Filmed 2025-10-27
June Squibb
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor shares her longtime love for the films of Akira Kurosawa, talks about seeing Children of Paradise at an art-house cinema in the 1940s, and fondly recalls riding a scooter with Richard Roundtree.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 9 choices reach 24 films.
Least-picked choice here: Buena Vista Social Club, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 |
| 2 |  Yojimbo / Sanjuro: Two Samurai Films by Akira Kurosawa box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 3 |  Diabolique | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1955 |
| 4 |  Children of Paradise | Marcel Carné | 1945 |
| 5 |  Shaft | Gordon Parks | 1971 |
| 6 |  Buena Vista Social Club | Wim Wenders | 1999 |
| 7 |  Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston | 1990 |
| 8 |  The Age of Innocence | Martin Scorsese | 1993 |
| 9 |  Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 box set, 15 films | · | · |
United States accounts for four of their seven single films. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 24 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 seven 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.