Filmed 2025-10-27
Kathryn Bigelow
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director talks about the innovative low-budget filmmaking of Detour, shares her love for The Battle of Algiers and its unrelenting “metronome of tension,” and praises Costa-Gavras as the inventor of the political thriller.
What they took
8 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: Hiroshima mon amour, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1945 |
| 2 |  The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 |
| 3 |  Straw Dogs | Sam Peckinpah | 1971 |
| 4 |  Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1969 |
| 5 |  The Confession | Costa-Gavras | 1970 |
| 6 |  Hiroshima mon amour | Alain Resnais | 1959 |
| 7 |  Notorious | Alfred Hitchcock | 1946 |
| 8 |  The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog | Alfred Hitchcock | 1927 |
United States accounts for three of their eight 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 eight 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.