Filmed 2025-10-08
Kahlil Joseph
The filmmaker and artist
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The filmmaker and artist shares his intimate connection to The Color of Pomegranates, talks about the “invisible magic” of Edward Yang’s cinema, and praises the innovative cinematography in Tokyo Olympiad.
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: Tokyo Olympiad, taken by 2 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Days of Heaven | Terrence Malick | 1978 |
| 2 |  The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1969 |
| 3 |  Yi Yi | Edward Yang | 2000 |
| 4 |  Tampopo | Juzo Itami | 1985 |
| 5 |  Tokyo Olympiad | Kon Ichikawa | 1965 |
Japan accounts for two 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.