Filmed 2024-06-03
Viggo Mortensen
The actor and director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The award-winning actor and director goes deep on his favorite westerns, highlighting Gregory Peck’s psychological performance in The Gunfighter and Barbara Stanwyck’s fierceness in The Furies, Leonard Cohen’s music in McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Budd Boetticher’s lean, mean Ranown films.
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. One is a box set, which is why 8 choices reach 12 films.
Least-picked choice here: The Furies, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Stagecoach | John Ford | 1939 |
| 2 |  Red River | Howard Hawks | 1948 |
| 3 |  Forty Guns | Samuel Fuller | 1957 |
| 4 |  The Gunfighter | Henry King | 1950 |
| 5 |  The Furies | Anthony Mann | 1950 |
| 6 |  3:10 to Yuma | Delmer Daves | 1957 |
| 7 |  McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | 1971 |
| 8 |  The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher box set, 5 films | · | · |
United States accounts for seven of their seven single films. The one box set is what carry the reach to 12 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 seven 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.