Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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The musician, producer, and composer praises the sonic world of Brian De Palma’s movies, shares why he thinks THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES is the most beautiful film ever made, and discusses what THE GAME taught him about the interplay between fiction and reality.

Thomas’s Picks:
MODERN TIMES (Charles Chaplin, 1936)*
SISTERS (Brian De Palma, 1973)*
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Spike Jonze, 1999)
MARTHA GRAHAM: DANCE ON FILM (Nathan Kroll)*
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Sergei Parajanov, 1969)*
THE QATSI TRILOGY (Godfrey Reggio)
THE GAME (David Fincher, 1997)
THE CELEBRATION (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)*

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*MODERN TIMES, SISTERS, MARTHA GRAHAM: DANCE ON FILM, THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES, and THE CELEBRATION are now playing on our streaming service, The Criterion Channel: criterionchannel.com

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