Filmed 2024-10-01
Janelle Monáe
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
In celebration of Halloween, the singer-songwriter, actor, and producer shares her spooky season favorites, highlighting both the spine-tingling sensations and social undercurrents that permeate such classics as Night of the Living Dead, Brazil, and Eraserhead.
What they took
5 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: 1984, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Blob | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | 1958 |
| 2 |  Eraserhead | David Lynch | 1977 |
| 3 |  1984 | Michael Radford | 1984 |
| 4 |  Brazil | Terry Gilliam | 1985 |
| 5 |  Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | 1968 |
United States accounts for three of their five 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. Nothing this visit took was taken twice over by anybody else.
Their decades
Their five 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.