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2010

Guillermo del Toro (September 22, 2010)

Guillermo del Toro

Criterion citation: "In the very first entry in our Closet Picks series, shot in 2010, the director of Pan's Labyrinth selects favorite films by Stanley Donen, Terrence Malick, and Ingmar Bergman."

Film	Director	Ref
The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
The 400 Blows	François Truffaut
Charade	Stanley Donen
Crumb	Terry Zwigoff
The Thin Red Line	Terrence Malick
The Magician	Ingmar Bergman
Repulsion	Roman Polanski
Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick

Volker Schlöndorff (October 10, 2010)

Volker Schlöndorff

Criterion citation: "The director of The Tin Drum and Young Törless says a prayer to the spirits of the closet and makes a beeline for a masterpiece by Michelangelo Antonioni."

Film	Director	Ref
L'Eclisse	Michelangelo Antonioni
All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
Coup de Grâce	Volker Schlöndorff
Boyhood	Richard Linklater
Le Beau Serge	Claude Chabrol
Le Havre	Aki Kaurismäki
Ace in the Hole	Billy Wilder

2011

Michael K. Williams (March 1, 2011)

Michael K. Williams

Criterion citation: "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."

Film	Director	Ref
Gomorrah	Matteo Garrone
The Fugitive Kind	Sidney Lumet
Hunger	Steve McQueen
The Night of the Hunter	Charles Laughton
Dazed and Confused	Richard Linklater
Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin

Bill Hader (March 2, 2011)

Bill Hader

Criterion citation: "The Emmy-winning actor tells us his perverse choice for 'the best date movie on earth' and talks about a film recommended to him by Seth Meyers."

Film	Director	Ref
Amarcord	Federico Fellini
House	Nobuhiko Obayashi
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Green for Danger	Sidney Gilliat
Loves of a Blonde	Miloš Forman
The Daytrippers	Greg Mottola
Antichrist	Lars von Trier

Guy Maddin (April 18, 2011)

Guy Maddin

Criterion citation: "The visionary filmmaker bags favorite movies by Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, Byron Haskin, and Terrence Malick."

Film	Director	Ref
L'Avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni
The Night Porter	Liliana Cavani
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm	William Greaves
Mouchette	Robert Bresson
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs	Mikio Naruse
W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism	Dušan Makavejev
Robinson Crusoe on Mars	Byron Haskin

Alec Baldwin (July 1, 2011)

Alec Baldwin

Criterion citation: "The actor tries not to 'get greedy' and zeroes in on a few choices for his friends."

Film	Director	Ref
3:10 to Yuma	Delmer Daves
Trilogy of Life	Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Magician	Ingmar Bergman

Robert Downey Sr. (September 12, 2011)

Criterion citation: "During one of his frequent visits to our office, the iconoclastic filmmaker shared memories of his talented friends, including Jack Nicholson, Rudy Wurlitzer, and John Cassavetes."

Film	Director	Ref
8½	Federico Fellini
America, Lost and Found	Lance Bird, Tom Johnson
Two-Lane Blacktop	Monte Hellman
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes

André Bonzel (October 1, 2011)

Criterion citation: "The codirector of Man Bites Dog praises the production design in The Scarlet Empress, the "total magic" of Brazil, and the joys of silent cinema."

Film	Director	Ref
The 400 Blows	François Truffaut
Stranger Than Paradise	Jim Jarmusch
The Scarlet Empress	Josef von Sternberg
Brazil	Terry Gilliam
House	Nobuhiko Obayashi

Adrian Utley (October 5, 2011)

Adrian Utley

Criterion citation: "The musician and member of Portishead talks about the overwhelming experience of watching Antichrist, a score he cowrote for The Passion of Joan of Arc, and his memory of a BBC broadcast of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence."

Film	Director	Ref
Antichrist	Lars von Trier
Ratcatcher	Lynne Ramsay
The Passion of Joan of Arc	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence	Nagisa Ōshima
The 39 Steps	Alfred Hitchcock

2012

Philip Kaufman

Philip Kaufman (April 12, 2012)

Criterion citation: "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 Algiers."

Film	Director	Ref
Amarcord	Federico Fellini
The Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot
Crumb	Terry Zwigoff
Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman
The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo
Stage and Spectacle	Jean Renoir

Harris Savides (April 23, 2012)

Criterion citation: "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."

Film	Director	Ref
Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica
The Night of the Hunter	Charles Laughton
Yi Yi	Edward Yang
Three Colours	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Solaris	Andrei Tarkovsky
L'Avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni

Brothers Quay (August 3, 2012)

Stephen and Timothy Quay

Criterion citation: "The filmmaking duo talk about their love of black-and-white cinema, the influence of Carl Theodor Dreyer, and the epic scope of The Human Condition."

Film	Director	Ref
Vampyr	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle	Louis Malle
The Human Condition	Masaki Kobayashi
Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy	Aki Kaurismäki
Le Havre	Aki Kaurismäki

Jack Garfein (September 25, 2012)

Criterion citation: "The director of Something Wild reminisces about his encounters with John Cassavetes, Jean Renoir, and David Lean."

Film	Director	Ref
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
Stage and Spectacle	Jean Renoir
Carl Theodor Dreyer	Carl Theodor Dreyer
David Lean Directs Noël Coward	David Lean

2013

James Acheson (January 30, 2013)

Criterion citation: "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."

Film	Director	Ref
Down by Law	Jim Jarmusch
Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica
The Leopard	Luchino Visconti

Richard Ayoade (April 1, 2013)

Richard Ayoade

Criterion citation: "The actor and director talks about the pleasures of watching Zazie dans le métro on a regular basis and his affinity for the films of Aki Kaurismäki."

Film	Director	Ref
Sisters	Brian De Palma
The Magic Flute	Ingmar Bergman
Zazie dans le Métro	Louis Malle
Le Havre	Aki Kaurismäki
Les Cousins	Claude Chabrol
Safety Last!	Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor

Nicolas Winding Refn (July 19, 2013)

Nicolas Winding Refn

Criterion citation: "The director of Drive expresses his adoration of Andrei Tarkovsky, calls Quadrophenia the epitome of rock and roll, and remembers asking Elia Kazan for filmmaking advice."

Film	Director	Ref
Ivan's Childhood	Andrei Tarkovsky
Quadrophenia	Franc Roddam
Bigger Than Life	Nicholas Ray
Insignificance	Nicolas Roeg
Repo Man	Alex Cox
Things to Come	William Cameron Menzies
On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan

Alfonso Cuarón and Paweł Pawlikowski (October 4, 2013)

Criterion citation: "The two director friends recommend a few favorites to each other."

Film	Director	Ref
Vivre sa vie	Jean-Luc Godard
The Firemen's Ball	Miloš Forman
The Complete Jean Vigo	Jean Vigo
To Be or Not to Be	Ernst Lubitsch
Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko	Larisa Shepitko
Masculin Féminin	Jean-Luc Godard
The Virgin Spring	Ingmar Bergman
This Sporting Life	Lindsay Anderson
Naked	Mike Leigh
Lola Montes	Max Ophüls

2014

Edgar Wright (May 10, 2014)

Edgar Wright

Criterion citation: "The genre-obsessed British director celebrates cult classics that have made a deep impression on him."

Film	Director	Ref
Eyes Without a Face	Georges Franju
Walker	Alex Cox
Throne of Blood	Akira Kurosawa
Don't Look Now	Nicolas Roeg

André Gregory and Wallace Shawn (May 10, 2014)

Criterion citation: "The stars of My Dinner with André swap some of their most indelible cinematic memories, including an encounter with Michelangelo Antonioni and the childhood experience of watching classic films on television."

Film	Director	Ref
Weekend	Jean-Luc Godard
L'Eclisse	Michelangelo Antonioni
Red Desert
Eating Raoul	Paul Bartel
André Gregory and Wallace Shawn: 3 Films	André Gregory, Wallace Shawn
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Michael Cera (May 19, 2014)

Michael Cera

Criterion citation: "The actor talks about his passion for Japanese cinema, champions fellow Canadian Allan King, and reminisces about movies he's enjoyed with friends."

Film	Director	Ref
Good Morning	Yasujirō Ozu
Close-Up	Abbas Kiarostami
Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King	Allan King
Tootsie	Sydney Pollack

Bong Joon-ho (June 27, 2014)

Bong Joon-ho

Criterion citation: "The celebrated filmmaker talks about Nastassja Kinski's Korean fanbase, his favorite of Akira Kurosawa's Shakespeare adaptations, and the DVD that Park Chan-wook swiped from him."

Film	Director	Ref
Tess	Roman Polanski
Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu
Throne of Blood	Akira Kurosawa
The Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot
Picnic at Hanging Rock	Peter Weir
Eclipse Series 21: Oshima's Outlaw Sixties	Nagisa Ōshima
Koyaanisqatsi	Godfrey Reggio
Cronos	Guillermo del Toro
Medium Cool	Haskell Wexler
Repo Man	Alex Cox

William Friedkin (September 22, 2014)

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-winning director marvels at 'the history of world cinema' contained in our collection and selects favorites by Vittorio De Sica, Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin, and Federico Fellini."

Film	Director	Ref
Sunday Bloody Sunday	John Schlesinger
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie	John Cassavetes
Vampyr	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Pickpocket	Robert Bresson
Umberto D.	Vittorio De Sica
All That Money Can Buy	William Dieterle
M	Fritz Lang
Brute Force	Jules Dassin
8½	Federico Fellini

Slavoj Žižek (September 26, 2014)

Slavoj Žižek

Criterion citation: "The philosopher names Trouble in Paradise 'Ernst Lubitsch's ultimate masterpiece,' praises Peter Weir's early films, and calls the final scene of City Lights 'the most sublime ending.'"

Film	Director	Ref
Trouble in Paradise	Ernst Lubitsch
Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick
Picnic at Hanging Rock	Peter Weir
Murmur of the Heart	Louis Malle
Eclipse Series 32: Pearls of the Czech New Wave	Various directors
Stranger Than Paradise	Jim Jarmusch
Great Expectations	David Lean
Eclipse Series 14: Rossellini's History Films—Renaissance and Enlightenment	Roberto Rossellini
City Lights	Charlie Chaplin
Carl Theodor Dreyer	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Y tu mamá también	Alfonso Cuarón
Antichrist	Lars von Trier

Asif Kapadia (December 16, 2014)

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-winning director of Amy talks about how Do the Right Thing became a major influence on his work, the overwhelming tension of an infamous scene in Code Unknown, and his love of Ken Loach's early work."

Film	Director	Ref
Simon of the Desert	Luis Buñuel
Blind Chance	Krzysztof Kieślowski
In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Don't Look Now	Nicolas Roeg
The Vanishing	George Sluizer
Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion	Elio Petri
Code Unknown	Michael Haneke
Three Outlaw Samurai	Hideo Gosha
Yi Yi	Edward Yang
Samurai Trilogy	Hiroshi Inagaki
Kes	Ken Loach
Gomorrah	Matteo Garrone

Mike Leigh (December 16, 2014)

Mike Leigh

Criterion citation: "The legendary English director talks about discovering world cinema in his teenage years, the ways that Vivre sa vie gets to the 'raw core of life,' the humor and politics in The Firemen's Ball, and his experiences as a film student in London."

Film	Director	Ref
Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica
Vivre sa vie	Jean-Luc Godard
A Hard Day's Night	Richard Lester
Late Spring	Yasujirō Ozu
The Firemen's Ball	Miloš Forman
Berlin Alexanderplatz	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Jules and Jim	François Truffaut
Divorce Italian Style	Pietro Germi
Judex	Georges Franju

2015

Ruben Östlund (January 10, 2015)

Criterion citation: "The Palme d'Or–winning director praises Catherine Breillat's cinematic exploration of sexuality, talks about Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes's collaborations, and shares a story from the set of one of his films."

Film	Director	Ref
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Three Films by Luis Buñuel	Luis Buñuel
Fat Girl	Catherine Breillat
Love Streams	John Cassavetes
Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica
Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman

Yorgos Lanthimos and Ariane Labed (June 10, 2015)

Yorgos Lanthimos

Criterion citation: "During their trip inside our closet, the Greek director and actor (who are married) share their love of Robert Bresson, Jean-Pierre Melville, Luis Buñuel, and the Maysles' Salesman, 'the best documentary ever made.'"

Ariane Labed

Film	Director	Ref
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet
Salesman	Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Naked	Mike Leigh
Man Bites Dog	Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
Le Samouraï	Jean-Pierre Melville
Five Easy Pieces	Bob Rafelson
Viridiana	Luis Buñuel
Things to Come	William Cameron Menzies
Branded to Kill	Seijun Suzuki
Macbeth	Roman Polanski
Pickpocket	Robert Bresson
Au hasard Balthazar

Agnès Varda (June 17, 2015)

Criterion citation: "The French cinema icon brought her trademark warmth and charm to the closet, lavishing love on favorites such as Jane Campion's Sweetie and An Angel at My Table, Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry, and Jean-Luc Godard's Band of Outsiders."

Film	Director	Ref
An Angel at My Table	Jane Campion
Sweetie
Taste of Cherry	Abbas Kiarostami
La Promesse	Dardenne brothers
Bande à part	Jean-Luc Godard
Tiny Furniture	Lena Dunham
The Marriage of Maria Braun	Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Laurie Anderson (June 19, 2015)

Criterion citation: "The artist, musician, and director of Heart of a Dog shouts out Guy Maddin as one of her favorite filmmakers, praises the first scene in Sunday Bloody Sunday, and can't resist Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life."

Film	Director	Ref
The Magician	Ingmar Bergman
André Gregory and Wallace Shawn: 3 Films	André Gregory, Wallace Shawn
My Winnipeg	Guy Maddin
White Dog	Samuel Fuller
Sunday Bloody Sunday	John Schlesinger
Trilogy of Life	Pier Paolo Pasolini
I Married a Witch	René Clair
Tout Va Bien	Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Papin
Design for Living	Ernst Lubitsch

Gaspar Noé (July 5, 2015)

Gaspar Noé

Criterion citation: "The Paris-based Argentine filmmaker selects a few films that align with his interest in cinematic provocation, including unsettling works by Shohei Imamura and Pier Paolo Pasolini."

Film	Director	Ref
Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku	Shochiku Studio
Seconds	John Frankenheimer
Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura	Shōhei Imamura
Master of the House	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Safe	Todd Haynes
State of Siege	Costa-Gavras
Sundays and Cybèle	Serge Bourguignon
Jigoku	Nobuo Nakagawa
Island of Lost Souls	Erle C. Kenton
The Naked Prey	Cornel Wilde
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Patriotism	Yukio Mishima, Domoto Masaki
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Paul Schrader

The Wolfpack (July 9, 2015)

Criterion citation: "The subjects of Crystal Moselle's award-winning 2015 documentary show off their voracious appetite for cinema, saluting films by everyone from Stan Brakhage to Jean Renoir to Alex Cox to Wes Anderson."

Film	Director	Ref
Following	Christopher Nolan
Rushmore	Wes Anderson
Burden of Dreams	Les Blank
Eraserhead	David Lynch
Hamlet	Laurence Olivier
M	Fritz Lang
Days of Heaven	Terrence Malick
The Rules of the Game	Jean Renoir
Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu
Repo Man	Alex Cox
Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski
The Killing	Stanley Kubrick
Close-Up	Abbas Kiarostami
Stagecoach	John Ford
Repulsion	Roman Polanski
The Human Condition	Masaki Kobayashi
Videodrome	David Cronenberg
Traffic	Steven Soderbergh
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo

Sean Baker (July 31, 2015)

Sean Baker

Criterion citation: "The director of Take Out and Tangerine shares his father's favorite film, pays tribute to Chantal Akerman, and looks forward to revisiting Yi Yi."

Film	Director	Ref
I Married a Witch	René Clair
Naked	Mike Leigh
Life Is Sweet
Repo Man	Alex Cox
Kes	Ken Loach
Secret Sunshine	Lee Chang-dong
Jellyfish Eyes	Takashi Murakami
Yi Yi	Edward Yang
El Norte	Gregory Nava
Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies	Chantal Akerman
Eating Raoul	Paul Bartel
Six Moral Tales	Éric Rohmer

Charlotte Rampling and Andrew Haigh (August 1, 2015)

Criterion citation: "When the English director visited Criterion for a screening of his film 45 Years, he was joined by the movie's star. And when the pair took a trip into the Criterion closet, their charming closeness was evident."

Film	Director	Ref
The Night Porter	Liliana Cavani
A Room with a View	James Ivory
Safety Last!	Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman	Roberto Rossellini
If....	Lindsay Anderson
Ivan's Childhood	Andrei Tarkovsky
Ratcatcher	Lynne Ramsay
Trilogy of Life	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Weekend	Andrew Haigh
Watership Down	Martin Rosen
Black Narcissus	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Bergman Island	Marie Nyreröd
Sunday Bloody Sunday	John Schlesinger

Patrick Brice (September 15, 2015)

Criterion citation: "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."

Film	Director	Ref
Mystery Train	Jim Jarmusch
Wings of Desire	Wim Wenders
Y tu mamá también	Alfonso Cuarón
Thief	Michael Mann
All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders
Bottle Rocket	Wes Anderson

2016

Louis Garrel (March 7, 2016)

Louis Garrel

Film	Director	Ref
Pierre Étaix	Pierre Étaix
The Complete Jacques Tati	Jacques Tati
Summer with Monika	Ingmar Bergman
Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin	Jean-Pierre Gorin
Persona	Ingmar Bergman
3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman	Roberto Rossellini
Loves of a Blonde	Miloš Forman
Sólo con tu pareja	Alfonso Cuarón
Jules and Jim	François Truffaut
Amarcord	Federico Fellini
Europa	Lars von Trier

Joachim Trier (March 31, 2016)

Criterion citation: "During the Norwegian filmmaker's visit to the Criterion closet, he excitedly expounded upon his wide-ranging selections, from Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters to the Six Moral Tales of Eric Rohmer."

Film	Director	Ref
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Paul Schrader
All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
High and Low	Akira Kurosawa
The Emigrants/The New Land	Jan Troell
La Jetée/Sans Soleil	Chris Marker
The Phantom Carriage	Victor Sjöström
The Essential Jacques Demy	Jacques Demy
4 by Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda
House	Nobuhiko Obayashi
White Material	Claire Denis
Solaris	Andrei Tarkovsky
Heaven's Gate	Michael Cimino
Six Moral Tales	Éric Rohmer

Chris Eigeman (April 15, 2016)

Criterion citation: "The star of Whit Stillman's trilogy explores his favorite films from the collection, ranging from Bob Fosse's All That Jazz to Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused."

Film	Director	Ref
All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
The Vanishing	George Sluizer
Videodrome	David Cronenberg
The Friends of Eddie Coyle	Peter Yates
Pickup on South Street	Samuel Fuller
Night Train to Munich	Carol Reed
Contempt	Jean-Luc Godard

Anna Karina (May 1, 2016)

Anna Karina

Criterion citation: "The incomparable French icon visited during a rare visit to New York and made a stop in our film closet to reminisce about her groundbreaking work with Jean-Luc Godard, acting for Agnès Varda in Cléo from 5 to 7, her affection for Charlie Chaplin, and much more."

Film	Director	Ref
Pierrot le Fou	Jean-Luc Godard
Cléo from 5 to 7	Agnès Varda
A Woman Is a Woman	Jean-Luc Godard
Made in U.S.A.
The Kid	Charlie Chaplin

Amy Heckerling (May 5, 2016)

Criterion citation: "The director of Fast Times at Ridgemont High talks about one of her favorite actors, Peter Lorre; Federico Fellini's 'ultimate explanation of creativity'; and her choice for the most heartbreaking film of all time."

Film	Director	Ref
Ace in the Hole	Billy Wilder
City Lights	Charlie Chaplin
8½	Federico Fellini
I Vitelloni
Naked Lunch	David Cronenberg
Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu
M	Fritz Lang

Ira Sachs (June 27, 2016)

Ira Sachs

Criterion citation: "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 a year."

Film	Director	Ref
The Complete Jacques Tati	Jacques Tati
Good Morning	Yasujirō Ozu
Salvatore Giuliano	Francesco Rosi
Charulata	Satyajit Ray
Shoah	Claude Lanzmann
Shock Corridor	Samuel Fuller
All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
The Magic Flute	Ingmar Bergman
The Moment of Truth	Francesco Rosi
Magnificent Obsession	Douglas Sirk

Tim Robbins (August 11, 2016)

Criterion citation: "The actor and filmmaker pays tribute to the subversive power of Shock Corridor and the Robert Altman masterpiece that inspired him to make movies."

Film	Director	Ref
Antonio Gaudi	Hiroshi Teshigahara
Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King	Allan King
La Jetée/Sans Soleil	Chris Marker
Nashville	Robert Altman
Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick
Shock Corridor	Samuel Fuller
My Dinner with Andre	Louis Malle
Z	Costa-Gavras

Cristian Mungiu (August 26, 2016)

Cristian Mungiu

Criterion citation: "The director of Graduation and Beyond the Hills shares personal stories of growing up as a movie lover in Romania and picks up a few of his favorite films."

Film	Director	Ref
Modern Times	Charlie Chaplin
Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica
Dekalog	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Blood Simple	Coen brothers
Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper

Matías Piñeiro (September 1, 2016)

Criterion citation: "Argentine writer-director Matías Piñeiro happily succumbs to Jean Renoir, Roberto Rossellini, and Jean Vigo."

Film	Director	Ref
Stage and Spectacle	Jean Renoir
La ciénaga	Lucrecia Martel
3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman	Roberto Rossellini
To Be or Not to Be	Ernst Lubitsch
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure	Les Blank
Six Moral Tales	Éric Rohmer
The Complete Jean Vigo	Jean Vigo
A Day in the Country	Jean Renoir

Laura Albert and Jeff Feuerzeig (September 8, 2016)

Criterion citation: "The director and the subject of Author: The JT LeRoy Story take a trip to the closet, where Albert sheds some more light on the saga chronicled in their film and graces us with a song."

Film	Director	Ref
My Own Private Idaho	Gus Van Sant
Rushmore	Wes Anderson
Kiss Me Deadly	Robert Aldrich
Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura	Shōhei Imamura
On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan
Repo Man	Alex Cox
The Rose	Mark Rydell

Philip Rosenthal (September 19, 2016)

Philip Rosenthal

Criterion citation: "The veteran writer and producer chooses Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels, and Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent."

Film	Director	Ref
Babette's Feast	Gabriel Axel
Stagecoach	John Ford
Foreign Correspondent	Alfred Hitchcock
Dr. Strangelove	Stanley Kubrick
Overlord	Stuart Cooper
Make Way for Tomorrow	Leo McCarey
Sullivan's Travels	Preston Sturges
On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan
The Innocents	Jack Clayton

Barry Jenkins (September 24, 2016)

Barry Jenkins

Criterion citation: "The first Criterion Barry Jenkins ever owned was Ratcatcher. (The second was George Washington.) He also loves Cassavetes, Kieślowski, and Demy."

Film	Director	Ref
The Apu Trilogy	Satyajit Ray
Weekend	Andrew Haigh
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
Dekalog	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Three Colours
La Haine	Mathieu Kassovitz
Blood Simple	Coen brothers
Fat Girl	Catherine Breillat
Monsoon Wedding	Mira Nair
La ciénaga	Lucrecia Martel
Ratcatcher	Lynne Ramsay
George Washington	David Gordon Green
Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa
Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard
The Essential Jacques Demy	Jacques Demy
The Complete Jacques Tati	Jacques Tati
A Brighter Summer Day	Edward Yang

Barry Levinson (November 11, 2016)

Barry Levinson

Criterion citation: "Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson shouts out two of Fellini's most personal films and praises the game-changing work of such masters as Cassavetes and Godard."

Film	Director	Ref
Jules and Jim	François Truffaut
Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick
Dont Look Back	D. A. Pennebaker
One-Eyed Jacks	Marlon Brando
Chimes at Midnight	Orson Welles
Shadows	John Cassavetes

Owen Kline (December 2, 2016)

Criterion citation: "The actor and filmmaker came in to work on a supplement for our The Squid and the Whale edition. We learned he's a big fan of the Robert Downey Sr. Eclipse series."

Film	Director	Ref
Written on the Wind	Douglas Sirk
Crumb	Terry Zwigoff
The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind	Monte Hellman
The Horse's Mouth	Ronald Neame
Pickpocket	Robert Bresson
Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr.	Robert Downey Sr.
The Golden Age of Television	Various directors
Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick
The Naked Kiss	Samuel Fuller

2017

Ben Wheatley (January 7, 2017)

Ben Wheatley

Criterion citation: "A voracious cinephile, the British director shared his thoughts on some of his favorite titles in the collection, noting his love for the camera movements in Grey Gardens and the terror he felt watching Things to Come as a child."

Film	Director	Ref
The Horse's Mouth	Ronald Neame
Grey Gardens	Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
Two-Lane Blacktop	Monte Hellman
Things to Come	William Cameron Menzies
Fishing with John	John Lurie
Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa
Zatōichi	Takeshi Kitano
Seconds	John Frankenheimer
Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick
Crumb	Terry Zwigoff
Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola
Watership Down	Martin Rosen

Alicia Malone (February 19, 2017)

Criterion citation: "We were excited to welcome author and TCM host Alicia Malone into the closet, where she offered up quick takes on Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru, Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout, and David Lynch's Eraserhead."

Film	Director	Ref
Breaker Morant	Bruce Beresford
Eraserhead	David Lynch
Ikiru	Akira Kurosawa
Lady Snowblood	Toshiya Fujita
Weekend	Jean-Luc Godard
Gilda	Charles Vidor
His Girl Friday	Howard Hawks
Walkabout	Nicolas Roeg

Flying Lotus (March 19, 2017)

Flying Lotus

Criterion citation: "The envelope-pushing musician, producer, and filmmaker grabs Brazil, Rushmore, and Jellyfish Eyes (but takes a pass on Salò)."

Film	Director	Ref
Brazil	Terry Gilliam
Rushmore	Wes Anderson
Naked Lunch	David Cronenberg
Jellyfish Eyes	Takashi Murakami
Carnival of Souls	Herk Harvey
Dreams	Ingmar Bergman
Masculin Féminin	Jean-Luc Godard
A Touch of Zen	King Wu
Stalker	Andrei Tarkovsky
Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson

John Safdie and Benny Safdie (March 30, 2017)

Criterion citation: "Mike Leigh's Meantime, Ermanno Olmi's Il posto, and Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped top the list for the sibling duo behind Good Time and Uncut Gems."

Film	Director	Ref
Meantime	Mike Leigh
A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson
My Beautiful Laundrette	Stephen Frears
Fox and His Friends	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica
Walkabout	Nicolas Roeg
Blood Simple	Coen brothers
The Player	Robert Altman
Il Posto	Ermanno Olmi
L'Argent	Robert Bresson
Tess	Roman Polanski

Alexander Payne (April 16, 2017)

Alexander Payne

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-winning writer-director sings the praises of Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni in Ettore Scola's A Special Day and cops to never having seen Robert Altman's 3 Women."

Film	Director	Ref
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Ace in the Hole	Billy Wilder
3 Women	Robert Altman
L'Avventura	Michelangelo Antonioni
The Breaking Point	Michael Curtiz
Speedy	Ted Wilde
Red Beard	Akira Kurosawa
A Special Day	Ettore Scola
The Executioner	Luis García Berlanga

Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman (May 22, 2017)

Ethan Hawke

Criterion citation: "Longtime friends and collaborators Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman stopped by the office to contribute to our new edition of Baal—and have some fun in the closet."

Film	Director	Ref
The Before Trilogy	Richard Linklater
Black Orpheus	Marcel Camus
The 400 Blows	François Truffaut
Tootsie	Sydney Pollack
Breaker Morant	Bruce Beresford
Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola
Berlin Alexanderplatz	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Ace in the Hole	Billy Wilder
Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders
Sullivan's Travels	Preston Sturges
One-Eyed Jacks	Marlon Brando
Five Easy Pieces	Bob Rafelson
House	Nobuhiko Obayashi
The Essential Jacques Demy	Jacques Demy

Tavi Gevinson (June 30, 2017)

Tavi Gevinson

Criterion citation: "While browsing our collection, the editor, actor, and fashion maven shared some stories of movie love, including one about how Broadcast News played a part in her college applications."

Film	Director	Ref
8½	Federico Fellini
Election	Alexander Payne
Dressed to Kill	Brian De Palma
Fox and His Friends	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Metropolitan	Whit Stillman
Barcelona
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders	Jaromil Jireš
Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies	Chantal Akerman
Martha Graham: Dance on Film	Nathan Kroll
Broadcast News	James L. Brooks
Moonrise Kingdom	Wes Anderson

Lee Unkrich (July 4, 2017)

Lee Unkrich

Criterion citation: "During his visit to our closet, the Oscar-winning director of Toy Story 3 chatted with us about his nerve-wracking first encounter with Jane Campion and the lessons he learned about editing from All That Jazz."

Film	Director	Ref
Three Colours	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica
Loves of a Blonde	Miloš Forman
The Graduate	Mike Nichols
Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson
An Angel at My Table	Jane Campion
Seconds	John Frankenheimer
All That Jazz	Bob Fosse

Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena (July 5, 2017)

Criterion citation: "The comedy duo snatch up everything from Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve to Todd Haynes's Safe."

Film	Director	Ref
The Lady Eve	Preston Sturges
For All Mankind	Al Reinert
Harold and Maude	Hal Ashby
Being There
America, Lost and Found	Lance Bird, Tom Johnson
Under the Volcano	John Huston
Scenes from a Marriage	Ingmar Bergman
The Squid and the Whale	Noah Baumbach
3 Women	Robert Altman
Day for Night	François Truffaut
City Lights	Charlie Chaplin
Ghost World	Terry Zwigoff
The Big Chill	Lawrence Kasdan
The Player	Robert Altman
I Married a Witch	René Clair
Safe	Todd Haynes

John Waters (July 26, 2017)

John Waters

Criterion citation: "While we were working on our new edition of Polyester, the Pope of Trash paid us a visit and shared stories about meeting Shirley Stoler and watching 8½ under the influence."

Film	Director	Ref
8½	Federico Fellini
The Honeymoon Killers	Leonard Kastle
The Blob	Irvin Yeaworth
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls	Russ Meyer
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	David Lynch

Lucrecia Martel (September 17, 2017)

Lucrecia Martel

Criterion citation: "The Argentine master behind such enigmatic, formally audacious films as Zama and La Ciénaga reveals her love of genre cinema."

Film	Director	Ref
The Lady Vanishes	Alfred Hitchcock
Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa
Amarcord	Federico Fellini
Beauty and the Beast	Jean Cocteau
Love Streams	John Cassavetes
Time Bandits	Terry Gilliam
Eyes Without a Face	Georges Franju
Naked Lunch	David Cronenberg
Carnival of Souls	Herk Harvey
The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cat People	Jacques Tourneur

Claire Denis (October 2, 2017)

Claire Denis

Criterion citation: "The great French director talks about her formative experiences with the work of Carl Theodor Dreyer and gets wistful about Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika."

Film	Director	Ref
Ordet	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Day of Wrath
Gertrud
Gate of Flesh	Seijun Suzuki
Tout Va Bien	Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
His Girl Friday	Howard Hawks

Euzhan Palcy (November 5, 2017)

Criterion citation: "The trailblazing director of A Dry White Season reminisces about her childhood love of Hitchcock, the kindness that François Truffaut showed her, and a Brazilian classic that changed her life."

Film	Director	Ref
Black Orpheus	Marcel Camus
The Lady Vanishes	Alfred Hitchcock
Cronos	Guillermo del Toro
The Naked Island	Kaneto Shindo
The Devil's Backbone	Guillermo del Toro
Pan's Labyrinth
A Dry White Season	Euzhan Palcy
The 400 Blows	François Truffaut
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman	Ingmar Bergman
Love Streams	John Cassavetes

Paul Dano (November 14, 2017)

Paul Dano

Criterion citation: "The actor-director stopped by our offices to stock up on movies by Yasujiro Ozu, Edward Yang, and other filmmakers who have shaped his sensibility."

Film	Director	Ref
One-Eyed Jacks	Marlon Brando
The Essential Jacques Demy	Jacques Demy
A Brighter Summer Day	Edward Yang
Good Morning	Yasujirō Ozu
Make Way for Tomorrow	Leo McCarey
This Sporting Life	Lindsay Anderson
Yi Yi	Edward Yang
My Own Private Idaho	Gus Van Sant

M.I.A. and Stephen Loveridge (November 24, 2017)

Criterion citation: "The star and the director of Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. show love to politically charged films like Missing and Dheepan, and reminisce about the emotional balm they found in our Janus Films collector's set."

Film	Director	Ref
Naked	Mike Leigh
Missing	Costa-Gavras
Kes	Ken Loach
Badlands	Terrence Malick
Dheepan	Jacques Audiard
Bottle Rocket	Wes Anderson

James L. Brooks (December 6, 2017)

James L. Brooks

Criterion citation: "The director of Broadcast News and Terms of Endearment paid us a visit and talked about some of his comedy favorites, from Oscar Wilde to Albert Brooks."

Film	Director	Ref
The Importance of Being Earnest	Anthony Asquith
The Lady Eve	Preston Sturges
Sullivan's Travels	Preston Sturges
Shampoo	Hal Ashby
Lost in America	Albert Brooks
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes

Karina Longworth (December 20, 2017)

Criterion citation: "The prolific writer and creator of the popular film podcast You Must Remember This stopped by for a visit and picked up an eclectic mix of old Hollywood and art-house classics."

Film	Director	Ref
Loves of a Blonde	Miloš Forman
Mamma Roma	Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Scarlet Empress	Josef von Sternberg
I Am Curious (Yellow)	Vilgot Sjöman
Border Radio	Allison Anders, Dean Lent, Kurt Voss
People on Sunday	Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer
Chronicle of a Summer	Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
Desert Hearts	Donna Deitch
Personal Shopper	Olivier Assayas
Marseille Trilogy	Marcel Pagnol

2018

Richard E. Grant (January 14, 2018)

Richard E. Grant

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-nominated veteran bags a few favorite movies—and delivers some spot-on impressions of Jeanne Moreau and Dustin Hoffman while he's at it."

Film	Director	Ref
Jules and Jim	François Truffaut
Cries and Whispers	Ingmar Bergman
Hamlet	Laurence Olivier
The French Lieutenant's Woman	Karel Reisz
Nashville	Robert Altman
Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder
La Strada	Federico Fellini

Terry Gilliam (January 27, 2018)

Terry Gilliam

Criterion citation: "While in town for the release of his new movie The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, the legendary filmmaker stopped by to pick up some Criterion favorites."

Film	Director	Ref
Yojimbo/Sanjuro	Akira Kurosawa
The Complete Jacques Tati	Jacques Tati
Rififi	Jules Dassin
8½	Federico Fellini
Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick
Ingmar Bergman's Cinema	Ingmar Bergman

Kim Cattrall (February 13, 2018)

Criterion citation: "On a recent visit, the award-winning Sex and the City star chatted with us about falling in love with movies as a child and the Hollywood and art-house classics that have been her personal touchstones."

Film	Director	Ref
Jules and Jim	François Truffaut
Sullivan's Travels	Preston Sturges
Heaven Can Wait	Ernst Lubitsch
Limelight	Charlie Chaplin
A Taste of Honey	Tony Richardson
Wanda	Barbara Loden
Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman
The Complete Jacques Tati	Jacques Tati
Tom Jones	Tony Richardson
Nashville	Robert Altman
Repulsion	Roman Polanski
Cat People	Jacques Tourneur

Joanna Hogg (February 27, 2018)

Joanna Hogg

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed director of The Souvenir gushes over her favorite musicals and stocks up on films by Federico Fellini."

Film	Director	Ref
8½	Federico Fellini
La Strada
The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Bad Timing	Nicolas Roeg
All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
The Age of Innocence	Martin Scorsese

John Sayles (March 24, 2018)

Criterion citation: "During the production of our release of Matewan, the first Sayles film in the collection, the director paid us a visit and talked about some of his formative moviegoing experiences."

Film	Director	Ref
La Strada	Federico Fellini
The Organizer	Mario Monicelli
His Girl Friday	Howard Hawks
State of Siege	Costa-Gavras

Jacqueline Novak and John Early (April 5, 2018)

Criterion citation: "Shortly before the critically acclaimed success of their off-Broadway show Get on Your Knees, the two comedians stopped by for a few good laughs in our closet."

Film	Director	Ref
Picnic at Hanging Rock	Peter Weir
3 Women	Robert Altman
The Uninvited	Lewis Allen
Night of the Living Dead	George A. Romero
Fat Girl	Catherine Breillat
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	David Lynch
Magnificent Obsession	Douglas Sirk
Island of Lost Souls	Erle C. Kenton
White Material	Claire Denis
Female Trouble	John Waters
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!	Pedro Almodóvar

Leslie Harris (April 27, 2018)

Criterion citation: "The director of Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. stopped by to talk about the movies that loom large in her personal canon."

Film	Director	Ref
The Rules of the Game	Jean Renoir
Scenes from a Marriage	Ingmar Bergman
4 by Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda
Divorce Italian Style	Pietro Germi
8½	Federico Fellini

John Dwyer (May 11, 2018)

Criterion citation: "The underground rock veteran (and founding member of the band Osees, a.k.a. Thee Oh Sees or Oh Sees) stopped by our office to stock up on an eclectic mix of cinematic thrills."

Film	Director	Ref
Naked Lunch	David Cronenberg
Grey Gardens	Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
Repo Man	Alex Cox
Odd Man Out	Carol Reed
The Manchurian Candidate	John Frankenheimer
True Stories	David Byrne
Night of the Living Dead	George A. Romero

Matthew Modine (May 26, 2018)

Matthew Modine

Criterion citation: "During a trip to our offices, the actor reminisced about working with legendary directors like Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick."

Film	Director	Ref
High and Low	Akira Kurosawa
Tanner '88	Robert Altman
The Black Stallion	Carroll Ballard
Dr. Strangelove	Stanley Kubrick
Night of the Living Dead	George A. Romero
Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger
The Player	Robert Altman

Desiree Akhavan (June 19, 2018)

Desiree Akhavan

Criterion citation: "The writer-director-star of Appropriate Behavior shares what she's learned about life and cinema from her favorite movies."

Film	Director	Ref
Knife in the Water	Roman Polanski
Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
The Spirit of the Beehive	Víctor Erice
Ratcatcher	Lynne Ramsay
Faces	John Cassavetes
Love Streams
Tiny Furniture	Lena Dunham
Safe	Todd Haynes
I Knew Her Well	Antonio Pietrangeli
Day for Night	François Truffaut
Life Is Sweet	Mike Leigh

Jenni Olson (July 3, 2018)

Jenni Olson

Criterion citation: "The pioneering filmmaker and historian stopped by our offices to pick up an eclectic mix of Hollywood and art-house classics that have shaped her love of cinema."

Film	Director	Ref
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles	Chantal Akerman
Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick
Desert Hearts	Donna Deitch
Memories of Underdevelopment	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle	Louis Malle

Rodarte (July 13, 2018)

Criterion citation: "The sisters behind the acclaimed fashion brand share their love for the iconoclastic filmmakers who have inspired them."

Film	Director	Ref
In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai
The Double Life of Veronique	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Videodrome	David Cronenberg
Sisters	Brian De Palma
In a Lonely Place	Nicholas Ray
Polyester	John Waters
Shampoo	Hal Ashby
Multiple Maniacs	John Waters
The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Ben Sinclair (July 22, 2018)

Criterion citation: "The cocreator and star of the HBO series High Maintenance shared a few wacky urban tales with us while digging through some of his favorite movies."

Film	Director	Ref
Short Cuts	Robert Altman
Bad Timing	Nicolas Roeg
Close-Up	Abbas Kiarostami
Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson
Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze
Funny Games	Michael Haneke
Old Joy	Kelly Reichardt
The Princess Bride	Rob Reiner
Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger

2019

Jaboukie Young-White, Lorelei Ramirez, Fumi Abe, Nore Davis, and Tomas Delgado (January 24, 2019)

Jaboukie Young-White

Criterion citation: "Things got a little hectic (and hilarious) when New York comedians Jaboukie Young-White, Lorelei Ramirez, Fumi Abe, Nore Davis, and Tomas Delgado visited the Criterion offices."

Film	Director	Ref
The Complete Jacques Tati	Jacques Tati
Good Morning	Yasujirō Ozu
Yojimbo	Akira Kurosawa
Frances Ha	Noah Baumbach
Beastie Boys Video Anthology	Beastie Boys
Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder
Rosemary's Baby	Roman Polanski
Night of the Living Dead	George A. Romero
Sunday Bloody Sunday	John Schlesinger
Pan's Labyrinth	Guillermo del Toro
True Stories	David Byrne
24 Frames	Abbas Kiarostami
Made in U.S.A.	Jean-Luc Godard
Man Bites Dog	Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde
Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Steven Soderbergh
Ikiru	Akira Kurosawa
The Big Chill	Lawrence Kasdan
Shampoo	Hal Ashby

Marco Bellocchio (October 7, 2019)

Marco Bellocchio

Criterion citation: "The celebrated Italian auteur stopped by our closet last year while in town to present his mafia epic The Traitor."

Film	Director	Ref
Pickpocket	Robert Bresson
Umberto D.	Vittorio De Sica
Throne of Blood	Akira Kurosawa
Othello	Orson Welles
Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick

Peter Sarsgaard (December 18, 2019)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed actor chatted with us about his fondest movie memories, including his experience of discovering art-house cinema in Catholic school."

Film	Director	Ref
La Strada	Federico Fellini
The Night Porter	Liliana Cavani
Eating Raoul	Paul Bartel
Breaking the Waves	Lars von Trier
Safe	Todd Haynes
True Stories	David Byrne
Wanda	Barbara Loden

February

Isabel Sandoval (February 16)

Criterion citation: "The multitalented auteur selects a few all-time favorites that reflect her bold cinematic style, as well as a number of movies she's excited to see for the first time."

Film	Director	Ref
Dazed and Confused	Richard Linklater
The Cranes Are Flying	Mikhail Kalatozov
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Paul Schrader
Black Narcissus	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Quadrophenia	Franc Roddam
The Age of Innocence	Martin Scorsese
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda

April

Nathan Lane (April 26)

Nathan Lane

Criterion citation: "The Emmy- and Tony-winning actor stopped by our offices to regale us with stories and stock up on some of his favorite Hollywood classics."

Film	Director	Ref
Rififi	Jules Dassin
Heaven Can Wait	Ernst Lubitsch
The Night of the Hunter	Charles Laughton
Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick
The Kid	Charlie Chaplin
Bitter Rice	Giuseppe De Santis
Mikey and Nicky	Elaine May
Here Comes Mr. Jordan	Alexander Hall
Odd Man Out	Carol Reed
Valley of the Dolls	Mark Robson
The In-Laws	Arthur Hiller
Being There	Hal Ashby
I Am Curious (Yellow)	Vilgot Sjöman

October

Garrett Bradley (October 7)

Garrett Bradley

Criterion citation: "The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Time shares an eclectic selection of her favorite films, from European art-house staples to classics of Black cinema."

Colin Quinn

Film	Director	Ref
The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo
Oliver Twist	David Lean
A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson
Dressed to Kill	Brian De Palma
Dreams	Akira Kurosawa
Betty Blue	Jean-Jacques Beineix
Moonstruck	Norman Jewison
Love & Basketball	Gina Prince-Bythewood
High and Low	Akira Kurosawa
Road Trilogy	Wim Wenders
Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films	Melvin Van Peebles
Blue Is the Warmest Colour	Abdellatif Kechiche
The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs	Marlon Riggs
Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics	Various directors

Colin Quinn (October 12)

Criterion citation: "The veteran New York comedian selects some of his favorite films, including a handful that capture his hometown through the decades."

Film	Director	Ref
Naked	Mike Leigh
Mona Lisa	Neil Jordan
My Life as a Dog	Lasse Hallström
Roma	Federico Fellini
Le petit soldat	Jean-Luc Godard
Something Wild	Jack Garfein
Smithereens	Susan Seidelman
Claudine	John Berry

November

Kemp Powers (November 10)

Kemp Powers

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-nominated screenwriter of One Night in Miami . . . selects a handful of favorite films, including an animated movie that haunted his childhood and a classic courtroom drama that has influenced his approach to dialogue."

Film	Director	Ref
Cronos	Guillermo del Toro
12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet
Watership Down	Martin Rosen
Matewan	John Sayles
Deep Cover	Bill Duke
One Night in Miami...	Regina King

Theodore Witcher (November 23)

Criterion citation: "The writer-director of love jones pays a visit to our office and stocks up on a few classics that he hasn't revisited in years."

Film	Director	Ref
Jules and Jim	François Truffaut
The Rules of the Game	Jean Renoir
Notorious	Alfred Hitchcock
Blind Chance	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Deep Cover	Bill Duke
A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman	Ingmar Bergman
Late Spring	Yasujirō Ozu

February

Renate Reinsve (February 1)

Renate Reinsve

Criterion citation: "The breakout star of The Worst Person in the World takes home films by Michael Haneke, David Lynch, and Claire Denis."

Film	Director	Ref
Pickpocket	Robert Bresson
White Material	Claire Denis
Mulholland Drive	David Lynch
Certified Copy	Abbas Kiarostami
The Piano Teacher	Michael Haneke
Mirror	Andrei Tarkovsky
A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman	Ingmar Bergman
Stage and Spectacle	Jean Renoir
Pierre Étaix	Pierre Étaix

March

Agnès b. (March 11)

Agnès b.

Criterion citation: "The fashion designer recalls a favorite scene from The Asphalt Jungle, talks about her love of films about childhood, and celebrates her friends David Lynch and Agnès Varda."

Film	Director	Ref
Lost Highway	David Lynch
The Asphalt Jungle	John Huston
Teorema	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cul-de-sac	Roman Polanski
The Night of the Hunter	Charles Laughton
All About My Mother	Pedro Almodóvar
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda

Charlotte Gainsbourg (March 17)

Criterion citation: "While perusing our collection, the acclaimed actor and singer-songwriter linked some of her favorite films to memories of her family."

Film	Director	Ref
Green for Danger	Sidney Gilliat
Antichrist	Lars von Trier
The Night of the Hunter	Charles Laughton
Belle de Jour	Luis Buñuel
Being John Malkovich	Spike Jonze
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda

April

Sarita Choudhury (April 5)

Sarita Choudhury

Criterion citation: "The costar of Mississippi Masala stocks up on films she cherishes, including classics by Satyajit Ray, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Stephen Frears."

Film	Director	Ref
Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu
L'Eclisse	Michelangelo Antonioni
My Beautiful Laundrette	Stephen Frears
The Big City	Satyajit Ray
Nayak
A Special Day	Ettore Scola
Day for Night	François Truffaut
Working Girls	Lizzie Borden
Trilogy of Life	Pier Paolo Pasolini

Wilco (April 20)

Wilco

Criterion citation: "The members of the beloved rock band take turns spotlighting movies that have a special meaning for them."

Film	Director	Ref
Being There	Hal Ashby
A Poem Is a Naked Person	Les Blank
Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola
My Winnipeg	Guy Maddin
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese	Martin Scorsese
Le deuxième souffle	Jean-Pierre Melville
America, Lost and Found	Lance Bird, Tom Johnson
Eclipse Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein	William Klein

May

Minnie Driver (May 4)

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-nominated actor shines a spotlight on the allure of French star Béatrice Dalle, the riveting female characters in Uncut Gems, and the unbridled imagination in Jim Jarmusch's films."

Film	Director	Ref
All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Betty Blue	Jean-Jacques Beineix
An Angel at My Table	Jane Campion
Uncut Gems	Safdie brothers
Down by Law	Jim Jarmusch
La Cage aux Folles	Édouard Molinaro

June

Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman (June 2)

Criterion citation: "The codirectors of the sci-fi musical Neptune Frost talk about filmmakers who break new cinematic ground, from art-house titans like Pier Paolo Pasolini to contemporary voices like Garrett Bradley."

Film	Director	Ref
Videodrome	David Cronenberg
Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
Mirror	Andrei Tarkovsky
Time	Garrett Bradley
In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai
Touki Bouki	Djibril Diop Mambéty
Trilogy of Life	Pier Paolo Pasolini

July

Ron Shelton (July 27)

Criterion citation: "The director of Bull Durham sings the praises of a few favorite movies, reminisces about an unforgettable encounter with Billy Wilder, and shares a piece of filmmaking wisdom."

Film	Director	Ref
The Lady Vanishes	Alfred Hitchcock
Straw Dogs	Sam Peckinpah
Badlands	Terrence Malick
Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder
His Girl Friday	Howard Hawks
On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan

August

Kyle MacLachlan (August 15)

Kyle MacLachlan

Criterion citation: "The actor talks about being inspired by Alain Delon and Peter Sellers, and about working with David Lynch, John Frankenheimer, and Alfonso Cuarón."

Film	Director	Ref
Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Steven Soderbergh
Le Cercle Rouge	Jean-Pierre Melville
The Manchurian Candidate	John Frankenheimer
Being There	Hal Ashby
Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
The Elephant Man	David Lynch
Blue Velvet

John Darnielle (August 31)

Criterion citation: "The Mountain Goats front man and novelist picked up a few favorite movies and shared his love for Bruce Lee, Laurence Olivier, Toshiro Mifune, and other screen icons."

Film	Director	Ref
Samurai Trilogy	Hiroshi Inagaki
Original Cast Album: Company	D. A. Pennebaker
Salvatore Giuliano	Francesco Rosi
Richard III	Laurence Olivier
Kagemusha	Akira Kurosawa
The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs	Marlon Riggs
Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits	Various directors
Youth of the Beast	Seijun Suzuki
The Ballad of Narayama	Keisuke Kinoshita

September

Gina Prince-Bythewood (September 12)

Gina Prince-Bythewood

Criterion citation: "While in New York to promote her film The Woman King, the director stopped by our office and picked up some of her favorite movies, including Black Orpheus and Broadcast News."

Film	Director	Ref
Love & Basketball	Gina Prince-Bythewood
Black Orpheus	Marcel Camus
In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai
Broadcast News	James L. Brooks
A Dry White Season	Euzhan Palcy
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
Ratcatcher	Lynne Ramsay
Claudine	John Berry
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Terry Gilliam
An Actor's Revenge	Kon Ichikawa

Rodrigo Prieto (September 23)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed cinematographer of Amores perros, The Irishman, 25th Hour, and Silence uses his selections to talk about the details of cinematic lighting, color, and sound design."

Film	Director	Ref
Amores perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Pedro Almodóvar
Kwaidan	Masaki Kobayashi
Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese
Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola
After Life	Hirokazu Kore-eda

October

Elvis Mitchell (October 1)

Criterion citation: "In town for the New York premiere of his documentary Is That Black Enough For You?!?, the critic and filmmaker selects some of his favorite movies, including a few that opened up new possibilities in Black cinema."

Film	Director	Ref
Husbands	John Cassavetes
Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films	Melvin Van Peebles
Round Midnight	Bertrand Tavernier
To Sleep with Anger	Charles Burnett
Love Jones	Theodore Witcher
The Parallax View	Alan J. Pakula
Miller's Crossing	Coen brothers

Vicky Krieps (October 2)

Criterion citation: "While in town for the New York premiere of Marie Kreutzer's Corsage, the acclaimed actor visited Criterion to film an interview for our edition of Mia Hansen-Løve's Bergman Island and to take a trip inside our closet."

Film	Director	Ref
Female Trouble	John Waters
Ikiru	Akira Kurosawa
Dazed and Confused	Richard Linklater
Blue Velvet	David Lynch
La Vie de Jésus	Bruno Dumont
La Piscine	Jacques Deray
La Strada	Federico Fellini

Cauleen Smith (October 3)

Cauleen Smith

Criterion citation: "The director of Drylongso talks about her fondness for Jean-Pierre Gorin, her love of To Sleep with Anger's title sequence, and the influence of Sergei Parajanov on her own work."

Film	Director	Ref
Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
La Jetée/Sans Soleil	Chris Marker
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice	Yasujirō Ozu
Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin	Jean-Pierre Gorin
Stalker	Andrei Tarkovsky
Blowup	Michelangelo Antonioni
The Color of Pomegranates	Sergei Parajanov
Black Girl	Ousmane Sembène
To Sleep with Anger	Charles Burnett
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm	William Greaves
The Princess Bride	Rob Reiner

Cate Blanchett and Todd Field (October 4)

Cate Blanchett

Todd Field

Criterion citation: "The director and the lead actor of Tár swap movie recommendations and battle over the Essential Fellini box set."

Film	Director	Ref
Dheepan	Jacques Audiard
In Cold Blood	Richard Brooks
Devil in a Blue Dress	Carl Franklin
Wooden Crosses	Raymond Bernard
The Ascent	Larisa Shepitko
Tootsie	Sydney Pollack
The Cranes Are Flying	Mikhail Kalatozov
My Winnipeg	Guy Maddin
Letter Never Sent	Mikhail Kalatozov
Summer with Monika	Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman's Cinema	Ingmar Bergman
Essential Fellini	Federico Fellini
Häxan	Benjamin Christensen
A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson
A Master Builder	Jonathan Demme
My Dinner with Andre	Louis Malle

Frederick Wiseman (October 5)

Criterion citation: "The great documentary filmmaker chooses a group of films that embody some of the qualities he tries to bring to his own work, including straight-faced comedy and the mixture of literal and abstract elements."

Film	Director	Ref
Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica
La Strada	Federico Fellini
Knife in the Water	Roman Polanski
Down by Law	Jim Jarmusch
Paths of Glory	Stanley Kubrick

Sally Potter (October 6)

Sally Potter

Criterion citation: "The director of Orlando highlights movies that made her realize there's nothing better to be than a filmmaker."

Film	Director	Ref
The Apu Trilogy	Satyajit Ray
Come and See	Elem Klimov
A Matter of Life and Death	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Dance, Girl, Dance	Dorothy Arzner
Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold
La Strada	Federico Fellini

Charlotte Wells (October 11)

Criterion citation: "During a trip inside our closet, the writer-director told us about how Chantal Akerman inspired a few moments in her acclaimed debut feature, Aftersun."

Film	Director	Ref
Minding the Gap	Bing Liu
David Lean Directs Noël Coward	David Lean
A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes
Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies	Chantal Akerman

Marc Maron (October 13)

Marc Maron

Criterion citation: "The comedian, actor, and podcaster picks up a couple of classic westerns, a favorite movie that has long eluded his comprehension, and a John Waters film he considers 'one of the only weapons against fascism we have.'"

Film	Director	Ref
Gimme Shelter	Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Burden of Dreams	Les Blank
Being There	Hal Ashby
Female Trouble	John Waters
McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Robert Altman
The American Friend	Wim Wenders
My Darling Clementine	John Ford
Burroughs	Howard Brookner
Eyes Without a Face	Georges Franju
Ace in the Hole	Billy Wilder
Shame	Ingmar Bergman

Elegance Bratton (October 21)

Elegance Bratton

Criterion citation: "The director of The Inspection tells us why Jane Wyman is 'a whole mood,' why Douglas Sirk is his dude, and which film will forever change the way you see curtains."

Film	Director	Ref
Sid and Nancy	Alex Cox
Summertime	David Lean
Ratcatcher	Lynne Ramsay
Written on the Wind	Douglas Sirk
All That Heaven Allows
Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa
Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films	Melvin Van Peebles
Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston
Bamboozled	Spike Lee
The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo
Some Like It Hot	Billy Wilder

Park Chan-wook (October 31)

Park Chan-wook

Criterion citation: "The director of Oldboy and Decision to Leave talks about the influence of Ingmar Bergman, his complicated feelings about The Makioka Sisters, the way Mike Leigh works with actors, and his admiration for Don Siegel's films."

Film	Director	Ref
The Magician	Ingmar Bergman
Red Desert	Michelangelo Antonioni
Stagecoach	John Ford
The Makioka Sisters	Kon Ichikawa
Blow Out	Brian De Palma
Les Cousins	Claude Chabrol
Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975	Various directors
Life Is Sweet	Mike Leigh
La Notte	Michelangelo Antonioni
Riot in Cell Block 11	Don Siegel
Le Silence de la mer	Jean-Pierre Melville

November

Neal Brennan (November 1)

Criterion citation: "The comedian talks about Andy Griffith's electric performance in A Face in the Crowd, the depiction of childhood loneliness in Me and You and Everyone We Know, and favorite films such as Bringing Up Baby and Menace II Society."

Film	Director	Ref
Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick
Shampoo	Hal Ashby
Me and You and Everyone We Know	Miranda July
A Face in the Crowd	Elia Kazan
Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston
Bamboozled	Spike Lee
Bringing Up Baby	Howard Hawks
Menace II Society	Hughes brothers

Raúl Castillo (November 1)

Raúl Castillo

Criterion citation: "The actor, known for his performances in Looking, We the Animals, and The Inspection, talks about two classics that inspired him to make movies and his love of Orson Welles's gift for self-reinvention."

Film	Director	Ref
Le Samouraï	Jean-Pierre Melville
Traffic	Steven Soderbergh
F for Fake	Orson Welles
Blowup	Michelangelo Antonioni
Night of the Living Dead	George A. Romero
My Own Private Idaho	Gus Van Sant

Floyd Norman (November 3)

Floyd Norman

Criterion citation: "The legendary animator, who has worked on such Disney classics as Sleeping Beauty and Mary Poppins, talks about taking inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, and Zoltán Korda's Jungle Book."

Film	Director	Ref
Eclipse Series 30: Sabu!	Various directors
The Thief of Bagdad	Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan
The Hidden Fortress	Akira Kurosawa
Rebecca	Alfred Hitchcock
Malcolm X	Spike Lee
My Man Godfrey	Gregory La Cava

Amir Naderi (November 8)

Amir Naderi

Criterion citation: "While in New York City for a theatrical run of his 1984 film The Runner, the Iranian filmmaker took a trip into our closet, where he gravitated to ambitious, sprawling works like A Brighter Summer Day and Dekalog."

Film	Director	Ref
A Brighter Summer Day	Edward Yang
Three Films by Luis Buñuel	Luis Buñuel
A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman	Ingmar Bergman
Dekalog	Krzysztof Kieślowski
The Apu Trilogy	Satyajit Ray

Pauline Chalamet (November 9)

Criterion citation: "The star of The Sex Lives of College Girls zeroes in on her favorite women filmmakers, including Catherine Breillat and Barbara Loden, and French cinema heroes like François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer."

Film	Director	Ref
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
Fat Girl	Catherine Breillat
Wanda	Barbara Loden
Six Moral Tales	Éric Rohmer
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda
À Nos Amours	Maurice Pialat
Day for Night	François Truffaut
The Other Side of Hope	Aki Kaurismäki

Daniels (November 30)

The Daniels

Criterion citation: "The duo behind Everything Everywhere All at Once take home some of their favorite films, with a special focus on wildly stylized genre movies that reflect their own aesthetic sensibility."

Film	Director	Ref
The Before Trilogy	Richard Linklater
Police Story/Police Story 2	Jackie Chan
Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975	Various directors
Tampopo	Juzo Itami
Malcolm X	Spike Lee
Repo Man	Alex Cox

January

Yo La Tengo (January 31)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed band talks about Japanese films about family, the rock music in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, and a festival viewing experience of Carnival of Souls."

Film	Director	Ref
The Daytrippers	Greg Mottola
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival	D. A. Pennebaker
Black Girl	Ousmane Sembène
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls	Russ Meyer
I Wanna Hold Your Hand	Robert Zemeckis
The Velvet Underground	Todd Haynes
Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu
The Girl Can't Help It	Frank Tashlin
Ministry of Fear	Fritz Lang
Carnival of Souls	Herk Harvey

Sara Dosa (January 31)

Criterion citation: "The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Fire of Love shares her passion for nonfiction filmmakers Chris Marker and Les Blank, and for the iconic love triangles in Jules and Jim and Y tu mamá también."

Film	Director	Ref
La Jetée/Sans Soleil	Chris Marker
Burden of Dreams	Les Blank
Faya Dayi	Jessica Beshir
Jules and Jim	François Truffaut
Y tu mamá también	Alfonso Cuarón
Me and You and Everyone We Know	Miranda July
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda

January

Charles Melton (January 3)

Criterion citation: "The award-winning actor, best known for Todd Haynes’s May December, champions the twisted pleasure of Memories of Murder, selects favorites featuring his costar Julianne Moore, and talks about the subtle beauty of films like Drive My Car and After Life."

Film	Director	Ref
Mikey and Nicky	Elaine May
After Life	Hirokazu Kore-eda
Memories of Murder	Bong Joon-ho
EO	Jerzy Skolimowski
Eyes Without a Face	Georges Franju
Le Samouraï	Jean-Pierre Melville
La Piscine	Jacques Deray
La Strada	Federico Fellini
Cure	Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Drive My Car	Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Short Cuts	Robert Altman
3 Women
Safe	Todd Haynes
A Special Day	Ettore Scola
WALL-E	Andrew Stanton

Joel Kim Booster (January 22)

Criterion citation: "The comedian, actor, and writer recalls wearing out videotapes of Mothra vs. Godzilla; praises Sound of Metal and its star, Riz Ahmed; and talks about the power and importance of seeing love between two Asian men depicted on-screen in Happy Together."

Film	Director	Ref
The Philadelphia Story	George Cukor
The Big Chill	Lawrence Kasdan
The Others	Alejandro Amenábar
Sound of Metal	Darius Marder
Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975	Various directors
In the Mood for Love	Wong Kar-wai
Hedwig and the Angry Inch	John Cameron Mitchell

Callum Turner (January 24)

Criterion citation: "The actor describes the beauty of discovering Agnès Varda, shares how Mean Streets inspired his desire to act, and selects all-time favorite films, from Five Easy Pieces to The Leopard."

Film	Director	Ref
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda
Au hasard Balthazar	Robert Bresson
Five Easy Pieces	Bob Rafelson
Mean Streets	Martin Scorsese
The Kid with a Bike	Dardenne brothers
The Cranes Are Flying	Mikhail Kalatozov
Come and See	Elem Klimov
Naked	Mike Leigh
The Leopard	Luchino Visconti
La Strada	Federico Fellini
Nothing but a Man	Michael Roemer

Devo (January 28)

Criterion citation: "The duo behind the legendary band share their formative memories of encountering Island of Lost Souls, praise Fellini’s unique sonic sensibility, and talk about their love for Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in Sweet Smell of Success."

Film	Director	Ref
Island of Lost Souls	Erle C. Kenton
Essential Fellini	Federico Fellini
Sweet Smell of Success	Alexander Mackendrick
Monsters and Madmen	Various directors

February

Paul Giamatti (February 6)

Criterion citation: "The award-winning actor talks about his childhood experience seeing Carnival of Souls and his love for low-budget horror treasures, shares how Blue Velvet ignited his desire to become an actor and why Rashomon always moves him to tears, and praises the performances in John Frankenheimer’s Seconds."

Film	Director	Ref
Carnival of Souls	Herk Harvey
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Rashomon	Akira Kurosawa
Solaris	Andrei Tarkovsky
Cat People	Jacques Tourneur
Seconds	John Frankenheimer
Blue Velvet	David Lynch
Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko	Larisa Shepitko

JR (February 27)

Criterion citation: "The artist and codirector of Agnès Varda’s documentary Faces Places talks about his intimate collaboration with the late iconic filmmaker, praises world-expanding masterpieces like La haine and Roma, and shouts out his friend Louis Garrel."

Film	Director	Ref
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
Amores perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu
WALL-E	Andrew Stanton
Mean Streets	Martin Scorsese
La Haine	Mathieu Kassovitz
The Innocent	Louis Garrel
EO	Jerzy Skolimowski
Roma	Alfonso Cuarón

Tim Blake Nelson (February 28)

Criterion citation: "The award-winning actor, writer, and director shares his love for the hard-boiled voice-over in Blast of Silence, praises the exquisite acting and production design of Topsy-Turvy, and selects favorites by his frequent collaborators Joel and Ethan Coen."

Film	Director	Ref
Blast of Silence	Allen Baron
Topsy-Turvy	Mike Leigh
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie	John Cassavetes
Inside Llewyn Davis	Coen brothers
Miller's Crossing
Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu

March

Chelsea Peretti (March 5)

Criterion citation: "The comedian, actor, and director talks about loving the relatable weirdness of Grey Gardens and the compulsive passion of Crumb; praises Miranda July’s singular, offbeat voice; and shares how The 400 Blows (a Natasha Lyonne recommendation) evokes empathy for the pains of growing up."

Film	Director	Ref
Girlfriends	Claudia Weill
Me and You and Everyone We Know	Miranda July
Trainspotting	Danny Boyle
Grey Gardens	Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
Crumb	Terry Zwigoff
Hollywood Shuffle	Robert Townsend
Wild Strawberries	Ingmar Bergman
The 400 Blows	François Truffaut
Mikey and Nicky	Elaine May
The Blob	Irvin Yeaworth

Molly Ringwald (March 11)

Criterion citation: "The actor and writer shares her love of the literary qualities of Eric Rohmer’s cinema, recalls the thrill of watching Bruno Dumont’s La vie de Jésus, and selects films by auteurs she has worked with, including Jean-Luc Godard and John Cassavetes."

Film	Director	Ref
Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood	Josef von Sternberg
A Face in the Crowd	Elia Kazan
Celine and Julie Go Boating	Jacques Rivette
Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons	Éric Rohmer
Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals	Ernst Lubitsch
Band of Outsiders	Jean-Luc Godard
La Vie de Jésus	Bruno Dumont
Essential Fellini	Federico Fellini
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
Love Streams
Umberto D.	Vittorio De Sica

Cheryl Dunye (March 17)

Criterion citation: "The writer, director, actor, and producer shares what Marlon Riggs’s work means to her as a Black queer filmmaker, praises Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s radical approach to melodrama, and spotlights Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, and other directors whose work she can’t live without."

Film	Director	Ref
I Married a Witch	René Clair
A Hollis Frampton Odyssey	Hollis Frampton
Mudbound	Dee Rees
The Cameraman	Edward Sedgwick
Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978	Chantal Akerman
To Die For	Gus Van Sant
The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs	Marlon Riggs
BRD Trilogy	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda
The Watermelon Woman	Cheryl Dunye

Kerry Condon (March 28)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed actor shares how Nancy Savoca’s Dogfight profoundly affected her views of acting and love, praises the way David Gordon Green conjures the feeling of youth in George Washington, and selects endlessly entertaining favorites, from Valley of the Dolls to The Night of the Hunter."

Film	Director	Ref
The Night of the Hunter	Charles Laughton
Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold
Kes	Ken Loach
George Washington	David Gordon Green
The Tin Drum	Volker Schlöndorff
Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh
McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Robert Altman
Valley of the Dolls	Mark Robson
Dogfight	Nancy Savoca
All About My Mother	Pedro Almodóvar
The Prince of Tides	Barbra Streisand

St. Vincent (March 28)

Criterion citation: "The singer shares her love for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and its decadent drama, praises Nicole Kidman’s hilariously psychotic performance in To Die For, and talks about the intimate dream state of Brand upon the Brain!"

Film	Director	Ref
Female Trouble	John Waters
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Pedro Almodóvar
To Die For	Gus Van Sant
Brand upon the Brain!	Guy Maddin
Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978	Chantal Akerman
Dazed and Confused	Richard Linklater
Diamonds of the Night	Jan Němec

April

Bertrand Bonello (April 3)

Criterion citation: "The writer, director, and composer talks about the enduring inspiration of The Age of Innocence, praises the tonal precision of David Cronenberg’s Crash, and shares his love for Pasolini’s potent mix of poetry and intelligence."

Film	Director	Ref
The Age of Innocence	Martin Scorsese
Crash	David Cronenberg
Clean, Shaven	Lodge Kerrigan
Pasolini 101	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Close-Up	Abbas Kiarostami

Maya Hawke and Ethan Hawke (April 5)

Criterion citation: "The father-daughter team behind the new film Wildcat talk about their love of Children of Paradise, the films of Wim Wenders, and the influence of Picnic at Hanging Rock and An Angel at My Table."

Film	Director	Ref
War and Peace	Sergei Bondarchuk
Frances Ha	Noah Baumbach
Children of Paradise	Marcel Carné
3 Women	Robert Altman
Husbands	John Cassavetes
The Magnificent Ambersons	Orson Welles
Pina	Wim Wenders
An Angel at My Table	Jane Campion
Tess	Roman Polanski
Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu
Days of Heaven	Terrence Malick
Picnic at Hanging Rock	Peter Weir
Kicking and Screaming	Noah Baumbach

Annie Baker and Lucian Johnston (April 9)

Criterion citation: "The writer-director of Janet Planet joins the film’s editor in praising Maurice Pialat’s unsentimental depiction of childhood, their collaborator Maria von Hausswolff’s cinematography in Godland, and the ineffable magic of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger."

Film	Director	Ref
Naked Childhood	Maurice Pialat
L'Argent	Robert Bresson
A Matter of Life and Death	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Godland	Hlynur Pálmason
Design for Living	Ernst Lubitsch
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda

Jane Schoenbrun (April 16)

Criterion citation: "The writer and director admires how filmmakers like Jacques Tati, Wes Anderson, and David Lynch sculpt their own universes, selects a Spike Lee double feature, and praises Víctor Erice’s films as some of the best in cinema history."

Film	Director	Ref
The Complete Jacques Tati	Jacques Tati
Bamboozled	Spike Lee
Malcolm X	Spike Lee
El Sur	Víctor Erice
Peeping Tom	Michael Powell
Werckmeister Harmonies	Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
Autumn Sonata	Ingmar Bergman
The Grand Budapest Hotel	Wes Anderson
Eraserhead	David Lynch

Jeremy O. Harris (April 16)

Criterion citation: "The award-winning playwright, actor, producer, and director shares his love for Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, celebrates how Bob Fosse captured dance on-screen like no one else, and talks about the artists who have shaped him, from Lena Dunham and the Dogme 95 directors to Pasolini and Fassbinder."

Film	Director	Ref
Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films	Melvin Van Peebles
Original Cast Album: Company	D. A. Pennebaker
The Celebration	Thomas Vinterberg
Teorema	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Tiny Furniture	Lena Dunham
Girlfriends	Claudia Weill
All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Yi Yi	Edward Yang
Metropolitan	Whit Stillman

May

Ryusuke Hamaguchi (May 3)

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-winning writer and director talks about Army of Shadows and Jean-Pierre Melville’s cinema of betrayal, shares his love for Denis Lavant's dancing in Beau travail, and selects favorites by Yasujiro Ozu, Ernst Lubitsch, and Nicholas Ray."

Film	Director	Ref
Late Spring	Yasujirō Ozu
Army of Shadows	Jean-Pierre Melville
La Haine	Mathieu Kassovitz
Toni	Jean Renoir
Beau Travail	Claire Denis
Until the End of the World	Wim Wenders
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
Heaven Can Wait	Ernst Lubitsch
A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds	Yasujirō Ozu
The Essential Jacques Demy	Jacques Demy
Judex	Georges Franju
Bigger Than Life	Nicholas Ray
Fists in the Pocket	Marco Bellocchio
Cure	Kiyoshi Kurosawa
My Darling Clementine	John Ford

Dylan Baker (May 7)

Criterion citation: "The actor, who stars in Todd Solondz’s Happiness, shares his appreciation for the playwright behind the source material of George Cukor’s Holiday; praises It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as one of the funniest films he has ever seen; and talks about the deep impression that Local Hero has left on him."

Film	Director	Ref
Destry Rides Again	George Marshall
Holiday	George Cukor
Quadrophenia	Franc Roddam
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Stanley Kramer
Christ Stopped at Eboli	Francesco Rosi
Local Hero	Bill Forsyth
The Ascent	Larisa Shepitko
Ride with the Devil	Ang Lee

Ross brothers (May 9)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed filmmaking duo reminisce about getting their cinematic education while working in a video store, share how Touki bouki has inspired every film they’ve ever made, and select life-changing favorites by Barbara Kopple, Abbas Kiarostami, and Les Blank."

Film	Director	Ref
Dead Man	Jim Jarmusch
Touki Bouki	Djibril Diop Mambéty
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure	Les Blank
Time	Garrett Bradley
Dekalog	Krzysztof Kieślowski
The Cameraman	Edward Sedgwick
Close-Up	Abbas Kiarostami
Harlan County, USA	Barbara Kopple

Paul Scheer (May 21)

Criterion citation: "The comedian, actor, and author reflects on what Alex Cox’s Walker has to say about American history, talks about the subtle depth of Two-Lane Blacktop, and praises performances by Peter Falk and Walter Matthau."

Film	Director	Ref
Walker	Alex Cox
Mikey and Nicky	Elaine May
Two-Lane Blacktop	Monte Hellman
Hopscotch	Ronald Neame
Make Way for Tomorrow	Leo McCarey
Klute	Alan J. Pakula

Jerry Schatzberg (May 22)

Criterion citation: "The legendary photographer and filmmaker talks about the inspiring beauty of Marlene Dietrich, reminiscences about the great actor and screenwriter Carole Eastman, and selects favorites such as On the Waterfront and ’Round Midnight."

Film	Director	Ref
Knife in the Water	Roman Polanski
Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood	Josef von Sternberg
On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan
Round Midnight	Bertrand Tavernier
The Shooting	Monte Hellman
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda

June

Viggo Mortensen (June 3)

Criterion citation: "The award-winning actor and director goes deep on his favorite westerns, highlighting Gregory Peck’s psychological performance in The Gunfighter and Barbara Stanwyck’s fierceness in The Furies, Leonard Cohen’s music in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Budd Boetticher’s lean, mean Ranown films."

Film	Director	Ref
Stagecoach	John Ford
Red River	Howard Hawks
Forty Guns	Samuel Fuller
The Gunfighter	Henry King
The Furies	Anthony Mann
3:10 to Yuma	Delmer Daves
McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Robert Altman
The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher	Budd Boetticher

Carol Kane (June 14)

Criterion citation: "The legendary actor talks about her lifelong love of Bette Davis, reminisces about working with John Cassavetes, and selects favorites by Hal Ashby, Gillian Armstrong, and Bill Forsyth."

Film	Director	Ref
All About Eve	Joseph L. Mankiewicz
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
Local Hero	Bill Forsyth
My Brilliant Career	Gillian Armstrong
The Princess Bride	Rob Reiner
Shampoo	Hal Ashby
Hobson's Choice	David Lean
My Own Private Idaho	Gus Van Sant
The Fisher King	Terry Gilliam
City Lights	Charlie Chaplin
The Ice Storm	Ang Lee
The Royal Tenenbaums	Wes Anderson

Lily Gladstone and Erica Tremblay (June 15)

Criterion citation: "The award-winning actor and star of Fancy Dance is joined by the film’s director in praising the brilliance of Kelly Reichardt, sharing their connection to After Life and Frances Ha, and selecting favorites by Martin Scorsese and Hirokazu Kore-eda."

Film	Director	Ref
Local Hero	Bill Forsyth
Quadrophenia	Franc Roddam
After Life	Hirokazu Kore-eda
Old Joy	Kelly Reichardt
Scorcese Shorts	Martin Scorsese
Certain Women	Kelly Reichardt
Down by Law	Jim Jarmusch
Frances Ha	Noah Baumbach
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen	Terry Gilliam
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese	Martin Scorsese

Winona Ryder (June 16)

Criterion citation: "The iconic actor shares her profound connection to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life, recalls the deep impact Gena Rowlands had on her life and career, and selects favorites by Gordon Parks, Jim Jarmusch, Albert Brooks, and John Sayles."

Film	Director	Ref
Au revoir les enfants	Louis Malle
The Learning Tree	Gordon Parks
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	Jim Jarmusch
Down by Law
Lost in America	Albert Brooks
Matewan	John Sayles
After Life	Hirokazu Kore-eda

Ayo Edebiri (June 17)

Criterion citation: "The actor shares her love for sexy and stylish heist movies like Charade and Thief; praises the work of Juzo Itami (whom she calls “the G.O.A.T.”) and his wife, Nobuko Miyamoto; and talks about the African American surrealist imagery in To Sleep with Anger."

Film	Director	Ref
High and Low	Akira Kurosawa
Charade	Stanley Donen
Bottle Rocket	Wes Anderson
Thief	Michael Mann
The Funeral	Juzo Itami
To Sleep with Anger	Charles Burnett
Eyimofe	Arie Esiri, Chuko Esiri

Agnieszka Holland (June 21)

Criterion citation: "The writer-director of Europa Europa and Green Border talks about Agnès Varda’s influence on women in cinema, praises contemporary masterworks like Parasite and Anatomy of a Fall, and shares why she always returns to Diamonds of the Night before making a new film."

Film	Director	Ref
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda	Agnès Varda
La Notte	Michelangelo Antonioni
Parasite	Bong Joon-ho
Perfect Days	Wim Wenders
Anatomy of a Fall	Justine Triet
Diamonds of the Night	Jan Němec

July

Gina Gershon (July 2)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed actor shares her love for Donald Sutherland’s and Julie Christie’s performances in Don’t Look Now, praises Terry Gilliam’s vast imagination, and talks about getting energized by listening to the Godzilla score."

Film	Director	Ref
Don't Look Now	Nicolas Roeg
Bound	The Wachowskis
Brazil	Terry Gilliam
Lola Montes	Max Ophüls
Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975	Various directors
The Seventh Seal	Ingmar Bergman
The Friends of Eddie Coyle	Peter Yates

Zoë Kravitz and Channing Tatum (July 9)

Criterion citation: "The director of Blink Twice is joined by the film’s star in sharing their love for John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, praising Paris Is Burning as “the greatest documentary of all time,” and selecting favorites, from Harlan County USA and The Fisher King to Moonstruck and The Rose."

Film	Director	Ref
A Woman Under the Influence	John Cassavetes
Harlan County, USA	Barbara Kopple
Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston
Lord of the Flies	Peter Brook
The Vanishing	George Sluizer
Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa
The Killing	Stanley Kubrick
The Fisher King	Terry Gilliam
The Rose	Mark Rydell
Moonstruck	Norman Jewison
Midnight Cowboy	John Schlesinger
Koker Trilogy	Abbas Kiarostami
Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott

Greg Gonzalez (July 17)

Criterion citation: "The singer of the band Cigarettes After Sex shares his love for La Bamba, talks about how the romance of Eric Rohmer inspires his music, and selects favorites, from The Worst Person in the World to The Tales of Hoffmann."

Film	Director	Ref
La Bamba	Luis Valdez
The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich
Eric Rohmer's Tale of the Four Seasons	Éric Rohmer
The Worst Person in the World	Joachim Trier
Risky Business	Paul Brickman
The Tales of Hoffmann	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Bill Hader (July 23)

Criterion citation: "The actor and director returns to the Closet, where he clarifies his feelings on Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom; shares how much he learned about filmmaking from supplemental features on the Criterion editions of Barry Lyndon and Roma; and selects favorite films such as Real Life and Cold War."

Film	Director	Ref
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Yi Yi	Edward Yang
Ikiru	Akira Kurosawa
Barry Lyndon	Stanley Kubrick
Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
Real Life	Albert Brooks
My Darling Clementine	John Ford
Essential Fellini	Federico Fellini
Cold War	Paweł Pawlikowski
Salvatore Giuliano	Francesco Rosi
A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson
Petite Maman	Céline Sciamma
Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King	Allan King
The Asphalt Jungle	John Huston
Cat People	Jacques Tourneur

August

Lee Daniels (August 2)

Criterion citation: "The writer-director talks about how Federico Fellini and John Waters gave him the passion and confidence to become a filmmaker, shares his poignant experience watching Claudine as a young man, and selects favorites such as Pickup on South Street, Do the Right Thing, and The Piano."

Film	Director	Ref
8½	Federico Fellini
Essential Fellini	Federico Fellini
Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
Querelle	Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Female Trouble	John Waters
Pickup on South Street	Samuel Fuller
The Piano	Jane Campion
Claudine	John Berry
Spartacus	Stanley Kubrick

September

Jarvis Cocker (September 13)

Criterion citation: "The musician and Pulp front man shares how films like Blue Velvet and Meantime altered his view of cinema, talks about collaborating with Wes Anderson and Danny Boyle, and decides he’s finally ready to watch Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom."

Film	Director	Ref
The Incredible Shrinking Man	Jack Arnold
Blue Velvet	David Lynch
Meantime	Mike Leigh
Trainspotting	Danny Boyle
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Jude Law (September 16)

Criterion citation: "The actor talks about what Andrei Tarkovsky’s films have taught him about stillness in cinema, reflects on the various adaptations of The Talented Mr. Ripley, and shares his formative experience of seeing London on-screen in My Beautiful Launderette and Mona Lisa."

Film	Director	Ref
Stalker	Andrei Tarkovsky
Purple Noon	René Clément
The Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot
Local Hero	Bill Forsyth
Mona Lisa	Neil Jordan
The Night of the Hunter	Charles Laughton

Jennifer Kent (September 18)

Criterion citation: "The writer and director of the cult classic The Babadook shares her love for fellow Australian filmmaker Peter Weir’s The Last Wave, talks about her repeat viewings of Mulholland Dr., and selects spine-tingling Japanese horror classics Kuroneko and Onibaba."

Film	Director	Ref
Häxan	Benjamin Christensen
The Last Wave	Peter Weir
Kuroneko	Kaneto Shindo
Onibaba
Mulholland Drive	David Lynch
A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson
Tokyo Story	Yasujirō Ozu

Nathalie Emmanuel (September 25)

Criterion citation: "The actor and star of Megalopolis shares her deep connection to Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, reminisces about growing up repeatedly watching Love & Basketball, and reflects on the cultural importance of Paris Is Burning."

Film	Director	Ref
The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Small Axe	Steve McQueen
Love & Basketball	Gina Prince-Bythewood
Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston
The Worst Person in the World	Joachim Trier

Kevin Smith (September 26)

Criterion citation: "The filmmaker and author shares how Hollywood Shuffle and Slacker inspired him to make movies, talks about why actors make great directors, and selects favorites such as His Girl Friday and Bull Durham."

Film	Director	Ref
His Girl Friday	Howard Hawks
Citizen Kane	Orson Welles
Hollywood Shuffle	Robert Townsend
Bull Durham	Ron Shelton
The Prince of Tides	Barbra Streisand
Deep Cover	Bill Duke
Slacker	Richard Linklater

December

Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes (December 4)

Criterion citation: "The celebrated actors and costars of The Return recommend favorites to each other, share their love for Andrei Tarkovsky and Orson Welles, and discover such Eclipse box sets as The First Films of Samuel Fuller and Basil Dearden’s London Underground."

Film	Director	Ref
Down by Law	Jim Jarmusch
The Magnificent Ambersons	Orson Welles
Amores perros	Alejandro González Iñárritu
Essential Fellini	Federico Fellini
Pasolini 101	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Close-Up	Abbas Kiarostami
Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa	Akira Kurosawa
Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu	Yasujirō Ozu
Eclipse Series 5: The First Films of Samuel Fuller	Samuel Fuller
Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle	Louis Malle
Eclipse Series 26: Silent Naruse	Mikio Naruse
Eclipse Series 25: Basil Dearden's London Underground	Basil Dearden
The Furies	Anthony Mann
Au hasard Balthazar	Robert Bresson
Mirror	Andrei Tarkovsky

Norman Reedus (December 12)

Criterion citation: "The actor and author raves about the visual beauty of The Color of Pomegranates, shares his love for Debbie Harry and her performance in Videodrome, and reflects on the formative experience of seeing River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho as a young actor."

Film	Director	Ref
Blue Velvet	David Lynch
The Color of Pomegranates	Sergei Parajanov
Videodrome	David Cronenberg
My Own Private Idaho	Gus Van Sant

Mikey Madison (December 19)

Criterion citation: "The actor and star of Anora talks about Five Easy Pieces and being drawn to morally ambiguous characters, praises Isabelle Huppert’s performance in The Piano Teacher as one of the greatest of all time, and selects Take Out, one of her collaborator Sean Baker’s early New York films."

Film	Director	Ref
Five Easy Pieces	Bob Rafelson
Easy Rider	Dennis Hopper
Take Out	Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou
The Piano Teacher	Michael Haneke
Gilda	Charles Vidor
Eyes Without a Face	Georges Franju
The Kid	Charlie Chaplin
Heaven's Gate	Michael Cimino

Francis Ford Coppola (December 19)

Criterion citation: "The legendary filmmaker praises Jacques Tati’s dedication to getting his films made, reflects on the lessons he learned from Dorothy Arzner when she was his professor, and shares the joy he finds in inspiring new generations of directors."

Film	Director	Ref
The Complete Jacques Tati	Jacques Tati
Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola
Dance, Girl, Dance	Dorothy Arzner
David Lean Directs Noël Coward	David Lean

November

Jeremy Pope (November 11)

Criterion citation: "The singer and actor reflects on Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied and the importance of seeing Black queer men express themselves on-screen, talks about working with Regina King on One Night in Miami . . ., and selects favorites by Carl Franklin and Spike Lee."

Film	Director	Ref
Devil in a Blue Dress	Carl Franklin
Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston
Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
One Night in Miami...	Regina King
The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs	Marlon Riggs
The Philadelphia Story	George Cukor

Pamela Anderson (November 12)

Criterion citation: "The actor and star of The Last Showgirl talks about being profoundly inspired by Barbara Loden’s Wanda, shares her passion for the poetry of Abbas Kiarostami, and praises the style and craft of actors like Romy Schneider, Katharine Hepburn, and Jeanne Moreau."

Film	Director	Ref
La Piscine	Jacques Deray
Blue Velvet	David Lynch
La Vérité	Henri-Georges Clouzot
Breathless	Jean-Luc Godard
La Strada	Federico Fellini
Elevator to the Gallows	Louis Malle
Wanda	Barbara Loden
Koker Trilogy	Abbas Kiarostami
Summertime	David Lean
Ingmar Bergman's Cinema	Ingmar Bergman
Fists in the Pocket	Marco Bellocchio

Johnnie To (November 25)

Criterion citation: "The legendary director shares the importance of learning from the work of Krzysztof Kieślowski, talks about how Straw Dogs sparked his desire to pursue filmmaking, and selects box sets by two of his favorite filmmakers, Martin Scorsese and Masaki Kobayashi."

Film	Director	Ref
Roma	Alfonso Cuarón
Dekalog	Krzysztof Kieślowski
Three Colours
Harakiri	Masaki Kobayashi
Eclipse Series 38: Masaki Kobayashi Against the System
Straw Dogs	Sam Peckinpah
Raging Bull	Martin Scorsese
Scorcese Shorts
Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa	Akira Kurosawa

Andrew Stanton (November 26)

Criterion citation: "The director and cowriter of WALL·E shares why Paper Moon and Local Hero speak to his heart, reminisces about the privilege of collaborating with Albert Brooks, and talks about why Matewan is an essential film for everyone to see."

Film	Director	Ref
Paper Moon	Peter Bogdanovich
Brazil	Terry Gilliam
Local Hero	Bill Forsyth
The Worst Person in the World	Joachim Trier
Defending Your Life	Albert Brooks
Matewan	John Sayles

October

Janelle Monáe (October 1)

Criterion citation: "In celebration of Halloween, the singer-songwriter, actor, and producer shares her spooky season favorites, highlighting both the spine-tingling sensations and social undercurrents that permeate such classics as Night of the Living Dead, Brazil, and Eraserhead."

Film	Director	Ref
The Blob	Irvin Yeaworth
Eraserhead	David Lynch
Nineteen Eighty-Four	Michael Radford
Brazil	Terry Gilliam
Night of the Living Dead	George A. Romero

Andrew Garfield (October 2)

Criterion citation: "The actor praises films by directors he has worked with, talks about how Mike Leigh’s Naked and Ken Loach’s Kes helped define contemporary British cinema, and thanks his father for his love of Tampopo."

Film	Director	Ref
Brazil	Terry Gilliam
The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Salesman	Albert and David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Hoop Dreams	Steve James
Naked	Mike Leigh
Kes	Ken Loach
The Game	David Fincher
Happiness	Todd Solondz
Original Cast Album: Company	D. A. Pennebaker
Tampopo	Juzo Itami

RaMell Ross (October 2)

Criterion citation: "The director and cowriter of Nickel Boys praises The Qatsi Trilogy as “vital for understanding the visual world,” quotes from Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, and talks about watching Bruce Lee movies with his dad."

Film	Director	Ref
The Tin Drum	Volker Schlöndorff
World of Wong Kar Wai	Wong Kar-wai
La Jetée/Sans Soleil	Chris Marker
Mirror	Andrei Tarkovsky
Stalker
Cameraperson	Kirsten Johnson
Qatsi Trilogy	Godfrey Reggio
To Sleep with Anger	Charles Burnett
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	Jim Jarmusch
Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits	Various directors
Jubal	Delmer Daves

Isabelle Huppert (October 3)

Criterion citation: "The legendary actor returns to Closet, where she shares her love for independent American gems such as Barbara Loden’s Wanda and Michael Roemer’s Nothing but a Man, talks about Roberto Rossellini’s work with Ingrid Bergman, and selects Italian cinema classics I Knew Her Well and Juliet of the Spirits."

Film	Director	Ref
Wanda	Barbara Loden
3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman	Roberto Rossellini
I Knew Her Well	Antonio Pietrangeli
Juliet of the Spirits	Federico Fellini
La Cérémonie	Claude Chabrol
Two or Three Things I Know About Her	Jean-Luc Godard
Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu	Yasujirō Ozu
Saint Omer	Alice Diop
Nothing but a Man	Michael Roemer

Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Mike Leigh (October 7)

Criterion citation: "The legendary director joins the star of his new film Hard Truths in the Criterion Closet, where they share their love for Akira Kurosawa and Charles Burnett, reminisce about early moviegoing experiences, and select favorites for each other."

Film	Director	Ref
A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds	Yasujirō Ozu
Night on Earth	Jim Jarmusch
John Cassavetes: Five Films	John Cassavetes
Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh
To Sleep with Anger	Charles Burnett
Loves of a Blonde	Miloš Forman
Kes	Ken Loach
White Material	Claire Denis
Hunger	Steve McQueen
The Life of Oharu	Kenji Mizoguchi
Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa	Akira Kurosawa
Ashes and Diamonds	Andrzej Wajda
EO	Jerzy Skolimowski
Claudine	John Berry
The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher	Budd Boetticher

Anna Kendrick (October 7)

Criterion citation: "The actor and director talks about the thrilling sensation of seeing All That Jazz for the first time, reminisces about watching Klute while on the set of Twilight, and reflects upon her favorite Ingmar Bergman films, such as Winter Light and Cries and Whispers."

Film	Director	Ref
All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
Klute	Alan J. Pakula
Stalker	Andrei Tarkovsky
The Passion of Joan of Arc	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Saint Omer	Alice Diop
Ingmar Bergman's Cinema	Ingmar Bergman

Payal Kapadia (October 8)

Criterion citation: "The writer and director of All We Imagine as Light shares why Sans Soleil and Arabian Nights are gifts that keep on giving, talks about Aki Kaurismäki’s “fun and audacious” Leningrad Cowboys films, and praises Louis Malle’s Phantom India as a must-watch for everyone."

Film	Director	Ref
Loves of a Blonde	Miloš Forman
La Jetée/Sans Soleil	Chris Marker
Charulata	Satyajit Ray
Trilogy of Life	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki's Leningrad Cowboys	Aki Kaurismäki
Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle	Louis Malle
Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston
Martin Scorcese's World Cinema Project No. 2	Various directors

André Holland (October 9)

Criterion citation: "The actor and star of Exhibiting Forgiveness talks about his hero, the late James Earl Jones, and his performance in Claudine; shares how Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun sparked his desire to perform; and selects films by friends and collaborators Dee Rees and Barry Jenkins."

Film	Director	Ref
Pariah	Dee Rees
Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films	Melvin Van Peebles
To Sleep with Anger	Charles Burnett
Medicine for Melancholy	Barry Jenkins
Claudine	John Berry
Matewan	John Sayles
A Raisin in the Sun	Daniel Petrie

Amelia Dimoldenberg (October 9)

Criterion citation: "The host of the hit interview show Chicken Shop Date talks about Portrait of a Lady on Fire and being drawn to films with undeniable chemistry, praises 12 Angry Men as one of the greatest films of all time, and reflects on how realistically The Worst Person in the World portrays the experience of being a woman falling in and out of love."

Film	Director	Ref
Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold
A Hard Day's Night	Richard Lester
12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet
All That Jazz	Bob Fosse
The Worst Person in the World	Joachim Trier
Portrait of a Lady on Fire	Céline Sciamma
Petite Maman
Girlfriends	Claudia Weill

Gints Zilbalodis (October 17)

Criterion citation: "The director of Flow praises the mixture of abstraction and emotion in Woman in the Dunes, talks about how Martin Scorsese played by his own rules with After Hours, and selects his comfort movie, Fantastic Mr. Fox."

Film	Director	Ref
Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson
Y tu mamá también	Alfonso Cuarón
Being There	Hal Ashby
Woman in the Dunes	Hiroshi Teshigahara
After Hours	Martin Scorsese
Fantastic Mr. Fox	Wes Anderson
Qatsi Trilogy	Godfrey Reggio
High and Low	Akira Kurosawa

Edward Berger (October 18)

Criterion citation: "The director of All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave shares his love for Downhill Racer and its innovative sound design, talks about the emotional impact of Cold War, and selects a few of Roberto Rossellini’s films featuring Ingrid Bergman, in honor of his friend and collaborator Isabella Rossellini."

Film	Director	Ref
Do the Right Thing	Spike Lee
Downhill Racer	Michael Ritchie
3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman	Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy
Cold War	Paweł Pawlikowski
The Exterminating Angel	Luis Buñuel
Fanny and Alexander	Ingmar Bergman

Maura Delpero (October 24)

Criterion citation: "The writer and director of Vermiglio expresses her love for the poetry of Ermanno Olmi, praises how Michael Haneke’s films cut right to your heart and mind, and celebrates the emotional power of The Piano."

Film	Director	Ref
Il Posto	Ermanno Olmi
The Fiances
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Koker Trilogy	Abbas Kiarostami
The Piano Teacher	Michael Haneke
The Piano	Jane Campion
Fish Tank	Andrea Arnold