Filmed 2026-04-08
Bob Odenkirk
The actor, director and writer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor, director, and writer shares his love for the physical comedy of Jackie Chan, praises the timeless beauty of The Red Shoes, and talks about discovering noir classics like The Big Heat and In a Lonely Place on the Criterion Channel.
What they took
13 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Four are box sets, which is why 13 choices reach 29 films.
Least-picked choice here: The Big Heat, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Police Story / Police Story 2 box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 2 |  Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 3 |  Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Scarface | Howard Hawks | 1932 |
| 5 |  Uncut Gems | Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie | 2019 |
| 6 |  The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | 1953 |
| 7 |  A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | 1956 |
| 8 |  Quadrophenia | Franc Roddam | 1979 |
| 9 |  Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1976 |
| 10 |  The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1948 |
| 11 |  My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström | 1985 |
| 12 |  In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 |
| 13 |  America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set, 7 films | · | · |
United States accounts for four of their nine single films. The four box sets are what carry the reach to 29 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.