Filmed 2024-09-26
Kevin Smith
The filmmaker and author
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The filmmaker and author shares how Hollywood Shuffle and Slacker inspired him to make movies, talks about why actors make great directors, and selects favorites such as His Girl Friday and Bull Durham.
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: Bull Durham, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 1940 |
| 2 |  Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| 3 |  Hollywood Shuffle | Robert Townsend | 1987 |
| 4 |  Bull Durham | Ron Shelton | 1988 |
| 5 |  The Prince of Tides | Barbra Streisand | 1991 |
| 6 |  Deep Cover | Bill Duke | 1992 |
| 7 |  Slacker | Richard Linklater | 1991 |
United States accounts for seven 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.