actor and director

Noah Wyle

One visit, reaching 20 films in the collection.

20 Apr 2026

The actor and director shares his intimate connections to Eating Raoul and The Great Escape, explains what defines “the Lubitsch touch,” and praises the heartrending performances in The Last Picture Show.

	Chose	Director	Year
1	A Face in the Crowd	Elia Kazan	1957
2	Forty Guns	Samuel Fuller	1957
3	Repo Man	Alex Cox	1984
4	Eating Raoul	Paul Bartel	1982
5	The Great Escape	John Sturges	1963
6	’Round Midnight	Bertrand Tavernier	1986
7	Seconds	John Frankenheimer	1966
8	Trouble in Paradise	Ernst Lubitsch	1932
9	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp	Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger	1943
10	F for Fake	Orson Welles	1975
11	Pickup on South Street	Samuel Fuller	1953
12	Medium Cool	Haskell Wexler	1969
13	This Sporting Life	Lindsay Anderson	1963
14	Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence	Nagisa Oshima	1983
15	A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Discobox set, 3 films
16	Crumb	Terry Zwigoff	1995
17	The Last Picture Show	Peter Bogdanovich	1971
18	Shadows	John Cassavetes	1959

Least-picked choice here: A Whit Stillman Trilogy: Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco , 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 Noah Wyle is left out, since they picked from one list.

Guest	Shared	Jaccard	In common
André Gregory	2	0.091	Eating Raoul, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Wallace Shawn	2	0.091	Eating Raoul, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Paul Giamatti	2	0.083	Seconds, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Bong Joon Ho	2	0.074	Medium Cool, Repo Man
Ben Wheatley	2	0.071	Crumb, Seconds