Filmed 2024-12-19
Mikey Madison
The actor and star
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and star of Anora talks about Five Easy Pieces and being drawn to morally ambiguous characters, praises Isabelle Huppert’s performance in The Piano Teacher as one of the greatest of all time, and selects Take Out, one of her collaborator Sean Baker’s early New York films.
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: Gilda, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Five Easy Pieces | Bob Rafelson | 1970 |
| 2 |  Easy Rider | Dennis Hopper | 1969 |
| 3 |  Take Out | Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou | 2004 |
| 4 |  The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | 2001 |
| 5 |  Gilda | Charles Vidor | 1946 |
| 6 |  Eyes Without a Face | Georges Franju | 1960 |
| 7 |  The Kid | Charles Chaplin | 1921 |
| 8 |  Heaven’s Gate | Michael Cimino | 1980 |
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
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 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.