Filmed 2023-10-20
Todd Haynes
The writer and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The writer and director of Safe, Carol, and May December describes the influence that Brief Encounter and Beau travail have had on his work, praises classic Douglas Sirk movies as “the most perfect films ever made,” and gives a shout-out to the late Terence Davies and his friend Kelly Reichardt.
What they took
16 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 16 choices reach 18 films.
Least-picked choice here: The Long Day Closes, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Brief Encounter | David Lean | 1945 |
| 2 |  My Own Private Idaho | Gus Van Sant | 1991 |
| 3 |  All That Heaven Allows | Douglas Sirk | 1955 |
| 4 |  Written on the Wind | Douglas Sirk | 1956 |
| 5 |  The BRD Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Masculin féminin | Jean-Luc Godard | 1966 |
| 7 |  Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger | 1971 |
| 8 |  The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | 1955 |
| 9 |  The Long Day Closes | Terence Davies | 1992 |
| 10 |  Beau travail | Claire Denis | 1999 |
| 11 |  All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 |
| 12 |  Now, Voyager | Irving Rapper | 1942 |
| 13 |  Old Joy | Kelly Reichardt | 2006 |
| 14 |  The Servant | Joseph Losey | 1963 |
| 15 |  Beyond the Valley of the Dolls | Russ Meyer | 1970 |
| 16 |  In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray | 1950 |
United States accounts for nine of their 15 single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 18 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 15 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.