Filmed 2025-05-08
Lena Dunham
The writer, director and performer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer, director, and performer shares her love for Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends , praises Mary Ellen Mark’s tender gaze on her subjects in Streetwise , and talks about how Okja portrays the beauty of interspecies connection.
What they took
9 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: Streetwise, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Town Bloody Hall | Chris Hegedus, D. A. Pennebaker | 1979 |
| 2 |  Love & Basketball | Gina Prince-Bythewood | 2000 |
| 3 |  Streetwise | Martin Bell | 1984 |
| 4 |  My Brilliant Career | Gillian Armstrong | 1979 |
| 5 |  The Daytrippers | Greg Mottola | 1996 |
| 6 |  Okja | Bong Joon Ho | 2017 |
| 7 |  Night on Earth | Jim Jarmusch | 1991 |
| 8 |  Defending Your Life | Albert Brooks | 1991 |
| 9 |  Wanda | Barbara Loden | 1970 |
United States accounts for six of their nine 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 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.