Filmed 2026-03-18
Elijah Wood
The actor and producer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and producer talks about memorable needle drops in Amores perros and Blow-Up, reflects on how documentaries can transport you into another world, and praises the haunting atmospheres of Birth and Eyes Wide Shut.
What they took
11 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 11 choices reach 20 films.
Least-picked choice here: Birth, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Vanishing | George Sluizer | 1988 |
| 2 |  Amores perros | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 2000 |
| 3 |  The Game | David Fincher | 1997 |
| 4 |  Blow-Up | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1966 |
| 5 |  Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser | Charlotte Zwerin | 1988 |
| 6 |  Birth | Jonathan Glazer | 2004 |
| 7 |  Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | 1999 |
| 8 |  Happiness | Todd Solondz | 1998 |
| 9 |  Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 1997 |
| 10 |  The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years box set, 10 films | · | · |
| 11 |  On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 |
United States accounts for five of their ten single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 20 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 ten 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.