Filmed 2025-03-14
Kevin Bacon
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor talks about falling in love with classic Hollywood cinema and the work of Preston Sturges, recalls being struck by the danger of Marlon Brando’s acting style in The Fugitive Kind, and selects favorites including Gimme Shelter and The Blob.
What they took
7 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: The Fugitive Kind, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 |
| 2 |  The Blob | Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | 1958 |
| 3 |  Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 |
| 4 |  Gimme Shelter | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin | 1970 |
| 5 |  Sullivan’s Travels | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
| 6 |  The Fugitive Kind | Sidney Lumet | 1960 |
| 7 |  Jules and Jim | François Truffaut | 1962 |
United States accounts for five of their seven 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 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.