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Payal Kapadia’s Criterion Closet Picks

October 8, 2024

Writer and director of All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia shares why Sans Soleil and Arabian Nights are gifts that keep on giving, talks about Aki Kaurismäki’s “funny and audacious” Leningrad Cowboys films, and praises Louis Malle’s Phantom India as a must-watch for everyone.

Watch this visit to the closet on YouTube and check out more closet picks from 2024. A polaroid from this visit was posted on Instagram. Shop Payal’s closet picks here.

Check out the All Time Top Criterion Closet Picks list as well as a list of all the Criterion films that have never been picked during a closet visit!

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  • Loves of a Blonde
  • La Jetée
  • Sans Soleil
  • Charulata
  • The Decameron
  • The Canterbury Tales
  • Arabian Nights
  • Leningrad Cowboys Go America
  • Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
  • Total Balalaika Show
  • Vive Le Tour
  • A Human Condition
  • Place de la République
  • Phantom India
  • Calcutta
  • God's Country
  • … And the Pursuit of Happiness
  • Paris Is Burning
  • Insiang
  • Mysterious Object at Noon
  • Revenge
  • Limite
  • Law of the Border
  • Taipei Story
  • Varda by Agnès
  • La Pointe Courte
  • Cléo from 5 to 7
  • Daguerréotypes
  • Le Bonheur
  • The Creatures
  • Uncle Yanco
  • Black Panthers
  • Lions Love
  • Mur Murs
  • Documenteur
  • One Sings, the Other Doesn't
  • Vagabond
  • Jane B. by Agnès V.
  • Kung-Fu Master!
  • Jacquot de Nantes
  • One Hundred and One Nights
  • The Gleaners and I
  • The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
  • Faces Places
  • Agnès Varda: From Here to There
  • The Beaches of Agnès