Winner of a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellows Program genius grant, Jonathan Lethem is one of America's premier contemporary writers. His works include the novels The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, as well as a vast array of short stories and essays. He has also contributed essays to the Criterion releases of Robert Siodmak's The Killers, Preston Sturges's Unfaithfully Yours, and the John Cassavetes: Five Films box set.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
F for Fake
Orson Welles
1975
89 min
2
Red Beard
Akira Kurosawa
1965
185 min
3
I Know Where I’m Going!
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
1945
91 min
4
Le trou
Jacques Becker
1960
132 min
5
Videodrome
UnavailableDavid Cronenberg
1983
88 min
6
3 Women
UnavailableRobert Altman
1977
124 min
7
The Making of Fanny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman
1982
110 min
8
Slacker
Richard Linklater
1991
97 min
9
The Sword of Doom
Kihachi Okamoto
1966
122 min
10
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Nicolas Roeg
1976
139 min