Filmed 2025-07-18
Tom Rothman
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The CEO and chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group fondly reminisces about working with Jim Jarmusch early in his career, shares why Harlan County USA remains one of the most important documentaries of all time, and celebrates the independent spirit of Charles Burnett.
What they took
8 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: Winchester ’73, taken by 2 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | 1986 |
| 2 |  To Be or Not to Be | Ernst Lubitsch | 1942 |
| 3 |  Harlan County USA | Barbara Kopple | 1976 |
| 4 |  Winchester ’73 | Anthony Mann | 1950 |
| 5 |  To Sleep with Anger | Charles Burnett | 1990 |
| 6 |  The Ice Storm | Ang Lee | 1997 |
| 7 |  The Big Chill | Lawrence Kasdan | 1983 |
| 8 |  The Philadelphia Story | George Cukor | 1940 |
United States accounts for eight of their eight 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 eight 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.