Kathryn Bigelow
October 2025
The writer and director talks about the innovative low-budget filmmaking ofDetour,shares her love forThe Battle of Algiersand its unrelenting “metronome of tension,” and praises Costa-Gavras as the inventor of the political thriller.
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Detour
Edgar G. Ulmer
1945 • United States • 1h 8m
The Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
1966 • Italy • 2h 2m
Straw Dogs
Sam Peckinpah
1971 • United States • 1h 56m
Unavailable
Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville
1969 • France • 2h 25m
Unavailable
The Confession
Costa-Gavras
1970 • Italy • 2h 19m
Unavailable
Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais
1959 • France • 1h 32m
Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock
1946 • United States • 1h 43m
Unavailable
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Alfred Hitchcock
1927 • United Kingdom • 1h 31m