Filmed 2026-03-19
Steve Zahn
The actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The actor talks about how Richard Linklater’s Slacker turned him on to independent cinema, praises the soundtrack for Paris, Texas , and selects a horror classic by George A. Romero.
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: Slacker, taken by 3 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Slacker | Richard Linklater | 1991 |
| 2 |  Mystery Train | Jim Jarmusch | 1989 |
| 3 |  Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | 1984 |
| 4 |  Miller’s Crossing | Joel Coen | 1990 |
| 5 |  Some Like It Hot | Billy Wilder | 1959 |
| 6 |  Being There | Hal Ashby | 1979 |
| 7 |  Night of the Living Dead | George A. Romero | 1968 |
United States accounts for six 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.