11 Nov 2025
David Remnick’s Closet Picks
The editor of the New Yorker feels honored by the tribute to the magazine in The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, urges patience to appreciate Stan Brakhage’s experimental cinema, and finds parallels between the experiences of watching Robert Bresson’s films and listening to Bach.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 9
- Single films
- 7
- Box sets
- 2
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | 1956 |
| 2 |  Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| 3 |  Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser | Charlotte Zwerin | 1988 |
| 4 |  Burden of Dreams | Les Blank | 1982 |
| 5 |  Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | 1960 |
| 6 |  By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two box set, 2 films | ||
| 7 |  King Lear | Jean-Luc Godard | 1987 |
| 8 |  The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years box set, 10 films | ||
| 9 |  The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun | Wes Anderson | 2021 |