Closet Picks

19 Mar 2026

Sophy Romvari’s Closet Picks

The writer and director of Blue Heron shares how John Cassavetes inspired her own approach to independent filmmaking, praises The Watermelon Woman and Not a Pretty Picture as essential works of hybrid cinema, and talks about her personal connection to Jules and Jim .

Choices
5
Single films
5
Box sets
0
Chose Director Year
1 A Woman Under the Influence John Cassavetes 1974
2 The Watermelon Woman Cheryl Dunye 1996
3 Not a Pretty Picture Martha Coolidge 1975
4 Jules and Jim François Truffaut 1962
5 Girlfriends Claudia Weill 1978

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