Filmed 2024-10-17
Jacques Audiard
The director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The director and cowriter of Emilia Pérez shares his love for Fritz Lang’s rich visual language, compares Robert Altman’s narratives to “surrealist exquisite-corpse exercises,” and praises the Viennese sensibility of Max Ophuls’s La ronde.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 9 choices reach 22 films.
Least-picked choice here: La ronde, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  M | Fritz Lang | 1931 |
| 2 |  Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
| 3 |  L’avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1960 |
| 4 |  Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975 |
| 5 |  Short Cuts | Robert Altman | 1993 |
| 6 |  Essential Fellini box set, 14 films | · | · |
| 7 |  La ronde | Max Ophuls | 1950 |
| 8 |  Classe tous risques | Claude Sautet | 1960 |
| 9 |  Vampyr | Carl Th. Dreyer | 1932 |
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 22 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.