Filmed 2024-10-08
Payal Kapadia
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director of All We Imagine as Light shares why Sans Soleil and Arabian Nights are gifts that keep on giving, talks about Aki Kaurismäki’s “fun and audacious” Leningrad Cowboys films, and praises Louis Malle’s Phantom India as a must-watch for everyone.
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Five are box sets, which is why 8 choices reach 24 films.
Least-picked choice here: Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Loves of a Blonde | Miloš Forman | 1965 |
| 2 |  La Jetée/Sans Soleil box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 3 |  Charulata | Satyajit Ray | 1964 |
| 4 |  Trilogy of Life box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 5 |  Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle box set, 7 films | · | · |
| 7 |  Paris Is Burning | Jennie Livingston | 1990 |
| 8 |  Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2 box set, 6 films | · | · |
Their three single films come from three different countries, with no one of them leading. The five box sets are what carry the reach to 24 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 three 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.