Filmed 2016-08-26
Cristian Mungiu
The director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The director of Graduation and Beyond the Hills shares personal stories of growing up as a movie lover in Romania and picks up a few of his favorite films.
What they took
5 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. None of them is a box set, so the count of choices and the count of films reached are the same.
Least-picked choice here: Modern Times, taken by 2 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Modern Times | Charles Chaplin | 1936 |
| 2 |  Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
| 3 |  Dekalog | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1988 |
| 4 |  Blood Simple | Joel Coen | 1984 |
| 5 |  Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | 1969 |
United States accounts for three of their five single 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 five 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.