13 Feb 2018

Kim Cattrall’s Closet Picks

On a recent visit, the award-winning Sex and the City star chatted with us about falling in love with movies as a child and the Hollywood and art-house classics that have been her personal touchstones.

Kim Cattrall: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

12

10 single, 2 box sets

single films

10

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

19

the same visit, box sets opened

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.

281 Jules and Jim 1962 118 Sullivan’s Travels 1941 291 Heaven Can Wait 1943 756 Limelight 1952 829 A Taste of Honey 1961 965 Wanda 1970 SET Fanny and Alexander SET The Complete Jacques Tati 910 Tom Jones 1963 683 Nashville 1975 483 Repulsion 1965 833 Cat People 1942

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Jules and Jim	François Truffaut	1962	10
2	Sullivan’s Travels	Preston Sturges	1941	6
3	Heaven Can Wait	Ernst Lubitsch	1943	5
4	Limelight	Charles Chaplin	1952	1
5	A Taste of Honey	Tony Richardson	1961	4
6	Wanda	Barbara Loden	1970	15
7	Fanny and Alexander box set, 3 films			7
8	The Complete Jacques Tati box set, 6 films			19
9	Tom Jones	Tony Richardson	1963	1
10	Nashville	Robert Altman	1975	3
11	Repulsion	Roman Polanski	1965	4
12	Cat People	Jacques Tourneur	1942	4

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1941 to 1975, box sets 1949 to 1983

The Complete Jacques Tati

Fanny and Alexander

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 19films run 36.6 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 182.8 minutes of film for each of its 12 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 12 choices had been taken by 6.58 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Limelight, taken by this visit alone.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com