Filmed 2024-02-06
Paul Giamatti
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The award-winning actor talks about his childhood experience seeing Carnival of Souls and his love for low-budget horror treasures, shares how Blue Velvet ignited his desire to become an actor and why Rashomon always moves him to tears, and praises the performances in John Frankenheimer’s Seconds.
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 8 choices reach 9 films.
Least-picked choice here: Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko, taken by 2 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Carnival of Souls | Herk Harvey | 1962 |
| 2 |  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1943 |
| 3 |  Rashomon | Akira Kurosawa | 1950 |
| 4 |  Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1972 |
| 5 |  Cat People | Jacques Tourneur | 1942 |
| 6 |  Seconds | John Frankenheimer | 1966 |
| 7 |  Blue Velvet | David Lynch | 1986 |
| 8 |  Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko box set, 2 films | · | · |
United States accounts for four of their seven single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 9 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 seven 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.