Filmed 2022-08-31
John Darnielle
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The Mountain Goats front man and novelist picked up a few favorite movies and shared his love for Bruce Lee, Laurence Olivier, Toshiro Mifune, and other screen icons.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 9 choices reach 21 films.
Least-picked choice here: Richard III, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Samurai Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 2 |  Original Cast Album: “Company” | D. A. Pennebaker | 1970 |
| 3 |  Salvatore Giuliano | Francesco Rosi | 1962 |
| 4 |  Richard III | Laurence Olivier | 1955 |
| 5 |  Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa | 1980 |
| 6 |  The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs box set, 7 films | · | · |
| 7 |  Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 8 |  Youth of the Beast | Seijun Suzuki | 1963 |
| 9 |  The Ballad of Narayama | Keisuke Kinoshita | 1958 |
Japan accounts for three of their six single films. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 21 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
Nobody close enough to name
A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. Nothing this visit took was taken twice over by anybody else.
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.