11 May 2023

Trace Lysette’s Closet Picks

The actor, known for her roles in Transparent and Hustlers , pays tribute to the pioneering subjects of Paris Is Burning, muses about her dream of starring in a future remake of Thelma & Louise , and praises the sexy smoothness of love jones

Trace Lysette: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

9

8 single, 1 box set

single films

8

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

12

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.

1032 An Unmarried Woman 1978 SET Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films 1056 Moonstruck 1987 747 Fellini Satyricon 1969 1180 Thelma & Louise 1991 1018 Paris Is Burning 1990 855 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 1988 1012 All About My Mother 1999 1117 love jones 1997

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	An Unmarried Woman	Paul Mazursky	1978	4
2	Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films box set, 4 films			11
3	Moonstruck	Norman Jewison	1987	11
4	Fellini Satyricon	Federico Fellini	1969	2
5	Thelma & Louise	Ridley Scott	1991	9
6	Paris Is Burning	Jennie Livingston	1990	11
7	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Pedro Almodóvar	1988	7
8	All About My Mother	Pedro Almodóvar	1999	7
9	love jones	Theodore Witcher	1997	5

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1969 to 1999, box sets 1967 to 1972

Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films

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 12films run 20.8 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 138.7 minutes of film for each of its 9 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 9 choices had been taken by 7.44 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Every one of them has been taken by somebody else too. The least-picked was Fellini Satyricon, taken by 2 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Theodore Witcher, through love jones, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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