Filmed 2025-05-20
Simon Pegg
The actor, screenwriter and comedian
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor, screenwriter, and comedian reminiscences about showing Shaun of the Dead to George A. Romero, shares the many reasons why he loves Quadrophenia, and praises the way David Lynch’s films lend themselves to interpretation.
What they took
4 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: Quadrophenia, taken by 5 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  My Life as a Dog | Lasse Hallström | 1985 |
| 2 |  Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | 1968 |
| 3 |  Quadrophenia | Franc Roddam | 1979 |
| 4 |  Blue Velvet | David Lynch | 1986 |
United States accounts for two of their four 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
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. This visit took 4, so it sits out of the comparison.
Their decades
Their four 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.