Filmed 2024-02-28
Tim Blake Nelson
The actor, writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The award-winning actor, writer, and director shares his love for the hard-boiled voice-over in Blast of Silence, praises the exquisite acting and production design of Topsy-Turvy, and selects favorites by his frequent collaborators Joel and Ethan Coen.
What they took
6 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: Blast of Silence, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Blast of Silence | Allen Baron | 1961 |
| 2 |  Topsy-Turvy | Mike Leigh | 1999 |
| 3 |  The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | John Cassavetes | 1976 |
| 4 |  Inside Llewyn Davis | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | 2013 |
| 5 |  Miller’s Crossing | Joel Coen | 1990 |
| 6 |  Tokyo Story | Yasujiro Ozu | 1953 |
United States accounts for four of their six 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
Nobody close enough to name
A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. Nothing this visit took was taken twice over by anybody else.
Their decades
Their six 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.