Filmed 2025-05-09
Seth Meyers
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The television host, writer, and performer talks about Ralph Fiennes in The Grand Budapest Hotel and how comedic performances aren’t often given the respect they deserve, praises Miller’s Crossing for having “the best hat work in cinema history,” and shares what he learned about filmmaking from Albert and David Maysles.
What they took
9 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. None of them is a box set, so the count of choices and the count of films reached are the same.
Least-picked choice here: The Long Good Friday, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Army of Shadows | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1969 |
| 2 |  The Grand Budapest Hotel | Wes Anderson | 2014 |
| 3 |  Miller’s Crossing | Joel Coen | 1990 |
| 4 |  Watership Down | Martin Rosen | 1978 |
| 5 |  Lost in America | Albert Brooks | 1985 |
| 6 |  Withnail and I | Bruce Robinson | 1987 |
| 7 |  The Long Good Friday | John Mackenzie | 1980 |
| 8 |  Grey Gardens | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer | 1975 |
| 9 |  Salesman | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin | 1969 |
United States accounts for five of their nine single 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 nine 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.