“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.
The List
1
Hoop Dreams
Steve James
1994
174 min
2
By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volume One
UnavailableStan Brakhage
243 min
3
The Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1948
133 min
4
Gimme Shelter
David Maysles , Albert Maysles , and Charlotte Zwerin
1970
92 min
5
The Harder They Come
Perry Henzell
1972
103 min
6
Two-Lane Blacktop
UnavailableMonte Hellman
1971
102 min
7
Straw Dogs
UnavailableSam Peckinpah
1971
116 min
8
À nos amours
Maurice Pialat
1983
102 min
9
The Double Life of Véronique
Krzysztof Kieślowski
1991
98 min
10
Fishing with John
UnavailableJohn Lurie
1992
91 min