Filmed 2013-01-30
James Acheson
The costume designer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The Oscar-winning costume designer recalls a memorable screening of Down by Law in Rome and explains what makes the Italian classics Bicycle Thieves and The Leopard so revelatory.
What they took
3 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: The Leopard, taken by 7 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | 1986 |
| 2 |  Bicycle Thieves | Vittorio De Sica | 1948 |
| 3 |  The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | 1963 |
Italy accounts for two of their three single 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
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 3, so it sits out of the comparison.
Their decades
Their three 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.