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.
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Picks (19)
Winchester ’73
1950
The Parallax View
1974
Lacombe, Lucien
1974
Revanche
2008
Straw Dogs
1971
Ace in the Hole
1951
A Face in the Crowd
1957
Wanda
1970
Do the Right Thing
1989
Graduation
2016
The Grifters
1990
You Can Count on Me
2000
The Wages of Fear
1953
Lone Star
1996
The Last Picture Show
1971
Targets
1968
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
My Darling Clementine
1946
No Country for Old Men
2007