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American television writer and producer; created and ran Mad Men (2007 to 2015) and was a writer and executive producer on The Sopranos.
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The World of ApuOther Satyajit Ray
In The World of Apu (Apur Sansar), the trilogy’s final chapter, Apu finds adulthood through one of the most compelling and exquisitely crafted plots in film history.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Matthew Weiner, the entry for Apur Sansar.
2015-10-29·criterion.com ↗
The Thin Blue LineOther Errol Morris
With no narrator, a Philip Glass score, and dramatic reenactments, there’s a lot of media that tries to imitate The Thin Blue Line, either without knowing the source or without coming close to Errol Morris’s dramatic, funny, and chilling documentary, which redefined the genre.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Matthew Weiner, the entry for The Thin Blue Line.
2015-10-29·criterion.com ↗
All That JazzOther Bob Fosse
I put these two films together because Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort is a light and airy musical with sherbet-colored costumes and a painted town, while the other, Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, is a dark, grimy, semi-autobiographical show-business story about a man who makes musicals. These two classics remind me that music and dance can say more than any other kind of action, and that life is a stage whether you are on it or directing it.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Matthew Weiner, the entry for All That Jazz.
2015-10-29·criterion.com ↗
The Young Girls of RochefortOther Jacques Demy
I put these two films together because Jacques Demy’s The Young Girls of Rochefort is a light and airy musical with sherbet-colored costumes and a painted town, while the other, Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz, is a dark, grimy, semi-autobiographical show-business story about a man who makes musicals. These two classics remind me that music and dance can say more than any other kind of action, and that life is a stage whether you are on it or directing it.
Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Matthew Weiner, the entry for All That Jazz.
2015-10-29·criterion.com ↗
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