filmmaker
Ari Aster
2 visits, reaching 41 films in the collection.
18 Jul 2025
The filmmaker returns to the Criterion Closet, where he praises seventies thrillers like The Parallax View and Straw Dogs , talks about You Can Count on Me and how “no one writes dialogue like Kenneth Lonergan,” and connects Targets to his film Eddington .
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winchester ’73 | Anthony Mann | 1950 |
| 2 | The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | 1974 |
| 3 | Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | 1974 |
| 4 | Revanche | Götz Spielmann | 2008 |
| 5 | Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | 1971 |
| 6 | Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |
| 7 | A Face in the Crowd | Elia Kazan | 1957 |
| 8 | Wanda | Barbara Loden | 1970 |
| 9 | Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 |
| 10 | Graduation | Cristian Mungiu | 2016 |
| 11 | The Grifters | Stephen Frears | 1990 |
| 12 | You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan | 2000 |
| 13 | The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1953 |
| 14 | Lone Star | John Sayles | 1996 |
| 15 | The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | 1971 |
| 16 | Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | 1968 |
| 17 | Young Mr. Lincoln | John Ford | 1939 |
| 18 | My Darling Clementine | John Ford | 1946 |
| 19 | No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | 2007 |
Least-picked choice here: Revanche , taken by nobody else.
1 Apr 2023
The director of Beau Is Afraid talks about one of the best experiences he’s had in a movie theater, the inspiration he’s taken from Karel Zeman, and the possibility that Cure is “the greatest movie ever made.”
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Closely Watched Trains | Jiří Menzel | 1966 |
| 2 | Michael Haneke: Trilogybox set, 3 films | ||
| 3 | Daisies | Věra Chytilová | 1966 |
| 4 | Cure | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 1997 |
| 5 | Mr. Klein | Joseph Losey | 1976 |
| 6 | The Koker Trilogybox set, 3 films | ||
| 7 | La poison | Sacha Guitry | 1951 |
| 8 | Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zemanbox set, 3 films | ||
| 9 | The New World | Terrence Malick | 2005 |
| 10 | Secret Sunshine | Lee Chang-dong | 2007 |
| 11 | Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1964 |
| 12 | Che | Steven Soderbergh | 2008 |
| 13 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Paul Schrader | 1985 |
| 14 | Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | 1956 |
| 15 | Brand upon the Brain! | Guy Maddin | 2006 |
| 16 | Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg | 1971 |
Least-picked choice here: Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman , taken by nobody else.
Closest taste
Guests who chose the most of the same things. Anyone filmed alongside Ari Aster is left out, since they picked from one list.
| Guest | Shared | Jaccard | In common |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marc Maron | 3 | 0.070 | A Face in the Crowd, Ace in the Hole, My Darling Clementine |
| Ryusuke Hamaguchi | 3 | 0.064 | Bigger Than Life, Cure, My Darling Clementine |
| Denis Villeneuve | 2 | 0.050 | Che, The Wages of Fear |
| Atom Egoyan | 2 | 0.049 | Michael Haneke: Trilogy, Walkabout |
| Billy Crudup | 2 | 0.049 | My Darling Clementine, No Country for Old Men |