Ari Aster’s Closet Picks 2023

April 2023

The director ofBeau Is Afraidtalks about one of the best experiences he’s had in a movie theater, the inspiration he’s taken from Karel Zeman, and the possibility thatCureis “the greatest movie ever made.”

16 picks

View Connections Criterion.com →

Picks (16)

Closely Watched Trains

Jiří Menzel

1966 • Czechoslovakia • 1h 33m

Michael Haneke: Trilogy

Box Set

Daisies

Věra Chytilová

1966 • Czechoslovakia • 1h 16m

Cure

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

1997 • Japan • 1h 51m

Mr. Klein

Joseph Losey

1976 • France • 2h 3m

The Koker Trilogy

Box Set

La poison

Sacha Guitry

1951 • France • 1h 25m

Three Fantastic Journeys by Karel Zeman

Box Set

The New World

Terrence Malick

2005 • United States • 2h 31m

Unavailable

Secret Sunshine

Chang-dong Lee

2007 • South Korea • 2h 23m

Unavailable

Woman in the Dunes

Hiroshi Teshigahara

1964 • Japan • 2h 27m

Che

Steven Soderbergh

2008 • France • 55m

Unavailable

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Paul Schrader

1985 • United States, Japan • 2h 1m

Bigger Than Life

Nicholas Ray

1956 • United States • 1h 35m

Brand upon the Brain!

Guy Maddin

2006 • Canada • 1h 38m

Unavailable

Walkabout

Nicolas Roeg

1971 • United Kingdom, Australia • 1h 35m