Filmed 2025-03-21
Mark Rylance
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor talks about feeling immersed in The Tree of Wooden Clogs, praises Small Axe as an “extraordinary piece of work,” and suggests that all film lovers see every film by Akira Kurosawa.
What they took
10 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 10 choices reach 14 films.
Least-picked choice here: High Sierra, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Hidden Fortress | Akira Kurosawa | 1958 |
| 2 |  Ikiru | Akira Kurosawa | 1952 |
| 3 |  Miracle in Milan | Vittorio De Sica | 1951 |
| 4 |  The Tree of Wooden Clogs | Ermanno Olmi | 1978 |
| 5 |  Small Axe box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 6 |  High Sierra | Raoul Walsh | 1941 |
| 7 |  Dodes’ka-den | Akira Kurosawa | 1970 |
| 8 |  The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates | 1973 |
| 9 |  Woman in the Dunes | Hiroshi Teshigahara | 1964 |
| 10 |  After Life | Hirokazu Kore-eda | 1998 |
Japan accounts for five of their nine single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 14 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 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.