Filmed 2024-11-20
Karyn Kusama
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director of Girlfight selects films with complex themes of power and ambition; praises women whose work she felt gave her permission to become a filmmaker, such as Martha Coolidge and Joan Micklin Silver; and shares her love for Yasujiro Ozu’s late masterpieces.
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 8 choices reach 16 films.
Least-picked choice here: Chilly Scenes of Winter, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Damned | Luchino Visconti | 1969 |
| 2 |  Not a Pretty Picture | Martha Coolidge | 1975 |
| 3 |  Chilly Scenes of Winter | Joan Micklin Silver | 1979 |
| 4 |  Three Films by Luis Buñuel box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 5 |  No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | 2007 |
| 6 |  Dogfight | Nancy Savoca | 1991 |
| 7 |  Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 8 |  The Qatsi Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
United States accounts for four of their five single films. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 16 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.