Anna Kendrick’s Closet Picks

The actor and director talks about the thrilling sensation of seeing ALL THAT JAZZ for the first time, reminisces about watching KLUTE while on the set of TWILIGHT, and reflects upon her favorite Ingmar Bergman films, such as WINTER LIGHT and CRIES AND WHISPERS.

[judTV]

Didn’t know Anna was a hardcore existentialist. RESPECT

[InsertCleverNameHere]

"The nasty business of looking at one's self" goes pretty hard ngl

[rofflestomp]

It's so nice when an actor you like turns out to be really, really cool!

[nicolaimarquez]

Didnt know Anna Kendrick gushing about Bergman was a thing that I needed, but Im thankful anyway

[TheChillennial]

"Touched on something too sensitive to touch"
Bergman really is like that. There is this honesty few articulate well.
He wasn't afraid to be completely vulnerable.

Stalker is my favorite movie.

Her choices were superb. Gal ought to be directing like Molly Ringwald should. Their choices just really scream theyd be good at it.

[maxfieldfulton]

These are the BEST closet picks I’ve seen yet. And she does such a beautiful job of explaining the deep paradox of Cries and Whispers.

[TheFacrecords]

Her analysis of Bergman’s incapability of lying to comfort one’s self about death is the smartest insight I’ve heard about him, as a person and a filmmaker. Chin chin, Ms Kendrick.

[jimmygillard]

Anna is a true cinephile! Not been that impressed by a selection in a while.

[dwc]

I haven't seen all of Anna Kendrick's movies, not by a long shot, but of all the ones I've seen, my favorite is *_The Accountant_*
I love how the relationship between her character Dana and The Accountant (whose name is _not_ Christian; we never learn his name) develops - the awkward lunch, but then they connect over the math, and their conversation on the couch after he saves her from the hitmen is great. And when she leans in for a kiss and he's completely oblivious (and he had _just_ explained how he sucks at reading nonverbal cues!), it hit me hard because I've been that guy too many times...
And I love how, when The Accountant saves her from the hitmen, she _isn't_ a Damsel, she's a Pint-Sized Powerhouse: the mooks joke about how they should have brought a smaller box, right before she clocks one of them with a cast-iron stove grill, and then after she retreats to the bathroom, bashes the other one with the toilet-tank cover. She's clearly outmatched, and The Accountant does have to save her right as she's about to lose - but she held her own far better and longer than one would expect, given the difference in size, number and skill sets.
I've had so many ideas for a sequel/continuation of that story, but I'm afraid it's been so long it's not going to happen.

[madahab]

I got to see All That Jazz in 1979 when I was about 15. It absolutely blew me away. I was only familiar with Bob Fosse from Cabaret when it aired on network TV. I knew nothing about him or how autobiographical the film was, or how prophetic it would be when he suffered a massive heart attack while in rehearsal for a revival of Sweet Charity, dying on a park bench with his ex-wife Gwen Verdon. I remember walking home after the show in a state of shock, trying to absorb everything that I had just seen. Even though Joe Gideon is a complete bastard it's hard not to find a little sympathy for him, especially when he's played by Roy Scheider. The final sequence is magnificent, and has that brutal hard cut to final.shot before it fades to credits.

It took me a long time to find an appreciation for Bergman. The "ah-ha" moment came when I realized that everyone was crazy to some degree and the films became less intimidating. My favourite is Hour of the Wolf. It's the closest he came to making a horror movie and has some very unnerving moments.

[GORT]

She was super cool in The Accountant. LOVED that movie!

[chelsea]

I can’t believe she picked All That Jazz!! I haven’t seen anyone pick it before, and I don’t hear it talked about all that much. I love her even more now ❤

[magnusneo]

I think I Love Anna Kendrick even more now, great cinema taste indeed

[deaconpeters]

Just watched Woman of the Hour this morning. She's a great director as she is an actress!

[DyenamicFilms]

Criterion is awesome. I recently tried to rewatch my Walkabout blu ray and it froze. I took a look and the disc was tinted brown. Definitely something wrong physically with the disc. I was going to buy another, but it's the only disc that deteriorated like that which was odd. I google it. Apparently in 2010 when I bought it, there was a bad batch sent out. Someone commented that Criterion would replace it if you mail the disc in, but this was years ago and I thought maybe I was too late to do this.

I decide to give it a try and get a replacement disc anyway. I email Criterion about the issue. They respond rather quickly and tell me to simply take a picture of the disc with the date written on it. I don't even have to send the disc in. I received the replacement disc just days later.

Thank you Criterion.

[DavidCarroll-tg]

Smile at her expounding upon and then hugging the Bergman collection.

[Surge]

Damn. I never imagined Anna Kendrick was a "Stalker" fan, or a "The Passion of Joan of Arc" fan, for that matter. Add Bergman to that. Impressive.

[vitek]

OK! Thank god I'm not the only person who watched 'Anatomy of a Fall' and thought: what the actual fuck is the French legal system?

[ConnerNielsen]

Anna Kendrick talking for minutes about Ingmar Bergman!!!

[DanHemsath]

I'll be darned. Winter Light is my favorite Bergman movie, too, and he's also my fave director. Wonderful to see the appreciation. The way she describes her response to All That Jazz was pretty much exactly how I responded when I first saw Blood Simple.