"A masterpiece of art direction and set design. No other film in history has ever quite captured the essential dry rot of the 1970s’ fourth-rate Mediterranean beach world. Having spent sixteen summers in areas near, but not quite in, low-rent Med tourist towns, it was a thrill ride straight back to childhood."

"Barry Lyndon was a huge hole in my repertoire. I think I’d been holding out for so long to see a print and I finally saw it last year at Metrograph, and it was astonishing. I didn’t realize how fun it was going to be. An astonishing comedy, and the production design is unparalleled."

"I love too many Antonioni films, but this is my favorite. La notte is second. The power of slow observation. Here he massages color, industry, and fog as antagonists to femme urban madness. My favorite use of Design by Location Curation. An opposite influence for me on Her. A companion piece to Todd Haynes’s Safe."