Tracy Letts
October 2025
The playwright and actor praisesDo the Right Thingas the best film of the eighties, talks about the comfort of watching his favorite westerns,and selects Chicago cinema classics likeHoop Dreamsandlove jones.
12 picks
Picks (12)
Kwaidan
Masaki Kobayashi
1965 • Japan • 3h 3m
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee
1989 • United States • 2h
Unavailable
Hoop Dreams
Steve James
1994 • United States • 2h 54m
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
2023 • West Germany • 1h
Winchester ’73
Anthony Mann
1950 • United States • 1h 32m
Unavailable
Red River
Howard Hawks
1948 • United States • 2h 13m
Unavailable
The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher
Box Set
’Round Midnight
Bertrand Tavernier
1986 • United States • 2h 11m
Unavailable
Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser
Charlotte Zwerin
1988 • United States • 1h 30m
Unavailable
Choose Me
Alan Rudolph
1984 • United States • 1h 46m
Unavailable
love jones
Theodore Witcher
1997 • United States • 1h 48m
Unavailable
The Complete Mr. Arkadin
Orson Welles
1955 • France
Unavailable