Filmed 2025-10-23
Nia DaCosta
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director talks about being inspired by Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Love & Basketball at a young age, selects a pair of films that portray the human impact of war, and praises Nina Hoss's performance in Phoenix.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 9 choices reach 30 films.
Least-picked choice here: Summer Hours, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Love & Basketball | Gina Prince-Bythewood | 2000 |
| 2 |  Come and See | Elem Klimov | 1985 |
| 3 |  The Cranes Are Flying | Mikhail Kalatozov | 1957 |
| 4 |  Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 |
| 5 |  Summer Hours | Olivier Assayas | 2008 |
| 6 |  The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | 2021 |
| 7 |  The Complete Films of Agnès Varda box set, 22 films | · | · |
| 8 |  Phoenix | Christian Petzold | 2014 |
| 9 |  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | 1992 |
United States accounts for four of their eight single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 30 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.