Filmed 2024-10-09
Jia Zhangke
The director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The director of Caught by the Tides shares his affection for Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, describes City Lights as being “full of cinematic feeling,” and selects favorites by Edward Yang, Robert Bresson, and Yasujiro Ozu.
What they took
6 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: Good Morning, taken by 4 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Roma | Alfonso Cuarón | 2018 |
| 2 |  La notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1961 |
| 3 |  City Lights | Charles Chaplin | 1931 |
| 4 |  Good Morning | Yasujiro Ozu | 1959 |
| 5 |  Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | 1959 |
| 6 |  Yi Yi | Edward Yang | 2000 |
Their six single films come from five different countries, with no one of them leading.
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 six 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.