1 Aug 2015

Charlotte Rampling and Andrew Haigh’s Closet Picks

When the English director visited Criterion for a screening of his film 45 Years, he was joined by the movie’s star. And when the pair took a trip into the Criterion closet, their charming closeness was evident.

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Charlotte Rampling and Andrew Haigh

choices

13

11 single, 2 box sets

single films

11

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

17

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.

59 The Night Porter 1974 775 A Room with a View 1986 662 Safety Last! 1923 SET 3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman 391 If.... 1969 397 Ivan’s Childhood 1962 162 Ratcatcher 1999 SET Trilogy of Life 622 Weekend 2011 748 Watership Down 1978 93 Black Narcissus 1947 477 Bergman Island 2006 629 Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Night Porter	Liliana Cavani	1974	6
2	A Room with a View	James Ivory	1986	3
3	Safety Last!	Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor	1923	2
4	3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman box set, 3 films			9
5	If....	Lindsay Anderson	1969	2
6	Ivan’s Childhood	Andrei Tarkovsky	1962	4
7	Ratcatcher	Lynne Ramsay	1999	8
8	Trilogy of Life box set, 3 films			7
9	Weekend	Andrew Haigh	2011	4
10	Watership Down	Martin Rosen	1978	4
11	Black Narcissus	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1947	5
12	Bergman Island	Marie Nyreröd	2006	1
13	Sunday Bloody Sunday	John Schlesinger	1971	7

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1923 to 2011, box sets 1950 to 1974

3 Films by Roberto Rossellini Starring Ingrid Bergman

Trilogy of Life

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 17films run 29.2 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 134.9 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 4.77 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Bergman Island, taken by this visit alone.

One of the choices is their own: Weekend. Left out of the lineage count, because reaching for yourself is not reaching for somebody else.

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