Closet Picks

6 Feb 2024

Paul Giamatti’s Closet Picks

The award-winning actor talks about his childhood experience seeing Carnival of Souls and his love for low-budget horror treasures, shares how Blue Velvet ignited his desire to become an actor and why Rashomon always moves him to tears, and praises the performances in John Frankenheimer’s Seconds.

Choices
8
Single films
7
Box sets
1
Chose Director Year
1 Carnival of Souls Herk Harvey 1962
2 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1943
3 Rashomon Akira Kurosawa 1950
4 Solaris Andrei Tarkovsky 1972
5 Cat People Jacques Tourneur 1942
6 Seconds John Frankenheimer 1966
7 Blue Velvet David Lynch 1986
8 Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitkobox set, 2 films

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