26 Mar 2025
Franklin Leonard’s Closet Picks
The producer and founder of the Black List praises Don Cheadle’s and Denzel Washington’s performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, talks about why everyone who wants to work in Hollywood should see Bamboozled, and selects favorites by Charles Burnett and Alice Diop.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 9
- Single films
- 8
- Box sets
- 1
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | 1990 |
| 2 |  Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | 1995 |
| 3 |  Memories of Murder | Bong Joon Ho | 2003 |
| 4 |  Bamboozled | Spike Lee | 2000 |
| 5 |  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | 2007 |
| 6 |  Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | 1982 |
| 7 |  Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist box set, 8 films | ||
| 8 |  Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | 2023 |
| 9 |  Saint Omer | Alice Diop | 2022 |