20 Oct 2023
Todd Haynes’s Closet Picks
The writer and director of Safe, Carol, and May December describes the influence that Brief Encounter and Beau travail have had on his work, praises classic Douglas Sirk movies as “the most perfect films ever made,” and gives a shout-out to the late Terence Davies and his friend Kelly Reichardt.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 16
- Single films
- 15
- Box sets
- 1
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Brief Encounter | David Lean | 1945 |
| 2 |  My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant | 1991 |
| 3 |  All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | 1955 |
| 4 |  Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | 1956 |
| 5 |  The BRD Trilogy box set, 3 films | ||
| 6 |  Masculin féminin | Jean-Luc Godard | 1966 |
| 7 |  Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger | 1971 |
| 8 |  The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
| 9 |  The Long Day Closes | Terence Davies | 1992 |
| 10 |  Beau travail | Claire Denis | 1999 |
| 11 |  All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 |
| 12 |  Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper | 1942 |
| 13 |  Old Joy | Kelly Reichardt | 2006 |
| 14 |  The Servant | Joseph Losey | 1963 |
| 15 |  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Russ Meyer | 1970 |
| 16 |  In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 |