Québécois filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s debut feature, I Killed My Mother, won three prizes in the Directors’ Fortnight section of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and his follow-up, Heartbeats, competed for the festival’s Un certain regard. An avowed Criterion addict, Dolan tells us that during his last trip to Cannes, “my luggage was filled with Criterion titles.”
Photo by Shayne Laverdière
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Pierrot le fou
Jean-Luc Godard
1965
110 min
2
Cries and Whispers
Ingmar Bergman
1972
95 min
3
Forbidden Games
UnavailableRené Clément
1952
87 min
4
The 400 Blows
François Truffaut
1959
99 min
5
Taste of Cherry
Abbas Kiarostami
1997
99 min
6
The Cranes Are Flying
Mikhail Kalatozov
1957
97 min
7
Au revoir les enfants
Louis Malle
1987
105 min
8
Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau
1946
96 min
9
Mala Noche
Gus Van Sant
1985
75 min
10
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
UnavailableLuis Buñuel
1972
101 min