Filmed 2026-03-09
Steven Knight
The screenwriter and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The screenwriter and director talks about the timelessness of Brief Encounter, praises the performances of Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Marlon Brando in One-Eyed Jacks, and reminisces about discovering French cinema at an early age.
What they took
9 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: Le cercle rouge, taken by 2 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Brief Encounter | David Lean | 1945 |
| 2 |  Le cercle rouge | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1970 |
| 3 |  The Spy Who Came in from the Cold | Martin Ritt | 1965 |
| 4 |  Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | 1984 |
| 5 |  3:10 to Yuma | Delmer Daves | 1957 |
| 6 |  One-Eyed Jacks | Marlon Brando | 1961 |
| 7 |  Betty Blue | Jean-Jacques Beineix | 1986 |
| 8 |  Dont Look Back | D. A. Pennebaker | 1967 |
| 9 |  Citizen Kane | Orson Welles | 1941 |
United States accounts for five of their nine 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 nine 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.