David Remnick
November 2025
The editor of the New Yorker feels honored by the tribute to the magazine in The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, urges patience to appreciate Stan Brakhage’s experimental cinema, and finds parallels between the experiences of watching Robert Bresson’s films and listening to Bach.
9 picks
Picks (9)
A Man Escaped
Robert Bresson
1956 • France • 1h 41m
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
1941 • United States • 1h 59m
Unavailable
Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser
Charlotte Zwerin
1988 • United States • 1h 30m
Unavailable
Burden of Dreams
Les Blank
1982 • United States • 1h 37m
Shoot the Piano Player
François Truffaut
1960 • France • 1h 25m
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two
Box Set
King Lear
Jean-Luc Godard
1987 • United States • 1h 30m
Unavailable
The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years
Box Set
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
Wes Anderson
2021 • United States • 1h 48m
Unavailable