Closet Picks

Filmed 2023-05-19

Udo Kier

The actor

things taken
4
every one a single film
films reached
4
no box set to open
newest
1996

Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com

The prolific German actor recalls the time he met Paul Morrissey on a plane, the festival encounter that led to his first film shot in the United States, and his experience working with Lars von Trier.

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 · 19 May 2023

Least-picked choice here: Flesh for Frankenstein, taken by nobody else.

Table view
Everything taken on 19 May 2023
Chose Director Year
1 Blood for Dracula Paul Morrissey 1974
2 Flesh for Frankenstein Paul Morrissey 1973
3 My Own Private Idaho Gus Van Sant 1991
4 Breaking the Waves Lars von Trier 1996

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 581 · 4 choices · 4 films reached · filmed 2023-05-19