“These are ten films that tickle me in the right places,” says Academy Award–nominated production designer KK Barrett, who’s helped visualize the worlds of such films as Being John Malkovich , Lost in Translation, Where the Wild Things Are, and Her.
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Charles Laughton
1955
93 min

John Huston
1979
106 min

Lars von Trier
1984
104 min

William Klein
1969
95 min

Koreyoshi Kurahara
1960
76 min

Michelangelo Antonioni
1964
117 min

G. W. Pabst
1929
141 min

Monte Hellman
1971
102 min

Paul Schrader
1985
121 min

Lynne Ramsay
1999
94 min

Věra Chytilová
1966
76 min

John Frankenheimer
1966
107 min

Gus Van Sant
1985
75 min

Wes Anderson
1996
91 min

Mike Leigh
1993
131 min

Víctor Erice
1973
98 min