15 Nov 2023
Hlynur Pálmason’s Closet Picks
The writer and director of Godland —Iceland’s 2023 Oscar submission—shares his love for Ana Torrent’s performances in Cría cuervos and The Spirit of the Beehive, talks about the physicality of Naked and the fear and inspiration in L’humanité, and praises the craft of Bresson as “like no other.”
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- Choices
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- Single films
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| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice | 1973 |
| 2 |  Cría cuervos . . . | Carlos Saura | 1976 |
| 3 |  Naked | Mike Leigh | 1993 |
| 4 |  Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | 1999 |
| 5 |  The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. Dreyer | 1928 |
| 6 |  Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975 |
| 7 |  L’argent | Robert Bresson | 1983 |
| 8 |  L’humanité | Bruno Dumont | 1999 |
| 9 |  Blow-Up | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1966 |
| 10 |  Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 |