“It’s worth noting that I have not seen the majority of the films in the collection (giving me hundreds of hours of great stuff to look forward to!),” says Joe Swanberg. “But of the many that I have seen, the following have either shaped my life or my work in some profound way.” Joe Swanberg is the writer and director of the independent American films Kissing on the Mouth, LOL, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Nights and Weekends, and Alexander the Last.
Photo by Lenny Gilmore
Biography via Criterion.

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1948
133 min