Miguel Arteta has directed the films Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt, and Cedar Rapids, along with episodes of the television series American Horror Story, Nurse Jackie, Six Feet Under, and Ugly Betty. His list of his favorite Criterion films runs the gamut from the French New Wave to eighties American.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Juliet of the Spirits
Federico Fellini
1965
148 min
2
The Docks of New York
UnavailableJosef von Sternberg
1928
76 min
3
French Cancan
Jean Renoir
1955
102 min
4
Something Wild
Jonathan Demme
1986
114 min
5
Shock Corridor
Samuel Fuller
1963
102 min
6
Dodes’ka-den
Akira Kurosawa
1970
140 min
7
Magnificent Obsession
UnavailableDouglas Sirk
1954
108 min
8
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1974
93 min
9
Breathless
Jean-Luc Godard
1960
90 min
10
Do the Right Thing
UnavailableSpike Lee
1989
120 min
11
Trouble in Paradise
UnavailableErnst Lubitsch
1932
83 min