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
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 • 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 • 1h 35m