2 Nov 2023

Matteo Garrone’s Closet Picks

The Oscar-nominated writer and director of Io Capitano praises the courage and vision of Buster Keaton, shares his love for the soul of Kenji Mizoguchi and the subconscious of David Lynch, and shouts out one of his cinematic fathers, Roberto Rossellini.

Matteo Garrone: 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.

1033 The Cameraman 1928 34 Andrei Rublev 1966 949 A Story from Chikamatsu 1954 832 The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum 1939 779 Mulholland Dr. 2001 SET Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Cameraman	Edward Sedgwick	1928	8
2	Andrei Rublev	Andrei Tarkovsky	1966	5
3	A Story from Chikamatsu	Kenji Mizoguchi	1954	1
4	The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum	Kenji Mizoguchi	1939	1
5	Mulholland Dr.	David Lynch	2001	7
6	Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy box set, 3 films			3

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1928 to 2001, box sets 1945 to 1948

Roberto Rossellini’s War 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 8films run 15.9 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 158.8 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 4.17 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. Two of them have been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, taken by this visit alone.

On Vimeo · On criterion.com