Filmed 2023-06-26
Patton Oswalt
The actor and comedian
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor and comedian gravitates to 1940s film noir, the “weirdly timely” shock comedy of John Waters, and movies with memorable soundtracks.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. None of them is a box set, so the count of choices and the count of films reached are the same.
Least-picked choice here: Pale Flower, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller | 1957 |
| 2 |  Detour | Edgar G. Ulmer | 1945 |
| 3 |  Female Trouble | John Waters | 1974 |
| 4 |  The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice | Yasujiro Ozu | 1952 |
| 5 |  Le samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1967 |
| 6 |  Frownland | Ronald Bronstein | 2007 |
| 7 |  Pale Flower | Masahiro Shinoda | 1964 |
| 8 |  Dekalog | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1988 |
| 9 |  One False Move | Carl Franklin | 1992 |
United States accounts for five of their nine single 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 nine 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.