Closet Picks

11 Oct 2023

Catherine Breillat’s Closet Picks

The legendary French auteur talks about the intimacy of discovering yourself in cinema, shares her lifelong connection to Viridiana and Black Orpheus, and praises directors whose work continues to inspire and transport her, from Elia Kazan and David Lynch to Shohei Imamura and Andrei Tarkovsky.

Choices
7
Single films
6
Box sets
1
Chose Director Year
1 Viridiana Luis Buñuel 1961
2 Eraserhead David Lynch 1977
3 On the Waterfront Elia Kazan 1954
4 Vengeance Is Mine Shohei Imamura 1979
5 Black Orpheus Marcel Camus 1959
6 Andrei Rublev Andrei Tarkovsky 1966
7 Ingmar Bergman’s Cinemabox set, 40 films

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