Filmed 2026-04-20
Noah Wyle
The actor and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and director shares his intimate connections to Eating Raoul and The Great Escape, explains what defines “the Lubitsch touch,” and praises the heartrending performances in The Last Picture Show.
What they took
18 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 18 choices reach 20 films.
Least-picked choice here: A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  A Face in the Crowd | Elia Kazan | 1957 |
| 2 |  Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller | 1957 |
| 3 |  Repo Man | Alex Cox | 1984 |
| 4 |  Eating Raoul | Paul Bartel | 1982 |
| 5 |  The Great Escape | John Sturges | 1963 |
| 6 |  ’Round Midnight | Bertrand Tavernier | 1986 |
| 7 |  Seconds | John Frankenheimer | 1966 |
| 8 |  Trouble in Paradise | Ernst Lubitsch | 1932 |
| 9 |  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1943 |
| 10 |  F for Fake | Orson Welles | 1975 |
| 11 |  Pickup on South Street | Samuel Fuller | 1953 |
| 12 |  Medium Cool | Haskell Wexler | 1969 |
| 13 |  This Sporting Life | Lindsay Anderson | 1963 |
| 14 |  Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | Nagisa Oshima | 1983 |
| 15 |  A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 16 |  Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | 1995 |
| 17 |  The Last Picture Show | Peter Bogdanovich | 1971 |
| 18 |  Shadows | John Cassavetes | 1959 |
United States accounts for 14 of their 17 single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 20 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 17 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.