Closet Picks

writer and director

François Girard

One visit, reaching 16 films in the collection.

1 Apr 2023

The writer and director reminisces about seeing Short Cuts at the Venice Film Festival, selects Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence out of love for Ryuichi Sakamoto, and takes home the one Stanley Kubrick film he hasn’t see.

Chose Director Year
1 Rashomon Akira Kurosawa 1950
2 Short Cuts Robert Altman 1993
3 The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick 1998
4 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Oshima 1983
5 The Killing Stanley Kubrick 1956
6 Macbeth Roman Polanski 1971
7 Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Mallebox set, 7 films
8 Othello Orson Welles 1952
9 L’argent Robert Bresson 1983
10 Exotica Atom Egoyan 1994

Least-picked choice here: The Thin Red Line , taken by 1 other visits.

Watch the video · On criterion.com · This visit