François Girard

April 2023

The writer and director reminisces about seeingShort Cutsat the Venice Film Festival, selectsMerry Christmas Mr. Lawrenceout of love for Ryuichi Sakamoto, and takes home the one Stanley Kubrick film he hasn’t see.

10 picks

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Picks (10)

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

1950 • Japan • 1h 28m

Short Cuts

Robert Altman

1993 • United States • 3h 8m

Unavailable

The Thin Red Line

Terrence Malick

1998 • United States • 2h 51m

Unavailable

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Nagisa Oshima

1983 • United Kingdom, Japan • 2h 4m

The Killing

Stanley Kubrick

1956 • United States • 1h 25m

Unavailable

Macbeth

Roman Polanski

1971 • United Kingdom • 2h 21m

Unavailable

Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle

Box Set

Othello

Orson Welles

1952 • United States • 1h 33m

L’argent

Robert Bresson

1983 • France • 1h 25m

Exotica

Atom Egoyan

1994 • Canada • 1h 43m