Filmed 2024-10-08
Zeinabu irene Davis
The director
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
The director of Compensation shares what Bruce Lee’s films taught her about cinematic movement, praises Sarah Maldoror’s revolutionary Sambizanga, and shouts out filmmakers she loves, from Cauleen Smith and Cheryl Dunye to Alice Diop and Ousmane Sembène.
What they took
8 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Three are box sets, which is why 8 choices reach 19 films.
Least-picked choice here: Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 4, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Black Orpheus | Marcel Camus | 1959 |
| 2 |  Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits box set, 5 films | · | · |
| 3 |  The Battle of Algiers | Gillo Pontecorvo | 1966 |
| 4 |  Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 4 box set, 6 films | · | · |
| 5 |  Drylongso | Cauleen Smith | 1998 |
| 6 |  The Watermelon Woman | Cheryl Dunye | 1996 |
| 7 |  Saint Omer | Alice Diop | 2022 |
| 8 |  Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène box set, 3 films | · | · |
France accounts for two of their five single films. The three box sets are what carry the reach to 19 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 five 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.