15 Apr 2016

Chris Eigeman’s Closet Picks

The star of Whit Stillman’s trilogy explores his favorite films from the collection, ranging from Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz to Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused.

Chris Eigeman: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

7

every one a single film

single films

7

chosen on their own

box sets

0

none this visit

films reached

7

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.

724 All That Jazz 1979 133 The Vanishing 1988 248 Videodrome 1983 475 The Friends of Eddie Coyle 1973 224 Pickup on South Street 1953 523 Night Train to Munich 1940 171 Contempt 1963

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	All That Jazz	Bob Fosse	1979	18
2	The Vanishing	George Sluizer	1988	6
3	Videodrome	David Cronenberg	1983	10
4	The Friends of Eddie Coyle	Peter Yates	1973	4
5	Pickup on South Street	Samuel Fuller	1953	7
6	Night Train to Munich	Carol Reed	1940	1
7	Contempt	Jean-Luc Godard	1963	1

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1940 to 1988

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 7films run 11.6 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 99.7 minutes of film for each of its 7 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 7 choices had been taken by 6.71 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Contempt, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of David Cronenberg, through Videodrome, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com