Filmed 2023-10-11
Catherine Breillat
The auteur
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The legendary French auteur talks about the intimacy of discovering yourself in cinema, shares her lifelong connection to Viridiana and Black Orpheus, and praises directors whose work continues to inspire and transport her, from Elia Kazan and David Lynch to Shohei Imamura and Andrei Tarkovsky.
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 7 choices reach 46 films.
Least-picked choice here: Vengeance Is Mine, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Viridiana | Luis Buñuel | 1961 |
| 2 |  Eraserhead | David Lynch | 1977 |
| 3 |  On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 |
| 4 |  Vengeance Is Mine | Shohei Imamura | 1979 |
| 5 |  Black Orpheus | Marcel Camus | 1959 |
| 6 |  Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1966 |
| 7 |  Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set, 40 films | · | · |
Their six single films come from five different countries, with no one of them leading. The one box set is what carry the reach to 46 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 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.