27 Jun 2014

Bong Joon Ho’s Closet Picks

The celebrated filmmaker talks about Nastassja Kinski’s Korean fanbase, his favorite of Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespeare adaptations, and the DVD that Park Chan-wook swiped from him.

Bong Joon Ho: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

11

10 single, 1 box set

single films

10

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

15

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.

697 Tess 1979 217 Tokyo Story 1953 190 Throne of Blood 1957 48 Black Orpheus 1959 36 The Wages of Fear 1953 29 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 SET Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties 640 Koyaanisqatsi 1983 551 Cronos 1993 658 Medium Cool 1969 654 Repo Man 1984

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Tess	Roman Polanski	1979	3
2	Tokyo Story	Yasujiro Ozu	1953	10
3	Throne of Blood	Akira Kurosawa	1957	4
4	Black Orpheus	Marcel Camus	1959	10
5	The Wages of Fear	Henri-Georges Clouzot	1953	7
6	Picnic at Hanging Rock	Peter Weir	1975	6
7	Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties box set, 5 films			1
8	Koyaanisqatsi	Godfrey Reggio	1983	1
9	Cronos	Guillermo del Toro	1993	3
10	Medium Cool	Haskell Wexler	1969	4
11	Repo Man	Alex Cox	1984	10

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1953 to 1993, box sets 1965 to 1968

Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties

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 15films run 27.2 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 148.5 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 5.36 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties, taken by this visit alone.

This visit reached the work of Guillermo del Toro, through Cronos, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com