Filmed 2025-10-19
Tracy Letts
The playwright and actor
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The playwright and actor praises Do the Right Thing as the best film of the eighties, talks about the comfort of watching his favorite westerns , and selects Chicago cinema classics like Hoop Dreams and l ove jones.
What they took
12 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 12 choices reach 16 films.
Least-picked choice here: Choose Me, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kwaidan | Masaki Kobayashi | 1965 |
| 2 |  Do the Right Thing | Spike Lee | 1989 |
| 3 |  Hoop Dreams | Steve James | 1994 |
| 4 |  Berlin Alexanderplatz | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1980 |
| 5 |  Winchester ’73 | Anthony Mann | 1950 |
| 6 |  Red River | Howard Hawks | 1948 |
| 7 |  The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 8 |  ’Round Midnight | Bertrand Tavernier | 1986 |
| 9 |  Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser | Charlotte Zwerin | 1988 |
| 10 |  Choose Me | Alan Rudolph | 1984 |
| 11 |  love jones | Theodore Witcher | 1997 |
| 12 |  The Complete Mr. Arkadin | Orson Welles | 1955 |
United States accounts for eight of their eleven single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 16 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 eleven 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.