Closet Picks

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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.

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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.

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Elijah Wood 2 0.111 The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years, Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser