Filmed 2023-10-12
Kleber Mendonça Filho
The writer, director, producer and critic
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The award-winning writer, director, producer, and critic shouts out a Marlon Riggs retrospective he programmed in Brazil, recalls watching Albert Brooks’s Lost in America on VHS in the eighties, and shares how Agnès Varda became an “imaginary friend” to him when he made his film Pictures of Ghosts.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 9 choices reach 41 films.
Least-picked choice here: Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3, taken by 3 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  After Hours | Martin Scorsese | 1985 |
| 2 |  The Spirit of the Beehive | Víctor Erice | 1973 |
| 3 |  The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs box set, 7 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 |
| 5 |  Lost in America | Albert Brooks | 1985 |
| 6 |  Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3 box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 7 |  A Brighter Summer Day | Edward Yang | 1991 |
| 8 |  The Complete Films of Agnès Varda box set, 22 films | · | · |
| 9 |  Don’t Look Now | Nicolas Roeg | 1973 |
United States accounts for three of their six single films. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 41 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 six 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.