Filmed 2024-05-03
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The Oscar-winning writer and director talks about Army of Shadows and Jean-Pierre Melville’s cinema of betrayal, shares his love for Denis Lavant's dancing in Beau travail, and selects favorites by Yasujiro Ozu, Ernst Lubitsch, and Nicholas Ray.
What they took
15 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 15 choices reach 26 films.
Least-picked choice here: Toni, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Late Spring | Yasujiro Ozu | 1949 |
| 2 |  Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1969 |
| 3 |  La haine | Mathieu Kassovitz | 1995 |
| 4 |  Toni | Jean Renoir | 1935 |
| 5 |  Beau travail | Claire Denis | 1999 |
| 6 |  Until the End of the World | Wim Wenders | 1991 |
| 7 |  John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 8 |  Heaven Can Wait | Ernst Lubitsch | 1943 |
| 9 |  A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 10 |  The Essential Jacques Demy box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 11 |  Judex | Georges Franju | 1963 |
| 12 |  Bigger Than Life | Nicholas Ray | 1956 |
| 13 |  Fists in the Pocket | Marco Bellocchio | 1965 |
| 14 |  Cure | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 1997 |
| 15 |  My Darling Clementine | John Ford | 1946 |
France accounts for five of their twelve single films. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 26 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 twelve 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.