Filmed 2026-01-09
Thierry Frémaux
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival and the director of the Institut Lumière—whose film Lumière, le cinéma! is now playing on the Criterion Channel—shares his personal journey through cinema, highlighting such favorites as Pierrot le fou, 2046, Budd Boetticher’s Ranown westerns, and Il posto.
What they took
7 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 7 choices reach 27 films.
Least-picked choice here: Pierrot le fou, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Pierrot le fou | Jean-Luc Godard | 1965 |
| 2 |  The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 3 |  Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 4 |  ’Round Midnight | Bertrand Tavernier | 1986 |
| 5 |  Godzilla: The Showa-Era Films, 1954–1975 box set, 15 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Il posto | Ermanno Olmi | 1961 |
| 7 |  La vérité | Henri-Georges Clouzot | 1960 |
France accounts for two of their four single films. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 27 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 four 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.