Filmed 2025-10-03
Sergei Loznitsa
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director talks about the connection between Le corbeau and Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom; praises the strength of Kira Muratova and Larisa Shepitko; and selects Deep Crimson for his friend, Arturo Ripstein.
What they took
6 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 6 choices reach 10 films.
Least-picked choice here: Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Le Corbeau | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1943 |
| 2 |  Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1976 |
| 3 |  Brief Encounters / The Long Farewell: Two Films by Kira Muratova box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 4 |  Deep Crimson | Arturo Ripstein | 1996 |
| 5 |  Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Eclipse Series 29: Aki Kaurismäki’s Leningrad Cowboys box set, 3 films | · | · |
Their three single films come from three different countries, with no one of them leading. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 10 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
Nobody close enough to name
A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. Nothing this visit took was taken twice over by anybody else.
Their decades
Their three 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.