Filmed 2025-03-26
Franklin Leonard
The producer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The producer and founder of the Black List praises Don Cheadle’s and Denzel Washington’s performances in Devil in a Blue Dress, talks about why everyone who wants to work in Hollywood should see Bamboozled, and selects favorites by Charles Burnett and Alice Diop.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 9 choices reach 16 films.
Least-picked choice here: Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | 1990 |
| 2 |  Devil in a Blue Dress | Carl Franklin | 1995 |
| 3 |  Memories of Murder | Bong Joon Ho | 2003 |
| 4 |  Bamboozled | Spike Lee | 2000 |
| 5 |  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | 2007 |
| 6 |  Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | 1982 |
| 7 |  Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist box set, 8 films | · | · |
| 8 |  Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | 2023 |
| 9 |  Saint Omer | Alice Diop | 2022 |
United States accounts for four of their eight 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
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.