Young Jean Lee has written and directed ten shows in New York with Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company and toured her work in over thirty cities around the world. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Obie Awards, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a prize in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a PEN Literary Award. Her short film Here Come the Girls was presented at the Locarno International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and BAMcinemaFest.
Biography via Criterion.
The List
1
Contempt
UnavailableJean-Luc Godard
1963
103 min
2
Bicycle Thieves
Vittorio De Sica
1948
89 min
3
Nights of Cabiria
UnavailableFederico Fellini
1957
110 min
4
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa
1950
88 min
5
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
UnavailableStanley Kubrick
1964
95 min
6
Le bonheur
Agnès Varda
1965
80 min
7
Solaris
Andrei Tarkovsky
1972
167 min
8
Touki bouki
Djibril Diop Mambéty
1973
91 min
9
Eraserhead
David Lynch
1977
89 min
10
Rosemary’s Baby
UnavailableRoman Polanski
1968
138 min