Closet Picks

1 Apr 2023

François Girard’s Closet Picks

The writer and director reminisces about seeing Short Cuts at the Venice Film Festival, selects Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence out of love for Ryuichi Sakamoto, and takes home the one Stanley Kubrick film he hasn’t see.

Choices
10
Single films
9
Box sets
1
Chose Director Year
1 Rashomon Akira Kurosawa 1950
2 Short Cuts Robert Altman 1993
3 The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick 1998
4 Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence Nagisa Oshima 1983
5 The Killing Stanley Kubrick 1956
6 Macbeth Roman Polanski 1971
7 Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Mallebox set, 7 films
8 Othello Orson Welles 1952
9 L’argent Robert Bresson 1983
10 Exotica Atom Egoyan 1994

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