In 2025, we talked to a lot of celebrities. So, as the year rounds to a close, we took the occasion to comb through our favorite stories and compile their cultural recommendations. In this final installment of our year-end round-ups, below, we turn our attention to movies with an eclectic mix of viewing suggestions courtesy of Winona Ryder, Todd Solondz, Francesca Scorsese, and Arthur Jafa.
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TODD SOLONDZ
“I very much enjoyed Catherine Breillat’s movie Last Summer. I enjoyed Owen Kline’s Funny Pages. And I enjoyed watching Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice.”
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TRUE WHITAKER
“Uptown Girls or The Secret Life of Pets. Orrrr Little Manhattan when I’m missing Josh.”
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ALANA HAIM
“The Witches of Eastwick, which I always thought was one of the greatest movies of all time.”
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ARTHUR JAFA
“There’s a lot of ‘good shit’ let’s say. But mostly it’s Hazel and [The] Beverly Hillbillies and Gilligan’s Island.”
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WINONA RYDER
“I’m obsessed with John Sayles movies, and I always have been. Matewan and Lone Star and Passion Fish. “
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RACHEL KUSHNER
“I just did this Adventures in Moviegoing project for the Criterion Collection. One of the movies that I talked about is Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, by [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder. I think that movie is so wonderful and so funny. I love that movie and I think of it from time to time when I see the way that people—how do I put this?—don’t want moral complexity. And that movie provides it.”
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PERFUME GENIUS
“I just bought this [Gregg Araki] box set on the Criterion sale and it has The Doom Generation, Nowhere and another one.”
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FRANCESCA SCORSESE
“Soul, the animated film. It is so beautiful, and I’ve been trying to get my dad to watch it.”
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JIM JARMUSCH
“I thought the 18-hour version of the reboot [Twin Peaks: The Return] was one of the best things I’d seen in a number of years.”
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CHRISTOPHER BRINEY
“Sinners was really good. I was blown away. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I did. I thought it was phenomenal.”
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PHILIPPA SNOW
“David Lynch is my biggest influence in any medium as an artist. Very specifically the three films that are often described as his L.A. Trilogy: Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire.”
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TIM ROTH
“Oh! I love Monsters, Inc. I liked Up as well.”
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