Filmed 2026-01-16
Jim Jarmusch
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director pays tribute to the late Béla Tarr, shares his love for the way Andrei Tarkovsky merged poetry and cinema, and suggests watching a double bill of Black Girl and I Knew Her Well.
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 8 choices reach 16 films.
Least-picked choice here: Il sorpasso, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Pasolini 101 box set, 9 films | · | · |
| 2 |  Werckmeister Harmonies | Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | 2000 |
| 3 |  Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975 |
| 4 |  Black Girl | Ousmane Sembène | 1966 |
| 5 |  Love Streams | John Cassavetes | 1984 |
| 6 |  Il sorpasso | Dino Risi | 1962 |
| 7 |  I Knew Her Well | Antonio Pietrangeli | 1965 |
| 8 |  Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 1953 |
Their seven single films come from five different countries, with no one of them leading. The one box set is what carry the reach to 16 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.