Kasi Lemmons is an award-winning filmmaker. Her 1997 directorial debut, Eve’s Bayou, has been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. Her latest film is Harriet, based on the life of Harriet Tubman.
Photo by Glen Wilson, courtesy of Focus Features
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
All About Eve
UnavailableJoseph L. Mankiewicz
1950
139 min
2
All That Jazz
UnavailableBob Fosse
1979
123 min
3
Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus
1959
100 min
4
Don’t Look Now
UnavailableNicolas Roeg
1973
110 min
5
Do the Right Thing
UnavailableSpike Lee
1989
120 min
6
Fish Tank
UnavailableAndrea Arnold
2009
123 min
7
The Graduate
UnavailableMike Nichols
1967
106 min
8
Harold and Maude
UnavailableHal Ashby
1971
92 min
9
Rosemary’s Baby
UnavailableRoman Polanski
1968
138 min
10
Z
Costa-Gavras
1969
122 min