12 Oct 2023
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Closet Picks
The award-winning writer, director, producer, and critic shouts out a Marlon Riggs retrospective he programmed in Brazil, recalls watching Albert Brooks’s Lost in America on VHS in the eighties, and shares how Agnès Varda became an “imaginary friend” to him when he made his film Pictures of Ghosts.
- Choices
- 9
- Single films
- 6
- Box sets
- 3
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After Hours | Martin Scorsese | 1985 |
| 2 | The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice | 1973 |
| 3 | The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggsbox set, 7 films | ||
| 4 | Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 |
| 5 | Lost in America | Albert Brooks | 1985 |
| 6 | Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3box set, 6 films | ||
| 7 | A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | 1991 |
| 8 | The Complete Films of Agnès Vardabox set, 22 films | ||
| 9 | Don’t Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | 1973 |