The Criterion Collection
The director of The Right Stuff and The Unbearable Lightness of Being selects a group of films that he hopes will inspire him in his own work, including Amarcord, The Wages of Fear, Fanny and Alexander, and The Battle of...
The Oscar-winning costume designer recalls a memorable screening of Down by Law in Rome and explains what makes the Italian classics Bicycle Thieves and The Leopard so revelatory.
The director of Something Wild reminisces about his encounters with John Cassavetes, Jean Renoir, and David Lean.
The director of Creep, The Overnight, and Corporate Animals calls Wings of Desire the film that made him want to make movies, talks about his belated discovery of All That Jazz, and pays tribute to Wes Anderson.
The beloved actor shouts out the brilliance of Marlon Brando, calls Dazed and Confused “a staple” of any good film library, and salutes the magic of Charlie Chaplin.
The writer-director talks about the Yasujiro Ozu classic that inspired his film Little Men, the underrated work of Francesco Rosi, the golden age of repertory cinema in New York City, and a college course in which he studied Shoah for...
The influential cinematographer talks about films that informed his visual style, praises the complexity and simplicity of Yi Yi, and analyzes the opening sequence of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors: Blue.
The visionary filmmaker bags favorite movies by Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, Byron Haskin, and Terrence Malick.
The actor, who stars in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, highlights a Clu Gulager performance that the director recommended to him, recounts how his wife introduced him to An Unmarried Woman, and shares his mother’s favorite movie
The actor, whose work includes Barbie and Bad Things, praises Luis Buñuel’s thorny explorations of desire, shares her Powell and Pressburger favorites, and shouts out the visionary costume and production design of Eiko Ishioka.