2 visits · 2014-05-19 to 2025-05-13
Michael Cera
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor returns to the Criterion Closet, where he selects a few movies to watch with his kids, talks about his magical experience viewing Hobson’s Choice, and picks up a new edition of a film by his favorite director, Abbas Kiarostami
What they took
13 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 13 choices reach 24 films.
across 2 visits
Least-picked choice here: The Wind Will Carry Us, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Complete Jacques Tati box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 2 |  WALL·E | Andrew Stanton | 2008 |
| 3 |  Hobson’s Choice | David Lean | 1954 |
| 4 |  Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 5 |  The Mother and the Whore | Jean Eustache | 1973 |
| 6 |  The Wind Will Carry Us | Abbas Kiarostami | 1999 |
| 7 |  Anora | Sean Baker | 2024 |
| 8 |  Prince of Broadway | Sean Baker | 2008 |
| 9 |  8½ | Federico Fellini | 1963 |
Least-picked choice here: Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King, taken by 4 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Good Morning | Yasujiro Ozu | 1959 |
| 2 |  Close-up | Abbas Kiarostami | 1990 |
| 3 |  Eclipse Series 24: The Actuality Dramas of Allan King box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Tootsie | Sydney Pollack | 1982 |
United States accounts for four of their ten single films. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 24 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 ten 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.