Filmed 2012-04-23
Harris Savides
The cinematographer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The influential cinematographer talks about films that informed his visual style, praises the complexity and simplicity of Yi Yi, and analyzes the opening sequence of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors: Blue.
What they took
6 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 6 choices reach 8 films.
Least-picked choice here: Solaris, taken by 4 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
| 2 |  The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
| 3 |  Yi Yi | Edward Yang | 2000 |
| 4 |  Three Colors box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 5 |  Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1972 |
| 6 |  L’avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1960 |
Italy accounts for two of their five single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 8 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 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.