Boots Riley
April 2026
The writer and director reminisces about seeingBlack Girlin the cinema with his mom as a child, shares howTrue StoriesandElectioninfluenced his approach to filmmaking, and talks about the emotional truth behind the visual artifice of Pedro Almodóvar’s work.
12 picks
Picks (12)
Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène
Box Set
Black Girl
Ousmane Sembène
1966 • Senegal • 1h 5m
Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films
Box Set
True Stories
David Byrne
1986 • United States • 1h 29m
Unavailable
Election
Alexander Payne
1999 • United States • 1h 43m
Unavailable
The Hero
Satyajit Ray
1966 • India • 1h 58m
The Princess Bride
Rob Reiner
1987 • United States • 1h 39m
Unavailable
The Qatsi Trilogy
Box Set
All About My Mother
Pedro Almodóvar
1999 • Spain • 1h 41m
Unavailable
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Pedro Almodóvar
1988 • Spain • 1h 28m
Unavailable
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Paul Schrader
1985 • United States • 2h 1m
Essential Fellini
Box Set