Claire’s Knee

The actress and model, who stars in the recently released feature Assassination Nation, goes deep into her favorite films that illustrate her ideas on “chaotic femininity.”

Sean Baker is a writer/director and cocreator of the television show Greg the Bunny. His movies include Prince of Broadway (2008), Starlet (2012), and Tangerine (2015).

Theater directors, filmmakers, writers, actors, and longtime friends André Gregory and Wallace Shawn have collaborated on three movies together: My Dinner with André (1981), Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), and A Master Builder (2014).

The British comedian, actor, writer, and director Richard Ayoade is best known for his starring role on the UK television series The IT Crowd and his successful directorial debut Submarine, which was released in the U.S. in 2011.

In compiling his top ten, Elmes, who shot The Ice Storm and Ride with the Devil, chose those films, he says, “that influenced me most.”