# 2023 Closet Picks

Closet Picks is a video series by The Criterion Collection. Involving its Criterion Closet where all of its distributed titles are stored, Criterion regularly invites individuals in the film and entertainment industries, as well as those adjacent to them, to peruse and choose from its selection of discs. The video series began in 2010 when director Guillermo del Toro visited the Criterion office, during which he was filmed making his selections from the Criterion Closet. Since then, Criterion has filmed over two hundred installments of Closet Picks; past visitors include the Daniels, Nicolas Winding Refn, Yorgos Lanthimos, and many others.
All dates are drawn from the closet picks database.

## 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |

## March
### Dardenne brothers (March 2)

Criterion citation: "The Palme d'Or–winning Belgian duo talk about their friends Jane Campion and Cristian Mungiu, a Krzysztof Kieślowski masterpiece that has influenced their own work, and the 'profound loneliness' of Barbara Loden's Wanda."
| Film | Director |
| The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese |
| 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman | Roberto Rossellini |
| An Angel at My Table | Jane Campion |
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu |
| Dekalog | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| Wanda | Barbara Loden |
| Death of a Cyclist | Juan Antonio Bardem |

## April
### Alessandro Borghi, Felix van Groeningen, and Charlotte Vandermeersch (April 1)

Criterion citation: "Three members of the team behind The Eight Mountains—directors Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch and actor Alessandro Borghi—share their formative experiences with films like The Piano and The Fisher King and help one another discover new movies to fall in love with."
| Film | Director |
| Naked | Mike Leigh |
| Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood | Josef von Sternberg |
| World of Wong Kar Wai | Wong Kar-wai |
| Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón |
| The Piano | Jane Campion |
| The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam |

### Ari Aster (April 1)

Criterion citation: "The director of Beau Is Afraid talks about one of the best experiences he's had in a movie theater, the inspiration he's taken from Karel Zeman, and the possibility that Cure is 'the greatest movie ever made.'"
| Film | Director |
| Closely Watched Trains | Jiří Menzel |
| Michael Haneke: Trilogy | Michael Haneke |
| Daisies | Věra Chytilová |
| Cure | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Mr. Klein | Joseph Losey |
| The Koker Trilogy | Abbas Kiarostami |
| La Poison | Sacha Guitry |
| Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman | Karel Zeman |
| The New World | Terrence Malick |
| Secret Sunshine | Lee Chang-dong |
| Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| Che | Steven Soderbergh |
| Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Paul Schrader |
| Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray |
| Brand upon the Brain! | Guy Maddin |
| Walkabout | Nicolas Roeg |

### Susanna Hoffs (April 3)

Criterion citation: "The singer-songwriter and founding member of the Bangles recommends a must-see film for all rock musicians, highlights a favorite scene in Klute, and recounts her childhood memories of hanging out at Ben Gazzara's house."
| Film | Director |
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Russ Meyer |
| Seconds | John Frankenheimer |
| Klute | Alan J. Pakula |
| La Piscine | Jacques Deray |
| Love Streams | John Cassavetes |
| Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger |

### Charlie Day (April 4)

Criterion citation: "The writer, director, and actor talks about a parallel between The 400 Blows and his popular show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the inspiration he has taken from Being There, and his excitement about exploring the work of Agnès Varda."
| Film | Director |
| The 400 Blows | François Truffaut |
| The Player | Robert Altman |
| Being There | Hal Ashby |
| Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee |
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick |
| John Cassavetes: Five Films | John Cassavetes |
| The Complete Films of Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda |
| Tokyo Story | Yasujirō Ozu |

### Gregg Araki (April 6)

Criterion citation: "The director of The Living End and The Doom Generation reminisces about writing papers on Bringing Up Baby in film school, defends one of David Lynch's most polarizing masterpieces, and calls John Waters 'the original godfather of everything.'"
| Film | Director |
| Bringing Up Baby | Howard Hawks |
| Something Wild | Jonathan Demme |
| Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch |
| Masculin Féminin | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Pink Flamingos | John Waters |
| Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch |

### Rickie Lee Jones (April 11)

Criterion citation: "The beloved singer-songwriter shares her longtime love for Hollywood star William Powell, talks about her friendship with Hedwig and the Angry Inch director John Cameron Mitchell, and reenacts a moment from A Taste of Honey."
| Film | Director |
| My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava |
| Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell |
| The Complete Monterey Pop Festival | D. A. Pennebaker |
| The Blob | Irvin Yeaworth |
| A Taste of Honey | Tony Richardson |
| Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin |

### Benjamin Millepied (April 18)

Criterion citation: "The director, choreographer, and dancer talks about the evolution of Elia Kazan's cinematic style, Terrence Malick's unique ability to capture moments of grace on set, and Bob Fosse's use of editing as rhythm and movement."
| Film | Director |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan |
| The Tree of Life | Terrence Malick |
| Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa | Akira Kurosawa |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse |
| L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Qatsi trilogy | Godfrey Reggio |

### Carl Franklin (April 23)

Criterion citation: "The director of One False Move and Devil in a Blue Dress talks about his love of Yasujiro Ozu, the exploration of crime in Pixote, the inspiration he took from Children of Paradise, and one of the greatest jazz films of all time."
| Film | Director |
| The Killers | Robert Siodmak |
| My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström |
| Children of Paradise | Marcel Carné |
| Tokyo Story | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Late Spring | Yasujirō Ozu |
| 8½ | Federico Fellini |
| To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett |
| Martin Scorcese's World Cinema Project No. 3 | Various directors |
| Round Midnight | Bertrand Tavernier |
| Chimes at Midnight | Orson Welles |

## May
### Trace Lysette (May 11)

Criterion citation: "The actor, known for her roles in Transparent and Hustlers, pays tribute to the pioneering subjects of Paris Is Burning, muses about her dream of starring in a future remake of Thelma & Louise, and praises the sexy smoothness of love jones."
| Film | Director |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky |
| Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films | Melvin Van Peebles |
| Moonstruck | Norman Jewison |
| Fellini Satyricon | Federico Fellini |
| Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott |
| Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar |
| All About My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Love Jones | Theodore Witcher |

### Roger Deakins and James Deakins (May 16)

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-winning cinematographer Roger Deakins and his collaborator James Deakins—who discuss filmmaking on their podcast, Team Deakins—share stories about the heyday of punk, childhood memories of watching The Seventh Seal, and commentary about one of the most stunning black-and-white films ever made."
| Film | Director |
| Kameradschaft | G. W. Pabst |
| Come and See | Elem Klimov |
| Tokyo Olympiad | Kon Ichikawa |
| Fires on the Plain | Kon Ichikawa |
| The Burmese Harp | Kon Ichikawa |
| Sid and Nancy | Alex Cox |
| Le Cercle Rouge | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Le Silence de la me | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| The Seventh Seal | Ingmar Bergman |
| L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| In Cold Blood | Richard Brooks |

### Joel Edgerton (May 19)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed actor, writer, and director praises Jackie Chan as one of the great creators of all time, talks about his love for 'uncomfortable' films like Benny's Video and Wages of Fear, and shares how becoming a father deepened his love for Bicycle Thieves."
| Film | Director |
| Police Story/Police Story 2 | Jackie Chan |
| My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström |
| Nayak | Satyajit Ray |
| The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| Michael Haneke: Trilogy | Michael Haneke |
| Uncut Gems | Safdie brothers |
| Man Bites Dog | Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde |
| Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica |

### Udo Kier (May 19)

Criterion citation: "The prolific German actor recalls the time he met Paul Morrissey on a plane, the festival encounter that led to his first film shot in the United States, and his experience working with Lars von Trier."
| Film | Director |
| Blood for Dracula | Paul Morrissey |
| Flesh for Frankenstein | Paul Morrissey |
| My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant |
| Breaking the Waves | Lars von Trier |

### Michael Shannon (May 22)

Criterion citation: "The award-winning actor highlights performances he admires, including John Hurt in The Elephant Man, Peter Sellers in Being There, and Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich."
| Film | Director |
| Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch |
| Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze |
| Seconds | John Frankenheimer |
| The Elephant Man | David Lynch |
| Being There | Hal Ashby |
| Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson |
| America, Lost and Found | Lance Bird, Tom Johnson |

## June
### Mary Harron (June 5)

Criterion citation: "The director of American Psycho and I Shot Andy Warhol shares her love of B movies of the 1940s and '50s, the metal soundtrack of Lost Highway, and the rapid-fire pacing of '30s comedy."
| Film | Director |
| The Naked City | Jules Dassin |
| The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | John Cassavetes |
| Sid and Nancy | Alex Cox |
| Mala Noche | Gus Van Sant |
| Lost Highway | David Lynch |
| My Man Godfrey | Gregory La Cava |

### Hari Nef (June 6)

Criterion citation: "The actor, whose work includes Barbie and Bad Things, praises Luis Buñuel's thorny explorations of desire, shares her Powell and Pressburger favorites, and shouts out the visionary costume and production design of Eiko Ishioka."
| Film | Director |
| The Naked Kiss | Samuel Fuller |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Belle de Jour | Luis Buñuel |
| Grey Gardens | Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer |
| The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Black Narcissus | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | Paul Schrader |
| Design for Living | Ernst Lubitsch |
| The Last Days of Disco | Whit Stillman |

### Barbara Sukowa (June 7)

Criterion citation: "The legendary actor reminiscences about her collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, recalls a memorable lunch she had with John Cassavetes, and talks about her connection to films by Ingmar Bergman and Mike Leigh."
| Film | Director |
| 3 Women | Robert Altman |
| Scenes from a Marriage | Ingmar Bergman |
| The Leopard | Luchino Visconti |
| Husbands | John Cassavetes |
| Naked | Mike Leigh |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| La Strada | Federico Fellini |

### Anton Corbijn (June 8)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed photographer and music video director, whose film work includes Control and Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), highlights favorite movies by Wim Wenders, Martin Scorsese, and Paweł Pawlikowski."
| Film | Director |
| Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick |
| Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger |
| The American Friend | Wim Wenders |
| The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese |
| Cold War | Paweł Pawlikowski |

### Jerzy Skolimowski (June 14)

Criterion citation: "The legendary director—whose latest film, EO, is Poland's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards—picks a few movies from our closet, including classics by his friends Jan Němec and Andrzej Wajda."
| Film | Director |
| Diamonds of the Night | Jan Němec |
| Ashes and Diamonds | Andrzej Wajda |
| Come and See | Elem Klimov |
| Ivan's Childhood | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| La Strada | Federico Fellini |
| 8½ | Federico Fellini |
| Loves of a Blonde | Miloš Forman |

### Jason Schwartzman (June 14)

Criterion citation: "The actor, who stars in Wes Anderson's Asteroid City, highlights a Clu Gulager performance that the director recommended to him, recounts how his wife introduced him to An Unmarried Woman, and shares his mother's favorite movie."
| Film | Director |
| The Killers | Robert Siodmak |
| Under the Volcano | John Huston |
| Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky |
| The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| The Bad Sleep Well | Akira Kurosawa |
| Local Hero | Bill Forsyth |

### Hideo Kojima (June 17)

Criterion citation: "The pioneering video game designer throws a spotlight on treasures of 1950s and '60s Japanese cinema, including Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Twilight and Nobuo Nakagawa's Jigoku."
| Film | Director |
| High and Low | Akira Kurosawa |
| Late Spring | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Kwaidan | Masaki Kobayashi |
| Harakiri | Masaki Kobayashi |
| Jigoku | Nobuo Nakagawa |
| Onibaba | Kaneto Shindo |
| Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara |

### Patton Oswalt (June 26)

Criterion citation: "The actor and comedian gravitates to 1940s film noir, the 'weirdly timely' shock comedy of John Waters, and movies with memorable soundtracks."
| Film | Director |
| Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller |
| Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| Female Trouble | John Waters |
| The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Le Samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Frownland | Ronald Bronstein |
| Pale Flower | Masahiro Shinoda |
| Dekalog | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| One False Move | Carl Franklin |

## July
### Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (July 5)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed actor shares his affection for the dark humor of The Cremator, credits Benicio del Toro with introducing him to the films of Kaneto Shindo, and praises Mexican-cinema classics like Canoa: A Shameful Memory and Amores perros."
| Film | Director |
| The Cremator | Juraj Herz |
| Onibaba | Kaneto Shindo |
| Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Canoa: A Shameful Memory | Felipe Cazals |
| The New World | Terrence Malick |
| Cold War | Paweł Pawlikowski |

### Julio Torres (July 11)

Criterion citation: "The writer, director, and actor admires the physical comedy of Pierre Etaix and the hallucinatory world of House, recalls formative experiences watching Y tu mamá también and The Virgin Suicides, and shares why he relates to the protagonist of Where Is the Friend's House?"
| Film | Director |
| Pierre Étaix | Pierre Étaix |
| The Koker Trilogy | Abbas Kiarostami |
| WALL-E | Andrew Stanton |
| Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| After Hours | Martin Scorsese |
| Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón |
| House | Nobuhiko Obayashi |
| The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola |

### Christian Petzold (July 13)

Criterion citation: "During a trip to what he calls our 'city of movies,' the director of Afire talked about the jazzy qualities of Steven Soderbergh's films, the inspiration he has taken from Preston Sturges, and an overpoweringly erotic moment in Stromboli."
| Film | Director |
| Wanda | Barbara Loden |
| The Lady Eve | Preston Sturges |
| Traffic | Steven Soderbergh |
| People on Sunday | Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer |
| Six Moral Tales | Éric Rohmer |
| 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman | Roberto Rossellini |
| A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |

## August
### Rebecca Miller (August 1)

Criterion citation: "The director of She Came to Me and Personal Velocity talks about the most disturbing films she has ever seen, the sad humor of Miloš Forman, and the poetic-realist masterpiece that might be her favorite movie of all time."
| Film | Director |
| Devi | Satyajit Ray |
| The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov |
| Dekalog | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| Loves of a Blonde | Miloš Forman |
| Children of Paradise | Marcel Carné |

### Alan Palomo (August 25)

Criterion citation: "The front man of the band Neon Indian—who just released his debut solo album, World of Hassle—praises the 'completely demented' Maîtresse, discusses the representation of Texas in True Stories, and gives us his best Peter Falk impression."
| Film | Director |
| Sid and Nancy | Alex Cox |
| Maîtresse | Barbet Schroeder |
| Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Terry Gilliam |
| Medium Cool | Haskell Wexler |
| True Stories | David Byrne |
| Mystery Train | Jim Jarmusch |
| Canoa: A Shameful Memory | Felipe Cazals |
| Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders |

## September
### Roger Corman (September 5)

Criterion citation: "The legendary filmmaker talks about the brilliance of Targets, his memories of collaborating with a young Martin Scorsese, and his experiences as a story analyst at Twentieth Century-Fox and as a distributor of art-house classics like Amarcord."
| Film | Director |
| Targets | Peter Bogdanovich |
| The Gunfighter | Henry King |
| Amarcord | Federico Fellini |
| War and Peace | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese |

### Tyler Mitchell (September 18)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed photographer and artist talks about bonding with his dad over films in the collection, praises the subtle power of Ozu's framing, shares his connection to Garrett Bradley's depiction of Black American life, and touches on his love for Paul Thomas Anderson."
| Film | Director |
| The Watermelon Woman | Cheryl Dunye |
| L'Argent | Robert Bresson |
| Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu | Yasujirō Ozu |
| A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang |
| Claudine | John Berry |
| La ciénaga | Lucrecia Martel |
| Jalsaghar | Satyajit Ray |
| Love & Basketball | Gina Prince-Bythewood |
| Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 3 Women | Robert Altman |

### Jeremy Thomas (September 19)

Criterion citation: "The Academy Award–winning producer praises Claire Denis's portrayal of masculinity in Beau travail, talks about the lessons he learned from Luis Buñuel's producer Serge Silberman, and selects favorites by friends and collaborators, including The Last Wave, The Double Life of Véronique, and Kings of the Road."
| Film | Director |
| A Touch of Zen | King Wu |
| The Leopard | Luchino Visconti |
| Beau Travail | Claire Denis |
| The Last Wave | Peter Weir |
| Three Films by Luis Buñuel | Luis Buñuel |
| The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir |
| Road Movie trilogy | Wim Wenders |
| La Strada | Federico Fellini |

## October
### Paul B. Preciado (October 3)

Criterion citation: "The writer, philosopher, and director of Orlando, My Political Biography praises Spanish cinema masters Pedro Almodóvar and Carlos Saura, talks about the 'visual therapy' of Jacques Tati and his love for the poetry of Chris Marker."
| Film | Director |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Cría Cuervos | Carlos Saura |
| Pasolini 101 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| The Complete Jacques Tati | Jacques Tati |
| La Jetée/Sans Soleil | Chris Marker |
| Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni |

### Mark Bridges (October 4)

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-winning costume designer of Phantom Thread—whose latest work can be seen in Bradley Cooper's Maestro—reminisces about his enduring collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, shares his love for the artistry of Italian designers Piero Tosi and Milena Canonero, and talks about looking to The Naked City for period-specific inspiration."
| Film | Director |
| Heaven's Gate | Michael Cimino |
| The Damned | Luchino Visconti |
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick |
| The Leopard | Luchino Visconti |
| The Naked City | Jules Dassin |
| Beauty and the Beast | Jean Cocteau |
| Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger |
| My Beautiful Laundrette | Stephen Frears |
| Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach |
| Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson |

### Luis Guzmán (October 6)

Criterion citation: "The prolific actor praises the old-school flavor of Cooley High, tells us about his first time seeing Edward James Olmos onstage, and reminisces about a chance encounter with Marlon Brando."
| Film | Director |
| 12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet |
| Cooley High | Michael Schultz |
| Dr. Strangelove | Stanley Kubrick |
| The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Robert M. Young |
| Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan |

### Bill Pope (October 6)

Criterion citation: "The cinematographer of Bound and The Matrix talks about the thrill of watching John Ford's Stagecoach for the first time, praises Martin Scorsese's love of music, and picks up a recommendation from his granddaughter—Nobuhiko Obayashi's House."
| Film | Director |
| Bowling for Columbine | Michael Moore |
| Harlan County, USA | Barbara Kopple |
| House | Nobuhiko Obayashi |
| Stagecoach | John Ford |
| Band of Outsiders | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Two or Three Things I Know About Her | Jean-Luc Godard |
| The Last Waltz | Martin Scorsese |

### Alden Ehrenreich (October 9)

Criterion citation: "The actor and director praises Midnight Cowboy as 'a miracle of a movie,' calls James Stewart his favorite actor, and talks about discovering John Cassavetes's films in his teenage years."
| Film | Director |
| Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King | Allan King |
| Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger |
| The Before Trilogy | Richard Linklater |
| Destry Rides Again | George Marshall |
| His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks |
| Yi Yi | Edward Yang |
| John Cassavetes: Five Films | John Cassavetes |
| The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |

### Justine Triet (October 10)

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-nominated writer and director of Anatomy of a Fall praises the perfection of An Unmarried Woman, talks about the feminist qualities of La vérité, and selects Petite maman for her daughter."
| Film | Director |
| An Unmarried Woman | Paul Mazursky |
| La Vérité | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| Eclipse Series 22: Presenting Sacha Guitry | Sacha Guitry |
| Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King | Allan King |
| Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma |
| Sex, Lies, and Videotape | Steven Soderbergh |
| La Notte | Michelangelo Antonioni |

### Nuri Bilge Ceylan (October 10)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed writer, director, and producer of About Dry Grasses talks about how seeing Ingmar Bergman's The Silence changed his perception of cinema, praises the timeless and deceptively simple qualities of Stranger Than Paradise, and shares how Abbas Kiarostami gave him the courage to make his own films."
| Film | Director |
| Ingmar Bergman's Cinema | Ingmar Bergman |
| Six Moral Tales | Éric Rohmer |
| Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch |
| Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| The Apu Trilogy | Satyajit Ray |
| Knife in the Water | Roman Polanski |
| The Koker Trilogy | Abbas Kiarostami |

### Rosine Mbakam (October 10)

Criterion citation: "The writer and director of The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman and Mambar Pierrette talks about being inspired by Ousmane Sembène and shares how Abbas Kiarostami's films freed her to blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction."
| Film | Director |
| Mandabi | Ousmane Sembène |
| Black Girl | Ousmane Sembène |
| Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica |
| Close-Up | Abbas Kiarostami |

### Raven Jackson (October 11)

Criterion citation: "The writer and director of All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt selects films that have left an indelible mark on her sensibility, praising the revelatory inspiration of Lynne Ramsay's short films and the visceral effect of The Piano Teacher, and shouting out the 'legend' Barry Jenkins."
| Film | Director |
| Eve's Bayou | Kasi Lemmons |
| Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke |
| Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Medicine for Melancholy | Barry Jenkins |
| Fat Girl | Catherine Breillat |
| Weekend | Andrew Haigh |
| Faya Dayi | Jessica Beshir |
| La ciénaga | Lucrecia Martel |
| The Devil's Backbone | Guillermo del Toro |

### Catherine Breillat (October 11)

Criterion citation: "The legendary French auteur talks about the intimacy of discovering yourself in cinema, shares her lifelong connection to Viridiana and Black Orpheus, and praises directors whose work continues to inspire and transport her, from Elia Kazan and David Lynch to Shohei Imamura and Andrei Tarkovsky."
| Film | Director |
| Viridiana | Luis Buñuel |
| Eraserhead | David Lynch |
| On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan |
| Vengeance Is Mine | Shōhei Imamura |
| Black Orpheus | Marcel Camus |
| Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Ingmar Bergman's Cinema | Ingmar Bergman |

### Kleber Mendonça Filho (October 12)

Criterion citation: "The award-winning writer, director, producer, and critic shouts out a Marlon Riggs retrospective he programmed in Brazil, recalls watching Albert Brooks's Lost in America on VHS in the eighties, and shares how Agnès Varda became an 'imaginary friend' to him when he made his film Pictures of Ghosts."
| Film | Director |
| After Hours | Martin Scorsese |
| The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice |
| The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs | Marlon Riggs |
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick |
| Lost in America | Albert Brooks |
| Martin Scorcese's World Cinema Project No. 3 | Various directors |
| A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang |
| The Complete Films of Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda |
| Don't Look Now | Nicolas Roeg |

### Todd Haynes (October 20)

Criterion citation: "The writer and director of Safe, Carol, and May December describes the influence that Brief Encounter and Beau travail have had on his work, praises classic Douglas Sirk movies as 'the most perfect films ever made,' and gives a shout-out to the late Terence Davies and his friend Kelly Reichardt."
| Film | Director |
| Brief Encounter | David Lean |
| My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant |
| All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk |
| Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk |
| BRD Trilogy | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Masculin Féminin | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger |
| The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton |
| The Long Day Closes | Terence Davies |
| Beau Travail | Claire Denis |
| All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper |
| Old Joy | Kelly Reichardt |
| The Servant | Joseph Losey |
| Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Russ Meyer |
| In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray |

### Lina Rodriguez (October 30)

Criterion citation: "The writer-director of So Much Tenderness and This Time Tomorrow shares her love for the magnetic monstrousness of Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven, praises the visual grammar of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and talks about 'impossible love' in Flowers of Shanghai and Exotica."
| Film | Director |
| Wanda | Barbara Loden |
| Leave Her to Heaven | John M. Stahl |
| Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma |
| Bo Widerberg's New Swedish Cinema | Bo Widerberg |
| Eight Hours Don't Make a Day | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Flowers of Shanghai | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
| Exotica | Atom Egoyan |

### Matteo Garrone (November 2)

Criterion citation: "The Oscar-nominated writer and director of Io Capitano praises the courage and vision of Buster Keaton, shares his love for the soul of Kenji Mizoguchi and the subconscious of David Lynch, and shouts out one of his cinematic fathers, Roberto Rossellini."
| Film | Director |
| The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick |
| Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| A Story from Chikamatsu | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch |
| Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy | Roberto Rossellini |

### Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij (November 10)

Criterion citation: "The writing and directing partners behind the new show A Murder at the End of the World talk about the influence of Alan J. Pakula, share their deep connection to The Double Life of Véronique and After Life, and praise the storytelling in Drive My Car."
| Film | Director |
| Klute | Alan J. Pakula |
| Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam |
| Blood Simple | Coen brothers |
| The Double Life of Veronique | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| After Life | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi |

## November
### Lila Avilés (November 13)

Criterion citation: "The award-winning writer and director of Tótem shares her love for Aki Kaurismäki's 'strange, funny filmmaking spirit,' dedicates her selection of Barbra Streisand's The Prince of Tides to her mom, and talks about Werner Herzog as a 'warrior' in Burden of Dreams."
| Film | Director |
| Yi Yi | Edward Yang |
| Onibaba | Kaneto Shindo |
| Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy | Aki Kaurismäki |
| Boat People | Ann Hui |
| The Prince of Tides | Barbra Streisand |
| In the Realm of the Senses | Nagisa Ōshima |
| Burden of Dreams | Les Blank |

### Hlynur Pálmason (November 15)

Criterion citation: "The writer and director of Godland—Iceland's 2023 Oscar submission—shares his love for Ana Torrent's performances in Cría cuervos and The Spirit of the Beehive, talks about the physicality of Naked and the fear and inspiration in L'humanité, and praises the craft of Bresson as 'like no other.'"
| Film | Director |
| The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice |
| Cría Cuervos | Carlos Saura |
| Naked | Mike Leigh |
| Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| L'Argent | Robert Bresson |
| Humanité | Bruno Dumont |
| Blowup | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick |

## December
### Willem Dafoe (December 7)

Criterion citation: "The acclaimed actor shares his deep connection to Onibaba, praises Isabelle Huppert and her performance in The Piano Teacher, recalls Gate of Flesh's influence on the Wooster Group, and selects a few of his collaborations with Wes Anderson and Martin Scorsese."
| Film | Director |
| Onibaba | Kaneto Shindo |
| The Leopard | Luchino Visconti |
| Pickpocket | Robert Bresson |
| Ashes and Diamonds | Andrzej Wajda |
| Gate of Flesh | Seijun Suzuki |
| 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman | Roberto Rossellini |
| The Devil's Backbone | Guillermo del Toro |
| Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke |
| 8½ | Federico Fellini |
| The Last Temptation of Christ | Martin Scorsese |
| The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Wes Anderson |

### Wim Wenders (December 7)

Criterion citation: "The legendary auteur returns to the Criterion Closet, where he selects new editions of favorite films like Down by Law and Wanda, talks about Kurosawa's genius for recreating weather on-screen, and shouts out his former assistant director Claire Denis."
| Film | Director |
| A Story of Floating Weeds/Floating Weeds | Yasujirō Ozu |
| Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch |
| The 400 Blows | François Truffaut |
| The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick |
| The Complete Jacques Tati | Jacques Tati |
| Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa |
| Wanda | Barbara Loden |
| Beau Travail | Claire Denis |
| Until the End of the World | Wim Wenders |
| Au hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson |
| Mouchette | Robert Bresson |

### Gael García Bernal (December 8)

Criterion citation: "The award-winning actor and producer discusses his work in such Mexican-cinema classics as Y tu mamá también and Amores perros, shares his love for the mysterious pleasures of Blow-Up and Purple Noon, and praises the brilliance of Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière."
| Film | Director |
| Amores perros | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Memories of Underdevelopment | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea |
| Blowup | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| Purple Noon | René Clément |
| Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Three Films by Luis Buñuel | Luis Buñuel |

### Koji Yakusho (December 11)

Criterion citation: "The legendary actor shares his love for the Akira Kurosawa classics Red Beard and Ikiru, recalls how Tatsuya Nakadai was his teacher when he first began acting, admires the visual storytelling of City Lights, and shouts out his latest collaborator, Wim Wenders."
| Film | Director |
| Red Beard | Akira Kurosawa |
| Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa |
| Harakiri | Masaki Kobayashi |
| The Funeral | Juzo Itami |
| Cure | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| City Lights | Charlie Chaplin |
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders |

### Ben Gibbard (December 12)

Criterion citation: "The singer-songwriter of Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service shares his love of the surreal worlds of Luis Buñuel; praises his favorite filmmaker, Kelly Reichardt; and talks about the emotional impact and importance of Streetwise."
| Film | Director |
| The Exterminating Angel | Luis Buñuel |
| Three Films by Luis Buñuel | Luis Buñuel |
| The Complete Monterey Pop Festival | D. A. Pennebaker |
| Old Joy | Kelly Reichardt |
| Take Out | Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou |
| Le Havre | Aki Kaurismäki |
| Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki's Proletariat Trilogy | Aki Kaurismäki |
| Streetwise/Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell | Mary Ellen Mark, Martin Bell |

### Dan Levy (December 13)

Criterion citation: "The writer and director, best known for creating and starring in the hit television show Schitt's Creek, talks about the eternal inspiration of Moonstruck, shares his love for Parker Posey, and reminiscences about watching Sofia Coppola direct on the set of The Virgin Suicides."
| Film | Director |
| Moonstruck | Norman Jewison |
| Tokyo Story | Yasujirō Ozu |
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke |
| Election | Alexander Payne |
| Love & Basketball | Gina Prince-Bythewood |
| Weekend | Andrew Haigh |
| The Daytrippers | Greg Mottola |
| The Virgin Suicides | Sofia Coppola |
| Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa |