Filmed 2025-11-11
David Remnick
The editor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The editor of the New Yorker feels honored by the tribute to the magazine in The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, urges patience to appreciate Stan Brakhage’s experimental cinema, and finds parallels between the experiences of watching Robert Bresson’s films and listening to Bach.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 9 choices reach 18 films.
Least-picked choice here: Shoot the Piano Player, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  A Man Escaped | Robert Bresson | 1956 |
| 2 |  Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| 3 |  Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser | Charlotte Zwerin | 1988 |
| 4 |  Burden of Dreams | Les Blank | 1982 |
| 5 |  Shoot the Piano Player | François Truffaut | 1960 |
| 6 |  By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 7 |  King Lear | Jean-Luc Godard | 1987 |
| 8 |  The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years box set, 10 films | · | · |
| 9 |  The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun | Wes Anderson | 2021 |
United States accounts for five of their seven single films. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 18 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 seven 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.