16 Jun 2025
David Byrne’s Closet Picks
The legendary musician, filmmaker, and visual artist talks about The Color of Pomegranates and how it challenges the idea of what a film can be, shouts out Neil Young’s Dead Man score, and shares his affection for the sentimentality in A Matter of Life and Death.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 6
- Single films
- 5
- Box sets
- 1
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Complete Jacques Tati box set, 6 films | ||
| 2 |  The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1969 |
| 3 |  Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | 1995 |
| 4 |  A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1946 |
| 5 |  The 39 Steps | Alfred Hitchcock | 1935 |
| 6 |  True Stories | David Byrne | 1986 |