Filmed 2025-10-07
Derek Cianfrance
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director praises Charles Burnett's portraits of families , talks about his meaningful connection to The Gospel According to Matthew, and shares his experience having Stan Brakhage as a professor.
What they took
6 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 6 choices reach 17 films.
Least-picked choice here: Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Short Cuts | Robert Altman | 1993 |
| 2 |  To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | 1990 |
| 3 |  Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Pasolini 101 box set, 9 films | · | · |
| 5 |  By Brakhage: An Anthology, Volumes One and Two box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Certified Copy | Abbas Kiarostami | 2010 |
United States accounts for two of their three single films. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 17 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 three 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.