Filmed 2025-03-14
Hans Zimmer
The composer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The Oscar-winning composer selects favorite films that continue to excite him, including Andrei Rublev and Sid & Nancy ; praises the transportive nature of Les Blank’s work; and shares how Nicolas Roeg changed his life.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 9 choices reach 12 films.
Least-picked choice here: Performance, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 |
| 2 |  Night and Fog | Alain Resnais | 1955 |
| 3 |  Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1966 |
| 4 |  Sid & Nancy | Alex Cox | 1986 |
| 5 |  David Lean Directs Noël Coward box set, 4 films | · | · |
| 6 |  His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 1940 |
| 7 |  Les Blank: Always for Pleasure | Les Blank | 1968 |
| 8 |  Performance | Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | 1970 |
| 9 |  House | Nobuhiko Obayashi | 1977 |
Their eight single films come from six different countries, with no one of them leading. The one box set is what carry the reach to 12 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.