20 Dec 2017

Karina Longworth’s Closet Picks

The prolific writer and creator of the popular film podcast You Must Remember This stopped by for a visit and picked up an eclectic mix of old Hollywood and art-house classics.

Karina Longworth: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

10

9 single, 1 box set

single films

9

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

12

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.

144 Loves of a Blonde 1965 236 Mamma Roma 1962 109 The Scarlet Empress 1934 180 I Am Curious—Yellow 1967 362 Border Radio 1987 569 People on Sunday 1930 648 Chronicle of a Summer 1961 902 Desert Hearts 1985 899 Personal Shopper 2016 SET The Marseille Trilogy

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Loves of a Blonde	Miloš Forman	1965	10
2	Mamma Roma	Pier Paolo Pasolini	1962	1
3	The Scarlet Empress	Josef von Sternberg	1934	2
4	I Am Curious—Yellow	Vilgot Sjöman	1967	1
5	Border Radio	Allison Anders, Dean Lent, Kurt Voss	1987	1
6	People on Sunday	Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer	1930	2
7	Chronicle of a Summer	Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin	1961	1
8	Desert Hearts	Donna Deitch	1985	2
9	Personal Shopper	Olivier Assayas	2016	1
10	The Marseille Trilogy box set, 3 films			1

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1930 to 2016, box sets 1931 to 1936

The Marseille 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

Its 12films run 21 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 125.9 minutes of film for each of its 10 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 10 choices had been taken by 2.2 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Six of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was The Marseille Trilogy, taken by this visit alone.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com