Filmed 2014-09-22
William Friedkin
The director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The Oscar-winning director marvels at “the history of world cinema” contained in our collection and selects favorites by Vittorio De Sica, Fritz Lang, Jules Dassin, and Federico Fellini.
What they took
9 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: All That Money Can Buy (a.k.a. The Devil and Daniel Webster), taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger | 1971 |
| 2 |  The Killing of a Chinese Bookie | John Cassavetes | 1976 |
| 3 |  Vampyr | Carl Th. Dreyer | 1932 |
| 4 |  Pickpocket | Robert Bresson | 1959 |
| 5 |  Umberto D. | Vittorio De Sica | 1952 |
| 6 |  All That Money Can Buy (a.k.a. The Devil and Daniel Webster) | William Dieterle | 1941 |
| 7 |  M | Fritz Lang | 1931 |
| 8 |  Brute Force | Jules Dassin | 1947 |
| 9 |  8½ | Federico Fellini | 1963 |
Their nine single films come from six different countries, with no one of them leading.
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 nine 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.