24 Nov 2017
M.I.A. and Stephen Loveridge’s Closet Picks
The star and the director of Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. show love to politically charged films like Missing and Dheepan, and reminisce about the emotional balm they found in our Janus Films collector’s set.
Filmed together, each with a page of their own: M.I.A. and Stephen Loveridge
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
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 |  Naked | Mike Leigh | 1993 | |
| 2 |  Missing | Costa-Gavras | 1982 | |
| 3 |  Kes | Ken Loach | 1970 | |
| 4 |  Badlands | Terrence Malick | 1973 | |
| 5 |  Dheepan | Jacques Audiard | 2015 | |
| 6 |  Bottle Rocket | Wes Anderson | 1996 |
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 6films run 11.1 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 110.8 minutes of film for each of its 6 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 6 choices had been taken by 5.67 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Missing, taken by this visit alone.
This visit reached the work of Jacques Audiard, through Dheepan, Mike Leigh, through Naked, Jacques Audiard, through Dheepan and Mike Leigh, through Naked, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.