13 Oct 2022

Marc Maron’s Closet Picks

The comedian, actor, and podcaster picks up a couple of classic westerns, a favorite movie that has long eluded his comprehension, and a John Waters film he considers “one of the only weapons against fascism we have.”

Marc Maron: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

11

every one a single film

single films

11

chosen on their own

box sets

0

none this visit

films reached

11

no set to open

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.

99 Gimme Shelter 1970 287 Burden of Dreams 1982 864 Being There 1979 929 Female Trouble 1974 827 McCabe & Mrs. Miller 1971 793 The American Friend 1977 732 My Darling Clementine 1946 789 Burroughs: The Movie 1983 970 A Face in the Crowd 1957 396 Ace in the Hole 1951 961 Shame 1968

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Gimme Shelter	David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin	1970	5
2	Burden of Dreams	Les Blank	1982	5
3	Being There	Hal Ashby	1979	13
4	Female Trouble	John Waters	1974	8
5	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Robert Altman	1971	6
6	The American Friend	Wim Wenders	1977	2
7	My Darling Clementine	John Ford	1946	7
8	Burroughs: The Movie	Howard Brookner	1983	1
9	A Face in the Crowd	Elia Kazan	1957	8
10	Ace in the Hole	Billy Wilder	1951	6
11	Shame	Ingmar Bergman	1968	1

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1946 to 1983

a single film, at its year 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 11films run 19.8 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 108.2 minutes of film for each of its 11 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 11 choices had been taken by 5.64 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Burroughs: The Movie, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of John Waters, through Female Trouble and Wim Wenders, through The American Friend, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com