Filmed 2026-03-26
John Cameron Mitchell
The writer, director and performer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer, director, and performer talks about how All That Jazz inspired the stylistic freedom of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, shares a moving story about After Life, and praises the versatility of filmmakers like Pier Paolo Pasolini and Sidney Lumet.
What they took
12 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 12 choices reach 34 films.
Least-picked choice here: Moonage Daydream, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Cooley High | Michael Schultz | 1975 |
| 2 |  The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years box set, 10 films | · | · |
| 3 |  John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Moonage Daydream | Brett Morgen | 2022 |
| 5 |  All That Jazz | Bob Fosse | 1979 |
| 6 |  Multiple Maniacs | John Waters | 1970 |
| 7 |  After Life | Hirokazu Kore-eda | 1998 |
| 8 |  Shampoo | Hal Ashby | 1975 |
| 9 |  Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell | 2001 |
| 10 |  Pasolini 101 box set, 9 films | · | · |
| 11 |  Network | Sidney Lumet | 1976 |
| 12 |  Pee-wee’s Big Adventure | Tim Burton | 1985 |
United States accounts for eight of their nine single films. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 34 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 nine 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.