Filmed 2025-01-08
Brady Corbet
The director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The director and cowriter of The Brutalist selects three favorites by Luchino Visconti, praises Larisa Shepitko as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, and talks about the hypnotic, endlessly watchable The Mother and the Whore.
What they took
11 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 11 choices reach 25 films.
Least-picked choice here: Marketa Lazarová, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | 1963 |
| 2 |  Death in Venice | Luchino Visconti | 1971 |
| 3 |  The Damned | Luchino Visconti | 1969 |
| 4 |  Marketa Lazarová | František Vláčil | 1967 |
| 5 |  Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1976 |
| 6 |  The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | 1977 |
| 7 |  Bergman Island | Mia Hansen-Løve | 2021 |
| 8 |  The Mother and the Whore | Jean Eustache | 1973 |
| 9 |  World of Wong Kar Wai box set, 7 films | · | · |
| 10 |  Pasolini 101 box set, 9 films | · | · |
| 11 |  Dekalog | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1988 |
Italy accounts for four of their nine single films. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 25 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.