Filmed 2025-10-15
Jafar Panahi
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director talks about the impact that Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves has had on his life and how seeing it for the first time revealed the kind of cinema he wanted to amke himself.
What they took
1 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: Bicycle Thieves, taken by 10 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
Italy accounts for one of their one single film.
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
Nobody close enough to name
A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. This visit took 1, so it sits out of the comparison.
Their decades
Their one single film 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.