11 Aug 2026
Dakota Fanning’s Closet Picks
The actor shares her love for documentaries and the beauty of Grey Gardens, talks about being captivated by Sandra Hüller’s performance in Anatomy of a Fall, and praises the way Sentimental Value portrays the unique bond of sisterhood.
Dakota Fanning: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest
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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.
| Chose | Director | Year | Taken by | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Grey Gardens | David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer | 1975 | |
| 2 |  On the Waterfront | Elia Kazan | 1954 | |
| 3 |  Hedwig and the Angry Inch | John Cameron Mitchell | 2001 | |
| 4 |  Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | 2023 | |
| 5 |  Sentimental Value | Joachim Trier | 2025 |
How far across film history it reaches
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 5films run 9.7 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 116.4 minutes of film for each of its 5 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 5 choices had been taken by 7.8 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Sentimental Value, taken by this visit alone.
This visit reached the work of Joachim Trier, through Sentimental Value, John Cameron Mitchell, through Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Justine Triet, through Anatomy of a Fall, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.