20 Apr 2022
Wilco’s Closet Picks
The members of the beloved rock band take turns spotlighting movies that have a special meaning for them.
Wilco: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest
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.
| Chose | Director | Year | Taken by | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Being There | Hal Ashby | 1979 | |
| 2 |  A Poem Is a Naked Person | Les Blank | 1974 | |
| 3 |  Rumble Fish | Francis Ford Coppola | 1983 | |
| 4 |  Heart of a Dog | Laurie Anderson | 2015 | |
| 5 |  The Parallax View | Alan J. Pakula | 1974 | |
| 6 |  My Winnipeg | Guy Maddin | 2007 | |
| 7 |  Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese | Martin Scorsese | 2019 | |
| 8 |  Le deuxième souffle | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1966 | |
| 9 |  America Lost and Found: The BBS Story box set, 7 films | |||
| 10 |  Eclipse Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein box set, 3 films |
How far across film history it reaches
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 18films run 30.8 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 185 minutes of film for each of its 10 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 10 choices had been taken by 3.9 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Three of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Eclipse Series 9: The Delirious Fictions of William Klein, taken by this visit alone.
This visit reached the work of Francis Ford Coppola, through Rumble Fish, Guy Maddin, through My Winnipeg and Laurie Anderson, through Heart of a Dog, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.