Filmed 2022-10-05
Frederick Wiseman
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The great documentary filmmaker chooses a group of films that embody some of the qualities he tries to bring to his own work, including straight-faced comedy and the mixture of literal and abstract elements.
What they took
5 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. None of them is a box set, so the count of choices and the count of films reached are the same.
Least-picked choice here: Paths of Glory, taken by 3 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
| 2 |  La strada | Federico Fellini | 1954 |
| 3 |  Knife in the Water | Roman Polanski | 1962 |
| 4 |  Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | 1986 |
| 5 |  Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | 1957 |
Italy accounts for two of their five single 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 five 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.