Filmed 2026-06-23
Danny McBride
The actor and author
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and author talks about how Five Easy Pieces and A Face in the Crowd inspired his show Eastbound & Down, reminisces about working with David Gordon Green on George Washington, and praises the remarkable cinematography in I Am Cuba.
What they took
10 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: Fantastic Planet, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Badlands | Terrence Malick | 1973 |
| 2 |  Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | 1970 |
| 3 |  A Face in the Crowd | Elia Kazan | 1957 |
| 4 |  Fantastic Planet | René Laloux | 1973 |
| 5 |  I Am Cuba | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1964 |
| 6 |  George Washington | David Gordon Green | 2000 |
| 7 |  After Hours | Martin Scorsese | 1985 |
| 8 |  Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 |
| 9 |  Manila in the Claws of Light | Lino Brocka | 1975 |
| 10 |  Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | 1968 |
United States accounts for six of their ten 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 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.