Filmed 2025-06-18
Joseph Kosinski
The filmmaker
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The filmmaker talks about the hypnotic quality of L’avventura , praises Alan J. Pakula’s Paranoia Trilogy, and shares how David Fincher’s The Game helped kickstart his career.
What they took
6 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: Elevator to the Gallows, taken by 3 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  L’avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1960 |
| 2 |  Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 |
| 3 |  Le samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1967 |
| 4 |  The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | 1974 |
| 5 |  The Game | David Fincher | 1997 |
| 6 |  Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle | 1958 |
France accounts for three of their six 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
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.