Ari Aster
July 2025
The filmmaker returns to the Criterion Closet, where he praises seventies thrillers likeThe Parallax ViewandStraw Dogs, talks aboutYou Can Count on Meand how “no one writes dialogue like Kenneth Lonergan,” and connectsTargetsto his filmEddington.
19 picks
Picks (19)
Winchester ’73
Anthony Mann
1950 • United States • 1h 32m
Unavailable
The Parallax View
Alan J. Pakula
1974 • United States • 1h 42m
Unavailable
Lacombe, Lucien
Louis Malle
1974 • France • 2h 18m
Revanche
Götz Spielmann
2008 • Austria • 2h 1m
Straw Dogs
Sam Peckinpah
1971 • United States • 1h 56m
Unavailable
Ace in the Hole
Billy Wilder
1951 • United States • 1h 51m
Unavailable
A Face in the Crowd
Elia Kazan
1957 • United States • 2h 5m
Unavailable
Wanda
Barbara Loden
1970 • United States • 1h 43m
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee
1989 • United States • 2h
Unavailable
Graduation
Cristian Mungiu
2016 • Romania • 1h 56m
Unavailable
The Grifters
Stephen Frears
1990 • United States • 1h 50m
Unavailable
You Can Count on Me
Kenneth Lonergan
2000 • United States • 1h 51m
Unavailable
The Wages of Fear
Henri-Georges Clouzot
1953 • France • 2h 34m
Lone Star
John Sayles
1996 • United States • 2h 15m
Unavailable
The Last Picture Show
Peter Bogdanovich
1971 • United States • 1h 59m
Unavailable
Targets
Peter Bogdanovich
1968 • United States • 1h 30m
Unavailable
Young Mr. Lincoln
John Ford
1939 • United States • 1h 40m
Unavailable
My Darling Clementine
John Ford
1946 • United States • 1h 37m
Unavailable
No Country for Old Men
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2007 • United States • 2h 2m
Unavailable