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.
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.
| Guest | Shared | Jaccard | In 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 |