Filmed 2024-05-07
Dylan Baker
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor, who stars in Todd Solondz’s Happiness, shares his appreciation for the playwright behind the source material of George Cukor’s Holiday; praises It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as one of the funniest films he has ever seen; and talks about the deep impression that Local Hero has left on him.
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. None of them is a box set, so the count of choices and the count of films reached are the same.
Least-picked choice here: Ride with the Devil, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Destry Rides Again | George Marshall | 1939 |
| 2 |  Holiday | George Cukor | 1938 |
| 3 |  Quadrophenia | Franc Roddam | 1979 |
| 4 |  It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Stanley Kramer | 1963 |
| 5 |  Christ Stopped at Eboli | Francesco Rosi | 1979 |
| 6 |  Local Hero | Bill Forsyth | 1983 |
| 7 |  The Ascent | Larisa Shepitko | 1977 |
| 8 |  Ride with the Devil | Ang Lee | 1999 |
United States accounts for four of their eight single 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 eight 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.