Filmed 2023-04-01
François Girard
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director reminisces about seeing Short Cuts at the Venice Film Festival, selects Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence out of love for Ryuichi Sakamoto, and takes home the one Stanley Kubrick film he hasn’t see.
What they took
10 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 10 choices reach 16 films.
Least-picked choice here: The Thin Red Line, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 |
| 2 |  Short Cuts | Robert Altman | 1993 |
| 3 |  The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | 1998 |
| 4 |  Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | 1983 |
| 5 |  The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | 1956 |
| 6 |  Macbeth | Roman Polanski | 1971 |
| 7 |  Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle box set, 7 films | · | · |
| 8 |  Othello | Orson Welles | 1952 |
| 9 |  L’argent | Robert Bresson | 1983 |
| 10 |  Exotica | Atom Egoyan | 1994 |
United States accounts for four of their nine single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 16 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 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.