Filmed 2025-04-22
Ben Affleck
The actor and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and director talks about his formative experiences watching Miller’s Crossing, Hollywood Shuffle, and The Elephant Man; praises films by past collaborators, including Richard Linklater and Terrence Malick; and shouts out a very special Criterion commentary.
What they took
13 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: Armageddon, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Rules of the Game | Jean Renoir | 1939 |
| 2 |  Miller’s Crossing | Joel Coen | 1990 |
| 3 |  Dazed and Confused | Richard Linklater | 1993 |
| 4 |  Badlands | Terrence Malick | 1973 |
| 5 |  Traffic | Steven Soderbergh | 2000 |
| 6 |  Hollywood Shuffle | Robert Townsend | 1987 |
| 7 |  Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | 1996 |
| 8 |  Malcolm X | Spike Lee | 1992 |
| 9 |  Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | 1988 |
| 10 |  Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | 1982 |
| 11 |  The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | 1991 |
| 12 |  Armageddon | Michael Bay | 1998 |
| 13 |  The Elephant Man | David Lynch | 1980 |
United States accounts for ten of their 13 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
Their decades
Their 13 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.