Filmed 2024-10-01
Barry Sonnenfeld
The director, cinematographer and author
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The director, cinematographer, and author reminisces about working with the Coen brothers and getting married at the wrap party for Miller’s Crossing; shares what he loves about Errol Morris’s directorial techniques; and talks about his favorite movie of all time, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
What they took
5 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: The Thin Blue Line, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 |
| 2 |  Fail Safe | Sidney Lumet | 1964 |
| 3 |  Miller’s Crossing | Joel Coen | 1990 |
| 4 |  Blood Simple | Joel Coen | 1984 |
| 5 |  The Thin Blue Line | Errol Morris | 1988 |
United States accounts for five of their five single 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.