Filmed 2025-10-01
Mary Bronstein
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director selects a pair of feminist films by Dorothy Arzner, shares why Chantal Akerman and David Lynch are her filmmaking idols, and praises how Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales portray complex dynamics between women and men.
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 8 choices reach 21 films.
Least-picked choice here: Frownland, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Dance, Girl, Dance | Dorothy Arzner | 1940 |
| 2 |  Merrily We Go to Hell | Dorothy Arzner | 1932 |
| 3 |  Frownland | Ronald Bronstein | 2007 |
| 4 |  Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978 box set, 9 films | · | · |
| 5 |  Inland Empire | David Lynch | 2006 |
| 6 |  This Is Spinal Tap | Rob Reiner | 1984 |
| 7 |  Six Moral Tales box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 8 |  It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Stanley Kramer | 1963 |
United States accounts for six of their six single films. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 21 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.