8 Dec 2023

Gael Garcia Bernal’s Closet Picks

The award-winning actor and producer discusses his work in such Mexican-cinema classics as Y tu mamá también and Amores perros, shares his love for the mysterious pleasures of Blow-Up and Purple Noon, and praises the brilliance of Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière.

Gael Garcia Bernal: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

6

5 single, 1 box set

single films

5

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

8

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.

1060 Amores perros 2000 943 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 865 Blow-Up 1966 637 Purple Noon 1960 723 Y tu mamá también 2001 SET Three Films by Luis Buñuel

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Amores perros	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	2000	10
2	Memories of Underdevelopment	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea	1968	6
3	Blow-Up	Michelangelo Antonioni	1966	7
4	Purple Noon	René Clément	1960	5
5	Y tu mamá también	Alfonso Cuarón	2001	9
6	Three Films by Luis Buñuel box set, 3 films			8

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1960 to 2001, box sets 1972 to 1977

Three Films by Luis Buñuel

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 8films run 14.9 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 149.3 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 7.5 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 Purple Noon, taken by 5 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Alfonso Cuarón, through Y tu mamá también, who has been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com