Closet Picks

Two visits · 10 Jun 2015 to 21 Oct 2025

Yorgos Lanthimos

The writer and director

things taken
19
18 films, 1 box set
films reached
21
once the sets are opened
oldest
1936
newest
2006
01

What they took

19 choices across two visits, of which one is a box set, which is why they reach 21 films.

across 2 visits

The one box set is what carries the reach to 21 films.

02

What changed between visits

Two visits, 10.4 years apart, measured the same way each time. Nothing came off the shelf twice.

90% of any two visits in the series share nothing

Measure 10 Jun 2015 21 Oct 2025
Chose 136
Of those, box sets 01
Films reached 138
Median release year 19671973
Credited to the US 3 of 133 of 8
Mean visits per choice 5.465.17

Films reached, the median year and the US count open the box sets. The three counts above them do not: a set is one choice, taken once. The shelf itself grew between these dates, so a shift can be the collection's rather than theirs, and nothing here adjusts for that.

03

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.

416 visits compared · 32 filmed-together pairs excluded

04

Two ways to be obscure

Every guest the two floors admit, on the two measures this site keeps of what a person reached for. Across: how many visits took the same things, averaged over their choices, a box set counting once. Up: where their single films sit in Criterion's spine numbering, which is roughly release order. Left is picks the series ignores; low is the early catalogue, and the two are not the same thing.

374 guests placed · 62 short of one floor or the other

This guest among the 374 measured
spine percentile: later releases ↑ 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1510 Yorgos Lanthimos visits that took the same things, on average →
Yorgos Lanthimos every other guest with five choices and five spined films the field's median, both ways
Table view
This guest's two taste measures against the field's
Measure Yorgos Lanthimos Median guest
Visits that took the same things, on average 5.37 6.25
Spine percentile of their single films 42% 50%
Choices counted across 19 ·
Of those, single films carrying a spine number 18 ·

The two axes count different things. Across counts every choice, a box set as the one choice it was; up counts only single films that carry a spine number, which leaves out box sets and the 458 non-spine releases entirely, so a dot is here only where a guest cleared both floors.

Their choices had been taken by 5.37 visits each on average, against a median of 6.25 across the field, and their single films sit at the 42% spine percentile against 50%. So: less picked-over than most guests, and earlier in Criterion's numbering.

05

Their decades

Their 18 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.

06

Where their films come from

Every film they reached, box sets opened, by the country Criterion credits, against the collection's own mix. Countries they never reached are not rows, so the shelf's column does not add up to everything on the shelf.

21 films · 9 countries

Criterion credits one country per film, so a co-production counts only under the country named first.

2 visits · 19 choices · 21 films reached · filmed 2015-06-10 to 2025-10-21