Closet Picks

7 Sept 2025

Guillermo del Toro’s Closet Picks

The Criterion Closet’s very first guest stops by the Mobile Closet at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he examines the technical brilliance of a scene in Notorious, shares why he feels a kinship with Wes Anderson, and talks about drawing inspiration from Martin Scorsese’s powerful explorations of repression.

Choices
10
Single films
9
Box sets
1
Chose Director Year
1 The Red Shoes Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1948
2 Notorious Alfred Hitchcock 1946
3 Black Narcissus Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1947
4 Salesman David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin 1969
5 All That Heaven Allows Douglas Sirk 1955
6 The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Yearsbox set, 10 films
7 Roma Federico Fellini 1972
8 Roma Alfonso Cuarón 2018
9 The Age of Innocence Martin Scorsese 1993
10 Au revoir les enfants Louis Malle 1987

Watch the video · On criterion.com