Filmed 2023-11-13
Lila Avilés
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The award-winning writer and director of Tótem shares her love for Aki Kaurismäki’s “strange, funny filmmaking spirit,” dedicates her selection of Barbra Streisand’s The Prince of Tides to her mom, and talks about Werner Herzog as a “warrior” in Burden of Dreams.
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 7 choices reach 9 films.
Least-picked choice here: In the Realm of the Senses, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Yi Yi | Edward Yang | 2000 |
| 2 |  Onibaba | Kaneto Shindo | 1964 |
| 3 |  Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Boat People | Ann Hui | 1982 |
| 5 |  The Prince of Tides | Barbra Streisand | 1991 |
| 6 |  In the Realm of the Senses | Nagisa Oshima | 1976 |
| 7 |  Burden of Dreams | Les Blank | 1982 |
Their six single films come from four different countries, with no one of them leading. The one box set is what carry the reach to 9 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
Nobody close enough to name
A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. Nothing this visit took was taken twice over by anybody else.
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.