3 Jan 2024
Charles Melton’s Closet Picks
The award-winning actor, best known for Todd Haynes’s May December, champions the twisted pleasure of Memories of Murder, selects favorites featuring his costar Julianne Moore, and talks about the subtle beauty of films like Drive My Car and After Life.
Charles Melton: 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 |  Mikey and Nicky | Elaine May | 1976 | |
| 2 |  After Life | Hirokazu Kore-eda | 1998 | |
| 3 |  Memories of Murder | Bong Joon Ho | 2003 | |
| 4 |  EO | Jerzy Skolimowski | 2022 | |
| 5 |  Eyes Without a Face | Georges Franju | 1960 | |
| 6 |  Le samouraï | Jean-Pierre Melville | 1967 | |
| 7 |  La piscine | Jacques Deray | 1969 | |
| 8 |  Cure | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | 1997 | |
| 9 |  Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | 2021 | |
| 10 |  Short Cuts | Robert Altman | 1993 | |
| 11 |  3 Women | Robert Altman | 1977 | |
| 12 |  Safe | Todd Haynes | 1995 | |
| 13 |  A Special Day | Ettore Scola | 1977 | |
| 14 |  WALL·E | Andrew Stanton | 2008 |
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 14films run 28 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.
That is 120 minutes of film for each of its 14 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 14 choices had been taken by 5.64 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 Andrew Stanton, through WALL·E, Bong Joon Ho, through Memories of Murder, Jerzy Skolimowski, through EO, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, through Drive My Car and Todd Haynes, through Safe, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.