20 Apr 2026
Noah Wyle’s Closet Picks
The actor and director shares his intimate connections to Eating Raoul and The Great Escape, explains what defines “the Lubitsch touch,” and praises the heartrending performances in The Last Picture Show.
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
- Choices
- 18
- Single films
- 17
- Box sets
- 1
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  A Face in the Crowd | Elia Kazan | 1957 |
| 2 |  Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller | 1957 |
| 3 |  Repo Man | Alex Cox | 1984 |
| 4 |  Eating Raoul | Paul Bartel | 1982 |
| 5 |  The Great Escape | John Sturges | 1963 |
| 6 |  ’Round Midnight | Bertrand Tavernier | 1986 |
| 7 |  Seconds | John Frankenheimer | 1966 |
| 8 |  Trouble in Paradise | Ernst Lubitsch | 1932 |
| 9 |  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1943 |
| 10 |  F for Fake | Orson Welles | 1975 |
| 11 |  Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 1953 |
| 12 |  Medium Cool | Haskell Wexler | 1969 |
| 13 |  This Sporting Life | Lindsay Anderson | 1963 |
| 14 |  Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | 1983 |
| 15 |  A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco box set, 3 films | ||
| 16 |  Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | 1995 |
| 17 |  The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | 1971 |
| 18 |  Shadows | John Cassavetes | 1959 |