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Kathryn Bigelow's Criterion Closet Picks

October 27, 2025

The writer and director talks about the innovative low-budget filmmaking of Detour, shares her love for The Battle of Algiers and its unrelenting “metronome of tension,” and praises Costa-Gavras as the inventor of the political thriller.

Watch this visit to the closet on YouTube and check out more closet picks from 2025. Shop Kathryn’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!

  • Detour
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Straw Dogs
  • Army of Shadows
  • The Confession
  • Hiroshima Mon Amour
  • Notorious
  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog