10 Nov 2023
Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s Closet Picks
The writing and directing partners behind the new show A Murder at the End of the World talk about the influence of Alan J. Pakula, share their deep connection to The Double Life of Véronique and After Life, and praise the storytelling in Drive My Car .
Filmed together, each with a page of their own: Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij
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 |  Klute | Alan J. Pakula | 1971 | |
| 2 |  Time Bandits | Terry Gilliam | 1981 | |
| 3 |  Blood Simple | Joel Coen | 1984 | |
| 4 |  The Double Life of Véronique | Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1991 | |
| 5 |  After Life | Hirokazu Kore-eda | 1998 | |
| 6 |  Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | 2021 |
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 6films run 12 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 120.3 minutes of film for each of its 6 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 6 choices had been taken by 5.33 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 Drive My Car, taken by 2 visits in total.
This visit reached the work of Ryusuke Hamaguchi, through Drive My Car, Terry Gilliam, through Time Bandits, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, through Drive My Car and Terry Gilliam, through Time Bandits, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.