Closet Picks

writer, director, producer and critic

Kleber Mendonça Filho

One visit, reaching 41 films in the collection.

12 Oct 2023

The award-winning writer, director, producer, and critic shouts out a Marlon Riggs retrospective he programmed in Brazil, recalls watching Albert Brooks’s Lost in America on VHS in the eighties, and shares how Agnès Varda became an “imaginary friend” to him when he made his film Pictures of Ghosts.

Chose Director Year
1 After Hours Martin Scorsese 1985
2 The Spirit of the Beehive Víctor Erice 1973
3 The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggsbox set, 7 films
4 Barry Lyndon Stanley Kubrick 1975
5 Lost in America Albert Brooks 1985
6 Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3box set, 6 films
7 A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang 1991
8 The Complete Films of Agnès Vardabox set, 22 films
9 Don’t Look Now Nicolas Roeg 1973

Least-picked choice here: Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3 , taken by 3 other visits.

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Closest taste

Guests who chose the most of the same things. Anyone filmed alongside Kleber Mendonça Filho is left out, since they picked from one list.

GuestSharedJaccardIn common
Michelle Zauner 2 0.167 A Brighter Summer Day, The Spirit of the Beehive
Charlie Day 2 0.125 Barry Lyndon, The Complete Films of Agnès Varda
Nia DaCosta 2 0.125 Barry Lyndon, The Complete Films of Agnès Varda
Cheryl Dunye 2 0.118 The Complete Films of Agnès Varda, The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs
Hlynur Pálmason 2 0.118 Barry Lyndon, The Spirit of the Beehive