Nan Goldin made her name with candid, deeply personal portraits. So it makes sense that her pick for viewers would be a film like The Naked Kiss. Directed by Samuel Fuller in 1964, it’s a story that doesn’t hold back. “A motion picture not for the squeamish,” says a voice in the trailer. The Naked Kiss is the noir-inspired tale of a call girl (Constance Towers) who leaves her life behind after a violent, drunken night. Goldin introduces it as part of the Metrograph’s “Fraenkel Gallery Presents” series, a New York spinoff of the Fraenkel Film Festival, which began in San Francisco to celebrate the gallery’s 45th anniversary. For the 11 days of the series, artists such as Sophie Calle, Lee Friendlander, Carrie Mae Weems, and Goldin have curated a selection of films they love—and from which they drew inspiration. —Jeanne Malle