4 Oct 2023
Mark Bridges’s Closet Picks
The Oscar-winning costume designer of Phantom Thread —whose latest work can be seen in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro —reminisces about his enduring collaboration with Paul Thomas Anderson, shares his love for the artistry of Italian designers Piero Tosi and Milena Canonero, and talks about looking to The Naked City for period-specific inspiration.
Mark Bridges: 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 |  Heaven’s Gate | Michael Cimino | 1980 | |
| 2 |  The Damned | Luchino Visconti | 1969 | |
| 3 |  Barry Lyndon | Stanley Kubrick | 1975 | |
| 4 |  The Leopard | Luchino Visconti | 1963 | |
| 5 |  The Naked City | Jules Dassin | 1948 | |
| 6 |  Beauty and the Beast | Jean Cocteau | 1946 | |
| 7 |  Sunday Bloody Sunday | John Schlesinger | 1971 | |
| 8 |  My Beautiful Laundrette | Stephen Frears | 1985 | |
| 9 |  Marriage Story | Noah Baumbach | 2019 | |
| 10 |  Punch-Drunk Love | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2002 |
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 10films run 23 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 138.2 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 5.9 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Marriage Story, taken by this visit alone.