Filmed 2025-07-28
Jamie Lee Curtis
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor shares how This is Spinal Tap changed her life, praises the transportive quality of films like Danton and Monsoon Wedding, and talks about her personal connection to Sweet Smell of Success and The Manchurian Candidate.
What they took
12 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: Danton, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Uncut Gems | Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie | 2019 |
| 2 |  WALL·E | Andrew Stanton | 2008 |
| 3 |  The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | 1987 |
| 4 |  Raging Bull | Martin Scorsese | 1980 |
| 5 |  Danton | Andrzej Wajda | 1983 |
| 6 |  Monsoon Wedding | Mira Nair | 2001 |
| 7 |  Downhill Racer | Michael Ritchie | 1969 |
| 8 |  Paper Moon | Peter Bogdanovich | 1973 |
| 9 |  Sweet Smell of Success | Alexander Mackendrick | 1957 |
| 10 |  The Manchurian Candidate | John Frankenheimer | 1962 |
| 11 |  A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | 1974 |
| 12 |  This Is Spinal Tap | Rob Reiner | 1984 |
United States accounts for ten of their twelve 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 twelve 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.