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October 2025
The writer and director ofMagellanpraises the use of silence and space inLe samouraï,talks about how Mike Leigh and Kenji Mizoguchi explore the human condition in their films, and selects his good friend Béla Tarr'sWerckmeister Harmonies.
13 picks
Picks (13)
Lost Highway
David Lynch
1997 • United States • 2h 14m
The Apu Trilogy
Box Set
The Leopard
Luchino Visconti
1963 • Italy • 3h 6m
Unavailable
Le samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville
1967 • France • 1h 45m
Essential Fellini
Box Set
Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema
Box Set
I Am Cuba
Mikhail Kalatozov
1964 • Cuba • 2h 21m
Werckmeister Harmonies
Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky
2000 • Hungary • 2h 19m
Naked
Mike Leigh
1993 • United Kingdom • 2h 11m
Persona
Ingmar Bergman
1966 • Sweden • 1h 24m
Ugetsu
Kenji Mizoguchi
1953 • Japan • 1h 36m
Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa
Box Set
Criterion Collection Canvas Bag