Filmed 2023-10-10
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The writer, director and producer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The acclaimed writer, director, and producer of About Dry Grasses talks about how seeing Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence changed his perception of cinema, praises the timeless and deceptively simple qualities of Stranger Than Paradise, and shares how Abbas Kiarostami gave him the courage to make his own films.
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Four are box sets, which is why 7 choices reach 55 films.
Least-picked choice here: Knife in the Water, taken by 4 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set, 40 films | · | · |
| 2 |  Six Moral Tales box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 3 |  Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | 1984 |
| 4 |  Andrei Rublev | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1966 |
| 5 |  The Apu Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Knife in the Water | Roman Polanski | 1962 |
| 7 |  The Koker Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
Their three single films come from three different countries, with no one of them leading. The four box sets are what carry the reach to 55 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 three 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.