Filmed 2024-11-11
Pablo Larraín
The director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The director of Maria talks about why Berlin Alexanderplatz is a masterclass on character and capturing a city, praises Maria Callas’s performance in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Medea, and shares how Boyhood is proof that cinema can evoke the feeling of time travel.
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 7 choices reach 17 films.
Least-picked choice here: Certified Copy, taken by 2 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Y tu mamá también | Alfonso Cuarón | 2001 |
| 2 |  Pasolini 101 box set, 9 films | · | · |
| 3 |  Three Colors box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1980 |
| 5 |  Boyhood | Richard Linklater | 2014 |
| 6 |  All About My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | 1999 |
| 7 |  Certified Copy | Abbas Kiarostami | 2010 |
Their five single films come from five different countries, with no one of them leading. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 17 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.