Filmed 2024-05-21
Paul Scheer
The comedian, actor and author
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The comedian, actor, and author reflects on what Alex Cox’s Walker has to say about American history, talks about the subtle depth of Two-Lane Blacktop, and praises performances by Peter Falk and Walter Matthau.
What they took
6 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: Hopscotch, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Walker | Alex Cox | 1987 |
| 2 |  Mikey and Nicky | Elaine May | 1976 |
| 3 |  Two-Lane Blacktop | Monte Hellman | 1971 |
| 4 |  Hopscotch | Ronald Neame | 1980 |
| 5 |  Make Way for Tomorrow | Leo McCarey | 1937 |
| 6 |  Klute | Alan J. Pakula | 1971 |
United States accounts for six of their six 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 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.