14 Jun 2023

Jason Schwartzman’s Closet Picks

The actor, who stars in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, highlights a Clu Gulager performance that the director recommended to him, recounts how his wife introduced him to An Unmarried Woman, and shares his mother’s favorite movie

Jason Schwartzman: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

8

7 single, 1 box set

single films

7

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

16

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.

· The Killers 1964 410 Under the Volcano 1984 182 Straw Dogs 1971 1032 An Unmarried Woman 1978 44 The Red Shoes 1948 319 The Bad Sleep Well 1960 994 Local Hero 1983 SET Pasolini 101

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Killers	Don Siegel	1964	1
2	Under the Volcano	John Huston	1984	2
3	Straw Dogs	Sam Peckinpah	1971	5
4	An Unmarried Woman	Paul Mazursky	1978	4
5	The Red Shoes	Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger	1948	16
6	The Bad Sleep Well	Akira Kurosawa	1960	1
7	Local Hero	Bill Forsyth	1983	6
8	Pasolini 101 box set, 9 films			13

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1948 to 1984, box sets 1961 to 1969

Pasolini 101

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 16films run 30 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 224.8 minutes of film for each of its 8 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 8 choices had been taken by 6 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was The Killers, taken by this visit alone.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com