Filmed 2025-03-27
Steve Coogan
The actor, screenwriter and producer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor, screenwriter, and producer talks about the monochromatic world of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, praises the way that the cinematography of Klute turns viewers into voyeurs, and shares why His Girl Friday represents Hollywood at its finest.
What they took
7 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 Servant, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  The Lady Vanishes | Alfred Hitchcock | 1938 |
| 2 |  12 Angry Men | Sidney Lumet | 1957 |
| 3 |  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Martin Ritt | 1965 |
| 4 |  A Matter of Life and Death | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | 1946 |
| 5 |  The Servant | Joseph Losey | 1963 |
| 6 |  Klute | Alan J. Pakula | 1971 |
| 7 |  His Girl Friday | Howard Hawks | 1940 |
United States accounts for four of their seven 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 seven 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.