Filmed 2016-12-02
Owen Kline
The actor and filmmaker
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and filmmaker came in to work on a supplement for our The Squid and the Whale edition. We learned he’s a big fan of the Robert Downey Sr. Eclipse series.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 9 choices reach 14 films.
Least-picked choice here: Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr., taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | 1956 |
| 2 |  Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | 1995 |
| 3 |  The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 4 |  The Horse’s Mouth | Ronald Neame | 1958 |
| 5 |  Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | 1959 |
| 6 |  Eclipse Series 33: Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 7 |  The Golden Age of Television | · | · |
| 8 |  Paths of Glory | Stanley Kubrick | 1957 |
| 9 |  The Naked Kiss | Samuel Fuller | 1964 |
United States accounts for five of their seven single films. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 14 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 six 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.