Filmed 2026-04-24
Matthew Rhys
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor talks about the experience of sharing The Princess Bride with his son, celebrates the transportive quality of Do the Right Thing, and selects formative favorites like Withnail and I and Monty Python’s Life of Brian.
What they took
8 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: Monty Python’s Life of Brian, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Grey Gardens | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer | 1975 |
| 2 |  Withnail and I | Bruce Robinson | 1987 |
| 3 |  The Princess Bride | Rob Reiner | 1987 |
| 4 |  Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 |
| 5 |  Mean Streets | Martin Scorsese | 1973 |
| 6 |  Monty Python’s Life of Brian | Terry Jones | 1979 |
| 7 |  The Great Escape | John Sturges | 1963 |
| 8 |  The Graduate | Mike Nichols | 1967 |
United States accounts for six of their eight 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 eight 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.