Molly Ringwald

“Okay, this one. A Face in the Crowd. This is a movie by Elia Kazan, and I have always thought that this would make a really incredible remake except for the fact that we're living it. And Patricia Neal is incredible in that, and I believe it was Lee Remick's, first movie.”

“So, this is a good one. Céline and Julie Go Boating. It has this very, you know, Alice in the Looking Glass feeling. But it's also two women who are, who are friendly with each other, you know, as opposed to a lot of movies where there's so much friction between the women. These are like, this is a real, I think, women's women kind of movie. So I'm going to put that in there because I like to watch it when I need a little boost.”

“I would really love to get some, Godard films. I've seen, I mean, I did wear my, my Godard Masculin Féminin sweatshirt, so, so what do you have? Oh, here. I love Band of Outsiders.”

“This is the first movie by Bruno Dumont, called La vie de Jésus. It's, I remember seeing this in the movie theater actually in France and being very, struck by it. He didn't really use any actors, I think these are all pretty much, nonprofessional. And then I met him later at the French Film Festival in Sarasota because I really wanted to work with him, but he told me at the time that he could never actually see himself working with an actor. I'm glad that he's gotten over that. I still hope to be able to work with him one day, but I'm really, I really want to see this again.”

“And then also I see that, Love Streams, which is not in the collection, but I'd like to have that as well. This was his, this was his last movie that he did before he died.”

“So now I am going to close my eyes and just do a random pick. I'm going to try to do something that I have not, have not seen. Ooh, Umberto D. A film by Vittorio De Sica. I have not seen this one. It's a neorealist masterpiece.”

“Well, the first thing I think I'd like to get is the, the Dietrich and Von Sternberg, and I have seen some of these, but I have not seen all of them, so I think I'm going to go for that.”

“To that point, I have to get, Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons. These are movies that I've seen a bunch of times. It really is like my comfort viewing, whenever, whenever I'm feeling a little bit down. And I feel like March is definitely one of those months where you think, in New York you're like, is this ever going to end? It's so cold, it's so dreary. I also love Rohmer because he is, for me, he's one of the most bookish filmmakers that there is. You know, there's tons of dialogue, the, the, the, the camera angles are not complicated at all, but, but it really, it just evokes a feeling, and it's a feeling that I, that I really like, so going to put that in there.”

“Lubitsch Musicals. Lubitsch combined his love for European operettas and his mastery of film to create these elegant, bawdy, pre-Code delights. Okay, yeah, fun. I love watching pre-Code, like what they got away with.”

“So one of my favorite, favorite movies is The Nights of Cabiria, which is in this set, which is the Essential Fellini set. Yeah, so this, if you're a Fellini fan, this is, this is definitely. I actually got to meet Fellini when I was 13 years old when I did my first movie, which was Paul Mazursky's Tempest with John Cassavetes, and Gena Rowlands, and we filmed a month at Cinecittà. And, this guy came in and, 'Bellissima,' kissed me on the top of my head, and I was like, 'Who's that?', it was Fellini. So really excited about watching all of those because I haven't seen all of those.”

“Oh, the John Cassavetes: Five Films. I'd really love to take this because, I love John Cassavetes. I mean, what he says is all of his movies are pretty much about love: how people love, why they love, you know, why. He's like, 'I just basically keep making the same movie again and again,' because that's, that's what obsesses him, that's what obsessed him. And, excited about that.”