Filmed 2026-01-27
Jamie Demetriou
The actor, comedian and screenwriter
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The actor, comedian, and screenwriter shares why he thinks Secrets & Lies is Mike Leigh’s “juiciest” work, praises the powerful simplicity of The Celebration, and selects contemporary films that have inspired him, like Anatomy of a Fall and The Worst Person in the World.
What they took
7 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 Squid and the Whale, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Secrets & Lies | Mike Leigh | 1996 |
| 2 |  The Celebration | Thomas Vinterberg | 1998 |
| 3 |  The Squid and the Whale | Noah Baumbach | 2005 |
| 4 |  Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | 2023 |
| 5 |  Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2002 |
| 6 |  The Worst Person in the World | Joachim Trier | 2021 |
| 7 |  Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | 1999 |
United States accounts for three of their seven 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
Their decades
Their seven 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.