Filmed 2025-02-26
Dick Cavett
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The legendary television host reminisces about having Katharine Hepburn and Jean-Luc Godard on his show, shares that he “doesn't see how a movie would get any better” than Stagecoach, and celebrates David Lean and Noël Coward’s collaborations.
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 7 choices reach 10 films.
Least-picked choice here: Every Man for Himself, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 |
| 2 |  Every Man for Himself | Jean-Luc Godard | 1980 |
| 3 |  Only Angels Have Wings | Howard Hawks | 1939 |
| 4 |  Stagecoach | John Ford | 1939 |
| 5 |  David Lean Directs Noël Coward box set, 4 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Odd Man Out | Carol Reed | 1947 |
| 7 |  Husbands | John Cassavetes | 1970 |
United States accounts for four of their six single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 10 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
Nobody close enough to name
A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. Nothing this visit took was taken twice over by anybody else.
Their decades
Their six 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.