Closet Picks

16 Jan 2026

Jim Jarmusch’s Closet Picks

The writer and director pays tribute to the late Béla Tarr, shares his love for the way Andrei Tarkovsky merged poetry and cinema, and suggests watching a double bill of Black Girl and I Knew Her Well.

Choices
8
Single films
7
Box sets
1
Chose Director Year
1 Pasolini 101box set, 9 films
2 Werckmeister Harmonies Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky 2000
3 Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky 1975
4 Black Girl Ousmane Sembène 1966
5 Love Streams John Cassavetes 1984
6 Il sorpasso Dino Risi 1962
7 I Knew Her Well Antonio Pietrangeli 1965
8 Pickup on South Street Samuel Fuller 1953

Watch the video · On criterion.com