Closet Picks

2 Aug 2024

Lee Daniels’s Closet Picks

The writer-director talks about how Federico Fellini and John Waters gave him the passion and confidence to become a filmmaker, shares his poignant experience watching Claudine as a young man, and selects favorites such as Pickup on South Street, Do the Right Thing, and The Piano.

Choices
9
Single films
8
Box sets
1
Chose Director Year
1 Federico Fellini 1963
2 Essential Fellinibox set, 14 films
3 Do the Right Thing Spike Lee 1989
4 Querelle Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1982
5 Female Trouble John Waters 1974
6 Pickup on South Street Samuel Fuller 1953
7 The Piano Jane Campion 1993
8 Claudine John Berry 1974
9 Spartacus Stanley Kubrick 1960

Watch the video · On criterion.com