Lights, camera, sofa: a winter watchlist
This season’s watchlist leans into films that pay close attention to the mechanics of feeling—works shaped by sharp edits, unexpected humor, archival textures, and character studies that refuse easy readings. It’s a mix of cult classics, fantastical ways of seeing, and lived experience. Soak up each story, and let it shape your season the way a garment does: gently, and from the inside out.
From Bonjour Tristesse (2024): Durga Chew-Bose’s remake finds its tension in the room itself—color, composition, and the space between people.
After putting this list together, we couldn’t resist tallying the hours. The full watchlist comes to just over 54 hours of viewing. Fifty-four hours of color, longing, joy, and strangeness.
- Die My Love — Lynne Ramsay, 2025
- Sentimental Value — Joachim Trier, 2025
- Only Yesterday — Isao Takahata, 1991
- The Velvet Underground — Todd Haynes, 2021
- House (Hausu) — Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977
- The Watermelon Woman — Cheryl Dunye, 1996
- Me and You and Everyone We Know — Miranda July, 2005
- Mistress America — Noah Baumbach, 2015
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl — Alfonso Gómez-Rejón, 2015
- Disobedience — Sebastián Lelio, 2017
- Zola — Janicza Bravo, 2020
- Shiva Baby — Emma Seligman, 2020
- Theater Camp — Nick Lieberman & Molly Gordon, 2023
- Eno — Gary Hustwit, 2024
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover — Peter Greenaway, 1989
Featured quite high on the list is Die My Love, a film that moves like an exposed nerve. A sharply observed portrait of a woman’s inner life, the film follows the intimate turbulence of experiencing life as it happens.
Beginners from Mike Mills is a film about love, loss, and the art of starting over — with a dog who understands everything.
We recommend wearing the bed while you make your way through this list. If you can’t track down the blanketed Marc Jacobs ensemble Gracie Abrams is wearing here, there’s always the silk Shelby pajama set.
- Moonstruck — Norman Jewison, 1987
- Barry Lyndon — Stanley Kubrick, 1975
- In the Mood for Love — Wong Kar-wai, 2000
- Big Fish — Tim Burton, 2003
- Beginners — Mike Mills, 2010
- Jay Kelly — Noah Baumbach, 2025
- Bergman Island — Mia Hansen-Løve, 2021
- Phantom Thread — Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017
- Late August, Early September — Olivier Assayas, 1998
- La Chimera — Alice Rohrwacher, 2023
- The Beaches of Agnès— Agnès Varda, 2009
- Bonjour Tristesse — Durga Chew-Bose, 2024
- My Own Private Idaho — Gus Van Sant, 1991
A select favorite, Agnès Varda’s The Beaches of Agnès feels like a study in how a life is assembled—through color, memory, the objects we keep, and the gestures we return to. Varda treats her own past the way we think about fabric or form: something to handle with care, to turn over, to look at from unexpected angles. The film serves as a beautiful reminder that the most meaningful stories are built from small details, observed slowly over time.
Norman Jewison’s Moonstruck is a film that understands the transfixing allure of contradiction: the ordinary and the operatic. At the center of it all is Cher—magnetic and grounded—an everyday heroine who steps fully into her own brilliance.
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