Closet Picks

16 Dec 2014

Mike Leigh’s Closet Picks

The legendary English director talks about discovering world cinema in his teenage years, the ways that Vivre sa vie gets to the “raw core of life,” the humor and politics in The Firemen’s Ball, and his experiences as a film student in London.

Choices
9
Single films
9
Box sets
0
Chose Director Year
1 Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica 1948
2 Vivre sa vie Jean-Luc Godard 1962
3 A Hard Day’s Night Richard Lester 1964
4 Late Spring Yasujiro Ozu 1949
5 The Firemen’s Ball Miloš Forman 1967
6 Berlin Alexanderplatz Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1980
7 Jules and Jim François Truffaut 1962
8 Divorce Italian Style Pietro Germi 1961
9 Judex Georges Franju 1963

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