Filmed 2025-09-17
Paul Smith
The fashion designer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The fashion designer shares his close personal connections to Withnail and I and My Beautiful Launderette, finds inspiration in Breathless, and praises Akira Kurosawa’s use of color in Kagemusha.
What they took
5 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: The Kid Brother, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Withnail and I | Bruce Robinson | 1987 |
| 2 |  Breathless | Jean-Luc Godard | 1960 |
| 3 |  My Beautiful Laundrette | Stephen Frears | 1985 |
| 4 |  Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa | 1980 |
| 5 |  The Kid Brother | Ted Wilde | 1927 |
United Kingdom accounts for two of their five 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 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.