5 Jul 2017

Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena’s Closet Picks

The comedy duo snatch up everything from Preston Sturges’s The Lady Eve to Todd Haynes’s Safe.

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena

choices

18

17 single, 1 box set

single films

17

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

24

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.

103 The Lady Eve 1941 54 For All Mankind 1989 608 Harold and Maude 1971 864 Being There 1979 SET America Lost and Found: The BBS Story 410 Under the Volcano 1984 229 Scenes from a Marriage 1973 845 The Squid and the Whale 2005 230 3 Women 1977 769 Day for Night 1973 680 City Lights 1931 829 A Taste of Honey 1961 630 Rosemary’s Baby 1968 872 Ghost World 2001 720 The Big Chill 1983 812 The Player 1992 676 I Married a Witch 1942 739 Safe 1995

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Lady Eve	Preston Sturges	1941	5
2	For All Mankind	Al Reinert	1989	2
3	Harold and Maude	Hal Ashby	1971	1
4	Being There	Hal Ashby	1979	13
5	America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set, 7 films			7
6	Under the Volcano	John Huston	1984	2
7	Scenes from a Marriage	Ingmar Bergman	1973	3
8	The Squid and the Whale	Noah Baumbach	2005	2
9	3 Women	Robert Altman	1977	9
10	Day for Night	François Truffaut	1973	5
11	City Lights	Charles Chaplin	1931	10
12	A Taste of Honey	Tony Richardson	1961	4
13	Rosemary’s Baby	Roman Polanski	1968	3
14	Ghost World	Terry Zwigoff	2001	1
15	The Big Chill	Lawrence Kasdan	1983	7
16	The Player	Robert Altman	1992	5
17	I Married a Witch	René Clair	1942	5
18	Safe	Todd Haynes	1995	6

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1931 to 2005, box sets 1968 to 1972

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

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 24films run 42.6 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 141.8 minutes of film for each of its 18 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 18 choices had been taken by 5 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Harold and Maude, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Terry Zwigoff, through Ghost World, Todd Haynes, through Safe, Terry Zwigoff, through Ghost World and Todd Haynes, through Safe, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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