Closet Picks

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

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