Filmed 2026-03-19
Sophy Romvari
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director of Blue Heron shares how John Cassavetes inspired her own approach to independent filmmaking, praises The Watermelon Woman and Not a Pretty Picture as essential works of hybrid cinema, and talks about her personal connection to Jules and Jim .
What they took
5 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: Not a Pretty Picture, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  A Woman Under the Influence | John Cassavetes | 1974 |
| 2 |  The Watermelon Woman | Cheryl Dunye | 1996 |
| 3 |  Not a Pretty Picture | Martha Coolidge | 1975 |
| 4 |  Jules and Jim | François Truffaut | 1962 |
| 5 |  Girlfriends | Claudia Weill | 1978 |
United States accounts for four of their five 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. Nothing this visit took was taken twice over by anybody else.
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.