Filmed 2025-06-02
Danny Boyle
The filmmaker
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The filmmaker cites All That Jazz as a major influence on modern editing, reveals the connection between Memories of Underdevelopment and Trainspotting, and shares his theory on why a director’s first film is always their best.
What they took
8 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: Prince of Broadway, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | 1979 |
| 2 |  Anora | Sean Baker | 2024 |
| 3 |  Prince of Broadway | Sean Baker | 2008 |
| 4 |  The Grifters | Stephen Frears | 1990 |
| 5 |  Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | 2009 |
| 6 |  Blood Simple | Joel Coen | 1984 |
| 7 |  I Am Cuba | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1964 |
| 8 |  Memories of Underdevelopment | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | 1968 |
United States accounts for five of their eight 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 eight 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.