Filmed 2025-11-26
Nicholas Britell
The composer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The composer reflects on his profound experience working on Barry Jenkins’s The Underground Railroad, praises favorite scores by Bernard Herrmann and Zbigniew Preisner, and shares why La Jetée inspires him to think about cinema’s infinite possibilities.
What they took
6 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 6 choices reach 7 films.
Least-picked choice here: The Underground Railroad, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Underground Railroad | Barry Jenkins | 2021 |
| 2 |  Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| 3 |  The Double Life of Véronique | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1991 |
| 4 |  Tokyo Olympiad | Kon Ichikawa | 1965 |
| 5 |  La Jetée/Sans Soleil box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Malcolm X | Spike Lee | 1992 |
United States accounts for three of their five single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 7 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 five 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.