Filmed 2023-11-15
Hlynur Pálmason
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director of Godland —Iceland’s 2023 Oscar submission—shares his love for Ana Torrent’s performances in Cría cuervos and The Spirit of the Beehive, talks about the physicality of Naked and the fear and inspiration in L’humanité, and praises the craft of Bresson as “like no other.”
What they took
10 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: Cría cuervos . . ., taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice | 1973 |
| 2 |  Cría cuervos . . . | Carlos Saura | 1976 |
| 3 |  Naked | Mike Leigh | 1993 |
| 4 |  Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | 1999 |
| 5 |  The Passion of Joan of Arc | Carl Th. Dreyer | 1928 |
| 6 |  Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975 |
| 7 |  L’argent | Robert Bresson | 1983 |
| 8 |  L’humanité | Bruno Dumont | 1999 |
| 9 |  Blow-Up | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1966 |
| 10 |  Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 |
Their ten single films come from five different countries, with no one of them leading.
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.