Filmed 2026-03-03
John Slattery
The actor and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and director talks about the making of some of his favorite films, including Shampoo and The Awful Truth; praises the precision of No Country for Old Men; and shares how The Friends of Eddie Coyle has inspired his own filmmaking.
What they took
5 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. None of them is a box set, so the count of choices and the count of films reached are the same.
Least-picked choice here: The Hit, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Shampoo | Hal Ashby | 1975 |
| 2 |  No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | 2007 |
| 3 |  The Awful Truth | Leo McCarey | 1937 |
| 4 |  The Hit | Stephen Frears | 1984 |
| 5 |  The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | 1973 |
United States accounts for four of their five single 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 five 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.