13 Nov 2023
Lila Avilés’s Closet Picks
The award-winning writer and director of Tótem shares her love for Aki Kaurismäki’s “strange, funny filmmaking spirit,” dedicates her selection of Barbra Streisand’s The Prince of Tides to her mom, and talks about Werner Herzog as a “warrior” in Burden of Dreams.
Lila Avilés: 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 |  Yi Yi | Edward Yang | 2000 | |
| 2 |  Onibaba | Kaneto Shindo | 1964 | |
| 3 |  Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismäki’s Proletariat Trilogy box set, 3 films | |||
| 4 |  Boat People | Ann Hui | 1982 | |
| 5 |  The Prince of Tides | Barbra Streisand | 1991 | |
| 6 |  In the Realm of the Senses | Nagisa Oshima | 1976 | |
| 7 |  Burden of Dreams | Les Blank | 1982 |
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 9films run 15.6 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 133.6 minutes of film for each of its 7 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 7 choices had been taken by 4.71 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was In the Realm of the Senses, taken by this visit alone.