31 Mar 2016

Joachim Trier’s Closet Picks

During the Norwegian filmmaker’s visit to the Criterion closet, he excitedly expounded upon his wide-ranging selections, from Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters to the Six Moral Tales of Eric Rohmer.

Joachim Trier: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

13

8 single, 5 box sets

single films

8

chosen on their own

box sets

5

one choice, many films

films reached

28

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.

432 Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 724 All That Jazz 1979 24 High and Low 1963 SET The Emigrants/The New Land SET La Jetée/Sans Soleil 579 The Phantom Carriage 1921 SET The Essential Jacques Demy SET 4 by Agnès Varda 539 House 1977 560 White Material 2009 164 Solaris 1972 636 Heaven’s Gate 1980 SET Six Moral Tales

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters	Paul Schrader	1985	6
2	All That Jazz	Bob Fosse	1979	18
3	High and Low	Akira Kurosawa	1963	6
4	The Emigrants/The New Land box set, 2 films			1
5	La Jetée/Sans Soleil box set, 2 films			10
6	The Phantom Carriage	Victor Sjöström	1921	1
7	The Essential Jacques Demy box set, 6 films			6
8	4 by Agnès Varda box set, 4 films			2
9	House	Nobuhiko Obayashi	1977	9
10	White Material	Claire Denis	2009	6
11	Solaris	Andrei Tarkovsky	1972	5
12	Heaven’s Gate	Michael Cimino	1980	3
13	Six Moral Tales box set, 6 films			10

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1921 to 2009, box sets 1955 to 1985

4 by Agnès Varda

The Essential Jacques Demy

La Jetée/Sans Soleil

Six Moral Tales

The Emigrants/The New Land

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

Its 28films run 50 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 230.8 minutes of film for each of its 13 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 13 choices had been taken by 6.38 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 Emigrants/The New Land, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Agnès Varda, through Cléo from 5 to 7, Agnès Varda, through Vagabond, Agnès Varda, through La Pointe Courte, Agnès Varda, through Le bonheur and Claire Denis, through White Material, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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