5 Jul 2015

Gaspar Noé’s Closet Picks

The Paris-based Argentine filmmaker selects a few films that align with his interest in cinematic provocation, including unsettling works by Shohei Imamura and Pier Paolo Pasolini

Gaspar Noé: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

13

11 single, 2 box sets

single films

11

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

18

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.

SET Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku 667 Seconds 1966 SET Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura 706 Master of the House 1925 739 Safe 1995 760 State of Siege 1972 728 Sundays and Cybèle 1962 352 Jigoku 1960 586 Island of Lost Souls 1932 415 The Naked Prey 1965 17 Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom 1976 433 Patriotism 1966 432 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku box set, 4 films			1
2	Seconds	John Frankenheimer	1966	7
3	Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura box set, 3 films			2
4	Master of the House	Carl Th. Dreyer	1925	2
5	Safe	Todd Haynes	1995	6
6	State of Siege	Costa-Gavras	1972	2
7	Sundays and Cybèle	Serge Bourguignon	1962	1
8	Jigoku	Nobuo Nakagawa	1960	2
9	Island of Lost Souls	Erle C. Kenton	1932	3
10	The Naked Prey	Cornel Wilde	1965	1
11	Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1976	11
12	Patriotism	Yukio Mishima, Domoto Masaki	1966	1
13	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Paul Schrader	1985	6

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1925 to 1995, box sets 1962 to 1968

Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura

Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku

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 18films run 30.3 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 139.7 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 3.46 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Four of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Eclipse Series 37: When Horror Came to Shochiku, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Todd Haynes, through Safe, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com