5 Apr 2018

Jacqueline Novak and John Early’s Closet Picks

Shortly before the critically acclaimed success of their off-Broadway show Get on Your Knees , the two comedians stopped by for a few good laughs in our closet.

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Jacqueline Novak and John Early

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.

29 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 230 3 Women 1977 677 The Uninvited 1944 909 Night of the Living Dead 1968 259 Fat Girl 2001 898 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 457 Magnificent Obsession 1954 586 Island of Lost Souls 1932 560 White Material 2009 929 Female Trouble 1974 722 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 1990

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Picnic at Hanging Rock	Peter Weir	1975	6
2	3 Women	Robert Altman	1977	9
3	The Uninvited	Lewis Allen	1944	1
4	Night of the Living Dead	George A. Romero	1968	9
5	Fat Girl	Catherine Breillat	2001	7
6	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	David Lynch	1992	4
7	Magnificent Obsession	Douglas Sirk	1954	2
8	Island of Lost Souls	Erle C. Kenton	1932	3
9	White Material	Claire Denis	2009	6
10	Female Trouble	John Waters	1974	8
11	Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!	Pedro Almodóvar	1990	1

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1932 to 2009

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 18.9 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 102.9 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 5.09 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was The Uninvited, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Catherine Breillat, through Fat Girl, Claire Denis, through White Material, John Waters, through Female Trouble, Catherine Breillat, through Fat Girl, Claire Denis, through White Material and John Waters, through Female Trouble, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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