Filmed 2024-12-17
Nicholas Hoult
The actor and star
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and star of Nosferatu , Juror #2 , and The Order shares why Shallow Grave is seared into his memory, talks about his love for Peter Sellers’s performance in Being There , and selects favorites by Bruce Lee, the Coen brothers, and Wes Anderson.
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 8 choices reach 12 films.
Least-picked choice here: Shallow Grave, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  In the Mood for Love | Wong Kar Wai | 2000 |
| 2 |  Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | 1994 |
| 3 |  Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Fantastic Mr. Fox | Wes Anderson | 2009 |
| 5 |  Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
| 6 |  No Country for Old Men | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | 2007 |
| 7 |  Being There | Hal Ashby | 1979 |
| 8 |  12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | 1957 |
United States accounts for five of their seven single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 12 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 seven 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.