Filmed 2026-06-19
Christopher Nolan
The filmmaker
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The filmmaker shares how The Testament of Dr. Mabuse influenced The Dark Knight, talks about the importance of Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, and praises the way David Lynch evokes dream logic on-screen.
What they took
16 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Five are box sets, which is why 16 choices reach 31 films.
Least-picked choice here: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Killers box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 2 |  John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 3 |  For All Mankind | Al Reinert | 1989 |
| 4 |  The Complete Mr. Arkadin | Orson Welles | 1955 |
| 5 |  The Testament of Dr. Mabuse | Fritz Lang | 1933 |
| 6 |  The Apu Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 7 |  Scorsese Shorts | Martin Scorsese | · |
| 8 |  Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3 box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 9 |  Malcolm X | Spike Lee | 1992 |
| 10 |  Lost Highway | David Lynch | 1997 |
| 11 |  The Qatsi Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 12 |  The Player | Robert Altman | 1992 |
| 13 |  Boyhood | Richard Linklater | 2014 |
| 14 |  One False Move | Carl Franklin | 1992 |
| 15 |  The Black Stallion | Carroll Ballard | 1979 |
| 16 |  Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
United States accounts for nine of their eleven single films. The five box sets are what carry the reach to 31 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.