Filmed 2025-09-29
Stellan Skarsgård
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor talks about showing Seven Samurai to all of his children, celebrates Katrin Cartlidge's performance in Naked, and shares why City Lights never fails to make him cry.
What they took
6 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 6 choices reach 11 films.
Least-picked choice here: Children of Paradise, taken by 4 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa | 1954 |
| 2 |  John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 3 |  La strada | Federico Fellini | 1954 |
| 4 |  Naked | Mike Leigh | 1993 |
| 5 |  City Lights | Charles Chaplin | 1931 |
| 6 |  Children of Paradise | Marcel Carné | 1945 |
Their five single films come from five different countries, with no one of them leading. The one box set is what carry the reach to 11 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.