Filmed 2025-04-04
Barbie Ferreira
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor selects favorite horror films like Videodrome and The Vanishing , talks about connecting with the work of Gregg Araki, and recommends that everyone watch Todd Haynes’s Safe .
What they took
11 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 11 choices reach 18 films.
Least-picked choice here: Mildred Pierce, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Videodrome | David Cronenberg | 1983 |
| 2 |  The Vanishing | George Sluizer | 1988 |
| 3 |  My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant | 1991 |
| 4 |  Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant | 1989 |
| 5 |  Mildred Pierce | Michael Curtiz | 1945 |
| 6 |  Betty Blue | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 1986 |
| 7 |  John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 8 |  Polyester | John Waters | 1981 |
| 9 |  Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 10 |  Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1964 |
| 11 |  Safe | Todd Haynes | 1995 |
United States accounts for five of their nine single films. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 18 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 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.