8 Sept 2016

Laura Albert & Jeff Feuerzeig’s Closet Picks

The director and the subject of Author: The JT LeRoy Story take a trip to the closet, where Albert sheds some more light on the saga chronicled in their film and graces us with a song.

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Laura Albert and Jeff Feuerzeig

choices

7

6 single, 1 box set

single films

6

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

9

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.

277 My Own Private Idaho 1991 65 Rushmore 1998 568 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 SET Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura 647 On the Waterfront 1954 654 Repo Man 1984 757 The Rose 1979

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	My Own Private Idaho	Gus Van Sant	1991	9
2	Rushmore	Wes Anderson	1998	5
3	Kiss Me Deadly	Robert Aldrich	1955	2
4	Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura box set, 3 films			2
5	On the Waterfront	Elia Kazan	1954	13
6	Repo Man	Alex Cox	1984	10
7	The Rose	Mark Rydell	1979	2

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1954 to 1998, box sets 1962 to 1964

Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura

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 9films run 16.8 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 144.1 minutes of film for each of its 7 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 7 choices had been taken by 6.14 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 Pigs, Pimps & Prostitutes: 3 Films by Shohei Imamura, taken by 2 visits in total.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com