2 Aug 2024
Lee Daniels’s Closet Picks
The writer-director talks about how Federico Fellini and John Waters gave him the passion and confidence to become a filmmaker, shares his poignant experience watching Claudine as a young man, and selects favorites such as Pickup on South Street, Do the Right Thing, and The Piano.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 9
- Single films
- 8
- Box sets
- 1
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  8½ | Federico Fellini | 1963 |
| 2 |  Essential Fellini box set, 14 films | ||
| 3 |  Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 |
| 4 |  Querelle | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1982 |
| 5 |  Female Trouble | John Waters | 1974 |
| 6 |  Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 1953 |
| 7 |  The Piano | Jane Campion | 1993 |
| 8 |  Claudine | John Berry | 1974 |
| 9 |  Spartacus | Stanley Kubrick | 1960 |