22 May 2017

Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman’s Closet Picks

Longtime friends and collaborators Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman stopped by the office to contribute to our new edition of Baal— and have some fun in the closet.

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman

choices

14

12 single, 2 box sets

single films

12

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

21

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 The Before Trilogy 48 Black Orpheus 1959 5 The 400 Blows 1959 738 Tootsie 1982 773 Breaker Morant 1980 869 Rumble Fish 1983 411 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 396 Ace in the Hole 1951 501 Paris, Texas 1984 118 Sullivan’s Travels 1941 844 One-Eyed Jacks 1961 546 Five Easy Pieces 1970 539 House 1977 SET The Essential Jacques Demy

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Before Trilogy box set, 3 films			10
2	Black Orpheus	Marcel Camus	1959	10
3	The 400 Blows	François Truffaut	1959	10
4	Tootsie	Sydney Pollack	1982	11
5	Breaker Morant	Bruce Beresford	1980	3
6	Rumble Fish	Francis Ford Coppola	1983	5
7	Berlin Alexanderplatz	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1980	6
8	Ace in the Hole	Billy Wilder	1951	6
9	Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders	1984	9
10	Sullivan’s Travels	Preston Sturges	1941	6
11	One-Eyed Jacks	Marlon Brando	1961	5
12	Five Easy Pieces	Bob Rafelson	1970	6
13	House	Nobuhiko Obayashi	1977	9
14	The Essential Jacques Demy box set, 6 films			6

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1941 to 1984, box sets 1961 to 2013

The Essential Jacques Demy

The Before Trilogy

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

20 of its 21 films carry a runtime, and those alone run at least 34.3 hours. One of the others is a television series, which has no total on record at all: TMDB gives one episode's length, not a series'. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

What one of its choices was worth is not published for this visit. That figure divides the whole runtime by every choice, so a total missing one film would understate it rather than be approximately right.

How unusual this haul was

Its 14 choices had been taken by 7.29 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 Breaker Morant, taken by 3 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Francis Ford Coppola, through Rumble Fish, Wim Wenders, through Paris, Texas, Francis Ford Coppola, through Rumble Fish and Wim Wenders, through Paris, Texas, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com