Closet Picks

Filmed 2024-07-31

Nick Lowe

The musician

things taken
4
every one a single film
films reached
4
no box set to open
oldest
1946
newest
1984

Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com

The musician reminisces about Repo Man playing permanently on his tour bus, shares why The Flight of the Phoenix is a relaxing Sunday movie, and selects favorites by David Lean and Marlon Brando.

01

What they took

4 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.

single film, with its spine number box set
4 chosen · 31 Jul 2024

Least-picked choice here: The Flight of the Phoenix, taken by nobody else.

Table view
Everything taken on 31 Jul 2024
Chose Director Year
1 Great Expectations David Lean 1946
2 Repo Man Alex Cox 1984
3 One-Eyed Jacks Marlon Brando 1961
4 The Flight of the Phoenix Robert Aldrich 1965

Watch the video · On criterion.com · This visit

United States accounts for three of their four single films.

02

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

Nobody close enough to name

A visit needs at least 5 choices to be compared at all, and a pair at least 2 in common to count as close. This visit took 4, so it sits out of the comparison.

03

Their decades

Their four 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.

visit 778 · 4 choices · 4 films reached · filmed 2024-07-31