The director of IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK and MOONLIGHT joined us to talk about film school, second impressions, and the art of seeing as an amateur—and to select an eclectic group of personal favorites.
The director of MOONLIGHT on a lifetime of moviegoing
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1993 • France
Starring Juliette Binoche, Benoit Régent
In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But BLUE is m...
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1994 • France
Starring Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski
The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski’s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts t...
Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1994 • France
Starring Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Krzysztof Kieślowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Irène Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva who...
Directed by Lucrecia Martel • 2001 • Argentina, Spain
Starring Martín Adjemián, Diego Baenas, Leonora Balcarce
The release of Lucrecia Martel’s LA CIÉNAGA heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beaut...
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón • 2001 • Mexico
Starring Maribel Verdú, Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna
This smash road comedy from Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuarón is that rare movie to combine raunchy subject matter and emotional warmth. Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna shot to internationa...
Directed by Claire Denis • 2009 • France
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé
In WHITE MATERIAL, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis, known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed character. Played by a ferocious Isabelle...