Closet Picks

3 May 2024

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Closet Picks

The Oscar-winning writer and director talks about Army of Shadows and Jean-Pierre Melville’s cinema of betrayal, shares his love for Denis Lavant's dancing in Beau travail, and selects favorites by Yasujiro Ozu, Ernst Lubitsch, and Nicholas Ray.

Choices
15
Single films
12
Box sets
3
Chose Director Year
1 Late Spring Yasujiro Ozu 1949
2 Army of Shadows Jean-Pierre Melville 1969
3 La haine Mathieu Kassovitz 1995
4 Toni Jean Renoir 1935
5 Beau travail Claire Denis 1999
6 Until the End of the World Wim Wenders 1991
7 John Cassavetes: Five Filmsbox set, 6 films
8 Heaven Can Wait Ernst Lubitsch 1943
9 A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozubox set, 2 films
10 The Essential Jacques Demybox set, 6 films
11 Judex Georges Franju 1963
12 Bigger Than Life Nicholas Ray 1956
13 Fists in the Pocket Marco Bellocchio 1965
14 Cure Kiyoshi Kurosawa 1997
15 My Darling Clementine John Ford 1946

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