Lena Dunham

May 2025

The writer, director, and performer shares her love for Claudia Weill’sGirlfriends, praises Mary Ellen Mark’s tender gaze on her subjects inStreetwise, and talks about howOkjaportrays the beauty of interspecies connection.

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Picks (9)

Town Bloody Hall

Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker

1979 • United States • 1h 28m

Love & Basketball

Gina Prince-Bythewood

2000 • United States • 2h 5m

Unavailable

Streetwise

Martin Bell

1984 • United States • 1h 31m

My Brilliant Career

Gillian Armstrong

1979 • Australia • 1h 40m

The Daytrippers

Greg Mottola

1996 • Canada, United States • 1h 27m

Okja

Bong Joon Ho

2017 • South Korea • 2h

Unavailable

Night on Earth

Jim Jarmusch

1991 • United States • 2h 9m

Defending Your Life

Albert Brooks

1991 • United States • 1h 51m

Unavailable

Wanda

Barbara Loden

1970 • United States • 1h 43m