27 Oct 2025
Kathryn Bigelow’s Closet Picks
The writer and director talks about the innovative low-budget filmmaking of Detour, shares her love for The Battle of Algiers and its unrelenting “metronome of tension,” and praises Costa-Gavras as the inventor of the political thriller.
- Choices
- 8
- Single films
- 8
- Box sets
- 0
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1945 |
| 2 | The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 |
| 3 | Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | 1971 |
| 4 | Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1969 |
| 5 | The Confession | Costa-Gavras | 1970 |
| 6 | Hiroshima mon amour | Alain Resnais | 1959 |
| 7 | Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
| 8 | The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | Alfred Hitchcock | 1927 |