15 Oct 2025
Lav Diaz’s Closet Picks
The writer and director of Magellan praises the use of silence and space in Le samouraï, talks about how Mike Leigh and Kenji Mizoguchi explore the human condition in their films, and selects his good friend Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 12
- Single films
- 8
- Box sets
- 4
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Lost Highway | David Lynch | 1997 |
| 2 |  The Apu Trilogy box set, 3 films | ||
| 3 |  The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | 1963 |
| 4 |  Le samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1967 |
| 5 |  Essential Fellini box set, 14 films | ||
| 6 |  Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set, 40 films | ||
| 7 |  I Am Cuba | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1964 |
| 8 |  Werckmeister Harmonies | Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | 2000 |
| 9 |  Naked | Mike Leigh | 1993 |
| 10 |  Persona | Ingmar Bergman | 1966 |
| 11 |  Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 |
| 12 |  Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa box set, 3 films |