Filmed 2025-08-04
Kristin Scott Thomas
The actor and filmmaker
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and filmmaker talks about the comedic genius of The Awful Truth, reflects on Andrei Tarkovsky’s dream sequences, and selects films starring screen legends like Jeanne Moreau and Simone Signoret.
What they took
10 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 10 choices reach 18 films.
Least-picked choice here: Casque d’or, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Night Porter | Liliana Cavani | 1974 |
| 2 |  Casque d’or | Jacques Becker | 1952 |
| 3 |  The Awful Truth | Leo McCarey | 1937 |
| 4 |  Women in Love | Ken Russell | 1969 |
| 5 |  Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle | 1958 |
| 6 |  Purple Noon | René Clément | 1960 |
| 7 |  You Can Count on Me | Kenneth Lonergan | 2000 |
| 8 |  La piscine | Jacques Deray | 1969 |
| 9 |  Ivan’s Childhood | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1962 |
| 10 |  Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978 box set, 9 films | · | · |
France accounts for four of their nine single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 18 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 nine 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.