Filmed 2014-06-27
Bong Joon Ho
The filmmaker
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The celebrated filmmaker talks about Nastassja Kinski’s Korean fanbase, his favorite of Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespeare adaptations, and the DVD that Park Chan-wook swiped from him.
What they took
11 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 11 choices reach 15 films.
Least-picked choice here: Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Tess | Roman Polanski | 1979 |
| 2 |  Tokyo Story | Yasujiro Ozu | 1953 |
| 3 |  Throne of Blood | Akira Kurosawa | 1957 |
| 4 |  Black Orpheus | Marcel Camus | 1959 |
| 5 |  The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1953 |
| 6 |  Picnic at Hanging Rock | Peter Weir | 1975 |
| 7 |  Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 8 |  Koyaanisqatsi | Godfrey Reggio | 1983 |
| 9 |  Cronos | Guillermo del Toro | 1993 |
| 10 |  Medium Cool | Haskell Wexler | 1969 |
| 11 |  Repo Man | Alex Cox | 1984 |
Their ten single films come from six different countries, with no one of them leading. The one box set is what carry the reach to 15 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 ten 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.