Filmed 2026-01-06
Jodie Foster
The actor and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and director shares her love for the films of Céline Sciamma, talks about the Olympic Games documentary Visions of Eight, and reminisces about watching Berlin Alexanderplatz with her mom.
What they took
13 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 13 choices reach 32 films.
Least-picked choice here: Visions of Eight, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | 2019 |
| 2 |  Petite maman | Céline Sciamma | 2021 |
| 3 |  The Piano | Jane Campion | 1993 |
| 4 |  Visions of Eight | Juri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, Kon Ichikawa, Miloš Forman, Claude Lelouch, and John Schlesinger | 1973 |
| 5 |  Three Films by Mai Zetterling box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Parasite | Bong Joon Ho | 2019 |
| 7 |  La haine | Mathieu Kassovitz | 1995 |
| 8 |  La strada | Federico Fellini | 1954 |
| 9 |  Essential Fellini box set, 14 films | · | · |
| 10 |  Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1964 |
| 11 |  Wings of Desire | Wim Wenders | 1987 |
| 12 |  Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1980 |
| 13 |  John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films | · | · |
Their ten single films come from seven different countries, with no one of them leading. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 32 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 ten 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.