Filmed 2023-12-07
Wim Wenders
The auteur
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The legendary auteur returns to the Criterion Closet, where he selects new editions of favorite films like Down by Law and Wanda, talks about Kurosawa’s genius for recreating weather on-screen, and shouts out his former assistant director Claire Denis.
What they took
11 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Two are box sets, which is why 11 choices reach 17 films.
Least-picked choice here: Mouchette, taken by 1 other visits.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  A Story of Floating Weeds / Floating Weeds: Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu box set, 2 films | · | · |
| 2 |  Down by Law | Jim Jarmusch | 1986 |
| 3 |  The 400 Blows | François Truffaut | 1959 |
| 4 |  The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | 1928 |
| 5 |  The Complete Jacques Tati box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 6 |  Kagemusha | Akira Kurosawa | 1980 |
| 7 |  Wanda | Barbara Loden | 1970 |
| 8 |  Beau travail | Claire Denis | 1999 |
| 9 |  Until the End of the World | Wim Wenders | 1991 |
| 10 |  Au hasard Balthazar | Robert Bresson | 1966 |
| 11 |  Mouchette | Robert Bresson | 1967 |
France accounts for four of their nine single films. The two box sets are what carry the reach to 17 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 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.