Joel Potrykus is a screenwriter and director based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His first feature, Ape, won the Best New Director prize at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival and his second film, Buzzard, took home the FIPRESCI prize at the 2014 Ljubljana International Film Festival. His other features include The Alchemist Cookbook and Relaxer, and his latest short film, Thing from the Factory by the Field, premiered on the Criterion Channel in May 2022. Photo by Jordan Skutar
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Stranger Than Paradise
Jim Jarmusch
1984
90 min
2
Funny Games
Michael Haneke
1997
109 min
3
If....
UnavailableLindsay Anderson
1969
105 min
4
Beastie Boys Video Anthology
UnavailableVarious
2000
65 min
5
The Phantom of Liberty
Luis Buñuel
1974
104 min
6
RoboCop
UnavailablePaul Verhoeven
1987
102 min
7
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
UnavailableRuss Meyer
1970
109 min
8
Ran
UnavailableAkira Kurosawa
1985
160 min
9
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Bruce Robinson
1989
95 min
10
Slacker
Richard Linklater
1991
97 min