South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho is the director of The Host (2006), Mother (2009), and Snowpiercer (2013). We interviewed him for our release of the classic South Korean film The Housemaid, available in the World Cinema Project box set. After we asked him to name his favorite titles in the collection, he told us, “I actually ended up writing a wish list of Criterion Blu-rays I would like to own. For an insatiable collector like myself, limiting myself to ten films was torture.”
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut
1959
99 min
2
Fanny and Alexander: Theatrical Version
Ingmar Bergman
1982
188 min
3
The Ballad of Narayama
Keisuke Kinoshita
1958
98 min
4
Things to Come
William Cameron Menzies
1936
100 min
5
Lola Montès
Max Ophuls
1955
116 min
6
Nashville
UnavailableRobert Altman
1975
160 min
7
Life Is Sweet
Mike Leigh
1990
103 min
8
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nicolas Roeg
1976
139 min
9
Rushmore
UnavailableWes Anderson
1998
93 min
10
Being John Malkovich
UnavailableSpike Jonze
1999
113 min