Filmed 2024-11-06
Azazel Jacobs
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director of His Three Daughters shares his deep love for Charles Laughton, talks about how Aki Kaurismäki blends fantasy and reality in La vie de bohème, and praises La Ciénaga and Girlfriends as cinematic miracles.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. None of them is a box set, so the count of choices and the count of films reached are the same.
Least-picked choice here: La vie de bohème, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Exterminating Angel | Luis Buñuel | 1962 |
| 2 |  Hobson’s Choice | David Lean | 1954 |
| 3 |  La vie de bohème | Aki Kaurismäki | 1992 |
| 4 |  La Ciénaga | Lucrecia Martel | 2001 |
| 5 |  Girlfriends | Claudia Weill | 1978 |
| 6 |  Tótem | Lila Avilés | 2023 |
| 7 |  Miracle in Milan | Vittorio De Sica | 1951 |
| 8 |  The Breakfast Club | John Hughes | 1985 |
| 9 |  Pandora’s Box | G. W. Pabst | 1929 |
Their nine single films come from seven different countries, with no one of them leading.
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 nine 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.