Closet Picks

1 Apr 2023

Ari Aster’s Closet Picks 2023

The director of Beau Is Afraid talks about one of the best experiences he’s had in a movie theater, the inspiration he’s taken from Karel Zeman, and the possibility that Cure is “the greatest movie ever made.”

Choices
16
Single films
13
Box sets
3
Chose Director Year
1 Closely Watched Trains Jiří Menzel 1966
2 Michael Haneke: Trilogybox set, 3 films
3 Daisies Věra Chytilová 1966
4 Cure Kiyoshi Kurosawa 1997
5 Mr. Klein Joseph Losey 1976
6 The Koker Trilogybox set, 3 films
7 La poison Sacha Guitry 1951
8 Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zemanbox set, 3 films
9 The New World Terrence Malick 2005
10 Secret Sunshine Lee Chang-dong 2007
11 Woman in the Dunes Hiroshi Teshigahara 1964
12 Che Steven Soderbergh 2008
13 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Paul Schrader 1985
14 Bigger Than Life Nicholas Ray 1956
15 Brand upon the Brain! Guy Maddin 2006
16 Walkabout Nicolas Roeg 1971

Watch the video · On criterion.com