Closet Picks

16 Jun 2025

David Byrne’s Closet Picks

The legendary musician, filmmaker, and visual artist talks about The Color of Pomegranates and how it challenges the idea of what a film can be, shouts out Neil Young’s Dead Man score, and shares his affection for the sentimentality in A Matter of Life and Death.

Choices
6
Single films
5
Box sets
1
Chose Director Year
1 The Complete Jacques Tatibox set, 6 films
2 The Color of Pomegranates Sergei Parajanov 1969
3 Dead Man Jim Jarmusch 1995
4 A Matter of Life and Death Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1946
5 The 39 Steps Alfred Hitchcock 1935
6 True Stories David Byrne 1986

Watch the video · On criterion.com