Filmed 2025-10-15
Lav Diaz
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director of Magellan praises the use of silence and space in Le samouraï, talks about how Mike Leigh and Kenji Mizoguchi explore the human condition in their films, and selects his good friend Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies.
What they took
12 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Four are box sets, which is why 12 choices reach 67 films.
Least-picked choice here: Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Lost Highway | David Lynch | 1997 |
| 2 |  The Apu Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 3 |  The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | 1963 |
| 4 |  Le samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1967 |
| 5 |  Essential Fellini box set, 14 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set, 40 films | · | · |
| 7 |  I Am Cuba | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1964 |
| 8 |  Werckmeister Harmonies | Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky | 2000 |
| 9 |  Naked | Mike Leigh | 1993 |
| 10 |  Persona | Ingmar Bergman | 1966 |
| 11 |  Ugetsu | Kenji Mizoguchi | 1953 |
| 12 |  Letters from Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa box set, 3 films | · | · |
Their eight single films come from eight different countries, with no one of them leading. The four box sets are what carry the reach to 67 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 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.