Closet Picks

5 Nov 2017

Euzhan Palcy’s Closet Picks

The trailblazing director of A Dry White Season reminisces about her childhood love of Hitchcock, the kindness that François Truffaut showed her, and a Brazilian classic that changed her life.

Choices
11
Single films
9
Box sets
2
Chose Director Year
1 Black Orpheus Marcel Camus 1959
2 The Lady Vanishes Alfred Hitchcock 1938
3 Cronos Guillermo del Toro 1993
4 The Naked Island Kaneto Shindo 1960
5 The Devil’s Backbone Guillermo del Toro 2001
6 Pan’s Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro 2006
7 A Dry White Season Euzhan Palcy 1989
8 The 400 Blows François Truffaut 1959
9 John Cassavetes: Five Filmsbox set, 6 films
10 A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergmanbox set, 3 films
11 Love Streams John Cassavetes 1984

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