Filmed 2024-03-11
Molly Ringwald
The actor and writer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and writer shares her love of the literary qualities of Eric Rohmer’s cinema, recalls the thrill of watching Bruno Dumont’s La vie de Jésus, and selects films by auteurs she has worked with, including Jean-Luc Godard and John Cassavetes.
What they took
11 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Five are box sets, which is why 11 choices reach 40 films.
Least-picked choice here: Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 2 |  A Face in the Crowd | Elia Kazan | 1957 |
| 3 |  Céline and Julie Go Boating | Jacques Rivette | 1974 |
| 4 |  Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons box set, 4 films | · | · |
| 5 |  Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals box set, 4 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Band of Outsiders | Jean-Luc Godard | 1964 |
| 7 |  La vie de Jésus | Bruno Dumont | 1997 |
| 8 |  Essential Fellini box set, 14 films | · | · |
| 9 |  John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 10 |  Love Streams | John Cassavetes | 1984 |
| 11 |  Umberto D. | Vittorio De Sica | 1952 |
France accounts for three of their six single films. The five box sets are what carry the reach to 40 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 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.