Name: Jodie Foster’s Closet Picks
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I'm Jodie Foster, and I couldn't be more excited to be in the Criterion Closet.

This is such an opportunity to talk about movies, my favorite thing on earth.

And just to revisit all the movies that have inspired me and that make me keep doing the Same job for 60 years, let's go to one of my favorite movies that I think should be taught in every course.

Sadine Shama's movie, Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

An absolutely deliciously beautiful film.

A period movie that couldn't be more relevant and contemporary.

Some people talk about it as being one of the first films to really illustrate what a female gaze would be and would look like.

It's emotional, it's intelligent, it's beautiful.

She also did Petite Maman, which is here.

One of my favorite movies of all time, Holly Hunter.

The score is something that you'll never forget.

This beautiful, lonely piano score that Holly Hunter learned how to play piano to be able to play this incredibly difficult score.

It's a very quiet movie about a woman who is mute and so expresses herself and shows herself through her music.

If you love New Zealand, you will love this film.

Well, there's this great movie that was a documentary about the Olympics called Visions of Eight.

Maya Zetterling, a Swedish filmmaker, woman director, is in there, but

also great filmmakers like Mila Foreman, John Schlesinger, the list goes on.

All looking at the Olympics from their point of view, but also with different categories of the Olympics.

Oh, yeah, and there's more movies of Maya Zetterling.

We're going to put those in the box, too, because, you know, you have to discover things.

We got Parasite by Bong Chung Ho, the one that he won the Oscar for and that everybody knows, but

many other films that he made, like Okja, gosh, they're.

What I love about his movies is that he is.

He manages to bring wry wit and a kind of quirkiness to dark themes.

I always say that my film school was my mom.

She'd take me to see one or two foreign films with usually get food to go and then eat it in the movie theater.

So that Was my whole childhood was my mom talking to me about exotic places.

She really never traveled and didn't speak any other languages.

That's all she ever wanted to do, was travel.

So she took me to these places by showing me these movies.

Honestly, I was not involved creatively in the movie at all.

It is a beautiful film made by my friend Matthew Kasovitz.

I was working with him on developing another project with him.

And he said, you might want to see the movie that I just made, because who knows?

You might not like it and you might not want to work with me.

Great performance by Vincent Cassel when he was young and gorgeous.

I think I'm on this one, so I think I speak on this one.

Oh, by the way, we were talking about Parasite.

There's a black and white version that Bong Joon Ho included in here, which makes me nuts.

The ones you remember, you know, Arm Record.

Every movie is more beautiful than the next.

It's all painted and it's just beautiful.

A Japanese movie that I loved called Woman in the Dunes.

It is slow and it is absolutely, stunningly beautiful in black and white.

It's a true art film, and every film student should see this one.

We should go to Wings of Desire, Vin Vendors.

Great master filmmaker Bruno Ganz as the angel in his beautiful big flowy coat on the Brandenburg Gate.

An unforgettable film with also a beautiful soundtrack.

Really says something about Germany and about dreams and love.

There's so many other German movies I love too, like the lives of others.

My mom, for some reason, was obsessed with Fassbender.

So we went to see a lot of Fassbender movies.

And I'm pretty sure Criterion has a whole collection, including Berlin Alexanderplatz, which is the TV show that Fassbender did.

I remember my mom and I watching the whole series together.

It just tells you all about my childhood.