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

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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

1980 • 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