15 Jun 2026

Jack Coyne’s Closet Picks

The host of Track Star and Public Opinion talks about why The Last Waltz is the greatest concert movie ever made, praises Aki Kaurismäki’s singular sense of humor and visual style, and selects some his favorite melodramas, including Written on the Wind and Leave Her to Heaven.

Jack Coyne: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

9 single, 2 box sets

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.

1118 The Last Waltz 1978 96 Written on the Wind 1956 SET Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy 1108 The Celebration 1998 421 Pierrot le fou 1965 1114 Love Affair 1939 1132 The Worst Person in the World 2021 1004 Now, Voyager 1942 860 Mildred Pierce 1945 1020 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 SET The BRD Trilogy

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Last Waltz	Martin Scorsese	1978	4
2	Written on the Wind	Douglas Sirk	1956	4
3	Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy box set, 3 films			5
4	The Celebration	Thomas Vinterberg	1998	4
5	Pierrot le fou	Jean-Luc Godard	1965	3
6	Love Affair	Leo McCarey	1939	1
7	The Worst Person in the World	Joachim Trier	2021	8
8	Now, Voyager	Irving Rapper	1942	5
9	Mildred Pierce	Michael Curtiz	1945	2
10	Leave Her to Heaven	John M. Stahl	1945	3
11	The BRD Trilogy box set, 3 films			4

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1939 to 2021, box sets 1979 to 1990

Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy

The BRD 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 25.6 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 139.5 minutes of film for each of its 11 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 11 choices had been taken by 3.91 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Love Affair, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Joachim Trier, through The Worst Person in the World, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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