Noah Wyle

April 2026

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

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Picks (18)

A Face in the Crowd

Elia Kazan

1957 • United States • 2h 5m

Unavailable

Forty Guns

Samuel Fuller

1957 • United States • 1h 20m

Unavailable

Repo Man

Alex Cox

1984 • United States • 1h 32m

Unavailable

Eating Raoul

Paul Bartel

1982 • United States • 1h 27m

The Great Escape

John Sturges

1963 • United States • 2h 53m

Unavailable

’Round Midnight

Bertrand Tavernier

1986 • United States • 2h 11m

Unavailable

Seconds

John Frankenheimer

1966 • United States • 1h 47m

Unavailable

Trouble in Paradise

Ernst Lubitsch

1932 • United States • 1h 23m

Unavailable

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

1943 • United Kingdom • 2h 43m

F for Fake

Orson Welles

1975 • United States • 1h 29m

Pickup on South Street

Samuel Fuller

1953 • United States • 1h 20m

Unavailable

Medium Cool

Haskell Wexler

1969 • United States • 1h 51m

Unavailable

This Sporting Life

Lindsay Anderson

1963 • United Kingdom • 2h 14m

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Nagisa Oshima

1983 • United Kingdom, Japan • 2h 4m

A Whit Stillman Trilogy:Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco

Box Set

Crumb

Terry Zwigoff

1995 • United States • 2h

Unavailable

The Last Picture Show

Peter Bogdanovich

1971 • United States • 1h 59m

Unavailable

Shadows

John Cassavetes

1959 • United States • 1h 37m