2 visits · 2010-09-22 to 2025-09-07
Guillermo del Toro
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The Criterion Closet’s very first guest stops by the Mobile Closet at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he examines the technical brilliance of a scene in Notorious, shares why he feels a kinship with Wes Anderson, and talks about drawing inspiration from Martin Scorsese’s powerful explorations of repression.
What they took
18 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 18 choices reach 26 films.
across 2 visits
Least-picked choice here: Au revoir les enfants, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1948 |
| 2 |  Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
| 3 |  Black Narcissus | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1947 |
| 4 |  Salesman | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin | 1969 |
| 5 |  All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | 1955 |
| 6 |  The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years box set, 10 films | · | · |
| 7 |  Roma | Federico Fellini | 1972 |
| 8 |  Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | 2018 |
| 9 |  The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese | 1993 |
| 10 |  Au revoir les enfants | Louis Malle | 1987 |
Least-picked choice here: Charade, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Red Shoes | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1948 |
| 2 |  The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | 1959 |
| 3 |  Charade | Stanley Donen | 1963 |
| 4 |  Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | 1995 |
| 5 |  The Thin Red Line | Terrence Malick | 1998 |
| 6 |  The Magician | Ingmar Bergman | 1958 |
| 7 |  Repulsion | Roman Polanski | 1965 |
| 8 |  Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | 1957 |
United States accounts for nine of their 17 single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 26 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 17 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.