Filmed 2024-04-09
Annie Baker
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer-director of Janet Planet joins the film’s editor in praising Maurice Pialat’s unsentimental depiction of childhood, their collaborator Maria von Hausswolff’s cinematography in Godland, and the ineffable magic of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
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: L’enfance nue, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  L’enfance nue | Maurice Pialat | 1968 |
| 2 |  L’argent | Robert Bresson | 1983 |
| 3 |  A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1946 |
| 4 |  Godland | Hlynur Pálmason | 2022 |
| 5 |  Design for Living | Ernst Lubitsch | 1933 |
| 6 |  The Complete Films of Agnès Varda box set, 22 films | · | · |
Watch the video · On criterion.com · This visit · filmed with Lucian Johnston
France accounts for two of their five single films. 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
Nobody close enough to name
A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. Nothing this visit took was taken twice over by anybody else.
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.