17 Sept 2017

Lucrecia Martel’s Closet Picks

The Argentine master behind such enigmatic, formally audacious films as Zama and La Ciénaga reveals her love of genre cinema.

Lucrecia Martel: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

11

every one a single film

single films

11

chosen on their own

box sets

0

none this visit

films reached

11

no set to open

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.

3 The Lady Vanishes 1938 2 Seven Samurai 1954 4 Amarcord 1973 6 Beauty and the Beast 1946 721 Love Streams 1984 37 Time Bandits 1981 260 Eyes Without a Face 1960 220 Naked Lunch 1991 63 Carnival of Souls 1962 44 The Red Shoes 1948 833 Cat People 1942

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Lady Vanishes	Alfred Hitchcock	1938	5
2	Seven Samurai	Akira Kurosawa	1954	10
3	Amarcord	Federico Fellini	1973	6
4	Beauty and the Beast	Jean Cocteau	1946	3
5	Love Streams	John Cassavetes	1984	8
6	Time Bandits	Terry Gilliam	1981	3
7	Eyes Without a Face	Georges Franju	1960	4
8	Naked Lunch	David Cronenberg	1991	6
9	Carnival of Souls	Herk Harvey	1962	4
10	The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1948	16
11	Cat People	Jacques Tourneur	1942	4

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1938 to 1991

a single film, at its year 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 11films run 21 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 114.7 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 6.27 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Every one of them has been taken by somebody else too. The least-picked was Beauty and the Beast, taken by 3 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of David Cronenberg, through Naked Lunch and Terry Gilliam, through Time Bandits, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com