Filmed 2025-09-27
Ben Whishaw
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor praises the melancholy tenderness of A Canterbury Tale , shares his admiration for Derek Jarman’s creative genius, and selects favorites like Sweetie and L’humanité .
What they took
6 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: A Canterbury Tale, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Sweetie | Jane Campion | 1989 |
| 2 |  A Canterbury Tale | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1944 |
| 3 |  Jubilee | Derek Jarman | 1978 |
| 4 |  King Lear | Jean-Luc Godard | 1987 |
| 5 |  L’humanité | Bruno Dumont | 1999 |
| 6 |  Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell | 2001 |
Their six single films come from four different countries, with no one of them leading.
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 six 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.