Filmed 2026-04-16
Billy Eichner
The performer and author
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The performer and author sings (literally) the praises of the Tootsie score , talks about Barbra Streisand as a “North Star for anyone unconventional trying to make it in show business,” and shares the moving experience of watching My Beautiful Laundrette with his family at a young age.
What they took
6 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 6 choices reach 8 films.
Least-picked choice here: A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | 1982 |
| 2 |  Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | 1987 |
| 3 |  A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 4 |  The Fisher King | Terry Gilliam | 1991 |
| 5 |  The Prince of Tides | Barbra Streisand | 1991 |
| 6 |  My Beautiful Laundrette | Stephen Frears | 1985 |
United States accounts for four of their five single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 8 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 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.