Filmed 2024-10-02
RaMell Ross
The director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The director and cowriter of Nickel Boys praises The Qatsi Trilogy as “vital for understanding the visual world,” quotes from Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil , and talks about watching Bruce Lee movies with his dad.
What they took
11 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Four are box sets, which is why 11 choices reach 24 films.
Least-picked choice here: Jubal, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | 1979 |
| 2 |  World of Wong Kar Wai box set, 7 films | · | · |
| 3 |  La Jetée/Sans Soleil box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Mirror | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1975 |
| 5 |  Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky | 1979 |
| 6 |  Cameraperson | Kirsten Johnson | 2016 |
| 7 |  The Qatsi Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 8 |  To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | 1990 |
| 9 |  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | 1999 |
| 10 |  Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 11 |  Jubal | Delmer Daves | 1956 |
United States accounts for four of their seven single films. The four 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 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.