“This list is so hard to make,” writes Lena Dunham, writer and director of the film Tiny Furniture and writer and creator of the HBO series Girls. “I am Criterion-obsessed and even own some Janus Films VHS’s . . . I’m embarrassed so many of these films are in English, but I just love speaking English.”
Photo by Grant Delin
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Fish Tank
UnavailableAndrea Arnold
2009
123 min
2
Days of Heaven
UnavailableTerrence Malick
1978
94 min
3
Broadcast News
UnavailableJames L. Brooks
1987
133 min
4
Weekend
Andrew Haigh
2011
96 min
5tie
La Pointe Courte
Agnès Varda
1955
80 min
5tie
Cléo from 5 to 7
Agnès Varda
1962
90 min
5tie
Le bonheur
Agnès Varda
1965
80 min
5tie
Vagabond
Agnès Varda
1985
106 min
6tie
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1979
120 min
6tie
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1974
93 min
7
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Peter Weir
1975
107 min
8tie
Straw Dogs
UnavailableSam Peckinpah
1971
116 min
8tie
Dead Ringers
UnavailableDavid Cronenberg
1988
115 min
9
Through a Glass Darkly
Ingmar Bergman
1961
91 min
10
The War Room
Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker
1993
96 min