Filmed 2024-12-02
Denis Villeneuve
The director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The director and cowriter of Dune draws connections between the ways Krzysztof Kieślowski and Ingmar Bergman captured women on-screen, shares why Che is his favorite Steven Soderbergh film, and talks about how Lars von Trier broke the codes of cinema with Europa .
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 7 choices reach 13 films.
Least-picked choice here: Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Three Colors box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 2 |  A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 3 |  Che | Steven Soderbergh | 2008 |
| 4 |  The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1953 |
| 5 |  Lars von Trier’s Europe Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Fellini Satyricon | Federico Fellini | 1969 |
| 7 |  Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 |
France accounts for two of their four single films. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 13 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 four 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.