Spine #379 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/817-the-burmese-harp) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049012/)
> "He did another film called Burmese Harp, both set in the World War II. It's so interesting that he made those two films and then he made Tokyo Olympiad which is one of the best documentaries about sport ever made."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=68)
- **Sid & Nancy** (1986) - Alex Cox - Spine #20 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/535-sid-nancy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091954/)
> "I've got to pick this one. Sid & Nancy. We saw it recently because we remastered it here and it's just an incredible document of the times. It felt very real because I remember shooting concerts with these punks in Hammersmith... I was on the stage doing handheld of Gary and the Sex Pistols and we were all getting covered in—well it was not very nice."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=93)
- **Le cercle rouge** (1970) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #218 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/628-le-cercle-rouge) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065531/)
> "Look at this, Le cercle Rouge. Oh yes. Now this to me is probably one of the, apart from Tarkovsky, probably my all-time great director, Jean-Pierre Melville."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=130)
- **Le silence de la mer** (1949) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #755 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27979-le-silence-de-la-mer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039822/)
> "There's an early film he did, Le silence de la mer, also shot by Henri Decaë. This one is absolutely magnificent. It all takes place in a small cottage during the war where this German soldier is billeted to stay with this old man and his granddaughter. These two refuse to talk to the Nazi until right at the end. It's one of the best war films ever made that all takes place in the front room."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=145)
- **The Seventh Seal** (1957) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #11 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/173-the-seventh-seal) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050976/)
> "Seventh Seal. I'm sorry but I love this film. Every Halloween I would watch this. That was great, so before I really even understood it. I have not seen the restoration so I really want to."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=203)
- **L’avventura** (1960) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #98 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/209-l-avventura) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053619/)
> "L'avventura. You know, there's something about this film that it's not literal. It's a story about a relationship and a man who's trying to find himself. So much is built up through the images and the pacing. It's real movies. When it really works, it's called L'avventura."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=224)
- **Mirror** (1975) - Jesús Franco - Spine #1084 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28894-mirror) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070396/)
> "There's Mirror and there should be Solaris."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=281)
- **Solaris** (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/553-solaris) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/)
> "Solaris, which is great. Solaris was made just a little bit later than Kubrick's 2001. Tarkovsky wanted to do a film that was more emotionally engaged with you. He felt Kubrick's film was rather cold and a piece of wonderful technology but had little to engage you with emotionally. Personally, I think Solaris is the best science fiction film probably ever made and the most profound."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=284)
- **In Cold Blood** (1967) - Richard Brooks - Spine #781 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28788-in-cold-blood) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061809/)
> "One of to me not only great film but probably the best black and white cinematography I've ever seen by Conrad Hall. He shoots the desert landscape like you've never seen it before but then he also shoots the murder and the darkness. If anybody wants to watch one movie for cinematography to understand what cinematography is, it would be In Cold Blood."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juhiRVORJ8o&t=335)
## Roger Corman (producer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-paCwBPzHX0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/584-roger-corman-s-closet-picks)
- **Targets** (1968) - Peter Bogdanovich - Spine #1179 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29965-targets) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063671/)
> "Here is Targets, Peter Bogdanovich's first film. Peter had been my assistant on several pictures and shot second unit on a few. He was clearly very talented and I had a very strange commitment with Boris Karloff to do a few days on another film. The result was Targets with Boris at a drive-in where one of his pictures was premiering and there was a shooter on top of the drive-in and the idea was to more or less combine fictional violence with real violence. It was a brilliant film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-paCwBPzHX0&t=6)
- **The Gunfighter** (1950) - Henry King - Spine #1053 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28568-the-gunfighter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042531/)
> "Here is The Gunfighter, which was a personal film for me. I had just become a story analyst at 20th Century Fox. I finally got a script called The Big Gun. The Big Gun was about a famous gunfighter whose reputation precedes him wherever he goes. I wrote a number of notes on it and I suggested changing the title from The Big Gun to The Gunfighter. I submitted this to the story editor who recommended it to one of the producers at Fox. He produced the film and the film was a giant success."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-paCwBPzHX0&t=57)
- **Amarcord** (1973) - Federico Fellini - Spine #4 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/208-amarcord) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071129/)
> "Here is Fellini's picture Amarcord. This is one of the foreign films we distributed. I remember that Allan Arkush and Joe Dante are trailer editors and had just finished editing the trailer for some wild exploitation film and they said, 'This is a different kind of film, how should we build the trailer?' I said, 'With the same style you use for the exploitation films.' They did it and Amarcord was the biggest opening film Fellini ever had in his career."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-paCwBPzHX0&t=134)
- **War and Peace** (1966) - Sergey Bondarchuk - Spine #983 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28891-war-and-peace) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061162/)
> "Here is the Russian film of War and Peace. This is one of the greatest film adaptations of a novel in my opinion ever made. The way Bondarchuk photographed those battle scenes going on into the distance in long shots and then cutting to individual shots as you took in the concept of the grandeur of the forthcoming battle and the beginning of the battle and then brought you in to the terror of the real battle is brilliant."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-paCwBPzHX0&t=181)
- **Raging Bull** (1980) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1134 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29158-raging-bull) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/)
> "This is Raging Bull directed by Marty Scorsese. Marty actually directed his first feature film for me, it was called Boxcar Bertha. I had previously produced and directed a film called Bloody Mama. A little later they wanted a sequel and I said I'll produce it but I'll pick a new director and I picked Marty. Boxcar Bertha became a solid success and it started Marty's career and Raging Bull is a great example of the way he was able to combine violence and explore the life of Jake LaMotta."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-paCwBPzHX0&t=222)
## Ron Shelton (writer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubj-944IcYI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/511-ron-shelton-s-closet-picks)
- **The Lady Vanishes** (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock - Spine #3 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/358-the-lady-vanishes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030341/)
> "First of all, The Lady Vanishes. I'm not an Alfred Hitchcock fan, I'm just going to tell you that. Yes, he's a genius, but his early movies I like the best, and this is one. I haven't seen it in a while and I can't wait to see it again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubj-944IcYI&t=6)
- **Stray Dog** (1971) - Sam Peckinpah - Spine #233 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/730-straw-dogs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067800/)
> "Straw Dogs. Pauline Kael called it a fascist work of art. I don't know what she was talking about, but it is a powerful one and a disturbing one, and I need to see the Criterion Blu-ray special edition because I haven't seen it in a while, because I need to be disturbed a little this week."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubj-944IcYI&t=23)
- **Badlands** (1974) - Terrence Malick - Spine #651 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28406-badlands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069762/)
> "Oh boy, this is one of all-timers: Badlands. Terrence Malick's first movie, and this is one of the great examples of the unreliable narrator, which is hard to pull off in movies. Sissy Spacek is telling a story that is different than the one we're watching. She's telling us a romance, in a way we're watching a murder of a psychopath crossing the plains of America. A stunning movie, I think it's my favorite Terrence Malick movie still."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubj-944IcYI&t=45)
- **Some Like It Hot** (1959) - Billy Wilder - Spine #950 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29162-some-like-it-hot) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/)
> "Oh yeah, got to have Billy Wilder. I met Billy Wilder once. The best review I've ever got, I was in a restaurant about 6 months after Bull Durham came out and a man came over and said somebody would like to see you. It was Billy Wilder and I went over and he said, 'Great picture, kid.' I thought that was as good a review as you could have. So Some Like It Hot, one of my favorites."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubj-944IcYI&t=89)
- **His Girl Friday** (1940) - Howard Hawks - Spine #849 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27903-his-girl-friday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/)
> "Oh, this is a good one: His Girl Friday. These movies I play for my kids who are 18 and 22 and they love them. Showing fast dialogue, kind of crazy screwball stuff. An amazingly timeless—that all these generations later they can play. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, thank you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubj-944IcYI&t=111)
- **On the Waterfront** (1954) - Elia Kazan - Spine #647 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/)
> "And the final movie for my bag: the classic Elia Kazan, Bud Schulberg script, Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront. 108 minutes. Notice how many of these movies aren't long. My little speech for today's filmmakers: short is good. I met Bud Schulberg once and he wanted to do a new On the Waterfront in the Long Beach Harbor in LA... It was an honor and of course one of the great performances ever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubj-944IcYI&t=138)
## Ronan Farrow (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rWNIjNh3sE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/853-ronan-farrow-s-closet-picks)
- **Brazil** (1985) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #51 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/211-brazil) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/)
> "Brazil is a real favorite of mine. Everything about it. The art direction is so lush. It’s obviously influenced so many things that you see, so many modern meditations on bureaucracy and Orwellian themes. The latest edition is a beautiful 4K restoration, which I just got and watched, and it’s… real chef’s kiss stuff. The extra features disc has this awesome documentary from the ’90s on the whole epic fight over this movie. The studio wanted to gut it and recut it and give it a happy ending."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rWNIjNh3sE&t=10)
- **Notorious** (1946) - Alfred Hitchcock - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/682-notorious) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038787/)
> "Notorious. Incredible cover art by the way. It’s an original piece of pencil art that’s photorealistic, and the composition is so awesome and references this moment in the film where, for me, just evoking it, seeing the art, gives me chills. I don’t think there’s a movie for me that is a more perfectly tuned Rube Goldberg machine of tension. The party scene in Notorious, in particular, where you start out with this crane shot from a balcony... And you zoom in... All the way into her hand."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rWNIjNh3sE&t=54)
- **Klute** (1971) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #987 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28708-klute) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067309/)
> "All right, up next, we’ve got some Pakula, one of my favorites: Klute. So when I was writing one of my books, Catch and Kill, which is very much a Real Life set of events that involved surveillance and paranoia, I watched and thought about the screenplay to Klute a lot. I wanted to, in the writing, actually evoke what it’s like to be followed in a way that I think this movie does completely brilliantly. Jane Fonda is not a shrinking violet. Her performances always evoke a kind of strength."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rWNIjNh3sE&t=123)
- **Barry Lyndon** (1975) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #897 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29008-barry-lyndon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072684/)
> "Barry freakin’ Lyndon. Now, I remember when I was growing up my mom talking about Barry Lyndon. We were a big Kubrick House. Barry Lyndon has rightly had a critical reevaluation in the last decades. For a modern audience that really has a modern sense of irony, this movie has aged so well. I feel like watch Succession and then watch Barry Lyndon, because they’re both pieces about, again, an oppressive system, in this case, the aristocracy and the super rich, and the rot in those systems."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rWNIjNh3sE&t=199)
- **Fanny and Alexander** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/206-fanny-and-alexander)
> "This is probably the most important, for me personally, of these films. Fanny and Alexander, the movie or TV series. This set includes both. Bergman’s favorite version was the five-ish hour TV cut, which is really rewarding and I recommend. At the outset of the story, you have this depiction of a family that’s full of foible and flaw. And then you have this stark contrast of this very ascetic imprisonment that happens for the mom and the kids. It’s horrifying. I love Fanny and Alexander."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rWNIjNh3sE&t=249)
## Rosamund Pike (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuHyOtavek) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/801-rosamund-pike-s-closet-picks)
- **Eclipse** (1962) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #278 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/928-l-eclisse) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056736/)
> "Yes, I’m going to head to Italy, to Antonioni and L’eclisse because well, actually, sentimentally, my first car was… is – still have it – is a Citroën DS which I bought when I was making Pride & Prejudice, and it was owned by Monica Vitti. There’s a postage stamp on the dashboard, which I always sentimentally believe came from an important letter that was sent to her, so… Monica Vitti’s coming with me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuHyOtavek&t=38)
- **A Taste of Honey** (1961) - Tony Richardson - Spine #829 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28734-a-taste-of-honey) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055506/)
> "A Taste of Honey. There was something very exciting that happened to British cinema, and I think all the actors of this generation have held a kind of awe for me. They obviously were able to make films before all the extra stuff that sort of clouds our vision nowadays. They were able to be creative and immersed, and not have to be so self-aware, which is something I crave. So, A Taste of Honey is coming with me back to London."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuHyOtavek&t=74)
- **Daisies** (2013) - Lauren Watson - Spine #1157 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27854-daisies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2899232/)
> "Daisies. It’s a Czech film by Věra Chytilová. I’ve just spent five years living in the Czech Republic, making a television series, The Wheel of Time. And the Czechs are fiercely witty and… they have a dark humor that’s actually very aligned with British humor. And I think what happened in the Czech New Wave was super exciting and avant-garde. And, you know, so much attention is paid to the French New Wave and much less to the Czech New Wave, so I’m putting Daisies in."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuHyOtavek&t=112)
- **Loves of a Blonde** (1965) - Miloš Forman - Spine #144 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/246-loves-of-a-blonde) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059415/)
> "Miloš Forman, Loves of a Blonde, which, of course, you know, a Czech hero. And so, in honor to my new lived second country, I’m taking a bit of the Czech Republic with me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuHyOtavek&t=151)
- **Mean Streets** (1973) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1198 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29024-mean-streets) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070379/)
> "So it’s made me want to see Mean Streets again. So Mean Streets is coming with me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuHyOtavek&t=205)
- **Scorsese Shorts** (2020) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1030 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30616-scorsese-shorts) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12431770/)
> "I’ve heard that Criterion have released some of Scorsese’s early shorts. Now, in the shorts is a short film that stars Scorsese’s Mother. She plays Tommy’s Mother in Goodfellas and in Scorsese Shorts, which is right here, we get a very early glimpse of Scorsese’s work with his mum."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuHyOtavek&t=210)
- **I Am Curious** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/338-i-am-curious)
> "I’m going to start with I Am Curious because I Am Curious. And I’m also interested in the depiction of sex and sexuality on screen. I think it’s very interesting, the debate, where it’s taking us these days. Are we entering an age of prudery? I’m interested in the way that wellness is taking over our lives, and yet sex seems to be taking a backseat. So that’s my first pick."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuHyOtavek&t=9)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "I’m going to take Agnès Varda’s magnificent collection. I can’t believe that the Criterion Collection have gathered all of her work together in this beautiful edition, complete with essays and all the films and some of the photographs, all collected. She was an unbelievable photographer. What an image-maker. And I think as a… female working in films, the depiction of womanhood in all its stages, never losing interest, pursuing female identity as it changes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiuHyOtavek&t=243)
## Rosanna Arquette (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgdw6EjmeE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/798-rosanna-arquette-s-closet-picks)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
> "Well, I have to ‘cause we just love her so much, Wanda. One of my favorites, I would say, Barbara Loden. Barbara Loden! And, for Wanda, that’s a great film I’ve always loved. She’s extraordinary."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgdw6EjmeE&t=14)
- **Working Girls** (1987) - Lizzie Borden - Spine #1087 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31084-working-girls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092238/)
> "I love Working Girls, Lizzie Borden, another great female director. This is a great film, if you haven’t seen it. She deals with sex work in a way that no one really discovered in that time. She dealt with as human beings and not in a way that was shameful. And did this years and years ago. So, Lizzie Borden."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgdw6EjmeE&t=62)
- **Crash** (1996) - David Cronenberg - Spine #1059 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29014-crash) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/)
> "I never even knew that this Cronenberg Crash was on Criterion. I’m in it, and I didn’t know that… It’s a trippy film. With Holly Hunter, James Spader, Elias Koteas. We went to Cannes and it got completely booed at the Festival, intensely. Coppola was the head of the jury, and they just were so angry– People were really, really angry about this film. But then Bertolucci was there and praised it and loved it, and it was this incredible moment. I’ll take a copy of this, thank you so much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgdw6EjmeE&t=89)
- **Summertime** (2023) - Corentin Leconte - Spine #22 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/368-summertime)
> "So this movie, Summertime. It’s a David Lean film. And, you know, I did this film years ago with Hal Ashby called 8 Million Ways to Die with Jeff Bridges. And he gave me this film. It was in a big cassette, giant cassette in those days, and it’s a fun, beautiful film to see. Kind of sad, but interesting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgdw6EjmeE&t=137)
- **Shampoo** (1975) - Hal Ashby - Spine #947 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28821-shampoo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073692/)
> "I love Hal Ashby. I was so excited to work with him because of Shampoo. This film, with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie was like heaven in it. And, of course, Goldie’s always great. She’s divine. Also about Shampoo, because Hal Ashby loved to cut with music, because he was first an editor, and he was so extraordinary cutting music. And it’s the best soundtrack too. I love it. Just the ’70s, this time in LA, you know, places that… doesn’t even look– they don’t exist anymore."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgdw6EjmeE&t=160)
- **The Red Shoes** (1948) - Michael Powell - Spine #44 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/233-the-red-shoes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040725/)
> "The Red Shoes. This film I saw when I was four, and it’s really about a woman who’s had to choose between her art and her love. And she couldn’t make that choice, so… then you just have to see the movie if you haven’t. Anyway, I love this movie so much. So definitely The Red Shoes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgdw6EjmeE&t=195)
- **Klute** (1971) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #987 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28708-klute) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067309/)
> "She’s a dear human in my life, on every level. But Jane Fonda in Klute is extraordinary. She’s one of the great human beings on the planet. And I’ve known her since I’m 20, and I love her so much and love her in this film. And there’s a great interview with Jane on this, which is in the Collection, so that’s really exciting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgdw6EjmeE&t=217)
- **Mississippi Masala** (1991) - Mira Nair - Spine #1127 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32237-mississippi-masala) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102456/)
> "Mississippi Masala. That’s fantastic. I do love this movie, so it’s great. What a great random pick."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgdw6EjmeE&t=255)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "We love her, right, Agnès Varda. I got to meet her. If you haven’t seen the documentary that JR did, that’s such a beautiful, beautiful film about her. And he got her, she got him. And they were soulmates in The Most Beautiful way. And I just love all her movies. I love Vagabond. She was just one of my faves, so… Take this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKgdw6EjmeE&t=38)
## Rose Byrne (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCaEnEAhoM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/913-rose-byrne-s-closet-picks)
- **The Piano** (1993) - Jane Campion - Spine #1110 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30424-the-piano) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/)
> "Jane Campion’s The Piano is a masterpiece. Holly Hunter’s Performance is so extraordinary. And the location of this place is visionary. I just still remember first seeing this movie. Anna Paquin dancing on the beach. The landscape, the… the cinematography is just extraordinary. So this is going into my collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCaEnEAhoM&t=15)
- **Trainspotting** (1996) - Danny Boyle - Spine #1204 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29627-trainspotting) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117951/)
> "Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting. This movie is so punk. It’s of a time, it’s of the ’90s, when I was a teenager. This explosion of Ewan McGregor and how fantastic that Performance is, how dark it is, how… the gallows humor, the Scottish humor in this. It’s amazing. These images. Fantastic. I still remember, yeah… The sequence when he defecates in the bed is so amazing. It’s so funny. And it’s a high-wire act, this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCaEnEAhoM&t=44)
- **Mulholland Dr.** (2001) - David Lynch - Spine #779 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28050-mulholland-dr) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/)
> "Okay, where do I find Mulholland Dr.? Mulholland Dr. The sound design in this film is so singular and so eerie. Obviously he was a master of sound. And this film, I guess, it speaks to me in so many ways, obviously the mystery of Hollywood, coming there as an actress, the great Naomi Watts and, like, her legacy of this story of her struggling as an actress and her waiting to break through, and then the reflection of that in this film, and this was her breakout role and how… her innocence in t..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCaEnEAhoM&t=84)
- **Paris, Texas** (1984) - Wim Wenders - Spine #501 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1502-paris-texas) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087884/)
> "Paris, Texas. One of my Sisters loved this film. I saw this film very, very young. And I have many core memories of watching this movie, particularly the extraordinary soundtrack from Ry Cooder. This is so iconic. I used to listen to that. I got, like, the CD of it and listened to it in my bedroom. It’s so romantic and evocative, and the time it takes to unfold, the space of the movie, the space of the incredible locations, Nastassja Kinski, the incredible monologue at the end..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCaEnEAhoM&t=135)
- **Secrets & Lies** (1996) - Mike Leigh - Spine #1070 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29202-secrets-lies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117589/)
> "Secrets & Lies, Mike Leigh, who transformed the kitchen-sink drama into the most operatic, intense, crushing experience, watching cinema through Performance. The performances of these actresses in this movie are ingrained into my… myself. The great Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who I recently saw in Hard Truths, who was just so extraordinary. And, of course, Brenda Blethyn. But the reveals of this movie, the… It’s operating on so many different levels, about class and race and… and place."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCaEnEAhoM&t=183)
- **An Unmarried Woman** (1978) - Paul Mazursky - Spine #1032 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29597-an-unmarried-woman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078444/)
> "This Paul Mazursky film, An Unmarried Woman, starring Jill Clayburgh, who I got to work with on Bridesmaids toward the end of her career, and it was very moving, and she had this very interesting career in the theater and in film. But this film has grown to have such a seminal space, I think. And her Performance is really outrageous for that time. And I recently revisited it and just, yeah, I was so immersed in the world of Manhattan, and it’s a really… I think it’s quite iconic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCaEnEAhoM&t=232)
## Rosine Mbakam (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnijob9FlJc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/622-rosine-mbakam-s-closet-picks)
- **Mandabi** (1968) - Ousmane Sembène - Spine #1065 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29067-mandabi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063268/)
> "Mandabi of Sembène. When I saw that film I just really see for the first time someone who was looking at me, someone who was looking at my culture. I was looking when I was child a lot of American films and French film also, but it was open me to the world but not connect me to my reality. It was the first time that I was seeing a film that really connect me to my reality."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnijob9FlJc&t=36)
- **Black Girl** (1966) - Ousmane Sembène - Spine #852 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28849-black-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060758/)
> "The Black Girl. I grew up in Cameroon and wanted to do Cinema without having any Legacy about Cinema... Black Girl really putting in my face my own colonization because I went to Belgium to study Cinema and hoping that in Belgium I would learn how to tell my story but I discovered that I already have it in me. What I really learned in Belgium was just some tools or how to think about that Cinema. What do you want to say Rosine? What do you want to say?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnijob9FlJc&t=77)
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
> "Bicycle Thieves. I don't really in my way of doing, I don't create something, I just find it in the daily life of people and organize it because I really hope that we all have a bit of Cinema in us and I just have to find it. And Bicycle Thieves really help me to just see that reality was possible, that just to capture the reality as it is as we are seeing it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnijob9FlJc&t=148)
- **Close-Up** (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #519 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/)
> "Close-Up. The mixing of fiction and documentary was so powerful that I was like Safi Faye said, there was no boundary between—as African we don't have no limit between fiction and documentary. And Close-Up, it's really in alignment with that. It also opened me to the work of Makhmalbaf and how I was connected to people that I don't even know or imagine before... It also free me to just say to myself I don't have to choose between documentary and fiction."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnijob9FlJc&t=186)
## Ruben Östlund (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z2UYLTsPwY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/608-ruben-ostlund-s-closet-picks)
- **Fat Girl** (2001) - Catherine Breillat - Spine #259 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/548-fat-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243255/)
> "I actually like this one a lot, Catherine Breillat, but I don't like this title that much, Fat Girl. I actually like À ma sœur!, that is the French title, and I think that she had an approach to sexual content that was totally new for me when I watched short films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z2UYLTsPwY&t=104)
- **Love Streams** (1984) - John Cassavetes - Spine #721 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28032-love-streams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087644/)
> "I saw over here it was Love Streams and this one I will take for my producer Erik Hemmendorff. He said, ', you have to take Love Streams.' I haven't seen it but I love a lot of John Cassavetes films and the approach of his filmmaking and of course Gena Rowlands, the way she acts is just fantastic. So this will definitely be one for the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z2UYLTsPwY&t=134)
- **Bicycle Thieves** (1948) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #374 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/210-bicycle-thieves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040522/)
> "I also saw Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio De Sica and this film was a film that Roy Andersson was talking a lot about when I was in film school. It was nice to see that you have the right title on the film here. For many years it was called Bicycle Thief and I think Bicycle Thieves is a much better title for the film. So that's the film that I definitely will take."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z2UYLTsPwY&t=162)
- **The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant** (1972) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Spine #740 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27953-the-bitter-tears-of-petra-von-kant) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068278/)
> "I can find a lot of Rainer Werner Fassbinder movies that I really like. I really like The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant. I think I will pick that one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z2UYLTsPwY&t=72)
- **Three Films by Luis Buñuel** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3900-three-films-by-luis-bunuel)
> "Viridiana of Buñuel and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie of Buñuel, which I think would be the perfect title for my new feature film Force Majeure. It should have actually had a name of The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z2UYLTsPwY&t=87)
- **Fanny and Alexander** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/206-fanny-and-alexander)
> "I can talk about Ingmar Bergman actually. I think that what he did when it comes to the Swedish film community was that everybody talks about him like the demon director, someone that is so in control and knows everything about the films that he is making. And maybe when you went to film school as a film student you were a little bit afraid of exposing that you sometimes are not 100% sure what you are doing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z2UYLTsPwY&t=197)
## Ryan Coogler (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wzBKheKEE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/834-ryan-coogler-s-closet-picks)
- **Malcolm X** (1992) - Spike Lee - Spine #1160 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33245-malcolm-x) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104797/)
> "I’ma start over here in this section, with this one. It’s the second movie I remember seeing, or the third movie I remember seeing. And my dad took me to see it. Spike Lee has made two of the best film openings that I’ve ever seen. One of them is this one. The way that so many people meet Malcolm X is through audio, through recordings of his speeches. And he juxtaposes it with footage of the assault of Rodney King... And an American flag that burns into the shape of an X."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wzBKheKEE&t=13)
- **Love Jones** (1997) - Theodore Witcher - Spine #1117 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31501-love-jones) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119572/)
> "This is Love Jones. It’s a perfect movie. I’m a hopeless romantic, as you can see from some of these movies I’m gonna grab. The performances from Larenz Tate and Nia Long in this movie are exceptional. The chemistry is off the charts. The intricacy of it. The film’s got an incredible dynamic range, like, of scenes of a lot of talking. There’s scenes with none. And shout out to the city of Chicago, man, which is gonna bring me to this other one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wzBKheKEE&t=90)
- **Thief** (1981) - Michael Mann - Spine #691 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28024-thief) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083190/)
> "It’s also set in Chicago. This is Thief by Michael Mann. If you haven’t seen this movie, holy fucking shit, this movie. A rumor about this film is this is the movie that made wetdowns a thing. A wetdown is when you got enough money to have a truck wet your streets down. And what it does is it makes the... For nighttime photography, it makes the streets reflective. And the Performance of the villain in this, and how the Performance is captured – Michael Mann just did a brilliant job."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wzBKheKEE&t=118)
- **Following** (1999) - Christopher Nolan - Spine #638 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28030-following) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154506/)
> "And this is Following by Christopher Nolan, who’s a mentor of mine. And I do think that, in observing Chris’s movies, I think that Michael Mann is a big influence. And you can feel it quite a bit when you look at this film. This is my guy. I’ve come to know him, I’ve come to know his wife. It’s obviously the most indie you’ll ever see... Mr. Nolan, he finding his way. A lot of the Christopher Nolan trademarks are here in this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wzBKheKEE&t=139)
- **Seven Samurai** (1954) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #2 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
> "Some time ago, the same thing was happening in the country of Japan. You have Akira Kurosawa and you have another gentleman named Yasujiro Ozu that were epic filmmakers, making films at the same time. Much has been said about this film. What I think he was the greatest at, in terms of things I’ve learned from watching his films, is the art of blocking. The other thing he’s great at is poetic fallacy. Choosing when to use wind and rain is just insane."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wzBKheKEE&t=252)
- **Late Spring** (1949) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #331 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/298-late-spring) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041154/)
> "Ozu. Ozu is a filmmaker who... Didn’t give a shit about a lot of rules. Most importantly, the 180-degree line. What I’m going to talk to you about with Ozu right now, in this movie, is his capacity for the most emotional endings you’ll ever see in your life. Late Spring is a great example of this. It’s a story about a father and a daughter at its heart. Watching this movie, along with making my first film, Fruitvale Station, made me realize that I wanted to be a father."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wzBKheKEE&t=293)
- **Devil in a Blue Dress** (1995) - Carl Franklin - Spine #1135 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32355-devil-in-a-blue-dress) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112857/)
> "This is Devil in a Blue Dress by a hometown hero, Carl Franklin. So, this movie’s a masterpiece. Massive influence on my latest picture, Sinners. But it’s a Great Migration movie. It’s about Los Angeles, but the characters are all from Houston. And it’s just beautiful, man. It’s a Walter Mosley adaptation. You know, my admiration for this film has only deepened. But it’s just an incredible piece of cinema, and an incredible film noir."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wzBKheKEE&t=384)
- **Love & Basketball** (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood - Spine #1097 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31500-love-basketball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199725/)
> "Love & Basketball by the great Gina Prince-Bythewood. Me and my producing partner and wife, Zinzi Coogler, we both met as athletes. We met on a track field. And yeah, this movie is about two athletes falling in love with each other, dipping in and out of each other’s lives in their pursuit of athletic greatness. I can’t look at this movie and not see us. I love the ending of this movie, the ending of this movie just puts a lump in your throat. This is the one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wzBKheKEE&t=418)
## Ryusuke Hamaguchi (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/652-ryusuke-hamaguchi-s-closet-picks)
- **Late Spring** (1949) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #331 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/298-late-spring) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041154/)
> "[Translated] Ozu's Late Spring. I don't have this Blu-ray yet, so I'll take this first."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=14)
- **Army of Shadows** (1969) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #385 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/153-army-of-shadows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064040/)
> "[Translated] Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows. Melville really teaches us that life is full of betrayal."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=32)
- **La Haine** (1995) - Mathieu Kassovitz - Spine #381 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/216-la-haine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/)
> "[Translated] I haven't seen this one, Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine. A friend who asked if I knew any good films about Paris recommended it, so I'll take it. Kassovitz's La Haine."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=46)
- **Toni** (1935) - Jean Renoir - Spine #1040 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27975-toni) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025898/)
> "[Translated] Jean Renoir's Toni. This is another one I haven't seen on disc."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=106)
- **Beau travail** (2000) - Claire Denis - Spine #1042 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29646-beau-travail) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209933/)
> "[Translated] Claire Denis's Beau travail. The way Denis Lavant dances at the end is really great. I honestly can't stop."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=114)
- **Until the End of the World** (2024) - Francesco De Augustinis - Spine #1007 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28767-until-the-end-of-the-world)
> "[Translated] Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World. I haven't seen this version that's over four hours long, so I'll take this opportunity to watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=131)
- **Heaven Can Wait** (1978) - Warren Beatty - Spine #291 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/878-heaven-can-wait) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077663/)
> "[Translated] Lubitsch's Heaven Can Wait. I haven't seen this in a long time. I want to see this 4K restored version. I remember the colors being beautiful, so I'll take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=203)
- **Judex** (1916) - Louis Feuillade - Spine #710 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28047-judex) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006886/)
> "[Translated] Georges Franju's Judex. That scene with the bird mask is unforgettable. For a while, you couldn't see Franju's films at all, so I'm grateful to be able to see them now."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=305)
- **Bigger Than Life** (1956) - Nicholas Ray - Spine #507 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1929-bigger-than-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049010/)
> "[Translated] Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life. I love the way James Mason goes crazy in this. I'll take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=325)
- **Fists in the Pocket** (1965) - Marco Bellocchio - Spine #333 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/348-fists-in-the-pocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059619/)
> "[Translated] Marco Bellocchio's Fists in the Pocket. I saw it a long time ago. I only remember a scene where a man is on top of a table. Bellocchio is still great today. I'll take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=343)
- **Cure** (1997) - Kiyoshi Kurosawa - Spine #1155 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27666-cure) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123948/)
> "[Translated] I already have it, but this is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure, which I actually participated in an interview for as a special feature. I'll take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=401)
- **My Darling Clementine** (1946) - John Ford - Spine #732 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28570-my-darling-clementine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038762/)
> "[Translated] John Ford's My Darling Clementine. Henry Fonda. I'll take this too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=414)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "[Translated] John Cassavetes: Five Films. Cassavetes is the most important filmmaker to me. To be honest, I already have it, but I'll take it as a memento."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=147)
- **A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/369-a-story-of-floating-weeds-floating-weeds-two-films-by-yasujiro-ozu)
> "[Translated] Another Ozu, Floating Weeds. This is one Ozu made for Daiei. He worked with Kazuo Miyagawa, who is famous as Kenji Mizoguchi's cinematographer. I'll take this too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=218)
- **The Essential Jacques Demy** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1055-the-essential-jacques-demy)
> "[Translated] Jacques Demy. This box set. Lola, Bay of Angels, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg... All his major works are wonderful. I'll take this Jacques Demy set."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xQfOvRfWno&t=244)
## RZA (musician)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOvz4Z6eM8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/852-rza-s-closet-picks)
- **Once Upon a Time in China: The Complete Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/5026-once-upon-a-time-in-china-the-complete-films)
> "Tsui Hark’s collection, Once Upon a Time in China. Now, this was like the revolutionary vibe of 1990s martial-arts films when Jet Li exploded on the scene... Tsui Hark went and got him and they did three of these movies. And I’m telling you, it was the elevation of martial-arts films. Wo-ping, of course, and his wire work. We don’t get The Matrix if we don’t get this. So this is a must-watch. This is a great one to add to my collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOvz4Z6eM8&t=53)
- **Mikey and Nicky** (1976) - Elaine May - Spine #957 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27895-mikey-and-nicky) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074901/)
> "Mikey and Nicky. I’m talking about Peter Falk and John Cassavetes. You know, when you think of a movie like Midnight Cowboy... You get this buddy energy that the ’70s is bringing to us, but I don’t think no film did it like Mikey and Nicky. I’d never seen this film before. Criterion released it. I suggest this to anyone who’s trying to write a buddy film. This is a master class of that technique."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOvz4Z6eM8&t=103)
- **Down by Law** (1986) - Jim Jarmusch - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/)
> "I first got turned onto them by Jim Jarmusch when I was looking for his old films and I found Down by Law. This was one of the films that led me to the Criterion Collection, because I was looking for Jim movies and this came out on it. And then I started just searching that whole section, back when we was able to go to our DVD video stores. But anyway, Down by Law goes in."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOvz4Z6eM8&t=155)
- **Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai** (1999) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #1057 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31032-ghost-dog-the-way-of-the-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/)
> "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. This film is special to me because this is the first film that I was actually hired as a composer. Without this film I’m not in the film business. So thank you, Jim Jarmusch, for giving me the chance on this film. I went on from here to do… bong. This gotta go in the bag. And this is a Blu-ray edition. The soundtrack is bananas."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOvz4Z6eM8&t=190)
- **On the Waterfront** (1954) - Elia Kazan - Spine #647 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27899-on-the-waterfront) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047296/)
> "I’m pulling this one out, once again for selfish reasons. I’ve seen this film ten times, but I’ll watch it over and over again. Marlon Brando, On the Waterfront. The cinematography, the story, the two brothers, the struggle of this movie, the extras, even the extras. This is a masterpiece of filmmaking. Every time I get kind of lost in my writing or lost in my ideas, I could pop this film on and the film energy and the film techniques open up my third eye."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOvz4Z6eM8&t=213)
- **La Haine** (1995) - Mathieu Kassovitz - Spine #381 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/216-la-haine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/)
> "La Haine, which means “the hate.” Mathieu Kassovitz film. One of the new pioneers of the French cinema. French cinema has always made their mark. But when La Haine came out, it was like a regeneration of it. So this has to go in your collection as opposed to my collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOvz4Z6eM8&t=250)
- **Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3205-bruce-lee-his-greatest-hits)
> "The first thing I got to put in my bag is the Bruce Lee collection. I have this already, but you never can have too many of these. The thing about Bruce Lee was that he was one of the first ones, I think, to integrate the cultures. When you look at John Saxon, Jim Kelly, and Bruce Lee and Bolo Yeung in Enter the Dragon, Hollywood has never seen that kind of a diverse cast come together and make a blockbuster. So Bruce Lee pioneered that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOvz4Z6eM8&t=11)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "I just talked about John Cassavetes and my eyes just kind of went out– I didn’t… See, I don’t have this. Look at that: Five Films, John Cassavetes. See, this is why the Criterion is so special... John Cassavetes goes in my bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOvz4Z6eM8&t=141)
- **Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-essential-films)
> "Melvin Van Peebles, his whole collection. Melvin Van Peebles being one of the pioneers of Black cinema, making independent films. He has one called The Three Day Pass, which he filmed in France. And actually one of the techniques he used in that cinematography has been emulated by filmmakers all over the world. Even my boy Spike Lee picked up a few tricks from this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOvz4Z6eM8&t=279)
## Sally Potter (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBhzriiG-g) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/510-sally-potter-s-closet-picks)
- **Come and See** (1985) - Elem Klimov - Spine #1035 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28895-come-and-see) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/)
> "The next one I would pick out is Come and See. Come and See directed by Elem Klimov is I think the best anti-war film ever made. What I can tell you about Come and See is that the shoot took about a year and they stopped when it was time to evaluate. I think rethink. They would stop for a few weeks and think. When I heard this I thought luxury. The possibility of actually reflecting on what you're doing while you're shooting rather than being in this kind of mad sprint."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBhzriiG-g&t=32)
- **A Matter of Life and Death** (1981) - Russ Mayberry - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28833-a-matter-of-life-and-death) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082724/)
> "Now A Matter of Life and Death, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. I was fortunate enough to get to know Michael Powell towards the end of his life. He was very helpful to me, something of a mentor. I told him A Matter of Life and Death was my favorite of his films and he said, 'But it is my favorite too.' And it is extraordinarily well written by Pressburger. It's in a way a courtroom drama about history and about the relationship and the influences of Europe on America and vice versa."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBhzriiG-g&t=114)
- **Dance, Girl, Dance** (1940) - Dorothy Arzner - Spine #1028 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29633-dance-girl-dance) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032376/)
> "Now poking out at me here is Dance, Girl, Dance by Dorothy Arzner. That's an amazing film to see and an early female director who was doing really, really, really interesting things in a kind of modest but celebratory way."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBhzriiG-g&t=98)
- **Fish Tank** (2009) - Andrea Arnold - Spine #553 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27541-fish-tank) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232776/)
> "Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold, incredibly interesting filmmaker. It's really exploring the life of a teenage girl as she struggles her way through the limitations that are imposed upon her by poverty and her life in Britain. But what she does, Andrea, so amazingly, she makes something that makes you fall in love with the people and their ability to survive despite their difficult situations. Beautifully crafted and it's beautifully shot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBhzriiG-g&t=178)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "La strada. Just have to say a lot of thing about La strada. I rediscovered early Fellini recently, and where I remember when I first saw Fellini thinking that this film was sentimental, when I saw it recently, no, it's not. It's not. So I then had to watch all of early Fellini again, of course, Eight and a Half and so on. So I'm sorry I've got back into it because it's difficult to say goodbye to such wonderful works."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBhzriiG-g&t=219)
- **The Apu Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1145-the-apu-trilogy)
> "I'm going to start with The Apu Trilogy. These are life-changing films that I've watched many times but you can't watch them too many times because they are themselves an Education in the compassionate gaze of the filmmaker."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBhzriiG-g&t=16)
## Sara Dosa (producer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thqiKKZack) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/532-sara-dosa-s-closet-picks)
- **Burden of Dreams** (1982) - Les Blank - Spine #287 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/546-burden-of-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083702/)
> "Burden of Dreams, absolutely incredible. Les Blank, Herzog. Film about madness, desire, nature, filmmaking process, all the good things. Going in here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thqiKKZack&t=48)
- **Faya dayi** (2021) - Jessica Beshir - Spine #1141 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32189-faya-dayi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13648216/)
> "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..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thqiKKZack&t=58)
- **Jules and Jim** (1962) - François Truffaut - Spine #281 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055032/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thqiKKZack&t=77)
- **Y tu mamá también** (2001) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #723 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28005-y-tu-mama-tambien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/)
> "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..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thqiKKZack&t=124)
- **Me and You and Everyone We Know** (2005) - Miranda July - Spine #1026 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29112-me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415978/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thqiKKZack&t=195)
- **La Jetée/Sans Soleil** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thqiKKZack&t=12)
- **The Complete Films of Agnès Varda** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3432-the-complete-films-of-agnes-varda)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-thqiKKZack&t=251)
## Sarita Choudhury (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnW5iZwo9Q) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/483-sarita-choudhury-s-closet-picks)
- **Tokyo Story** (1953) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #217 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/)
> "Tokyo Story, classic. I just worked with a director, Kogonada, through the film After Yang, and he loves Ozu."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnW5iZwo9Q&t=14)
- **Eclipse** (1962) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #278 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/928-l-eclisse) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056736/)
> "Yeah thank you Monica and L'eclisse is one of my favorite Antonioni."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnW5iZwo9Q&t=154)
- **My Beautiful Laundrette** (1985) - Stephen Frears - Spine #767 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28044-my-beautiful-laundrette) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091578/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnW5iZwo9Q&t=201)
- **The Big City** (1963) - Satyajit Ray - Spine #668 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28448-the-big-city) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057277/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnW5iZwo9Q&t=33)
- **The Hero** (1966) - František Filip - Spine #911 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28449-the-hero) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059289/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnW5iZwo9Q&t=50)
- **A Special Day** (1977) - Ettore Scola - Spine #778 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28659-a-special-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076085/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnW5iZwo9Q&t=157)
- **Day for Night** (null) - - Spine #769 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28698-day-for-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6257222/)
> "Two films, François Truffaut's Day for Night."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnW5iZwo9Q&t=194)
- **Working Girls** (1987) - Lizzie Borden - Spine #1087 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31084-working-girls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092238/)
> "Oh my god, Working Girls. Lizzie Borden, very important."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnW5iZwo9Q&t=10)
- **Trilogy of Life** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/916-trilogy-of-life)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjnW5iZwo9Q&t=231)
## Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn1Yh3N0zjA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/494-saul-williams-and-anisia-uzeyman-s-closet-picks)
- **Videodrome** (1983) - David Cronenberg - Spine #248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)
> "When I was a kid like Videodrome... Thought of ingesting all of these DVDs into my stomach..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn1Yh3N0zjA&t=22)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "Do the Right Thing. I have a crazy story with Do the Right Thing because I was an exchange student to Brazil when I was 16 and the day that I came home... My cousin was like yo wait to hear this... There's this song called Fight the Power and this movie called Do the Right Thing. It's the summer of 89... I went to the theater to see Do the Right Thing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn1Yh3N0zjA&t=31)
- **Mirror** (1975) - Jesús Franco - Spine #1084 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28894-mirror) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070396/)
> "The Mirror. Mr. Andre Tarkovsky. I do think that it's with the Mirror that I started to be really passionate about... What an image, what a framing, what a movement. Camera movement is also the fragmentation of the story and the layers, the time layers how it goes through times in his films in general and in this one in particular. The opening scene of this film is unbelievable, unbelievable. It's a one shot."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn1Yh3N0zjA&t=98)
- **Time** (2020) - Garrett Bradley - Spine #1109 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32170-time) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11416746/)
> "Is a more contemporary film that I'm super happy to see here, it's Time. Documentary that is just brilliantly shot, brilliantly edited. It really blew our minds... Aside from the fact that it's such a touching story and follows such wonderful subjects... The way that the film comes together is the editing. The editing is really just magical."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn1Yh3N0zjA&t=195)
- **Fa yeung nin wa** (2000) - Wong Kar-Wai - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/198-in-the-mood-for-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/)
> "This is a mutual favorite of both of ours... In the Mood for Love, but really everything that Wong Kar-wai has done. It has a beautiful relationship to music as well... He sometimes has films like a jukebox musical. One of my favorite scenes is you talk about Hendrix and Happy Together... Movement and he's dancing. Oh my God, most beautiful actress in the world."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn1Yh3N0zjA&t=236)
- **Touki Bouki** (1973) - Djibril Diop Mambéty - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28412-touki-bouki) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070820/)
> "Did we speak about... Yeah, master, master of African Cinema from Senegal. He's going into folktale cinematography to extract some very beautiful metaphor for the present and I think that's also something that is very African."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn1Yh3N0zjA&t=281)
- **Trilogy of Life** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/916-trilogy-of-life)
> "Pier Paolo Pasolini, Arabian Nights. My God. I mean the framing, the depth of field, the number of people you see and also discovering those beautiful Faces and he had also a relationship to actors that it's so true... To bring I don't know her life or something that is very pure."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn1Yh3N0zjA&t=165)
## Sean Baker (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/458-sean-baker-s-closet-picks)
- **I Married a Witch** (1942) - René Clair - Spine #676 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27771-i-married-a-witch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034881/)
> "This is an easy one just because it's actually my father's favorite film so this is going to be a Christmas gift right here."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=12)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "I wanted to grab your Mike Leigh stuff because I have Naked on your old laserdisc so I'm going to grab this one and Life Is Sweet. Both films really had a major influence on Tangerine. I know that's hard to see but the whole climactic confrontation at Donut Time comes from this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=21)
- **Life Is Sweet** (1990) - Mike Leigh - Spine #659 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27982-life-is-sweet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100024/)
> "I wanted to grab your Mike Leigh stuff because I have Naked on your old laserdisc so I'm going to grab this one and Life Is Sweet. Both films really had a major influence on Tangerine. I know that's hard to see but the whole climactic confrontation at Donut Time comes from this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=21)
- **Repo Man** (1984) - Alex Cox - Spine #654 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28051-repo-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/)
> "I've heard so many good things about this... I mean I've seen it of course but I'm talking about your special edition features and so I'm going to grab this. I love Repo Man so much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=41)
- **Kes** (1970) - Ken Loach - Spine #561 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27560-kes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064541/)
> "This and Riff-Raff are my two favorite Ken Loach films and I'm going to be making a film with kids very soon and this is like one of the best coming-of-age films ever so I definitely want to revisit this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=54)
- **Secret Sunshine** (2007) - Lee Chang-dong - Spine #576 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27750-secret-sunshine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0817225/)
> "Lee Chang-dong, I consider him a modern master and I can't—he has to make another film soon."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=64)
- **Jellyfish Eyes** (2013) - Takashi Murakami - Spine #787 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28759-jellyfish-eyes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2006181/)
> "I ordered this one so I'm waiting for it to ship from you guys. I'm looking very forward to this. I have no idea what to expect with this one but I've read it's insane."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=75)
- **Yi Yi** (2000) - Edward Yang - Spine #339 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/)
> "With Yi because I actually haven't—I saw this in the theater, I haven't seen it since it was released in 2000 and you know Edward Yang is one of my favorite directors and just the way he photographed Taipei is really gorgeous."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=84)
- **El Norte** (1983) - Gregory Nava - Spine #458 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/972-el-norte) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085482/)
> "El Norte, I saw this in high school. I had a history teacher who showed us this and it really it's stuck with me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=107)
- **Eating Raoul** (1982) - Paul Bartel - Spine #625 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27767-eating-raoul) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083869/)
> "I just got to work with Mary Woronov, she's great. Okay, I'm going to get one more because I worked with her and I'm going to go over to a place and have her sign this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=152)
- **Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/691-eclipse-series-19-chantal-akerman-in-the-seventies)
> "I can't be over until I get one of your Eclipse series so I got to do that. How can I not go with Chantal Akerman? I really hope that she knew how much her films meant to the world and to filmmakers who adore her stuff so much. She'll be missed."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=121)
- **Six Moral Tales** (6 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/417-six-moral-tales)
> "I have to get your Claire's Knee and the Rohmer series. I have to get that. I went to NYU wanting to make the next Die Hard and then this happened and this led me to French New Wave... I feel as Claire's Knee it really set me down the right path."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCv5MnpDqYc&t=170)
## Seth Meyers (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfZlhfY4JM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/833-seth-meyers-s-closet-picks)
- **Army of Shadows** (1969) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #385 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/153-army-of-shadows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064040/)
> "Army of Shadows. This is a fantastic film. This is a movie about the French Resistance. And I think oftentimes we think that it was so dashing and romantic, the Resistance. This is a very bleak film, and I think a very honest appraisal of what it was like to be in a resistance movement in that time. But it is a beautiful film, and there are great character names. Le bison. Le masque."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfZlhfY4JM&t=13)
- **The Grand Budapest Hotel** (2014) - Wes Anderson - Spine #1025 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29601-the-grand-budapest-hotel) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2278388/)
> "Here’s what I want to say about Grand Budapest Hotel. I think Ralph Fiennes should’ve been nominated for an Oscar. And he was so very funny. And also, you know, deeply sad. It was real emotion to the character he was playing, who was trying to hold onto this thing, this past that wasn’t going to be part of his present or his future. And so those are the two real oversights for the Academy, I think, as far as comedy not getting Oscar, which is Ralph Fiennes and then Ted Knight in Caddyshack."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfZlhfY4JM&t=49)
- **Miller’s Crossing** (1990) - Joel Coen - Spine #1112 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29604-miller-s-crossing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150/)
> "Miller’s Crossing. I mean, there’s not a bad Coen brothers movie for me, but this one, there’s just sort of an entirely new vocabulary this film teaches you in the first 30 minutes that you have to understand to appreciate the rest of the movie, and so it’s so much better on each rewatch. And let me tell you, not one of us is ever gonna wear a hat as well as Gabriel Byrne wears a hat in this movie. Best hat work in cinema history."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfZlhfY4JM&t=84)
- **Watership Down** (1978) - Martin Rosen - Spine #748 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28620-watership-down) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078480/)
> "Watership Down I’m only bringing up because it is truly– I think this is the scariest moviegoing experience of my life. My Mother took me to see this movie when it came out. My mom thought it was an animated rabbit movie. And, guys, it is technically that. If you’ve got a five-year-old who loves rabbits and also Dreams of just blood running through fields, run, don’t walk to Watership Down."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfZlhfY4JM&t=114)
- **Lost in America** (1985) - Albert Brooks - Spine #887 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29022-lost-in-america) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089504/)
> "Lost in America. There’s a scene where Albert Brooks loses his life saving in a casino, and Garry Marshall runs the casino. Albert Brooks is an ad exec and his pitch is that Garry Marshall should give him all his money back and then do an ad campaign about how Desert Inn is different than other casinos because they have heart. Perfect scene, Garry Marshall was complaining that Albert Brooks made him do a lot of takes."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfZlhfY4JM&t=142)
- **Withnail and I** (1987) - Bruce Robinson - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/658-withnail-and-i) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094336/)
> "Withnail and I. The greatest movie about getting drunk ever made. And when it’s over, you either never want to drink again or you want to have a ton of drinks. I think that’s a good test to let you know which way you’re breaking. Richard E. Grant, he drinks in this movie like Gabriel Byrne wears a hat in Miller’s Crossing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfZlhfY4JM&t=205)
- **The Long Good Friday** (1980) - John Mackenzie - Spine #26 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/559-the-long-good-friday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081070/)
> "Okay, Long Good Friday. I love this movie. Just top to bottom. It’s just a British mobster over the course of one long Good Friday as everything falls apart. Helen Mirren is his wife and, you know, so fucking hot. Just outstanding, and final scene in this film, greatest face acting you’ve ever seen. Just Bob Hoskins, not talking, telling you literally everything his character’s thinking."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfZlhfY4JM&t=226)
- **Grey Gardens** (1976) - Ellen Giffard - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/664-grey-gardens) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073076/)
> "So, Grey Gardens, the Maysles. Couple Maysles. Salesman. These are two fantastic films, both of which we used as inspiration for a show I created with Fred Armisen and Bill Hader called Documentary Now! I wrote both of these, I had to watch them so many times to see if there was stuff I could find as inspiration. And you just– the humanity that they managed to get, the way that they are present, but not in a way that gets people to be anything other than their true selves."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfZlhfY4JM&t=263)
- **Salesman** (1969) - David Maysles - Spine #122 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/663-salesman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064921/)
> "Salesman. These are two fantastic films, both of which we used as inspiration for a show I created with Fred Armisen and Bill Hader called Documentary Now! I wrote both of these, I had to watch them so many times to see if there was stuff I could find as inspiration. Also, a little bit of bonus, the Doc Now! Episode about Salesman, called Globesman, Globesman is available on this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pfZlhfY4JM&t=267)
## Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/800-seth-rogen-evan-goldberg-s-closet-picks)
- **Defending Your Life** (1991) - Albert Brooks - Spine #1071 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29634-defending-your-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101698/)
> "Defending Your Life. Albert Brooks, one of the greatest of all time. Me and Evan explicitly ripped off the ending for this movie when we were making our movie, This Is the End. We sure did. We did some work to change it, but it’s essentially the same ending."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=26)
- **The Daytrippers** (1997) - Greg Mottola - Spine #1001 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29464-the-daytrippers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116041/)
> "I’m going with Greg Mottola classic, The Daytrippers. Great movie. We saw it and we thought, “Hey, that guy should direct Superbad.” And then he did. And I think, sorry, Greg, it’s better than Daytrippers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=41)
- **Samurai Spy** (1965) - Masahiro Shinoda - Spine #312 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/762-samurai-spy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059303/)
> "I’ve never heard of this, but I am intrigued by the title. Samurai Spy. That is a cool name for a movie. The odds that this movie is bad are zero."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=68)
- **Breathless** (1960) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #408 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/268-breathless) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053472/)
> "Here’s something I really love, and I’m not the only one. Breathless. “Breathleth.” That’s how I pronounced– As they say in Madrid. “Breathleth.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=100)
- **The Cameraman** (1928) - Edward Sedgwick - Spine #1033 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29011-the-cameraman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018742/)
> "And there’d be no Jackie Chan without Buster Keaton. And this was a great movie, The Cameraman."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=110)
- **It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World** (1963) - Stanley Kramer - Spine #692 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28579-it-s-a-mad-mad-mad-mad-world) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057193/)
> "Oh, I feel like we’ve been asked to remake this movie a lot. We have. This has come around several times. Every three years we get a request to remake It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. I don’t know… Have you watched this movie? No, and I never will. You never will. No, and I never will. It actually has amazing physical comedy in it. I’m taking it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=117)
- **Funny Games** (1997) - Michael Haneke - Spine #975 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28836-funny-games) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119167/)
> "Have you seen this funny movie? Funny Games. Hilarious movie. This is supposed to be really funny. Ten out of ten, hilarious. I’m gonna watch it with my kids. They’re gonna laugh, or cry."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=143)
- **Naked Lunch** (1991) - David Cronenberg - Spine #220 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/634-naked-lunch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/)
> "Naked Lunch. I saw this when I was way too young. Me too. I think my brain scrubbed it. Because it’s a Canadian movie, they would play it on Canadian television a lot, and it was legitimately horrific. 1991. So we were nine years old."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=153)
- **Hedwig and the Angry Inch** (2001) - John Cameron Mitchell - Spine #982 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29018-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0248845/)
> "Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Oh, man."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=169)
- **Badlands** (1974) - Terrence Malick - Spine #651 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28406-badlands) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069762/)
> "We were real into this movie. Remember you painted— you repainted... You painted the cover. I don’t even paint. That’s the weird thing. That’s how much we were inspired by Badlands. I took up painting just to paint the cover of Badlands."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=173)
- **The Cranes Are Flying** (1957) - Mikheil Kalatozishvili - Spine #146 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/547-the-cranes-are-flying) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050634/)
> "The Cranes Are Flying. Oddly enough, this was one of our biggest visual references when we were making The Studio. We referenced it a lot. It has a lot of amazing long takes, long shots. A pretty wide lens. Think it is the same DP who did Soy Cuba. And, yeah, we reference that both verbally and visually in the show as well."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=197)
- **The Killer** (1956) - Hideo Sekigawa - Spine #8 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27751-the-killing)
> "The Killing by Stanley Kubrick. Truly amazing movie. The pace of it is amazing. It’s only 84 minutes long, which is insane. And it’s so good. And so contemporary-feeling in its rhythms."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=225)
- **The Ice Storm** (1997) - Ang Lee - Spine #426 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/336-the-ice-storm) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119349/)
> "Have you seen The Ice Storm? Oh, yeah. David Krumholtz is in that. I never saw it. I see every David Krumholtz movie eventually. It’s really good. I feel like as Canadians, we got an extra push for The Ice Storm. And they’re like, “They’re gonna love this.”..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=240)
- **Shampoo** (1975) - Hal Ashby - Spine #947 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28821-shampoo) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073692/)
> "You’ve seen Shampoo, I assume? No. You’ve never seen Shampoo? No. As a bald man, I just don’t want to... It was too painful. Hal Ashby movie. One of the best of all time. Now I’m sold. I’ll wear a wig and watch it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=278)
- **Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6970-jackie-chan-emergence-of-a-superstar)
> "Jackie Chan. Wow. Half a Loaf of Kung Fu, Spiritual Kung Fu, The Fearless Hyena, My Lucky Stars. Great movie. Jackie Chan’s the best. Funniest living human being, Jackie Chan. Hands down."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=56)
- **Police Story / Police Story 2** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1554-police-story-police-story-2)
> "Wait, there was another Jackie Chan one. Yes. Police Story., yeah. These are the best movies. Both of them are amazing. Maybe the greatest sequence of action in one film ever. The end of Police Story is one of the greatest third-act action sequences ever in a movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=77)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "Do I take The Complete Tati? PlayTime, Mon Oncle."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=138)
- **The Infernal Affairs Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6276-the-infernal-affairs-trilogy)
> "I’m only going to do this one if you haven’t seen it. I’ve not watched The Infernal Affairs Trilogy. This is good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjY2SluwCME&t=268)
## Simon Pegg (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIYr2eAlazo) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/846-simon-pegg-s-closet-picks)
- **My Life as a Dog** (1985) - Lasse Hallström - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/727-my-life-as-a-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089606/)
> "This is a beautiful, beautiful film: My Life as a Dog, Lasse Hallström. It’s all about the first stirrings of romantic love and interacting with adults that are, you know, a lot older than you. It’s just really great. And The Kid who plays Ingemar is wonderful. It’s like he doesn’t know he’s in a movie. It’s like he’s living the film. And it’s director-approved, this print, so I’m gonna show this to my kid because this film was one of my favorites. Check it out if you haven’t seen it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIYr2eAlazo&t=13)
- **Night of the Living Dead** (1968) - George A. Romero - Spine #909 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29331-night-of-the-living-dead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063350/)
> "How could I not? Night of the Living Dead. George Romero basically invented the modern zombie and I don’t think he gets enough credit for it, because a lot of people have taken his idea, myself included, and sort of run with it as if it’s like the public domain. But this was 1968, right in the middle of the civil rights movement. It was a major kind of thing that he cast Duane Jones as the lead, a Black actor. As a tribute to George, an amazing maverick filmmaker, this is where it all began."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIYr2eAlazo&t=47)
- **Quadrophenia** (1979) - Franc Roddam - Spine #624 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27775-quadrophenia) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079766/)
> "Quadrophenia. This is one of the definitive British teen movies of the 1970s. Very disillusioned young man who has an awful job in the post office, who at the Weekend becomes a mod and fights rockers. He goes down to Brighton and there’s this massive fight on the beach. And it also features an amazing Performance from Sting, who plays this sort of uber-mod. It’s just so beautifully played by Phil Daniels. It has an amazing soundtrack by The Who. It’s an important one, this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIYr2eAlazo&t=140)
- **Blue Velvet** (1986) - David Lynch - Spine #977 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29144-blue-velvet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)
> "I wanted to pick a David Lynch as a tribute to Harry Dean Stanton, who we sadly lost recently. I got to meet him at the Paramount 100th anniversary photograph. And he was so sweet and so nice and so normal, so not the guy that you thought would come up with stuff like Blue Velvet, which is an insanely disturbing movie. I showed this to my daughter the other day and she hated it. But she hated it for exactly the reasons that David Lynch wanted you to hate it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIYr2eAlazo&t=201)
## Slavoj Žižek (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/609-slavoj-zizek-s-closet-picks)
- **Trouble in Paradise** (1989) - Di Drew - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/723-trouble-in-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096312/)
> "Trouble in Paradise is for me Ernst Lubitsch's ultimate masterpiece, even much more than To Be or Not to Be and so on and so on. It's the best critique of capitalism and a wonderful reversal of the usual logic of transgression because the point is that The Hero's life as a robber and so on, crime life is normal life, and then transgression is precisely the idea to marry and so on."
- **Sweet Smell of Success** (1957) - Alexander Mackendrick - Spine #555 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/)
> "Sweet Smell of Success, well, it's a nice depiction of the corruption of American press."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=27)
- **Murmur of the Heart** (1971) - Louis Malle - Spine #328 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/775-murmur-of-the-heart) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067778/)
> "Murmur of the Heart, it's one of those nice gentle French movies where you have incest which is portrayed as a nice secret between Mother and son."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=51)
- **Great Expectations** (2012) - Mike Newell - Spine #31 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/566-great-expectations) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836808/)
> "Great Expectations, I'm simply a big fan of Dickens and all the great classical Dickens movies. I like to have them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=93)
- **City Lights** (1931) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #680 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/)
> "City Lights, what is there to say? This is one of the greatest movies of all times. The most sublime ending. You know that I have a photo even, Charlie Chaplin here at Radio City Hall in New York at the premiere, he cried. It's simply one of the absolute movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=122)
- **Y tu mamá también** (2001) - Alfonso Cuarón - Spine #723 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28005-y-tu-mama-tambien) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574/)
> "Okay, this is for obvious personal reason. I do the comment, although I must say that my favorite Cuarón is Children of Men which is otherwise a failure."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=154)
- **Picnic at Hanging Rock** (1975) - Peter Weir - Spine #29 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/565-picnic-at-hanging-rock) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073540/)
> "Picnic at Hanging Rock, I simply like early Peter Weir movies, especially those settled around some mystery like there is a certain—it's like his version of Stalker, you know? You have an area which is the zone and then you never really learn what happens in the zone."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=32)
- **Antichrist** (2009) - Lars von Trier - Spine #542 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27524-antichrist) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870984/)
> "Antichrist, I will probably not like it but I like von Trier and it's simply part of a duty."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=167)
- **Stranger Than Paradise** (1983) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #400 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/252-stranger-than-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209182/)
- **Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/870-eclipse-series-32-pearls-of-the-czech-new-wave)
> "I like this, I think this is because of The Joke. The Joke is the first novel by Milan Kundera and I think it's his only good novel, after that it all goes down."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=62)
- **Carl Theodor Dreyer** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/254-carl-theodor-dreyer)
> "Dreyer, it's more out of my love for Denmark. It's nice to know that already in the '20s, '30s Denmark was cinematic superpower and later declined, and I simply like Dreyer."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqpxT_iJ8Mc&t=139)
- **Eclipse Series 14: Rossellini's History Films—Renaissance and Enlightenment** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/582-eclipse-series-14-rossellini-s-history-films-renaissance-and-enlightenment)
## St. Vincent (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQG0BKNVqY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/642-st-vincent-s-closet-picks)
- **Female Trouble** (1974) - John Waters - Spine #929 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28704-female-trouble) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072979/)
> "I think I'm going to start with John Waters classic Female Trouble. This is the best thing in the world. John Waters forever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQG0BKNVqY&t=17)
- **The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant** (1972) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Spine #740 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27953-the-bitter-tears-of-petra-von-kant) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068278/)
> "Oh, do we have The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant? We do indeed. Oh my God. Okay, so this film, first of all, it takes place all in one set and the set is perfection. She's Petra is on the bed and she's in love with this younger woman and she's just all kinds of everything. Behind her is this like blown up mural of this flower and it's just so grandiose and it's tragic, bless her, Petra, bless her, she's just looking for love."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQG0BKNVqY&t=24)
- **Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown** (1988) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #855 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29101-women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095675/)
> "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Pedro, I love you, I love you, I love you so much. You know, when you see movies by people who like, I don't know, like love women, like love their mothers, you know, this is a gift. Like, he loves his Mother and I love that for him and for us."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQG0BKNVqY&t=85)
- **To Die For** (1997) - Roberta Torre - Spine #1213 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32358-to-die-for) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120277/)
> "To Die For, Gus Van Sant. This movie is so funny. Nicole Kidman is so fucking funny in this movie. She's psychotic. She is like icy and just about to crack. She is absolutely terrifying. I mean, even just like look at Nicole Kidman's face on the cover of this. There is some kind of through line happening here I'm realizing between John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar and Gus Van Sant and Fassbinder. It's a real like Pantheon of queer cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQG0BKNVqY&t=121)
- **Brand Upon the Brain!** (2007) - Guy Maddin - Spine #440 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/746-brand-upon-the-brain) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443455/)
> "I'm going to go I'm going to go Guy Maddin on this., this is I remember buying this film Brand Upon the Brain! At Kim's video in the East Village, circa two, who's counting?, this is like Guy Maddin is a freak. Just watching this black and white like Bizarro world that he creates., I've definitely ripped him off as well. It's wild. It's wild in that in that sort of like full dream state. What am I looking at? But you but it feels very intimate at the same time. You're like, oh, I kno..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQG0BKNVqY&t=189)
- **Dazed and Confused** (1993) - Richard Linklater - Spine #336 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/314-dazed-and-confused) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/)
> "Dazed and Confused, classic Richard Linklater film. I saw this movie so many times on a VHS in Dallas, Texas growing up. The soundtrack is so good. It's one of those movies where you feel sad when it's ending, like you feel like the party's over. You really feel like you don't want to leave the party. The final scene, the sun is rising and Lynyrd Skynyrd 'Tuesday's Gone' plays and it just breaks my heart."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQG0BKNVqY&t=251)
- **Diamonds of the Night** (1964) - Jan Němec - Spine #969 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29375-diamonds-of-the-night) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058001/)
> "I'm going to get this and it is Diamonds of the Night. I don't know this film. Okay, well fate led me here and I'm taking it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQG0BKNVqY&t=336)
- **Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7045-chantal-akerman-masterpieces-1968-1978)
> "Hey, can I take this Chantal Akerman? Can I take this? I want this, so I'm going to take it. You know why? Because I don't know her work and I should, that's why I'm taking it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQG0BKNVqY&t=240)
## Stellan Skarsgård (null)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpw582iA-n4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/918-stellan-skarsgard-s-closet-picks)
- **Seven Samurai** (1954) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #2 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
> "I can take The Seven Samurai? Because that was the first Akira Kurosawa film I saw. And I’ve shown it to all my children. I think they have to know it. If they want to see violence properly made, they see that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpw582iA-n4&t=10)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "La strada. It’s… It is Fellini at his best before he just started to float out all over the place. He’s fine, even if he floats out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpw582iA-n4&t=44)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
> "Naked, is that the…? Yeah, it’s a Mike Leigh film with my lovely actress Katrin Cartlidge, who died unfortunately very young, but she was fantastic in that film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpw582iA-n4&t=60)
- **City Lights** (1931) - Charlie Chaplin - Spine #680 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27558-city-lights) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021749/)
> "City Lights. I love melodrama, but not when it’s… I hate sentimentality. So I never cry. I mostly throw up when I get to sentimental films. But I love melodrama as a structure because if it is truthful, or I think it’s truthful, then it works fantastically for me. The end scene of this film, I cry every time and I can’t help it, you know. It’s fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpw582iA-n4&t=77)
- **Children of Paradise** (1945) - Marcel Carné - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/683-children-of-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037674/)
> "One of my favorite French films from the wartime is Les Enfants du paradis, Children of Paradise, with Jean-Louis Barrault and Marcel Herrand. There’s a scene in this film where Jean-Louis Barrault... He’s a mime... He sees Arletty and Pierre Brasseur, and he understands immediately they have an affair. And he’s still performing, and he’s got a smile on his face, but it cracks, and his white makeup cracks in that moment. It’s always about showing the crack and what happens behind the makeup."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpw582iA-n4&t=110)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "And this, what is this? It’s the fat one. Cassavetes. That’s the Birth of the modern cinema, really."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpw582iA-n4&t=28)
## Steve Coogan (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vp9ruYEYHA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/839-steve-coogan-s-closet-picks)
- **The Lady Vanishes** (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock - Spine #3 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/358-the-lady-vanishes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030341/)
> "First thing I see up there is The Lady Vanishes. Hitchcock. Which is one of my favorites of his. There’s a looming threat. Psychological thrillers I think are so much more interesting. I think a lot of modern filmmakers could take a leaf out of his book, that he’s never gratuitous. The violence is always implied. It’s left to your imagination, which I think is much more compelling and engaging than just showing, you know, extreme violence... And Hitchcock doesn’t do that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vp9ruYEYHA&t=5)
- **12 Angry Men** (1957) - Sidney Lumet - Spine #591 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27871-12-angry-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/)
> "12 Angry Men. Well, that’s Sidney Lumet, someone who’s workmanlike, who doesn’t mystify or mythologize his process. He’s written a very good book about it, on directing, and he talks about it in a way that feels like he’s talking about how to build a bridge or something, almost like he’s an engineer. It’s really refreshing. It’s very honest and direct and unambiguous and very accessible."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vp9ruYEYHA&t=40)
- **The Spy Who Came in from the Cold** (1965) - Martin Ritt - Spine #452 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/860-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059749/)
> "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. There’s a lack of color to this film... It leans into that monochromatic world that we imagined the Cold War to be in. There’s a speech in this film that Richard Burton gives, which is, I think, the best speech he gave as an actor, about what spies are. It’s the counterargument to James Bond. Based on the John le Carré book, of course, and really it’s worth watching just for that speech. And it has a bleakness to it I really like."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vp9ruYEYHA&t=70)
- **A Matter of Life and Death** (1981) - Russ Mayberry - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28833-a-matter-of-life-and-death) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082724/)
> "Matter of Life and Death. Okay, so Powell and Pressburger, they managed to embrace the surreal and the avant-garde and still make something accessible and popular. And that is such a hard thing to pull off. And they do it so well. But A Matter of Life and Death is wonderful. David Niven. Funny, witty. Deals with mortality and love in a fun way. I love them for that. This film in particular is a great one that deserves repeated viewing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vp9ruYEYHA&t=115)
- **The Servant** (1963) - Joseph Losey - Spine #1182 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31285-the-servant) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057490/)
> "The Servant. Cracking movie. All about the British class system. Full of tension and microscopic attention to detail. It’s about power play. The shift of power in a relationship. Really stands the test of time. Very interesting that Joseph Losey, this American... It takes an American, an outsider, if you like, to sort of see the British class system objectively, because he’s not part of it. So he can see it as an outsider, as a witness. Yeah, I love this film. It’s fantastic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vp9ruYEYHA&t=146)
- **Klute** (1971) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #987 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28708-klute) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067309/)
> "Klute, Alan J. Pakula. This is very morally ambiguous. Jane Fonda gives, I think, the Performance of her career. And it’s disturbing and unsettling, and the way it’s framed, it makes you a voyeur. Sometimes the screen will be... There’ll be a big wide screen and half of the screen will be black and the other half will be black and it’s just a narrow gap in a doorway that you’re looking through. Plays the whole scene like that. It takes real confidence... It actually serves the narrative."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vp9ruYEYHA&t=179)
- **His Girl Friday** (1940) - Howard Hawks - Spine #849 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27903-his-girl-friday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/)
> "His Girl Friday. Often these films, it’s best to always see them on a big screen because they don’t go in for close-ups. They just rehearse it, almost like it’s a play. And they stay on the wide. And they just have these characters who... Your eye goes to them, the way it would in the theater. Someone gives a Performance, you just check them out and then you look over here. You sort of do the edit yourself. But they’re so well rehearsed that all the cues are really fast... This is Hollywood a..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vp9ruYEYHA&t=223)
## Susanna Hoffs (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUu3VsxUMsw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/559-susanna-hoffs-s-closet-picks)
- **Beyond the Valley of the Dolls** (1970) - Russ Meyer - Spine #836 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28120-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466/)
> "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, anyone who's ever played music in a rock band has to see this movie. This movie had a huge impact on the Bangles and our whole, the whole kind of zeitgeist of the band. And I, I was the one who had seen it first and insisted everyone in the band and every one of our friends go see it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUu3VsxUMsw&t=8)
- **Seconds** (1966) - John Frankenheimer - Spine #667 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28428-seconds) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/)
> "Seconds. Just first of all, John Frankenheimer. Also this design, very Saul Bass looking. I don't know if it was Saul Bass, I'm gonna say it probably was. This movie intrigued my brothers and me so much and scared us. And also there's a scene at a Malibu party that's exceptional. Jay, my husband, who's a filmmaker, had never ever seen it ever so I had the great pleasure of watching it on Criterion with him for the very first time and his mind was blown."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUu3VsxUMsw&t=26)
- **Klute** (1971) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #987 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28708-klute) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067309/)
> "Oh, Klute! Okay, this is one of my favorite movies of all time. The score is incredible in this movie. There are moments where it's so chilling that the hairs on your arm prickle up and you feel so much the point of view of Jane Fonda's character in this. There's the scene at the end where she's in peril and I can't watch that without my heart racing and my blood pressure going up. It is one of the most chilling scenes in all of cinema if you ask me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUu3VsxUMsw&t=63)
- **La piscine** (1969) - Jacques Deray - Spine #1088 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30223-la-piscine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064816/)
> "This movie, down to the score and down to the trailer for it, it's a feast for the eyes and it also has sort of a little bit of a noir storyline to it. It's got a lot of intrigue and you never know what to expect but there's just the camera work is so stunning. It's just like looking at a beautiful painting that you never want to tear your eyes from. But also again, all these elements all at play at the same time in La piscine."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUu3VsxUMsw&t=125)
- **Love Streams** (1984) - John Cassavetes - Spine #721 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28032-love-streams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087644/)
> "I'm picking Love Streams. My best friend from starting from preschool through elementary school was Liz Gazzara, Ben Gazzara's daughter. So Liz and I would mix martinis for John Cassavetes and Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara. I've always felt a connection to John Cassavetes' movies. The feeling that you've dropped in the room and you're right there. They're so not only visually beautiful but unique storytelling and the voices of the characters."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUu3VsxUMsw&t=160)
- **Midnight Cowboy** (1969) - John Schlesinger - Spine #925 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29369-midnight-cowboy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/)
> "Midnight Cowboy was a life-changing film for me from the camera work through to the character design. I mean you feel so much for these two human beings, you love them and you worry for them and your heart breaks for them. And I don't want to give too much away but that scene when Dustin is finally, finally getting out of New York City, he has the feeling of the warmth of the sun I think coming through the window of that bus as he drifts off into wherever we drift off to."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUu3VsxUMsw&t=225)
## Tavi Gevinson (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/448-tavi-gevinson-s-closet-picks)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "It just feels like I should own 8½. I love it. Earlier this year—no, last year—I interviewed Jeremy Jasper who wrote and directed Patti Cake$ and he said that for like months on end he just watched 8½ every night and that was like his film school. So I would be remiss not to take this right now."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=12)
- **Election** (1999) - Alexander Payne - Spine #904 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29335-election) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126886/)
> "Election is one of my favorite movies. Tracy Flick is one of my favorite characters ever and I love Matthew Broderick in that movie and Chris Klein. Oh, it's like it all comes flooding back, so I obviously need to take this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=40)
- **Dressed to Kill** (1980) - Brian De Palma - Spine #770 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28686-dressed-to-kill) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080661/)
> "Dressed to Kill. Never seen, seems fun. Brian De Palma, great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=55)
- **Fox and His Friends** (1975) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Spine #851 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27957-fox-and-his-friends) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072976/)
> "Fox and His Friends. Have also never seen, so that's mine now."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=61)
- **Metropolitan** (1990) - Whit Stillman - Spine #326 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/774-metropolitan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100142/)
> "I love Metropolitan. I have the Criterion edition of Last Days of Disco, so actually for that matter I could just take the Whit Stillman trilogy."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=76)
- **Barcelona** (1994) - Whit Stillman - Spine #807 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28691-barcelona) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109219/)
> "Except it has—oh yeah, I've never seen Barcelona. Alright, I'll take that too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=89)
- **Valerie and Her Week of Wonders** (1970) - Jaromil Jireš - Spine #761 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27860-valerie-and-her-week-of-wonders) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066516/)
> "I love Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. Such a good weird movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=101)
- **Broadcast News** (1987) - James L. Brooks - Spine #552 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27535-broadcast-news) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092699/)
> "Broadcast News. I did own and I lost it, which makes me think I lent it to someone and never got it back, so I'm gonna take it again. I wrote my college application essay about Holly Hunter in this movie because it was like, 'Who's a woman living or dead, fictional or real, who you would like to have lunch with?' And I just loved her character in this movie so much."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=125)
- **Moonrise Kingdom** (2012) - Wes Anderson - Spine #776 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28757-moonrise-kingdom) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1748122/)
> "That's such a beautiful cover. I really hope I don't die before I can watch all of these. It's on my mind constantly."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=157)
- **Martha Graham: Dance on Film** (1959) - Peter Glushanok - Spine #406 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/835-martha-graham-dance-on-film)
> "Martha Graham. A lot to learn from her, so sounds great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=112)
- **Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/691-eclipse-series-19-chantal-akerman-in-the-seventies)
> "I would love to have Chantal Akerman. Oh, that's amazing. This is so many in one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSwRskOwdU&t=108)
## Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX9zqU9YI8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/912-ted-danson-mary-steenburgen-s-closet-picks)
- **Rushmore** (1998) - Wes Anderson - Spine #65 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/333-rushmore) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128445/)
> "My friend Jason Schwartzman. Rushmore. Rushmore. So good. Yeah, so good. He and I got to work together for three years, and this was how I fell in love with him. It’s my favorite kind of comedy. It’s such a good movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX9zqU9YI8&t=12)
- **Klute** (1971) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #987 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28708-klute) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067309/)
> "Here’s Klute. This also is a friend, Ms. Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. Donald Sutherland gave me my Oscar. She was moving, heartbreaking, brilliant in this movie. Scary movie. Yeah. That’s really quite extraordinary."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX9zqU9YI8&t=29)
- **Funny Girl** (1968) - William Wyler - Spine #1240 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30246-funny-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062994/)
> "Funny Girl. Once again, we know the players. I got to work with Omar Sharif in England. He was deeply, deeply charming. And I asked him, “Of all your leading ladies, who were you the most in love with?” And it was Ms. Barbra Streisand. She famously has a sort of mall underneath her guesthouse. And there’s this beautiful room with this glass window, and in the window is the dress, the famous black-and-white dress from Funny Girl."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX9zqU9YI8&t=59)
- **Being There** (1979) - Hal Ashby - Spine #864 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29009-being-there) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/)
> "Being There, pull that down. I love that movie. Why pick this one, to demonstrate how tall I am? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Chauncey Gardiner, one of the great characters in movies. And I knew Hal Ashby, too. I used to go to his place in Malibu and watch him edit on a big flatbed. That’s a really, really great movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX9zqU9YI8&t=144)
- **Inland Empire** (2006) - David Lynch - Spine #1175 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30077-inland-empire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460829/)
> "How about David Lynch, who made Inland Empire, because I do have a story about that. We’re very close with our friend Laura Dern. She calls me and says, “Can you come do a part in this David Lynch movie?” I just said, “Sure.” David had the camera and he goes, “You can’t look like that. You got to look worse.” He gets down on the ground, picks up dirt, and starts rubbing it all over my face. I was the Visitor. And that was how I ended up in Inland Empire."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX9zqU9YI8&t=169)
- **Brief Encounter** (1945) - David Lean - Spine #76 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/345-brief-encounter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037558/)
> "Brief Encounter is so beautiful. That’s one of the movies that— Didn’t Jack Nicholson recommend that you watch it? Yes. He was my mentor and he gave me a movie list, and that was one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX9zqU9YI8&t=252)
- **Hobson’s Choice** (1954) - David Lean - Spine #461 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1078-hobson-s-choice) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047094/)
> "Hobson’s Choice. This is an early David Lean film. It’s really charming and wonderful. I loved it. Brenda De Banzie is in this, who isn’t very well known, but absolutely brilliant in it. It’s really lovely. And Charles Laughton. It’s great."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX9zqU9YI8&t=269)
- **My Darling Clementine** (1946) - John Ford - Spine #732 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28570-my-darling-clementine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038762/)
> "John Ford, which one did you offer? Darling Clementine. Well, we have a granddaughter named Clementine. But I love John Ford. And Henry Fonda, who’s also an astounding actor in westerns, but John Ford made a lot of his films in that Four Corners area... And that’s where I grew up, so anything that John Ford shoots, I love to watch."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpX9zqU9YI8&t=287)
## Terry Gilliam (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=926c1196Pnk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/442-terry-gilliam-s-closet-picks)
- **Rififi** (1955) - Jules Dassin - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/654-rififi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048021/)
> "Look at this, there's two Rififis. There's one I bet is a Blu-ray and one is a..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=926c1196Pnk&t=31)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "Look at that, and it goes 8½. I have a lot of these already so I can't touch them. 8½ is, you know, this is the film that is the first film that really convinced me that's what a film director, what his life and job is about. People like Truffaut made Day for Night, which is a wonderful film, but it's a lightweight version of what a director's life is. Having now made films, I realized the honesty and the truth of 8½ more and more."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=926c1196Pnk&t=35)
- **Paths of Glory** (1957) - Stanley Kubrick - Spine #538 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27522-paths-of-glory) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050825/)
> "And here is the film that completely changed my view of what films are about. It was a Saturday matinee in the San Fernando Valley. I was about 13 years old and this film came on and it completely changed my life because I fully realized films are about justice, injustice, the rights, the wrongs of the world. The tracking shots are all my homage to Stanley and those wonderful shots going through the trenches. First time I'd seen a film that I was aware of the camera."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=926c1196Pnk&t=151)
- **Yojimbo / Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/590-yojimbo-sanjuro-two-samurai-films-by-akira-kurosawa)
> "Look next to Brazil. Yojimbo, yes!"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=926c1196Pnk&t=11)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
> "Here's a Tati complete, mine. This is my Revenge on all the great talents because I can do what I want with their work and they're not in the closet with me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=926c1196Pnk&t=17)
- **Ingmar Bergman's Cinema** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1427-ingmar-bergman-s-cinema)
> "When I saw this Bergman stuff here, which I'm going to take. Oh, this may break my back, but I'm going to put it in here. When I made Brothers Grimm, there was Bergman, one of my great heroes. Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, they all were wondrous films. Everybody assumes Ingmar Bergman is a very serious, solemn man and Peter Stormare said, 'No, Ingmar, we laughed the whole time.' And that I thought, oh, maybe I can do this kind of work. You can have fun and direct."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=926c1196Pnk&t=77)
## The Quay Brothers’ (null)
Episode: Unknown | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/597-the-quay-brothers-closet-picks)
- **Vampyr** (1932) - Carl Theodor Dreyer - Spine #437 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/661-vampyr) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023649/)
- **The Children Are Watching Us** (1943) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #323 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/772-the-children-are-watching-us) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034493/)
- **The Human Condition** (1959) - Masaki Kobayashi - Spine #480 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2106-the-human-condition) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053114/)
- **Le Havre** (2011) - Aki Kaurismäki - Spine #619 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28352-le-havre) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1508675/)
- **Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/275-eclipse-series-2-the-documentaries-of-louis-malle)
- **Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/564-eclipse-series-12-aki-kaurismaki-s-proletariat-trilogy)
## The Wolfpack (null)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/607-the-wolfpack-s-closet-picks)
- **Following** (1999) - Christopher Nolan - Spine #638 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28030-following) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154506/)
> "Let's talk about Following. Okay, he made this film over a $7,000 budget. He shot it on weekends. It took him I think about 3 years in the making because they would just shoot it on the weekends whenever anyone had time to shoot. It was no plan... He just had a script laid out, a schedule all planned out... Emma Thomas produced it with him. He edited it, shot it, directed it, and wrote it at the same time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s&t=45)
- **Rushmore** (1998) - Wes Anderson - Spine #65 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/333-rushmore) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128445/)
> "Eureka! Okay, well, Rushmore. Where's Rushmore? Okay, I'm getting everything on Blu-ray."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s&t=91)
- **M** (1931) - Alexander Korda - Spine #30 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/558-m) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022184/)
> "M. We don't have M, do we? We don't. Let's get this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s&t=98)
- **Hamlet** (1996) - Kenneth Branagh - Spine #82 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/621-hamlet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116477/)
> "The only Hamlet there is, the great Laurence Olivier. That sounds good, we'll have that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s&t=101)
- **Close-Up** (1990) - Abbas Kiarostami - Spine #519 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1092-close-up) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/)
> "Close-Up. We don't have. Do you have Close-Up with you at all? No. We're saying Close-Up. Yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s&t=109)
- **Rosemary’s Baby** (1968) - Roman Polanski - Spine #630 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27927-rosemary-s-baby) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063522/)
> "Ooh, Rosemary's Baby, with everything."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s&t=116)
- **The Killer** (1956) - Hideo Sekigawa - Spine #8 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27751-the-killing)
> "The Killing, and they include Killer's Kiss."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s&t=119)
- **Burden of Dreams** (1982) - Les Blank - Spine #287 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/546-burden-of-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083702/)
- **Eraserhead** (1977) - David Lynch - Spine #725 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28382-eraserhead) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/)
- **Days of Heaven** (1978) - Terrence Malick - Spine #409 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/213-days-of-heaven) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077405/)
- **Tokyo Story** (1953) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #217 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/)
- **Repo Man** (1984) - Alex Cox - Spine #654 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28051-repo-man) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/)
- **Stagecoach** (1986) - Ted Post - Spine #516 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/980-stagecoach) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092003/)
- **Repulsion** (1965) - Roman Polanski - Spine #483 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/404-repulsion) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059646/)
- **Videodrome** (1983) - David Cronenberg - Spine #248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)
- **Trafic** (2000) - Aurora Martínez - Spine #439 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/381-traffic)
- **The Battle of Algiers** (1966) - Gillo Pontecorvo - Spine #249 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/248-the-battle-of-algiers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/)
- **Gimme Shelter** (1970) - Albert Maysles - Spine #99 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/637-gimme-shelter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065780/)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "Oh, remember when we first saw this? Oh, wasn't that, is that our first Criterion film? It's, yeah, it's the first Criterion film. I think that was our first Criterion film. No, first, no, first Criterion film we bought."
- **Solaris** (1972) - Andrei Tarkovsky - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/553-solaris) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/)
- **La Règle du jeu** (1939) - Jean Renoir - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/295-the-rules-of-the-game) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/)
> "Where's Rules of The Game?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s&t=114)
- **The Human Condition** (1959) - Masaki Kobayashi - Spine #480 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/2106-the-human-condition) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053114/)
> "The Human Condition, all three. All three movies."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edCT-dyYA0s&t=124)
- **La Jetée/Sans Soleil** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil)
## Theodore Witcher (writer)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XEKJ9mI9A) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/480-theodore-witcher-s-closet-picks)
- **Jules and Jim** (1962) - François Truffaut - Spine #281 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/218-jules-and-jim) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055032/)
> "Right now I'm holding Jules and Jim, which I'm taking. The first time I saw it, when she's walking with the other two guys and they're involved in a conversation amongst themselves totally ignoring her, and because she doesn't like that, she just out of Nowhere jumps into the Seine. I was like, 'Oh, now I'm interested.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XEKJ9mI9A&t=7)
- **La Règle du jeu** (1939) - Jean Renoir - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/295-the-rules-of-the-game) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/)
> "Oh well let's just, you know, in the interest of being like fully completing, let's take Rules of The Game, shall we? Right, it's one of those things, it's a film school thing, you know what I mean?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XEKJ9mI9A&t=58)
- **Notorious** (1946) - Alfred Hitchcock - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/682-notorious) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038787/)
> "Notorious, Hitchcock's Notorious. I think it's a masterpiece. Grant falls in love with Ingrid Bergman in like a shot. They're in Rio and there's like a scene on a hill and that's the movie going, 'Okay, they're in love now, can we move on with the story?' I'll give you one scene where they fall in love and then we're moving on with the story and the audience just accepts it. Whereas now you could never do that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XEKJ9mI9A&t=86)
- **Blind Chance** (1981) - Krzysztof Kieślowski - Spine #772 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28555-blind-chance) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084549/)
> "Blind Chance, I think I have, but I'm taking it because it's Kieślowski's last one. And as long as you have the Dekalog and Red and perhaps Double Life of Veronique, as long as you have that, you're good."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XEKJ9mI9A&t=39)
- **Deep Cover** (1992) - Bill Duke - Spine #1086 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31499-deep-cover) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104073/)
> "Deep Cover, now this was a movie that was very influential to me. I love Fishburne in this movie, I love his Performance. He's so commanding and spare and charismatic as this guy. It's a real movie star Performance and there's some elements in here that I actually stole from for Love Jones. The sort of toast poetry, kind of like Iceberg Slim kind of toast poetry in the voiceover of this movie, I nicked a little bit of that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XEKJ9mI9A&t=166)
- **Late Spring** (1949) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #331 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/298-late-spring) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041154/)
> "And then it would be nice to come back to the Ozu, now that I'm way older than I was in film school, and see how I feel about it. That'd be cool."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XEKJ9mI9A&t=74)
- **A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/89-a-film-trilogy-by-ingmar-bergman)
> "Some of this stuff is what is fresh to me, like these Bergmans are fresh to me, so that's exciting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XEKJ9mI9A&t=70)
## Tim Blake Nelson (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPpueqWsjf4) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/659-tim-blake-nelson-s-closet-picks)
- **Blast of Silence** (1961) - Allen Baron - Spine #428 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/538-blast-of-silence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054687/)
> "Allen Baron's Blast of Silence and what I love about the Criterion Channel is that you can discover movies on it and I love Noir. I'd never heard of this movie. It is one of the best hardboiled unsentimental detective movies shot with mostly an objective camera... But what the best aspect of it is the voiceover. It's some of the best voiceover I've ever encountered in a film. This one is not to be missed."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPpueqWsjf4&t=25)
- **Topsy-Turvy** (1969) - Masaharu Segawa - Spine #558 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27550-topsy-turvy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204358/)
> "And then a movie that could not be more different, Topsy-Turvy by one of my favorite filmmakers, Mike Leigh. This movie is exquisitely acted, which is true about all Mike Leigh's films because he develops his movies with actors. It's a long, long meticulous involved research oriented process. This is a rare period movie made by Mike Leigh... But what's amazing in addition to the acting and the writing in this movie is the production design. It is as good as it gets in any movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPpueqWsjf4&t=67)
- **The Killing of a Chinese Bookie** (1976) - John Cassavetes - Spine #254 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/958-the-killing-of-a-chinese-bookie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074749/)
> "I'm just going to be completely cliché here and I'm going to pick a Cassavetes. Here is my favorite Cassavetes film, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. You have everything that one comes to love in a Cassavetes movie. Incredible extras casting but then also incredible casting in the actors around Ben Gazzara. Seymour Cassel of course is in it... And an exquisite, exquisite portrait of a small-time loser who gets in way over his head."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPpueqWsjf4&t=140)
- **Inside Llewyn Davis** (2013) - Joel Coen - Spine #794 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28721-inside-llewyn-davis) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2042568/)
> "I'm going to do not one but two Coen Brothers movies. The first one I want to talk about is Inside Llewyn Davis and it tells the story of a guy named Llewyn Davis, a fictional character inspired by Dave Van Ronk, who just misses the boat. He's a down on his luck talented singer-songwriter who makes bad choices personally and is always like many Coen Brothers characters just a step behind the inimical forces in life and he's trying to catch up and impose some measure of control."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPpueqWsjf4&t=206)
- **Miller’s Crossing** (1990) - Joel Coen - Spine #1112 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29604-miller-s-crossing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100150/)
> "So another Coen Brothers film that's here, absolutely one of my favorites is Miller's Crossing. This is a movie, I'm just going to tell you, you need to watch it not twice, but you need to watch it three times at the very least, because the story is so intentionally, almost willfully, convoluted. And Gabriel Byrne is incredible. Marcia Gay Harden is phenomenal playing the character of Verna. Albert Finney, extraordinary Performance. But it's Turturro, John Turturro plays a character named Ber..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPpueqWsjf4&t=313)
- **Tokyo Story** (1953) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #217 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/)
> "I've been presented with the option of just picking something randomly off the shelf, probably I'm not going to know what the movie is and here we go. Okay well already I want to see this, it's Ozu's Tokyo Story but look at this cover. There you go. Bye for now."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPpueqWsjf4&t=422)
## Tim Robbins (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylv_adLFI9M) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/466-tim-robbins-s-closet-picks)
- **Antonio Gaudi** (1984) - Hiroshi Teshigahara - Spine #425 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/536-antonio-gaudi) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086907/)
> "Great artist I heard this film is amazing and this has just been recommended to me never seen this I'm very curious about this..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylv_adLFI9M&t=11)
- **Nashville** (1975) - Robert Altman - Spine #683 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28427-nashville) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073440/)
> "The first film that I saw in my life that changed my perception of film and basically made me believe that I could someday make a film was Altman's Nashville I saw it in the theaters when I was a teenager and there was something so epic in the scope of it something so a spirit of also mischievousness which I would later learn is one of the best things about working with Robert Altman..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylv_adLFI9M&t=23)
- **Sweet Smell of Success** (1957) - Alexander Mackendrick - Spine #555 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27542-sweet-smell-of-success) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051036/)
> "Oh there it is this is a great film Sweet Smell of Success..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylv_adLFI9M&t=71)
- **Shock Corridor** (1963) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #19 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/534-shock-corridor) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057495/)
> "This is an amazing film there's a reporter that goes undercover in a mental institution and try to solve a murder and there's a scene in it that is shocking even now where a African-American inmate stands up on top of a box and starts giving a speech... And I asked Sam about it he says yeah that's not I didn't write that he said that comes from Congressional Record that's direct speech by a congressman... He did that kind of subversive writing and film making..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylv_adLFI9M&t=77)
- **My Dinner with André** (1981) - Louis Malle - Spine #479 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1093-my-dinner-with-andre) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/)
> "Another movie that changes your life there's that great part in that where he talks about living in New York and how he's questioning whether New York is just one big jail and we don't think that we can get out of it we've convinced ourselves as New Yorkers that we can never leave it I haven't seen that for 30 years..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylv_adLFI9M&t=146)
- **Z** (1969) - Costa-Gavras - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/1400-z) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065234/)
- **Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/752-eclipse-series-24-the-actuality-dramas-of-allan-king)
- **La Jetée/Sans Soleil** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/77-la-jetee-sans-soleil)
## Todd Haynes (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/591-todd-haynes-s-closet-picks)
- **Brief Encounter** (1945) - David Lean - Spine #76 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/345-brief-encounter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037558/)
> "Here's Brief Encounter, a movie that is just one of the most perfect of British mid-century film history that inspired and formed the sort of structure around my film Carol and the Performance, Celia Johnson's Performance, and the cinematography and Noel Coward's writing and anyway it's an amazing movie and I don't know if I have it on Blu-ray so I'll just stick it in my bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=18)
- **My Own Private Idaho** (1991) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #277 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/249-my-own-private-idaho) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102494/)
> "Gus's My Own Private Idaho. This is a beautiful edition that I treasure in my collection."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=47)
- **All That Heaven Allows** (1955) - Tai Paulo - Spine #95 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/635-all-that-heaven-allows)
> "Where's all the Sirks and Ed Lachman my DP I think timed them for a Criterion so Written on the Wind, All That Heaven Allows... They're just, and Fassbinder would agree with me, two of the most perfect films ever made and they have to be seen by you guys, anybody, everybody."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=55)
- **Written on the Wind** (1956) - Douglas Sirk - Spine #96 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/636-written-on-the-wind) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049966/)
> "Where's all the Sirks and Ed Lachman my DP I think timed them for a Criterion so Written on the Wind, All That Heaven Allows... They're just, and Fassbinder would agree with me, two of the most perfect films ever made and they have to be seen by you guys, anybody, everybody."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=55)
- **Masculin, féminin** (1966) - Jean-Luc Godard - Spine #308 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/508-masculin-feminin) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060675/)
> "Masculin féminin is an extraordinary Godard that I also quote in my film I'm Not There. It evokes the '60s and in some ways it's so exquisitely made and it also is problematic in the depiction of women I think in the film and it's something that I tried to actually bring into one of Dylan characters, the Robbie story played by Heath Ledger, and this film kind of embodies all of the contradictions of that time in a way that of course Godard can expose in himself."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=118)
- **Sunday Bloody Sunday** (1971) - John Schlesinger - Spine #629 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28025-sunday-bloody-sunday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067805/)
> "Oh Sunday Bloody Sunday, I return to it. It's maybe a lesser known film, it's a John Schlesinger film with Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch and it's just, and I looked at it a lot for my last film May December, and it's just an exquisite, mature and complicated film and beautifully constructed. Notice how I just slipped it in my bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=161)
- **The Night of the Hunter** (1955) - Charles Laughton - Spine #541 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27525-the-night-of-the-hunter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/)
> "Night of the Hunter is just one of the most, maybe the most important films that anybody should see, made outside of the Hollywood system with no money and with the tone and with a nuance. It's Charles Laughton's only film as a director. It's just, it's been quoted and quoted but it is an astonishment to watch every time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=186)
- **The Long Day Closes** (1992) - Terence Davies - Spine #694 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27984-the-long-day-closes) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104753/)
> "Long Day Closes, Terence Davies just passed away, he was such an artist, so completely unique. Speechless. Every movie I start to make I rewatch but The Long Day Closes and I'm ready for the next one. I could probably watch it every day of my life and be happy. All right, I'm going to take it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=218)
- **Beau travail** (2000) - Claire Denis - Spine #1042 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29646-beau-travail) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209933/)
- **All About Eve** (1950) - Joseph L. Mankiewicz - Spine #1003 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29596-all-about-eve) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/)
- **Now, Voyager** (1942) - Irving Rapper - Spine #1004 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29026-now-voyager) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035140/)
> "And this film is by Irving Rapper who's not, you know, a celebrated director as we're discussing, but something happened with Bette Davis at the prime of her career with this film Now, Voyager. It is a perfect film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=252)
- **Old Joy** (2006) - Kelly Reichardt - Spine #1008 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29062-old-joy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468526/)
> "Oh my God, my friend Kelly Reichardt made Old Joy. What a beautiful, beautiful version."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=270)
- **The Servant** (1963) - Joseph Losey - Spine #1182 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31285-the-servant) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057490/)
> "Joseph Losey's The Servant. It's probably the most well-known of Joseph Losey's films but it's an amazing and strange and hypnotic similar kind of lure of homoerotic subtext that you might project onto a movie like Persona but with the Joseph Losey signature."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=278)
- **Beyond the Valley of the Dolls** (1970) - Russ Meyer - Spine #836 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28120-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466/)
> "Now there's a dispute among the queer world between Valley of the Dolls and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and I'm in the Beyond the Valley of the Dolls camp so to speak. It's Russ Meyer, the soundtrack is incredible, it's twisted and funny and dark and surprising."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=297)
- **In a Lonely Place** (1950) - Nicholas Ray - Spine #810 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27908-in-a-lonely-place) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042593/)
> "I'll just end with one of the most perfect films made by Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place. If anyone hasn't seen it, you're lucky because you get to experience it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=326)
- **The BRD Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/138-the-brd-trilogy)
> "Now The BRD Trilogy is somewhere and this is one of the most coveted box sets. It's so beautifully designed. It includes three of the later Fassbinder female driven stories: Marriage of Maria Braun with Hanna Schygulla, Veronika Voss, and Lola. It is just an exquisite and perfect object collection of three masterpieces and the perfect gift."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-xwsIW_otg&t=75)
## Tom Rothman (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9za40HYRkcE) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/908-tom-rothman-s-closet-picks)
- **Down by Law** (1986) - Jim Jarmusch - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/)
> "The movie I’m going to start with is the movie that started me. This is Down by Law, and I’m starting with this movie not only because somewhere my name appears here as a coproducer, but because the incomparable Jim Jarmusch made this film and Jim Jarmusch was the man who first believed in me, when we were both young and making our way in New York. And I wouldn’t be in this Closet, and I wouldn’t have had the career that I had, except for Jim."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9za40HYRkcE&t=7)
- **To Be or Not to Be** (1942) - Ernst Lubitsch - Spine #670 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27690-to-be-or-not-to-be) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035446/)
> "From Down by Law To Be or Not to Be, the Ernst Lubitsch version. My favorite comedy is To Be or Not to Be, and that’s even though I’m the man who greenlit Something About Mary. But this… this is nearly perfect. And here’s what’s interesting about it: this movie was a big failure when it came out. Satirizing the Nazis wasn’t cool, but Lubitsch was way ahead of his time, and it’s now a classic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9za40HYRkcE&t=47)
- **Harlan County, USA** (1977) - Barbara Kopple - Spine #334 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/777-harlan-county-usa) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074605/)
> "This is Harlan County USA, I think the best documentary I’ve ever seen and one of the most, most important ever made. This movie asks, in song, “Come to Harlan County, which side are you on?” And I think that’s a question that we all need to be asking ourselves right now: which side are you on? The powerful or the powerless? Harlan County."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9za40HYRkcE&t=86)
- **Winchester ’73** (1950) - Anthony Mann - Spine #1248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28997-winchester-73) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043137/)
> "Winchester ’73. Well, this is remembered as the first of several significant collaborations between Jimmy Stewart and Anthony Mann. But, actually, for folks like me who’ve spent many, many years dedicating their lives to the studios, Winchester ’73 is significant for a different reason. This is basically the first movie where an actor got to participate in the gross receipts of the movie, what came to be known as the back end, and Jimmy Stewart was a big enough star to do it. And it also had..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9za40HYRkcE&t=115)
- **To Sleep with Anger** (1990) - Charles Burnett - Spine #963 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29567-to-sleep-with-anger) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100791/)
> "To Sleep with Anger. I worked for many years at the Samuel Goldwyn Company, when indies were indies, and there is no truer indie auteur than Charles Burnett. A powerful, beautiful, enduring film, To Sleep with Anger. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. This one I’m definitely taking home."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9za40HYRkcE&t=178)
- **The Ice Storm** (1997) - Ang Lee - Spine #426 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/336-the-ice-storm) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119349/)
> "The criminally underrated Ice Storm by Ang Lee. I made six films with Ang Lee and this is one of my favorites. But then I am a child of the ’70s, and if you want to see what it was like, shag carpet and all, you got to check it out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9za40HYRkcE&t=199)
- **The Big Chill** (1983) - Lawrence Kasdan - Spine #720 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28610-the-big-chill) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085244/)
> "I pulled The Big Chill for purely mercenary reasons, on the off chance that Larry Kasdan or either of his incredibly talented two sons happen to be watching this. Because once a year I go to Larry Kasdan and I say, “Come on, man, how about a sequel to The Big Chill?” They’re grown up now. They have kids. They have grandkids. But Larry, maybe wisely, thinks it was pretty good as it is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9za40HYRkcE&t=218)
- **The Philadelphia Story** (1940) - George Cukor - Spine #901 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29029-the-philadelphia-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032904/)
> "I picked this last movie because perfection in the movie business is very, very hard to achieve. Almost no movie is as good as people say it is, and certainly no movie’s as bad as sometimes people say it is, but every once in a while you can achieve perfection. The Philadelphia Story, this is a perfect film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9za40HYRkcE&t=248)
## Trace Lysette (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNgOmL0BuQ) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/555-trace-lysette-s-closet-picks)
- **An Unmarried Woman** (1978) - Paul Mazursky - Spine #1032 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29597-an-unmarried-woman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078444/)
> "An Unmarried Woman, oh that's me. Paul Mazursky, I've heard this is good. 70s, I'm all about the 70s. I'm gonna take her."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNgOmL0BuQ&t=12)
- **Moonstruck** (1987) - Norman Jewison - Spine #1056 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29154-moonstruck) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093565/)
> "What about Moonstruck? Cher and Nicolas Cage, it's a twofer. I love them both, two of my faves. Is this the one where she goes 'snap out of it'? Can I do that please? Cher, Cher, Cher."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNgOmL0BuQ&t=39)
- **Fellini Satyricon** (1969) - Federico Fellini - Spine #747 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28038-fellini-satyricon) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064940/)
> "Follows the exploits of two pansexual young men. Wow, talk about ahead of your time. Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction. I mean, I'm down to smoke a joint and watch this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNgOmL0BuQ&t=64)
- **Thelma & Louise** (1991) - Ridley Scott - Spine #1180 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29164-thelma-louise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/)
> "Oh, now this is a gem. Thelma and Louise. Iconic Geena Davis, iconic Susan Sarandon. Can we remake this? I mean, I know it's a classic, but I want to be in the new one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNgOmL0BuQ&t=81)
- **Paris is Burning** (1991) - Jennie Livingston - Spine #1018 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29647-paris-is-burning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/)
> "Where's the trans people? You need more trans people in the closet. Here's Paris is Burning, this will do. It's a doc that changed my life. I saw it when I was probably a teenager and it blew my world open. Wow, look at Venus, Venus Xtravaganza. I'm a ballroom girl of 20 years or so and this is still kind of like the window into our world. When I think about Octavia Saint Laurent and Venus and all of the girls in the film, I just think about how they were born a little ahead of their time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNgOmL0BuQ&t=102)
- **Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown** (1988) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #855 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29101-women-on-the-verge-of-a-nervous-breakdown) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095675/)
> "What is this? Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Oh, Almodóvar."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNgOmL0BuQ&t=162)
- **All About My Mother** (1999) - Pedro Almodóvar - Spine #1012 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29569-all-about-my-mother) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185125/)
> "Oh, while we're doing Almodóvar, All About My Mother. I heard there is a trans actress in this one, so I will be taking this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNgOmL0BuQ&t=170)
- **Love Jones** (1997) - Theodore Witcher - Spine #1117 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31501-love-jones) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119572/)
> "Oh my God, Love Jones. Nia Long and Larenz Tate. This is such a moody, sexy, smooth, doused in butter and brown sugar of a film. It's just everything. I Love Jones."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNgOmL0BuQ&t=180)
- **Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-essential-films)
> "Oh, Melvin Van Peebles. The Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song on here? Really? Oh my gosh, I'm taking this. What a career, what a life."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRNgOmL0BuQ&t=25)
## Tracy Letts (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/879-tracy-letts-s-closet-picks)
- **Kwaidan** (2022) - Claus Canddie - Spine #90 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/629-kwaidan)
> "Kwaidan. This is a Japanese folk-horror omnibus, and it’s very beautiful, deeply beautiful film. It’s long, but, you know, it’s in four segments, so you could break it up over a couple of nights."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=22)
- **Do the Right Thing** (1989) - Spike Lee - Spine #97 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/286-do-the-right-thing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/)
> "Do the Right Thing. The ’80s, underrated decade, as far as I’m concerned. As far as I’m concerned, this is the best movie of the ’80s. It’s just as vital now as it was when it was made. It’s a great film. Do the Right Thing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=37)
- **Hoop Dreams** (1994) - Steve James - Spine #289 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/906-hoop-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110057/)
> "Hoop Dreams. I’m given to superlatives, but I think it’s the best sports movie ever made. I think it’s the best movie of the ’90s. I think it’s the best Chicago movie. Can’t lose with Hoop Dreams."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=54)
- **Berlin Alexanderplatz** (1980) - Hans-Dieter Hartl - Spine #411 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/839-berlin-alexanderplatz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126409/)
> "Berlin Alexanderplatz. This is 15 hours long. But you want to be a movie person, don’t you? That’s why you’re watching the Criterion Closet video. So I suggest, if you want to be a movie person, you turn off the streaming and you put this on and put on some pants and sit down on the couch and take your dissonance like a man."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=67)
- **Winchester ’73** (1950) - Anthony Mann - Spine #1248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28997-winchester-73) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043137/)
> "Winchester ’73. Anthony Mann western with Jimmy Stewart."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=93)
- **Red River** (1988) - Richard Michaels - Spine #709 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28046-red-river) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095965/)
> "Red River. Howard Hawks, John Wayne, Montgomery Clift."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=97)
- **‘Round Midnight** (1986) - Bertrand Tavernier - Spine #1122 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29031--round-midnight) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090557/)
> "’Round Midnight. Dexter Gordon. You get to see a lot of great jazz musicians in this. Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton. You get to see these guys play and play whole songs. It’s a movie that is about jazz and actually lets them play the songs."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=130)
- **Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser** (1988) - Charlotte Zwerin - Spine #1265 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33809-thelonious-monk-straight-no-chaser) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098465/)
> "And Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser. Great documentary. Amazing artist. Watch that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=147)
- **Choose Me** (1984) - Alan Rudolph - Spine #1256 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29146-choose-me) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087054/)
> "Choose Me. Sometimes Criterion confirms me. This is a movie I’ve been toting around for twenty years or longer and trying to get people to watch, and then Criterion came out with the disc and I was like, 'See, I knew this was a great movie.' Another great ’80s film. And some people think Alan Rudolph was just an Altman knockoff, but he wasn’t. He had his own thing going on, and that’s very apparent in Choose Me. It’s a lot of fun."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=155)
- **Love Jones** (1997) - Theodore Witcher - Spine #1117 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31501-love-jones) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119572/)
> "Love Jones. Sometimes Criterion introduces a movie to you. I did not know this movie at all. And I was just blown away. It’s such a… such a beautiful, tough… It’s a romantic comedy, but it’s also a really tough movie. And it’s a great Chicago movie, which is important to me. So Love Jones, a real discovery."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=184)
- **The Complete Mr. Arkadin** (1955) - - Spine #322 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/767-the-complete-mr-arkadin)
> "Mr. Arkadin, Orson Welles. This is an amazing thing that Criterion does. So, when I was a kid, different versions of this would be on TV and you might watch it, but you wouldn’t know which version you’re getting. There are different versions of it. You know, with Welles’s history, it was always chopped up and there were several different versions. Criterion, in this box, gives you three different versions and kind of a road map to how they each got put together and why they are the way they are."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=211)
- **The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6702-the-ranown-westerns-five-films-directed-by-budd-boetticher)
> "And The Ranown Westerns, directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Randolph Scott. My wife and I watched these, we watched them one at a time, one a week for about five weeks till we knocked them all out. It’s just… The feeling I get when I put these on, it’s just – you wrap yourself up in a blanket on the couch and you watch these things and you just feel really good and very warm and comforted and safe."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7jDVdL5Ko&t=101)
## Tunde Adebimpe (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGGq2NxN10) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/848-tunde-adebimpe-s-closet-picks)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "Fellini’s 8½. If you’ve ever had an idea and you’re on a timeline and lots of people are waiting for you to finish the idea, just watch this, because it’ll give you the extra anxiety that you need to either procrastinate more or to put a fire under you, because it’s tense. There’s a lot of tension. Beautiful, surreal tension."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGGq2NxN10&t=57)
- **True Stories** (1986) - David Byrne - Spine #951 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29038-true-stories) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092117/)
> "True Stories. I love when a visual artist-slash-musician makes a film. This, I feel, is a very personal expression, and it looks like David Byrne sounds. And there are a couple videos that came out of here, like the video for the song “Wild Life” came out of here. That was one of the first things I saw on MTV, where I was… it kind of shaped my opinion of who I wanted to be around and what I wanted to do. I highly, highly recommend True Stories."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGGq2NxN10&t=104)
- **Black Girl** (1966) - Ousmane Sembène - Spine #852 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28849-black-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060758/)
> "Black Girl by Ousmane Sembène. And he’s a Senegalese director. And I love this movie because it tells a very good story of the… the difficulty in the life of somebody coming from their country to the… the country that colonized that country. And it’s just beautifully shot. It’s… It’s one of my favorites."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGGq2NxN10&t=143)
- **Pariah** (2011) - Dee Rees - Spine #1083 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31582-pariah) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1233334/)
> "So, yes, this is Pariah by Dee Rees and it stars one of my favorite actors. It’s Adepero Oduye, who’s also of Nigerian descent, which I’m also fully behind all the time. Also, Bradford Young shot this, and I don’t know if it’s the first thing Bradford did, but Bradford is now, you know, top tier legend among cinematographers. So this is a altogether great thing to have."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGGq2NxN10&t=171)
- **The Silence of the Lambs** (1991) - Jonathan Demme - Spine #13 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/528-the-silence-of-the-lambs) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102926/)
> "Silence of the Lambs by Jonathan Demme, which is one of my favorite films. I had the great opportunity to work with Jonathan Demme in a movie called Rachel Getting Married, and it’s one of the best experiences of my life. And he was great and, just in my experience, a really– a good dude who is missed. So grabbing Silence of the Lambs for JD."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGGq2NxN10&t=201)
- **Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams** (1990) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #842 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28700-akira-kurosawa-s-dreams) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100998/)
> "This is Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. And I would get every Kurosawa movie in here if I could, but this particularly, I guess is a late Kurosawa movie, and it’s so colorful and playful and has Martin Scorsese as Vincent van Gogh. And I saw the storyboards for this in a book that was published I don’t know how long after, but Kurosawa can draw. And I think that anybody who… You know, it’s not everybody, but I like directors that can draw a little bit, and he can draw a lot. All right. You’re mine...."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGGq2NxN10&t=14)
- **By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/722-by-brakhage-an-anthology-volumes-one-and-two)
> "Okay, and here we have By Brakhage, and this is An Anthology. This is Anthology: Volume Two. I just– I love someone who’s going to take a… take a roll of film, shoot on it, and then scrape it up and draw on it and freak it around. Very punk rock to me, Stan Brakhage."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGGq2NxN10&t=82)
- **Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2648-godzilla-the-showa-era-films-1954-1975)
> "I’m going to pick this up. So this is Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975. And this is great because I was going to try to get a couple of these. Attack All Monsters was the one that I liked because it has all the monsters in it. But this is fantastic. I just got shown this and I want it. And someone… An illustrator I really admire, Yuko Shimizu, did the cover for this, and it’s great. I can’t wait to get into it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGGq2NxN10&t=231)
## Tyler Mitchell (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/589-tyler-mitchell-s-closet-picks)
- **The Watermelon Woman** (1997) - Cheryl Dunye - Spine #1184 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30705-the-watermelon-woman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118125/)
> "I will start by choosing The Watermelon Woman. The way this plays with black identity, black lesbian identity, what it is to be sort of a black cinema lover,, very fun movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=30)
- **L'argent** (1983) - Robert Bresson - Spine #886 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27588-l-argent) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085180/)
> "Bran I'm starting to get into so I want to take L'argent I've seen it once embarrassingly on a plane so I want to take this to like properly watch it on the big screen..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=50)
- **A Brighter Summer Day** (1991) - Edward Yang - Spine #804 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28596-a-brighter-summer-day) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101985/)
> "A Brighter Summer Day, yes, let's go. This movie is crazy. What do I say about this movie? I sat for 4 hours on a Sunday in Metrograph here in New York watching this and just left feeling like nothing's the same. I mean, this is like a tale of like youth and finding yourself at its finest, I think."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=97)
- **Claudine** (1974) - John Berry - Spine #1052 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29599-claudine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071334/)
> "Claudine, I just saw a poster for this outside. James Earl Jones looks amazing. A bittersweet, big-hearted celebration of family and community set to a sunny soul soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield. You got me, okay."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=116)
- **La ciénaga** (2001) - Lucrecia Martel - Spine #743 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28113-la-cienaga) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240419/)
> "La ciénaga, a game changer. Criterion put me on to it. I would not have known about Lucrecia Martel, the incredible, without Criterion. I don't even know what to look at that cover image. For me, growing up in Georgia with a lot of green around me... Watching this sort of strange Argentinian family's summer House crumble as the kids are running around and the dogs are barking and the wine glasses spilled. I connect to it somehow."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=130)
- **The Music Room** (1958) - Satyajit Ray - Spine #573 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27657-the-music-room) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051792/)
> "The Music Room by Satyajit Ray. An aristocrat who has an opulent music room, who used to show everyone all of his amazing riches and throw these opulent parties. Really a story about indulgence gone wrong, cautionary for our times. And you know what, I want to like do something with this. I don't know what that means, but when I first watch it, I have this impulse to be like, how do I expand or think about these themes now?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=169)
- **Love & Basketball** (2000) - Gina Prince-Bythewood - Spine #1097 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31500-love-basketball) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199725/)
> "Oh yeah, Love & Basketball. I'm so embarrassed I haven't seen it. That's it, that's all I'm going to say. I'm going to run home, see it now. Don't bully me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=198)
- **Punch-Drunk Love** (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson - Spine #843 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27916-punch-drunk-love) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/)
> "Yeah, Punch-Drunk Love. Okay, boom. This movie and all the work of Paul Thomas Anderson. I mean, I feel like I'm speaking on behalf of so many people when I talk about him. Paul, if you're watching this, I'm in the long list of people who would love to have lunch with you because of this movie and everything else you've made. What a fun, dark, revelational... This is a movie about finding love against all odds. I love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=233)
- **3 Women** (1977) - Robert Altman - Spine #230 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/712-3-women) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075612/)
> "3 Women, all who I discovered from my like everyone's hero and favorite Paul Thomas Anderson who cited Altman as a favorite and then when I saw this I was just like what a strange and amazing movie. Emotional convergence, jealousy, envy, love, lust, friendship,, I love this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=207)
- **Time** (2020) - Garrett Bradley - Spine #1109 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32170-time) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11416746/)
> "Garrett Bradley, Time. Shout out Garrett Bradley. I feel so connected to this filmmaker's voice, the way that she's sort of making movies and artworks that sort of think through gaps, Missing images in sort of black American life. What we haven't seen, what we don't know, what's lost in the archive. And then what I also love about Garrett is that she lives in New Orleans... Being from Atlanta, that really connects to me. Love, love her work."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=261)
- **Notorious** (1946) - Alfred Hitchcock - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/682-notorious) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038787/)
> "These I'm taking for Dad, Notorious and Rebecca. My dad raised me on Hitchcock. This always hits and I'm going to bring it right to him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=297)
- **Rebecca** (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/680-rebecca) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032976/)
> "These I'm taking for Dad, Notorious and Rebecca. My dad raised me on Hitchcock. This always hits and I'm going to bring it right to him."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=297)
- **Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/427-eclipse-series-3-late-ozu)
> "Ozu box set. Nick Tanis, Language of Film, Ozu. When I moved to New York as an NYU film student, talk about getting shown this in the NYU theater with Nick's laser pointer just dissecting how amazing every single frame that Ozu does is put together, how intentional it all is, how the framing tells the story. I just didn't realize movies could look like this. I didn't realize they could be so poignant and quiet and subtle and powerful at the same time."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xupq6TR3Q9Y&t=57)
## Udo Kier (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4qv7EDOIk) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/581-udo-kier-s-closet-picks)
- **Blood for Dracula** (1974) - Paul Morrissey - Spine #28 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/564-blood-for-dracula) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071233/)
> "Blood for Dracula. Let me tell you the story. I was in an airplane from Rome to Munich and there was a man sitting next to me. He said, 'My name is Paul Morrissey and I work for Andy Warhol.' Later he came in and he said, 'Well, I guess we have a German Dracula.' I had only salad leaves and water and when we shot the first day of Dracula, I was so weak that I had to sit in the wheelchair. I need the blood of a virgin, the blood of these whores are killing me!"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4qv7EDOIk&t=14)
- **Flesh for Frankenstein** (1973) - Paul Morrissey - Spine #27 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/562-flesh-for-frankenstein) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071508/)
> "I got a call, 'Hey, it's Paul. I'm doing for Carlo Ponti, you know the husband of Sophia Loren, I'm doing Frankenstein in 3D. And I have a little role for you.' And I said, 'Wow, thank you, great, what do I play?' And he said, 'Frankenstein.' And I thought that's not true. Anyway, it was true and I became Doctor Frankenstein. We shot the film for $100,000 in 3 weeks in 3D."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4qv7EDOIk&t=72)
- **My Own Private Idaho** (1991) - Gus Van Sant - Spine #277 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/249-my-own-private-idaho) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102494/)
> "Another story. I was in Berlin and a young director came to me. He said, 'My name is Gus Van Sant. My next movie, My Own Private Idaho, I'm preparing now and I would like that you play.' And we start writing letters to each other. I went to Portland to shoot my first film in America. I liked America and River Phoenix was amazing and Keanu Reeves. That was My Own Private Idaho, very important for me. I'm a lucky man."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4qv7EDOIk&t=195)
- **Breaking the Waves** (1996) - Lars von Trier - Spine #705 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28350-breaking-the-waves) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115751/)
## Vicky Krieps (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAanJ3WWKjw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/517-vicky-krieps-s-closet-picks)
- **Female Trouble** (1974) - John Waters - Spine #929 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28704-female-trouble) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072979/)
> "Okay yes, I'm taking this because I don't know it, I've never seen it and I really want to see it. Female Trouble by John Waters, I want to see this, I never saw this one, I never saw."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAanJ3WWKjw&t=30)
- **Ikiru** (1952) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #221 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/353-ikiru) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/)
> "I want to see Ikiru because..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAanJ3WWKjw&t=38)
- **Dazed and Confused** (1993) - Richard Linklater - Spine #336 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/314-dazed-and-confused) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/)
> "Dazed and Confused, this is a funny DVD. Wow, that's a really cool DVD, that's really cool, like a book. I love physical, I love DVDs, so I'm very happy to pick good DVDs so I don't have to go online."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAanJ3WWKjw&t=43)
- **Blue Velvet** (1986) - David Lynch - Spine #977 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29144-blue-velvet) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/)
> "Then I'm taking Blue Velvet because I love just the look of Blue Velvet and David Lynch and it's just something I like to watch on the Weekend and it's, I don't know, it's a good evening, yeah."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAanJ3WWKjw&t=62)
- **La vie de Jésus** (1997) - Bruno Dumont - Spine #980 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28075-la-vie-de-jesus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120448/)
- **La piscine** (1969) - Jacques Deray - Spine #1088 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30223-la-piscine) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064816/)
> "It is so great and I have to show it to my children so I'm taking this. La piscine. First of all, I love La piscine, second I love Romy Schneider and third I just released the film Corsage which I did because I wanted Romy Schneider to have like a, I don't know, not a vengeance but it's like I felt like I want to give her the opportunity to play like she never was allowed to play to misbehave because in the film I misbehave as an actress and I think Romy Schneider always wanted to misbehave."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAanJ3WWKjw&t=76)
- **La strada** (1954) - Federico Fellini - Spine #219 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/185-la-strada) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047528/)
> "Oh, La strada! I love it and this is my favorite look for an actress ever. This costume is, I think, perfect. I wish we could always play a clown."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAanJ3WWKjw&t=111)
## Viggo Mortensen (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_wQnlroek) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/670-viggo-mortensen-s-closet-picks)
- **Stagecoach** (1986) - Ted Post - Spine #516 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/980-stagecoach) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092003/)
> "This is a real classic. Stagecoach."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_wQnlroek&t=10)
- **Red River** (1988) - Richard Michaels - Spine #709 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28046-red-river) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095965/)
> "Red River."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_wQnlroek&t=17)
- **Forty Guns** (1957) - Samuel Fuller - Spine #954 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28567-forty-guns) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050407/)
> "Forty Guns, Sam Fuller, the master of pulp fiction movie storytelling. There's a great shot that starts the movie where she's riding hell for leather, leading her 40 men with their 40 guns. Barbara Stanwyck is really great in this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_wQnlroek&t=21)
- **The Gunfighter** (1950) - Henry King - Spine #1053 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28568-the-gunfighter) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042531/)
> "The Gunfighter. I had my doubts about Gregory Peck in this role. He plays a veteran gunfighter who was trying to leave that behind, hang up his gun and lead a more peaceful life. But it's a dark kind of psychological drama. I didn't know if he'd be dark enough psychologically, but I was wrong, he's great in this movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_wQnlroek&t=46)
- **The Furies** (2019) - Tony D'Aquino - Spine #435 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/596-the-furies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8228172/)
> "The Furies. This is another great Barbara Stanwyck role. She's not the boss, but she's pretty bossy. The boss is played by Walter Huston in his last role, directed by Anthony Mann, who's one of the icons among Western directors."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_wQnlroek&t=80)
- **3:10 to Yuma** (2007) - James Mangold - Spine #657 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27910-3-10-to-yuma) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381849/)
> "The original 3:10 to Yuma. Delmer Daves, studio director, very capable, very efficient. It is a really well-paced movie, really well done. Another thing about this movie, 3:10 to Yuma, is Glenn Ford on a horse. He was probably one of the top two or three horsemen among popular western actors. I think he was probably the best. It's not just the way he rode, it was the way he would get on a horse or approach a horse."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_wQnlroek&t=99)
- **McCabe & Mrs. Miller** (1971) - Robert Altman - Spine #827 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28712-mccabe-mrs-miller) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067411/)
> "This is the newest of the westerns I picked, it's McCabe & Mrs. Miller. It's part of like the New Hollywood in that the story is kind of messier than what you're usually getting from Hollywood until that point. Oh, I love the music in this movie and it features primarily three songs by Leonard Cohen. These songs are beautiful. I can't think of this movie without thinking of Leonard Cohen, the songs are perfect."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_wQnlroek&t=144)
- **The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6702-the-ranown-westerns-five-films-directed-by-budd-boetticher)
> "This is a great box set. I love these movies. These are Budd Boetticher, who made a series of B-westerns. He teamed up with actor-producer Randolph Scott. He did five under this label, the Ranown Westerns. These five movies are The Tall T, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone, Ride Lonesome, and the last one they made together, Comanche Station. They're lean and mean. Legendary partnership."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_wQnlroek&t=199)
## Vince Staples (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZuHbd-rTw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/909-vince-staples-s-closet-picks)
- **Hollywood Shuffle** (1987) - Robert Townsend - Spine #1173 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29771-hollywood-shuffle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093200/)
> "Robert Townsend, you do not get enough credit. We love you for your creativity. The Five Heartbeats, The Meteor Man, Hollywood Shuffle. We love it. The satire in here. The commentary here. The tongue-in-cheek delivery of the lines. The mustache and the haircut. We learned a lot from you. One of the people I wish we said his name more. So I’m saying it right now."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZuHbd-rTw&t=7)
- **Videodrome** (1983) - David Cronenberg - Spine #248 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/240-videodrome) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/)
> "Videodrome. Now, the first five minutes are off-putting. I get it. But we live in this right now. You’re on the internet. You’re on the television. We’re imitating what we see through our art, through our lives, the way that we communicate. So shout out to Davy boy for doing this. I watch this on airplanes, I watch it with my family at the House and they tell me to turn my weird movies off. This is the one. Please, please watch this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZuHbd-rTw&t=44)
- **The Others** (2001) - Alejandro Amenábar - Spine #1195 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33636-the-others) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230600/)
> "This right here with Nicole Kidman and the two– the two pale babies, excuse me, scared the shit out of me as a child. And then the discovery at the end – I won’t spoil it, because I don’t know how many of you children have seen this, but this is a hit, okay? Certified banger. Watch The Others."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZuHbd-rTw&t=90)
- **WALL•E** (2008) - Andrew Stanton - Spine #1161 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33246-wall-e) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/)
> "And I’m going to pick up WALL·E. WALL·E’s in the Closet next to Lost Highway and Malcolm X. Animation has always been important to me. WALL·E being here is crazy. You will find me at the Disneyland, I promise you. If you thought that was me, that was me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZuHbd-rTw&t=108)
- **Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling** (1986) - Richard Pryor - Spine #1247 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30975-jo-jo-dancer-your-life-is-calling) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091295/)
> "This is Jo Dancer, a film by Richard Pryor. And the weird thing about this is that it might not have been the most successful or the most critically acclaimed, for someone who was such a big star, but the way that he views the world is really, really close to the way that my parents and the people around me in my community viewed the world, as kind of a nihilistic, cynical thing, but still looking for light and hope and understanding of who you are."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZuHbd-rTw&t=159)
- **Lynch/Oz** (2023) - Alexandre O. Philippe - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33490-lynch-oz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15399286/)
> "Lynch/Oz. Now, the reason this is important is because I too steal from The Wizard of Oz at every chance I can. It gave me an understanding that “You’re not the only one that loves this movie.” Wizard of Oz. Not that I felt like I was the only one, but I felt like the only one that made some super dark stuff. But David Lynch, he had a lot of things that people didn’t understand and a lot of things that were off the cuff and weird."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZuHbd-rTw&t=268)
- **Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/855-eclipse-series-31-three-popular-films-by-jean-pierre-gorin)
> "Jean-Pierre Gorin, I think is how you say his name. This is a box set of documentaries. One of these is extremely important, it’s called My Crasy Life. It was filmed in Long Beach, California, Following members of the S. O. S. Community in West Long Beach. Me growing up in Long Beach specifically, I know people that have family roots to these people. I think it’s important that we tell our stories holistically. It’s a lot of heart in the characters."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZuHbd-rTw&t=121)
- **Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/4787-melvin-van-peebles-essential-films)
> "Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films set. The two films I want to highlight in here are Watermelon Man and Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song. The reason I want to highlight these are that one leads to another: you get the studio, you get the budget, you want to tell the story that is unique and fun, and sometimes it might not be the right decision. And you learn from your mistakes... He’s a founding father, and that movie gave him the ability to create what he did later."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZuHbd-rTw&t=204)
## Volker Schlöndorff (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egip8AX68EI) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/610-volker-schlondorff-s-closet-picks)
- **Eclipse** (1962) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #278 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/928-l-eclisse) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056736/)
> "Eclipse, the very first, next to my first movie. Eclipse is the one I wanted to have, that's what I came for. And as it is sitting next to Young Törless, it makes it even nicer, isn't it an honor? Well, you see, the Eclipse is really the one why I came for, and isn't it magical that you come in there, hundreds of them, and the first one I see where I stop is the Eclipse. I might just as well leave right now. But I'm very happy with L'Eclisse and All That Jazz."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egip8AX68EI&t=12)
- **Coup de Grâce** (2017) - Salomé Lamas - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/737-coup-de-grace) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5907024/)
> "I'm proud because I see a few of my own. The Coup de Grâce, again with Margarethe von Trotta."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egip8AX68EI&t=69)
- **All That Jazz** (1979) - Bob Fosse - Spine #724 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28561-all-that-jazz) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078754/)
> "I'd like to have All That Jazz because when we were shooting Circle of Deceit in Beirut, once a week we got dailies sent from the lab in Paris and we went to a still working local cinema in the mid of the Civil War and all the time they were playing All That Jazz. It became like our leitmotif during the shoot: 'Bye-bye Happiness, I think I'm going to die,' which was exactly how we felt like often."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egip8AX68EI&t=85)
- **Ace in the Hole** (1951) - Billy Wilder - Spine #396 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/829-ace-in-the-hole) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043338/)
> "I'm glad you have Ace in the Hole, Billy Wilder's film. They tried all kind of titles. I thought the last release was called The Big Carnival."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egip8AX68EI&t=304)
- **Le Havre** (2011) - Aki Kaurismäki - Spine #619 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28352-le-havre) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1508675/)
> "And the pharmacy in the province, in the French province, like Le Havre. Another great one about the French province. Actually, maybe the French movies set not in Paris, maybe even better than the ones set in Paris. More authentic. Certainly true of French novels like Stendhal."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egip8AX68EI&t=226)
- **Boyhood** (2014) - Richard Linklater - Spine #839 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28820-boyhood) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065073/)
> "I have to start with Boyhood because it was somehow so unexpected and was so wonderful. A miracle of a movie. How could he in the casting, especially with the boy, have the intuition that 10 years or 14 years later this boy would still be wonderful? And same with Arquette and everybody else. Hawke is just fabulous to see people really age on screen, no fake makeup, and still remain in their character. A miracle of a movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egip8AX68EI&t=142)
- **Le Beau Serge** (1959) - Claude Chabrol - Spine #580 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27817-le-beau-serge) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051404/)
> "By Claude Chabrol. I remember the very first screening of this in the grand auditorium of the Sorbonne. It was the first film of the Nouvelle Vague. Actually, I, at the time working with Jean-Pierre Melville, I thought it was a bit amateurish and they didn't quite understand how great it was just because of that. Wonderful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egip8AX68EI&t=191)
## Wagner Moura (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOnBK-L-zg) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/892-wagner-moura-s-closet-picks)
- **Black God, White Devil** (1964) - Glauber Rocha - Spine #1225 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33537-black-god-white-devil) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058006/)
> "Here in my hands is one of the most important Brazilian films ever directed, by the great Glauber Rocha. We call it Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol. This film blew people’s mind, because it’s sort of like a western in Brazil, full of political and social comments and beautiful in terms of the way they… the outfits that the characters were wearing, and the landscapes and Glauber’s talent, so, and The Most Beautiful poster in the history of films, in my opinion. Black God, White Devil."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOnBK-L-zg&t=13)
- **Il Posto** (1961) - Ermanno Olmi - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/364-il-posto) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055320/)
> "Here is a film that is… that is not that known, and it’s called Il Posto. It’s another film about working-class people. It’s about this guy, this very naive guy, lost in the bureaucracy of work. I love films where you can have a sense of the political and the social situation, but you go… you get to this part through the humanity of a character, and this is a very beautiful character. I absolutely adore this film, Il Posto."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOnBK-L-zg&t=77)
- **Memories of Underdevelopment** (1968) - Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Spine #943 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29220-memories-of-underdevelopment) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063291/)
> "Memories of Underdevelopment, by Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. I can’t tell you what I felt after I saw this film, because it’s a film about the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution, where people are leaving Cuba, and this intellectual, this guy who was part of the Cuban bourgeoisie, he decides to stay, and it’s so philosophical, but it’s also a film that reflects a moment in history that few films that I know did, because it doesn’t capture only the facts, but the feelings."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOnBK-L-zg&t=205)
- **Rosetta** (1999) - Jean-Pierre Dardenne - Spine #621 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28056-rosetta) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200071/)
> "And the Dardenne brothers. And then we come to these guys, who are my favorite filmmakers in the world, because they manage to talk about young people in a way that I have never seen anyone do the way they do it. Rosetta is a beautiful film. It’s a very sad film. It’s shot in such a realistic way. And in that sense, it has a conversation with the way Brazilians shoot their films as well. I think that’s exactly what the Dardenne brothers do with their films."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOnBK-L-zg&t=259)
- **The Kid with a Bike** (2011) - Luc Dardenne - Spine #646 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28405-the-kid-with-a-bike) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1827512/)
> "And I think this is my favorite. I also love The Boy and the Bike, The Kid with the Bike, this is heartbreaking as well. And I don’t know how he managed to find these kids to act the way they do. I just love the Dardenne brothers, and I’m just happy I got two DVDs from you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOnBK-L-zg&t=314)
- **Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 3** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3506-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-3)
> "This box is, like, Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, and in here there is one film that is a classic in Brazil, it’s called Pixote, directed by Héctor Babenco. And in the same collection… Scorsese knows. He knows shit. He chose a film that no one really knows outside… and even in Brazil, it’s a film directed by Mário Peixoto, called Limite."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOnBK-L-zg&t=112)
## Walter Salles (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsLWBUOVk8) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/767-walter-salles-s-closet-picks)
- **Andrei Rublev** (1966) - Andrei Tarkovsky - Spine #34 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/300-andrei-rublev) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060107/)
> "Starting with Andrei Rublev. It’s– that’s a film I absolutely love. I try to go back to it every single year. Tarkovsky used to say that cinema only exists if everybody who’s doing a film is in the artery of that film, and I have the impression that Andrei Rublev somehow epitomizes this. It’s an extraordinary film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsLWBUOVk8&t=7)
- **Stranger Than Paradise** (1983) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #400 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/252-stranger-than-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209182/)
> "Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch. I completely love this film. I think it was so refreshing to see that narratives could be actually told in a different manner than the Greeks had taught us at the beginning, the structure with five acts and character arcs and everything else, and what Jim Jarmusch offers us here is something that transcends that kind of classical perception of narrative. And another film I go back to just to renew my faith in cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsLWBUOVk8&t=35)
- **Memories of Underdevelopment** (1968) - Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Spine #943 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29220-memories-of-underdevelopment) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063291/)
> "Drifting now to new Cuban cinema, Memories of Underdevelopment by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Rarely does a film manage to blend what is of a documentary nature and what is of a fictional nature. The impurity of that film on a conceptual level is so ever present and creates a narrative that is constantly surprising. I have the impression that the film is kind of sucked by the reality of a country also being redefined. The journey of the character and the journey of the society as a whole intermingle."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsLWBUOVk8&t=76)
- **La notte** (1961) - Michelangelo Antonioni - Spine #678 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28111-la-notte) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054130/)
> "La notte by Antonioni. So, Antonioni is, in fact, the filmmaker that brought me to cinema, the director that captured the best the senselessness of society, of the industrial society and, at the same time, the loss of identity that ensued, you know, after that. And La notte has the seeds of what was going to be later Blow-Up and The Passenger. The pillars of an extraordinary director."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsLWBUOVk8&t=128)
- **Time** (2020) - Garrett Bradley - Spine #1109 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/32170-time) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11416746/)
> "Time by Garrett Bradley. That’s more of a recent find, thanks to the New York Film Festival, actually. Both the narrative and the filmic quality of Time are completely outstanding. It’s about love as a form of resistance. It’s about memory as a form of resistance as well. It’s a film that I’m sharing with a lot of friends, because I think it is really unique."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsLWBUOVk8&t=163)
- **Raging Bull** (1980) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1134 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29158-raging-bull) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081398/)
> "And we left Mr. Scorsese for last. Raging Bull. I saw it maybe 50 times. Scorsese’s talent, unique sensibility. His understanding of this character who is in between cultures, coming from Italy and yet having to redefine itself in another landscape. Everything about this film is unique; every single image contains the film as a whole, and that is so difficult to achieve in cinema. I have a hard time analyzing it because I’m completely taken by it. This is cinema at its highest point."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsLWBUOVk8&t=204)
## Wilco (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/493-wilco-s-closet-picks)
- **Being There** (1979) - Hal Ashby - Spine #864 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29009-being-there) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/)
> "Being There. We named the record after this movie. I always thought that the character of Chauncey Gardner represented to me the way a lot of rock music is perceived in the world like simple aphorisms that are expanded upon and intellectualized when it's something much more earthy and connected to simplicity than people want to allow it to be. So that record that means a lot to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g&t=25)
- **Leon Russell: A Poem Is a Naked Person** (1974) - Les Blank - Spine #805 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28755-a-poem-is-a-naked-person) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424359/)
> "Leon Russell. That's not such a bad idea. In my early teens I wanted to be this person. This is a brilliant movie that I did not know about until Patrick here told me about it and I'm extremely psyched to see this again and again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g&t=57)
- **Rumble Fish** (1983) - Francis Ford Coppola - Spine #869 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28993-rumble-fish) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086216/)
> "This is not only is this one of my favorite films. I saw this when I was about 13 or 14 and I've heard Francis Ford Coppola talk about this film like his intention was to make an art film for teenagers and I was right at the right age for it when it came out and it just really affected me on all levels including the music. The soundtrack is some of my favorite music of all time. Soundtrack album by Stewart Copeland."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g&t=73)
- **Heart of a Dog** (2015) - Laurie Anderson - Spine #846 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28909-heart-of-a-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4935446/)
> "I actually haven't seen this yet but I'm a huge Laurie Anderson fan basically anything she does and Nels Cline said it's an incredible movie. It's one of my wife's favorite movies of all time and we love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g&t=106)
- **The Parallax View** (1974) - Alan J. Pakula - Spine #1064 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30204-the-parallax-view) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071970/)
> "This is a really great film, Parallax View. This has some amazing Pacific Northwest locales with Warren Beatty and political intrigue and assassination. Definitely great film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g&t=120)
- **My Winnipeg** (2008) - Guy Maddin - Spine #741 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27969-my-winnipeg) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093842/)
> "My Winnipeg and Rolling Thunder Revue, they're both kind of blurry versions of reality. I tend to have a tough time with fiction and I like a lot of documentary movies. Both of these movies blur the lines between documentary storytelling and completely made up, which I find exciting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g&t=137)
- **Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese** (2019) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #1062 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31036-rolling-thunder-revue-a-bob-dylan-story-by-martin-scorsese) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9577852/)
> "My Winnipeg and Rolling Thunder Revue, they're both kind of blurry versions of reality. I tend to have a tough time with fiction and I like a lot of documentary movies. Both of these movies blur the lines between documentary storytelling and completely made up, which I find exciting."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g&t=137)
- **Le deuxième souffle** (1966) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #448 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/760-le-deuxieme-souffle) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060305/)
> "Melville, I've not seen this one. This man's movies are personal favorites. I think some of the greatest film noir ever made. I love the look and the gritty feel of Melville's films and even a film like Le Doulos, which doesn't actually make complete sense, is completely captivating to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g&t=176)
- **America Lost and Found: The BBS Story** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/769-america-lost-and-found-the-bbs-story)
> "John and I grabbed the box set, the BBS Story, America Lost and Found. This film, The King of Marvin Gardens, is a real favorite of mine. It's beautifully photographed, I'm pretty sure it's Laszlo Kovacs that was the cinematographer. It's a very lonely film, very kind of slightly surrealistic, takes place in Atlantic City in the early 70s as Atlantic City is kind of in a state of decay."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g&t=200)
- **Eclipse Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/521-eclipse-series-9-the-delirious-fictions-of-william-klein)
> "There's a William Klein box set, which I'm primarily wanting to pick up for the movie Mr. Freedom. My friend Jim O'Rourke exposed me to that movie. It's one of the just the wildest, most free-spirited pieces of film I'd ever seen. It was just a gorgeous color, just a crazy movie. Serge Gainsbourg works in it and just completely unpredictable wild movie and I love the way it looks."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhkXwYOwU5g&t=255)
## Will Arnett (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2G9pU6PbM) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/915-will-arnett-s-closet-picks)
- **Stranger Than Paradise** (1983) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #400 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/252-stranger-than-paradise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209182/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2G9pU6PbM&t=22)
- **The Tin Drum** (1979) - Volker Schlöndorff - Spine #234 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/789-the-tin-drum) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078875/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2G9pU6PbM&t=76)
- **Dekalog** (1988) - Kim Kee-duk - Spine #837 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28661-dekalog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061549/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2G9pU6PbM&t=107)
- **Les Blank: Always for Pleasure** (1968) - - Spine #737 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28658-les-blank-always-for-pleasure)
> "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,..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2G9pU6PbM&t=257)
- **Withnail and I** (1987) - Bruce Robinson - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/658-withnail-and-i) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094336/)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2G9pU6PbM&t=143)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "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."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2G9pU6PbM&t=209)
## Willem Dafoe (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/618-willem-dafoe-s-closet-picks)
- **Onibaba** (1964) - Kaneto Shindō - Spine #226 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/665-onibaba) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058430/)
> "Onibaba, a very special film. In fact, I wanted to remake it but I even got the rights for a while but I couldn't find a way to do it because it's so specific to its time and I felt like anytime I tried to put a spin on it I ruined the source material so I couldn't do that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=7)
- **The Leopard** (1963) - Luchino Visconti - Spine #235 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/790-the-leopard) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057091/)
> "Leopard, fantastic. When I think I'm not right for a role because I'm not enough like the character, I always think of Burt Lancaster and The Leopard. I mean, this Hollywood guy... He's going to be an elegant Sicilian gentleman? I don't think so, but you know what, it worked fantastically. So when you don't think you're right for something, you actually may be very right for it or you may be able to find a way to get there, which is cool."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=34)
- **Ashes and Diamonds** (1958) - Andrzej Wajda - Spine #285 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/342-ashes-and-diamonds) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052080/)
> "Ashes and Diamonds. I remember seeing that as a kid and I thought, 'Oh, cool, black and white, love the hair, dudes, love the glasses,' but didn't quite get it. I should probably look at that again because I saw it when I was too young."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=76)
- **Pickpocket** (1959) - Robert Bresson - Spine #314 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/)
> "Pickpocket, of course. Bresson... You know, Schrader's always got this on his mind, and I guess I do too."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=92)
- **Gate of Flesh** (1964) - Seijun Suzuki - Spine #298 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/863-gate-of-flesh) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058409/)
> "Gate of Flesh. This I watched exhaustively because we used it for material when I worked with a theater company called the Wooster Group and this was an inspiration and very important for one of our theater pieces. So Gate of Flesh, I'll steal that."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=102)
- **The Devil’s Backbone** (2001) - Guillermo del Toro - Spine #666 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27914-the-devil-s-backbone) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/)
> "Devil's Backbone. Oh, it may be one of his best movies. Guillermo del Toro expertly combines Gothic Ghost Story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish mélange. Couldn't have said it better myself."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=137)
- **Mirror** (1975) - Jesús Franco - Spine #1084 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28894-mirror) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070396/)
> "The Mirror. Lars von Trier asked me to look at this before we did Antichrist. Surprise, surprise."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=163)
- **The Piano Teacher** (2001) - Michael Haneke - Spine #894 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28739-the-piano-teacher) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254686/)
> "Piano Teacher. We love Isabelle, we love her so much. She's such a good actress and she always is surprising us and she's a peach."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=169)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "8 1/2, you can't kick about 8 1/2."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=183)
- **The Last Temptation of Christ** (1988) - Martin Scorsese - Spine #70 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/612-the-last-temptation-of-christ) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095497/)
> "Oh, ladies and gentlemen, you know this man. He's a little bit more than a man, or is he?"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=191)
- **The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou** (2004) - Wes Anderson - Spine #300 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/741-the-life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362270/)
> "Life Aquatic. Oh, I think I have a copy but I love this movie. It's the first time I worked with Wes Anderson. I like Life Aquatic because it floats for a long time and there's lots going on where you think 'what the hell,' but at the end it lands emotionally in a way that is incredible."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=200)
- **3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/982-3-films-by-roberto-rossellini-starring-ingrid-bergman)
> "Rossellini, Bergman, fantastic. Stromboli I know, Journey to Italy I know, I don't know Europe '51. What is Europe '51? Well, I'm going to find out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tG_cBdvo2c&t=119)
## William Friedkin (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/542-william-friedkin-s-closet-picks)
- **Sunday Bloody Sunday** (1971) - John Schlesinger - Spine #629 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28025-sunday-bloody-sunday) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067805/)
> "Sunday Bloody Sunday. It came out the year of The French Connection and was nominated with The French Connection. They all bring back wonderful memories and I'm sure that this is going to be like seeing them as they were intended by the filmmakers, which is very hard to do in a theater anymore where the films are either scratched up or with dirt all over them."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0&t=11)
- **Umberto D.** (1952) - Vittorio De Sica - Spine #201 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/371-umberto-d) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045274/)
> "Umberto D. Masterpiece. Vittorio De Sica."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0&t=118)
- **M** (1931) - Alexander Korda - Spine #30 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/558-m) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022184/)
> "There's M, which I believe has the short that I made, the interview I did with... Yeah, it's here. Conversation with Fritz Lang, a 50-minute film by William Friedkin. This used to be distributed by the BBC. Very humbling to see some of these pictures."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0&t=140)
- **Brute Force** (1947) - Jules Dassin - Spine #383 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/820-brute-force) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039224/)
> "Brute Force was, I think, Lancaster's first film by Jules Dassin. This was one of Dassin's first crime films... This was made in 1947, Brute Force, and I remember it as being a stunningly powerful film. I never thought I'd see this again. I'm going to take this one, thank you."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0&t=165)
- **The Killing of a Chinese Bookie** (1976) - John Cassavetes - Spine #254 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/958-the-killing-of-a-chinese-bookie) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074749/)
> "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. I just got that. Cassavetes. These are all the Cassavetes films. I mean I'm sure he never thought they would have an afterlife. You know, he thought they'd play for a couple of weeks and be done and if they worked or not he would still be able to go out and make another one. But now here they are and they're going to live forever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0&t=68)
- **8½** (1963) - Federico Fellini - Spine #140 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/150-8-1-2) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056801/)
> "This is the one for me. This is one of my favorite films ever and I'm not even going to look for any more past this because just to walk out of this building with this film on Blu-ray makes my day, my week, possibly my year. Thanks to Criterion and thanks to Federico Fellini for one of the greatest film experiences I've ever had."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0&t=233)
- **Vampyr** (1932) - Carl Theodor Dreyer - Spine #437 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/661-vampyr) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023649/)
> "Vampyr. Carl Dreyer's film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0&t=95)
- **Pickpocket** (1959) - Robert Bresson - Spine #314 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/)
> "Pickpocket. I guess in this little room that you call a closet is the history of world cinema and if it isn't in here it will be someday."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0&t=102)
- **All That Money Can Buy (aka The Devil and Daniel Webster)** (1941) - - Spine #214 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/622-all-that-money-can-buy-a-k-a-the-devil-and-daniel-webster)
> "Oh wow, there's another film that I love that you can almost never see. Occasionally on television. One of Walter Huston's greatest performances: The Devil and Daniel Webster."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VRJQYcNn0&t=124)
## Wim Wenders (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/634-wim-wenders-closet-picks)
- **Down by Law** (1986) - Jim Jarmusch - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/)
- **The 400 Blows** (1959) - François Truffaut - Spine #5 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/151-the-400-blows) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/)
- **The Cameraman** (1928) - Edward Sedgwick - Spine #1033 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29011-the-cameraman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018742/)
- **Kagemusha** (1980) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #267 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/948-kagemusha) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080979/)
- **Wanda** (1970) - Barbara Loden - Spine #965 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29450-wanda) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067961/)
- **Beau travail** (2000) - Claire Denis - Spine #1042 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29646-beau-travail) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209933/)
- **Until the End of the World** (2024) - Francesco De Augustinis - Spine #1007 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28767-until-the-end-of-the-world)
- **Au Hasard Balthazar** (1966) - Robert Bresson - Spine #297 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/455-au-hasard-balthazar) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060138/)
- **Mouchette** (1967) - Robert Bresson - Spine #363 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/456-mouchette) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061996/)
- **A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/369-a-story-of-floating-weeds-floating-weeds-two-films-by-yasujiro-ozu)
- **The Complete Jacques Tati** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1069-the-complete-jacques-tati)
## Winona Ryder (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAT_K_YQOA) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/677-winona-ryder-s-closet-picks)
- **Au revoir les enfants** (1987) - Louis Malle - Spine #330 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/549-au-revoir-les-enfants) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092593/)
> "So this is a great Louis Malle film. I think it's somewhat autobiographical. It's about a Catholic School in France in occupied France in World War II who are hiding a few Jewish kids and also a great example of how you could make a film about a war without actually seeing any violence but feeling the emotional toll and the emotional violence. Anyway, absolutely beautiful."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAT_K_YQOA&t=24)
- **The Learning Tree** (1969) - Gordon Parks - Spine #1107 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29636-the-learning-tree) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064579/)
> "I am going to pick The Learning Tree because I absolutely love Gordon Parks. He's one of my absolute favorite photographers of all time and he directed a few—he directed Shaft and he directed this and I haven't seen it for a while but I really, really love him. And if you're not familiar with his work, do yourself a favor, you will not regret looking at his absolutely stunning photographs."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAT_K_YQOA&t=64)
- **Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai** (1999) - Jim Jarmusch - Spine #1057 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31032-ghost-dog-the-way-of-the-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/)
> "Another absolute favorite, Ghost Dog by the brilliant Jim Jarmusch. I love every single movie he's made, every frame of every movie he's made. He's actually like he's one of my favorite people. Jim has this ability to get subtlety that really works in all of his films, but I really do, I really do love this one."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAT_K_YQOA&t=143)
- **Down by Law** (1986) - Jim Jarmusch - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/719-down-by-law) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/)
> "I feel like I mean this is an obvious one, Down by Law. Down by Law."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAT_K_YQOA&t=177)
- **Lost in America** (1985) - Albert Brooks - Spine #887 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29022-lost-in-america) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089504/)
> "Lost in America. I'm an enormous Albert Brooks fan. This is a particularly hilarious movie about a couple who's dropping out of society and the Desert Inn has heart. If there's an expression all the kids use, 'if you know you know.' Anyway, it's so great, it's so great, I love it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAT_K_YQOA&t=184)
- **Matewan** (1987) - John Sayles - Spine #999 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29461-matewan) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093509/)
> "I know I keep saying that these are my favorite movies, but this truly is. This is Matewan directed by John Sayles. I really put Matewan on the top of my list along with this..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAT_K_YQOA&t=214)
- **After Life** (1999) - Hirokazu Kore-eda - Spine #1089 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29081-after-life) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165078/)
> "After Life. It is a masterpiece. It's a movie about what happens when you die and you're sort of in between and they're trying to sort of figure out where you go and they ask each person to come up with a memory that they really remember that was a beautiful memory. The two most comforting sounds growing up for me was my dad's typewriter and my mom's footsteps. That would be what I would pick to live forever because that's when I felt their presence."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAT_K_YQOA&t=233)
- **John Cassavetes: Five Films** (5 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/558-john-cassavetes-five-films)
> "This five films, John Cassavetes. Gena Rowlands is I think the greatest actress who I've ever seen. Gena had a huge impact on me doing what I'm doing because my Mother was a projectionist and when I was very, very young I got to watch Cassavetes films at a really young age. I didn't really understand what was going on because I was too young, but I remember watching Gena and just that's I just wanted to do what she was doing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qAT_K_YQOA&t=98)
## Wyclef Jean (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDnpV7uUR1U) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/866-wyclef-jean-s-closet-picks)
- **Spartacus** (1960) - Stanley Kubrick - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/449-spartacus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/)
> "Let’s start with this. “I’m Spartacus.” “No, I’m Spartacus.” “No, I’m Spartacus.” Well, who the hell is Spartacus? I would say this is one of my favorite films. I was actually born in a place called Haiti. Haiti was the first Black republic to become free, in 1804. So, what I love most about the movie Spartacus is just the uprising, the idea of, “We’re no longer going to conform ourselves to what you want us to be,” and the idea of what freedom really is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDnpV7uUR1U&t=16)
- **La Bamba** (1987) - Luis Valdez - Spine #1193 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33769-la-bamba) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093378/)
> "La Bamba. Se necesita una poca de gracia. Una poca de gracia. Exactly. This is important for me because I’m an immigrant, and, coming to America, I had a dream. My English was terrible. But when I did an album called The Carnival, I defied language. Because what I learned from this story was that what’s bigger than language is cultural vibration. This was amazing. I ain’t going to lie to y’all, I did cry at the end of this. I ain’t let my girl see me tearing, but…..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDnpV7uUR1U&t=57)
- **Menace II Society** (1993) - Albert Hughes - Spine #1105 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31502-menace-ii-society) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107554/)
> "Menace II Society, the Hughes brothers. They always say film is an expression of self. So I would say with this, Menace II Society was us. It was, like, the community. We got a chance to see our Faces. And this is big for us because it was like our actual culture was on screen, our Shakespearean slang, ghetto, twisted language, people flipping the lingo. At the same time, we saw the reality of how something can go from being so beautiful to being tragic."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDnpV7uUR1U&t=158)
- **Black Orpheus** (1959) - Marcel Camus - Spine #48 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/)
> "One of my greatest movies of all times, Black Orpheus. When we talk about Black Orpheus, one of the things we talk about, how this thing is so colorful and how it’s just literally so incredibly shot within a structure where you’re using a lot of the natural light. Another thing that I loved about Black Orpheus, and I’m also inspired by that when I perform, they call me the Carnival Man, and I think in my shows I do take a piece of Black Orpheus with the idea of how the energy of Carnival."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDnpV7uUR1U&t=224)
- **The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers: Two Films by Richard Lester** (2 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7974-the-three-musketeers-the-four-musketeers-two-films-by-richard-lester)
> "Three Musketeers. When I see this movie, first thing I think about is my grandmother. That’s the era when we all had to sit in front of the television screen. “What did you learn from Three Musketeers? Now you tell me, what did you learn?” It’s like, one person can be an island by themselves. To get something done, you have to… Partnership is very important. Sometimes you might not like who your partner is, but sometimes you just have to get along for the better of peace."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDnpV7uUR1U&t=120)
## Yo La Tengo (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/557-yo-la-tengo-s-closet-picks)
- **The Daytrippers** (1997) - Greg Mottola - Spine #1001 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29464-the-daytrippers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116041/)
> "I am gonna pull out Greg Mottola's Daytrippers. Yeah, well, no, not this version. Nice. Oh, let me see that. Oh my God, that would be a good one., that is sharp."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw&t=14)
- **Black Girl** (1966) - Ousmane Sembène - Spine #852 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28849-black-girl) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060758/)
> "I have Black Girl directed by Ousmane Sembène, which I've—oh yeah, I've always wanted to see it. I've never seen it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw&t=36)
- **Beyond the Valley of the Dolls** (1970) - Russ Meyer - Spine #836 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28120-beyond-the-valley-of-the-dolls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065466/)
> "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. This is not a popular choice here, and I have to say I didn't choose it initially partly because I've seen it so many times and partly because I thought everybody must pick this movie. There's—this movie has everything. It has fantastic score. The Carrie Nations are really one of the great forgotten bands of all time. John Lazar... Z-Man... It's written by Roger Ebert. It's just an amazing—Charles Napier is in it. It's the greatest."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw&t=45)
- **I Wanna Hold Your Hand** (1978) - Robert Zemeckis - Spine #967 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29000-i-wanna-hold-your-hand) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077714/)
> "I'll take the other one. Cleaning out the closet. And it's got some extra—this is I Wanna Hold Your Hand, which is awesome."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw&t=108)
- **The Velvet Underground** (2021) - Todd Haynes - Spine #1164 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33386-the-velvet-underground) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7230750/)
> "This is Todd Haynes's Velvet Underground movie. Amazing movie, and I can't wait to see all this extra stuff he's got. There's never enough Jonathan Richman interviews in the world, so."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw&t=119)
- **Tokyo Story** (1953) - Yasujirō Ozu - Spine #217 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/284-tokyo-story) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046438/)
> "Tokyo Story. The Most Beautiful movie ever made. Keeping with my love of Godzilla movies, Japanese movies about family, always my favorite. Son of Godzilla also. I'm very much looking forward to watching that one again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw&t=131)
- **The Girl Can’t Help It** (1956) - Frank Tashlin - Spine #1120 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29605-the-girl-can-t-help-it) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049263/)
> "I've Got The Girl Can't Help It here and this Blu-ray also comes with a bonus commentary by WFMU's Gaylord Fields and Dave the Spaz and both hilarious erudite commentators I can't wait to hear what they have to say about this great movie..."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw&t=151)
- **Ministry of Fear** (1944) - Fritz Lang - Spine #649 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28065-ministry-of-fear) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037075/)
> "I'm sure I've seen this. Oh yeah, yeah, you've seen it. I don't remember. Ray Milland, Dan Duryea. The cake—the code is in the cake. And he—well, don't give it all away. I mean, you know, I want to be surprised again."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw&t=187)
- **Carnival of Souls** (1962) - Herk Harvey - Spine #63 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/607-carnival-of-souls) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055830/)
> "Carnival of Souls, though, that absolutely. I saw this movie at a film Festival in Boston in 1989 with Michael Cudahy, and director Herc Harvey introduced the movie and then stuck around afterwards and answered questions about it. And I think that was like kind of the unearthing of the film. Like it had just resurfaced and brought it back to the world. And it's a creepy-ass movie."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw&t=218)
- **The Complete Monterey Pop Festival** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/326-the-complete-monterey-pop-festival)
> "I'm pulling out Monterey Pop. Oh, excellent choice. Monterey Pop. Oh, that has that whole Tiny Tim backstage jam that I have not seen."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhICyf1kUUw&t=25)
## Yorgos Lanthimos (director)
Episode: 2016 | [Visit 1 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QAY9OY-ho4) | [Visit 2 Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFditJEjgjI)
- **Inland Empire** (2006) - David Lynch - Spine #1175 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30077-inland-empire) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460829/)
> "Well, let’s start with Inland Empire. I rewatched it recently after David Lynch died. I was looking forward to meet him one day. What he said about one of my films is my happiest moment in my film career. He had seen Dogtooth, and he said in an interview that he thought it was really funny. And I’m trying to find the actual clip of the L. A. Times and frame it. If anyone has that, please send it to me."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFditJEjgjI&t=17)
- **Carnal Knowledge** (1971) - Mike Nichols - Spine #1270 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28109-carnal-knowledge) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066892/)
> ", yes, Carnal Knowledge. Mike Nichols, in general, I think he’s an incredible filmmaker, both visually and the performances in this film. It could be quite tricky because the characters play themselves over a long period of time. It could feel kind of silly, but they… they do a great job out of it and they’re all incredible in this film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFditJEjgjI&t=63)
- **Mikey and Nicky** (1976) - Elaine May - Spine #957 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27895-mikey-and-nicky) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074901/)
> "And since we talked about Mike Nichols, Elaine May. We actually watched this film with Emma Stone before we made Bugonia. John Cassavetes is one of my favorite filmmakers ever, and this film by Elaine May has somehow both of their geniuses combined. And, of course, Peter Falk, also incredible. There’s something about this film, it feels so raw and crazy and intense, and I think it’s just, like, the perfect collaboration. Mikey and Nicky by Elaine May."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFditJEjgjI&t=99)
- **Black God, White Devil** (1964) - Glauber Rocha - Spine #1225 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/33537-black-god-white-devil) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058006/)
> "Black God, White Devil. I have heard so many things about this film and this filmmaker. And I haven’t watched any of them. I mean, I’ve watched clips, and it looks tremendous, unlike anything I’ve ever seen before, so I’m looking forward to watch this."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFditJEjgjI&t=156)
- **Persona** (1966) - Ingmar Bergman - Spine #701 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28491-persona) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060827/)
> "I mean, everyone knows this film, Persona, by Bergman, but I have a very fond memory watching a print of it in his theater in Fårö, in Sweden, with his chair there kind of having a very strong presence. So it’s a film I always go back to and always remember that day in his cinema."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFditJEjgjI&t=175)
- **Three Films by Luis Buñuel** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3900-three-films-by-luis-bunuel)
> "Oh, my favorite filmmaker ever. I couldn’t leave him out, Luis Buñuel. It’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire. I mean, I watch them often. And I guess Phantom of Liberty was quite inspiring for Kinds of Kindness, the structure of the three different films that are not necessarily related. And this looks like a bargain."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFditJEjgjI&t=212)
- **Ali: Fear Eats the Soul** (1974) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/152-ali-fear-eats-the-soul) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071141/)
- **12 Angry Men** (1957) - Sidney Lumet - Spine #591 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27871-12-angry-men) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/)
- **Salesman** (1969) - David Maysles - Spine #122 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/663-salesman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064921/)
- **Naked** (1993) - Mike Leigh - Spine #307 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/220-naked) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/)
- **Man Bites Dog** (1992) - Rémy Belvaux - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/718-man-bites-dog) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/)
- **Le Samouraï** (1967) - Jean-Pierre Melville - Spine #306 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/184-le-samourai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/)
- **Five Easy Pieces** (1970) - Bob Rafelson - Spine #546 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27529-five-easy-pieces) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065724/)
- **Viridiana** (1962) - Luis Buñuel - Spine #332 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/373-viridiana) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055601/)
- **Things to Come** (2019) - Ken Jacobs - Spine #660 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27552-things-to-come)
- **Branded to Kill** (1967) - Seijun Suzuki - Spine #38 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/576-branded-to-kill) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061882/)
- **Macbeth** (1971) - Roman Polanski - Spine #726 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28020-macbeth) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067372/)
- **Pickpocket** (1959) - Robert Bresson - Spine #314 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/229-pickpocket) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/)
- **Au Hasard Balthazar** (1966) - Robert Bresson - Spine #297 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/455-au-hasard-balthazar) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060138/)
## Zeinabu irene Davis (director)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Mi6YwElYw) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/774-zeinabu-irene-davis-s-closet-picks)
- **Black Orpheus** (1959) - Marcel Camus - Spine #48 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/344-black-orpheus) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053146/)
> "I’m going to start with my all-time favorite film, Black Orpheus, which… if you have any relatives who were around in the late ’50s, early ’60s, like my dad, you know, men of a certain generation, they all wanted to move to Brazil and marry Marpessa Dawn. So that goes in the bag."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Mi6YwElYw&t=12)
- **The Battle of Algiers** (1966) - Gillo Pontecorvo - Spine #249 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/248-the-battle-of-algiers) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/)
> "This film right here. Man, this film rocked my world. I saw this in film school. Damn. Battle of Algiers. You cannot say you are a film aficionado if you have not seen this film. You need to know about Battle of Algiers."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Mi6YwElYw&t=71)
- **Drylongso** (1999) - Cauleen Smith - Spine #1190 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/31648-drylongso) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181517/)
> "One of the best American independent filmmakers working and living today, Cauleen Smith. Drylongso. The way she uses color and composition in talking about, like, what’s happening in the ’90s in Oakland, California, and the artists’ process, and the love that she puts into the making of this film is just incredible."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Mi6YwElYw&t=143)
- **The Watermelon Woman** (1997) - Cheryl Dunye - Spine #1184 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/30705-the-watermelon-woman) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118125/)
> "And then my homie from Philly! Watermelon Woman, another classic. You got to know about Cheryl Dunye. Watermelon Woman, there you go."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Mi6YwElYw&t=170)
- **Saint Omer** (2022) - Alice Diop - Spine #1212 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/34051-saint-omer) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15376894/)
> "Saint Omer, Alice Diop. Golly! This makes you think hard and deep about parenting, motherhood, all kinds of fields. Truly, truly, truly a masterpiece, a courtroom drama. Masterpiece, masterpiece. You got to see it."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Mi6YwElYw&t=184)
- **Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits** [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3205-bruce-lee-his-greatest-hits)
> "Bruce Lee, kung-fu movies. Yes. Those were my jams, man. I think that’s probably, like, influenced… Anything that I wanted to learn about how you do cinematic movement, framing for action and things about shot sizes, etc., this box set will really kind of give you a whole lot of details. There’s a lot of things on, you know, the features. Don’t be snoozing on the features, folks."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Mi6YwElYw&t=36)
- **Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 4** (1 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/6183-martin-scorsese-s-world-cinema-project-no-4)
> "Then Martin Scorsese, in addition to being a great filmmaker, Martin Scorsese has this World Cinema Project. Sambizanga, this is, like, the very first feature film by a Black woman that’s made on the continent of Africa. So, Sambizanga from Angola, 1972. Beautiful film. Sarah Maldoror was the assistant director on… Battle of Algiers. There are some other great films on here, too. Muna moto is another really good film that you got to check out."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Mi6YwElYw&t=87)
- **Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/7304-three-revolutionary-films-by-ousmane-sembene)
> "Sembène Ousmane, come on. This particular one has Emitaï, Xala, and Ceddo. Xala is one of my personal favorites. It’s a critique of neocolonialism. It’s funny, it’s biting humor. It’s a book. You can read the novel. You can watch the film. It just provokes so much conversation from people whenever they watch it. It’s a really, really good film."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Mi6YwElYw&t=206)
## Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum (actor)
Episode: Unknown | [Full Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY) | [Criterion Page](https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/675-zoe-kravitz-and-channing-tatum-s-closet-picks)
- **A Woman Under the Influence** (1974) - John Cassavetes - Spine #253 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/510-a-woman-under-the-influence) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072417/)
> "Where do we begin here? A Woman Under the Influence. I love Cassavetes. Gena Rowlands' Performance in this is just one of the best things I've ever seen. Also when we watched it recently, the ending is so crazy, it kind of gets funny. I start thinking about my family and I'm like thinking about my Mom and Dad. I don't think I ever realized how incredible the ending of that movie is where it's just like, and that's what this family is like."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=24)
- **Harlan County, USA** (1977) - Barbara Kopple - Spine #334 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/777-harlan-county-usa) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074605/)
> "Just saw Barbara last night. This is Harlan County. Super punk rock at the time and she directed my very first movie. Barbara Kopple, she's—yeah, shout out to her."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=59)
- **Paris is Burning** (1991) - Jennie Livingston - Spine #1018 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29647-paris-is-burning) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100332/)
> "Paris is Burning, the best documentary of all time actually. Oh my god, look at this cover. The cinematography in this is—I don't think it'll be matched today. It's a place and time that you will never be captured again. It's incredible and just like beautiful and heartbreaking and honest. Me and my father, we quote this movie a lot. This is like your Godfather. 'Touch this skin, touch this skin.'"
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=75)
- **Lord of the Flies** (1990) - Harry Hook - Spine #43 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/563-lord-of-the-flies) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100054/)
> "Oh this is one I love, Lord of the Flies. I've never seen that, I'm excited to see that. I actually when I saw this come out on the Criterion Collection I fell in love with the artist so much, I think the artist's name is Kent Williams. Look at how beautiful it is."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=111)
- **The Vanishing** (1993) - George Sluizer - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/677-the-vanishing) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108473/)
> "The Vanishing, one of the scariest movies ever. It's so scary and goes to the—you do not think this film's going to go where you think it's going to go. Every time you go into a gas station and get anything, I'm just like, I just stare at the door."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=132)
- **Seven Samurai** (1954) - Akira Kurosawa - Spine #2 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/165-seven-samurai) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/)
> "I was in the Kurosawa section and he's like 'You like Kurosawa?' and I was like 'I don't know who that is' and he was like 'Well here is Rashomon and Seven Samurai, have a good Weekend.' And I had an amazing Weekend. I had to watch Rashomon almost three times I think because my brain was oozing out of my ears."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=183)
- **The Killer** (1956) - Hideo Sekigawa - Spine #8 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/27751-the-killing)
> "The Killing. Kubrick, love Kubrick. He's the all-time everything. I also love heist movies and it's also one of his earlier movies so there's something just really fresh and he's figuring it out. The blocking and everything, these masks are so creepy and amazing."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=197)
- **The Fisher King** (1991) - Terry Gilliam - Spine #764 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28719-the-fisher-king) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/)
> "Where's Fisher King? I don't know if I have a favorite that is better than the waltz that happens in Grand Central Station in this movie. Terry just stomped an absolute mud hole in that scene. Probably top Grand Central Station scene ever."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=218)
- **The Rose** (1979) - Mark Rydell - Spine #757 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/28572-the-rose) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079826/)
> "The Rose. Not biopic but Janis Joplin-esque story. Incredible singer becomes a superstar, fame destroys her, but just such a soulful and real Performance. This is one of my favorite movies and Bette Midler's Performance."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=237)
- **Moonstruck** (1987) - Norman Jewison - Spine #1056 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29154-moonstruck) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093565/)
> "Moonstruck. I love Moonstruck. See this movie. Long live—literally she's always at her peak. She's always peaking. Maintains her peak, she's still peaking. She just had a constant state of peak."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=260)
- **Midnight Cowboy** (1969) - John Schlesinger - Spine #925 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29369-midnight-cowboy) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/)
> "Midnight Cowboy, love this movie so much. Also one of my favorite scenes in this is when he goes upstairs with this woman and the TV's on and they fall in bed and it cuts to the TV and it's cutting and cutting... I just thought that was such a genius way to tell that story."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=280)
- **Thelma & Louise** (1991) - Ridley Scott - Spine #1180 - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/films/29164-thelma-louise) - [IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103074/)
> "Thelma & Louise. This is a perfect movie. I cry every single time. I love both these actors so much and the third, Brad Pitt. Oh well yeah, duh."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=321)
- **The Koker Trilogy** (3 films) [Box Set] - [Criterion](https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/2363-the-koker-trilogy)
> "I'm going to go with this one because I picked it up early. The Koker Trilogy. I'm going to do that as a parting gift of creative beauty."
[Watch this moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJqjhDImNcY&t=313)