editor
David Remnick
One visit, reaching 18 films in the collection.
11 Nov 2025
The editor of the New Yorker feels honored by the tribute to the magazine in The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, urges patience to appreciate Stan Brakhage’s experimental cinema, and finds parallels between the experiences of watching Robert Bresson’s films and listening to Bach.
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | 1956 |
| 2 | Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| 3 | Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser | Charlotte Zwerin | 1988 |
| 4 | Burden of Dreams | Les Blank | 1982 |
| 5 | Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | 1960 |
| 6 | By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Twobox set, 2 films | ||
| 7 | King Lear | Jean-Luc Godard | 1987 |
| 8 | The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Yearsbox set, 10 films | ||
| 9 | The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun | Wes Anderson | 2021 |
Least-picked choice here: Shoot the Piano Player , taken by nobody else.
Closest taste
Guests who chose the most of the same things. Anyone filmed alongside David Remnick is left out, since they picked from one list.
| Guest | Shared | Jaccard | In common |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elijah Wood | 2 | 0.111 | The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years, Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser |