11 Jul 2023

Julio Torres’s Closet Picks

The writer, director, and actor admires the physical comedy of Pierre Etaix and the hallucinatory world of House, recalls formative experiences watching Y tu mamá tam bién and The Virgin Suicides, and shares why he relates to the protagonist of Where Is the Friend’s House?

Julio Torres: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

8

6 single, 2 box sets

single films

6

chosen on their own

box sets

2

one choice, many films

films reached

14

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.

SET Pierre Etaix SET The Koker Trilogy 1161 WALL·E 2008 1060 Amores perros 2000 1185 After Hours 1985 723 Y tu mamá también 2001 539 House 1977 920 The Virgin Suicides 1999

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Pierre Etaix box set, 5 films			3
2	The Koker Trilogy box set, 3 films			7
3	WALL·E	Andrew Stanton	2008	9
4	Amores perros	Alejandro G. Iñárritu	2000	10
5	After Hours	Martin Scorsese	1985	8
6	Y tu mamá también	Alfonso Cuarón	2001	9
7	House	Nobuhiko Obayashi	1977	9
8	The Virgin Suicides	Sofia Coppola	1999	5

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1977 to 2008, box sets 1963 to 1994

Pierre Etaix

The Koker Trilogy

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 14films run 22.2 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 166.6 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 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 Pierre Etaix, taken by 3 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Alfonso Cuarón, through Y tu mamá también, Andrew Stanton, through WALL·E and Sofia Coppola, through The Virgin Suicides, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com