11 Mar 2024

Molly Ringwald’s Closet Picks

The actor and writer shares her love of the literary qualities of Eric Rohmer’s cinema, recalls the thrill of watching Bruno Dumont’s La vie de Jésus, and selects films by auteurs she has worked with, including Jean-Luc Godard and John Cassavetes.

Molly Ringwald: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

11

6 single, 5 box sets

single films

6

chosen on their own

box sets

5

one choice, many films

films reached

40

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 Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood 970 A Face in the Crowd 1957 1069 Céline and Julie Go Boating 1974 SET Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons SET Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals 174 Band of Outsiders 1964 980 La vie de Jésus 1997 SET Essential Fellini SET John Cassavetes: Five Films 721 Love Streams 1984 201 Umberto D. 1952

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood box set, 6 films			4
2	A Face in the Crowd	Elia Kazan	1957	8
3	Céline and Julie Go Boating	Jacques Rivette	1974	2
4	Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons box set, 4 films			3
5	Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals box set, 4 films			1
6	Band of Outsiders	Jean-Luc Godard	1964	4
7	La vie de Jésus	Bruno Dumont	1997	2
8	Essential Fellini box set, 14 films			16
9	John Cassavetes: Five Films box set, 6 films			30
10	Love Streams	John Cassavetes	1984	8
11	Umberto D.	Vittorio De Sica	1952	5

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1952 to 1997, box sets 1929 to 2000

John Cassavetes: Five Films

Essential Fellini

Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons

Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood

Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals

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 40films run 77.3 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 421.5 minutes of film for each of its 11 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 11 choices had been taken by 7.55 visits each on average, counting a box set as one thing. One of them has been taken by nobody else. The least-picked was Eclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals, taken by this visit alone.

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