Filmed 2025-06-16
David Byrne
The musician and filmmaker
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The legendary musician, filmmaker, and visual artist talks about The Color of Pomegranates and how it challenges the idea of what a film can be, shouts out Neil Young’s Dead Man score, and shares his affection for the sentimentality in A Matter of Life and Death.
What they took
6 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 6 choices reach 11 films.
Least-picked choice here: The 39 Steps, taken by 2 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Complete Jacques Tati box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 2 |  The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1969 |
| 3 |  Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | 1995 |
| 4 |  A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1946 |
| 5 |  The 39 Steps | Alfred Hitchcock | 1935 |
| 6 |  True Stories | David Byrne | 1986 |
United Kingdom accounts for two of their five single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 11 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.