27 Oct 2025
Kathryn Bigelow’s Closet Picks
The writer and director talks about the innovative low-budget filmmaking of Detour, shares her love for The Battle of Algiers and its unrelenting “metronome of tension,” and praises Costa-Gavras as the inventor of the political thriller.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 8
- Single films
- 8
- Box sets
- 0
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1945 |
| 2 |  The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 |
| 3 |  Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | 1971 |
| 4 |  Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1969 |
| 5 |  The Confession | Costa-Gavras | 1970 |
| 6 |  Hiroshima mon amour | Alain Resnais | 1959 |
| 7 |  Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
| 8 |  The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | Alfred Hitchcock | 1927 |