Filmed 2025-11-17
Alex Winter
The actor and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and director praises Iranian cinema legends Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi, shares why he considers Luis Buñuel to be “the grand master of cinema,” and reminisces about spending his childhood at the movie theater.
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 7 choices reach 9 films.
Least-picked choice here: No Bears, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Koker Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 2 |  No Bears | Jafar Panahi | 2022 |
| 3 |  Saint Omer | Alice Diop | 2022 |
| 4 |  Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 |
| 5 |  Harlan County USA | Barbara Kopple | 1976 |
| 6 |  Él | Luis Buñuel | 1953 |
| 7 |  The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | 1928 |
Their six single films come from five different countries, with no one of them leading. The one box set is what carry the reach to 9 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 six 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.