4 Oct 2013

Alfonso Cuarón and Paweł Pawlikowski’s Closet Picks

The two director friends recommend a few favorites to each other.

Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Alfonso Cuarón and Paweł Pawlikowski

choices

11

9 single, 2 box sets

single films

9

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

14

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.

512 Vivre sa vie 1962 145 The Firemen’s Ball 1967 SET The Complete Jean Vigo 670 To Be or Not to Be 1942 SET Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko 308 Masculin féminin 1966 321 The Virgin Spring 1960 414 Two-Lane Blacktop 1971 417 This Sporting Life 1963 307 Naked 1993 503 Lola Montès 1955

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Vivre sa vie	Jean-Luc Godard	1962	3
2	The Firemen’s Ball	Miloš Forman	1967	2
3	The Complete Jean Vigo box set, 3 films			2
4	To Be or Not to Be	Ernst Lubitsch	1942	5
5	Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko box set, 2 films			3
6	Masculin féminin	Jean-Luc Godard	1966	4
7	The Virgin Spring	Ingmar Bergman	1960	1
8	Two-Lane Blacktop	Monte Hellman	1971	5
9	This Sporting Life	Lindsay Anderson	1963	4
10	Naked	Mike Leigh	1993	14
11	Lola Montès	Max Ophuls	1955	2

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1942 to 1993, box sets 1930 to 1977

Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko

The Complete Jean Vigo

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 14films run 21.5 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 117.2 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 4.09 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was The Virgin Spring, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Mike Leigh, through Naked and Mike Leigh, through Naked, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com