Filmed 2023-10-06
Luis Guzmán
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The prolific actor praises the old-school flavor of Cooley High, tells us about his first time seeing Edward James Olmos onstage, and reminisces about a chance encounter with Marlon Brando.
What they took
6 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: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | 1957 |
| 2 |  Cooley High | Michael Schultz | 1975 |
| 3 |  Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 |
| 4 |  The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez | Robert M. Young | 1982 |
| 5 |  Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2002 |
| 6 |  On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 |
United States accounts for six of their six 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 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.