Filmed 2022-10-31
Park Chan-wook
The director
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The director of Oldboy and Decision to Leave talks about the influence of Ingmar Bergman, his complicated feelings about The Makioka Sisters, the way Mike Leigh works with actors, and his admiration for Don Siegel’s films.
What they took
12 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 12 choices reach 26 films.
Least-picked choice here: The Makioka Sisters, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Magician | Ingmar Bergman | 1958 |
| 2 |  Red Desert | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1964 |
| 3 |  Stagecoach | John Ford | 1939 |
| 4 |  The Makioka Sisters | Kon Ichikawa | 1983 |
| 5 |  Blow Out | Brian De Palma | 1981 |
| 6 |  Les cousins | Claude Chabrol | 1959 |
| 7 |  Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 box set, 15 films | · | · |
| 8 |  Life Is Sweet | Mike Leigh | 1990 |
| 9 |  La notte | Michelangelo Antonioni | 1961 |
| 10 |  Riot in Cell Block 11 | Don Siegel | 1954 |
| 11 |  Le silence de la mer | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1949 |
| 12 |  Brief Encounter | David Lean | 1945 |
Their eleven single films come from six different countries, with no one of them leading. The one box set is what carry the reach to 26 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
Nobody close enough to name
A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. Nothing this visit took was taken twice over by anybody else.
Their decades
Their eleven 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.