Filmed 2024-05-09
Turner Ross
Guest
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The acclaimed filmmaking duo reminisce about getting their cinematic education while working in a video store, share how Touki bouki has inspired every film they’ve ever made, and select life-changing favorites by Barbara Kopple, Abbas Kiarostami, and Les Blank.
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: Touki bouki, taken by 2 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch | 1995 |
| 2 |  Touki bouki | Djibril Diop Mambéty | 1973 |
| 3 |  Les Blank: Always for Pleasure | Les Blank | 1968 |
| 4 |  Time | Garrett Bradley | 2020 |
| 5 |  Dekalog | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1988 |
| 6 |  The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | 1928 |
| 7 |  Close-up | Abbas Kiarostami | 1990 |
| 8 |  Harlan County USA | Barbara Kopple | 1976 |
Watch the video · On criterion.com · This visit · filmed with Bill Ross
United States accounts for five 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.