Filmed 2026-04-14
Hannah Einbinder
The actor and comedian
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and comedian explains why His Girl Friday is “extremely Hacks -coded,” connects with David Lynch’s love of Los Angeles, and selects favorites like Thelma & Louise and Paper Moon.
What they took
11 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 11 choices reach 13 films.
Least-picked choice here: High Art, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Tampopo | Juzo Itami | 1985 |
| 2 |  Paper Moon | Peter Bogdanovich | 1973 |
| 3 |  The Before Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott | 1991 |
| 5 |  The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 |
| 6 |  His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 1940 |
| 7 |  Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jireš | 1970 |
| 8 |  Crash | David Cronenberg | 1996 |
| 9 |  Lost Highway | David Lynch | 1997 |
| 10 |  Defending Your Life | Albert Brooks | 1991 |
| 11 |  High Art | Lisa Cholodenko | 1998 |
United States accounts for seven of their ten single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 13 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 ten 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.