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Lina Rodriguez

One visit, reaching 10 films in the collection.

30 Oct 2023

The writer-director of So Much Tenderness and This Time Tomorrow shares her love for the magnetic monstrousness of Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven , praises the visual grammar of Portrait of a Lady on Fire , and talks about “impossible love” in Flowers of Shanghai and Exotica .

Chose Director Year
1 Wanda Barbara Loden 1970
2 Leave Her to Heaven John M. Stahl 1945
3 Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma 2019
4 Bo Widerberg’s New Swedish Cinemabox set, 4 films
5 Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1972
6 Flowers of Shanghai Hou Hsiao-hsien 1998
7 Exotica Atom Egoyan 1994

Least-picked choice here: Bo Widerberg’s New Swedish Cinema , taken by nobody else.

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