19 Oct 2025
Tracy Letts’s Closet Picks
The playwright and actor praises Do the Right Thing as the best film of the eighties, talks about the comfort of watching his favorite westerns , and selects Chicago cinema classics like Hoop Dreams and l ove jones.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 12
- Single films
- 11
- Box sets
- 1
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kwaidan | Masaki Kobayashi | 1965 |
| 2 |  Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 |
| 3 |  Hoop Dreams | Steve James | 1994 |
| 4 |  Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1980 |
| 5 |  Winchester ’73 | Anthony Mann | 1950 |
| 6 |  Red River | Howard Hawks | 1948 |
| 7 |  The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher box set, 5 films | ||
| 8 |  ’Round Midnight | Bertrand Tavernier | 1986 |
| 9 |  Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser | Charlotte Zwerin | 1988 |
| 10 |  Choose Me | Alan Rudolph | 1984 |
| 11 |  love jones | Theodore Witcher | 1997 |
| 12 |  The Complete Mr. Arkadin | Orson Welles | 1955 |