18 Jul 2025
Ari Aster’s Closet Picks
The filmmaker returns to the Criterion Closet, where he praises seventies thrillers like The Parallax View and Straw Dogs , talks about You Can Count on Me and how “no one writes dialogue like Kenneth Lonergan,” and connects Targets to his film Eddington .
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 19
- Single films
- 19
- Box sets
- 0
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Winchester ’73 | Anthony Mann | 1950 |
| 2 |  The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | 1974 |
| 3 |  Lacombe, Lucien | Louis Malle | 1974 |
| 4 |  Revanche | Götz Spielmann | 2008 |
| 5 |  Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | 1971 |
| 6 |  Ace in the Hole | Billy Wilder | 1951 |
| 7 |  A Face in the Crowd | Elia Kazan | 1957 |
| 8 |  Wanda | Barbara Loden | 1970 |
| 9 |  Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 |
| 10 |  Graduation | Cristian Mungiu | 2016 |
| 11 |  The Grifters | Stephen Frears | 1990 |
| 12 |  You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan | 2000 |
| 13 |  The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1953 |
| 14 |  Lone Star | John Sayles | 1996 |
| 15 |  The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | 1971 |
| 16 |  Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | 1968 |
| 17 |  Young Mr. Lincoln | John Ford | 1939 |
| 18 |  My Darling Clementine | John Ford | 1946 |
| 19 |  No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | 2007 |