Filmed 2025-09-02
Jay Duplass
The writer, director and actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer, director, and actor talks about the formative influence of Richard Linklater and the Coen brothers, does his best impression of Brenda Blethyn in Secrets & Lies, and shares why Close-up transcends the bounds of cinema.
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: Slacker, taken by 3 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Slacker | Richard Linklater | 1991 |
| 2 |  No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | 2007 |
| 3 |  Husbands | John Cassavetes | 1970 |
| 4 |  Secrets & Lies | Mike Leigh | 1996 |
| 5 |  Close-up | Abbas Kiarostami | 1990 |
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.