Filmed 2017-01-07
Ben Wheatley
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
A voracious cinephile, the British director shared his thoughts on some of his favorite titles in the collection, noting his love for the camera movements in Grey Gardens and the terror he felt watching Things to Come as a child.
What they took
12 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 12 choices reach 36 films.
Least-picked choice here: Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Horse’s Mouth | Ronald Neame | 1958 |
| 2 |  Grey Gardens | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer | 1975 |
| 3 |  Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | 1971 |
| 4 |  Things to Come | William Cameron Menzies | 1936 |
| 5 |  Fishing with John | John Lurie | 1992 |
| 6 |  Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 |
| 7 |  Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman box set, 25 films | · | · |
| 8 |  Seconds | John Frankenheimer | 1966 |
| 9 |  Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick | 1957 |
| 10 |  Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | 1995 |
| 11 |  Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | 1983 |
| 12 |  Watership Down | Martin Rosen | 1978 |
United States accounts for seven of their eleven single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 36 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 eleven 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.