Criterion Closet
The actor and director shares his intimate connections toEating RaoulandThe Great Escape,explains what defines “the Lubitsch touch,” and praises the heartrending performances inThe Last Picture Show.
18 picks / Filmed April 2026
Elia Kazan
1957 • United States • 2h 5m
Samuel Fuller
1957 • United States • 1h 20m
Alex Cox
1984 • United States • 1h 32m
Paul Bartel
1982 • United States • 1h 27m
John Sturges
1963 • United States • 2h 53m
Bertrand Tavernier
1986 • United States • 2h 11m
John Frankenheimer
1966 • United States • 1h 47m
Ernst Lubitsch
1932 • United States • 1h 23m
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1943 • United Kingdom • 2h 43m
Orson Welles
1975 • United States • 1h 29m
1953 • United States • 1h 20m
Haskell Wexler
1969 • United States • 1h 51m
Lindsay Anderson
1963 • United Kingdom • 2h 14m
Nagisa Oshima
1983 • United Kingdom, Japan • 2h 4m
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Terry Zwigoff
1995 • United States • 2h
Peter Bogdanovich
1971 • United States • 1h 59m
John Cassavetes
1959 • United States • 1h 37m