10 Jun 2015

Yorgos Lanthimos & Ariane Labed’s Closet Picks

During their trip inside our closet, the Greek director and actor (who are married) share their love of Robert Bresson, Jean-Pierre Melville, Luis Buñuel, and the Maysles' Salesman, "the best documentary ever made."

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Yorgos Lanthimos and Ariane Labed

choices

13

every one a single film

single films

13

chosen on their own

box sets

0

none this visit

films reached

13

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.

198 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 591 12 Angry Men 1957 122 Salesman 1969 307 Naked 1993 165 Man Bites Dog 1992 306 Le samouraï 1967 546 Five Easy Pieces 1970 332 Viridiana 1961 660 Things to Come 1936 38 Branded to Kill 1967 726 Macbeth 1971 314 Pickpocket 1959 297 Au hasard Balthazar 1966

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Ali: Fear Eats the Soul	Rainer Werner Fassbinder	1974	2
2	12 Angry Men	Sidney Lumet	1957	11
3	Salesman	David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin	1969	4
4	Naked	Mike Leigh	1993	14
5	Man Bites Dog	Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde	1992	5
6	Le samouraï	Jean-Pierre Melville	1967	6
7	Five Easy Pieces	Bob Rafelson	1970	6
8	Viridiana	Luis Buñuel	1961	2
9	Things to Come	William Cameron Menzies	1936	4
10	Branded to Kill	Seijun Suzuki	1967	2
11	Macbeth	Roman Polanski	1971	2
12	Pickpocket	Robert Bresson	1959	9
13	Au hasard Balthazar	Robert Bresson	1966	4

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1936 to 1993

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 13films run 21.7 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 100.2 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 5.46 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Every one of them has been taken by somebody else too. The least-picked was Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, taken by 2 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of André Bonzel, through Man Bites Dog, Mike Leigh, through Naked, André Bonzel, through Man Bites Dog and Mike Leigh, through Naked, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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