Filmed 2025-10-24
Jason Bateman
The actor and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and director talks about being influenced by cinematographer Gordon Willis, shares his affection for Peter Sellers’s comedy style, and selects films he’s excited to see for the first time, like Amores perros and Shampoo.
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 8 choices reach 10 films.
Least-picked choice here: Funny Games, taken by 4 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Amores perros | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | 2000 |
| 2 |  Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | 1987 |
| 3 |  Three Colors box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Klute | Alan J. Pakula | 1971 |
| 5 |  Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 |
| 6 |  Funny Games | Michael Haneke | 1997 |
| 7 |  Being There | Hal Ashby | 1979 |
| 8 |  Shampoo | Hal Ashby | 1975 |
United States accounts for five of their seven single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 10 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.