Filmed 2025-11-05
Vince Staples
The rapper, actor and producer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The rapper, actor, and producer praises The Others as a “certified banger,” selects My Crasy Life and talks about the importance of chronicling the world around you, and finds inspiration in Melvin Van Peebles’s creative endurance
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 8 choices reach 13 films.
Least-picked choice here: Lynch/Oz, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Hollywood Shuffle | Robert Townsend | 1987 |
| 2 |  Videodrome | David Cronenberg | 1983 |
| 3 |  The Others | Alejandro Amenábar | 2001 |
| 4 |  WALL·E | Andrew Stanton | 2008 |
| 5 |  Eclipse Series 31: Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling | Richard Pryor | 1986 |
| 7 |  Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films box set, 4 films | · | · |
| 8 |  Lynch/Oz | Alexandre O. Philippe | 2022 |
United States accounts for four of their six single films. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 13 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 six 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.