Closet Picks

Guest

Guillermo del Toro

2 visits, reaching 26 films in the collection.

7 Sept 2025

The Criterion Closet’s very first guest stops by the Mobile Closet at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he examines the technical brilliance of a scene in Notorious, shares why he feels a kinship with Wes Anderson, and talks about drawing inspiration from Martin Scorsese’s powerful explorations of repression.

Chose Director Year
1 The Red Shoes Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1948
2 Notorious Alfred Hitchcock 1946
3 Black Narcissus Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1947
4 Salesman David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin 1969
5 All That Heaven Allows Douglas Sirk 1955
6 The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Yearsbox set, 10 films
7 Roma Federico Fellini 1972
8 Roma Alfonso Cuarón 2018
9 The Age of Innocence Martin Scorsese 1993
10 Au revoir les enfants Louis Malle 1987

Least-picked choice here: Au revoir les enfants , taken by 1 other visits.

Watch the video · On criterion.com · This visit

22 Sept 2010

In the very first entry in our Closet Picks series, shot in 2010, the director of Pan’s Labyrinth selects favorite films by Stanley Donen, Terrence Malick, and Ingmar Bergman.

Chose Director Year
1 The Red Shoes Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 1948
2 The 400 Blows François Truffaut 1959
3 Charade Stanley Donen 1963
4 Crumb Terry Zwigoff 1995
5 The Thin Red Line Terrence Malick 1998
6 The Magician Ingmar Bergman 1958
7 Repulsion Roman Polanski 1965
8 Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick 1957

Least-picked choice here: Charade , taken by 1 other visits.

Watch the video · On criterion.com · This visit

Closest taste

Guests who chose the most of the same things. Anyone filmed alongside Guillermo del Toro is left out, since they picked from one list.

GuestSharedJaccardIn common
Christoph Waltz 2 0.095 Repulsion, The 400 Blows
Joanna Hogg 2 0.095 The Age of Innocence, The Red Shoes
Hari Nef 2 0.083 Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes
Isabel Sandoval 2 0.083 Black Narcissus, The Age of Innocence
Owen Kline 2 0.083 Crumb, Paths of Glory