Filmed 2025-05-27
RZA
The rapper
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The rapper, record producer, composer, and filmmaker talks about how the Once Upon a Time in China series elevated the martial genre, praises Mikey and Nicky as a master class in how to write a buddy movie, and shouts out his longtime collaborator Jim Jarmusch.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Four are box sets, which is why 9 choices reach 25 films.
Least-picked choice here: Once Upon a Time in China: The Complete Films, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 2 |  Once Upon a Time in China: The Complete Films box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 3 |  Mikey and Nicky | Elaine May | 1976 |
| 4 |  John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 5 |  Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | 1986 |
| 6 |  Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Jim Jarmusch | 1999 |
| 7 |  On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 |
| 8 |  La haine | Mathieu Kassovitz | 1995 |
| 9 |  Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films box set, 4 films | · | · |
United States accounts for four of their five single films. The four box sets are what carry the reach to 25 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.