Filmed 2016-09-19
Phil Rosenthal
The writer and producer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The veteran writer and producer chooses Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Preston Sturges’s Sullivan’s Travels, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent.
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: Overlord, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Babette’s Feast | Gabriel Axel | 1987 |
| 2 |  Stagecoach | John Ford | 1939 |
| 3 |  Foreign Correspondent | Alfred Hitchcock | 1940 |
| 4 |  Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Stanley Kubrick | 1964 |
| 5 |  Overlord | Stuart Cooper | 1975 |
| 6 |  Make Way for Tomorrow | Leo McCarey | 1937 |
| 7 |  Sullivan’s Travels | Preston Sturges | 1941 |
| 8 |  On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 |
| 9 |  The Innocents | Jack Clayton | 1961 |
United States accounts for seven 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
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.