Criterion Closet

Bong Joon Ho

The celebrated filmmaker talks about Nastassja Kinski’s Korean fanbase, his favorite of Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespeare adaptations, and the DVD that Park Chan-wook swiped from him.

11 picks / Filmed June 2014

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Picks

11 picks

Tess

Roman Polanski

1979 • United Kingdom • 2h 52m

Tokyo Story

Yasujiro Ozu

1953 • Japan • 2h 17m

Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa

1957 • Japan • 1h 48m

Black Orpheus

Marcel Camus

1959 • France • 1h 40m

The Wages of Fear

Henri-Georges Clouzot

1953 • France • 2h 34m

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Peter Weir

1975 • Australia • 1h 47m

Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties

Box Set

Koyaanisqatsi

Godfrey Reggio

1983 • United States • 1h 26m

Unavailable

Cronos

Guillermo del Toro

1993 • Mexico • 1h 34m

Medium Cool

Haskell Wexler

1969 • United States • 1h 51m

Unavailable

Repo Man

Alex Cox

1984 • United States • 1h 32m

Unavailable