Closet Picks

writer and director

Lav Diaz

One visit, reaching 67 films in the collection.

15 Oct 2025

The writer and director of Magellan praises the use of silence and space in Le samouraï, talks about how Mike Leigh and Kenji Mizoguchi explore the human condition in their films, and selects his good friend Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies.

Chose Director Year
1 Lost Highway David Lynch 1997
2 The Apu Trilogybox set, 3 films
3 The Leopard Luchino Visconti 1963
4 Le samouraï Jean-Pierre Melville 1967
5 Essential Fellinibox set, 14 films
6 Ingmar Bergman’s Cinemabox set, 40 films
7 I Am Cuba Mikhail Kalatozov 1964
8 Werckmeister Harmonies Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky 2000
9 Naked Mike Leigh 1993
10 Persona Ingmar Bergman 1966
11 Ugetsu Kenji Mizoguchi 1953
12 Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costabox set, 3 films

Least-picked choice here: Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa , taken by nobody else.

Watch the video · On criterion.com · This visit

Closest taste

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

GuestSharedJaccardIn common
Christoph Waltz 2 0.125 Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, Werckmeister Harmonies
Barbara Sukowa 2 0.118 Naked, The Leopard
Nuri Bilge Ceylan 2 0.118 Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, The Apu Trilogy
Yorgos Lanthimos 3 0.107 Le samouraï, Naked, Persona
Callum Turner 2 0.095 Naked, The Leopard