30 Jun 2017
Tavi Gevinson’s Closet Picks
While browsing our collection, the editor, actor, and fashion maven shared some stories of movie love, including one about how Broadcast News played a part in her college applications.
Tavi Gevinson: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest
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 |  8½ | Federico Fellini | 1963 | |
| 2 |  Election | Alexander Payne | 1999 | |
| 3 |  Dressed to Kill | Brian De Palma | 1980 | |
| 4 |  Fox and His Friends | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | 1975 | |
| 5 |  Metropolitan | Whit Stillman | 1990 | |
| 6 |  Barcelona | Whit Stillman | 1994 | |
| 7 |  Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jireš | 1970 | |
| 8 |  Eclipse Series 19: Chantal Akerman in the Seventies box set, 5 films | |||
| 9 |  Martha Graham: Dance on Film | Nathan Kroll | 1959 | |
| 10 |  Broadcast News | James L. Brooks | 1987 | |
| 11 |  Moonrise Kingdom | Wes Anderson | 2012 |
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
14 of its 15 films carry a runtime, and those alone run at least 22.4 hours. The other one is unmatched, so the real figure is higher. 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 11 choices had been taken by 3.91 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Barcelona, taken by this visit alone.
This visit reached the work of Alexander Payne, through Election and James L. Brooks, through Broadcast News, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.