Filmed 2024-12-17
Robert Eggers
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director of Nosferatu shares his fascination with Sergei Parajanov’s ornate tableaus, praises costume designer Piero Tosi’s work on Medea and Death in Venice, and talks about how Jack Clayton’s The Innocents ignites his imagination.
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 7 choices reach 17 films.
Least-picked choice here: Demon Pond, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Color of Pomegranates | Sergei Parajanov | 1969 |
| 2 |  Pasolini 101 box set, 9 films | · | · |
| 3 |  Death in Venice | Luchino Visconti | 1971 |
| 4 |  An Actor’s Revenge | Kon Ichikawa | 1963 |
| 5 |  Demon Pond | Masahiro Shinoda | 1979 |
| 6 |  Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning’s Sideshow Shockers box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 7 |  The Innocents | Jack Clayton | 1961 |
Japan accounts for two of their five single films. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 17 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 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.