Filmed 2024-08-02
Joel Potrykus
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director talks about Luis Buñuel’s surreal combination of the mundane and the absurd, shares what he learned from Martin Scorsese’s early shorts, and selects formative favorites like If. . . . and Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
What they took
6 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 6 choices reach 8 films.
Least-picked choice here: Equinox, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Amy Heckerling | 1982 |
| 2 |  Equinox | Jack Woods | 1970 |
| 3 |  Scorsese Shorts | Martin Scorsese | · |
| 4 |  Trainspotting | Danny Boyle | 1996 |
| 5 |  Three Films by Luis Buñuel box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 6 |  If.... | Lindsay Anderson | 1969 |
United States accounts for three of their five single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 8 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 four 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.