Filmed 2017-11-05
Euzhan Palcy
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The trailblazing director of A Dry White Season reminisces about her childhood love of Hitchcock, the kindness that François Truffaut showed her, and a Brazilian classic that changed her life.
What they took
11 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 11 choices reach 18 films.
Least-picked choice here: The Naked Island, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Black Orpheus | Marcel Camus | 1959 |
| 2 |  The Lady Vanishes | Alfred Hitchcock | 1938 |
| 3 |  Cronos | Guillermo del Toro | 1993 |
| 4 |  The Naked Island | Kaneto Shindo | 1960 |
| 5 |  The Devil’s Backbone | Guillermo del Toro | 2001 |
| 6 |  Pan’s Labyrinth | Guillermo del Toro | 2006 |
| 7 |  A Dry White Season | Euzhan Palcy | 1989 |
| 8 |  The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | 1959 |
| 9 |  John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 10 |  A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 11 |  Love Streams | John Cassavetes | 1984 |
Their nine single films come from six different countries, with no one of them leading. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 18 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 nine 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.