3 Aug 2026

Jason Sudeikis’s Closet Picks

The actor and screenwriter talks about his love for A Face in the Crowd and his desire to remake it, shares a familial connection to Double Indemnity , and selects some of his favorite sports movies like Love & Basketball and Bull Durham.

Jason Sudeikis: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

12 single, 1 box set

single films

chosen on their own

box sets

one choice, many films

films reached

the same visit, box sets opened

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This visit as a strip, a cell for each choice: paler the older the film, indigo for a box set, which is one cell however many films it holds. The order is the order Criterion's own page lists them in, which is probably but not provably the order they came off the shelf.

1290 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 1287 House Party 1990 970 A Face in the Crowd 1957 57 Charade 1963 1126 Double Indemnity 1944 1097 Love & Basketball 2000 936 Bull Durham 1988 336 Dazed and Confused 1993 1104 Citizen Kane 1941 1185 After Hours 1985 SET The Before Trilogy 224 Pickup on South Street 1953 666 The Devil’s Backbone 2001

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Eyes Wide Shut	Stanley Kubrick	1999	3
2	House Party	Reginald Hudlin	1990	1
3	A Face in the Crowd	Elia Kazan	1957	8
4	Charade	Stanley Donen	1963	3
5	Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder	1944	4
6	Love & Basketball	Gina Prince-Bythewood	2000	12
7	Bull Durham	Ron Shelton	1988	3
8	Dazed and Confused	Richard Linklater	1993	7
9	Citizen Kane	Orson Welles	1941	7
10	After Hours	Martin Scorsese	1985	8
11	The Before Trilogy box set, 3 films			10
12	Pickup on South Street	Samuel Fuller	1953	7
13	The Devil’s Backbone	Guillermo del Toro	2001	4

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1941 to 2001, box sets 1995 to 2013

The Before Trilogy

a single film, at its year a box set, across the years of its films the collection, by decade

The axis is the same 1920 to 2030 on every visit page, so a haul that stayed inside one decade looks like one. A box set is drawn across the years of the films inside it, which is a range of release dates and not a claim about the set. Nothing here is in the order the choices were made: displayed position moves film year by a fifth of one percent of its variance, which is not a slope worth drawing.

How long this haul is

Its 15films run 27.3 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 125.9 minutes of film for each of its 13 choices, counting a box set as the one choice it was. Across the 375 visits with a complete total, the median is 136.4 minutes.

How unusual this haul was

Its 13 choices had been taken by 5.92 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was House Party, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Gina Prince-Bythewood, through Love & Basketball, Guillermo del Toro, through The Devil’s Backbone, Reginald Hudlin, through House Party and Ron Shelton, through Bull Durham, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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