16 Dec 2014
Mike Leigh’s Closet Picks
The legendary English director talks about discovering world cinema in his teenage years, the ways that Vivre sa vie gets to the “raw core of life,” the humor and politics in The Firemen’s Ball, and his experiences as a film student in London.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 9
- Single films
- 9
- Box sets
- 0
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
| 2 |  Vivre sa vie | Jean-Luc Godard | 1962 |
| 3 |  A Hard Day’s Night | Richard Lester | 1964 |
| 4 |  Late Spring | Yasujiro Ozu | 1949 |
| 5 |  The Firemen’s Ball | Miloš Forman | 1967 |
| 6 |  Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1980 |
| 7 |  Jules and Jim | François Truffaut | 1962 |
| 8 |  Divorce Italian Style | Pietro Germi | 1961 |
| 9 |  Judex | Georges Franju | 1963 |