Filmed 2018-07-22
Ben Sinclair
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The cocreator and star of the HBO series High Maintenance shared a few wacky urban tales with us while digging through some of his favorite movies.
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: Bad Timing, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Short Cuts | Robert Altman | 1993 |
| 2 |  Bad Timing | Nicolas Roeg | 1980 |
| 3 |  Close-up | Abbas Kiarostami | 1990 |
| 4 |  Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2002 |
| 5 |  Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | 1999 |
| 6 |  Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 1997 |
| 7 |  Old Joy | Kelly Reichardt | 2006 |
| 8 |  The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | 1987 |
| 9 |  Midnight Cowboy | John Schlesinger | 1969 |
United States accounts for six of their nine 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 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.