6 Feb 2024
Paul Giamatti’s Closet Picks
The award-winning actor talks about his childhood experience seeing Carnival of Souls and his love for low-budget horror treasures, shares how Blue Velvet ignited his desire to become an actor and why Rashomon always moves him to tears, and praises the performances in John Frankenheimer’s Seconds.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 8
- Single films
- 7
- Box sets
- 1
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Carnival of Souls | Herk Harvey | 1962 |
| 2 |  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1943 |
| 3 |  Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 |
| 4 |  Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1972 |
| 5 |  Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | 1942 |
| 6 |  Seconds | John Frankenheimer | 1966 |
| 7 |  Blue Velvet | David Lynch | 1986 |
| 8 |  Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko box set, 2 films |