Filmed 2024-06-21
Agnieszka Holland
The writer-director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer-director of Europa Europa and Green Border talks about Agnès Varda’s influence on women in cinema, praises contemporary masterworks like Parasite and Anatomy of a Fall, and shares why she always returns to Diamonds of the Night before making a new film.
What they took
6 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 6 choices reach 27 films.
Least-picked choice here: Perfect Days, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Complete Films of Agnès Varda box set, 22 films | · | · |
| 2 |  La notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1961 |
| 3 |  Parasite | Bong Joon Ho | 2019 |
| 4 |  Perfect Days | Wim Wenders | 2023 |
| 5 |  Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | 2023 |
| 6 |  Diamonds of the Night | Jan Němec | 1964 |
Their five single films come from five different countries, with no one of them leading. The one box set is what carry the reach to 27 films.
Closest taste
Jaccard overlap against every other visit, counted on what came off the shelf rather than on films, so a shared box set counts once rather than as the films inside it.
403 visits compared · 31 filmed-together pairs excluded
Their decades
Their five single films with a release year on record, against where every guest's single-film picks land. Box sets are left out of both sides, so the two bars measure the same thing.