4 Oct 2022

Cate Blanchett and Todd Field’s Closet Picks

The director and the lead actor of Tár swap movie recommendations and battle over the Essential Fellini box set.

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Cate Blanchett and Todd Field

choices

16

14 single, 2 box sets

single films

14

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

67

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.

871 Dheepan 2015 781 In Cold Blood 1967 1135 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 · Wooden Crosses 1932 1063 The Ascent 1977 738 Tootsie 1982 146 The Cranes Are Flying 1957 741 My Winnipeg 2007 601 Letter Never Sent 1959 614 Summer with Monika 1953 SET Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema SET Essential Fellini 134 Häxan 1922 650 A Man Escaped 1956 762 A Master Builder 2014 479 My Dinner with André 1981

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Dheepan	Jacques Audiard	2015	2
2	In Cold Blood	Richard Brooks	1967	2
3	Devil in a Blue Dress	Carl Franklin	1995	7
4	Wooden Crosses	Raymond Bernard	1932	1
5	The Ascent	Larisa Shepitko	1977	3
6	Tootsie	Sydney Pollack	1982	11
7	The Cranes Are Flying	Mikhail Kalatozov	1957	5
8	My Winnipeg	Guy Maddin	2007	3
9	Letter Never Sent	Mikhail Kalatozov	1959	1
10	Summer with Monika	Ingmar Bergman	1953	4
11	Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema box set, 40 films			13
12	Essential Fellini box set, 14 films			16
13	Häxan	Benjamin Christensen	1922	3
14	A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson	1956	8
15	A Master Builder	Jonathan Demme	2014	1
16	My Dinner with André	Louis Malle	1981	2

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1922 to 2015, box sets 1946 to 2003

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

Essential Fellini

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 67films run 119.2 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 447 minutes of film for each of its 16 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 16 choices had been taken by 5.12 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Three of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Wooden Crosses, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Carl Franklin, through Devil in a Blue Dress, Guy Maddin, through My Winnipeg, Jacques Audiard, through Dheepan, Carl Franklin, through Devil in a Blue Dress, Guy Maddin, through My Winnipeg and Jacques Audiard, through Dheepan, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com