4 Jul 2017

Lee Unkrich’s Closet Picks

During his visit to our closet, the Oscar-winning director of Toy Story 3 chatted with us about his nerve-wracking first encounter with Jane Campion and the lessons he learned about editing from All That Jazz.

Lee Unkrich: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

8

7 single, 1 box set

single films

7

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

10

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.

SET Three Colors 374 Bicycle Thieves 1948 144 Loves of a Blonde 1965 800 The Graduate 1967 843 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 301 An Angel at My Table 1990 667 Seconds 1966 724 All That Jazz 1979

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Three Colors box set, 3 films			9
2	Bicycle Thieves	Vittorio De Sica	1948	11
3	Loves of a Blonde	Miloš Forman	1965	10
4	The Graduate	Mike Nichols	1967	3
5	Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson	2002	14
6	An Angel at My Table	Jane Campion	1990	5
7	Seconds	John Frankenheimer	1966	7
8	All That Jazz	Bob Fosse	1979	18

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1948 to 2002, box sets 1993 to 1994

Three Colors

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 10films run 17.5 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 131.4 minutes of film for each of its 8 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 8 choices had been taken by 9.62 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 The Graduate, taken by 3 visits in total.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com