24 Jan 2024

Callum Turner’s Closet Picks

The actor describes the beauty of discovering Agnès Varda, shares how Mean Streets inspired his desire to act, and selects all-time favorite films, from Five Easy Pieces to The Leopard.

Callum Turner: everything they reached for, and whose taste is nearest

choices

11

10 single, 1 box set

single films

10

chosen on their own

box sets

1

one choice, many films

films reached

32

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 The Complete Films of Agnès Varda 297 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 546 Five Easy Pieces 1970 1198 Mean Streets 1973 646 The Kid with a Bike 2011 146 The Cranes Are Flying 1957 1035 Come and See 1985 307 Naked 1993 235 The Leopard 1963 219 La strada 1954 1209 Nothing but a Man 1964

single film, with its spine number box set

	Chose	Director	Year	Taken by
1	The Complete Films of Agnès Varda box set, 22 films			21
2	Au hasard Balthazar	Robert Bresson	1966	4
3	Five Easy Pieces	Bob Rafelson	1970	6
4	Mean Streets	Martin Scorsese	1973	8
5	The Kid with a Bike	Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne	2011	2
6	The Cranes Are Flying	Mikhail Kalatozov	1957	5
7	Come and See	Elem Klimov	1985	7
8	Naked	Mike Leigh	1993	14
9	The Leopard	Luchino Visconti	1963	9
10	La strada	Federico Fellini	1954	16
11	Nothing but a Man	Michael Roemer	1964	3

How far across film history it reaches

Where this haul sits in film history single films 1954 to 2011, box sets 1955 to 2019

The Complete Films of Agnès Varda

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 32films run 53.6 hours. The median visit runs 19.2 hours, over the 375 whose every runtime is on record.

That is 292.5 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 8.64 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 The Kid with a Bike, taken by 2 visits in total.

This visit reached the work of Agnès Varda, through Cléo from 5 to 7, Agnès Varda, through Vagabond, Agnès Varda, through La Pointe Courte, Agnès Varda, through Le bonheur, Agnès Varda, through Jacquot de Nantes, Agnès Varda, through Uncle Yanco, Agnès Varda, through Black Panthers, Agnès Varda, through Lions Love (. . . and Lies), Agnès Varda, through Mur Murs, Agnès Varda, through Documenteur, Agnès Varda, through One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, Agnès Varda, through Daguerréotypes, Agnès Varda, through The Beaches of Agnès, Agnès Varda, through Varda by Agnès, Agnès Varda, through The Gleaners and I, Agnès Varda, through One Hundred and One Nights, Agnès Varda, through The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later, Agnès Varda, through Jane B. par Agnès V., Agnès Varda, through Kung-Fu Master!, Agnès Varda, through Faces Places, Agnès Varda, through Les créatures, Agnès Varda, through Agnès de ci de là Varda, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, through The Kid with a Bike, JR, through Faces Places, Luc Dardenne, through The Kid with a Bike and Mike Leigh, through Naked, who have been in this closet too. Not one of those reaches is returned.

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