Filmed 2023-10-30
Lina Rodriguez
The writer-director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer-director of So Much Tenderness and This Time Tomorrow shares her love for the magnetic monstrousness of Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven , praises the visual grammar of Portrait of a Lady on Fire , and talks about “impossible love” in Flowers of Shanghai and Exotica .
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 7 choices reach 10 films.
Least-picked choice here: Bo Widerberg’s New Swedish Cinema, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Wanda | Barbara Loden | 1970 |
| 2 |  Leave Her to Heaven | John M. Stahl | 1945 |
| 3 |  Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Céline Sciamma | 2019 |
| 4 |  Bo Widerberg’s New Swedish Cinema box set, 4 films | · | · |
| 5 |  Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1972 |
| 6 |  Flowers of Shanghai | Hou Hsiao-hsien | 1998 |
| 7 |  Exotica | Atom Egoyan | 1994 |
Their six single films come from five different countries, with no one of them leading. The one box set is what carry the reach to 10 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.