Filmed 2025-03-28
Evan Goldberg
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The longtime creative partners share their love for Albert Brooks, praise Jackie Chan as “the funniest living human being,” and talk about referencing The Cranes Are Flying for their new show The Studio .
What they took
18 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Four are box sets, which is why 18 choices reach 31 films.
Least-picked choice here: The Infernal Affairs Trilogy, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Defending Your Life | Albert Brooks | 1991 |
| 2 |  The Daytrippers | Greg Mottola | 1996 |
| 3 |  Jackie Chan: Emergence of a Superstar box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Samurai Spy | Masahiro Shinoda | 1965 |
| 5 |  Police Story / Police Story 2 box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 |
| 7 |  The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | 1928 |
| 8 |  It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Stanley Kramer | 1963 |
| 9 |  The Complete Jacques Tati box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 10 |  Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 1997 |
| 11 |  Naked Lunch | David Cronenberg | 1991 |
| 12 |  Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell | 2001 |
| 13 |  Badlands | Terrence Malick | 1973 |
| 14 |  The Cranes Are Flying | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1957 |
| 15 |  The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | 1956 |
| 16 |  The Ice Storm | Ang Lee | 1997 |
| 17 |  The Infernal Affairs Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 18 |  Shampoo | Hal Ashby | 1975 |
Watch the video · On criterion.com · This visit · filmed with Seth Rogen
United States accounts for eight of their 14 single films. The four box sets are what carry the reach to 31 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 14 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.