7 Oct 2021

Garrett Bradley’s Closet Picks

The director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Time shares an eclectic selection of her favorite films, from European art-house staples to classics of Black cinema.

Garrett Bradley: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

14

10 single, 4 box sets

single films

10

chosen on their own

box sets

4

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.

249 The Battle of Algiers 1966 32 Oliver Twist 1948 650 A Man Escaped 1956 770 Dressed to Kill 1980 842 Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams 1990 1002 Betty Blue 1986 1056 Moonstruck 1987 1097 Love & Basketball 2000 24 High and Low 1963 SET Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy SET Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films 695 Blue Is the Warmest Color 2013 SET The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs SET Rebel Samurai Sixties Swordplay Classics

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Battle of Algiers	Gillo Pontecorvo	1966	9
2	Oliver Twist	David Lean	1948	1
3	A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson	1956	8
4	Dressed to Kill	Brian De Palma	1980	2
5	Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams	Akira Kurosawa	1990	3
6	Betty Blue	Jean-Jacques Beineix	1986	4
7	Moonstruck	Norman Jewison	1987	11
8	Love & Basketball	Gina Prince-Bythewood	2000	12
9	High and Low	Akira Kurosawa	1963	6
10	Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy box set, 3 films			3
11	Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films box set, 4 films			11
12	Blue Is the Warmest Color	Abdellatif Kechiche	2013	2
13	The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs box set, 7 films			5
14	Rebel Samurai Sixties Swordplay Classics box set			1

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1948 to 2013, box sets 1967 to 1995

The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs

Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films

Wim Wenders: The Road Trilogy

a single film, at its year a box set, across the years of its films the collection, by decade

1 of the choices is not on the axis: Rebel Samurai Sixties Swordplay Classics (its contents are not on record). Left off rather than placed at a guessed year.

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 39.2 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 168 minutes of film for each of its 14 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 14 choices had been taken by 5.57 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Rebel Samurai Sixties Swordplay Classics, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Gina Prince-Bythewood, through Love & Basketball, Wim Wenders, through Alice in the Cities, Wim Wenders, through Kings of the Road and Wim Wenders, through Wrong Move, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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